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a Give Light and the People Will Find Their, Own Way THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940

WELL DONE NONGRATULATIONS to County Clerk Ettinger, his as-

sistants and to the hundreds who volunteered their serv-| Si

ices in yesterday's registration here for national defense. They did a splendid job.

CAMPAIGNING—ON YOUR MONEY

HE Democratic leaders of Congress, having failed to per--suade that body to adjourn or take a long recess for the election, are having to stick close to Washington when they'd like to be out campaigning. However, they are making liberal use of the privilege which permits them to print New Deal propaganda in the - appendix of the Congressional Record—at the taxpayers’ expense. : On Oct. 14 and 15, for instance, the Democratic Leader of the Senate, Mr. Barkley of Kentucky, put into the record 11 speeches and articles, including a Spanish translation of an address by President Roosevelt. This material filled nearly 15 pages, and its publication cost the taxpayers. approximately $730. And the Democratic Leader of the House, Mr. McCormack of Masachusetts, inserted on Oct. 14 a single article—‘“Family Life and Its Preservation Through Legislation Recommended by President Roosevelt’—which filled 2914 pages of the Record and cost the taxpayers $1475.

WHY CALL FOR AN INTERPRETER?

HE Senate Committee to Investigate Campaign Expenditures has declined to undertake an interpretation of the Hatch Act provision that “no political committee shall . . . make expenditures aggregating more than $3,000,000 during any calendar year.” The interpretation is said to have been requested by officials of the Democratic and Republican National Committees. It seems to us that the Senate committee (which incidentally is no ball of fire when considered in comparison with the similar Sheppard committee of 1938) might well have referred the inquiring politicians to an announcement made by Wendell L. Willkie on Aug. 3, at Colorado Springs. He said: “The combined total expenses of the Republican Party, the Willkie-for-President clubs and the independent Democratic movement will be held to a minimum and will be under $3,000,000, the limit set by the Hach Act, Which I am entirely in favor of.” Just why Republicans should be seeking any more “interpretation” than that is not clear. And as for the Democrats, they have so much free radio time for “non-political” addresses by their standard-bearer that $3,000,000 ought to leave them ample margin.

READING THE RECORD

L SMITH, in his political heyday, used to nail opbnsibidn hides to the wall by the simple device of reading the

record. “Let’s look at the record,” Al would say, and then proceed to give names, dates and places. When he had finished there was usually little left of the opponent’s case. Seldom has this technique been used as devastatingly as by Wendell Willkie at Buffalo the other night. Talking

about defense and jobs, Mr. Willkie took up the statement |

of Secretary Morgenthau that “the Treasury favored” a tax

change to speed the building of defense factories “and that | ®

change has been enacted into law.” Then Mr. Willkie read the record. He showed that— Two and one-half years ago the Navy's chief of ordnance first asked for tax-amortization relief on investments in munitions plants—and the Treasury did nothing. Twentysone months ago (four months after Munich) the Secretary of the Navy wrote a letter to Secretary Morgenthau asking early action—and the Treasury did nothing. Fourteen months ago, at the request of the Army and Navy, Undersecretary of the Treasury Hanes (while Mr. Morgenthau was out of town) worked out the details of a defense tax-amortization plan—and Mr. Morgenthau did not put the plan into effect. Ten months ago, on being asked at a press conference about tax concessions for an investor who puts money into a munitions factory that is scrapped as soon as the defense contract is filled, Mr. Morgenthau replied: “He is out of luck as far as we are concerned.” And nothing was done. Four months ago President’ Roosevelt said Congress sheild go: ‘home because there was no more work to do. Three months ago the’ President asked Congress to legislate the defense tax-amortization plan. A month later Mr. Roosevelt criticized: Congress for delay. It was only last week that the President finally signed the new tax law. And although Mr. Willkie didn’t mention it, it is a fact that throughout the weeks when Congress deliberated the tax bill, Mr. Morgenthau’s Treasury lobbyists fought tooth and nail to sabotage the amortization plan which the President and the Defense Commission had promised industry would be enacted. The amortization provision is law at last—but no credit is due to the New Deal Secretary of the Treasury. Quite the

contrary.

«DOES MURDER SLEEP”

THOSE who are victims of the sleepkrieg are not the first English to appreciate the precious nature of rest. And what is happening recalls the words of Macbeth: “Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! “Macbeth does murder sleep,’—the innocent sleep, “Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care, “The deat.. cf each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, “Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, “Chief nourisher in life’s fegst.”

