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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1940

‘THE GRASP FOR POWER—IL

“NW, to bring about government by oligarchy masquerading as democracy, it is funda--mentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our national government.” Franklin D. Roosevelt said that. The date was March 2, 1930. Mr. Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, was defending states’ rights against “the doctrine of regulation and legislation by ‘master minds’ ” at Washington. That doctrine, he said, had been “too glaringly apparent” for 10 years.

What Mr. Roosevelt said was true, and is true. But now 10 more years have passed. For nearly eight of them Mr. Roosevelt has been President. And under him the process that is fundamentally essential to the bringing about of government by oligarchy has gone farther and faster than ever before. : Not only has there been rapid and shrewdly organized centralization of authority and control in the national government, but along with it a vast increase of regulation and legislation by “master minds.” And there has been a deliberate effort to increase Presidential power so much further that it would be beyond the checks and balances of the other branches of the National Government. We are convinced that this effort will be renewed and intensified if the third-term drive succeeds —if Mr. Roosevelt receives what he would regard as a mandate to carry his philosophy to its goal. 8 We do not say that Mr. Roosevelt's conscious aim is government by oligarchy. We say that he has come to want authority centered in the National Government so that it may do for the people what he believes they cannot do for themselves. We say that he has come to want power concentrated in his hands so that he can make “the three-horse team of the American Government pull together” in obedience to his will. And we say that the end of that process is government by a few becoming one-man rule, call it by any name you choose. ; : Before his first term ended, Mr. Roosevelt said of the powers already built up under the New Deal that, in wrong hands, they could “provide shackles for the liberties of the people.”

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Yet the first-term powers, great as they were, and:

plainly as Mr. Roosevelt revealed his feeling that they were too great to be trusted to other hands, were not considered enough. The second term began with a series of ruthless “attempts to obtain far greater powers—over the Supreme Court, over Congress, over the Government's independent agencies and over business and industry. We intend to review these attempts in future .editorjals. We think they foreshadow what is to be expected if there is a third Roosevelt Administration. Even if Mr. Roosevelt had used more wisely the power he has, even if he had achieved the benign results he promised, we would recognize the danger of permitting him to continue to obtain more power, more concentrated in himself. : We are for Wendell L. Willkie because he sees clearly that what America needs is to stop centering power in Washington and to start restoring the power of the people to produce the means of insuring their own welfare.

PROOF FOR THZ DOUBTERS

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necessary, they have said. Nobody is going to invade us, ‘they have argued.

GOOD many people in this country have been opposed

As the day for registering under the Selective Service

Act draws near, developments abroad must surely be convincing many of these critics of the draft that danger is not so distant as they had thought. Aside from the British Empire, which has its hands full, and Latin America, which has no military strength to speak of, we are without important friends in this world. The Japanese have joined with the Germans and the Italians in a pact openly aimed at us. The Russians have given no indication that they would be receptive to a rapprochement with the Anglo-Saxon powers. ; Whether England can continue to hold off the Axis is a question that not even the “experts” are qualified to answer. And if England falls, the United States will indeed be in a lonely position.

It seems to us that the real trouble with conscription,

and rearmament, is that they have come too late for comfort. -

BRITISH SALES TAX Soe indication may be gained of the tremendous cost of modern war by Great Britain's latest tax measure. On Oct. 24 it is putting into effect a “purchase tax.”

stockings, furs and jewelry. Yet that 4s the way it must be if Britain has any hope

G WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF HEIR EYES

[HE Army is “short on equipment but long on morale,” says Maj. Gen. Lesley J. McNair after a cross-country inspection. The General might have paraphrased his commander-in-chief and said: “High spirits oh hand; guns on order.”

