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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Ow Woy MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1940

WHY WE ARE AGAINST ROOSEVELT ECAUSE one-man rule is contrary. to the whole idea of democracy. | ‘Because one-man ru, is sweeping the world and we are'not immune. Because a third term is a long step toward one-man rule. Because we. believe Mr. Roosevelt is heading us into war, and war means one-man rule overnight. Because defic government spending under the no-more-frontiers theory weakens the nation, creates a permanent emergency, saps the independence of the individual, builds up the power of the state, and leads to%one-man rule. Because we believe that all other issues are secondary to this issue of one-man rule. Because we would vote for any good American to break this dangerous trend against Government of the people, by the people, for the people. In conclusion, we quote Thomas Jefferson and ask you “to think it over: ; : “If some termination to the services of the Chief Magistrate be not fixed, his office, nominally for four years, will, in fact, become for life; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance.”

“le A SECRET ROAD TO WAR? PRESIDENT | ROOSEVELT assure us at Philadelphia that “there is no secret treaty, no secret obligation, no secret commitment, no secret understanding in any shape or form, direct or indirect, with any other government, or any other nation in any part of the world, to invlove this nation in any war or for any other purpose.” Did anybody know about the destroyer deal before the President announced it? Perhaps the British, but not the American people. Did the American people know we were officially making a commitment to defend Canada and other British possessions—until that ‘commitment was announced? - Did the American people know we had agreed to conduct joint military and naval staff activities with Canada— until that agreement was announced ? Did the American people know that tanks, planes, guns and other military equipment would be transferred to Great Britain—until that fact was announced? * “Do the American people know even today how much of our war Sqipmen has been thus transferred? Think back. Weren't all of these secret commitments and irlerstonditgs with a foreign power? Did Congress or the people pass on them? But the Brith necessarily knew about them in advance. They may not have been secret to the British—but they certainly were to the American people.

UNDECIDED VOTERS ' } NLY one week and one day until the voting, yet the expert guessers are visibly perplexed and elaborately cautious. Usually (by this time public opinion has frozen, and it’s all over but casting and counting the ballots. This year, however, sentiment is fluid. A large number of voters are still undecided, and others who thought they knew are changing their minds. The Gallup Poll reports that most of the shifting has been from Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Willkie, and that the trend is especially noticeable in the more populous states controlling the heavier blocs in the electoral college. This poll also estimates that 7 per cent of the voters are undecided. With the registration figures indicating that approximately 50,000,000 citizens will go to the polls next week, the silent 7 per cent (8,500,000) can easily turn the election. No wonder the forecasters are hedging. To a majority of puzzled American voters, Franklin Roosevelt i in the past has been a great leader, endowed with ‘more virtues than faults. He assumed his leadership at a time of doubt and despair, and he gave to our Government more ‘ vigor, and seemin ly more purpose and direction. Though he has failed i in hi®.major promises, they are grateful for what he has done, and for what he has tried to do. They are reluctant to turn from such a leader. But they think back to other crises and great leaders— Washington, J efferson, Jackson. And they realize that Mr. Roosevelt is: seeking something that no other American President ever asked, no matter how dangerous the times. They know that in bidding for their votes, for a third term, Mr. Roosevelt is asking them to do what all great Amerjcans from the beginning of the republic have warned the people never to do. ’ "It is a solemn obligation which some 50, 000, 000 Amerjcan sovereigns will face on Tuesday of next week. They

are the trustees of a system of government established 150

years ago and handed down, a system of self-rule under which Americans have enjoyed greater freedom and opportunity and a richer life than any other people has achieved. ‘The undecided voters, we think, are still waiting for Mr. Roosevelt to convince them, if he can, that there are sound reasons vor they should abandon this system.

LA FOLLETTE IS NEEDED

WwW E WISH we were voting in Wisconsin this year. We should like to help re-elect Progressive Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. | Statesmen of his caliber and courage are sorely, needed * jn Washington. Yet such are the fortunes of politics that,

. according to reports, he may be defeated. . : Ina cert race Bob La Follette doubtless could win

hands down over any contender in Wisconsin. But there is nothing clear-cut about the contest in that state this year. ~ The senatorial race is all entangled with the presidential, . and Mr. La Follette’s' Democratic and Republican opponents will get the advantage that naturally flows from being on the same ticket with Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Willkie. In such a spirited national two-party campaign as this one, a thirdHeltet is a very, uncomfortable spot to be on. .

for President of the United States.

