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| *® Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1940

j | HANG ON TO YOUR HAT!

THIS is the week for bear stories, dead cats, crises— everything including the water bucket and the kitchen sink. | It’s an inevitable phase of the windup in political campaigning. | So our advice is, check and doible:chieck before you believe anything new that’s tossed into the local, state or national scene: | We are not pots to be cynical in this. Just practical. Watch out for the crises and hang on to your hat. ANSWERING THE CALL— TODAY, AND YESTERDAY

ODAY as the numbers are drawn, we want to quote a very interesting letter from a reader which philosophizes on youth and the problems youth faces in a dangeroug world. The letter carries a note of realism which makes the troubles of 1940 seem by comparison somewhat less arduous than we are wont to view them. Thereby: it carries also a note of hope, and it coricludes that youth, now and in the past, will take its problems in its grids, The letter follows: - “As people get older, hardships which did not terrify them when they were young are magnified out of all pro-

Because times have been hard, and jobs orgotten that practically every generation

world at wa scarce, it is

© 25-year periods. “Twenty-five ears ago it was the World War. The automotive industry was in its infancy and radio was just beginning. Indisfries and businesses which have grown out of the auto ile and radio were as yet undreamed of. There were fewer opportunities for the college graduate 25 years ago than today. And the world then looked black, with the World War only a year old.’ : “Go 25 years| farther than that, and you are in the 1890s—the Spanish-American war area. To the young chap just coming out of college the prospect then must indeed have been dark. : : » » “Go 25 years beyond that, and you are in the late 1860s, at the end of the Civil War and at the beginning of reconstruction, not a decidedly rosy prospect for the youngster of that generation. “Go 25 years more and you are in the 1840s, the era of the Mexican War, and of almost unparalleled political and economic disturbance. Pretty bleak outlook. «Twenty-five years beyond that and the War of 1812 with England is just over, Indians on the Western frontier are still scalping settlers, and there is not prospect for the youngsters except toil of the hardest sort. All opportunity was assumed 2 pes been ‘fully exploited in the territory east of the ius About the only future was to hit the thorny into the West, facing almost incredible hardships. “Go 25 years beyond that, and you are in the 1790s, with the. Revolutionary War just over, with the young republic prostrate in utter political and economic chaos. “Go 25 years beyond that and you are in the 1760s, which was the era of the French-Indian War, and a young man’s chief concern was how to keep his scalp. If there was anything rosy in the prospects of that period, history doesn’t reveal it.

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” o # “The truth is that as each generation succeeds in raising standards of living, each new generation of youngsters first faces a life a little easier and the prospect ahead just a little less hazardous, until danger repeats, and then there comes again tough going for a while. “My oldest boy has never milked a cow, never got up in cold dawn to igh a fire, never slopped pigs, or hoed a row in the garden, or split wood or harnessed a Horse. The

only thing in the line of work he has ever had to do was to

mow a lawn, and that more or less as a dilettant. My kid is not unique in that. But when his number comes up he will make such shcrifices as are called for to his nation’s existence and well-being, because he knows a nation | has , got to be tough to endure. And that] think goes for most

of the youth of America today.”

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THEN this influence (patronage) is combined and used for the perpetuation in office of the head of our Government, it is a danger to free institutions and strikes .at the very root of democracy. Such a danger leads directly toward monarchy and takes away from the people themselves the right to select their own Chief Magistrate. ... It

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exists now to a greater extent than it did, because Federal |

officers have been multiplied many fold and partisan political machines . . . are now enthroned in power greater than ever in our history. ” (About Coolidge).

OR CAN WE?

FROM Eleanor Roosevelt's column, “My Day,” climaxihg her description of arid lands in California: = “At present, there is waste everywhere, but then, we can still.afford to be wasteful.”

