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Give L1ght and the People Will Fina Thetr Own Way TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1840

MUST WE FIGHT JAPAN? JAPANESE- -AMERICAN relations are about as bad as they could be and still exist. But relations, though strained, do continue—both diplomatically and commercially. We still have an ambasasdor in Tokyo, and Japan has an ambassador in Washington. And we still buy goods from her and sell goods to her—in large quantities. And before either nation makes the fateful decision to sever those relations and start a war which neither wants, it might be worth while to try and see if differences can't be settled amicably. It has been suggested that our Government take the lead by appointing a commission, composed of Americans familiar with Oriental personalities and problems, and that this commission make a survey of the situation in the Far Pacific and report back to the President and Congress. Certainly no harm could eome from a look-before-we-leap survey. And some good might flow from an intelligent report on our vital interests in the Orient and on the extent’ of our ability to protect those interests. For one thing, it might be of great help to know just where our Government draws the line against Japan out in that broad ocean and through that vast expanse of sea and land in Australasia. = Hitherto neither the Japanese nor the Americans have known where the line is.

DIZZY DAYS UPPQSE you won a sweepstakes—$100,000 say. It's always pleasant to suppose. Then suppose that you quit work and decided to live off your fat; that you bought a house and a couple of cars, took a few cruises, did a lot of entertaining, and this and that, all so easy when it comes to spending. -Stepping up your living scale, way beyond your usual pre-sweepstakes standard. It would be swell while it lasted. And you wotld be mighty popular with your friends. always are. But eventually you ‘would run out of money. How weuld you get by, then?

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| the fact that

What we are driving at is the aniline: between indi- |

viduals and governments.

Government credit, and governmental power to tax, to coin money and to fix the value thereof, and all that. But essentially the proposition is the same. Those who put out more than they take in—individuals or governments— come out at the same sad end. But while the fat lasts everything seems lovely. ” 7s - 8 ” ” ”

By borrowing on the Government's credit many desir- |

able things have been acquired. Social security, relief, good roads, bridges, projects galore—every one of them desirable if we can afford it. In terms of 1940 these seem all to the good for the one who has promoted them—unless we think through, and inquire where do we end up. Franklin D. Roosevelt has been the Good Time Charlie.

It's fairly easy to understand | J y ! or relieve the oppression of the little people by the

‘$100,000. But not so easy when billions are involved, and |

Many of us are inclined to see it that way, and ‘go no |

further. We say, “is social security good?” is definitely yes. ployment is upon us. Bridges?

of all sorts? Absolutely!

Better roads?

The answer | Relief likewise, of course, when unem- | Projects | Like the new house, for the

individual, and those two cars, the cruises and the enter- |

taining. Co” ” » on o ” But if we stop and think and try to glimpse the future we see this: A national debt of nearly 45 billions. That’s where all | these good things came from. They haven't really been | paid for. They have come out of fat previously accumulated. | | The day of reckoning for governments is just as sure | as for individuals who live beyond their income. You can " beat the game only one way—Dby increased earnings. We are today living in the same atmosphere of selfdelusion as we did in the dizzy Twenties. business. Now it’s big government.

If we view what’s going on only.in terms of what's | | this building severely.

desirable, instead of what can be paid for as we §o=-not out of capital but out of earnings—we are merely kidding | ourselves into another and bigger crash.

Both candidates agree as to the desirability of expen- | ers could be saved?

sive social reforms. So do we.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Complaints by the ‘Little Men’ Harassed by Unions Indicate Many Of Them Will Not Vote for F. D. R.

NAI0A0D, Oct. 1.—All told I have received, I 4 suppose, a thousand letters from individual little people. who have been kicked around, deprived - of their right to work, robbed and cheated by labor unions under the authority and protection of President Roosevelt's labor policy. These people are unorganized, afraid and in many cases, des-

perate, ane it seems very unlikely |

that they will vote for Mr. Roosevelt in November, although as yet” Mr. Willkie has offered them no reason to hope that he will give them any relief.

Mr. Willkie is on a spot, because |

if he should blast the crooks and dictators of the union movement and promise to break their brutal power over the little people every labor faker in the country would immediately damn him as an enemy of labor. The citizens who are individual victims can only hope that Mr:—Willkie. has some mental reservations and intends, if elected, te proceed against the thieves and fakers. That seems to be their only hope, because Mr. Roosevelt is playing ball with the boss unioneers.

