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THE THIRD TERM PITFALL
O urge an alleged indispensability of Franklin D. Roose‘velt as a reason for breaking the no-third-term tradition tends, we think, toward an abject and dangerous betrayal of American democracy. It suggests partial surrender to the very forms of rabbity popular acquiescence that helped put one-man power in the driver's seat elsewhere in the world. For this nation to assume that it has only one man fit to be its President would be to declare a poverty of electoral competence contrary to fact and fatal to the democratic future. It would be a first step toward inviting that self-per-petuation of personal government which has been the essence of Black Shirt and Brown Shirt regimentation. 8 ” ” Crisis? This is not the first crisis the United States has had to meet. Nor is there any guarantee it will be the last. There is always a crisis. If a third-term precedent were established, future . crises, external or internal, actual or manufactured, would become pleas for continuing in office any President who chose to use, for self-perpetuation, the power, prestige and political patronage of the office. - The very nature of the present crisis—world-wide challenge to democracy—is the strongest of all reasons why ‘American democracy should give resolute proof that it does not have to throw overboard one of the oldest of its tradi‘tions, thereby encouraging a world trend toward government by men instead of government by law. » ” 8 Experience ?
If the experience gained by a President in two terms |
should become convincing-argument for giving him a third, then the same argument would progressively grow stronger for a fourth term, a fifth—and presently for life. To get away from that, this nation was founded. Nor does a President's two-term experience ever eclipse the experience of other highly! equipped Americans who have observed and studied the results of his policies and who may be more competent than ‘he to hold American democracy to its true course. Mr. Willkie’ Ss speeches, we think, > now proving that. or #. 8 »& We shall have more to say about he Roosevelt policies and their specific bearing on the t ird- term issue; also about stanch American opinion of the ast, in which the no-third-term tradition is deeply. rooted. ! But, first of all, we believe voters| should try to divest themselves of any idea that any Presiflent may become indispensable, that his experience may become transcendent, and that crisis ought to clinch his grip on the Presidency. The third term is still the pitfall] it has always been. Beware of letting crisis, fear, or confused thinking push us into it.
GIVE TO THE FUND WITH two decades of highly successful work behind it, the Indianapolis Community Fund today launched its 1941 campaign. "All of us should remember that the Fund’s work does not conflict with that of any governmental welfare service. It operates in a field where official and private charities do not function. Under the Fund’s wing you will find dependent and neglected children, the aged, the infirm, young mothers and the luckless transient. All of these are the wards of the Fund and its 37 agencies. It is the duty of those of us who have employment and roofs over our heads to help those who are in distress. Give what you can.
MT IS THE WAR”
“C’est la guerre.” On the President’s desk, for signing or veto, is the Sugar Extension Bill. Back in 1937 a lot of heat was gen-
erated about that. But now the measure—extending that:
which is—has slipped through on the tail of the tax act and other defense legislation with about as much notice as the departure of a bus. Yet three years ago it excited the President to angry denunciation. Said Mr. Roosevelt in September, 1937: “Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are integral parts of the United States and should not be discriminated against . . . the monopoly costs American housewives millions of dollars every year.” It constituted, he continued, a *“‘tyrannical abuse of minority rights that is utterly contrary to the American concept of fairness and democracy.” - The 1937 bill was signed by the President under protest. But here is a new bill to continue the same restrictions that were then denounced. It will be interesting to see whether; despite the dominance of war over domestic affairs, the President will be able to give this question the attention he gave it in a quieter year.
SOLDIERS ARE CITIZENS, TOO
Wt HEN the United States was still just a pup, a lot of citizens thought it would be a good idea to remove the vote from soldiers and sailors. Americans were afraid that if the Army and Navy voted, the boys in the service might be able to take the Government away from the civiljans. So the service men were disfranchised.
laws, including those of Indiana, will permit absentee voting by draftees and National Guardsmen. And the first draftees will still be home this coming election day. The boys in the Army are, after all, citizens of the United States—very good citizens, or they wouldn't there.
‘compete against each other for this labor.
Those fedrs no longer hold good. In most cases, state.