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

F.-D. R. Himself Condemned Those - Who Permit Members of Family to Benefit by Political Influence

EW YORK, Oct. 29.—Notwithstanding letters and editorials to the contrary, I have a higher respect for the office of President of the United States than those who exploit that office for personal profit

om fatigue; with the country busted, and |

or benent| or condone such exploitation. The occupant . of the Presidency is supposed to guard its honor and dignity, and if he fails to do so, then he himself is guilty of disrespect for the office. That is getting down to the first principles of honesty, but some Americans have so far succumbed to an influence which has been at work for the last seven years-as to believe. that one who objects to exploitation of the office is guilty of lese majesty. President Roosevelt himself as Governor of New York expressed his contempt for “a public official who allows a member of his family to obtain fees or benefits through his political influence.” If the cases had been reversed, that is, if a situation had existed in the family of Herbert Hoover in 1932 parallel to that which has been allowed to develop in President Roosevelt's close circle, the party of the first New Deal would have withered Mr. Hoover and his group with fires of scorn. Not the least righteous of the angry men of the opposition would have been Charlie Michelson, who was to see a day when he would be in receipt of $20,000 a.year from a rich radio corporation having delicate dealings with the powerful Federal Communica-

| tions Commission yet would continue to sit in at the

President’s press conferences in the President’s office. = ” n

N the case of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who is said to give all of her earnings to charity, the question still is not what Mrs. Roosevelt does with the money but to what extent the Presidential office figures in the calculations of those who pay it. John N. Garner stated the correct position when early in the first term of the New Deal, in rejecting an offer of $1500 a week for radio work he said that if the sponsor was trying to hire the Vice President of the United States the price was too little, and if he was trying to hire John Garner, it was much too much. It is conceded that Elliott Roosevelt participated in negotiations before the Communications Commission which yielded him a profit of extraordinary size for a boy of his years and it has since been said by his own representatives that he has been earning an income of $1000 a week as a broadcaster. And, of Jimnly Roosevelt it may be recalled that while President Roosevelt was joyously exposing to public scrutiny. the income 4ax returns of individuals who had displeased him, the Administration doggedly refused the demand that Jimmy's tax returns be exPosed to the same expert, searching inspection. Jimmy finally did reveal! his returns and admit that he had sent a wire to his father’s secretary bespeaking special kindness for a rich businessman who was about to call on Mr. Roosevelt because, as Jimmy's wire said, “He is important to me in a business way.” But the return never was put to official expert public analysis, which is a far different thing.

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FTER that Jimmy was given a White House job at $10,000 a year, and his mother became an official of-his insurance company which had dealings with firms beholden in various ways to the Roosevelt Administration. Forbes Morgan, an uncle of Mrs. Roosevelt, had a Federal job for a while, drew $15,000 a year as treas-

_urer of the Democratic National Committee, and short-

ly before his death received a strictly political appointment as a front man for the liquor interests at $100,000 a year, including the income tax. If we have come to the point, or depth, of believing that such conduct is consistent with the honor and dignity of the Presidency ~thén we have descended far from the ethical level expressed by President Roosevelt himself, when, as Governor, he said with that scorn

which no one can give voice to more eloquently than -

he, “what of a public official who allows a member of his family to obtain fees and benefits through his political influence?”

Business

¥ John T. Flynn

Offers Recovery Program He Would Sponsor If He Were President

EW YORK, Oct. 29.—I get lots of letters, many querulous, saying: What would you do to bring back recovery of business? Well, if I were President I would do the following: 1—I would assign $10, 000,000 additional to the AntiTrust Division of the Justice Department to enforce ‘the antitrust laws. Because violations have been encouraged and winked at by the Government for the last seven years — until recently — I would serve notice: on American business that violations prior to the date of the notice would be overlooked, but from that moment on every violator of these laws would be hunted down and prosecuted remorselessly,. The newbusiness possibilities of that are enormous. 2—1 would serve notice on the railroads that they cannot look for another red cent of Federal money to help them limp along. I would insist on a reorganization law which would force every actually bankrupt railroad into a real receivership. But I would divorce the road’s operation completely from that receivership, set it up under a new receivership directorate with full powers to go ahead, while the creditors and stockholders fought out their respective shares in whatever might be left of the wreck before receivership. The roads would spring into wondrous life as buyers if this were done. 3—1 would hand the control of the dollar back to Congress and put an end to the gold-purchasing plan. [ would call in the ablest experts on international finance and on money, settle on a policy: as to the value of the dollar and announce solemnly to the American people that there would be no monkeying with our money and that they could depend on me to defend that to the last ditch. 4—I would announce that this country was not going to war with any other country in this wor save about our own grievances—and we have none;

that no country must look to us as allies; but that |

we stood ready to aid every people in the world. when war is ended. 5—I would announce that the draft army ‘would be demobilized the moment this emergency is ended. 6—I would then determine on a defense program designed to protect this country and not ‘engage in adventures from the Firth of Forth to Dopng-Dang. And having done that I would proceed with that program as fast as I could pay for it in cash. J—I would announce that the United States is Zoi to do its spending hereafter on projects that yield revenue sufficient to pay for them, if the money is to be supplied by borrowing. Relief and other expendi-

tures for cultural and social purposes would be paid |.

