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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1940

WILLKIE ON THIRD TERM—PAGE 11

OR the first time in our nation’s 150 years the November ballot will carry the name of a man seeking a third term as President of the United States. For the first time the argument of one man’s indi pensability is seriously made and widely circulated. Every American who is weighing the important issues of the campaign, and who plans next month to enter the polling booth alone with his consdience and his judgment, owes it to himself, we think, to read the speech which Wendell Willkie delivered last- night at Syracuse, N. Y. The text appears on Page 11.

LET'S NOT FORGET ET’S not forget the Community Fund in the excitement of events both at home and abroad. These are stirring days, to be sure, but they do not absolve us of the day-to-day. responsibility of caring for the orphaned, the aged infirm, the crippled children and all the others that no agency save the Fund now cares for. So far the Fund's volunteer workers have mot been disturbed by the competition of international events. They have raised more than a third of the $688,500 needed for the next 12 months. ; That is a fine showing. But it is equally apparent that if they are to reach their goal, they rhust maintain the pace set in the first days of the drive. To accomplish that, they will need larger gifts from many old subscribers and many new subscribers. Let’s not forget.

SMEARS, EGGS—AND VOTERS

FTER loud repercussions of public opinion Democratic

National Chairman Edward J. Flynn disowned the |.

scurrilous circular which sought to smear Wendell Willkie, through- his German ancestry, with a baseless anti-Negro charge. American voters, by and large, resent smears—just as they resent the egg-throwing and rock-hurling to which they have not been accustomed in Presidential campaigns. Such things are bound to remind them sharply of the political machines that are openly backing the Roosevelt third-term ambition, machines that have always controlled the votes of their faithful without curbing methods or manners. ; Smears and eggs don’t stick to Mr. Willkie. On the contrary, they rebound significantly to their sources— which may well worry Boss Flynn. 3 / a

THE GRASP FOR POWER—IV. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT grasped for power over the Supreme Court through his court-packing plan. He grasped for power over the machinery of Government through his plan to reorganize the executive branch.

We come now to a third grasp for power—this time -over industry—which also. came soon after his second election. This was through the original Wage-Hour Bill, sent full-blown from the White House and introduced in Congress on May 24, 1937, by Senator (now Justice) Hugo Black of Alabama and the late Rep. W. J. Connery of Massachusetts. : The court-packing plan was defeated. The reorganization law enacted in 1939 did not contain the dangerous features of the first bill drafted. And the Wage-Hour Law passed in 1938 was very different from the Black-Connery bill as introduced. But here again the original proposal, not what Mr. Roosevelt finally got, revealed his intention. From the outset we approved the proposition that Federal law should put a floor under wages and a ceiling over hours for industries in interstate commerce. We agreed with the late Senator Borah, who said: “I would abolish a wage scale below a decent standard of living, just as 1} would abolish slavery. And if that disturbs business, it would be the price we pay for good citizens.” But the 11,000 words of the Black-Connery Bill proposed a bureaucratic regulation of the nation’s industries far in excess of such simple objectives as minimum wages, maximum hours and abolition of ¢hild labor.

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Congress “was, indeed, to. legislate a minimum wage figure and a maximum hour figure, but these would have had little real meaning. For Congress was asked to delegate to a board of five members, appointed by Mr. Roosevelt, broad power to fix wages either above or below the minimum, and to fix hours above or below the maximum, at its own discretion. This board, in fact, was to write its own wagahont laws for some 175,000 American industries, and its authority was to extend to employees receiving up to 80 cents an hour or $1200 a year. It might fix one wage in one industry, and a different wage in another industry. It might go about the country making exceptions here and exemptions there for the benefit of employers who could present plausible pauper’s oaths. It might crack down on one employer and go easy on his competitor. It might raise wages and lower hours for an industry or concern organized by one labor union, -and do the reverse for an industry organized by a rival union. Standards, once fixed, might be changed at will by the President’s board, so that no employer could have assurance against sudden, arbitrary changes in wages and hours. Obviously the President, through a board appointed and controlled by himself, would have gained vast potential authority to bludgeon employers and unions into accepting his policies. : Once more Congress decided that Mr. Roosevelt had asked too much. It refused him the proposed board and discriminatory power to police industry. And, after a year’s delay, it enacted the present law. : Mr. Roosevelt's three attempts to grasp more power ‘at the beginning of his second Administration teach a lesson for the future, :