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Reckoning Up the Cash Received by Judge Nelson for Labor Services He Gets Into Some Pretty High Figures
EW YORK, Oct. 7—Well, here we are, back on topic A. I have discussed before the career of Oscar F. Nelson, a judge of the Superior Court of Chi-
cago, who served as vice president of the Chicago Federation of Labor for 25 years and is now running for the office of County Prosecutor or State's . Attorney, which of course, has to do with the punish--ment of labor racketeers among other crooks. I have found Judge Nelson's word unreliable because he told me his law firm never received much more than $10,900 a year from the Flat Janitor’s Union in the 12 years during which he admitted that the firm represented this organization, but later admitted, under pressure of the evidence, that $30,000 a year was nearer to the truth and that one year the legal rakeoff was $42,000. | He says he is not a member of the firm nowadays, being (God save America!), on the bench of a rather important court, but just the same he occupies an office in the firm’s suite, in which I inferviewed him. As to the number of years that he and/or the firm has represented this group of laboring men, I have to entertain some doubt, for some members or ex-
members say this relationship has existed 14 years, |
not 12. ; #” 2 ” HAVE to ask you to be patient here because I am working up to the enormous size of the take which this altruistic pal has received from this union, alone, but among others. The judge says the union’s membership is between 4300 and 4400. The union itself has long claimed 7000 or 7500, and individuals who want to know more about the money, and may exaggerate, say there have been times when the membership has been up to 9000. The union used to have a standard charge for legal services of $8 per year per member—an arrangement which has now been modified, but in what manner I do not know. What I want to do is speculate on those beautiful box-car figures. Let us start with the judge’s own figures and work up. At $8 a year per head for a membership of 4350 members, which is splitting the difference between 4300 and 4400 for a period of 12 years, he would have siphoned off the earnings of the Flat Janitors of Chicago, for whom his noble heart beats with brave and selfless -loyalty, the not-to-be-sniffed-at sum of $417,000. - If we add two years more to the term the lug comes to $487,200-or near half a“ million bucks, and we aren'tsure that we are anywhere near the right total yet. 5 ” 2 ” ECAUSE, figuring that the judge and the firm were paid off on 7250 members, which is splitting the difference between 7000 and 7500, and using the same $8 per head as our supercharger, we find a
1 figure of $696,000 for 12 years and $812,000 for 14
years. And now, if we believe that there were 9000 headpaying fees for 12 years, we boost the total to $864,000, and, adding two years more, we give the judge $1,008,000 for his trouble and heartaches. Now, as I say, the figures aren’t solid, but we have a pretty good concrete base in his own admissions which I would be willing to accept if, in addition to the lie about the $10,000 a year, Judge Nelson hadn’t also lied about his relationship with the Building Service Union, whose president, George Scalise, the white-slave and underworld racketeer, has recently been convicted by Tom Dewey. The judge told me— and he has since reiterated to others—that he never represented the. outfit, but I dug up an official publication issued in 1938 in which he greeted Scalise and referred to his many years of service as counsel for the Building Service International. There is no doubt about that. It is there under his name and picture.
Business By John T. Flynn
Terms Unscientif c the Claim That Price Control Will Prevent Inflation
LEVELAND, Oct. 7..—The Brookings Institution, in one of its surveys, just issued, thinks that even though we spend vast sums on national defense we can prevent inflation if we will enforce rigid price controls.
I have tried to show that if we finance war expenditures by means of loans—as we are planning to do—nothing can prevent inflation. The theory that you prevent inflation by preventing price increases is, of course, unscientific. But you cannot prevent price increases, even by rigid controls. Congress can set up a commission which will attempt to fix the price of everything, but this will be a futile gesture. Prices go up when the pressure of purchasing power is exerted against them. If we spend vast sums of borrowed money on war industries, this -money will pass into the hands of the workers. They will spend it on other than whr goods. This will stimulate the production of non-war goods, and presently. everybody will be working. When this happens, everybody will have money in their pockets with which to buy things. And they will go to the stores to buy. As-long as this continues there will be a spiraling upward of industrial and
1 commercial activity. OW issues Shrink? might well be the text for this one.