MARK FERREE

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Maybe FDR Plans the Shoestring’ Play and We Shall Find One Day

That Mr. Wallace Is Our President.

EW YORK, Oct. 17.—Some tricks are so old they seem new, and, although it is doubtful that any half-smart high school football team could be deceived by a stratagem so notorious and droll as the shoestring play, it occurs to me that in national politics the American electorate has never had any experience with this device and might be caught flatfooted. It is a play intended for use by the receiving side just after the kickoff and before the boys have opened their pores and settled their. early confusion. As the teams fall in one of the ends of the attacking side lingers near the sideline, tying his shoe, and, if all goes well, tears down the lot, unnoticed, to catch a long pass and lope across for a touchdown. ‘It is a dream-play which was worked, nevertheless, though not recently. I call attention to this trick at this time because for some weeks I- have noticed, in a negative way, that all attention is focused on President Roosevelt

‘on the Social-Democratic or National Socialist side of

the current political contest, to the convenient neglect of Henry Wallace. Yet Mr. Roosevelt is a tricky quarterback, and, from the manner of Wallace's selection by a convention which didn’t want him and refused to hear him, but had to take him by order of the head man, we may consider whether Mr. Roosevelt intends merely to take the ball from center and, heave it to Henry for the full term of the next Presidency or a major portion thereof.

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HIS figure of speech is becoming a nuisance, so I will suggest plainly that Mr. Roosevelt may be planning to resign and make Henry A. Wallace President of the United States. He could do that, and ‘the novelty of such a course, far from deterring President Roosevelt, would appeal to the mischievous and reckless nature which paid off a grudge against the Supreme Court by appointing to that bench a county politician who confessed, but only when confronted with proof, that he once had joined a gang of masked terrorists not for any principle but to win election to a political job. In this campaign, as in all others to date in the United States, the people are giving little attention to the nominee for the Vice Presidency. It is, ordinarily, an understudy job. The Vice President presides in the Senate and does some steering and disciplinary work for the. boss, but he needn't even show up for class, as Mr. Garner has shown by his long absences. The Vice President could, however, move into an office in the White House to serve as assistant President, and Mr. Roosevelt could, and I suggest that he might “make” another President by resigning in favor of Henry Wallace, who certainly is not being measured for this job by the voters. 2 8 ”

HERE is, of course, no reason to suspect that Wendell Willkie, if elected, would resign in favor of Senator McNary. Willkie obviously wants to serve a full term in person and McNary occupies the traditional status of candidates for the second-string post. The reasons for anticipating a shoestring from President Roosevelt are to be sensed better than examined. He. insisted on and dictated the nomination of Wallace. He is a surprising man given to clever schemes having the color but not the substance of sincerity, and he is, in some ways, an imitator of Theodore Roosevelt, who placed Mr. Taft in the White House to carry out “my policies” while he went gloryhunting, and was enraged to discover that his policies had been carried out in a pair of fire tongs by a flunky with a clothespin on his nose. So as the day approaches it will be wise to watch Henry Wallace over there on the sidelines, tying his shoe, and examine closely his qualifications for President of the United States in time of war.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Willkie, Citing Need for Jobs, Shows He Understands Our Basic Problem

EW YORK, Oct. 17.—One of our large New York banks—the Guaranty Trust Co.—has $2,777,000,000 in deposits. It has $2,150,000,000 of this in cash or in Government bonds. The great Morgan bank has deposits of $664,000,000, and $650, 000,000 of this in cash and Government bonds. This could be repeated over and over for banks in every city. I do not mention it in criticism of the banks. It is a situation which has been growing year by year and to which I have repeatedly pointed. As long as these figures remain this way, you will know that any recovery that we nave is artificial, unwholesome and fraught - with evil consequences. These figures prove eloquently that private money is not going into investment.. And they prove also that private enterprises are not employing the vast credit resources ‘of the country. In the political canvas that we now tiavel through the question affecting domestic recovery turns on this very point. What can Mr. Roosevelt do to start private individuals investing their money again? What can Mr. Willkie do? Of course it may not be very far wrong to say that that people are no longer. interested in domestic recovery, in the farm and employment problems. They are interested now in bringing the blessings of democracy to Dong Dang under the French flag, of Marshal Petain. And they are perhaps satisfied with the kind