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Elaborating on Willkie Criticism Of Mme. Perkins, He Finds Women Generally Have Failed in Politics

EW YORK, Oct. 10.—It appears that we are about to observe an attack on Wendell Willkie as an enemy of American womanhood because he adverted the general unfitness of Mme. Perkins for ‘position of Secretary of Labor and went so far as to say

that hers was a job for a man. I do not know how much further Mr. Willkie will have the candor and audacity to go in this direction, but if he will slip me the ball I will carry it for a long gain, because the professional politician ranks high in the list of American abominations and is a pernicious nuisance who has imposed on the natural chivalry of the race to escape the criticishx which she deserves. A candidate for the Presidency - will be unfairly shackled in any attempt to do justice to this theme, for the female of the species does not submit to judgment on her merits as a public official but instinctively raises the equivalent of the old cry which has touched off so many deep South lynchings. . The truth is that, after all these years and after all the suffragette propaganda, which most of us remember only dimly now, women in politics and office have contributed nothing to the political morality of the nation or its subdivisions. They have been just so many more sordid and selfish Democrats and Republicans—no worse, on the average, than the males but certainly no better. They have failed to live up to their eariy billing as a purifying moral force who would pretty up politics by hanging chintz in the polling places and substituting hand-painted gobboons for tawdry papier-mache and enamelware.

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Ir Chicago and Kansas City the investigation of election frauds proved that women ward heelers and precinct workers were just as crooked as the buck Democrats with whom they collaborated in the dirty work of the reigning gangs. In the U. S. Congress no woman has ever made any notable contribution to the common good, and Mrs. Mary Norton of New Jersey, is, in fact, only the political creature df Frank Hague. Mrs. Norton thus, notwithstanding the reputation which chivalrous forbearance has permitted her to acquire, is seen to be, in fact, only another boss-

elected member of Congress with what noble yearn- |

ings we do not know but with no more civic interest than any trousered member of the same political kind. The kind of women who do become prominent politicians are more political than feminine. By the time they rise to power they are deprived of the inherent special virtue which women were supposed to bring to politics, due to their long association with the men. They have learned to play politics the men’s way. Otherwise they would not get there.

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office, the presence of a woman in an important post creates embarrassment and needless annoyance. The woman in this role is a political and personal affectations She is in unnatural surroundings and must be deferred to for reasons deep in the nature. of human beings, even when she is absurdly and dangerously wrong. I would like to add, too, that most of the women who are active in politics are officious and rather sallow in personality and temperament after long detachment from the office which nature appointed for womankind, That observation, however, is only esthetic, not political. . The bottom fact of the matter is that women politicians have failed to elevate the political morals ot the country, and those few representatives of their sex who have been raised to. distinguished office have given us no improvement over the conscience and ability of the standard type of male political hack. They have shown a net loss, for they have tarnished a very pretty illusion which would still be among our spiritual treasures had they been content merely tec talk about what they might have done.

Business By John T. Flynn

War Could Be Financed by Taxes, But Won't Be for Political Reasons

YEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Attention has been called here to the conclusion of a Brookings Institution report to the effect that “a serious inflation of prices in time of war can be prevented.” In a previous comment I called attention to the fact that as wars are financed out of borrowed funds no amount of price control can prevent the rise of prices. In fairness to the Brookings Institution report, I think it should be said that it is in agreement with the thesis I outlined in that comment, that a war financed by borrowed funds, if the borrowing is great enough, will produce an inflation. It believes, however, that the war should not be financed out of borrowed funds or at least out of funds borrowed at thé banks. The funds should be raised by taxation and, to whatever extent borrowing is necessary, on a iimited scale out of loans from individuals out of current income. I too agree to that. The weakness in this plan, however, lies in the fact that neither this Government nor any other will do it. I have had a little experience in this. Three years ago, under direction of a Senate committee, I| supervised the preparation of a war-financing bill that aimed to raise taxes sufficient to finance a war, as far as it could ke done out of taxes. Endlessly, month after month, I appeared before Senate committees and sub-committees to expound ‘the theory that unless the war were financed out of taxes it would result in an inflation that would leave our economic system in a state of collapse after the war. : The object of the bill thus proposed was, first, to impress upon Congress and the people and business in particular the baleful economic effects of another

war, and, second, to protect the existing system from

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SUCCEEDED in convincing three Senate commit~ mittees of this, and the result was one bill introduced by 49 Senators—a record—embodying all of

these ideas. Another bill sponsored by Semator Tom |

Connally of Texas embodied the same ideas after the

matter had been threshed out before his sub- |.

commitee. But now that war is in the offing and we are actually engaged in a great war effort, these bills, approved by the Munitions Committee, the Finance Committee and the Military Affairs Committee, are never heard of. Instead we provide a pitiful little tax boost to raise about ore-fifth of the extra cost of the war effort in a year and plan to get the rest by borrowing. And business—and the politicians—are united in an effort to keep down the amount raised by taxation to the very bone.