Fait Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Hillman Should Forfeit Job on Defense Board for Letter to Union Members Urging Support of F.D.R.

EW YORK, Oct. 28.—Sidney Hillman is president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amer‘ica and a member of the National Defense Advisory Commission as the representative of labor. Hillman’s union 5 a closed shop, a member of the C.I1.0. and Hillman is a vice president of that orgapization. . With this brief preamble I now cite an act of presumption and coercion so arrogant that Hillman’s dismissal from any Government post haVing to do with the national defense should. follow as the night the day. On the fourth of this monthMr. Hillman sent out to union members in New York a circular letter signed by Jacob S. Potofsky, the general secretary-treas-urer, the like of which if eirculated by any large-scale employer of ‘labor would bring the fly-cops swarming up the fire escapes with writs and leg irons from the Labor Relations Board. By ‘the standards which that board has established for the protection of workers against coercion by employers; this is a flagrant offense by a member or, if you will, a sub-member of the national Government? # ” ”

EAR MEMBER,” the document says, “you cannot vote for President Roosevelt unless you register during registration week.” “A Roosevelt supporter who is eligible to vote and doesn’t register might just as well be supporting Willkie,” it continues. And, finally, Mr. Hillman’s message declares, “we are mobilized in a crusade to re-elect our great President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Let's pitch into this job in the true Amalgamated spirit. And let there be no slackers in our midst.” The facsimile signature is that of My. Potofsky, but Mr. Hillman’s name is printed on the letterhead, so there need be no question that the sentiments are those qf the leader himself. Mr. Potofsky acknowledges its authenticity. . There is here revealed an assumption that because a man or woman is, perforce, a member of Hillman’s union that individual's choice of a candidate may be dictated by the union, which is to say by Sidney Hillman of-the National Defense Advisory Commission. The union not only tells him where and when he may work and how much of his earnings he may keep for himself but-relieves him of the responsibility of deciding which man he prefers The only reference to Wendell Willkie, who happens to be an American and the nominee of a regular American political party, is a back-of-the-hand swipe which suggests that a vote for him would be an act of treachery. s ” ”

EMEMBER what the outcome of this election

will mean to your wages and hopes, your liv-

ing standards and, most important, your civil and industrial rights,” the circular says. Not to be naive about it, this is a way of insinuating that Willkie would reduce wages, stretch the hours, depress living standards and impair the civil and industrial rights of the members of Sidney Hillman’s union, who would be quick to protest if General Motors or any other firm employing an equal number of workers were to distribute a similar document. The warning “and let there be no slackers in our midst,” following all that goes before, is a plain act of intimidation, for it must be kept in mind that this union has mqre power than thé employer over the individual. Any intelligent interpretation of the text must show that a vote for Willkie will be regarded as an act of slackerism, and on this basis it may be assumed that a speech in meeting in opposition to the “crusade” would be treason. To be sure, the individual subject may still vote for Willkie in the privacy of the polling booth, but slackerism, undetected, is slackerism still and obviously a heinous offense. If a vote for Willkie is as bad as that, offenders should be discovered and punished by means appropriate to the end or, better still, Mr. Hillman should propose methods to make such treachery impossible,

Business

By John T. Flynn Continued Spending Will Cut Value

Of Security and Insurance Savings

EW YORK, Oct. 28.—A good deal of heat has been engendered by Mr. Willkie’s statement that if Roosevelt wins, not a dime of Social Security will ever be paid to the workers. I do not know whether or not that was a correct quotation. If it was it did not express very clearly the chief point of attack against Mr. Roosevelt’s policies in their relation to Social Security. The old-age pensions for which the workers are paying are certainly s gravely endangered by, a continuation of the Roosevelt pol-icies—as-indeed are all the insurance benefits for which millions of Americans have been ‘paying. Now let no one get this point wrong. I do not believe that anybody will lose his insurance through the crackup of the insurAnd I doubt if anyone will fail to But this is what will

ance companies. collect his old-age insurance, happen: The man working today for $40 a week is paying from his pay envelope—along with his boss—a premium every week fo buy him a pension when he grows old. That pension is based on the size of his salary. The same thing is true of the man who is buying insurance. He pays a yearly or weekly premium in order to leave his family a fixed sum when he dies. That sum is reasonably proportioned to his financial condition. The old-age-security man looks forward, let us say, to a pension of $50 a month. The insurance beneficiary looks forward to an insurance payment of $5000. Now there is not the slightest doubt in this world that Mr. Roosevelt, if re-elected, will go on spending billions of dollars, one way or another, on defense or peace-time projects or on something. After séven years it must be plain that he does not know of any