" # ” A SIDE from one very coy reference to the rare, occasional scoundrel in union membership the President has never mentioned this oppression of American citizens. It may. be observed that even that mild condemnation was not gratuitous. It was wrung out of him. The disclostires which have been made in the last year—with no help, incidentally, from the Labor Relations Board—finally became so scandalous and the facts were so authentic that Mr. Roosevelt had to take some notice of them. That is- Mr. Roosevelt's way. = 1 am an uttér novice in politics, but in my ‘dumb, instinctive way I figure that the big national bosses of various unions are merely touting when they assure Mr. Roosevelt that “the labor vote” will stipport him. I just don't believe they can speak for their members, many of whom, I am certain, fiercely resent their pretentions to leadership. During recent years incalculable numbers of little people have been driven into unions against their will, harassed and perse= cuted, and without gaining a dollar beyond the amount which was promptly snatched back by those representing the unions. Nobody can tell me that people who have been the victims of this kind of doing feel loyal to the unmon movement or kindly toward any candidate who builds up the prestige of the boss unioneers by complimenting them in public. These little people might not have been quite so resentful if the unions had been comradely or half-decent to them. . ” un ” F you are a worker earning so little money that the internal revenue doesn’t even ask you to file an income tax return, and some union then makes you pay $75 cash, te join and from $2 to $10 a month in dues and buy $2 worth of tickets every three months, you are not going to cheer for unionism. You are going to be sore; and the little woman is going to figure that money in terms of milk and food and clothing which the children deserved but didn't get. I don't want to hear anything about the rarity | of the union scoundrel. I know better. But that question aside, the damned,spot that will not out is none of the high unioneers, from Will Green on down through his executive council, has made a concerted move to kick out the crooks

union politicians. In fact, they have a gang man in the executive council itseif, the same being George Browne, and nobody in the American Federation of Labor has the character, honesty or courage to look him in the eye and tell him to get out.

Business

By John T. Flvan

Capital Worries Over Dong Dang But Ignores Plight of the Railroads

TEW YORK, Oct. 1.—What is to be done about Dong Dang in Indo- -China has now somehow become a burning issue in Washington. But there are a lot of people who are more interested in what is going to happen to the railroads of America. ne : Up to now no one has mentioned this subject in this political campaign. Back in 1932 Mr. Roose- | velt, then running for President, denounced President Hoover for doing nothing about the railroads. That was eight years ago. Nothing has been done in all those eight years about the roads —nothing substantial or essential, I mean—save to continue on an even larger scale the Hoover plan of loans to support instead of correct the unwieldy debt burdens of the companies. Now in 1940 when, -in fact, the roads are worse off than they were in 1932, the subject is not men- | tioned. And, for that matter, it is not mentioned by Mr. Willkie either. Everybody shies away from the realistic approach to the railroad problem. They talk alpout railroad

| bankruptcy as if a bankruptcy action put the railroad | itself into bankruptcy rather than the corporation

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which owns it. In New York City we have a building, erected before the depression to house the Manhattan Bank. It belonged to the Manhattan Co. I do not recall what it cost, but it was more than $26,000,000. It had on it a first mortgage of around $11,000, 000.

Then it was big | There was a second mortgage of something over

$5,000,000. The rest was preferred and common stock. The hard times—and the excessive capital debt hit It couldn't meet its hond inIt coulan't provide for maintenance. 2 u ” Var was the wise course for its trustees? To go on gefting more loans to keep it out of bankin the crazy notion that thus the stockholdIt went into bankruptcy. The building was sold for the amount of the first mortgage: —$11,800,000. The second mortgage, the preferred and

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ruptey,

But Mr. Willkie stresses the need of production—of | common stock were all wiped out only last week.

income—to pay the bill. Mr. Roosevelt points to the accomplishments and ignores the fact that he said “charge it.”

second mortgage holders didn't lose. | shares have been worthless. for years.

If the American voter looks only at the desirability side |

of the picture, without consideration of the inevitable con-

the same happy but illusory state of mind as the ones who in the fall of 1929 bought Cities Service at 60.

AMER-RINGERS Hero a few random remarks of the Oklahoma philosopher, Oscar Ameringer, reprinted from The American Guardian, of which Mr. Ameringer is editor: «0h well it could be worse. Suppose all the supplications for victory the warring nations are sending to heaven were granted, where would we all be? We'd be exactly where the human race would have been had Noah got drunk before instead of after building the Ark.” “The most lowly creatures we can think of just now are the literary liberals who at the first crack of the whip catapulted from Marx to Mars.” “When the final bill is presented, the, American people will discover that the hot dogs served at a certain picnic lunch at Hyde Park cost them a billion bucks per.”

