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Give Liyht and the People Will Fina Their Own Way FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1940

MORE DEBT OR MORE JOBS? OR a century and a half our nation grew. It had its ups - and downs; its booms and depressions. Into its economic. system crept many abuses. Likewise into its polit-| ical system. Into business, the Jay Goulds; into" politics the Boss Tweeds, in each generation. And the evils had to be periodically rooted out. But the system, with all its faults, brought forth the greatest country the world has ever seen. ; : . . By combining natural resources with invention and enterprise, the U. S. A. had reached, economically, by 1929, a position which was the envy of the whole globe. Politically, there had been liberty to think and to act. Only in the soil of liberty could the inventions and the enterprise have thrived. For tyrannies throttle their Galileos. With the crash of 1929 came something new—a philosophy which held that this growth which, despite all the setbacks, had been going on for so long, could not continue further; that the system had to be changed. This school said—*“America is through, unless the Federal Government takes over. There are no new frontiers. The free land is gone. Therefore individual opportunity is done up. It has been. business up to now. From now on it must be the state.” : Out of that, and out of the misery which followed the crash, came the New Deal, which in turn became the symbol of the state. To substitute government for all that had gone before, the spend-debt theory was put into practice. The nation started to live off its fat. After eight years of the full

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Inspections By John W. Love Federal Government Has 5 Agencies

Which Require Reports on Progress ' Of Work in Our Defense Industries

E ASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—If President Rousevelt never visited -a single defense project, American armament effort would not lack for copious

inspection. Five agencies of the Government, four of them old:and one of them the new National Defense Advisory Commission, have their men out visiting such plants as the Government has been able to start in its defense program, The four older ones are the Secretary of War, the: Budget Bureau, the Army’s Ordnance Department, and the Quartermaster General's Office. * Not all of this is duplicated effort, but much of it is, and the paralleling travel is an example of what happens here when the administration attempts to ‘throw together a vast military force without much planning beforehand. The parallelism between the Defense Commission and: the War Department is growing. Duplicate offices are being set up for several functions. Much of the waste cannot be avoided, so long as the Defense Commission is civilian and advisory and the War and Navy Departments have the actual responsibility for defense.

” ” ” Ir earion of toil and expense may also be -seen in the elaboration of defense reports. In one office a dozen reports containing the same information are put together but no two of them can be prepared at the same time, :

This is because important but different people

want them. The reports are wanted on different days, and the information is just different enough to require a separate job. Some day, when the rush settles down or “the war starts,” such bodies of re-

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department store. The dozen reports in this one office could not be boiled down into one, but three or four would be enough, Duplication of effort is an old story in Washington, of course. Until this year five agencies were active in the housing movement and three others cut in at one level or another. It was necessary to co-ordinate them, and the Central Housing Board was set up. Came the Defense Commission and it brought its own co-ordinator, Now he is co-ordinat-ing the co-ordination.

2 2 2 RAINING of skilled and semi-skilled labor for defense industries is being undertaken by three or four agencies in Washington but they seem to have their missions pretty well delineated. One

flowering of that theory we are some 20 billion dollars more in debt (not counting 14 billions for defense) and unemployment has remained the same. : Those who put the theory into practice point with pride to accomplishment, and seem utterly blind to the fact that what they call accomplishment hasn’t been paid for. : . 2» -” ” ” It is in opposition to this whole theory that the central theme of the Willkie campaign is set. He holds that a nation, no matter how rich, cannot forever exist on its accumulated fat. Only by production can the bill be paid. He challenges as futile and tragic the inevitability of unemployment. Heo calls relief, if it is to be accepted as permanently necessary, a new form of slavery. lle declares | that there are new frontiers, greater than ever dreamed of in the days of free land; frontiers that can be developed to new heights of prosperity if only the hobbles of defeatism through big government can be removed. By industrial growth men can be taken from the public to private payrolls; from relief wages to goed wages. By such expanding volume relief expense automatically shrinks while tax revenues correspondingly increase. Only by such a process can the vast public debt be paid.

