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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1940

“CHANGING HORSES...”

(CHAMBERLAIN steps down from the Cabinet, writing a formal “finis” to a milk-toast era that actually ended in England many months ago when that island changed horses in the middle of the stream. : Suppose that middle-of-the-stream notion had been swallowed by the British people. Suppose the fumbling Chamberlain had remained as Prime Minister, instead of being replaced by the dynamic, resourceful, eloquent Churchill, the man of action and—let us hope—of destiny. Conceivably there might not have been an England today.

BROKEN PLANK

THE 1940 platform of the Democratic Party says this: “To encourage investment in productive enterprise, the tax-erapt privileges of future Federal, state and local bonds should be removed.” In the United States Senate last week Democrats joined with Republicans to kill an amendment to the excess-Profits-Tax Bill which would have made that platform plank “effective. Democratic Senators argued that removal of tax exemption from issues of Federal securities would hamper sale of Government bonds to finance the defense progeam. Talk about vicious circles! Investment in productive enterprise is the thing most needed to increase the national income and the tax revenues from that income. The tax-exemption privileges of Government bonds—as the Democratic platform acknowledges— encourage capital to hide rather than to invest in productive enterprise. But these privileges must be continued, so that the Government can sell more bonds, so that more capital will be encouraged to hide in tax-exempts instead of going to work to increase national income, so that the Government will have to sell more bonds.

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? And it is.

The New Deal has no real heart for a fight to stop the issuance of tax-exempt bonds. Its enthusiasm is all for bor-

rowing, and more borrowing. : But guns and a: and battleships are not

wealth, necessary as they may be. Other nations have made the choice between guns and butter. America, we are told, can have perpetual butter on both sides of its bread if only it will go far enough into debt for guns. That would be pleasant tc believe, but it is not true.

WILLKIE ON DEFENSE AND JOBS VW ENDELL WILLKIE'S campaign rolls eastward, gath- | ering strength and momentum. In the earlier addresses of his Western swing this unorthodox Republican candidate laid the foundation by arousing public awareness of how precious is the American way of living, how much it is worth fighting for. Now upon this foundation he is building the solid structure of his program, stone by stone. At Omaha, agriculture; at Cleveland, preparedness; at Pittsburgh, labor— and with each stone the mortar of unity and common pur-

Fair Brough By Westbrook Pegler

Prefers Willkie Because He Believes In Republican Government Whereas F. D. R. Has Shown Lack of Faith in lt

EW YORK, Oct. 4—As I see the issue, there 1s 8 choice between a Social-Democrat regime led by a strong adventurer and an attempt to reestablish the great American republic under the management of a man who lacks experience in the job . and is inclined to flounder. President Roosevelt believed in the . republican form of government he would be my choice ever Wendell Willkie. But as between a strong and head-strong national boss who brings in a new batch. of home-brew socialism every now and again and a believer in the

genious and less forceful, I prefer Willkie. Willkie might fail to make the republican form of government work. That failure migat be due in part to lack of ability in the man himself and in part to the fundamental damage already wrought by the New Deal. The system may now be damaged beyond repair. But, anyway, Willkie would try to make it work, whereas it is. very plain that Mr. Roosevelt wants to scrap it in favor of something of his own, improvised from month to month as he goes along. ”

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Deal are important considerations, and the par-

honest and immoral must not be dismissed as. mere personal smears. tation of office for private enrichment, the nasty little clandestine deal in fake philatelic two-headed calves early in the game, the second Louisiana purchase, the personalized revenge against individual opponents of the Administration the collaboration of the New Deal with the political gangsters of Chicago, Boston, New York and Jersey City amounfs to a Snocsingly immoral career.

mean unchastity, and that mention of morality is thought to refer to sex stuff and to smack of sanctimony. But I use the word in the larger and nore important sense, believing that the New Deal has wantonly corrupted the civic morals of the people by engaging in and conniving at conduct which has

‘the popular tolerance of acts which, by the. proper and normal standard, would be condemned,