EDITORIAL BY BOOTH TARKINGTON

“1 AM for Willkie because of facts. The New Deal asks a Thitd Term because for two years it spent billions for defense and against depression—now we haven't got defense but have depression.” :

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The stockholders and The notes and The only value left in that building was the value of the first mort-

Did anyone lose by this?

gage, and the longer the evil day of settlement was | ! put off the more even that value would suffer. / i . : . 3 "the new owner n revamp that ildi ! sequences of that kind of spending; he will be in precisely DS Sts. edn Yevamp that building jo mest |

rival landlords.

That is the case of the railroads, save| that rail- |

road managers who want to hold their | jobs, and politicians who are too timid to face realities, refuse to recognize the facts and refuse to tackle the railroad problem as Mr. Roosevelt said it [should be tackled in 1932—and then forgot all about if.

Words of Gold

MA pages in The Congressional Record—which costs the taxpayers about $50 a page to print— are filled, these campaign days, with political propa= ganda having nothing to do with business before Congress. On Thursday, Sept. 26, the following members put into The Record the material described below, at.a cost approximately as stated: Rep. Rankin (D. Miss.), anti-Willkie statement, $50. Rep. Pierce (D. Ore.), New Deal farm remarks, $54. Senator Burke (D. Neb.), anti-third term statement, $53. Senator Maloney (D. Conn.), torial, $21.

anti-Willkie edi-

Rep. Bender (R. 0.), anti-New Deal statement, $20, :

Rep. Short (R. Mo.), pro-Willkie speech, $100. Rep. Reed (R. N. Y.), anti-New Deal statement, $30. Rep. Myers (D. Pa.), pro-Roosevelt statement, $28. Rep. Schwert (D. N. Y.), statement praising his own record, $87. Rep. Mundt (R. S.°D.), anti-Roosevelt letter, $17. Rep. Guyer .(R. Kas.), speech by the late Champ Clark, $46. Rep. Gavagan (D. N, Y.), editorial proeing Far-

‘ley, $211.

Rep. Hall (R. N. Y.), anti-Roosevelt article, $30. Total cost to taxpayers, $747—about 15 months pay for an average WPA worker,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Just What We Need to Start the Kettle Boiling!

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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.

SUGGESTS McNUTT GET BEHIND WILLKIE

By Harrison White Paul McNutt said “Willkie is a man without a party.” I say, there isn’t any as such who has a party.

Democrat Paul Mc-

Nutt is not n Democrat for he took

what was handed to him for a party. The State of Indiana for the sake

of principle not policy, presents Wendell Willkie for President. Can't you get in step With the State of Indiana Paul?

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THINKS GEN. JOHNSON HAS OUTLIVED USEFULNESS

By T. J. Kinney, New Castle, Ind.

I wonder if it is permissible to| suggest that the valued space in your paper now occupied by Gen. Hugh Johnson be turned over to someone more attuned to these serious times, like Walter Licpmann or Dorothy Thompson or even Gracie Allen.

One can’t help but feel the Gen-| eral has served his usefulness. His

language has lost much of its pic{turesqueness as he monotonously

|strums his one-string instrument— “Conscription is all right, but—.”| There are others who agree with | me that your paper is no place for a columnist who sounds like a “woman scorned” or a man frustrated in his ambitions.

#2 a 8 CHARGES ‘WAR MONGER’ DESCRIBES PRO-NAZIS

: By Edna G. Vonnegut * ,

“When I use a word,” HumptyDumpty said “it means just what I choose it to mean-—neither- more nor less.” If that stout fellow had not fallen from the wall he would be chuckling at the way the voices issuing from Herr Hitler's propaganda machine are following the Humpty-Dumpty rule. Take, 1or instance the compound ‘“‘war monger.” The dictionary says ‘monger” means “to deal In.” Everynne knows that since Herr Hitler came into power he has been dealing in nothing but war and the implements of war. { According to the dictionary one would have authority to apply the term “war monger,” to the Nazis themselves. But no, not according

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‘io Humpty-Dumpty-German-prop-aganda usage; according to that] arbirrary system of word definition | the Nazis apply the term "war monger” to the leaders of the democracies that fiddled and danced in the sunshine of the “armistice between two wars” they took to be, peace. . . : | Is it mere coincidence that *hose | people here mn the United States who oppose all efiorts to build up American defense who insist that, “We are in no danger of attack by any nation” should so often use the words “war monger”? Could 1t be | their purpose to keep the United States so weak that we would succumb to a Hitler peace? ie EJ n CONTENDS WILLKIE SHOWS CONTEMPT FOR HOOSIERS By Clyde P. Miller If I were not a native born and resident Hoosier, as were both my, parents, I might feel less contempt for that strutting popinjay named Willkie, His attempts to capitalize his Indiana birth shows his own! contempt for the intelligence of | Hoosiers and brands him as an in-

