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I 0. U. ABUNDANCE |

ET’S not, as the song goes, forget to remember—to remember that the more abundant life isn’t being paid for. That we of this generation, and those who follow, have a bill against us which already comes to more than 44 billions; that some 1415 more billions have been voted for defense; that raising the debt limit by 25 billions is the next step, come next Congress. We were suckers in 1929. We are suckers now, if we fail to savvy that big government today is doing, in essence, what big business did then. A different rider but the same horse. Headed for the same cliff. Are we, as a nation, going to make the same mistake twice? That's the

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And, as we ponder the bill which is yet unpaid, let's not overlook this factor: Such inadequate Federal receipts as are being taken in—missing budget balance by billions—do not by any means all come from the rich and the well-to-do. Over half are sales taxes—on everything from matches to gasoline. These taxes rest inequitably on those least able to pay. As it is now, it ever shall be—until, and unless, the bill is paid. o

# ” ” Here is a statistical fact which we all should paste and carry in our hats: On a basis of our normal budget for the year—leaving out the billions for defense—if every income above $100,000 a year were confiscated (and that includes the du Ponts,

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Harding Regime the Most Cynical Band Ever to Deface the Nation's Honor Until the New Deal Came EW YORK, Oct. 5.—I am indebted to the Democratic National Committee for the text of to-

day’s sermon, the same being taken from a publicity release and reading as follows:

the Rockefellers, the Mellons and all the other fat ones), the amount collected would run the Government only 16 days. If every income above $10,000 were confiscated— 110 days. Think that over, as you view the abundant life, and the future, for yourself and your posterity.

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‘THREE DAYS MORE TO REGISTER T is heartening to see the current figures on registration in Marion County. Apparently well over 300,000 names will be on the books by the time the registration deadline rolls around at midnight Monday. : That's an impressive number of voters. Unfortunately, however, not that many will he eligible to vote, since the registration lists include some 30,000 names of people who have moved elsewhere, died, or become ineligible because they have not voted in either of the last two general elections. We urge that anyone who has any doubt about his eligibility check forthwith at the Courthouse. There Isn't much time left. Just today, Sunday and Monday until midnight. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, it is important that you are properly registered.

“BLACKLIST” VS. DEFENSE

ANY large companies now producing or expected to produce national defense materials have pending court appeals from rulings of the National Labor Relations Board. Attorney General Jackson, in an informal opinion to the National Defense Advisory Commission, holds that such companies are barred from obtaining Government contracts. Findings of the NLRB that employers have violated the Wagner act are binding upon other Government agencies, says Mr. Jackson, “unless and until these findings are reversed by a court of competent jurisdiction.” If such companies as General Motors, Ford, Bethlehem Steel and many others cannot work for the Government, it is obvious that the defense program will be impeded. Yet, even at that cost, public opinion might support a policy of withholding Government contracts from concerns clearly proved to be violators of Federal law. We do not believe, however, that public opinion will see either fairness or wisdom in taking contracts from firms merely because the Labor Board says they are law violators. For, unfortunately, the Labor "Board has earned a reputation for bias which has destroyed confidence in the justice of its findings. Mr. Jackson's view may be correct. But it seems to us to amount to saying that companies which have the ‘temerity to appeal from the orders of bureaucrats can be punished before their appeals have been decided by courts of law.

THE HARRISON RESOLUTION LEEPING in the House Rules Committee, in the pigeonhole into which it was thrust nearly 10 months ago by the Democratic leadership, is a joint resolution which, if adopted, would provide for a very necessary survey of Federal finances. It is the Harrison resolution setting up a special committee to survey both sides of the Government's ledger— the spending side and the taxing side—with the aim of trying to plan for an eventual balancing of one with the other. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi got the Senate to pass his resolution without a dissenting vote last Jan. 10. It was sent to the House, and there pigeonholed in the Rules Committee. The Democratic leadership took the view that because the House had by that time prepared several appropriations bills for passage, the proposal for the survey came too late. * No such excuse exists now. The Congressional decks are clear. Moreover, when the new Congress convenes in January, it will be confronted immediately with the tasks of rewriting the tax laws, raising the debt limit, and approfirtating more money for regular Government activities and national defense. Now, above all other times, is the time for Congress to take a look at both sides of the Government ledger.