Theoretically it is possible to finance’'a war out of |

taxes. Actually, however, in this country in particu-

lar, with politicians eager to make votes aut of the |

war effort and businessmen eager to make profits, it is humanly not possible. Prices have already started on their upward flight. And the inflation has hardly begun.

So They Say—

BY FEEDING starving people this winter, the United States will attain moral leadership of the world, a defense armor we cannot put off now.—— Samuel R. Guard, editor, the Breeder's Gazette. * * *

THE BRITISH people have every reason for grim resolufion but none for despondency.—Lord Croft, British undersecretary for war. * * *

PROTECTIVE isolation is but a hollow term today. —Governor Her{ rt Lehman of New York.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 1940

Another Sermon on a Mount!

MUST KEEP A MAN WHO HAS AAD SO MUCH

EXPERIENCE

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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.

RECALLS KIN DONATED COMMUNION CLOTH

By Mrs. Joel Whitaker

In reading the article “Communion” of Page 6 of Saturday's Times, I feel the urge to add a little to one paragraph. In speaking of the beautiful linen communion cloth and the communion table at Roberts Park Church, it was my grandmother, Mrs. Edward G. Cornelius, who gave both as a memorial to her husband (my grandfather), Mg. Edward G. Cornelius. ; The plate is on the table. The cloth was made by the Sisters at Good Shepherd Convent. Inasmuch as my grandparents were pillars of that church (since 1860), also one of the old and distinguished families of | this city, it would give me pleasure (if you so see fit) to make some mention of the above fact.

> ” ” n $ GUESSES MR. MADDOX | IS NOT A DEMOCRAT By George W. Benson, Sullivan, Ind. We wonder if Edward F. Maddox, calling himself a Democrat and asserting he is against Roosevelt on account of the third term issue, is

fooling any one?

We have read Brother Maddox’ letters to the Hoosier Forum for several months and he has attacked Roosevelt and the New Deal bitterly and regularly. Our guess is that Brother Maddox is no more a Democrat than Wendell Willkie. . .

” » ” CREDITS NEW DEAL WITH RAILROAD GAINS By Mrs. R. H. Farrell, Frankfort, Ind.

The parties that criticized the B. R. T. and the present Administration must be misinformed members of our organization. I am a member of La Paloma Lodge 929, Ladies Auxiliary, B. R. T. 326, Frankfort, Ind. I They should know what political power at Washington that ever did anything for the trainmen. President Wilson gave us the eight-hour: day and was also the cause of our pay being raised near where it ‘is now. Mr. Hoover let the capitalists cut our pay 10 per cent, Which was restored to us by President Roosevelt, although we were promised two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage by Mr. Hoover, the

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same kind of promises are being broadcast today by Mr. Willkie. All of these cars which are said to be on sidings and engines with white lead on are obsolete. Just as the 50 destroyers our President traded” to. England, ‘these parties don't seem to know that the railroads have purchased much larger engines and cars to be used in moving many more tons of freight than our railroads ever moved before. And as to Mr. Whitney, the B. R. T. has been put on a - sound basis by his hard hitting ability and not so long ago thé trainmen received another 44 cents a day under Mr. Roosevelt with the aid of Mr. Whitney. The Railroad Retirement Act and also the Full Crew Bill of Indiana were passed under this AdI think some of you railroaders better wake up. ” 2 2 PARENTS OF DRAFTEES. REMINDED OF ELLIOTT By Harry Clay, Brightwood Just a few words to remind the mothers and fathers of our country that your boys and mine will have to register in a few more days for the first peace-time draft in our history. It means that these boys will be trained and will be the first to be sent to the slaughter house of Europe by Franklin I. What a mistake we fathers made by not becoming President. Then we could have had our sons appointed captains where they could sit at a desk. No uniforni, no drill and best of all, no fighting. And at the end of each month they could. stick 200 bucks pay down in their jeans, beside about 115 dollars per month as expenses money. Did you say experience? No, you don’t have to have any. At least Roosevelt's son, Eliiott, didn't have any experience and he got appointed. It’s great to be a great humanitarian.