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trains the young unemployed, another the young employed, a third refreshes the skill of the older men and a fourth merely co-ordinates. Older bureaus are visibly nervous over the energy Defense Commission is showing in moving in on new territory. The jurisdictional dispute between: Sidney Hillman’s labor division of the Defense Commission and Miss Frances Perkins’ Labor Department has been simmering for weeks. Miss Harriet Elliott's Con-sumer-Protection Division of the Defense Commission sought unsuccessfully to cultivate a field of health and public welfare which the Agriculture Department had long had under tillage. r Most of the older departments of the Government have been mobilizing not merely for the defense of the country but for their own defense. The reorganization’ of defense into a straight-line structure is a job for the future, but it probably will not be undertaken until after the election. :

Business By John T. Flynn

‘Strangest Episode of War for Us Is Crisis Which Has Arisen in Far East

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EW YORK, Oct. 18.—The strangest episode of the war, §0 far as we are concerned, is that one -which has arisen in the Far East. Americans

That is the essence of Willkies domestic program. The issue is—private capitalism under which the nation grew great; or state capitalism under which the nation’s debt grew great.

THE “SECRET WEAPON” R. HERMANN RAUSCHNING tells the story of a priest|

and a rabbi, cleaning a concentration camp latrine and working up to their hips in filth.

have been hearing about possible battles with Japan In such remote places as Indo-China, the Malay : States, the Dutch East Indies. They are not merely on the other side of the vastest of oceans. They are far beyond that ocean and on the other side of the world itself. To get to them one must cross not only the Pacific but the great China Sea. and enter the Indian Ocean. The nearest portions of these places are 9000 miles from San Francisco and 12,000 miles from New York. Other parts are nearly 12,000 miles from San Francisco.

Mocking Nazi guards asked them: “Where's your God now?” “We don’t.know,” replied the priest, “but Le who seeks Him shall find Him.” ./ Then the rabbi said: “God is here. God is even here.” : 2 9 =n ». 8 2 At another place in his book, “The Voice of Destruction,” Dr. Rauschning quotes Hitler's plans for destroying the church: | “The parsons will be made to dig their own graves. They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and in-

comes.” ; 8 » » » » ”

These two short passages help explain the hysterical | rage and vicious brutality with which Hitler has handled men too stubborn to understand their own “best interests” as he understands them. 5 Hitler came to power in a cynical generation of which he is the perfect product. But it is a surface cynicism. Beneath the surface lie deep reservoirs of faith; faith in God, faith in essential human integrity, faith in the belief that liberty, decency and kindred things of the spirit are more important than today’s dollar. : : This faith is the “secret weapon” of the democracies. For it Pastor Niemoeller endures concentration camp when a word of abjuration would restore him to his family; for it countless others like the priest and the rabbi endure torture and death. Their reward is within themselves and it is richer than anything Hitler can offer.

, 8% THE POWER OF EXAMPLE HERE are now 1,023,341 persons on the Federal Government’s civil payroll—an all-time record. Of these, 451,250 have been added to the payroll since 1923 gs the New I7eal has transferred functions and “powers from state and local governments to Washington. What has happened, meanwhile, to the payrolls of state and local governments? We quote from the Oct. 8 issue of “Domestic Commerce.” “The last decade has witnessed a rapid expansion in governmental activities accompanied by growing public payrolls, according to the Bureau of the Census. A substantial part of this increase has occurred in the field of | state and local government. Although the Federal Government payrolls in 1939 amounted to almest one and onehalf times the 1929 level, state payrolls have risen in a still greater proportion, through acquisition of new functions and expansion of traditional ones, the amount being almost 74 per gent greater than the total a decade ago.”

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NO SINCERITY TO THAT MAN W. WILLKIE

By Clarence F. Lafferty

Willike’s real purpose in seeking the presidential power is hid behind

lican enthusiasm.

doned its principles and has been taken over by the upper-class to

masses, and Willkie is their candidate fighting and campaigning for the Presidential power to carry out their purpose, which is also Willkie’s purpose. He promises to keep all social gains that have been acquired

under the present Administration,

put I will not vote for him because he lacks a certain amount of sincerity to carry any conviction and impressiveness. . . ;

” ” ” CASTS A DOUBT ON WILLKIE QUALIFICATIONS By Robert Irwin, Rushville, Ind.