“The most cynical band of political corruptionists who ever debased the nation’s honor swept into Washington in the spring of 1921. They took over the Justice Department and bartered immunity in exchange for bribes.” To all of this I would say “amen!” Or “ain’t it the truth?” Except that I would insert a catch to the effect that the Harding Administration was the most cynical band that ever debased the nation’s honor until the New. Deal swept into Washington, -12 years later. It really isn’t necessary to go back over the record of the Ohio gang, for I will agree to anything the New Deal's publicity says. EJ 3 2 EAVENLY days! What a rude and raucous crowd of old-time, chew-tobacco crooks they were, to be sure, and how we, the people, did go on about them when the facts began to come out! And, although I have great respect for the journalism of Washington, except in its new keyhole and pipeline particulars, which are reminiscent of the semiofficial news-poisoning practices of the old world capitals at their worst, I have always thought that the Washington corps of that era must have been unpardonably fat-headed not to have smelled out the dirty work while it was under way.

have accepted any valuable perquisites such as phony philatelic rarities which can be manufactured artidcially by the Postoffice Department and were so manufactured in the early days of the New Deal and distributed among a few favored recipients who were fully aware of the great pecuniary value of these gifts, and I am pretty sure it never was even charged, much less shown, that he put any member of his family on the public payrolls. As to Mr. Harding's intimate secretariat my recollection is dim, so there may have been some transaction comparable on the score of propriety with the retention of Charlie Michelson by a big radio corpora-

‘tion as a Washington “front” at a salary of $20,000

while he carried a latchkey to the White House and was so folksy with the President that he used to sit in on the regular press conferences. How do you like the idea of a corporation “front” man practically living in the White House?

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ND there certainly was nothing in the Harding regime that compares with the exploitation of human need and suffering and a national economic emergency to buy votes and build up a political machine at the cost of the whole country and damn the consequences. | When you speak of the corruption of the Harding crowd, you are confined to the selfish and cynical acts relatively few ignoramuses and - white-collar roughnecks who were just stealing Government property. But what the New Deal has done affects the citizenship and the civic morals of the people and has endangered the very systems of Government under which they live. It is much worse in its financial cost than the stealing of the Harding gang would have been if they had been able to get away with it, and the worst of it is that this gang has the gall to tell the people that all this is being done for their benefit. And ahout that Department of Justice matter, again admitting all that has been said about the Harding crowd and viewing it with the same abhorrence, I refer you to the second Louisiana purchase and to the Labor Department's mock trial of Harry Bridges and its condonation of the Communists’ sitdown revolution. How do you like those apples?

Business By John T. Flvnn

Scores Assertion That Spending for Defense Won't Produce Inflation

LEVELAND, O., Oct. 5—The Brookings Institution 4 has issued a volume dealing with war fihance in which it takes the position that defense expenditures need not necessarily produce inflation. I can imagine no more dangerous thesis at this moment. There is always a. good deal of loose discussion of this thing called inflation. Nine times out of 10, those who use the word apply it to rising prices. That is a most unscientific use of the word. And, as I understand it, this book says that inflation, despite heavy Government war expenditures, may be avoided by control of prices: I understand inflation to be a condition in which purchasing power is created by processes not connected with the production of goods. One is the creation of money—bank money—by- means of private loans at banks. Another is the creation of money by Government loans at banks. Another is the creation of money by Government printing of money not supported by a material base. When a man borrows money at a bank this loan has the effect of creating a deposit for him—of increasing the bank’s deposits. He may use that money for a productive or an unproductive purpose. But the use he puts it to has nothing - to do with the fact that money, or purchasing power, has been created by the bank loan. The Government has been creating money this way for seven years—by borrowing at the banks and creating bank deposits. This has been an inflationary process. It has not been recognized as such, however, because people look for intensified activity—runaway prices—as the sign of inflation. What they fail to recognize is that we can have inflation without runaway prices. That will be because the inflation has been moderate or at least not enough to produce a runaway.

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HE Government has inflated our bank money each year to the tune of some three or four billions. This was a mild inflation. It did not produce & runaway inflation, because we were already so severely depressed that three or four billion merely brought us up to the level—or to less than the level—of ordinary activity. Moreover, while Government borrowing was creating inflation of bank money, other Government policies were tending to deflate the private creation of income. Now the Government is about to push up the creation of bank money by bigger bank loans for defense. How far the inflation produced by this process will go will depend on just how far the Government goes in its expenditures and borrowings. If it borrows more heavily it will most certainly produce more inflation. If it supports the defense program on borrowing—as it plans to do—there will be no escape from inflation. -} The question is, will it be a runaway inflation? Will it be a destructive inflation? And will it result in a serious boost in the price level? Apparently the Brookings hook holds the inflation need not do so if we will put into effect the proper control of prices. With this proposition I cannot pases, and I will offer my reasons in my next column.