Wages will rise. There will be no way to stop them. Don will increase. There will be no way to step: at. ; Peace-time industries will be busy, and will want more workers. War-time industries will want more workers, The peace-time and war-time industries will Labor will go to the industries which will pay the most. The only way to prevent this is to put into effect a rigid, dictatorial commission with power to allocate workers to industries. ” ” ”
HIS will be almost impossible. At most, such a commission can say the war-time industries will have the preference of workers. But this will not prevent the peace-time industries from competing for workers, and this competition can be settled only by wage rates or by absolute Government regimentation of labor—every man allocated to his special and separate workshop. The American workman will not tolerate that. With wages rising, costs will rise, and there will be a competition for goods in the stores. Under the impact of this, prices will rise, and no Government control that a democratic agency can exercise in pedcetime—or even war-time—can prevent it. We can never hope to introduce such stringent controls as Germany exercises, yet the latest news from Germany is that, while food is sufficient, “prices soar.” The only way ot prevent price increases is to prevent inflation of the nation’s income. And the only way to do this is to finance the war effort out of taxes, and not out or borrowing. You might as well turn the water loose in abun-
| dance on the water-wheel, and then hope to regulate
its velocity, as to turn a flood of purchasing power— artificial purchasing power—loose upon the market, and then expect to control the price level. The way to prevent inflation—and its consequences —is to prevent inflation.
THERE DAWNS on the horizon the. ‘promise ‘of a new day when every American family: will have a. decent home.—Nathan Straus, U. S. Housing Authority Administrator. : > 82 = 2 I BELIEVE THAT a liberal application of the birch switch at home would be beneficigl.~~Ciovernor
Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan, commenting on egg-throwing incident during Wendell Willkie’s visit
NDAY, OCT. 7, 1940
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
URGES “FUMIGATION”’ PROJECT ON NOV. 5 By “Ye Masy” Third Termite: 1. One who eats
at the foundation of democracy and grows fat on corrupt politics. -2.
stitution and all fine traditions but who has nothing to “offer in their stead. Cure: To hold a great fumigation “project” on November 5, 1940.
# 2 =» FEARS BACKWARD TREND UNDER WILLKIE
By Larry Hutsen
Mr. Willkie (Wall Street) candidate for President of this U. S, made the assertion indirectly we were going backward. We certainly would go-backward under his administration. We would have the soup_ kitchens back, have hunger marches to Washington, etc. Mr. Willkie is a very poor sportsman anyway. He never once made any comment on the President's condemnation of egg throwing in Pontiac, Mich., a certain date of last week. What's the difference anyway. Every time he opens his mouth he gains that many votes for President Roosevelt. Hurrah, Hurrah! for Roosevelt, our next President. 8 =» 8 CONTENDS F. D. R.. IGNORES JEFFERSON POLICIES By John L. Niblack President Roosevelt, on free radio time because his speech was nonpolitical, with New Dealist Boss Joe Guffey at his elbow, made one
of his best speeches of the campaign at Philadelphia the other evening. It was a honey. I marvel at the adroit way he can take a set of facts which apply perfectly to himself and fasten it on his hapless opposition. The Squire's speech was on his usual theme: Sir Franklin and his spotless group of country-savers versus the disciples of greed and the money bags. All virtue in us, none in the opposition. His the party of Jefferson, everybody else in the party of Hamilton, . I notice he didn't quote Jefferson on governments of law and not of men, or on ambitious men who would seize a third term as. President of the United States. ... Does Candidate - Roosevelt believe with Jefferson in government by rep-
One who wishes to break the Con-
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resentatives of all the people? No, ne does NOT. Didn't he tell Congress to go home last spring, and let him handle the war crisis? Did he and his public spirited and usually wealthy little group try to purge VanNuys of Indiana, George of Georgia, and many others who resisted the Supreme Court packing bill? Does Candidate Roosevelt really believe in the right of free religion? I don’t know, but he put a Ku Klux Klansman on the Supreme Court of the United States ... Does Candidate Roosevelt really believe in the right of free universal suffrage? Nope, he does not. He takes the full benefit of a powerful Federal machine to nominate and elect himself. He uses the public purse to bribe millions of voters. Is such an election free? . . . No, the New Deal is the old deal, the Tammany deal: Control of the public: purse and the public judi-
_|ciary, and no free elections. . . ,
CHARGES WPA WORKERS ARE BADLY TREATED By Edward F. Maddox
Having had much personal contact and conversation with WPA workers, knowing their problems by personal experience, I believe that about half of the WPA workers are fed up on the New Deal. No person on WPA knows from one day to another how long his job will last. Constant rumors of layoffs keep WPA workers worried and uneasy, and even if he feels reasonably sure of continued. employment, the small wages for laborers is not enough to pay rent, fuel and food bills. The poor WPA worker is always in a critical financial condition. Many work in the bitter cold
lof winter without sufficient clothes
and many others come to work with no food for lunch. Cold men, and sick men, with no money for car fare walk four or five miles through the snow to pick all day in-ground frozen three feet deep. These men
are not “parasites.” They are hon-
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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to Pontiac.