-of recovery they will get out of a runaway arms indus-

try. But as surely as the sun rises, we shall have to find a way to bring recovery by the normal and sound method of putting private investment funds to work,

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HIS figure of bank deposits and their relation to cash and Government loans in the bank, instead of private loans, is a perfect figure to watch as an index to sound recovery. It is not a pleasant thing to have to say. but we are no nearer that now than we were in 1933. Now what can these two gentlemen offer us? Mr. Roosevelt, obviously, can offer nothing. He has been in office for seven years, If he knew any way to stimulate private investment he would have done so long ago. His first spending program was designed to do that. He was going to prime the pump. He primed it but has done nothing about repairing the pump. He .has no plan now, and in his platform and his speeches has offered none. On the other hand, Mr. Willkie proposes to do. what Mr. Roosevelt has been unable to do. He has at least

stated the problem correctly. We must create. jobs. |

And jobs are made by private business enterprises. We must find a way, therefore, to enable private enter-

prises to expand, to come into being, That will make

Jjobs—not jobs at WPA levels but at decent wages. At least Mr. Willkie understands the problem.

- The next thing is to know the precise means by which

he will undertake to solve it.

So They Say—

A SOUND ECONOMY is just as essential to national defense as is defense material to national safety.—Alfred P. Sloan Jr., chairman, General Motors Corporation. » * ® HUMAN KINDNESS has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people.— President Roosevelt.

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WE are not going ro surrender because that would mean for many years something much more horrible than our present experiences. — Herbert Morrison, British member of Parliament.

FRANCE'S Sationsiin in he new state will be broad enough to achieve international collaboration. —Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, head of French Vichy Goverfiment, :

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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; ie : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

A PAT ON THE BACK FOR ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT °° By Cecil F. Robling, Elwood, Ind,

In reply to a letter in The Times of: Oct. 10, Brightwood, I would like to ask him one question. Mr. Clay, would your son or sons give up a $76,000-a-year position for one of $200 per month and approximately $115 for expenses per month, as did a great American, Elliott Roosevelt, who was ready to serve his country in time of need? I doubt. it.

2 o 8 WORKER FED UP ON NEW DEAL CONCEIT

By a Worker Workers, wake up! After seven and one-half years of the New Deal depression isn’t it time we woke up to the fact that (1) the New Dealers don’t know how to pull us out of the depression, or- (2) that the New Dealers want to see the depression continued indefinitely so that we, the workers will be dependent upon them for help . .. and in return, expect. us to vote for them and keep them in power. Harry Hopkins, the Court jester, said “the people are too damn dumb to understand.” Well, maybe we were in 1932 and 1936 but we are beginning to see through the New Deal failures and even though they try to “cover up” the domestic disaster by building up war scares every 24 hours, the people are not going to be fooled a third time. I have been a life-long Democrat but I am fed up on New Deal conceit and on Nov. 5 I am voting for Wendell L. Willkie,

# a # DEBT? PHOOEY, IT DON'T MEAN A THING

By Cleon Leonard

Why you people want to bite the good man that feeds you. Can't you see that Willkie is playing into money hands? It's money, financiers who want control. Don’t we have good honest pecple any more? What if President Roosevelt wants ‘to run again? We need him. Debt. Debt. There will be money when you and I are gone. If you would bring back the other

1940, by Harry Clay,|_

(Times readers are invited to express their views 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.)

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generations in 18th century, what would they think of airplanes, radio, telephones, lights, gas, modern

such principles and organizing its

- |powers in such form, as to them

shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” Need I say more?

o ” 5 NOW WILLKIE'S ELECTION CAN'T SURPRISE YOU By William Lemon Wall Street may control the entire American press, including your paper, but Roosevelt will still remain the undefeated champion of America’s underprivileged for the

toilets, automobiles, stop and go lights? Those people would be]

scared to death. Haven't we even

got one good Democrat paper in, this town who will stand by an| honest man? He has done more for | labor, slums, more for his country. Think, all you Republicans, what you did in 1931-33. I lost everything I had—home,

furniture, was down and out. Who'd |

help me? No one except our county. Stand up for the good stars and stripes and also to a good worker. Don’t get misled on what they say. Vote for the man who has already done. Debt don’t mean anything. Where would anybody be if they didn't get credit? 8 #8 = CITES DECLARATION TO F. D. R. BACKERS By J. N. Willingham Mr, W's letter of the 26th is entirely right. A good number of the defenders of the New Deal and its policies are in some way connected with the state departments and use these good columns to try and sell Der Fuehrer F. D. R. so that they might keep their soft jobs. F. D. R. and his New Dealers have evidently forgotten the Declaration of Independence which was written just for such a totalitarian type of an Administration, which reads, in part, “ , . . Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the

governed. That whenever any form.

of government becomes destructive of these ends (meaning. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on

Side Glances—By Galbraith

" GOPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U1. 8. PAT, OFF.

