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Give IAght and the People Wili Fina Ther own Way FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1940

THE FUND GOES OVER . ~~

QUIETLY, without benefit of special ballyhoo, the Community Fund last night achieved its goal of $688, 500 “tor. the first time in eight years. . That was a tremendously heartening piece of news for

* the tity and for those dependent on the Community Fund for aid. :

4 And Indianapolis has a right to feel proud. Proud of

the volunteer workers. Proud of the way in which people contributed. Proud of the way in which the Fund has been generally accepted as a commu-

nity-wide enterprise.

HOW JOBS ARE MADE—OR USED TO BE T wasn’t much to start with, A few inventors tinkering ,in blacksmith and machine shops. A few fellows willing to risk their savings. But out of the combination of inventive genius, enterprise, risk capital and hard work the automobile ‘industry came into being.

. Those high-wheeled horseless carriages began to wheeze through the Vstreets. The early ones even had buggy-whip sockets on the dashboard. .. The industry was just getting under way about the * time the last frontier of free land disappeared. It progressed with the new century. More inventors and machinists went to work. More men with capital were eager to take risks. Supply industries sprang up. Oil, rubber and steel companies began expanding. Communities built concrete streets, and spawned suburbs. States built better highways. The makers of brick and cement and asphalt thrived. Gasoline pumps swarmed along the roadside. Year after year more jobs were created, at higher wages and for shorter hours. . - Always the propelling force was capital taking risks, Investors making profits and plowing the profits back, and other investors—a ‘now forgotten legion—losing their Remember the Dort, the Star, the Briscoe, the Haynes, the National, the White Steamer, the Flanders, the Maxwell, the Empire, the Apperson Jackrabbit? Remember them gratefully. Capital that risked and lost

. created jobs, the same as capital that risked and gained.

» » ” » ” » ~ Early-day automobile makers were so busy making cars they didn’t keep complete statistics. Nobody knows how many billions have been invested and reinvested in this industry and the others that have grown around it. But those risk-taking billions created an industry which literally re-drew the physical map of America and refashioned ‘American economy. ‘Here are a few fi "The industry has The output in 1900 wa

res: roduced 79 million motor vehicles. worth less than $5,000,000. In 1939 it was around $2,500,000,000. For several years running, before the depression; the value exceeded three billions. From the 80 million vehicles now in circulation, our Federal, state and local governments collect $1, 600,000,000 a year in taxes. - ". In the first 38 years of the century (computation of Editor Van Deventer of Iron Age) 84 billion dollars was ble to the automobile, and which: would not have been paid out except for it. .. . Today, 6,500,000 are employed in the manufacture of autos, trucks; parts, tires, gasoline, in sales and servicing, in road building and truck and bus and taxi driving, and the production of raw materials that go into automobiles. One out of every seven American workers derives his

i from this industry.

. ” ~ » ” 2 "Now suppose that at the turn of the century and since that time there had been in Washington an Administration which believed that our economic system “had reached its full growth, that private enterprise had run its race, that opportunity had vanished with the last free land, that risktaking capital should be penalized and discouraged and taxed until it sought refuge in tax-exempt securities to provide a benevolent bureaucracy with borrowed funds to dole out makeshift jobs to men pérmahnently unemployed. : Under those conditions, could the automobile industry ever have developed? . 4 8 =» 8 , So far as domesti¢ issues are concerned, that’s whi this election is about. Wendell Willkie rejects the doctrine of a standstill economy. He holds that new industries can be developed the same way the automobile industry was. Television, air-conditioning, prefabricated housing. These are a few of the new industries with unlimited potentiality for job-creating—but their real development awaits the driving power of risk-taking investment. And in the laboratories of American industry, as Mr. Willkie said in Milwaukee the other night, there are no fewer than 250 new products and processes, all capable of creating new employment. a : Wp think that if Mr. Willkie is elected he will so alter government policies that money now idle will go to work developing new industries and that men now idle will go to work—on real jobs at real wages.

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ME ROOSEVELT quotes the 1940 Democratic platform as follows: “We will not participate in foreign wars and will not send our army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside the Americas, except in case of attack.” On the morning after that declaration Navy Secretary g conference: “We can defend any-

"The two statements naturally raise certain questions: ? ;

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By Westbrook Pegler

California Supreme Court Upholds ‘Right of Union to Force Employer

a decision more hostile of the rights of individual Americans than one which whs recently ‘announced by the Supreme Court of ‘California uphold-

ing the right of a labor union to picket an employer, |

to compel him to compe! his pm= ployees te join the! The ‘vote was four to three in an action

filed by 32 salesmen of an’ ayto- !

mobile eompany.

