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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940 PSYCHOLOGICAL. STUDY NE

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MAN VS. THE STATE—U. S. A. 1940

Government—is not just a philosophy.

~ toward autogracy. dependent on-the speed of events. sure as the stars.

ment? More and more bureaucracy grows.

the individual counts.

actual increase in the public machine.

451,250 in 1933.) » “The transfer,”

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strong provocation.”

struggle of the man versus. the state.

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frontiers.” thie formula. Out” “of : «it have grown monarchs, Some are benign ; frequently at first. competent, More Neros than Arthurs.

declaiming “I am the state,”

master.

The modern term is dictatorship and that ti been running high. But it’s the same old. urge

Alexander to Hitler.

America is not im e.

i Mr. Willkie has nae the doctrine that America . 18 no longer capable of self-support. He would junk that vehicle of defeatism which would carry us down that age-

old road to one-man rule.

the job of this nation’s chief executive,

DEPLORABLE, BUT—

JAMES H. R; CROMW ELL, Democratic candidate Senate from New Jersey, heing challenged by a| of Women Voters member to state his position on

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rule,” replied: «oq 2“1 deplore boss rule.

other parts of the country.”

Well, it is something that Mr. Cromwell recogni rule as an evil, although many will not agree that necessary evil. Yet even if we “have to have” boss rule, we Certainly Mr. Cromwell does not have to do that. He has great wealth

do not have to tie ourselves to the bosses.

and can afford complete independence.

. But Mr. Cromwell was hand-picked as a —_ canIf elected, the will owe his| success to Boss Hague. Ie deplores boss rule, but he has eagerly We do not admire Mr. Cromwell's atfitude, but we must admit that it is|in complete harmony with the 1940 spirit of the New Ded.

didate by Boss Hague.

accepted the support of a boss.

JACK DEMPSEY

T is unusual for a successful businessman to Bheome a But Rep. John J. Dempsey of In a brief six years he be“came an outstanding leader in the House of Representang skillful in parliamentary maneuvers, adept in per-

Exe acess] congressman. New Mexico made the grade.

‘suading other lawmakers to his point of view.

* “No member except Jack Dempsey could have put that bill through,” observed the veteran Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn after the House passed the second of the Hatch laws against pernicious political activities, ~ been believed that the bill would be pigeon- -holed Jin the But, as was the case with the first Hatch measure ‘also handled by Mr. Dempsey, the bill left the House a stronger piece of lsginiasion than had been passed by the

House.

Senate.

Now Mr. Dempsey is, moving on to another high Government position, one which will give full scope to his talents and experience as a business administrator. He is to become a member of the U. S. Maritime Commi appointment of President Roosevelt, who wisely that the mistake of New Mexico Democrats in failing to nominate him for the Senate should not deprive the Government of the further services of Mr. Dempsey.

Make the people ‘believe they’re through. Make them think only papa can fix. bread and circuses and charge the bill to posterity. + Tis of such stuff thet third terms are made. kings, czars, emperors. But mostly, wheel of history has turned, mean, greedy, cruel - And out philosophy, which finally flowers in some pot-bellied Bourbon | grows the counter phi of popular government; of the state as the servant

W YORK'S Mayor Fiorello La Guardia brok rage in Detroit when’ asked—*“Did Boss Fly

Grabbing his questioner by the shoulders and ~ him, La Guardia shouted: “You take that back!” : We wonder why the “Little Flower” became After all, Ed Flynn is Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and high mogul of a cause to which La Hence, why the

HE doctrine that America is through—except It's a That vehicle carries the nation which gets aboard The time lapse may be great g But the destin

More and more the people depend upon the Less and less That which previously was the individual is taken over by the state as more and more of the citizenry go to work for the Government. “extension of burcaucracy implies increased power regulative agencies—power out of all proportion (There 1,023,341 on the Federal civil payroll as compare

“weakens the one and strengthens the other, in far greater degy is implied by the relative change of numbers. paratively small body. of officials, coherent, having interests, and a@ting under central authority, has mense advantage over an incoherent public which ‘settled policy, and can be brought to act unitedly onl