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CHARGES INCONSISTENCY IN MINTON PENSION STAND By Harrison White Senator Sherman Minton in a

speech at Sullivan, Ind., on the sec-

ond of October, told the people “I

have been charged with personifying and upholding the New Deal, I plead guilty.” In the same speech he tries to align himself with the “Townsend Organization” by saying that he would vote for and support the “Downey Old Age Pension Bill” which had been approved hy the “Townsend Organization.” The Townsend Organization's whole purpose is behind ‘The Townsend Old Age Recovery Plan,” and it is a recovery plan that would of necessity do away with the New Deal. It is not a question of where Mr. Minton stands, but is in line with all New Deal campaigning. With a

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BACKS ROOSEVELT FOR 3 OR 20. TERMS By M. C. We know in: whom we trust for the sake of our nation. I think it is a very small thing to condemn our President on the third term. What does it matter if it be 20 terms? out of an awful depression as we are not afraid of bread lines, or putting our money in the bank or losing our farms. > I do hope that God will put it in the hearts of good Christian people to vote for a good Christian man as the head of our nation to help the unfortunate people as Franklin D. Roosevelt has done.

a # ® CHARGES PETITIONS IGNORED BY COUNTY

By Dusty Throat We, over in East Edgewood, nelgibors to our friends on Thompson Road, who this week petitioned the County Commisisoner for some relief to the dust situation, wish them good luck. But our luck has been bad. ! We, 41 of us, signed a petition and presented it to the commissioners in 1939, we requested some relief from high waters, and cleaning of road ditches which were destructive to property caused by mismanaged work of the WPA the previous year. We even didn’t get an acknowledgment of the petition. We sent them another ih De spring of 1940. Being election year they did come out and clean one street—three blocks. West Edgewood is pretty well blacktopped and some east and west streets. We can assure the commissioners that the volume of traffic was not considered in lots of blacks topping. The most consideration is given to Nov. 5, 1940. . . We will be the judge in November

ANXIETY By JANE SIGLER

When he was young he played a game Its fearful name Was war. For gun he used a stick And marched along at doublequick. mo

'He'd wave a hand to me and say,

“Hey, mom, we're soldier boys to-

day.”

I've watched him grow from boy tu man, And cherished him. Dear God, what can A mother do to still the beat Of martial airs for tramping feet? So he will never have to say, “Farewell, we're off to war today.’

DAILY THOUGHT

But the wicked are like the , it can not | rest, whose water cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked — Isaiah 57:20, 21.

PEACE DOES not dwell in outward things, but within the soul. —Fene¢lon.

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distress.

Gen. Johnson Says—

President Not Responsible, but He Should Reverse Serious Error Made By Elliott in Obtaining. Captaincy

ASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Elliott Roosevelt- says 1 am a “disgusting old man” and now, in the same connection, Ernest Lindley says I am a Mexican jumping bean. In criticizing the appointment by obvious favoritism of draft-eligible young Elliott to a soft non-combatant job as kiwi air captain, I didn’t call any names. I didn’t even assess any blame to - any of the Roosevelt family except inadvertence. This column has opposed attacking the President for the errors of his kin and has consistently defended the latter. : I still insist that President Roosevelt did not originate the error of Elliott's appointment. For one reason, he is too good a politician to permit this bitter and unnecessary affront, directly or in- ' directly, to almost every home and mother in America. Even that political conclusion is a little bit unfair. F. D. R. likes to emulate T. R. Teddy's” boys, in 1917 or before, rushed to combat service, Some served in England’s armies before 1917 I forget the exact record but, as I remember, all saw front-line service; all, I seem to recall, came away bearing honorable scars: one I think was wounded three times; one was gassed; and one, I know—the youngest and best-beloved—shot from the skies in flaming death, lies buried by his chivalrous enemies in the fleld of France. When they sought to bring the honored little that was left of him home to his mother, T. R. wrote Gen. Peyton March, who had also lost a son, “where the tree falls, there let it lie.” 2 2 : > n ” 2 HIS was the kind of service and sacrifice, without “favor or affection” on which the success of both the World War draft and the World War army depended absolutely. This was the example of another Roosevelt family that did as much to vitalize success as any other thing. Compared with this, Elliott's scuttle simply won't do. You can't make me believe that the President doesn’t feel all this. Nobody who knows him can fail to respect his great personal gallantry. This action of Elliott's must have made his heart cringe. He has suffered more hurt from such errors of others, than from anything he himself ever imagined. ‘In general, too, nobody can much criticize his philosophy about that. His children are all adults. They must live their own lives. I never saw a man so shrink from nagging others. In spite of his political purges and strategy, he does less personal bulldozing than anybody I ever knew. There is something so gentle, appealing, heroic and attractive about that man that I don’t know how anybody who knows him can really “hate Roosevelt.” I don’t. In spite of almost complete disagreement, the fact is just the reverse. > 2 2 ”n TEVERTHELESS, on the cold hard facts, this appointment of Elliott was a two-way error of the very first magnitude. At the initial step it takes the guts out of any pretension of fairness and decency in the draft. If your boy doesn’t stand on exactly equal grounds before those neighborly tribunals, the whole system is so rotten that I couldn’t honestly lend it the trifling support of the infinitesimal echo of a word. In the second place, it restores the curse of our Army—political favoritism in the appointment of commissioned incompetents—a curse’ that dogged and frustrated our armed forces from Washington to Wilson. For decades, it took its toll in national humiliation and the loss of millions of treasure, of many battles and campaigns; and in some of the greatest threats to its existence that this nation ever knew. For these and other reasons, Woodrow Wilson threw it out. Please, please Mr. President reverse this error. All that has importance is for Elliott to go to a training camp or otherwise qualify before he puts on even one bar as an officer in any service. All the rest of our boys have to do that.