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LSO there is not the slightest doubt that such a policy must come to an end. The time will come —and not far distant—during his third term if he gets one, when he will not be able to spend any more, The end of it was in sight last January when Congress convened. The war saved him and enabled him to spend on national defense. But spending on defense will sooner or later become a terrific burden. The debt will be pushed up so high that nothing can save us from a further devaluation of the dollar. That is the only way out. I do not mean we will have a devaluation such as took place in Germany. But devaluation will be unavoidable. Now suppose the purchasing power of the dollar is cut in half—and if this thing starts it may be cut more than that. It will mean that the man who now ‘looks forward to getting a pension of $40 a month will get $40, but in purchasing power it will be worth only $20. The child or widow who collects insurance will get $5000 but it will be $5000 the value of which in purchasing power will be cut to $2500. This is the price whiclx Americans will pay for a continuation of this fatal policy. Spending all these borrowed funds may feel good and easy now—but pay day will come. sure, and pensioners will pay their share,

So They Say— IT HAS GOTTEN so now that a farmer needs to bring an economist, a bookkeeper, an accountant and a lawyer along with him before he knows what he is

York.

going to get for his milk.—Mayor La Guardia of New

MANY THINGS are done behind closed operating room, doors that cannot stand close scrutiny.—Dr.

Harold . Fost 1 the Armerivan Golege of Surgen.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

THAT MAN WILLKIE IRRITATES ‘UNDECIDED’ By Undecided That man Willkie: After hearing Mr. Willkie’s speech Tuesday evening I thought what a fine Mayor he would make for a small town. Take the mud slinging out of Mr, Willkie’'s speech. We would only have a “I promise.” I wish some of Mr. Willkie's friends would ask him to stop using the phrase, “the indispensable man.” Someone must have told him that phrase was cute. Carry on good folks, put Windy Willkie in the White House. I won't help put him there, but I will walk in the bread line after he is elected and get as much kick out of it as he does the phrase, “the indispensable man.” ” 2 ”» FORMER NEW DEALERS NOW SUPPORT WILLKIE By “Shellhouse” We are also “old” daily readers of The Times and desire to express to you our approval-of your efforts to give a true summary of the political situation. We voted for Roosevelt and believed in him for a long time, but now are fully continced the nation must have a change if we are to keep our democracy. We are glad your column came. out i frankly for Willkie, gS 9 TAKING A DIG AT ALLIED AID COMMITTEE By H.C. Wallace, Crawfordsville, Ind. There have been many questions raised in thoughtful minds for some time by the activities of the socalled Committee for National Defense by aiding the Allies. The best answer to this kind of argument is contained on the editorial page of the Saturday Evening Po#t for Oct. 12, 1940. “Neutrality was? the people’s resolve” the editorial states. Our government aided and abetted by Mr. White's committee is really finding ways to transcend the laws and nullify the will of the people. After all, according to the Gallup Poll, 83 per cent of the people of

(Times readers are invited to express their views in 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.)

the United t&tates still oppose our entry into the war. The aid which the Government has given—in reality sending part of our Navy to fight—and the immense economic interest in a British victory which is building up in this country, exert a powerful influence toward our participation. Officially Mr. White's committee is interested only in defending America and yet many of its menibers wish for a declaration of war against Germany, and have so confessed. Each new objective of Mr. White’s committee leads up step by step. toward war. Mrs. Vonnegut suggests a new name for the America First committee. In all honesty many of us believe that a new application for her own committee is in order and that ‘they should sign their publicity “A Committee to get America into the War.” Then the issue would be more clearly defined—one for, the other against our involvement in this war. ...