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EMEMBERING how Mr. Roosevelt lay low. in the campaigns of both 1932 and 1836 and after his

at before, I anticipate that this time he and his busy little men will go much further. It is impossible to guess what he will do. But it must be assumed that he will regard the election returns as a final repudiation of the two-party system and the substitutioa of a one-party government. His tendency would be further to the left, and whether you say that socialism, communism or naziism lies to the left makes no difference. They all lie to the left. of the American republican system and are all alike except in little local peculiarities. I think Willkie would try to revive private business, the only kind of business that can give healthy employment and save the. republic. He 1s a triend of private business, and Mr, Roosevelt is its enemy. If private business does not revive, Government business will be the only business, and we will have the same kind of country, saving our national peculiari-

posing: wherever they can. Willkie might fail. He might not be man enough, the job might be too big and the republican system may now be hopelessly damaged, and the burden of debt and unemployment may be too heavy for the axies. FBut Mr. Willkie would try to save it, and Mr. Roosevelt has been consorting with those who say it isn't worth repairing and should be replaced by a new model.

Business

‘By John T. Flvnn

Price Rise Ordered for Indiana Coal

Termed Start of Fascist System LEVELAND, O. Oct. 4—There’s hellzapoppin in ( these parts-—particularly in Illinois and Indiana —and all about coal. The Department of the In-

Commission, has issued a new schedule of prices for

pose, of production and still more production, creating more jobs for workers, better markets for farmers, and stronger

weapons for defense. |

. The crowd now in control in W ashington is no more | capable of ending unpreparedness than it has been of ending | unemployment. sidies supported by debt. forced ypon the country is one which,

to subsidize. Its foreign policy of “swashbuckling,” of indulging in bluffs that are called, of “talking loudly while carrying a swagger stick,” is one that has made the potentially strongest nation on earth no longer heeded. FJ ” o | 5 " s | At Cleveland, Mr. Willkie told ‘how the New Dealers scuttled the War Resources Board program and delayed by nine months the start in rearming. He was.charitable. he told only part of the story. He might well have continued his indictment and told how later, when the Defense Advisory Commission was created, the New Dealers presently began undermining the work of this second group of civilian industrialists. The inner-circle boys seem to care Tittle | if planes and tanks and guns remain “on order,” so long as | their personal power is kept “on hand.” Mr. Willkie also could have told how these same New Dealers knocked in the head a plan of tax amortization to start the building of defense plants more than a year ago. The harm they did then was not undone until this week when Congress completed action on the Excess-Profits-

Tax Bill.

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Mr. Willkie’s labor speech at Pittsburgh last night was

It has no domestic program except sub-|{ The standstill economy it has} if . prolonged, will § make inevitable the time when we can no longer borrow | i

soft coal. Out this way they say it is a direct blow at Indiana and Illinois coal mines. And they allow that it is a direct bid for the support of John L. Lewis. The price of Indiana and Illinois coal has been upped 50 cents a ton. And the politicos and soft coal men cry out that every coal buyer in Illinois and Indiana is going to have to dig into his jeans for 50 cents on every ton of coal he buys as his contribution to buying Eastern coal labor’s vote for the New Deal. There is, of course, a more fundamental objection than this charge, which may or may not be true. Actually, the Bituminous Coal Commission is one of ‘the most completely pro-Fascist steps taken by our American Government. And when anyone says, “It can’t happen here,” we need but point to the Coal Commission—the notorious Guffey Act. And remember there is not a word about labor in that act.

the producers of coal—the mine owners—to fix coal prices under Government supervision and generally to rule the coal industry? The mine owners in various regions, through Gov-ernment-sponsored committees, make up the schedule of prices ou soft coal. After that the Government commission approves or alters them. This is a very close approximation of the German or Italian Fascist corporative. If all industries in this country were organized on this basis we would have complete economic fascism, 2

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is coal—a few differences in grades and sizes. Actually fixing coal prices involve establishing prices on 500,000 grades and sizes, That seems fantastic, but it is true. No human rganiation can do this. And when one tries it does strange things. The first effort of the commission to fix coal prices resulted in a scandal. Now the mine people in Illinois and Indiana charge