The salesmen represented that he

if the picketing were allowed to

continue the employer would bel

forced to fire them, The majority - opinion held that the salesmen had |

To Compel Workers ; Join. Union| N= YORK, Oct. 25.—It would be herd to imagine |

Merrily T hey

no right to adopt a bargaining|

agent of their own choice but must submit to the picketing union or sacrifice their jobs. . This court is packed with ideological ‘comrades

of Governor Olson, the lowerscase Roosevelt of the |

West Coast.

The court did not discuss the possibility that the union, being a private organization and subject to no

regulation by any public authority, might be governed |

by racketeers, dictatorial leaders or foreign enemies of the American nation. No weight was given to ‘the right of the individual to refrain from joining any private organization,

, The decision holds that a union may picket and{ ° boycott to compel the employer to drive his men into |,

its ranks, even though resistance to the boycott’ would be disastrous to the industry involved. The’ court

went further in saying that the victims were net ac-|

tually deprived of their jobs or the right to work by this process. The damage to them is “no more than presentation of a choice between leaving their present employer, either Yolunterlly or upon its demand, or joining the union.” 8 8 2 HE salesmen are not deprived of their jobs, but are merely given a choice between leaving those jobs or joining a private. organization. on any terms that the organization may prescribe. The right of the citizen to earn a living for himself and his family is subordinate to the political power of any racketeer holding a charter. The sentence which I have quoted is the most cynical lie that I have read in many an hour's study of the mounting pile of brutal dishonesty produced by political judges and bureaucrats since the New Deal and its state subsidiaries began the drive to create a vast sub-government over all the workers in the country, with the power to tax at will and to inflict the economic death penalty of free men. By this decision the employer is given his. choice between economic ruin—which, of course, he will not accept—and coercing his employees in their selection

‘of a bargaining agent, The California Supreme Court

holds that this is not compulsion on either the employer or the unwilling employees. The employer may accept ruin, go out of business and dismiss his employees for lack of work, and the rights of all are preserved. Or, he may submit to the union’s demands and give the workers their choice between discharge and union membership. A

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N fact, although the court does not deal with this phase, the union is not even required to admit the employees to membership. It may bar them perpetually for anti-union activity in crossing its picket lines. It may defer their admission for a period of months or years as punishment for violating the rules of an organization of which they were not members. Or it may simply reject them because its rolls are full and, event if they be admitted to membership, they may still be deprived of their jobs and placed at the bottom of the hiring list, while union members who have paid bribes to the officials receive the work. This decision hastens the showdown between the rights of the American citizens and the coercive political power of ; irresponsible, predatory and often criminal or disloyal organizations, If sustained by the United States Supreme Court it will abolish not only the right of individuals and minorities to make their own bargains but their rights to the profits of their own labor in favor of private organizations having no responsibility ‘to any branch of Federal or state government.

Business By John T. Flynn

Tedious Process - of Making Tools Delays Mass Production of Planes

EW YORK, Oct. 25.—It would be. very difficult to convince an American that the United States could not pile: in and turn out any number’ of thousands of warplanes it wished this year—if it really had a mind to do it. We can make—and do make—50,000 motor cars a month, Why not 50,000 airplanes in a year? We are the mass-production marvels of the world. . The President called for making 50,000 planes a year. So many Americans feel that we have merely to turn our machines loose on the job and grind ‘out the planes. That we cannot do this is one of the grim truths which Americahs have to learn — however much it may hurt their vanity, Of 3 coyrse we can make 50,000 planes a year or 100,000 or more. But not this ‘year—and not next year-notf in time to be of any use to us or anyone else in this war. And the reason is quite simple. Mass production is one of the marvels of this machine age. It means that things are made by

machines instead of men. In the old way a mechanic

worked at a machine, using the machine, guiding it, controlling it to make a tool, or a bolt, or some part of another machine. But in mass production the whole operation is performed by the machine,

#2 2 2 OW the point to remember is that the basis of | this mass production process is the machine tool

which automatically does this work. It is, of course, not just one machine tool, but more likely hundreds.