|from the standpoint of those who

of all the people. On the contragy, labor's welfare contributes enormously to the welfare of all. It is sincerely hoped that Wendell’s voice holds out, It is making so many more votes for Roosevelt. 2 2 ” ASSAILS NEW DEAL'S STAND ON RAILROADS By I. W. Work Referring to Mrs. Rash’s remarks that the rank and file of the Broth'erhood of Railroad Trainmen are for | Roosevelt 98 per cent strong. I doubt very much if she has any| definite proof to substantiate her ‘statement. There may be some who believe that the present Administration has been a friend of theirs, and probably intend at present ta’ vote for Mr. Roosevelt for a third term, but that is by no means the entire railroad story even from the standpoint of present employees; and

| without seeming either silly or cowardly.

{ ist who believes as I do.

would like to be employed, but are not, the story is quite different. Railway men as a class have little | to thank the New Deal for and much | to blame it for. It has prevented the revival of the economic progress | funder which the railways formerly | were able not only to advance wages, but usually to pay them an in- | creasing, instead of a greatly re-| { duced, number of employees. | And although possessed of more |

sincere demagogue. | power than any preceding Adminis- | Now he talks about Roosevelt ap- | tration in time of peace, it has com- | pealing to class consciousness in his pletely failed to make any really Labor Day speech. His ilk always energetic effort to secure changes in | likes to refer to working people as| the Government policies which are a class and to the rest of the peo- | responsible for the fact that not only | ple as industrialists, merchants, have railway gross earnings, total financiers, etc. If Roosevelt had| | compensation of railway employees | been addressing a convention of and railway employment declined,

bankers and had discussed legisja- much more during the depression tion and policies of interest to and | than ever before, but relatively four |

in the interest of businessmen, times as much as the national inwould Willkie charge that Roosevelt come. : was trying to set them against la- RW bor and the rest of us? | TERMS WILLKIE ‘STOOGE’

Yes, labor is a class and must] oF HOUSE OF MORGAN be class conscious if it expects to!

get anywhere. By being SO i% ol a Girl

I am just a sophomore in high school, but I am not too young to! feel positively nauseated with dis-| lgust at the ignorance of Wendell |

gotten as far as it has—and never so far ‘as under Roosevelt. This] ,doesn’t mean that its class interest! ‘conflicts with the general welfare

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Willkie in slurring our present Chief | | Executive and a sigh of pity for, those who have not and seemingly, |

Now |

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"You'd better stay clear of Maybelle's heels, Judge—she's a little put out about not winning the ribbon last year,"

| cannot, see through this “stooge of | the House of Morgan.”

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' LETS THE COACHES DO THE WORRYING By Frank Lee This is the time of year when coaches who build character wish they could step out of character and build a couple of good, tough tackles, | instead.

LIFE

By ANNA E. YOUNG | Life has a way of doing things | To folk—now some it seems | To have touched so very lightly Just bathed in soft moon beams.

They seem to be all thistle down Just made for sunny hours Then there are those who never do Escape at all—the showers.

They face all kinds of elements Thunder—hail and rain Yet always do—emerge—somehow Refreshed—composed again.

It seems somehow that they Are made of mettle—rare Serene of face and sure of poise An inward beauty there!

DAILY THOUGHT

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.—Job 5:2.

AS A MOTH gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man CRS. tostom,

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Gon Johnson Says—

| Evidence Grows That Campeitn | for Arms to Keep Us Out of War Is Being Constryed as Demand to Take Us In

EW YORK, oct. 1.—This comment column business, when it touches foreign affairs is getting to be pretty tough: I believe in total defense. I dian t recently begin to believe in that. I have been preach-

ing it since ine day this column started in predictions,

as accurate as any, of just why we : were going to need it and long before the Government bestirred itself to implement its constantly growing aggressive - attitude to make its fighting words seem more than bluff. Nobody can justly call the five year urging of this column “appeasement.” The difference between -that urging and what 1s going on today is that what I advocated was armament to keep us out of war, There is a good deal of evidence— and it is growing—that strong ine fluences in this country and perhaps even the govern« ment . itself—regard this belated and, therefore, un planned and somewhat panicky armament conference as preparation for participation in war. Our previous unimplemented fighting talk, because it was not backed by armament was, as I have said, necessarily bluff. In this gangster world bluffs aren’t healthy-—especially when you haven't even got a gun, much less a loaded gun. Furthermore, bluffs come home to roost. Ours are coming now. Japan's marriage to the Axis and Germany's use of it as a counw

ter-threat may also be a bluff. But we are in no posi=

tion to call<it by armed action in Asia. » # o

N such a situation of bluff and counter-bluff, in which your own country is involved, any true and realistic comment on actudl military conditions not designed to holster any American bluff is branded as “appeasement.” If matters get much hotter it will soon be branded as treason.