Illinois, the commission has imposed a compulsory

one which should appeal to all men and women who are | searching for work and to all who have jobs and want security and the prospect of better jobs.

tional Labor Relations Act, and promise to make those |

guarantees something more than words; he showed how this act, if properly administered, could promote the mutual interests of management and workers, and create more jobs. Again Mr, Willkie was charitable. He said that the

Labor Board's duty was much more than to settle the]

-10,000 disputes which come before it each year—that its primary task was to help people to work together “in the basic partnership of industry.” He gould have remarked,

very accurately, that the present board and its petty ad- |

ministrators show less interest in settling disputes than in

creating them. American workers will never receive the |

benefits the Labor Relations Act intended for them until those who have maladministered it are fired—and Mr. Willkie properly listed that as a thing to be done first. ” »

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He is hitting hard and where it hurts.

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Not only did he |

| $5.58 a ton, which will be the same price at which | coal from Pennsylvania can come in. And so while the lower cost of the Western mines

mines in their trade district will be deprived of much I of their business. This Coal Commission has not worked very well up to now. If it does get to working smoother, the plan will quickly spread to the textile industry, the steel industry and others. It is the beginning of the corporative system.

So They Say—

WE CAN no longer afford to be moles who cannot see, or ostriches who will not see, for some solemn

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the American Legion convention. *

it would be one of the greatest catastrophies in history. —Gen. Ion Antonescu. * . * THE SITUATION before us will become graver in the near future. To overcome the crisis, the nation must be up and doing as one man.—Premier Fumimaro Konoye of Japan.

republic who may be less in- |

HE dishonesty and civic immorality of the. New | ticulars in which the Administration has been dis-'|

As a whole the nepotism and exploi- |,

I am afraid the term “immorality” has come to |

harmed their citizenship. We observe the effect in ||

election, sprang surprises which had not been hinted |

ties, that the Germans, Italians and Russians are im- |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Not Even a ‘Hobby’ Horse, Mister?

RORY

Pl PE DOWN!

‘DONT YOU KNOW WE SHOULD

EVER onan RORSES”

MIDSTREAM

The Hoosier Forum

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

DOUBTS WILLKIE NEEDS “HELP” TO LOSE ELECTION By Harriet M. Shepard

In spite of the fact that the Republicans, one and all, have criticized the New Deal and the New Dealers whenever atid wherever it has been possible, the editor of The Times tells us that one of Mr. Willkie's greatest assets is his willingness to admit the good in many of the New Deal reforms. I quite agree with you, Mr. Editor, for that admission may get some votes for Mr. Willkie.

i help. | himself.

terior, which now houses the old Bituminous Coal |.

It was passed, not to protect labor, but to enable.

IXING coal prices may seem easy. After all, coal |

that, while coil can be mined cheaper in Indiana and |

price increase in coal from these mines from $5.35 to

I read, too, where Mr. Herbert Hoover is going to help Mr. Willkie {lose the election, although frankly I do not think Mr. W. needs any! I think he can do it all hy

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” o 8 TERMS ACTIONS OF DEMOCRATS ‘SHAMEFUL’ By Murial Lakin I'm glad I'm not a Democrat. Why? If I was one I would never admit it after the shameful way most of the Democrats are acting. First, look how they got Wallace in; second, throwing eggs at Willkie. If they don’t like him or want him, let the Democrats stay home cause there is still enough Republicans who do want to see him. ., They better save their eggs for if Roosevelt is elected they may need them. = ES n SECRETARY HINCKLEY ANSWERS GEN. JOHNSON

By Robert H. Hinckley, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Gen. Hugh Johnson recently delivered himself of a severe attack upon the CAA Civilian Pilot Training Program. In general it consisted of paraphrasing an earlier and

more severe attack in an aviation]

trade magazine, American Aviation, by its editor, Wayne W. Par-

(rish.