The nerve of Willkie and the Republican Party, trying to claim a monopoly on “Uncle Sam” by littering the highway with propaganda about Uncle Sam turning thumbs down on the third term. I ‘want to state that “Uncle Sam” belongs to all the people of the U. 8. A., not just the Republican Party, and that

by asserting our neutrality. Then, not we, but the ! President of the United States, on his own authority, | declared us in economically and jn other ways on | the side of England and France to%ave their democ- | racies. But-now we have rapidly arrived at the point |! where we are talking about taking over the job of | protecting, not the democracies of England and Holland and France, but their imperial dominion of more than 75,000,000 people 9000 miles away from us and held by the same title that Germany has to hold Poland and Italy has to hold Ethiopia. French Indo-China, joined to the Chinese mainland south of Hongkong, has a population of 20,000,000 people. They are ruled by France and there is but a handful of Frenchmen there, chiefly officials and traders. In the Dutch East Indies—Java, Sumatra, etc.— there are 51,000,000 people, all Orientals save less than one-half of one per cent Europeans, mostly Dutch officials and retired officials who rule this immse people as part of Holland's “democratic” system.

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HE Malay peninsula has a populaticn of about :3,500,000. It is partly British crown colony: and partly British protectorate. The protectorate is nominally ruled under British control by a group of petty sultans. In these Malay States is the great British base of Singapore. This place is so exposed to hostile elements, so distant from England now; that she no longer feels qualified to protect it.

She would like to give us a half interest in Singa- L

pore: so that we would protect our half—and her half along with ours. What -we would do with a base in Singapore—9000 miles from our nearest mainland port and 1500 miles further away from us than Japan—no ore can say. The only apparent reason js to protect British imperial possessions in the Orient rather than her democracy in England, and to enable her to perpetuate in the East those fads of conquest which Japan is now trying to duplicate. I.can conceive of America getting excited about Malay and Java and Indo-China in order to free them from the yoke of any empire, though that would be a form of madness for us. But to get into a quarrel over which empire shall own and exploit them is a form of madness so extreme that one wonders how we got into such a state of mind, . Our trade interests there are, of course, not worth a war, but that is another subject which I shall examine tomorrow.

So They Say—

TLL SLEEP WELL tonight and every night in prison because I know I'm innocent and the truth will come out.—James J. Hines, Tammany boss entering prison on conviction for protecting a gambling syndicate. % * . WHETHER THE Pacific will become the scene of war or peace depends solely on whether Japan and the United States respect each other's position.— Premier Prince Konoye of Japan. : » * = :

IT IS NOT EASY to see in what way Germany and Italy can come to the aid of Japan while the British and United States navies remain in being as they certainly do and as they certainly will.—Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain. * » *

issue will be decided by Uncle Sam through the people Nov. 5. I firmly believe that the majority will say Roosevelt, third term, and.I give one good reason out of many for my belief. I do not think Willkie is qualified to be President ‘in these critical times and the people are beginning to realize it more and more, and they realize too, that Roosevelt is ripe in experience in the affairs of the government. It would, I believe, be very unwise to ‘defeat Roosevelt. I know a great many voters who share my views. 8 a = EGG TOSSING JOLTS HER PRIDE IN AMERICANISM By Sideline Sittin‘ “Lil

I used to be pretty proud of being an American, but lately I'm less sure; it looks like we have deterio-

a lot of promises and false Repub-

The Republican Party has aban-|.

regain economic power over the

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rated into a nation of rowdies and saps! Mr. Ropsevelt’s little “Hate Solos,” appealing to our worst elements, have brought us to the egg throwing stage; he should be proud of his handiwork! : Saps, because .we have . supinely acquiesced to the sabotage of our Government by a stuffed shirt who is “unsmart” enough to permit himself to be used as a pawn and mouthpiece for as vicious a gang of maneaters as those surrounding Adolf Hitler, and who are working toward the same ends. Mr. Roosevelt makes a swell front! We had better be prepared for something drastic if he starts slipping at the polls; his gang, being dirty fighters, will be hard losers, and if they fall, won't hesitate to pull the country down with them. I'm pinning my hope on one decent man, Wendell Willkie, and the i possible reawakening of the pride jand fighting spirit that used to exist {in this country. ” 2 ” SHEDS NO TEARS FOR ELECTION “DOPESTERS”

By Arthur S. Mellinger Developments in political circles > are giving the ‘dopesters” grave

concern. This is in itself a healthy sign. It points to the fact that the people are asserting themselves and are capable of making decisions. That the coming election will be a turning point in American history, is commonly accepted. We still have the power to choose, but a continuance, of the present trend is looked upon with grave concern by the serious thinkers of the day. . ... 1 would like to impress upon every voter that he or she should exercise

the right of franchise. This apathy

THIS SANGUINARY and destructive war must be Judged by kistory.—Pope Piux XII =~

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‘Ito me to read in the paper that i{|you were urging the re-election of i | President Roosevelt. | | matter was discussed several weeks '|ago, I had offered to bet that a J | man with your background would