And while the machine tool itself, when finished, on

turn out thousands of parts, it must be prdduced individual, rather than mass, methods.

« The machines which make our automobiles can.

turn out 50,000 automobile a week. But those machines must be produced laboriously and individually in machine-tool plants. The 1941 cars are just coming on the market" now. But the 1942 cars were planned. many months ago. Then the plans: went to the machine-tool engineers, who would devise the machine tools that would be needed to grind out these cars. That job was finished months ago, and as much as 8 month ago these plans had been approved by the auto production engineers and some of them were in the hands of the machine-tool industry to turn out the tools that would be used to make cars a year from now. In other words the machine-tool industry is the bottleneck in a great mass-production industry because it is not a mass-production industry itself and must turn out its products slowly, individually. © It was doubtless because of this failure to understand this that the President could talk about producing 50,000 airplanes a year. Of course many persons, including the President, do not quite grasp this important fact. The serious point is that the President is in a position to commit us to some rash international action because of lack of knowledge of so important a factor in the whole job of national defense.

So They Say—

AS LONG AS there is an idle margin in men and machines, we shall have no ° economist and author, : MEXICO DOES he have a general policy of exily ping ~Dr, Ramon Beteta, Mexican undersecre-~

tion.—Stuart Chase,

Roll Alo ng!

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- The Hoosier - Forum

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

HE'D PAY $10 TO HEAR THE GREAT DEBATE

By Curious : Your editorial: “Why Not From the Same Platform.” I will give ten dollars to hear that debate if it comes off. That is one thing that

can’t happen anywhere but here. No fi slightest attention. No matter who won the debate we would hear about things that we never dreamed went on in the govegument of this, our country. My, oh my, just think how many

peaple would listen to that debate! 2 8 = TAKES DIG AT MINTON FOR COAL BILL VOTE

By Parke Towns If Senator Minton is so fond of the laboring man and has so much bleeding heart for the poor, why did he vote for the Guffey.coal bill which has worked so much hardship on Indiana miners and forced the poor man to pay mare for his coal? He knew before he voted for the bill that it would put Indiana miners out of work, because Indiana people told him so. Since it has gone into effect he has seen what it has done to his own people, but he apparently cares more for the rich coal operators in Pennsylvania and West Virginia who contribute to the New Deal party than he does the laboring men of his own state who elected him. New his is very busy trying to smear Willkie, Either he thinks the noise he is making will make the people forget about his own record, or he knows the working people of the state already have him tagged for defeat, and he just doesn’t care anymore.

® 8 = APALLED BY EARNINGS OF ROOSEVELT FAMILY By X. Y. Z. ’ ‘An editorial appearing in the Chicago Tribune of Aug. 9 has been brought’ to my attention. It states that the Roosevelt family during the last seven and one-half years has had an income of two and three quarter millions of dollars. Most of this money has

n ruler would give it the|.

(Times readers are invited to express their views inf these columns, religious con. troversies excluded. Make - your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

been made by other members of the family than President Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt is supposed to have earned approximately one and one-half millions of dollars. James |¢ is listed as having taken a $25,000 fee for insurance written on .a steamship line, 90 per cent of whose stock is held by the United States Maritime Commission. Both he and his brother, Elliott, have taken jobs with corporations at times when those corporations have been in trouble with various governmental departments. : If these’ and other points made in the editorial are true. then this family is the’ worst example of nepotism that civilization has ever known. For this réascn, if for nothing else, they deserve to be swept out of the White House. , . .

” ” ” CHALLENGES F.. D. R. AS DEMOCRACY’S SPOKESMAN By W. M. L. The third-term candidate phates in a radioration broadcast to South America, “viva la democracia”!

‘And being his regular consistently inconsistent self he refuses to give South America a good lesson of democracy “in action by - failing to en the same city, let alone on the same platform, with his opponent. While talking “long lve democracy” to Seuth Americans even the dumbest citizen on that continent will meditate on just how much democracy is left in the U. S. A. Even that South American with the lowest I. Q. will wonder how a people with a passion for freedom and liberty can indorse and send back to office a man who substitutes insincere, lofty words for hard, sincere action. The sister nations to the south

