Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1940 — Page 12

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REGISTRATION DAY— | E hope it’s to keep out, not to get in. That was the

original idea. But we have been straying toward war. ‘And now we are galloping. So let’s not delude. ourselves,

on this the day when 64,000 in Marion County, 490,000 in ¥

the state and 16,000,000 throughout the nation step to the schoolhouses and the polling places to register in the selective draft. When Congress was considering conscription, and billions for rearmament, this newspaper joined with a majority of Americans in supporting those measures, believing that they were necessary for defense, and that by making ourselves strong we could keep war from our shores. That was the argument the Administration used in rallying public opinion to its program. We still believe that the measures were and are necessary. .But can anyone today still have complete confidence that our nation will avoid involvement? We think not. World events are moving too rapidly. Some of these are beyond our nation’s control. Others are flowing from our own national policy, which appears to be no longer aimed at the sole objective of becoming strong and staying out. " This day when America’s young and fit place themselves on record as being available for military service is a good day for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the original concept that this great national effort is—and must continue to be—preparedness for defense, not war. Let us ask of our leaders in Washington, and of those who aspire to become our leaders, that they read, re-read and take to their hearts one sentence of Col. Lindbergh’s latest address: “When a man is drafted to serye in the armed forces of our country he has the right to know that his Government has the independent destiny of America as its objective, and that he will not be sent to fight in the wars of a foreign land.” : ® » 2

— AND ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT

HE Elliott Roosevelt affair has been made worse, not better, by his offer to resign, and the rejection of that offer by his superior, Brig. Gen. O. P. Echols. The episode smacks too loudly of the idea that there is a second indispensable man—and that his name, too, is Roosevelt; too much of military royalism.

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We wish the clock could be turned pack and the pro- |

curement captaincy obliterated; that the affair had never

happened. For it is the one great blot on the otherwise |

clean picture of the selective drag, functioning without “fear or favor.” Elliott by his offer to resign gives evidence that he, too, now wishes it hadn't happened. And we hope that his father, the President, and Commander-in“Chief of the Army in which Elliott holds his commission, feels the same way. But the moving finger which signed. that. gemmission has written, “and having writ, moves on.” So, as millions of young Amoricins Ting up: 10 take pot luck from the great bowl of war there is'a feeling among them today, and their men folks-and their. ‘women: folks— a feeling that is not good for this country of ours.’

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HIRE A MAN WHO KNOWS

S A PARTIAL solution of our rush- hour traffic jams, the : Safety Board is thinking of removing nine Sefely Zones in the. downtown area.

That such a. ‘Solution’ would speed up the movement of

traffic we have ng doubt. But is it the right solution? Not the least of the questions that present themselves is how the forgotten street car rider will ever manage to board his car if the zones are removed. In other words, is the solution the removal of safety zones, or the installation of raised safety zones with traffic flowing past on both sides? In these and similar problems, we return to one of our early recommendations, namely, that the city hire a competent traffic engineer who knows the answers.

TREND

R. WILLKIE was, as he said, “in front of a trend” in ‘ the weeks before his momination. Now signs appear that he may be again “in front of a trend” three weeks before election day. The latest Gallup Poll places him once more ahead in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan and shows a gain for him in pivotal Ohio. The Gallup figures, of course, have absolutely nothing to do with the reports now current in Washington that President Roosevelt will soon find time for a non-political national-defense inspection visit to Indiana and Illinois.

LATE BUT STILL WELCOME

N 1938, when Congress passed the Wage-Hour Act, its intention was to help the lowest-paid elements in industry. And this the act has done, by putting a floor under wages and a ceiling over hours. But the administrators of the act, seizing upon the broadest possible interpretation of its terms, without regard to the real intent of Congress, insisted that the over-time-wage requirements applied as well to the :$10,000-a-year white-collar man as to.the 30-cents-an-hour mill hand. They insisted that the act covered men of the type who fix their own hours, and who couldn’t for ‘love hor money tell whether they were “working” or relaxing in the course of a luncheon conference where the convegation ranged

from anecdotes to business and back again. ..Ypu can’t put |

an “idea man” on a time-clock basis. But theb's what the Wage-Hour people tried to do. ; Now, after two years, they have denead their minds:

Without going into the details, the important thing

about the new regulations is that employees making $200 a |.

month or more are exempted from coverage by the act if their functions rise above the routine. This step, too long in the making, will relieve many of an annoying nuisance, and free some of the energies of the Wage-Hour Division for further enforcement of the law against oppressors of the: lowest-paid groups.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Fascist Tendency Laid to Willkie, ;