Gen. Johnson made numerous serious misstatements. He said the program is “a plan to train 50,000 pilots for military and naval service.” This is simply not true. It is a plan to train civilian pilots, in

varying degrees, as a reservoir from

which the armed forces can draw pilot material. It is the hope that {he more advanced of these students—graduates of the secondary course—can be trained by the armed forces into

(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.)

military pilots in a considerably shorter time than without this training. : Gen. Johnson says “no military or naval authority is very clearly on] record” on this point. If he had] taken one glance at the printed] record of the appropriation hearings for this program, held on May 29, 1940, he could have learned that

both Brig. Gen. Jacob Fickel, assistant chief of the Army Air Corps, |

Navy Bureau of Aeronautics testified

would be a valuable “feeder” to the military services. . . . A little casual reading in the aviation field would have shown. Gen. Johngon that his informant, Wayne | Parrish, stands alone among aviation

| publishers in his bitter attitude to-

ward the pilot-training program. Surely this would suggest a bug under the chip, somewhere, to any fair-minded person. ... The “slapped-together hay crate organization” at which Gen. Johnson sneers consists of the heads of about 700 commercial flying-schools fram coast to coast. Many of these men. helped pioneer this industry, {and they are the backbone of private flying in the United States today.

¥ wn ALARMED BY NOTION DEBT IS AN ASSET By E. Howard Hudelson, Clarks Hill, Ind.

This is a political letter. I am moved to believe that something should be done when—

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is treated as an “asset.” 2. You should not worry as owe it to ourselves.” 3. Our frontier goes outside of America or our possessions. 4. We become touchy about “Crooks’ Paradise” and promptly purloin “Krum Elbow” from down (or up) the river. 5. We become dishonest enough to

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Side Glances—By. Galbraith

's discarded as a price factor, people in Illinois will be

5 : i : | forced to pay 10 per cent more for th . reaffirm the collective-bargaining guarantees of the Na- | Py el 29 Jor thelr coal, while

agreements are no longer sacred, and vices have be- | come virtues and truth a synonym for falsehood.— | Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York before |

IF THE RUMANIAN frontiers were now attacked, |

"Dear, | know this is your home town and you'd like to snub a

certain few of your old

friends—but remember

I'm f¥/ing to get votes!"

1. The evermounting national debt |

FORECASTS BETTER

{it and we are probably the world’s

inational unity for production, dis-

and Capt. George D. Murray of the ment and get, started--with Willkie.

clearly their belief that the program! FEARS VOTERS DO NOT

jones whose votes are anything but

“steal” as large an object as Hoover Dam. 6. The office | of President of the United States has to be “forced” on us. To top everything then I believe if war comes we | would be in pretty bad shape. al

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LIVING UNDER WILLKIE By Curious

. . We have not had a high standard of living in America because of our system of economy but in spite of it. | With the materials we have available we could not help greatest wasters. If we organize a tribution, and ¢onsumption near our potential best we will have a stupendous standard of living that is undreamed of today. We can do it, let us determine an objective that is desirable and possible of attain-

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| THINK OF COUNTRY By Mrs. David J. Hockett +-'T00 many people are not sven thinking about this election. And too many that are thinking!

of “What it will do to me. How it will affect my [wages and my working conditions.” I mean it when I say, “I'm thinking of how it will affect this country of ours. To me, that is the only possible consideration. After all, I'm selfish enough| to want nothing less than a land of liberty for my son to grow up in, in which to raise his children, for them to raise theirs, and on and on. . . We are one! of the few peoples in the world who were ever allowed the privilege of voting; now the only

a farce. How can we take it lightly? We owe it to those who fought for the right, to at least think, and think seriously. | ® = SCORES WILLKIE'S PROMISE OF JOBS By Mrs. G. G. Miller. Shelburn. Ind.