can see (even if some Americans

Side Glances—By Galbraith

cannot) the indispensable man’s type of democracy facing the U, 8. A. and modeled after the Chicago Democratic Convention. They must surely laugh at this man's idea of) democracy—a Supreme Court with an ex-Klansman as a Justice (pardon the word but it must be used in deference to the noble Americans who once sat upon the Court); a Congress no longer permitted to spend money only permitted to levy taxes; a Congress no longer, permitta to even learn of foreign.affairs peacetime mind you), until the J peace dictates his news, release to the press. Ademaoracy that permits a President . «draft ‘himself. for reotk ide No, I would hesitate to: freak of democracy to South :Amer-; ca or any -other country for they might well wonder why America ever endured the ordeal of_a Revolutionary War, for George III was never as vacillating or inconsistent —no, “in all his glory was never artayeq” as Franklin I, 2 = =» FAVORS CHANGING A ‘BALKY’ HORSE. By Claude Kendall We hear so fauch lately about not changing horses in the middle of the stream. That is true if the

middle of the stream, . That is what has happened now.

him to the load and pull it out. That is why we should elect Wen-

lay jn the collar and pull us out of the stream. ; : : For the past seven years we have had a man that has had everything in his favor, all the chances in the world to straighten out .this mess and hasn't done it yet. Why should we give him any more time? . Tet’s put Willkie in the White House, 2 a =» TAGS G. 0. P. AS 3 INTOLERANT PARTY By Mrs. W. J, 1 am not a Catholic ‘but I would like to tell the Catholic who was worried about what the third-term principles would do to the minority groups, that he will have to worry a lot more about persecution if Wendell Willkie is elected. In Indidna at least, Republican means Ku Klux Klan. Willkie doesn’t seem to have any vocabulary of his own. speeches are chiefly quotations of somebody else or the phrase, “If I am elected President of the United States.” Doesn't even use good English or | proper: pronunciations. My seventh and eighth grade children sit and correct his English all through his talks. “A Jeary gentleman indeed” » aspire to our leader! !

FUTILE WASTE By ELEEZA HADIAN Fashioned so delicately Delight measured. to the cup . Of a white water-lily Radiating translucent beauty In sheltered tranquility; . Nestled tp the content Of the 1. But-transplanted Among kers of the ocenned Savage sand And next instant Greedy waves have beaten it To soiled, wasted, pitiful bit; Its loveliness: A pulp, tortured nothingness.

. DAILY THOUGHT Xi 72,90148 I he, 810 1 WOKS.

creature. ‘

+ Joseph of the coat

first horse doesn’t balk in the |

Let's take a new horse in, hitch

dell L. Willkie for President. He will]

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i's Time Some Thought Was Given

To the Fact That Henry Wallace, a Failure, May Become President - ANSING, Mich., Oct. 25.—This country isn't giving * enough thought to the third-term candidate's

Vice Presidéntial candidate, Henry Wallace. Few ree cent Presidents have long survived eght comsecutive

| years, in the White House. What would 12 years do?

We have no way of knowing® We never tried it before. No Amer ican ever had the gall to ask for it, Our consideration has explored a trend toward a self-perpetuating dictatorial dynasty. The same contempt for American principle ’ and tradition as has been shown by Mr. Roosevelt for Thanksgiving Day, the Congress, the courts, the Constitution and the laws; also | the imminent ‘danger of foreign war. is all so clearly tied to my vote or yours for a third term for the indispensable man. But have we considered that we may be voting in Henry Wallace as President? If the fourth New Deal wins in

| this election, only the continuation of one wearied and

terribly overburdened life could prevent his succession, ‘Mr. Roosevelt himself has said that he never

1 wanted to be President again. Only the present

“crisis” compelled him. In congratulating the Chicago convention on its rubber stamp “nomination” of Mr, Wallace, the President told them that they. had “chosen’ an excellent “President”—not “Vice Presi,

There is & ghia Suite opinion in Washington that Mr. Rooseve mplates breaking another precedent and, at an appropriate time, stepping aside to let his mantle fall on the shoulders of his chosen

» ” ” \HUS, in our war hysteria, we are overlooking the fact that’ we may be buying a pig in a poke for President of the United States, ' That prospect should be enough to cause even the most careless to stop, look and listen. We are told that Mr, Roosevelt, who:acts as his

own Secretary of State, War, Navy and Treasury, does 50 because he is indispensable for foreign relations,

‘national defense and fiscal policy. How much this is

like Mussolini who, at one time, also held all these Cabinet portfolios in ‘Italy, we never stop to consider. Skip that, but give a thought to whether Mr. Wallace

| is also indispensable in all these key positions or in

‘any position, One may assume that he does not deny the soft

| impeachment.