But on the Record Mr. Roosevelt Long Has Been Headed That Way

EW YORK, Oct. 16.—From over on the left the campaign cry is frequently heard that Wendell Willkie and those who support him, particularly the businessmen, would like to create a Fascist Government. while from the right and center the same accusation is made against President Roosevelt. I may be deceived by my own prejudices, but thus far I have seen no evidence of any such intention by Willkie, and I have seen proof of such a tendency in the New Deal. It is true that the businessmen of Italy and Germany helped the dictators of their respective countries when they were on the rise, but the American businessman has seen what happened to them. Fascist controls are the very thing which they are fighting against and which President Roosevelt has fought doggedly to impose. President Roosevelt’s Government has closed in on the freedom of the nation from two sides.” Starting on the business side, he established restrictions which were heartily received by the majority of the people, who forgot momentarily in their anger and confusion against the great crash, that free business was, after all, the very life of a free people. But neither in the debate on the Wagner Act nor in any of the political criticisms of the act in operation has the character of that law been appreciated.

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HIS is a law which drives millions into unions |.

against their will, under the rule of unioneers whose character the Government disclaims any right or responsibility to investigate, The Government, under the law, creates conditions which compel people to join, and the labor bosses, being big operators and indifferent to the rights of the unwilling victims, naturally string along with the Administration which delivered to them so many new members. So these labor bosses put through resolutions levying political assessments on the members, including the unwilling ones, and turn the money over to the political treasury of President Roosevelt's SocialDemocratic Party.. Even though a man is a standpat or reactionary Republican, as every man has a right to be, he must contribute. But, as we have seen in the past, President Roosevelt does not reveal his hand in his political campaigns, and we do not know what he would do about the unions after November if he should be re-elected. He might then come out and say that because the Government does coerce workers into unions therefore the Government must take control so as to protect the rights of the members. That is just what I believe he would do, because if the Wagner Act is retained without change—and this Administration certainly has fought to prevent a change—the rank and file will raise such a howl against the union bosses that something will have to be done. o 2 # 3 USINESS once trusted President Roosevelt and accepted temporary favors from him, and the labor bosses who are accepting favors apparently forget that he loves power and collects for every favor that he confers. Although the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively is established, the status of labor unions still is indistinct and could be clarified by. further laws creating Government authority over the unions. They thus would become official or semiofficial agencies. ‘We have seen, I think, that when the Social-Demo-crats control they do not control loosely or a little bit. 4 They control firmly. The union bosses are in very bad with their rank and file, and any move by Mr. Roosevelt to break

- their power by taking it over would be hailed by mem-

bers, who- tlten would find themselves in a Government labor front almost. identical with those of Italy and Getions:

Business By John T. Flynn

Some Queer Docttines Are Preached . These Days by Our New Messiahs

NEV YORK, Oct.” 16—~We are beginning to see

some strange philosophies taking on vitality now. Back in the early days of the New Deal a group of saviors arose with econdmic nostrums of all sorts— ‘the social credit groups, Huey Long, Milo Reno and : his farm-holiday movement, the managed currency school, the inflationists of various sorts, the Townsendites; etc. But now an entirely new type of -philosopher * has appeared on the scene. These newer messiahs assert that the crisis now rocking the world is not an economic crisis, and some go so far as to say that economic forces have nothing to do with it. Mr. Archibald MacLeish declares that it is in reality a revolt against Western culture. Therefore, we will do well to stop worrying about all our pretty little economic kinks and twists and get down to the business of saving Western culture. How this is to be done is clear to these gentlemen. It is to be done by going to war. Mr. MacLeish is very much moved on this point. He thinks that writers have done a terrible injury to America’s “moral preparedness” by their incessant flings gt war. War is, apparently, something that is not to be despised. And if war is all right, then what is the matter with the world — we have war and plenty of it. What is the point in glorifying war and damning those who reji} iss 40 glorify it and then Iianning those who make war 2 2 » % ISS DOROTHY THOMPSON confides to us that there is a spirit known as the front spirit. It is that indefinable exaltation, that spiritual amalgamation of men into a great brotherhood when they are in the trenches. The trench and the battlefield tend to ennoble men. Unfortunately in the past only the soldiers got the divine.touch of this “front spirit.” But now, happily, the trench, the front is everywhere, in thé street, at the altar, in the home cellar. And so everyone will be blessed by this ennobling and purifying and mystic fluid today. So 1 should think everything is just about right. Walter Lippmann feels that we should cut out all this crying down of our heroes, particularly the heroes of the past. We should learn again how. to worship our big men—not the “little peeple” like the Irish do, but the “big people” like the Germans do. We must get the hero cult going—which is what Hitler has done so sucessfully in Germany. We must be tough, too. And we must quit looking for our imperfections, We must contemplate our perfections, I take it, until our imperfections have eaten us up, meditate upon the vigor of our kidneys while the gall bladder is doing its devilish work unnoticed. One gets the feeling that these gentlemen have taken off .into the air away from the grim redlities of this great crisis and taken refuge in the luminous clouds where there is no exchange, no taxes, no unemployed, no problems and no Substence:

So They Say—

GUESS I CAN shoot as straight as Sayholds Slo Bob Feller, Cleveland pitcher declining to seek draft exemption. * * s I CAN TRUTHFULLY say to you that all we children at home are full of cheerfulness and courage.— Princess Elizabeth of Britain. » - . <f E I'VE LEARNED from long experience that when you don’t want to say anything, you shouldn't tell anything to anybody, not even your wife.—Vice President John N. Garner. * * IF MEASURES are necessary to safeguard THberty. let them be voted by Congress, given the sanction of law and applied to all citizens Lnfeitially President

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How’s That Again, Frank?

ns A PLEASURE TO FIND OUR FENCES PARDO == OUR DEFENSES IN SUCH SPLENDID

The Hoosier Forum

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

WE TAKE A BOW FOR DR. BUTLER EDITORIAL By George Maxwell Please allow me to express my appreciation of your Saturday's torial on Dr. Butler. It lays bare a striking instance of the intolerance that is pervading this country. ” EJ ” SWIVEL-CHAIR JOHNSON, THEY CALL HIM

By Ulmont P. Stewart

The ex-swivel chair General today looks into his crystal ball and

instead of predicting the future;

sees an extremely hazy picture of 1917. The General true to form, “forgets the exact record” of the T. R. boys, but nevertheless has the nerve to declare that their service “without favor or affection.” The General is getting old. He should more often refer to the

record before making rash state-

ments. Living in New York City at the time, I know something of the record. Junior, who was later to become ‘messenger boy” of the Harding Administration scandals, after a few weeks’ training at Plattsburg was commissioned a Major. The commander at this camp was Gen. Leonard Wood, an intimate friend of the T. R. family. At his age, commissioned a Major and without favor—Oh Yeh, I challenge the General to name a single one of the T. R. boys who entered real military service as a buck private. Also to give dates of their commissions. General, I think you will find that Elliott isn’t the only Roosevelt that did, as you call it, a seuttle,

2 4 ” NEW DEAL BRANDED NEW LOW IN U. S. By Voice In The Crowd The New Deal has no policy, at least not one that is on display. From the time between the 1932 elections and March 4, 1933, when the defeated Mr. Hoover was. pleading with Mr. Roosevelt to publicly state his policy on monetary and domestic and world problems to

avoid the first “New Deal Depression,” which found its climax in the “bank holiday,” to the present day, no one has ever known what the New Deal was- about to do. In 1932 when we had a defeated Republican President, a wayward Democratic Congress-and a successful candidate for President who

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stubbornly refused to co-operate in the interest of the people with the man in high office who was then the “man of experience,” a new low was set in public morals and American statesmanship.

In the “first 100 days” when. 60

laws an hour were low production and Congress surrendered its duty with wanton wastefulness, a new low was set for representative government in America. Politics in relief, the Chicago convention, now politics hampering the defense program are all marks for new lows in American politics.

Another mark of dishonesty in

government is the 1940 pre- -election tax bill. It has just been passed. It will never be used. Before the tax reports can be filed next March a new tax bill carrying higher levies and lower bases, retroactive for 1940, will be the order of the day. Ninety five per cent of the American people are willing to lay down their last

dollar on the altar of honest na: |

tional defense. An administration that does not match -that honesty of the people is certainly not entitled to ask for a third term. New lows can still be set in American government: we still do nog have a Hitler, Stalin or II Duce, but

‘lone more “mandate” may prove too

many. ” » ” CHARGES WILLKIE - BACKERS CONFUSE THE ISSUE By Fred Boyce Your paper and the Republican Party are quite confusing on some of your issues in this campaign. For example the farm program is being criticized from one end of the country to the other and then on the back pages of a recent issue of your papet you say the farm income is up 19 nmniillion dol'ars above last year’s which was 58 million dollars above 1931 and ’32. If those kind of increases are to be criticized and condemned, what