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Capt. Elliott J

By Maj. Al Williams® ~— =

Appointment Symbolic of Sort of

Political Favor i itism Two-Fisted Military Men Have Fought for Years

HIS Elliott Roosevelt appointment as a captain in the Army Air Corps (Procurement Division) is by no means a political brickbat in a bitter campaign. For the last two years I have been besieged by bright, intelligent, young Americans intent upon enlisting in the Air Corps, and now they are back asking some mighty embarrassing questions. This issue is symbolical of all that the two-fisted Army and Navy officer is fighting, has been fighting, and will be fighting. We are free and equal or none of us is, The regulations under which Elliott was appointed to his captaincy are loose enough to drive a mule team through. Jimmy Roosevelt was commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps. That was when he was serving his father as a Presidential secretary. But you can see readily where such things lead, when you find Jimmy condescending to request the Marine Corps to demote him to a mean captaincy in case he is called td active duty.

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HAT under the sun does Jimmy know about the Marine Corps, much less about the combat technique education required of a Marine Corps second lieutenant? On qualifications alone, by competitive examination or actual field test, Jimmy Roosevelt would be lucky to qualify for a corporal’s job in that fine Marine Corps outfit. A captaincy in fs United States Marines is a topside fighting man's jo Military service is supposed to be stripped of all considerations except the use of men according to personal ability to serve the best interests of the country. Men actually die in military service. Service to country involves the sacrifice of life, limb and health in combating an enemy who would destroy one’s homeland. One airman is not only a hazard to himself but may be the reason why dozens and even hundreds of other men are killed. This latter figure must be multiplied when the untrained combatant is of officer status and directing others. As far as public morale is concerned—and that is of predominant importance where an entire citizenry is called upon to serve the country—there is every moral and patriotic reason why the sons of men who possess the power to assign them to safe non-com-batant duty should be the first 1 take plages in first-line service. » » ”

0 matter who is fighting whom today, it begins to appear to me that the war will eventually turn into all hands fighting politicians the world over. The idealism of enlisting youth for the defense of a country on a basis of fairness and impartiality is like honesty itself. You have it or you haven't, The youngsters of this country haven't been asleep to what's going on in the world, and one can hardly blame them for the cynical humor of the clamor all over the country for ratings as captains. You can fool your superiors, but it's fatal to try to fool your juniors. The letters that have come to me about this Elliott Roosevelt captaincy would burn the rolls in any printing office. Boys who are to be drawn in the draft have protested bitterly. Now let's wait for the result of the protest, and then we’ll get a first-hand check on the workings of this democracy. When any privileged individual is granted gratis, free, without effort, a rank in the Air Corps for which others have to work eight years—well, I say we can’t blame the kids for raising the roof,

(Mr. Pegler’s regular column will’ appear tomorrow.)

Business By John T. Flynn

Elliott Capitalized on Presidency To Land Big-Paying Texas Radio Job

EW YORK, Oct. 15.—An important business item in the day's news contained some very melancholy information. It is that Capt. Elliott Roosevelt, in order to enlist, had to give up an annual earning power of $76,000. It is interesting to know how young : 30-year-old Elliott Roosevelt came to earn $76,000 a year. Certainly nothing this young man, himself, had to sell commands any such yearly sum as that. What he has had was his relationship to the President of the United States, 1t is because he is the son of the President, and not because he is himself, that he could get $1000 a week for broadcasting for a toothpaste advertising program. He got that $1000 a week by capitalizing commercially on the Presidency of the United States. And there was a time when that sort of thing was looked down on by the people of this country. But Elliott also got, according to his manager, $20,000 a year salary as president of his broadcasting corporation. And how did he get info the broadcasting business? He was a very young man indeed then —scarcely 25—and with literally no ‘experience or talent to sell to an employer beyond that of other young men who work for $60 a week and consider themselves fortunate. Well, there were four radio stations in Texas. They belonged to an old oil man who had made a good deal of money out of them. A large-scale publisher wanted to buy those stations. But no one can buy a radio station without the permission of the Federal Communications Commission. The commission was and is appointed by the President of the United States. The man who wanted to buy these stations was one of those publishers who was an ardent critic of the President and pretty well settled in the doghouse so far as the White House was concerned.