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THAT WORKING WIFE PROBLEM AGAIN By C. D. A, / I'm the man who sent a’letter to you a few days ago about being 40 years old well educated with 20 years accounting experience but too old to work. One of the news ‘items in your paper is one good reason why this situation exists. The one about Mrs. Yoh getting the call about the accident her husband was in. Sergt. Yoh draws a good salary, plenty to support a family. I wonder why Mrs. Yoh has to work. Oh, she’s not the only one, the Court

House and State House are clut-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

: her until

We'd better Help ourselves—there won't be much service around after the election,”

tered up with married women working who have husbands making plenty to support them. * If these Women were put out theré would be room for some man with a family who needs it or if it is a woman's job, some woman who has herself to keep or perhaps a family, too. No wonder people, that is pebple who are not on the “in,” are getting fed up with the New Deal. I think we need another deal, so better throw in:

- 8 ” ” CONSIDERS WILLKIE NOW IN BACK OF THE TREND By A True Democrat Willkie is going some now, rah, rah! The trend that"was in front

of him is now in back of him, they

say. Well that is just where it belongs. It’s pushing him right back to Wall Street from whence he came and where he belongs. And you true Democrats hold tight. You have everything it takes in the great President Franklin D. Roosevelt. We need him in this time of world unrest.” No one other will do.

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tJ o ” LINKS PATRONAGE PLUMS TO THIRD TERM ISSUE By Albert C. Meyer Regardless of politics, the vital and over-shadowing issue for the American people in this campaign is the third term because it is an un-American act, which no sincere and patriotic American such as Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Cleveland and McKinley can indorse for any man no matter how good his qualifications may be. It removes the bars from the entrance to the bottomless pit of dictatorship whether we enter now or later. Investigate those advocating a third term and you will find either a “political jobholder, a political racketeer or a person who is getting something from the Government either directly or indirectly and who is unwilling to put aside his selfish interest for his country or future liberty. \ ” s ” ; PUTS WENDELL IN THE SOUP LINE CLASS By Charles W. Walton, Carbon, Ind. If Willie Willkie is elected the people are certainly headed to the garbage cans, ‘soup lines, and bread lines again. The farmers will get the 30-cent wheat and the 15-cent corn again. which will serve them right if they vote for Willie Willkie. The poultry dealers will get the 6 cents a dozen eggs again like we got eight years ago in “dear old Herbert Hoover's” time. The man who left the Democrat Party for the Republican party just like Willie Willkie has done, . . .

- OCTOBER SPECTRUM - By MARY P. DENNY

Through rays of light There shines the day The beauty of the country way.

|The glory of the autumn hour

Rising in glory like the flower Where shining rays of sunflower tower The glowing light of maple tree Adorned in autumn foliage bright. October shades of brown and gold Where gates of autymn light unfold. The spectrum of bright autumn days Reflecting through October ways. All glories of the field and wood Shining the beauty of .all good.

DAILY THOUGHT

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee. ~Deuteronomy 16:17.

GIVE ACCORDING to , your

means, or God will make your means according to your giving.— John

MONDAY, OCT. 28, 1040; Gen. Johnson Says—

Noted Economists Suspect Index of Prosperity Quoted by F. D. R. and Col. Ayres Ignores It Entirely

LEVELAND, Oct, 28.—Mr. Roosevelt's first campaign speech, acknowledged to be “political,” was forced, he said, against his intention’ to be “drafted” as an’ unwilling candidate—forced by the “misrepresentation” of his opponents. . The chief “misrepresenta= tion” of which he complains is their assertion that depression is still with us. ]

“Happy days are here again” snd quotes statistics to “prove

"Mr. Roosevelt says that times .

are better than in 1929. Everybody old enough to remember

doesn’t need to be told that no.

such statement is within miles of the truth: 9,000,000 unemployed. The WPA relief rolls are rising. There are about 11,000,000 more people with 2,000,000 fewer émployed. But Mr. Roosevelt says: “The eutput of our factories and mines is now about 13 per cent greater than the peak of 1929. It is at the highest level ever recorded.” About that statement a friend sends me the following: “Those figures by the President are based on the new Federal Reserve Board index published for the first ‘time in the July issue of the Federal Reserve Bulletin. The new index is drastically revised upward so that it makes present production look as if it exceeds the high records reached in 1929. It is believed by many statisticians that this was done in an election year: partly at least for polities) purposes.” 2 ” 2