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est American working men and my friends. May God help them! The time has come, fellow workers, to lift up your head, shake off the New Deal shackles, vote to regain your liberdy, independence, political and economic freedom and a chance to once more feel like a
free American citizen.
2 ” ” THINKS PEW TIEUP HURTS WILLKIE’'S CHANCES By a Rubber Worker. : f It looks as if the actions of the ‘Hope of Our Country will lose more votes for him than the many blundering speeches which he has made throughout the nation. I am referring to. an article printed in the Oct. 1st issue of The Rs which states that Wendell Willkie, with his many ideals, has at last broken down and asked for the help of Joseph N. Pew Jr., a powerful Republican = multi-millionaire Philadelphia oil magnate. It is high time for the public to get wise to this man who talks like a Hoosier but thinks with a Wall Street mind. However, I must admit that Mr. Willkie and Mr. Pew make an excellent combination. (And I do mean, phew.)
2 ”® ” WISHES WILLKIE FOES WOULD OMIT TOMATOES By Mrs. L. Reed, Bloomington, Ind. The editor gets very severe fonight concerning the business of throwing eggs at candidates. wonders how the folks get that way. It is like this: adverse ideas and don’t care for the speech. ‘They get all roiled up and since they lack a newspaper which would permit a couple of malignant columnists to do the dirty
work they take the matter into their own hands and ° personally tnrby
‘their own filth,
I wish the objectors wouldn't throw tomatoes. The tomato section is at Elwood, which has suffered one eclipse. Why not leave the campaign tomatoes entirely - to that section? The first thing you know there will be a trail of tomato puree across the country.
% 2 2 ” CHARGES F. D. R. PUTS BRITISH EMPIRE FIRST By Mrs. A. &, I am giving the reason why I will not vote for Roosevelt as a reason why I will vote for Wendell L. Will-
kie. Roosevelt seems to put the welfare of the British Empire first,
_|the New Deal job holders second, and the United States and its in-
habitants a poor third. Roosevelt and his Administration are guilty of giving good jobs or positions to Communists and radicals
taken away from them and be deported; and has permitted competent American citizens who should be holding those positions, to take inconsequential relief jobs. Roosevelt's destroyer deal proves him to be more interested in the welfare of Great Britain. All European islands on the Western Hemisphere should be turned over to the United States for the debts of the last war; and that would only be a small part.
GRADUATION By ELEEZA HADIAN.
The ocean has grown so small I can scoop it Into my hands, hold its all! Its rage is tamed To a song's lullaby; Distance is dissolved Into high sky! Oh, Mother mine, don’t. ery, | I have captured my power wing. And discovered Tinos: ; Bases among the starsi:
DAILY THOUGHT
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of ones birth. —Ecclesiastes 7:1.
A VIRTUOUS name is the precious, only good, for which queens and peasants’ wives must contest to-
gether.—Schiller,
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the issue. The President hasn't
said, but he di. d up to his press conference a New York Times dispatch from Rome, the lines emphasized being “The Axis is primarily interested in keeping her (U. 8.) out of war ... moreover the Axis is out to beat President Roosevelt, not as a meas= ure of interference in American internal policies but because of the President’s foreign policy. . .."” I don’t know what “the Axis” wishes. I doubt if any newspaperman knows. But, if it is out to beat Mr. Roosevelt, the way to do it would certainly not be to disclose any such intent as this. It nd self-defeating politics. Certainly believes or he wouldn't have empha= ch, and Mr. Roosevelt is the shrewde the world. rird-term party's most treasured bunk rants Willkie and therefore that the sy is fifth column stuff. Haven't we al issues—issues on blundering policies toy both our economic and political we have, but Mr. Roosevelt won't talk fe can’t. They are indefensible. It is ssary for him to divert attention—as om his blunders—by pulling this fake Jon the other side of the stage.
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tticular dispatch works in more ways It says by clear implication, if not » Axis doesn’t want Mr. Roosevelt belunge this country into war.” - His: use 2 in this particular way has a plain sywrite that apprehension. It almost : _duntry the real issue of this campaign, "ar. dent, Governor Lehman and Mr. Wal
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lace want ft whistle that air, why don’t they play.