Again I feel I should raise the voice of a voter in protest of Mr. Willkie. Of course, he is like a new toy, but his reasoning. has not put him very far, especially in the eyes of the working people. At last he hits upon the idea of the jobless and promises jobs for over nine millions of people, according to the radio. Miracles happened | years and years ago, but when WPA can be replaced by so many new jobs, I feel the days of miracles are not over, President Roosevelt has taken in- | sult after insult, without retaliation, but when the! populace began throwing material things at Mr. Willkie, Mr. Roosevelf said he felt it a punishable offense. It never paid anyone to return evil for good. : Will Mr. Willkie ever learn?

INDIAN SUMMER By MARY WARD This is the time that brown caterpillars | Go over roads And hurry through tides .of reeds and thistles Seeking their strange little winter abodes.

and over the country

From the field comes the farmer’s patient team, “There are [showers of leaves, the cooler nights begin, And frost appears tracing lightly as a dream | An imprint as of a silver moccasin.

DAILY THOUGHT.

And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.—Matt] Liew 1p: at.

OF ALL THE roche that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of la dream.—Bonnell,

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sor Board Veto Power on ork and Failure to Name Retard the Arms Effort

—1Is the rearmament program '? Sidney Hillman. of the risory © Commission ‘‘advises” “who violates the various labor a contract for work on ths nse program and that the Naal Labor Relations Board will de, for this purpose, whether or, 10t an employer is “violating.” i didney, of course, has no auity. I would He willing to intri if to him the whole subject if he had. But he just “advises.” of NLRB has already decided

i itn % the Bethlehem Steel Co. is

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of truth.

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sing’ strike and Mr. Hillman “hil Murray to delay it. ¥ # = y two members of NLRB, Lele The term of Chairman Madto protests based on charges uirriess the President has not reap- | observers guess that the President

1 after the election and then resmith and Leiserson agree on. very pith is an extreme left-winger

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service draft system, although ie under way, no administrator e mysterious inner pressures -minded Stimson—prevented >m which was perfection—the s veteran of the World War nistrator—the young, expert : is its chief executive. Either en satisfactory. The team ed :

onsible head has been apen “detailed” fo go through

x ediocrity, why? The big job ; beginning—setting up the and selling it to the people, e, expertness—even genius. and mechanical. If ever a | \brized and qualified leader— “ctive draft at the most ecriti« ce. ve causes for delay and une ed—giving the Labor Relawr over defense contracts, sube< -ocq of judicial review, and then tiory ig Labor Board, and emascus

nging the whole defense ef~ ! to erect competent and re ith full authority lo _decide

Ce . Administration that we are : indispensable because of its 5 domestic policies of recovery, eeking ruins—indispensabie conducting our foreign rela!worst state in our history— “for its skill in preparing our recited here—is only a small neptitude in this field.

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3 y of liars, cheats or shysters. ! 5 careful to look into the for=

iarriage ceremonies were ap‘1 with half as much dignity | ot, there would not be much % 2ifortunately such is not the zen | sarriage in this country deinstitution to a week-end

1 ras of the ritual are mean- ! js that which is worse than ireless disregard for, all forms

fare orthodox Christians, ematmosphere for weddings In that. respect, at least, a work together since both , And surely no

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orld over have a way of worrying chilcre sven grown-up male chil‘ages A 21 and 35—eat when away

the: 7 fan stop worrying over that Qua termaster. Corps of the U. S. ding problem. Regardless of ‘ble, tile American soldier is actually > wo i

eir triining takes them into field

en wil get fresh vegetables, butter,

aer bi'ky, but desirable, foods which ., tha breferred field ration. Ration Arma moves in streamlined transthing ‘but necessary equipment, is subst! ‘ution of some canned goods, .tter, ¢ ad hard bread for fresh. Men e yea are not likely to have many

sn, wich is admittedly nothing to

'e new streamlined one has impr: vement over previous reserve

the men will ng ca aps is that it is planned to .lenty f energy for men engaged mn but iso plenty. of the protective the yesh vegetables, milk, butter. 78s 3 s ipply vitamins and minerals

Teoma] dd as a big problem in ‘our ° but: {he chief part of the problem nutt.{ on. The Army has its food and And the meals it serves both thos: who will be drafted for trainay vil set an example. to the rest feec ‘urselves and our families for