'| reading this editorial it seems hard

| My heart is filled with good will! ‘| May Your light shine . .. {1 Light, in your heart, which is love

| That in due time will drive away {| The gloom of war.

toward voting has been the down- | fall of all republics. Let us all! talk, and express ourselves, but: VOTE. There is a whispering campaign going around trying to intimidate voters. : They are made to believe that if} they don't vote right, they will lose | their jobs. This is a plain lie. No one can tell in the election how you have voted. Machines are set and| cannot be tampered with. The bell} rings whether you® are a Democrat or Republican. The same bell is] used. If a ballot is used, no one knows how you mark that ballot until the election board unfolds to... # 9. 8 COMPARING THE WAR

TO A STRIPYTEASE By Ernest Williams

Strip-tease. The candy salesmen take their seats, the lights dim, the second-act curtain rises. Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan stare watchfully from the gallery rail.

Got Plenty o’Nothin’.” He lifts a

out-of-style pursuit plane, and tosses

it into the British orchestra pit. He|

toys with the anchor chain of a superfluous destroyer, -and the artist’s body.

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Sam, the swaying advocate of an @

adequate national wardrobe, reaches coyly for his attorney general's veil, and stands shamefully without his flying fortress. : Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan | were pleased by what they went to see. Uncle Sam's discarded wardrobe couldn’t add to the effectiveness of the British "orchestra's ensemble, It could only hang over their eyes; and, in the confusion, martial cadenzas mingled with “1 Got Plenty o’ Nothin’,” and Uncle Sam was a sorry spectacle without those vital garments—war-dancing in the nude!

” 2 ” HE'S STILL WAITING FOR FIORELLO’S ANSWER By V. MM. Armsireng

Sometime ago there appeared an! editorial in The Indianapolis Times regarding La Guardia’s indorsement of Roosevelt's third term. At that time I addressed the following let-| ter to Mayor La Guardia concern-| ing this, .It has ‘never been answered: “Dear Mayor La Guardia: “I 'am attaching herewith an edi-

dianapolis Times. It was a shock

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never support anyone for a third term. “It is fortunate for me that 1 didn’t put up the money. After

i class and group hatred of any kind.

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A GOOD THOUGHT By JOHN H. CLAY

For all nations of the earth;

As a Christ’s true son Make this solemn vow within ... “I will love America with all my being And I will love all God's people as I love America!”

DAILY THOUGHT

He that believeth in him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, becatise he hath not believed in the name

of the only begotten Son of God. | —John 3:18.

' THE PRACTICAL effect of a be-

ef is the real test of its soundness.| eT da of i roi

_ FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

Tossing Missiles at Willkie and Accusing Him of Prejudices Ara Logical Results of New Deal Methods

HICAGO, 111, Oct. 18.—Booing, hissing Mr. Wille kie’s earnest attempts to talk before he has said g word, throwing groceries and more dangerous weape ons at him and his wife, falsely accusing him of res ligicus and racial prejudice against the Jewish people and against Negroes, is all out of the same basket of Fourth New Deal methods. . The booing, hissing and throw ing has largely been done by Coms munist elements. The Fourth New Deal has consistently encouraged them. It has held itself out as the ‘Negro’s sole haven of refuge. The New Deal's principal strength among Jewish people lies not so much in very proper hostility to Hitler, which the whole country ? joins, as in its vaguely hinted puriy pose to launch us into war against him—which 80 per cent of this country opposes, Cone sidering fiendish atrocities of the Nazis against the Jews, it is only human that their kindred here should wish to see Hitler punished with arms-—so would I, if I were a Jew—but political hourishment of that wish is very bad business.

sw T is all very well for the Fourth New Deal politicos to disown responsibility for this obviously organized heckling. They can’t disown it. Not only is it a direct result of their settled political policies over the years, but it is too consistently done to warrant a bes lief that it is not inspired. It is exactly like the slicle undercover job against Al Smith in the 1928 campaign. There is a sinister contradiction here that these racial and religious groups should not overlook, The

Fourth New Deal's citadel of strength is the Solid

South, the home and center of the very prejudices they fear. : When: the imitation Kluxer and anti-Semite, Father Coughlin, hinted his approval of Mr. Willkie, he was promptly and scathingly rebuked and repudie ated by the candidate. Did anybody ever hear Mr, Roosevelt repudiate his great followings of groups openly prejudiced against these races and religions? No, and nobody ever will. He couldn’t be: elected without them. In abusing Mr. Willkie, these abused. people are supporting their tormentors, = 2 » A HESE slurs and innuendo against Mr. Willkie are false. ‘As all who know him will agree. He is ths least biased of men. He has just one prejudice, and it is flerce, It is a prejudice against prejudice and, hot scorn for any man who appeals to prejudice for political or any other purpose. I would far rather rest my case with such a man than with a politician’

| who is allied with one prejudice in one place and a { contrary prejudice elsewhere.