He, like Hitler, 1s a mystic. His idol and his ine spiration for his ‘‘ever-normal granary” nonsense. is of many colors, the dreamer of dreams who interpreted Pharaoh's trance about the seven lean cows eating the seven fat cows, cornered

| the. Egyptian grain market for 14 years and then capi«

talized on famine to destroy the institution of private property in Egypt. When Joseph got through, everye

thing belonged to the state. Henry is for that, too,

” ” z E has roved the realms of fancy in his AAA and otherwise. He is a star-gazer of many. cults, He throws boomeran, He has already tried everything once, from killin le pigs and dairy herds to plow ing under cotton. ‘His only magic ‘has been to spend billions. Every soaring plan of his to cure the under= lying farm price disparity is in complete collapse, Except for Federal handouts of cash the basic condie tion is worse than when he started, It is worse becausé, by refusing to recognize the world-price situation for export crops he has priced the farmer out of his export markets for cotton ard, *

to a lesser degree, for wheat and animal fats. This has subsidized the farmer's competition and those

‘markets are gone forever.

Thus, in his ‘chosen ‘field, Mr. Wallace is a complete flop.” Beyond that field he has shown less competence and leadership and has less experience to be President than any other candidate on either side who ever ree

.ceived such momentary consideration. His election as

Vice President could prove a ection Gay? Let's give this angle 2 thought before election’ d

A Woman's Viswpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T= about charm—and who doesn’t ?—tew of the - experts I follow stress the one quality whose pose session makes any woman charming and without . which none can achigve it—enthusiasm. There is 2 a kind of zest-for-living traif that goes

“4 with popularity as naturally as butter goes with bread. And by enthusiasm I ‘do -not mean the artificial excitement a woman puts into her voice when she tells a man how wonderful he is, or com=pliments a hostess on the success of her party. It is not necessarily allied with any social routine, and it cannot be learned in psychology classes. Nor is it even remotely connected with the synthetic pep atmosphere found at civic clubs, organization meetings, or high teas. Real enthusiasm has no connection - with any of these, It. is, instead, a sort of shining innocence which surrounds the charming woman even when she is ultra-sophisticated. Cultured persons share it with the uneducated; fine ladies with the working girl. The woman with enthusiasm is always perfectly

.| sure she will meet something funny, pleasant or ex-

citing around the next corner; she goes shopping and sees ben entertaining incidents where her more stodgy sister finds only rudeness and frustration. She likes ple, not for how “sweet and agreeable” they are, but for the traits which set'them apart from the common run. For that reason she doesn't stick to one social group for her friendships. She goes into the

byways seeking out those who will add to her appreci-

ation and joy of living. She laughs. a lot--at herself, never at others, she doesn’t think the world revolves around her and her

interests. Consequently she Jrings to the most trivial

tasks a fund of good humor and high spirits which makes. their doing minor adventures. In short the woman with enthusiasm has character, and without character/no one is charming,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

Y™ do not soe many children with bowlegs and bulging foreheads as a result of rickets these be| days, but rickets still occurs even if the signs of it are less striking, One of the times when it frequently’ shows up is when a woman is having a baby. Even

if: her legs are pretty straight, the young woman who had rickets as a child may have a contracted or dee*

+} formed pelvis which causes difficulty when she has 8

baby herself. X-rays which show how a child’s hones are devele

‘oping help doctors detect rickets that does not show

such -obvious signs as bowlegs. X-rays, however, are a costly procedure and do not detect rickets: until some bone changes have occurred. Consequentlm doctors and health workers at the Ameriean Publi Health Association were interested in hearing of a new, inexpensive and early test for rickets developed by Dr. D. J, Barnes, Miss Bertha Munks and Miss Mildre; goin of the Detroit Health Department, T est is made by determining the amount of phosphatase in the child’s blood, This is an enzyme or ferment which acts chemically on certain phose phorus compounds. Bone, as you know, is formed from phosphorus and calcium salts. The amount of phosphatase in the blood is increased in' infants with rickets, Dr. Barnes and associates found in tests. on babies at Hasyer Hospital here. Vitamin D, the ricke preventive, lowers the

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