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in the world does it take for a farmer to get along on? _Ancl your paper

Mr. Roosevelt on labor. - But still in your papers you shew large increases -of men going kack to jobs by the thousands. What kind of a campaign is this? You and the Republican Party have stuffed this stufi down the people’s throat until they are sick and tired of your lies. So let's have a small margin of truth in the future. # ® 2 RECALLS DISCOURTESY TO BRYAN ON INDIANA VISIT By E. W. Pratt, Greenfield, Ind. In your editorial of the issue of Oct. 3 you said “It is time for all | of us to ask ourselves how it happened that the psychology of this country has reached the point where it is not possible for a candidate for the highest office of the land to go peaceably among the people and present hi: arguments. Who stirred up all this bitterness and intolerance?” You are probably too young to remember the “16-to-1 Silver” cam-

paign of 1896 when ‘the earnest, sincere silver tongued orator, Wil-

for President, but I remember well S!the reception he received in the “quiet, well-behaved” Quaker City Richmond, Indiana, when the golden chrysanthemums were thrown in {the face of Mrs. Bryan and the cab in which she and her husband rode were so filled by these flowers (symbol of the opposite party) that they had to be removed before the city’s guests could leave the vehicle. As another insult all the goldcolored ribbon in Richmond was purchased and hung in streamers at the entrance to the Union Station so that the illustrious visitors had to brush them aside to enter. Also when Tom Study spoke that same evening in the Opera House, advocating the policies of the Silver Standard and Democratic Party, he criticized severely the treatment given the party candidate, members of the Gold Standard Republican Party went -to the home of Mr. Study and - threw stones at his house, breaking many windows. This was done by adult voters while it has been admitted that the recent vandalism to which you refer in the above-mentioned article was done, with one exception, by school children. Here is one Democratic voter who does not forget! 2 a.» 'IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU READ STATISTICS

| By H. W. Daacke | Funk & Wagnalls’ New Standard Dictionary defines the word “class”: A number or body of persons with or in like circumstances, or with a common purpose, occupation, etc.; as the wéalthy class, the educated class, the working class. One of the synonyms of the word class is caste. A caste is hereditary, and the membership in a caste is ‘usually supposed to be for life, while a class may be independent of lineage or descent and the membership in a class may be very transient. So when “Voice In the Crowd” makes the. very definite, butt unsupported statement “there are no (Continued on Page 13)

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MEDITATION By MARY WARD I am journeying day and night By ordered highways that instill Within my heart a calm delight However steep the hill

Transporting me are prayers and dreams So near, yet they exemplify A distance far which all but seems To lead into the sky. =

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DAILY THOUGHT

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.—Deuteronomy 1:13.

WHAT IS IT to be wise?—'Tis but to know how little can be known to see all bthers" faults and feel

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: WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1940 The British By John W. Love

Their Magnificent Courage in Air Raids Has Ugly Counterpart: In Stupidity Over. War Orders.

ASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The tragic story of the . British is hanging heavily over Washington. The courage in England is of a quality which strangers had scarcely supposed could exist. Ditto the. stupidities. The one is sublime, the others are all but incredible. ; Britain's catalog of tribulation daily fengthens here. : Incendiary bombs are now understood © be more” devastating in London than high-explosive bombs. The light incendiaries are being so widely seeded by German planes that the fire companies cannot keep-

up with them. Though it may be true, as Londoners"

have long said, that the great city has not been without a fire in any particular moment in the last” hundred years, it is more literally the fact that London has been burning for more than a month now. Duning August the British looked forward do. blustery autumn weather as the promise of relief, but now it begins to be realized rising winds make the task of the fire fighters all the heavier. British are now making the same observations which Japanese have made several times in earth--quakes. They notice that where the explosion of a 2000-pound bomb will reduce to rubbish the ecld buildings on both sides of a street for a block or so; modern structures often stand.almost intact, losing. only their windows. : ” » ” HE windows of London are not being repaired, only boarded up. There isn’t enough glass in England, of course, but nobody would install it now.

| Life indoors this winter will be dreary.