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N those days the man who wanted to get a radio license transferred was well-advised to be represented before the commission by some lawyer who had the proper pull, or by some person who was on the inside. Well, who was more on the inside than the President's 25-year-old son? And so this great publisher hired Elliott to represent him as his agent before the commniission, and Elliott had three of the licenses transferred to his employer by the .commission his father appointed. Then his employer made him manager of some if not all of these stations. And thus by this strange alley-way Elliott Roosevelt moved into the broad= casting business. Now he owns the company himself, and draws $20,000 a year, and gets another $1000 a week for broadcasting on a national network. How much he really gives up remains to be seen. His wife, we are informed, will continue to represent him in the management of the corporation and he will continue to enjoy his share of the profits as the principal stockholder. But all this still does not explain how he came to be a captain in the Army Air Corps, though it does sxplain ) how he eéame to have so much to “sacrifice.”

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So They Say—

IT IS MY AMBITION to make relations between the United States and Mexico better than they have ever been.—~Manuel Avila Camacho, Mexican presi-dent-elect. . - » WE BELIEVE in peace and we want peace. But we shall have our kind of peace only by becoming strong.—Wendell Willkie. : » » THE PEOPLE have confidence in Congress; they know Congress is a strong force in keeping us from being stampeded into war.—House Minority Leader Joseph w. Martin Jr.

IF THE INPLUENGE of America is to be a real

factor in the regeneration of the world, it must be |

much more fully Christianized than it is now.—

Bishop Henk St. George Tucker, of (the Episcopal Church,

\_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES — Back of the Eight Ball!

inefficient soldier, sailor or |

"CAREFUL NOW, FRANK! THIS 1S THE ONE THEY PAY

The Hoosier Forum

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

ADDITION OF LINDLEY PLEASES NEW DEALER By N. W. T. :

My congratulations to you for adding Ernest K. Lindley to your list of columnists. I can only say that your action adds materially to your reputation for fair dealing. I grant you your right to support Mr. Willkie, even though I disagree with you. Like many others, I was feeling that The Times had become a little too weighty on one side. You've certainly helped add balance with Mr. Lindley, who is known to be the ablest of all proNew Deal writers. # 8 DISPUTES STATEMENT BY ELECTION BOARD MEMBER By H. W. Daacke Assuming that Mr. Gause, speaking as a member of the State Election Board, was correctly quoted, in the Oct. 8th Final Home Edition of The Times, under the caption “Communists Barred From State Ballot” when he stated that the Socialists were divided into two groups several years ago, and neither was allowed on the ballot, I want to take this opportunity to correct this statement. In the controversy between the two Socialist groups in 1936, the only one Mr. Gause could possibly be referring to, he, as well as other members of the State Election Board, decided against the -Socialist Party of Indiana, Inc., the parent organization in Indiana incorporated under its state laws, and.in favor of a splinter group, nationally under the leadership of: Norman Thomas, who were placed on the ballot in that ‘election.

. #8 ® AGREES WITH CRITIC OF GEN. JOHNSON

By Clyde P. Miller I wish to compliment the writer of the letter to your paper printed on Oct. 5th, concerning Bad Dream Hugh Johnson. This absurdly venomous type of columnist can be read only for amusement and the biggest joke of all is that he seems to take himself seriously. Poor, senile Hugh has just. reached the ranting age and we should ‘be charitable with those so conscious of their own frustration and futility. Elliott Roosevelt called him a

(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.)

“disgusting old man.” Very mild, Another recently called him a “disappointed old blatherskite.” A columnist who would gratuitously strike a son just to hurt his father is something. That's sure. Hugh just saw a chance for anotner dirly slur at F. D. R. in the fact that the young man had resigned a much more lucrative position in civil life to volunteer 1n the national defense forces! . , .

8 #5 8 SUGGESTS ANSWER BY ASKING QUESTIONS

By David E. Larkin I am sure all thinking persons are deeply indebted to your paper for the splendid editorial in The Times, entitled “How'd We ‘Get That Way.” In answer to that question and another in the article asking “Who stirred up all this bitterness and intolerance?” may I suggest the answer by asking you and The Times readers some more questions. (1) Who has been President of the U. S. for the last seven and one-half years? (2) Who has gone about the country during that same period stirring up class hatred and arousing class consciousness, arraying one group of citizens against another, €mployer against employee, office worker against shop worker, labor against capital, the poor against the rich and so on? (3) Who spoke in Madison Square Garden, New York City, a few nights before the 1936 election and boasted he would be the master in his second term? (4) Who has failed to make and provide adequate national defense in those seven critical years while Hitler and the dictators of Xurope arose to power? | (5) Who has brought this country to the very limit of inflation and worse than that to the brink of war? . (6) Who has violated the sacred

Side Glances—By Galbraith

tradition against a third term by

registered all this time).