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So They Say—

I DON'T LIKE to believe that the abundance which exists about us has softened us rather than served as a challenge to progress.—Winthrop Rockefeller. * * * - :

THIS IS AN important moment of my life.—Albert Einstein, as he took the oath of allegiance to the U. S. flag. * "w * OF COURSE it's very frightening, but it’s good to see our planes knocking the Germans from the

skies.—Kenneth Wright, 14-year-old English refugee.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

WILLKIE’'S REPETITION OF TRUISMS CRITICIZED

By F. A. Willkie’s speech before the Republican women sounded to me like Petain’s Hitler-dictated dogma: “labor, the family, the fatherland.” I smell the rat in. that limiting philosophy of life; the simple, beautiful philosophy Willkie advocates while Rome burns. The repetition of broad truisms having an emotional appeal is his method of rab-ble-rousing. It was Hitler's, too.

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SECOND MOTHER SPURNS GOLD STAR

Mrs. 0. C. Neutzman One Indianapolis mother writes one of our local newspapers as follows: “If this country sends a force in the European struggle and my son is killed, my country cannot pin a gold star on me.” What that mother says for one son, I say for two. We cannot go to Eutope every few years and settle European quarrels. We all saw the*folly of that in the last World War. Does anyone think England would be willing to sacrifice her young men every few years to settle quarrels in the Western Hemisphere? All our country needs to do to keep out of war is mind our own affairs and our leaders .keep their promise not to fight unless we are attacked.” No nation wants to go to war with us. . We all know there are thousands of our youth in graves today because we needlessly entered the World War. . ,

"8 on CITES PRECEDENTS FOR ELLIOTT’S CAPTAINCY

By “Haywood” 2 A great many people appear to be disturbed on account of the recent appointment of Elliott Roosevelt in the Specialist Reserve Corps. These persons should study the life of Abraham Lincoln and they will find that. Mr. Lincoln permitted Robert Lincoln to attend Harvard all through the Civil War. Near the very close of the war, Mr. Lincoln wrote to Gen. Grant and asked Grant to find a place for Robert on the staff. At that time Robert was 22 years of age and had graduated from Harvard in the class of 1864. The average age of all the men

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years so Robert was five years past the age of the men who were fighting at Gettysburg, Shiloh, Cold Harbor, etc. In his letter to Grant, Lincoln said that he wanted Robert given an officer's rank and also stated that he (Lincoln) would pay Robert's salary if there was any budgetary limitation. Naturally Grant found a captaincy for young Lincoln on his personal staff. Robert Lincoln served with honor until the end of the war. The sons of Robert E. Lee were all commissioned and served in the higher grades except one who was an enlisted man in the Rockbridge (Va.)- artillery. Let us not be critical of our President Roosevelt, our President Lincoln or any other leader. I have an idea that any of us might do the same thing. After all, Ellictt Roosevelt. and

of the right kind of space for this] work. : Maybe there never will be any enemy bombers over Indiana but if they did come such places as Allison’s would be as attractive as .a keg of shingle nails to a magnet.

a.m -# CREDITS NEW DEAL WITH BETTER LIVING STANDARDS

By Esther Greathouse To| date I have not been given a really good argument on “why everyone should vote for Willkie.” .. . As a skilled workman, my husband has been able under this Administration to support a wife and two children, pay his rent, and lay aside money to build his own home. With all the talk of increased taxes he could lay aside two dollars a day and still make four times what he made in 1930-31. In those days he shucked corn for 75 cents a day and was lucky enough to find shelter with relatives. So Iam more interested in living in the manner to which Roosevelt's Administration has accustomed me than I am in the third term. Maybe Willkie could maintain this state of affairs. He says he could. But I must know. . ..

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Robert Lincoln both had education and training of a nature that the Government no doubt got and will get full value for their services.