Spencer didn’t mention the New Deal because whiting that in 1886. But he was talking about ja trend that threads through all history and spells a constant

In the sense that we have seen Presidential campaigns before, Mr. Willkie is campaigning for something more than

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New Books

By Stephen Ellis

Volumes by Willkie and Roosevelt Climax Series of Top Flight Literary

Labors on Science of Government |

F THIS POLITICAL campaign has done nothing | ‘else, it has certainly improved some reading habits. | Instead of the usual casual conversation about new | novels and mysteries, we've been treated to- so e| warm discussions about the season’s crop of books on |

government and the social sciences. And now, with the campaign at its crest, comes a pair of books bearing the names of the country’s two No. 1 spokesmen—Messrs. Roosevelt and Willkie. Issued by the National Home Library Foundation, the books are “Our Democracy in Action,” being the philosophy ‘of the President as found in his speeches, | messages and cther public papers, and ‘Free Enter- | prise,” a similar tollection from Mr. Willkie's Wings, ‘speeches, etc. You can turn off the radio, sit down with these two | books and get a clear picture of what the two men | espouse, Booth Tarkington, incidentally, wrote Te | introduction to the Willkie book. Just off the press, tbo, is Henry A. Wallace's “The | American Choice” (Reynal & Hitchcock), in which | Mr. Roosevelt's running mate gives a candid picture | of the world’s problems as he sees them. One thing yeu will have to admit regardless of | your pqlitics—all our candidates can write beautifully, and do.

White House” (Doubleday, Doran). which—regardless of ‘what you think of Mr. Roosevelt | and his Administration—is generally conceded to be | the best analytical study of them all. Bobbs-=Merrill’s contribution to the cause was “The Dead Hand’ of Democracy,” by Lawrence Sullivan, It roughs up the New Deal pretty badly, throwing a lot of facts and Government statistics squarely on the table. You can keep on listing them, too. Like Harry Schermarn's “The Real Danger in Our Gold” (Simon & Schuster). Mr. Scherman has taken the world’s most difficult subject and made it understandable. Even the experts concede that Mr. Scherman’'s contentions and conclusions are sound. ” ” » ~

HERE ARE LIGHTER strains, however. Thomas L. Stokes’

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TILL Ar THE TOP of most of the lists of political | books is John T. Flynn's “Country Squire in the | This is the book |

One is “Chip Off My Shoulder” | (Princeton). If you haven't read it, make a note of it | right now. All we have to say is that one of America’s | greatest reporters, has written contempora Ip American | history with power and drama and life pulsing on | almost every page. Too, you might have missed the season's other | outstanding autobiography, “If You Don’t Weaken,” the story of Oscar Ameringer (Holt), Mr. Améringer | has been an itinerant musician, a painter, a vagabond, | a vaudeville actor ship's steward and’ doctor, labor | ieader, politician-¥eformer, and editor of the .famed | “American Guardian.” :

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Carl Sandburg has written an affectionate -fore- | word and it may very well be the finest American | autobiography since Lincoln Steffens’, | ” ” # HOSE OF YOU who keep an eye on books for the | youngsters will be interested in the series being | published by Albert Whitman, & Co. They are elementary science books prepared by the WPA Pennsylvania Writers’ Project andy when completed, the series will consist of 30 books, well illustrated and scientifically accurate on such subjects | as aircraft, warships, trains, stones, clouds, bees, stars, ete. Eleven of the hooks are already out. unaerstood by third and fourth-graders. Matter of fact, you Hight learn a thing or. two yourself,