{ing, as I do, that the New Dealers

| |dictatorship and bankruptcy, I can-

| welt is Tory Socialist and anti-cap-

vote American!

‘This sanctuary teems with wildlife’s

proclaiming himself the candidate of the New Deal Party? - (7) Who was ‘it that tried, but unsuccessfully, to destroy the United States Supreme Court? (8) Who also unsuccessfully tried to drive or “purge” out of Congress those who dared to be other than rubber stamps? : Now Mr. Editor, you answer my eight questions and I will answer yours. The answers to all these questions will be identical.

” 8 » CLAIMS HUSBAND LOST JOB UNDER NEW DEAL By Depending on Willkie I want to tell everyone why I am voting for Wendell Willkie for President. My husband was earning $30 a week when Roosevelt was elected eight years ago. The plant where he was employed went under and my husband was out of work. He was entirely unemployed for four |

years. He was denied the right to even a WPA job because I was working. I was afraid to quit for fear they might find some other reason to deny him work.

forts and not the State Employment Department where he was] Now we! can only plan for him to have four | months work out of a year. The] rest of the time I have to make ends meet with my small earnings. I only have about three days a week and for a famiiy of five we] just manage to live. . I would like to see my husband have year round work at decent wages again so I could quit work]. and keep house like a woman should. .... .

7” ” ” DEMOCRAT TELLS WHY HE FAVORS WILLKIE By Edward F. Maddox

George W. Benson “guesses” I. am “not a Democrat” becayse I am opposed to a third term for “Roosevelt and the New Deal.” Let me explain, Mr. Benson. I was raised a Democrat. Both of my grandparents, on both sides, and my parents and most of my relatives were Democrats. But here is why I am opposed to the New Deal: I think it is copied aiter Russian communism. Therefore as a patriotic American citizen, a Democrat who puts the welfare of our nation before any party preference, believ-

are leading us straight toward war,

not as an honest American citizen vote for such dangerous, revolutionary leadership. Is Henry Wallace a Democrat? Walter Lippmann said ‘Mr. Roose-

italist.” Gen. Johnson said: “He is not a Democrat.” I say the New Deal is not headed by Democrats. Mr. Willkie is the only Democrat running for President. Anyhow let’s

FALL'S BOUNTY By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING

Her magic wand Fall spreads about the land, The trees are robed again-in gold and red : With russet, crimson leaves the paths are spanned As through the forest's depth we softly tread.

charming ways The modes of life, the birds’ keynote of Fall, Security is in this wondrous, mystic

maze— We sense the Master's skill about it all.

DAILY THOUGHT

Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he (shall be surely put to death. — Numbers 35:31.

NOR CELL, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude~Maturin, l 3 i

He finally found | j {employment (through his own ef-

TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 1940 Gen. Johnson Says—

Destroyer Deal Popular, but Illegal, Sets a Bad Precedent and Congress Should Act to Ratify It at Once

ASHINGTON, Oct. 15—The accumulating briefs and opinions of impartial legal experts have made it clear beyond reasonable doubt that the President’s sale, or trade, of part of our navy was in disregard of our own Constitution and laws, limiting his authority; of our own obliga= tions to other nations in treatias, and of our uninterrupted policy in international relations since the beginning of our history. They make it equally clear that the opinion of the attorney general was a “command perform= " ance” to give some color of legals ity to this omission to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” It was either hopelessly in error or, if it wasn't, it amended all previous concepts of our Constitution, and the President now has the war and treaty-making powers of Con=gress and the congressional power to dispose of the property of the United States. As an inevitable cons clusion from that opinion, the President could tomore row, and with no consultation with Congress, detach the entire American navy as a present to the British Empire. The attorney general's opinion was an evasive and very disingenious reading of a statute. It utterly ignored other laws of the United States which could not have been mentioned without upsetting its whol course of legal Sophistry. ” » TNDER our own and international law, it was an unquestionable act of belligerency and not aid “short of war but more than mere words.” It was war itself. : The acquisition of naval bases was hignly popular, It was said in defense of the President's high-nanded disregard of Congress and the law, that if he had consulted Congress the deal would not have been permitted. Present evidences of popular approval of this result, as far as the bases are concerned, make this conclusion highly doubtful. Be that as it may, there is ho doubt on earth that Congress would ratity the result today with scarcely a dissenting vote. It should do so. It is of extreme importance. If the only restraint on the executive in violating tha laws of the Constitution of the United States is tha possible unpopularity of the result, we have surecly succumbed to what Westbrook Pegler calls the “what-the-hell” philosophy of laws, morals and obligations, Anything goes if it succeeds regardless of law or principle. » 2 ”