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By Curious The unglaciated part of Indiana

almost forms a triangle in the

southern section of the state the three points being Louisville, Indianapolis and Evansville. There are places within the area of this triangle that would form natural rendezvous for hidden munition dumps, underground airplane hangars and manufacturing plants for war tools and machines. The Morgan-Monree County State Forest has some unexcelled hills, ridges and valleys for such an outlay, - The}e are trees and vegetation thergftoo that would form a natural cagiouflage for such operations. Modern successful war depends mostly on the supply of the essential materials in the hinterland; Indiana

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ABOUT GEN. JOHNSON

By Charles C. Bender, Bloomington, Ind. I had a dream. I dreamed that

so loud that it shook the very ground where I stood and froze me ‘in my tracks. Ever and -anon this terrifying noise was repeated, always nearer and nearer until before me

As paralyzed with fear I stood waiting for the end, this menacing beast opened his cavernous jaws to emit his awful roar, and I saw that he was toothless and, looking down, that his claws were worn and useless. While contemptuously I now watched this pitiful, impotent creature, its form slowly faded into the form of an ass, and the bray of the ass was as loud and menacing as the roar of the lion. I laughed. Then, in its turn, the form of the ass slowly faded into the form of a man, whose ever continuing bluster was even louder and more menacing than the roar of the impotent lion or the bray of the silly ass—and I recognized Gen. Johnson of NRA crackdown, Kkick-in-the-pants fame. . ” ” ”

CRITICIZES HANDLING OF WILLKIE NEWS

By Arthur D. Miller I am wondering why the paper you edit is supporting editorially the Republican nominee and yet giving so much space to the discourtesies shown the same nominee by Democratic supporters and the general reporting of the news in a rather sarcastic manner. It’s evident that no person of refined character (to say the least— and the Democrats seemed to be loaded with persons of that type), would refuse to extend a courteous hearing to anyone with whom they

It’s true you can’t edit a paper in a way to please everyone; but| why claim one affiliation on the front page and another on the editorial page if you are really honest.

HOSPITAL :

By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

Along the corridors the busy nurses quickly pass, And men in white move silently, Within the rows of shadowed rooms Pain crawls its tortured length.’ Through weary days and long, dark nights, For those who wait— The healing touch of time Or pause before the final door.

DAILY THOUGHT

That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.—John 3:15.

REMEMBER that what you believe will depend very much upon

hat you are.—~Noah Porter.

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Gen. Johnson Says—

4% smpaign at Ripe Tomato Stage With More to Come, Possibly an Effort to Tag G.O.P. as Fifth Column * EW YORK, Oct. 5—This campaign is certainly

fast getting into the dead cat, ripe egg and rotten tomato stage. Not to mention the actual heaving

.of these spoiled groceries, the New Dealers now insist

that theirs is a fight to keep Hitler out of the White ; : House. They scarcely mention the fact that there .is another guy running—named Willkie. Don’t imagine that you have smelled the last of this dead herring dragged across the trail by both Henry Wallace and Governor Lehman. Their ¥ommand per= formances may be just the builde up for smellier fish. The conductor of a New York gossip column, whose stuff is usually remarkably accurate and whose sources: of information ; seem to be everywhere—predicts an explosive “relevation” designed to put Mr. Willkie in the ashcan for keeps. : Rumors are rife as to what form this expose will take—and there ‘are some’ facts. According to press reports, Gen. Bob Wood, the guiding genius of a great Chicago mail order house, was approached recently by a German “commercial traveler’—they are not yet outlawed here.’ 2 ” ” HIS man of business discussed with Wood certain promising commercial connections to be made - “after the war.” They all happened to be along the line of Gen. Wood's known interests and habbies. Later Bob heard that other prominent business friends of his had been similarly approached. He naturally reported these incidents to the Government and that seemed to be that. Now it is learned that other businessmen, some of whom are for Willkie, have been similarly approached by Teutonic “drummers”’—some if not all of whom are loeing, .and . ought to be, neatly tailed by competent: Secret Service men. Just who thinse Germans see and when and where would, as a wetter of routine, be then accurately reported. What a dish it would be {hen for some member of the janissariat having access to such reports compile, abstract and digest them and—about Oct. {15—break an explosive charge that the business supporters of Willkie are in bed with Nazi agents, that|the Republican Party is a fifth col« umn and Mr. Willkie an intending gauletier. -.Of course, the whole foundation and structure of such a build-up would be absurd nonsense. Such conversations as Gen. Wood's are-innocent and unavoidahle. They are ho more subversive than our State Department's conversations with agents of the German Embassy. e haven't even broken off diplomatic relations: with Germany. But in the hysteria, emotion and hatred that has been built up, nonsensical absurdity would he overlooked by many.