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“Mrs. Henley is wearing silk slips nowadays—her husband ne have gotten that raise. in salary.”

jsimple reason that Willkie cannot get rid of the Wall Street smell, land the radio and ‘education has 'taken the kick out of our capitalis-(tic-controlled press.

As a financial wizard Willkie is,

(a success and so was Insull, but |

as a major candidate he is a ‘dis-||

{mal failure. The Republicans had ber, Taft of Ohio and Vandenberg

in . Indiana “Wolves of Wall

tomato raised nursed by the Street.”

| The public knows that if the Re-|

publicans ever get in power at the present time they will wreck all the past constructive Democratic legislation passed in regards to the farmer and organized labor, and since your boss, Mr. Howard, went fishing with Mr. Willkie, if you publish this it will be a bigger surprise than the election of Mr. Will'kie would be.

gn. 8 CONTENDS FIRST LADY SHOULD STAY HOME

By a Democrat, But Not a New Dealer If Ruth ‘Shelton admires Mrs. Roosevelt, we would like to know if she is a mother. . . . As First Lady of the land, why not set an example as a home maker? If she’s a shining example, vouldn't our homes be in a mess if all wives and mothers were running around patterning after

her. Better pick a different lily than Eleanor, Ruth.

"a =n ONE-SIDED, WE ARE— EXCEPT FOR CLAPPER

By A Reader of The Times . One of your writers, Raymond Clapper, who sure is not partial to either political side, said in one of his articles a few days ago, if we want a free press we should ask both sides of a question, but we certainly are not getting it in The Times any more. They say money talks, but this is a poor place to let it talk, in the free press. .

ENIGMA By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY Alas, some spend their time in Witte) ing verses, And others spend theirs in acquiring cash That they may dine on caviar and turkey, While poets munch on their warmed over hash.

Each effort leaves some doubt in its conclusion, A hunger not quite satisfied and rife. Why can’t mag learn to mix with work his dreaming And balance thus the budget of his life?

DAILY THOUGHT

And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever—I Kings 12:7,

WE BECOME willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues Ay upon us.—Sir P, Sidney,

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of Michigan, but they chose an old| ; and | :

THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1940

Powder By John W. Love

Other Arms Bottlenecks Minor Compared To Lack of Explosives And Facilities for Making Them

ASHINGTON, Oct. 17.— No department of America’s defense program is further behind in its work than the manufacture of powder, and President ‘Roosevelt has had correspondingly less to say about it in the campaign.

There are hottlenecks in aircraft and: other places, . but the grand bottleneck is in explosives. While the international swirl has been growing more dangerous and Mr. Roosevelt has been getting more pointed in his remarks to the Axis Powers. the provision of “propellants” for the Army's ammunition has actually been reduced. The national supply and its sources have both declined. Reasons for the relative silence on powder have been many. The business of production is compli cated, Changes are continually being made as the art of war is revised in Europe. No other industry has the extreme shortage of techincal men that exe plosives have. A series of accidents depleted the American supply of small-arms ammunition, and a series of circums stances delayed its renewal. There was first the British retirement from DunThe British abandoned the greater part of their equipment and ammunition. Then: Churchill messaged President Roosevelt for: help, in fear of imminent invasion. : . ® 8 =» T has been publicly related that 500,000 Lee Enfield rifles, 70,000 machine guns and a considerable tonnage of ammunition were shipped by the American Government. Mr. Churchill gave thanks in Parliae ment. Included in the shipment are reported to have been 138,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition. A couple of months later the Hercules plant in New Jersey blew up. It was one of the Army's three sources of small-arms ammunition, others being the Picatinny, Arsenal in New Jersey and a Du Pont plant in Delaware. The 1940 program of armament plants, belatedly set .in motion by the sad events in France, called originally for the building of about 20 powder and explosives plants, not including the shell-loading plants. The list has been much revised, apparently somewhat reduced in length and certainly increased in outlay. Thé probable cost was first put at $250,« 000,000, then enlarged. Definite plant locations have been made at Charlestown, Ind. operated), and at Radford, Va, operated).