2? Surely on so terrible an issue this right to know what is intended and to he only chance they will have in four rhaps the very last chance. . Hlay the whole tune because they don’t untry is 8 to 1 against’ war involves . vociferous minority on the. Eastern war. Most of America lies west of
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ment. Oni seaboard wi the Alleghe wagged the war. That issue out out of war. s ¥ ” ” ” HIS Af issues © I know of ‘who isn’t ¢ he will dra that if nor: . I know happens we
ime great trusting dog into the last Administration didn’t dare make that either. . Its slogan was: “He kept us
1 blahs about such fake ones as this. » well informed Washington observer ‘inced that if Mr. Roosevelt is elected 15 into war at the first opportunity and : presents itself he will make one. /none who is not aware that if that 121 have a war dictatorship with “emere gency: pow: 3 in the hands of men who have cone stantly sor. {| ever increasing “emergency” powers at the exp of our political system—and who have ¢ surrendered a single one. They have i to perpetuate themselves. I know of sot aware that participation in a major inuch that it will bankrupt the United
used them? none who | war costs | States.
_ nat’s what a majority wants that’s what we shall d
/But let{s see if that’s what a majority wants. Le make an issue of it-and vote on it in the electic Let's not countenance any clever and furtive des ! ition of the peace of the United States, There is ¢ *{ one man who can pose that question squarely—: = tie that issue plain. His name is Wendell Willkie ar, f he doesn’t do it, he is licked righ® now. If I' Zoes do it clearly, completely and effec tively, he | 4] win. We don’t want war.
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ould only act upon all their splendid f, by some miracle, we might force ti y1gh the barriers of hatred which now
i. people in an iron grip! Daily I wish And especially when letters come from those who ardently desire to see some great work pushed. Today such a letter arrived from Columbus, O. Let me quote a passage: “A movement is under way. to “get the women of America so aroused: that they will break through any barriers in. order to send food tothe starving children of Europe. We have the food. It is going to waste in Government storehouses. No woman wants any child to starve, whether it is = French, Belgian, English or Ger= man. Wil’ you do all you can to arouse sympathy for this movement?” What © an be said to such an appeal? For it is a sincere and. noble plea, and one to which every mother hear + subscribes. But barring the sentimental way stands common sense. ‘ The truth must be spoken, though it is often unpleasant. Fine a: the plan is, it does not seem feasible. How will it be possible to accomplish the gigantic task of feeding Europe? Aroused American sentiment .will release th= food held by our Government, it is sug< gested. Eut that food: belongs to someone. It musk pe bought hy the European nations or given to them outright. Next arises an obvious question. If the Governe ment can give food to foreign chlidren, why can’t our hungry ones at home be fed by the same method? And wha! is to be done about the millions starving in China, Japan and Russia? Can our generosity cover all ‘ne territory? Ah, friends, these problems are so immense we falter before them. We must .do what. we can, but some things are beyond our power. If women could act upon their splendid instincts, this ghastly horrible war would never have begun. We are like Mary before th: Cross. We can only weep and suffer; we cannc stop the Crucifixion.
Wading Your Health
By Jane Stafford
HEN vou buy new stockings, pajamas or other lingerie, wash them before you wear them. You may in this way save yourself from a troublessome skin inflammation. The recommendation to “launder all new under= wegr, stockings and other garments that touch the oh, before wearing” comes from Dr. Louis Seawanz Q and a grouo of physicians in Indianapolis, Louisville, New York and Montreal have investigated over 100 cases of «kin trouble occurring within the past six
‘months thzf were caused by wearing apparel,
Cotton = of a new
horts for men and women’s hosiery, made synthetic fiber substitute for silk, were tha -hat caused trouble in these cases, but the investigations showed. that other apparel worn next to the skin might cause dermatitis. ©. In the case of the ¢otfon shorts and the hosiery, 1t
‘| was the finish that brought on the dermatitis, an’ acid
ester gum in the finish proving to be the chief irritant. Finishes ars put on fabrics, it is explained in the report to th: Journal of the American Medical Associa= tion, to give the fabrics a better feel and to make them wea better, to prevent runs, to make the fabric non-creas:ng and sometimes to make them hold the crease. The'finish stays on the fabric more or less temporarily. Part of it may remain after many washings, but ‘he first laundering usually removes a large proportior: of it. These fabric finishes are often the cause-of cermatitis that has been wrorigly blamed on dyes, Dr. Schwartz has found in an earlier investiga-
tion of de:imatitis caused by men’s socks;
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