OL. LEONARD AYRES, a national authority on

production, writing in the Cleveland Trust Co. “There has recently. been published: ~

bulletin, says: a perplexing revision of the Federal Reserve Index of the volume of industrial production. According to the

new index, our industrial production has been much

greater in recent years than the old index led us to believe.” ! “This seems hard to reconcile with the fact that on a per capita basis our national income last year was only 82 per cent as large as it was in 1926. Freight leadings per capita were|58 per cent as large. Automobiles made were 67 per cent as many. Bank checks drawn were 50 per cent.as much. All construction was 64 per cent as great in value. trial employment was 84 per cent as large. ment store sales were 75 per cent as great. There are many more similar discrepancies which appear irreconcilable with the claim of the new index that we produced last year as large volumes of industrial

goods per person in our population as we did in the _

boom years of 1926 and 1928. THis bank will regretfully refrain from reliance on the new index and will substitute for it an index computed in its own offices and compiled from “component sources making up the Federal Reserve index.” y 8 2 OL. AYRES, who made these computations, was this government's World War statistician. He has just been recalled to that service by the War De=partment. He is a leading authority on this subject, if not the foremost. He made these remarks long before the President. spoke. - The figures he quotes-gre not snythetic deductions such as overall indexes of production must be. They are actual counts. They compare with 1926, not 1929. But since 1926 was lower in all indexes, that makes the contrast more startling. If they are true, the President’s statement about production being well ghead of 1929 and “the highest level ever recorded” ly could not be true—-for, apart from figures, 5 body with eyes and ears. and the simple sense that God gave geese, well ‘knows it is not true. ‘Boos, bad eggs and phony figures thus far seem to be the extent of the argujen for a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. ; ;

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HESE are days when little journeys of escape into other worlds are necessary. Reality is too terrifying. We flee from. it instinctively, each in his own way’ One of the ways I like best is to travel through

the pages of books into far places. And I have just come back from Scotland. Maurice Walsh took me thére in his new novel “The Hill Is: Mine” (Stokes), and by the magic of words I have escaped my body, my world, and Time itself. His people pass before the eyes rather like figures in an exciting and lovely dream, but the feel of the highlands, the sough of the wind over ‘moorlands, and the smell of heather remain long after the trip is over, A single, yet tremendously important suggestion is left with the reader, which is good for remembering in bad times. By implication Mr. Walsh says “The Hill Is Mjne and Yours.” Always and forever. You may not own the land; you may not live in a fine house nor ride in a grand carriage. You may even spend your days toiling in another man's fields, eating the bread of poverty—yet the hills, the valleys, the streams, the mountains and plains belong to you. What your eyes can see of trees and flowers, of sunsets and dawns, of cloud pictures and stars; what your ears can hear of bird songs and wind melodies— these are your possessions. The extent of your real

‘riches can be measured hy what. your senses take

in and enjoy. No one is poor who can feel the breeze as a caress, Hie Sous heat as alkiss, and moon glow as a benediction.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ArSonousy is a disease or sickness requiring treatment just as ‘cancer, heart disease and tuberculosis are diseases requiring medical treatment. This may surprise you if your notion of an alcoholic is, either the comedy figure or an inebriated gentle« man in elegant attire trying to fit a latchkey into a door or the bearded, bleary-eyed wretch whom the police pick up from the gutter. Either of these may be an alcoholic, but intoxicated persons are’ not necessarily alcoholics. Drunkenness is sometimes called acute alcoholism. It is not, however, regarded by medical science -as a disease. It may be important, because alcoholism may follow repeated episodes of drunkenness. A study of intoxicated persons, whether they are alcoholics or not, may throw light on the cure and prevention of alcoholism, says a statément from the Research Council on Problems ‘of Alcohol. “An alcoholic,” defines the Council, “is a person and

who can not or will not control! his needs thorough and systematic treatment.” = He should be regarded as a sick person instead of as one who is guilty of a_moral or Pn offense.

"The problem of alcoholism, it is pointed out, is in ‘| much the same stage as were the problems of cancer,

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