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HE joint board of the Army and Navy had a number of plant locations in mind months ago, but changes were made when the National Defense Advisory Commission came into the picture. Certain spots next tentatively picked by the Defense Commission were changed when they were found not to conform to the Army's ideas of transportation. ‘The Army wanted two railroads at every production point, Because defense is mow in two hands, and the Commission itself is without a chairman, numerous conferences are necessary. After the first group of ‘industrial locations were announced, such as the Charlestown explosives plant and the Ravenna shell-filling unit, the Defense Commission introduced a series of more or less soci= ological factors into the discussions. The latest is housing. Though a quarter of a billion has been available for powder plants since June, and the supply of ams munition of certain types has been reduced by ex< ports to Britain and destruction in this country, not a handful of ‘the new plants has been definitely spotted or work started on them. “Trust in‘ God,” said Cromwell, powder dry.” Until. we have some powder we can only trust in God. :

“and keep your

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ORE than five years after his death, and when in a few months he will be coming back to sleep permanently on his Claremore hill, the life story of Will Rogers, written by his wife, appears in the Saturday Evening Post. What quality in the man has kept his memory green, when others who were great and gifted are forgotten? The answer to that question would do much to help us in our perpetual search for individual happiness. . Having known Will Rogers personally I do not believe he craved publicity, as so many people of our time crave it. Perhaps that is why it was given to him in such abundance. I know he considered Lady Luck responsible for some of his success. © More important still, he would have been just as cheerful and contented, and have lived as full a life in his native home, if he could have pursued there. those activities which he loved most—riding herd, making friends, having his fun and his dreams —in nearness to his family. Fundamentally he never got far from these homey things.” It only happened that his circle of usefulness became so enlarged that it finally embraced most of the earth. ; Whom the gods love they first endow with sime plicity. It was the candor, the artlessness, the earthiness of Will Rogers that endeared him to all. He was that rarest of beings—a practical idealist—and they come few in a century. He believed in and loved men, yet he did not expect very much of them; therein lay the real secret of his immense popularity. The foibles of people rather than their virtues enticed his attention. He was not forever exhorting them to. noble deeds, because he knew that in a whole lifetime the average person is capable of only one or two truly heroic actions. He expected mediocre behavior from mediocre persons, and yet it-was this very mediocrity, this common touch with common things, that made humanity seem great to Will Rogers. Without cynicism, with out sophistication, without craft or cunning, he ac cepted all men as his brothers, welcomed life as a happy pilgrimage, and so graced it with his presence for too brief a while.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford .

T= importance of a good diet, particularly. one well supplied with whole wheat bread and whole grain cereals, takes on new significance in these days of national defense preparations. Whole wheat bread and whole grain cereals are good cheap food sources of vitamin B1 or thiamin, to give it its chemical name. This vitamin, recent experiments show, might just

‘as well be called the morale vitamin as the antie

beriberi vitamin. It got the latter name when scientists discovered that diets lacking Bl were the cause of the Oriental nerve disease, beriberi. This disease does not develop unless the diet is almost completely lacking in Bl. Diets just a little low in the vitamin, which is the case with the diets most of us eat, can also cause illness, doctors have long believed, though of a less serious kind than beriberi. Now they have evidence that the amount of this vitamin in the diets of the entire population may mean the difference be tween defeat and victory in case of a war. Meals that were just a little low in Bl were fed to a group of healthy people. The meals were so much like those many of us ordinarily eat that only an expert could tell they were deficient in the vitamin, Bug the previously healthy people who ate the meals developed “moodiness, sluggishness, indifference, fear, and mental and physical fatigue,” reports the Journal of the American Medical Association. “The states of mind and body in these subjects were such as would be least desirable in a population facing invasion when maintenance of stamina, determination and hope may mean defeat or successful resistance.” Even more significant were the experiments in which healthy people were fed meals containing much more than the amount of the vitamin believed necessary for health. “Alertness increased and -measured capaci for

physical work was almost doubled,” it is

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