for in cash. 8—1 would let the nation know that this Government is going to stand back of the debts of no citizen, 9—I would-work for every type of legal, corporate and financial reform which would encourage the small investor. Simple as these proposals are, they would, I am sure, produce a buoyant and exhilarating effect on our whole national economy.

So They Say—

WE" ALLL KNOW the movies are reluctant to express a vigorous opinion. They come out boldly for love, but they avoid taking a stand on any other current problems. —Robert E Sherwood, playwright.

YOU ALLOW a ccotrel Te that to tight for democracy ?—Col. Josiah Wedgewood on enlistment of Prince von Starhemberg of Austria in British forces.

. THE GLASSY WAVE of economies omniscience has tumbled a st the rocks the economists forgot

about.—. McLeish, libratien of Congress,

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The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, Hut will defend to the death your right to say it.—) cltaire.

THE YOUNGER GENERATION GETS IT, TOO! By Jesse M. Wilcox A recent news item Interested

about the recently organized ‘Too Young to Vote for Willkie Club” that had birth in the scholarly

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youth - attending this exclusive school attended the public school and rubbed elbows with typical American children, had known the suspense of a family whose father was unemployed, but had been about two steps from the scourge of soup lines, they would organize a club and call it the “Too Young and Too Smart to Vote for Willkie Club.” tJ ” ” “SMART ALECK” TONE IRKS SUBSCRIBER By Gertrude Smith

I have been a subscriber of your paper for the past 12 years and am a Democrat. I am having the carrier discontinue the paper on account of the “smart aleck” tone of your editorials and will do all in my power to have other Democrats to do likewise. .

I would not object to your supporting the Republican Party if your editor would conduct the column in a reasonably dignified manner, but your article at the foot of the column on Oct. 23 is beneath the dignity of any paper that pretends to be a first class publication. There is something screwy when 95 per cent of the press is for Willkie. I could understand 70 or 80 per cent, but 95 per cent is beyond my comprehension. Surely it could not be that the Associated Advertising organization is putting pressure on the newspapers, or could it?

» ” ” HE DOESN'T LIKE THE PEOPLE BACKING W. W. By Lester M. Simmons You have taken a stand for Mr. Willkie in this campaign and you continually write and preach about un-Americanism which is very commendable, but what I would like to know is: Why has 95 per cent of the German-American vote flopped over from Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Willkie? Do these people condone a government like Hitler's? They talk of the injustice of the World War treaties, yet Norway, Sweden, Holland, Finland, Poland

me and I have a few words to say|

and exclusive corridors of Tudor|'’

I wager that had the innocent

(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.)

and the Czech governments were not in the last war. What is their alibi for the invasion of these countries? Do they want Hitler to protect the United States? Their gleeful conversations over Hitler's victories sound that way. I work in a large and respected industrial plant in this city and I can’t understand why these people not only support Willkie but attack Roosevelt for his defense stand, especially the draft. I should think Mr. Willkie would be embarrassed by these sort of supporters. I hope if he is elected he will put a stop to anybody who claims to be a.citizen and yet condones, Hitler's acts of aggression. You have always aed collective bargaining in your columns. Then tell me why it is that in most every shop all the non-union voters aré for Willkie? Do they want to go back to the E. P. A. or E. 1. A. or E. M. B. A. or some other company union? You are going to have to show me that these things are not so. I see it every day. ” ” 2 CHARGES MINTON. HELPED BLOCK DEFENSE BILL By B. Lambert, Rockville, Ind. Who is this fellow Minton now speaking over the state, attempting to smear Wendell Willkie and the Republican Party on the national defense question? Is he the same Minton who was in the Senate in 1935 and voted against the appropriation bill amendment which would have supplied special jigs, dies, etc., to bring our defense equipment up to date? Is he the same Minton who in April, 1938 voted against amendments to the appropriations bill which would have provided for improved anti-aircraft guns and equipment? If this is the same Minton (and there's only one Minton in the Senate, thank goodness), then why has he suddenly become rabidly patriotic and defense-minded? You don’t suppose it is because