Business By John T. Flynn

Our Gold Policy a Serious Blunder That Some Day We Must Pay For

They, can be

EW YORK, Oct. 24¢.—Governments make blunders of all sorts. Sometimes the blunders produce their horrifyingbad effects at once. Sometimes the bad effect is invisible, just goes on piling up for years before anyone is hurt by it. ‘Then—slam!—the country gets sockéd all of a sudden | and often does not even know | that the crack was the result of that stupid blunder fade years | before. The chasing plan is a blunder of this | kihd. See how it has worked. One night “the President announced | over the radio that he, speaking | for the Government, would in the | future pay $35 an cunce for all the gold offered to this country. Up | to that time we paid $21. - Immediataly everybody in the world who had any gold he coultk possibly get rid of | sold it to our generous Uncle Sam d his even more generous husiness manager, Mr. Roosevelt. A man in Germany, for instance, who wanted to buy goods here had to have American dollars. These he could buy with gold. This German gentleman or | Japanese gentleman, .if he had an ounce of gold, could buy 21 American dollars, but after Mr. got through talking over the air that night, he could | buy with that same ounce of gold 35 American dollars. In other words, he could buy 60 per cent more

Roosevelt |

We had to pay the same amount of money to produce things. We had to pay even more, because | wages| and costs were increased. But we Rad to deliver to the foreign gentleman 60 per cent more of | these ‘higher-cost goods in return for the same | amount of gold. Thus’ we began to subsidize Mr. Hitler, Mr. Mussolini, and above all the Japanese Army, all of whom, with the same amount of gold, could buy 60 per cent more scrap iron, gasolirie, munitions, etc., or anything they needed.

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HIS was supposed to improve our foreign trade. But did it? Foreign trade did pick up, and here are the figures. We paid out in United States gold certificates for foreign gold $13,000,000,000 from 1934 to 1935. We got a favorable trade balance during these years of only $3,000,000,000. Eliot Janeway points out that for each dollar of subsidies handed out to foreign gold ‘owners through the gold-purchas-ing plan, we got back 25 cents in trade balance. Foreigner§ of course used these generous dollars they bought with their gold to buy American exports, but they did not increase their purchases commensurate with our suhsidy. As Mr, Janeway and The, Wall Street Journal point out, we are doing again under Roosevelt what we did under Coolidge. We are subsidizing most of our foreign trade. Under Coolidge we lent the money to foreign countries and ‘they bought here and then default on most of the loans. In fact the same thing happened under Wilson. We lent them billions, they bought war goods here and then repudiated the loans. Now we are handing our billions in gold subsidies and the foreign beneficiaries are spending only a fraction of it here. Meanwhile we continue to deplete every country in the world of its gold. We do not notice the effect of this because the real effect hasn't come yet. That will come down on us all of a sudden one of these days. It may be a year or two years or three or more and when it comes people will blame whoever happeris to be in power at the time instead of the man who is responsible for the Teal cause of the trouble. .

So They Saya

TOLERANCE ceases to be a virtue when it is carried to the point where everything i§ tolerated.— Rep. Martin Dies, Texas. : * THE PRESERVATION of civil liberties Joresly depends upon the championship of the rights of the weak by the strong.—Rev. John Haynes Holmes, chairman, Civil Liberties Union. » THE IDEA that peace can come to the world through an alliance of imperialist Britain, capitalist America, and Soviet Russia is :fantastic.—Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for the Presidency.

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[they'd be suckers enough

| the rocks. | joined the soup lines.

i ladies, | frantic appeal, tousled hair, careless | posture,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1940

The Dopesters Are in the Bag

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‘The Hoosier Forum

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

TAKES A WALLOP AT | THE THIRD TERM By J. BP. Why shouldn't Roosevelt run for a third term? He probably figures that if t American people were suckers enough to elect him in the

| first place—then stand for the stuff

him to

he pulled—and elect again

elect him the third time. ... #£ a =» HE'S 100 PER CENT FOR ROOSEVELT By Vern Purvis, Sharpsville, Ind. Wendell Willkie has been from stat@®to state telling what he could do.

to any pelitical office. Wendell Willkie can't say enough to cover up the good Franklin D. Roosevelt has

| done.

Under Hoover our business was on We sold our trucks an Now we ar up and going good. I am 100 per

cent for Roosevelt. ” n o SEEKS THE SOURCE OF WILLKIE'S POWER | By R. W. Barker, English, Ind.