If there is one thing that this country cannot tolerate in this dangerous time, it is any appeal to Disunity is’ weakness. We must be strong. All the people must he united and any President must be President of all the people. : The heart and center of the doctrine of communism: is class warfare. Boos, hisses, dirty or dangerous: missiles—instead of arguments—incitement to class or religious or racial prejudices—instead of pleas for unity—are the acknowledged and principal weapons: of communism. Fourth New Dealers are properly hot against Hitler, but not nearly so hot against the Reds. ‘The Reds, just now, are our greatest danger, Not because of their threats from abroad, -like Hitler's, but because of theit—actual accomplishments to se classes against each other, re

A Woman's Viewpo

Int By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

ACED with the prospect of two Thanksgivings: again, the question of what to do with Armistica, day arises. on We might consecrate it with prayer instead of pa« rades; we might cancel it from our calendar of holie days; we might even ignore ths inconsistency of rejoicing over a truce which has ended and which we now recognize as only a truce —never 3 peace. ; . In case we amuse the high gods’ by holding a celebration this year, I hope we shall have the decency and ‘dignity to use the time for some serious consideration of that event and what it has led to. Certainly the day in 1940 calls for no rejoicing. And our visite to cemeteries, and the customary’ : formalized mourning at the grave of the Unknown Soldier, are farcical affairs, consider«' ing everything. A more fitting routine would be for all who can to visit their nearest Veterans’ Hospital, ‘We are always eager to honor the dead—for the dead cannot chide us. The dead never ask us uns= answerable questions with their eyes. Being forever at peace, they have done with us and our ways and : our petty glories and our foolish ambitions, But in this. land of ours—there are plenty of living remnants from the last war whom we could honor with our presence on the day set aside for lauding peace and glorifying war. The heroes aren't all quite dead. Merely half alive, For years and years they have endured a shadowy

{ existence. Beneath their hospital windows the world ! has rushed by like a torrent, unconcerned with them ! or their sorrows or their pains.

Time seems to-have forgotten them. To be sure, we pay taxes to keep them supplied with reasonable comforts. We speak of them, when we remember them at all; as of saintly figures standing in a quiet, niche We do them lip service, but we neglect them, with our hearts. If Armistice Day is to be celebrated at all this year, can’t we dedicate it to the living instead of the dead, and can’t we also promise ourselves to do everything that is reasonable and possible to maintain a jush world peace when the war of 1914 is finally ended?

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

UMORS and germs are words that generally ine spire fear because we associate them with deadly diseases. You may know that not all germs of micro= organisms cause sickness. It may be a surprise to you, however, to discover that there are even tumors and micro-organisms that do good in our world, help= ing to provide us with food. How they do this is one of the interesting stories about germs—both good and bad—told in a new book, “The Microscopic World," written by a colleague of mine, Dr. Frank ‘Thone. _ Certain micro-organisms, he explains, have the “unique ability to capture nitrogen gas out of the air and turn it into the chemical building blocks that go to the formation of proteins.” : When seu eat steak or cheese, you are eating pro= teins, but the cow or steer that furnishes you with these got proteins for milk or cheese or flesh from eating plants. The plants, in turn, probably got it with the aid of tumors and germs. = “If you will dig up a pea or bean or clover plant,” Dr. Thone explains, “or even the roots of a legumeinous tree such as a locust or acacia and carefully wash the earth away, you will find warty swellings or nodules on the smaller roots. They look rather like plant. thmors,-and indeed they are, for the invasion of the bacteria into the root tissues causes a proliteration or over-rapid division and growth of the cells, “But if they are tumors, they are ‘benign’ tumors in the most literal and accurate sense. The bacteria that live parasitically in these tissues are the organs isms that capture atmospheric nitrogen—by what mechanism we have as yet no very definite idea—and forge it gnto links of the human and animal food chain,” =~ =