SOVEREIGN nation can do anything it wants

and dares to do. It is answerable to nobody. It can declare war or it can authorize acts of war withe out a declaration. In taking such action, it may be breaking treaties, but under our Constitution, a treaty of the United States is on equal footing with a law of the United States. A duly enacted statute, so far ag our municipal law is concerned, can break up or re peal any prior treaty, just as it can break or repeal any prior law. Of course, there is involved a question of international morality, but we don’t seem to regard the international morality involved in keeping treaties as always binding on ourselves, however much we may lecture other nations on such duties. But the breaking of such treaties, the setting aside of such laws, the commission of such acts of war and the assumption of such belligerency 1s a function of Congress. It is not a power of the President. For the sake of its own dignity and responsibility and for the preservation of democracy and the Cone stitution, Congress ought not to let this incident pass without actipn. It should ratify the dest royers deal, and do it now.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

1 Denver women, Dorothy Lepper and Laura Looms, both Red Cross workers in the last war, are eager to set up a workable program for the train ing of nurses. Having seen the bad results of lack of such training during the flu epidemics in Army camps in 1917-18, they feel we shotild be better prepared for what may prove a similar emergency, They want me to tell you some= thing about it and I do so, using their own words: “It takes three years to gradue ate nurses to get the necessary training in order to care for all types of illnesses or. operations, But for emergency purposes young women who have had instructions in making beds, giving baths, taking temperatures, with some knowledge of first aid and the Care of common illnesses, could do much to relieve grade uate nurses of the minor details and so release the latter for more serious duties. “Training camps for girls modeled on the cco camps, where high school graduates could go- for a year, would equip women to serve their country in an emergency. The Government would be sponsor and paymaster for such camps whose personnel briefly might conclude: “A woman physician, a camp director, trained graduate nurses, a home economics instructor, a physical education director, and maintenance men, married and living on the grounds, who would care for the light wiring, plumbing, heating and other protections. A tentative list of the courses would be— home hygiene, first aid, dietetics, a bacteriology course and perhaps a few others. “We feel,” the authors of the plan continue, “that even though the services of young women may never be needed in war time this camp life would be hene< ficial to the individual. “It would build her into a wholesome, well- rounded

‘individual, train her to think and work for others,

give her the satisfaction of doing a definite job when her services are needed, and also develop patriotism, character and stability. Lastly, besides teaching the value of foods and healthy living to young women, it would offer to high school graduates who are unems= ployed something worth while and constructive to do.” Well, there it is, girls. What do you think of the scheme? :

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

HRIFTY housewives

have learned thats it is

wasteful to cook vegetables in large quantities of

water and then throw the water down the drain, because in that way they are losing part of the vitaming and minerals from the vegetables. Now scientists have found a way to avoid vitamin loss while the vegetables are in the refrigerator before they are cooked. This is to keep the refrigerator moist or, if that is impractical to wrap green veges tables in damp towels or paper. “High humidity is the bane of mankind but it is a protection against vitamin destruction in vege tables,” Prof. Robert S. Harris ahd L. Malcolm Mosher of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. dee clar Wilting is an important cause of vitamin destruce tion, they found. Vitamins A and C are best maintained in fresh vegetables by storage in a moist and quiet and cool atmosphere. In their tests three series of experiments on lettuce were performed. One was an ordinary refrigerator with low humidity of 69 per cent and rapid air movement of 10 feet per minute. humidity, 88 per cent, and air movement of only 2 feet per minute. For the third, the lettuce was stored in hydrators within the refrigerators. Feeding .the lettuce to a total of 500 rats with vitamin A deficiency checked the losses. “Nearly twice as much vitamin A was destroyed in the lettuce stored in the conventional refrigerator as was lost in the special high-humidity refrigerator,” they found. “This corresponds with results obtained

last year with vitamin C in numerous vegetables.”

The second was a refrigerator designed for high

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