From whence cometh Willkie's te” {strength to rise up out of obscurity |Bays, Government's gold-pur- 'to manhandle able and astute old|the step-child of the Democratic dreamed |

| politicians who had ‘dreams, with a clear vision of the | White House in all of its splendor? From inheritance these old guard Republicans fell in line, And I am

[sure the U. S. A. would have profit-

ed by the election to the Presidency of one of the guard, for instance, Mr. Taft. Far better than Willkie. | Let us be fair, candid, faithful, con-

| scientious in our duty to mankind. | This is a momentous decision. {involves a multitude of people who | have

known freedom and liberty. Let us find out where Willkie’s power originated and what is

driving it on slowly but surely to

oblivion. One force attracts an-

'other and within itself it is void. Hence Willkie was projected through

space from the powerful utility company where he found refuge in

{time of storm in his fight against

the TVA. Do you like that stand he took? Now gentlemen and he rushes to and. fro with

reaching out straining every nerve to seize the power in gaining the Presidency. This energy sometimes overshadows and

(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.)

clouds his saner moments to occupy the throne via the humble constit-| uents of the U. S. A. Sum up every promise he has!

But ‘he has never heen elected ‘he couldn't fulfill them.

4 of their “wonderful healing power. e Beware of them.

Iment, payroll, lover a million voters, and their imimediate families, to bite the hand

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PREFERS TO BUY HIS OWN LOLLYPOPS By A. J. Schneider : I believe it was P. T. Barnum who said “There's one born every min-

And another circusmaster, is busy rallying them all to

Party. Mr. Bays’ latest sucker-bait, the song, “Good-Bye Mr. Willkie” is in itself the best proof of my assertion. For that song, better than anything else, proves that Mr. Roosevelt is trying to make the Government the wet nurse and lollypop provider for ‘all. Weaklings and incompetents, of course, will rally to such sucker ‘bait. | But free, independent individuals | who do not believe in heading into a dead-end street, will think twice— they prefer to buy their own lollypops with the fruits of their labors. Mr. Roosevelt, more than any other official has boasted of our ed-| ucational and cultural advance-| | ment; yet every utterance of himself and his hirelings, is an affront | to the intelligence of even those| with a modest education. Of course, no one expects those who have been put on the Governnumbering somewhat

that feeds them, Although I can't see much difference between a soup kitchen or getting it at the public trough by mortgaging one’s. freedom,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

COPR. TOAS BY NEA SERVICE, NC. T. W. REG. U. §. PAT. OFF. —a— — I

"You ought to be ashaméd ‘ef such listening in, Matilda—and besides, you haven't given me a hint as to what they’ re talking about!"

|didate into a third term.

‘may come from their loudspeakers | the problems of the present.

of discretion. yet I will concede such supine individuals owe their loyalty to their master. Which gives F., D.| R. a head-start of some five millions] of votes—enough to elect. If ben-| eficiaries at the taxpayers’ trough, were disfranchised, as are our mili-| tary, Mr. Roosevelt would be defeated without even counting the votes. In recognition of the low esteem in which he holds us of the com- | mon herd, I would vote for Eari| Browder, rather than vote any can-|

” o 2 SLAMS F. D. R’S TALKS AS BEDTIME STORIES By M. V. Sheats

News item: The President is to make five political speeches.

To some citizens the broadcast

slightly distorted. It ‘may sound as| though the President opens his speech with the customary, “MY FRIENDS.” Most citizens, however, a good, clear reception, They will hear the President say, “Pull ‘up your fireside suckers, I have aether bedtime story for you.” If, in those five broadcasts, hel fails to again promise to “halance the budget,” I shall be deeply disappointed. He has recently stated, wah.”

will get

“I hate Time alone will tell. - u is ” CHARGES WILLKIE SLURS THE PRESIDENT By ‘‘Glendy” I just want to express my views,

of Wendell Willkie, although I am! i

two years from the voting age. How | {can anyone have any respect for Mr.| Willkie when every time he opens his mouth it’s a slur against our!