Side Glances—By Galbraith

his boss, Mr. Roosevelt, is seeking a tiird term and is on the hot spot because of his own negligence of defense, do you? Or just because it is © n election year? ’ Snay inton has always been very obVious, because he lives in a @lais house. But this is a rather pregarious position from which to toss rocks—even if the target his is frying to hit happens to be merely an ‘jallucination of Mr. Minton. 1 ” 2 =» RO. JSEVELT BORN LEADER, wii LKIE A BAD BOY By irs. C. C. Lam a Southerner and of course a Democrat and am very proud of it. Just like millions of other people in this grand old U. 8. A. I am poor. During Hoover's term we were getting a basket, we had no way of ord: ring what we wanted. Only the cheapest of groceries were allotted to uw. The washing powder wouldn't even, raise a suds. Wiien F. D. R. changed the basket; into $15 per week it seemed like heaven to us. Things gradually became better. Finally my husband landed a steady job and row we have a fairly nice home about half paic; for. Wasn't this recovery? May ve not for Willkie’s bunch in Wi #1, Street but it was for us and

Hoosevelt has character, culture and background. Can we say the

sane for Elwood’s bad boy who was | &

kicked out of school? 4 am white, but I know well (from the South) the loyalty of the colored race: Loyalty is an inherent chayicteristic of theirs, therefore all ¢! you colored folks think wisely 2hd think well of this election. Don't be fooled and don’t be bought. Stick by the man that has stuck by tou and showed you what” he wotikd do. | ‘W llkie if elected will bring us into a worse depression: than we have already gone through and the Republicans will still blame it on Roosevelt. As for the third term, there's exceptions to every rule. Roosevelt is a born leader, an exceptional man and these are excepticnzl times Let the two coincide.

2 2 = SCOLDS MRS. FERGUSON FOR WILLKIE COLUMN

By Mrs. Emma Thurman, Terre Kaute, I am mailing a letter to Mrs. Ferguson of Tulsa calling her on her nerve to try to inject any column on Willkie into Hoosierdom. The nerve. What can she possibly know outside of what you big shots tell “er to put in. Of course we folks who went to school at I. U. with him looked and

1listezed to him preach socialism,

and :ater go to work for capitalists, preach against organization of fraternities and go out and join the swarkiest one down there and do muici; more than that to contradict himself — we of course wouldn't

OW. A little nitwit in Tulsa whom no ong cver heard of would know. Why any paper would pay money no metier how small for her column is mare than I can understand. There isn’t, any point to the thing. I think I'll {uit taking the paper anyhow. Seve, 1 years of it is too much.

"00D FOR THOUGHT By ELEEZA HADIAN "he cloth ou measure for another, ’ou measure by your own eye And the thought you ascribe "0 another— \ Beware, Lest the other je merely the reflector 7 the evil thought fou harbor, Dh, yes, beware Flefore ‘tind also after.

DAILY THOUGHT

N ow, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thite ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. —[1 Chronicles 6:40.

TSE DEEPEST wishes of the

‘heit find expression in secret prif E. Rees. :

New Books

By Stephen Ellis

‘For Whom the Bell Tolls," Story of Spanish War, Is. ‘Hemingway's Best; Far Better Than ‘Farewell To Arms’