ee / ‘ fo. A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Tey

J HESE are hard days for the young, and hardest 1 of all for those who have been most receptive to the teaching of their elders. : I felt this poignantly when I read a recent stateiment by President Hopkins of Dartmouth, saying that both students and faculty members must give up ‘some of the privileges of liberalism.’ As if lib~ eralism were only a privilege, and net a duty and a responsibility! Think back, if you please, along the years of the last decade and a half. A world economy was upset by the last war and a great struggle had gone on to free the mind from certain narrowing Victorian restrictions. Manners and morals were revolutionized. Suddenly many of the shackles which had held youth in thrall were broken, Supposedly Europe had been mace safe for democracy. Civilization had a breathing spell, and how sure we were that all this presaged a brighter day for the development of human intelli» gence, At least, most -of the young men and women now in college imbibed these liberal notions and hopes with their mothers’ milk. Repression was an evil term. In the industrial world everybody was out to “win friends and influence people.” Intellectual circles produced such flaming souls as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and William Saroyan. Politics likewise became imbued with revolutionary liberalisms. Hardly anyone could be found willing to say a good word for the old ways or the old restrictions. Now, almost overnight, we do a complete about tace. We ask all these young people to alter their economic, political and moral concepts. If they refuse, they will be lashed by the wrath of their leaders and teachers who now find they were wrong in the first instance. = : We demand acceptance, without question, of the notions which yesterday were wholly evil—extreme nationalism, military aggression, regimentation, suppression of honest thought. Having educated a whole generation to detect and analyze propaganda, we are startled when the youngsters show signs of wanting to examine our new ideas—which we also label “Truth.” Can we wonder at their mental confusion? Because we are responsible, we should have more patience with their lagging enthusiasm for those methods "which, only a year ago, we denounced as evil and dictatorial. :

‘Watching Your Health

| By Jane Stafford

ofa tempiation of a luscious chocolate pie topped ith whipped cream or some equally delicious and .fattening food is not the only thing men and women on reducing diets have to fight. Many a person trying hard to lose weight for health or cosmetic reasons can resist the desserts and rich gravies that. the rest of the family eats, but is hard put to it to fight the feeling of hunger or emptiness that may come bhétween his scanty meals. Some valuable tips on this are given in a new book, Dietetics Simplified, by Dr. L. Jean Bogert and Miss Mame T. Porter. One way to have a comfortably well-fed feeling on a reducing diet is to eat foods that have bulk enough and stay long enough in the stomach to prevent be-tween-meals hunger. Meat, milk and eggs are good for this. Fluids and fibrous green vegetables have bulk enough to seem filling, but they leave the stomach quickly. " A small amount of sweet food—but remember it should be small—at the end of a meal will, according to these authorities, make you feel satisfied with a smaller total amount of food. Foods that require much chewing also help to make you feel well-fed. Thin, crisp toast and rye crisp are given as examples. ~~ If the reducing diet is carefully planned, it can be followed without danger to health and without