President? It’s just disgusting to hear him

say what he.is going to do, as if he| {was already in the White ‘House. 1 {believe when the people first heard the name of Wendell L. Willkie, he! {might have been elected then, but! (as for now I don’t think he has the | [slightest chance. I don’t believe the| people of the United States are so dumb as to east their votes for a man like Willkie. I know that I wouldn't if I had the chance. Because every word he says against our President knocks him out of another vote and that's a lot of them. ” ” ”

LAUDS TAVERNS FOR CHECKING PATRONS’ AGE By R. P.

I see by your paper that the tavern owners in the town of “—' are making good use of “Registration Cards” by requiring same of those who appear to be of doubtful age. Many uses for these cards are now

iin effect, but I think this one is by

far the best. Every tavern owner in Indianapolis, or in the U. 8S. A. as'far as that is concerned, should be told by the police to ask for proof that these “Kids” who park themselves on tavern stools, are 21 years of age. It is~indeed unfortunate that the female sex wasn’t registered also, so they could be asked the same question, “Are you of age”?

INTERVAL

By JANE SIGLER Once more the sumac is aflame, And maples wantonly fling down A wealth of yellow leaves. Bare branches soon will pencil shadows On the snow. Before trees leaf again ! What prophecies will be fulfilled? What destinies be run? And in our own small woilds What joy, what grief Are we to know?

DAILY THOUGHT

Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: for His mercy endureth forever.—Psalm 106:1,

AMONG the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy ines with even more brilliancy

Justice,—Cervantes “ i

| grip of panic fear. | predicted that when she reached the final stages of

Gen. Johnson

Says—

Clare Boothe Gives One -of the Most Effective Speeches of the . Campaign in Blast at War Hysteria

EW YORK, Oct. 24.—I think there is a new-voice among political commentators in our country. It has not been silent in other fields. Clare Boothe has made herself flelt importantly in drama, literature and as a publicist. Only ip“her indignation

about the war hysferia of recent , political outbursts /has she taken to the hustings.” She hasn't just taken to them. She has taken them. : Her book, “Europe in Spring." is the most revealing on the fall’ of France. It wasn't political. It was poignant, but the terrible experiences from which it was derived didn’t’ suggest -to the poised Miss Boothe that: she drag her own country unnecessarily ta that bloody shambles. When she got back to this country, to find that another foremost American woman writer of great heart and mind, Miss Dorothy Thompson, had completely blown up emotionally and, after castigating Mr. Roosevelt for seven years came out for him as a great leader into war, Miss Boothe began analyzing that psychology. S showed from her correspondence in FPrance or Thompson had actually wangled permission ffm a French artillery battery to fire three shells at the Germans. Miss Boothe was indignant. By all the laws of war, Miss Thompson was a nonbelligerent, an American, a sniper not in uniform— perfectly protected against reprisal. If anyone was killed, it was murder, no less—such a deed as the intellectual Dorothy would never dream .of in her normal mind. | a 9.8 HAT roused Miss Boothe to make ode of the most effective speeches yet delivered on our war hysteria. With no personal feeling whatever, she used this incident as an example of the mass madness ‘into which we are being whipped. I quote a small fraction! “Gradually she (Miss Thompson) hecame a vice tim of that emotional disease called ‘acute fear.’ “Fear, a doctor will tell you, is an emotional and not an intellectual reaction. Fear distills adrenalin into the blood., The victim sweats, her breath comes fast, her nostrils dilate, her pulse races, her breasts heave. She begins to babble. The blood leaves her head and—her brain ceases to function normally. “So, events became more calamitous abroad, one saw Miss Thompson slip further into the icy Any good psychologist could have

hysteria she must come out for Roosevelt.