RNEST HEMINGWAY has gone over the top suce cessfully with his newest book, “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” (Scribner's). This is without doubt, Mr. Hemingway's best book, far better than his cele« brated “Farewell to Arms.” It turns Spain's war into a vivid picture—vigorous, dra" matic, powerful. A lesser artist might have produced a war story, full of depression, but Mr. Hemingway has actually done just the opposite. His book has an upward swing that makes its 471 pages actually seem much shorter. The story is framed, about. Robert Jordan, a young Americanin the Loyalist ranks. Detailed : to blow up a bridge, he goes into: the hill country, is injured and with a submachine gun by his side, lays awaiting death thinking: “I have fought for what I believed in for a year now. If we’ win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate, very much to leave it.” Besides all the drama of war, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” contains an intensely powerful love story. It rounds out the story into a mature work done by a mature artist. Don't miss it. It is not only a very, very good novel; it may ‘prove to be a great one. ” FJ 2 UST OUT IS “Eleanor Roosevelt,” a lively and revealing biography by Ruby Black. Miss Black,’ a well-known Washington newspaperwoman, has cov«’ ered Mrs. Roosevelt ever since 1933 for the United Press and she knows what she is talking about. . Miss Black considers that Mrs. Roosevelt “has« a secure place in the history of the world, a place which will grow larger . . . and which will be a. warmly lit peak in the years long after.” ’ ” ” ” : GREAT MANY Indianapolis persons will be ine«” terested in a new pictorial book just published by Hastings House, “Puerto Rico—Where the Ameri« cas Meet,” by John W. Thompson, former snember of The Indianapolis Times’ staff, J John left The Times four years ago and spent’ three years in Puerto Rico and he now is in Washe_ ington, connected with the Office of Foreign Agrie cultural Relations of the Department of Agriculture,. He took all the photographs himself and wrote the text, dropped us a note to say: “It isn't an epic in any sents, but it is a first with me. I am hoping and planning not to make it the last.” - The photographs are splendid, thé book has an’ interesting] thap and the text is short and punchy, ” ” ”

are AMONG the new béoks for children pube lished this season is Bobbs-Merrill's fat and’ fascinating 800-page volume, “A World of Steries’ for Children,” collected by Barrett H, Clark and M. Jagendorf. / It includes eight Greek tales, four stories from The: Arabian Nights, 95 of Aesop’s Fables, 14 French folk and fairy tales, 51 of Grimm's best tales, 17 from Hans Christian Anderson, 18 Norwegian stories and 26 English folk and fairy stories. 5 It’s interesting to note that no story was included: which has not stood the test of at least 75 years’. reading by youngsters. , am] fd

What more can you ask? A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ORE and more often we read and hear that we should dust off the word “duty” and put it back into our vocabularies. : Those of us who have been sounding off on the same note for some time, and have received scorne: ful sniffs from our more sophise ticated contemporaries, will second: the motion heartily, But pleasa excuse us if we point out that the movement is a bit late in starting. Duty as a word is fae miliar, but duty as a human quale ity is, like many of our armaments only “on order.” y Our physical and moral dee fenses .are weak largely because . these old words, along with the characteristics they represented, were put on the shelf by a genera tion. that considered both too ridiculous to bether about. There was no sense in sticking to your old wife if your money or charm could put a new streamlined one in her place. It was folly to ask children to obey their parents. because,” well, parents themselves weren't any gres shakes, and besides, what difference did it make? And how nonsensical to expect adults to care for old, sick Jor poor parents? Let the Government do it! It was impossible for families to get along together under the same roof anyway. The notion that several could double up in one house during an economiq pinch was outmoded. And don’t, for heaven’s sake, ask any young woman to live with her mother-inclaw. As for ethics, there weren’t aby to speak of. So~ cial, political, and business leaders don’t need them to get by. Why should persons in inferior positions bother? "High elective office offered many opportunities to enrich the. incumbent's relatives. It was smart to look after Number One, to get while the getting was good. And so a great many of the most beautiful words in our language were bereft of their noble meanings. Loyalty, Fidelity, Honor, Integrity, Duty—they were on our tongues but not in our hearts. We spoke them aloud but we did not live by them. And he is an optimist indeed who believes their power and their glory can reanimate the American soul without a long struggle and a Tr of hardship. - ;

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

\ N alcoholic is a sick person. His leis: shows itself in characteristic mental and physical dise orders. It is a serious illness which often makes the patient unable to do any useful work, and which not infrequently is followed by ty. This illness which is due to the excessive and cone tinued use of alcohol requires: thorough and systee matic treatment. A brief period in a city hospital for sobering up, which is all alcoholics get, is only casual treatment and the results are likely to be only temporary. Even patients who go to institutions where good food, exercise and occupational therapy builds up their physical condition frequently. relapse and have to return again and again for more treats ment, od The reason for such relapses after mild or drastio treatment for long or short periods is usually. that

some fundamental difficulty was not understood and consequently not. touched by ‘the treatment.

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authorityfor failure to help ‘the alcoholic. Getting at the fundamental difficulty coholic requires careful study, just as it requires care ful study: of ‘the patient with Fague. Stomach to

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