® 2 ” I ITLER, himself, with all the.genius of Goebbels, . never accomplished as great results in blinding as many people to his terrible machinations as has the janissagiat. They have succeeded in chloroforming a third term tradition of 125 years’ standing—deodorizing the Hitlerized bludgeoning of the Democratic convention in the blatant third term “draft” and the forcible feeding of Henry Wallace to the Democratic Party—obscuring in the public mind the record of awful fourth New Deal failure on every domestic policy on debt, taxes, re-employment, recovery and farm relief and -a more awful and dangerous failure in foreign policy and defense. It stands as a mastérpiece in impudent efficiency in propaganda and demagoguery. Putting over this impending fake “fifth column” melodramatic absurity sounds like an impossibility, but it is nothing compared to what has already been accomplished along similar lines. Perhaps this will never happen. I am writing this column in the hope that it won't. Stink bombs can be so easily avoided if there is some warning of their coming, so that sometimes intending bombers hold their fire... But } dunno. An influence strong and bold enough to persuade decent men like Henry Wallace and Herbert Lehman to throw that Hitler dead cat are bold enough to try anything.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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NOW thyself,” said wise old Socrates. All of a sudden Americans show signs of wanting to We are enduring a regular bome

-bardment of criticism. Books, magazines, leatlets,

newspapers diagnose our ailments, physical, economic. " social and psychological. And hardly anybody has a good word for us any more. Mortimer J. Adler of Chicago University gives a reason in the October Harper's when he holds up to view and dissects what ie calls “The Pre-War Generation.” Grim as the title is his analysis. More than most critics, Mr. Adler goes to the root of the trouble . when, in speaking of our col= lege-bred population, he says: “They seem to have grown up without any allegiances that could be hetrayed, without a moral philosophy to re= nounce.” i : He points out the flaws in an educational system to which we have rendered all homage, a system which has nevertheless taught students to believe only in the tangible rewards of success—“money, fame and power.” He decries modern man’s exclusive trust in science and his disavowal of whatever lies beyond the field of science as irrational prejudice or opinion emotionally held. Boiled down, all this means that our hearts have not kept pace with our heads. It's as simple as that. We have not lost, we have literally educated out of the young, any faith in the eternal verities. Good=ness for its own sake has been as obsolete as Grandmother's bustle. When young men and women began to believe that the old, old creeds were entirely useless, and that those things which men of good will have always lived by could be discarded, livery stable morals become fashionable. Marriage had no sanctity; people no longer believed in enduring love between a man and a woman; ideals of duty, self-sacrifice and loyalty were riot only foolish but funny. Yet is it not clear that those who are disloyal to individuals can never be loyal to a principle? Persons who feel no family responsibility, will feel no responsibility for their country’s welfare. When ethics disappear, men and nations decay.

Watching Your Healt

By Jane Stafford Lo

RENCH warfare seems to be a thing of the past and certainly the men going into Army training this year will not live under anything like the trenchlife conditions of the World War, but trench mouth remains a possible Hazard to them. : The disease is by no means a new one. Men in Caesar's army are said to have had. it. It’s scientific name is: Vincent's infection," and it is caused by two germs, the fusiform bacillus and Vincent's spirochete. The disease attacks the gums first, making them red and thick and causing a burning sensation and bleeding. Ulcers form at the points of the gums between the teeth and dirty grayish patches may form over the points. or * If the condition is treated at this stage it is readily cured. If not treated, it may spread to the floor of the mouth, the lips and palate. In severe cases it spreacls to the tonsils, throat and respiratory tract. Such a condition usually ends fatally. The disease is contagious. The germs may be spread by drinking glasses, dishes and eating utensils. It was rarely seen in the United- States before

| the World War, but dentists and health authorities

state that there is a lot of it no in the civilian popuation. Careless washing of drinking glasses and the

‘like in public eating places is blamed for helping to

spread the germs, as well as carelessness or ignorance on the part of the person with trench mouth who may spread the germs by kissing, or by sharing a cigaret hesis smoking or an apple he is eating. :

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