A new kind of German bomb is making its appearance in England—or rather a kind of bomb new to London. It's the magnetic bomb, weight about 1700 pounds. The Germans are carrying these overand dropping them on the city, not taking the trouble to remove the chains that are supposed to anchor them to the sea bottom. 5 The supposition is that Germany has a surplus of these bombs, either because the electrical pro-’ tection the British worked out for its vessels last winter has been so successful or because there are’ not enough ships in the North Sea to make the" mines useful. : London is said here to be almost a dead port. Colliers are. bringing in coal from the Tyne, and tankers some oil, enough to keep the public utilities going, but that is about all. Most of the eastern ports are unused or unusable, even as far west as-Southampton. ” = ”

N the same manner the catalog of British mistakes becomes appallingly long. Their haggling over prices of munitions last winter and their refusal to send the Canadians their tank specifications nil May are old stories. Newer ones concern their delay in deciding, whether to take French planes, and the effect this” had on production in the United States;’ their ine ability to give American manufacturers of powder the necessary information on what they needed, and their refusal or neglect of information on exactly, what machine tools they wanted and the order in, which they wanted them. The French planes on order in this country be-_ came available to the British as soon as the French collapsed, but production was stopped on them in certain factories while the British took time to ‘make’ up their minds. Hundreds of skilled men were laid off for weeks. The British priority list on machine tools has only’ become available lately. An excuse given was the’ fear it would fall into German hands and be a clue: to something more, but the effect was to make uhusable large quantities of machinery the British had in storage and could not install because certain other essential tools were lacking. All the British were willing to say was they wanted, everything in a hurry, but everything could not be. shipped the same week or even the same month,

A Woman’ S Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

“ HAT are you girls, coming to?” Grandma's’ conversational sessions with me usually ended on the question.

There was the time when Dad decided to send me ;

to a co-educational school and when, trumping his’ ace so to speak, I thought it might’ te fun to take a course in pharmacy since the family assets included a drug store. : Then there was the day when the best beau and I packed a’ lunch basket for a picnic in the park unchaperoned. Later, too, when I was safely. married—much to ancestral relief —I found myself keeping books and writing copy in our tiny newspaper office. By that:time Grandma was impervious to shock and had given us all up‘as a bad job. In her opinion, the young were out of hand and she only prayed disaster might not strike down her: own. She no longer protested—she just wondered, expecting the worst, and flinging her unanswerable: questions to the heavens: “What are you girls coming to?” 3 : How surprised she would have been to see the words my eyes look at now, words printed as casual news in all the papers: “National Business Woman's Week, October 6 to 12. “National Business and Professional Women’s * - Clubs, Inc.” ! And underneath the 1940 slogan: “Business Womerr in a Democracy—Vote!” For that’s what we've come to, all those rebellious girls who ence struck out against the conventions which held their elders in economic, political and mental bondage. My heart aches a little, too, when I realize that Grandmother with her twinkly eyes and her capaxity fog laughing at herself will never see the power and the glory of the sex which in her time she so splendidly graced. You can see it. Try closing your. e yes and letting your imagination take charge. There they go—tens: and hundreds of thousands of working women and girls. Everywhere, in mountain village$, in dusty prairie hamlets; in smoke-enshrouded factory com-

munities, in mill towns where the tired feet of tiie

young beat out their. perpetual sad rhythm, in enormous cities where feminine tides run. through and

overflow the streets.

Consciously or unconsciously, too, most of these women are aware of their great good luck in being Americans. Dimly within them grows a. sense of power. And this year the Business and Professional group has a new awareness of what such power can mean. Hence their Slogan.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford -

1 owe water on something you sitpRet: is. going to burst into flames at your feet, or im= mersing the suspected object in water is a natural tendency, but it is bad practice, the International Association of Chiefs of Police tell us. z Fortunately not many civilians are likely to come in contact with bombs, but if you know what to do in such a case, you may save your own and other persons’ lives. The only simple rule to follow, the police chiefs state, is: Don’t touch the suspected package or object, but notify officials trained te handle such cases. Unfortunately, there is no known safe method for

" handling infernal machines, but if you are careful and

use good judgment, you may help to avert tragedies such as sometimes occur from bombs or incendiary machines concealed in packages. The advice against throwing - water on packages suspected of containing bombs comes from thre Cleveland police bureau of scientific investigation. Their rules to be followed by both civilians and police in handling suspicious packages or objects are: 1. Never attempt to remove any suspected package from the position in which it is originally discovered: 2. Never throw water upon or immerse in water any suspected explosive or incendiary jmachine, as: it

may be the type that will: explode by improper ’

handling or immersion. oy ‘3. Newer attempt ‘to open suspicious packages bY | the intended method, Hd sd SuE