» ” ”

OW here is a strange thing we all have observed; how many, many voters for Roosevelt are victims of this fear. We see everywhere people who are afraid they may be taken off relief, people who are afraid they will be put on relief, people who are afraid freely to cast a vote because they or their relatives will be hounded by a political. boss

i out of a job, people who are afraid for racial reasons,

people who are afraid we won't get into the war in time, people who are afraid (like the French and the English were until after the invasion) to swap horses in midstream, people who are afraid Hitler will be less afraid of Willkie than he is of Roosevelt (it's difficult, by the way, to imagine. how Hitler could be!), and people who are afraid ‘that democracy is finished anyway—so let's start going Socialist ‘mow.’ It was this fear ‘that democracy is finished anyway’ which sapped the will of the French people and hastened their surrender. “Now the Democratic’ Party may or may not be the party of war. But it certainly is the party of fear. | What unites us, Independents, Republicans and Democrats, is that we are the party of courage. We are a true American breed. Our founders and forefathers and our immigrant parents felt equal to the problems of the past and solved them with courage. We citizens, new and old, also feel equal to We also have the courage to solve them, because we have the faith Americans have always had in America's future.” After a devastating application of this idea, she climaxed by recalling: “Mr. Roosevelt on taking office in 1933 is quoted as having said, ‘I shall either be America’s greatest President-—or its last." Perhaps he should have sald, ‘its greatest and its last.”

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

EN are such splendid cocks,” says a kitchen charm expert, "because they feel the drama and romance of foods.” That's putting it nicely. One often meets these male culinary artists. The most enthusiastic are invariably to be found in home kitchens. Having known several, it is interesting to ponder the methods they used to obtain their happy. recults. g Probably they did feel the romance and drama of foods, but they were splendid cooks mainly because they never spared the pocketbook when they decided to take a turn over the stove.

It requires a stiff outlay of cash to strike a romantic note in the kitchen, the same as in the parlor, When the man in our house wanted to let loose his repressed desire to stir up a tasty meal, he came home loaded to tHe scuppers with extraordinary * and expensive condiments. The dishes he-contocted were truly remarkable because He never allowed his caution to interfere with his imagination. His .stews included everything but the sink and the roach powder. Their flavors were strange and exciting. Mulligan was his favorite brew, and a glorified Mulligan it was. As a true test of genius if never tasted the same twice, and although we have to bring this up, the kitchen was never the same either, It had the look of a recently deserted buffalo wallow. There were gobs of this, that and the other spattered on floor and walls, and sometimes the ceiling dripped with moisture from the furious boilings which had taken place. The pots and pans were not exactly dirty: they were encased in layers of grease, soot, batter and egg yolk. Out of clean order had come complete chaos. It would have required the services of an expert G-Man to reveal a vestige of drama or ramance to the dishwasher who, alas, must always bring up the rear after one of these masculine forays Jnto a. feminine domain. The chief and perhaps the only objection to men cooks in the home is that their culinary attacks are fitful, expensive and apt to come at inconvenient moments. Begun in a romantic mood, they usually end on a definitely “helzapoppin’” note.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

PF your child is frowning, or rubbing his eyes or trying to brush away a blur, it may be a sign sf eye trouble for which an eye specialist should be -onsulted. This is one of 10 signs of eye trouble in >hildren listed by the National Society for the Presention of Blindness in an exhibit at the American Public Health Association meeting, The other nine

re 1. The child stumbles frequently or trips over small objects. 2. Blinks more than usual, cries often or is irritable when doing close work. 3. Holds a book or small toys close to his eyes. 4, Shuts or covers one eye or tilts. his head or - thrusts it forward when looking at playthings. 5. Has difficulty in reading or in other school work that requires close use of the eyes. 6. Is uninterested in distant objects or unable to take part in games such as playing ball. 7. Holds his body tense or screws up his face for either distant or close work. 8. 1s sensitive to light. 9. Is unable to distinguish colors. . Tell-tale signs in the child's appearance which

‘may mean eye trouble ‘are red-rimmed, encrusted or

swollen lids; repeated sties; watery or red eyes; and, of rr eyes.