I earnestly believe that this country doesn’t want

I am confident that, if it arms itself,

to go to war. I am very sure that if

it does not need to go to war,

it does go to war we shall have seen the last of both"

our democratic political sytsem and our economic system of free enterprise as it was bequeathed to us by the men.of 1776 who invented it and by all those who came after them and defended it. We are not ready for war or even for adequate defense. I have felt, for this reason, and many others, that we should not bluff ourselves so far out on a limb of premature aggression that we could not avoid going further and perhaps over the brink I have criticized every step in that direction. | 2 x =

UT there has been no halt or delay in the march in that direction. In the meantime, the shrewd est, best financed, open and shameless propaganda to go further in that direction has increased in both volume and tempo. We seem hell bent for war: Not ‘the least effective of this propaganda is the Gallup and other polls, proposing leading questions in such terms that the average person is either persuaded by the form of the question to an answer favoring participation, or else the fori of the question is such that the average layman would not be likely to have an informed opinion. Notwithstanding that those polls show 8 to 1 against our getting into war, some of them show majorities for outright. acts of war. It is all very clever and embarrassing to a column= I think my records shows that—right or wrong—I will support my government in war against any country on earth. But, until ws are at war, do I have to seem by silence to approve these suicidal trends and war-cry yammerings for fear of being smeared by the epithet “appeaser?” I think not.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

AM not indispensable,” said Wendell Willkie in his campaign tour of the Middle West. It is a thought each of us should take earnestly to heart. For who is truly indispensable? Not one. No matter how important our job may be, or how sure we are that another would fumble it, the day generally comes when time and destiny prove otherwise. Men and women toil and strive for a little while and then, like the grass, they fade and disap=pear, to be replaced by other men and women who carry torward the deeds they have begun. Life is a procession and we are all ‘torch bearers, eaget to hold aloft some flaming brand for the short period allotted us to walk in the : vanguard of the marching parade, The mother of pre-adolescent children probably is the most nearly indispensable of mortals. -Heis 13 a highly specialized job which no othr person has | the precise qualifications to perform. If she is a good mother, her children need her, and her-only, as grow= ing plants need sunshine and rain.s > The | tragedies created because of mother’s loss cannot be estimated. They exact a dreadful toll in frustrations, malformed personalities and plain, every day misery, They are innumerable and universal, It is interesting and strange, too, that those who approach closest to indispensability in human society, are the ones who receive neither money nor fame for the work they do. They get no tangible rewards. Their names: are never inscribed upon monuments, They are given no acclaim from the public which benefits most from their efforts. Instead, they walk humbly all of their cays and expect little gratitude from family or country. The only possession which makes thelr contribution valuable is love—but it is love of a high order, composed of understanding, sympathy and unselfishness. | ; Politicians, financiers, scientists, merchants, dice tators—none of these is individually essential to so= ciety. Only mothers can claim that honor, and they

never do, because they .are too busy with Sheir job

to think of attention or awards.

Waiching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

OTHERS of schoolchildren and medical officers of the U. S. Army will have _one worry in com= mon this winter. That worry is’ over measles and mumps. The mothers will be worrying over how to keep Johnny and Susie, who have just started school, from catching one or both of these childhood diseases. The medical officers are wondering how to protect against these same childhood diseases the 800,000 young men who will enter the Army training camps this winter and next spring. Measles and mumps are not limited to childhood. A susceptible person of any age is likely to get either of them if he comes in contact with the germs. About 98 out of every 100 children are susceptible to measles, Those who grow up in cities rarely escape having the ailment while they are still young, but children who srow up in the country may escape measles because they are not in such close contact with other children as city youngsters are. The country boys who come to Army training camps without ever having had measles or been in contact with a case of ‘it are likely to get the disease the first time they are exposed to the germs from a person who has measles or is coming down with it. The same is true of mumps. It tends to occur in epidemics and next to the venereal diseases is the most disabling of the acute infections among recruits. Hope for protecting both children and young men in Army training camps against measles is roused by reports of a new and promising vaccine. This probably will not be available for general use very soon. In| the training camps, close watch will be kept

for mumps '50 that isolation of the patient to protect his mates and treatment for himself can be started imnsisiely,

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