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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Oion Way WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940

INDISPENSABLE MAN— DISPENSABLE CONGRESS

T Madison Square Garden the President poured it into ~ the Republicans for voting against various defense

measures. He paid particular and repeated attention to |

Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York, whom he listed as one of the Republican “leaders” in Congress. He had a lot of fun at Mr. Fish’s expense. . . Now we have never been fervent admirers of Ham Fish, nor considered him a leader, and we would just as soon see him unseated. But Mr. Roosevelt isn’t running against Mr. Fish, is he? It’s all very well for the President to throw the Congressional Record at those Republicans who voted against defense bills. Some of them have it coming. But—none of them is running for President. : It would be more to the point for Mr. Roosevelt to discuss the national-defense program of his opponent, Wendell Willkie, and to examine his own erratic record in that field. 3 : Only last June the indispensable man told his press conference that Congress could serve no purpose by staying in session except to make speeches. ‘Suppose Congress had taken that get-out-of-town hint, which was delivered at a time when the Germans had seized the Low Countries, driven the B. E. F. into the sea and were pressing deep into France. Where would Mr. Roosevelt. and the national deferise have been a few weeks later, when France fell and the magnitude and urgency of our armainent needs were suddenly apparent to the President? With Congress gone, who would have voted the nearly five billions in defense money which Mr. Roosevelt asked in a message to fos on July 10? Who would have voted conscription, and authorized a two-ocean navy, and empowered the President to call up the National Guard, and appropriated more billions than you can count on your fingers? The President blithely chooses to forget about that little chapter in this history of indispensability. :

"THE MAN oRugHE BICYCLE . :

i “H¥TLER is like a man on a bicyele. He has to keep moving or he falls over.” .That’s the best description of a conqueror we've ever heard. We got it in a conversation with Otto Tolischus, of the New York Times, for years Berlin correspondent for The Times, and author of the current Pulitzer prize winner, “They Wanted War.”

Napoleon, when he failed in his invasion of England, turned toward the East and won Austerlitz. It looked like a good idea at the time—one of the greatest victories in history. He won that battle but he lost his conquest. On and on he went, in a cloud of dust and snow, till finally, St. Helena. But up to then, he was always on the move. They didn’t have bicycles in those days, but the figure of speech fits. | | : H. G. Wells describes thé conqueror of that day, and there is a weird similarity: : ;

~ -“France was in his hand. . . . There lacked nothing to this occasion but a noble imagination. And, failing that, Napoleon. could do mo more than strut upon the crest of this great mountain of opportunity like a cockerel on a dunghill. The figure he makes in history is one of almost incredible self-conceit—of vanity, greed and cunning, of callous contempt and disregard of all who trusted him, and of grandiose aping of Caesar, Alexander and Charlemagne, which would be purely comic if it were not caked over with human blood, until as Victor Hugo said in his tremendous way, ‘God was bored by. him,” and he was kicked aside in a corner-to end his days, explaining and explaining how very clever his worst blunders had been.” - # =a 8 : 2 2 9 ! Like Napoleon, Hitler keeps moving. To the Balkans, the Méditerranean, Spain, the "south ‘Atlantic, the western Pacific, taking a whirl at Suez, Dakar, Casablanca, French Morocco—all points east and west. With the invasion of England no go, he is still on the

move. Because he is on a bicycle and he doesn’t dare stop.

Y OUR BALLOT IS SECRET

WHEN you cast your ballot on Nov. 5 nobody will be able to find how you vote. You will vote. in absolute secrecy. No hoss—whether he be the boss of your factory or of your union—has any right to tell you how to vote. Nor will he have any way to find out how you vote or any right to punish you. |. ; Voting in this country is free and secret. Stories have been going the rounds that some yoters have been told there are ways to learn how they voted. Such stories are untrue. Vote as you wish—a free, independent, American citizen. ;

ANTI-THIRD TERMERS THOMAS JEFFERSON ran the Government eight years at a total expenditure of $72,424,289, accumulated a sur-

plus of $40,976,546, averted threats of war with both Eng-|

land and France, and retired voluntarily in the midst of a crisis, hoping thereby to reinforce for all time the anti-third-term precedent established by George Washington. Andrew Jackson ran the Government eight years at a total expenditure of $152,969,098, accumulated a surplus of $99,092,273, wiped out a public debt of $67,475,044, left a . big reserve fund in the Treasury, wrested control of the people's Government from Nicholas Biddle and other Tories of his day, and voluntarily retired from office, believing “that neither he nor anybody else should ever aspire to a third term in the White House. -

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Air Fields By Maj. Al Williams

Deplorable Lack of ‘Landing Places In U. S. Likely to Prove Serious Handicap to Expanded Air Corps

IME and again in the past 20-odd years airmen have warned the Government about the scarcity of adequate military air fields around this country. - But all these warnings have fallen on deaf ears, or on

ears more interested in civic and service politics than 3 in the air-defense problems of the country. There are certain” airways in this country that are absolutely useless from a defense standpoint. There’s no early use of building thous~nds and thousands of airplanes, even on paper, without planning adequate airways. It’s about the same as erecting a motor-car company in the Sahara, Desert with only one road in and out. Ls Present the United States, by : some dark magic, with 10,000 airplanes and we would be the laughing stock of the world because of our lack of airways and airports. ” = tJ 1 first flareback from this deficiency is now be<4 ginning to be felt. The Army Air Corps is speeding up its recruiting, delivery of planes and training operations. Having no adequate system of airports of its own, the Army is beginning to pour into private .airports, absorbing ' control and crowding air-line transportaiton and private flying.

* A private pilot will do well to avoid any field that’s crowded with rows of Air Corps planes. Such fuel and oil tanks and servicing facilities as were already on the field have been largely taken over by the Army, or are devoted to types of fuel that meet Army engine specifications and are unfit for private planes. It’s true that most of the fields in the country have been expanded with the aid of Federal Government funds, the original underwriting having been done by local communities. But those fields are primarily for air-line transportation and private travel. Where has the y been all these years, while the rest of the world has been building airpower? ” # s8 T= Navy boasts of contracting for 15,000 planes. What is the Nayy going to do with those planes? From what bases are those thousands of Navy planes

to be operated? I doubt if the aircraft carriers now in commission and building will accommodate more than 1500 planes at sea with the fleet. And the rest? Well, you might as well get set for a frightful renewal of the row between the Army and Navy over which outfit is to run our coast-defense air patrols. That's coming sure as shooting. The Army long-range bombers are essentially for patroling the ocean far £rom our coastlines. The Navy long-range flying boats are designed for the same job. The Navy has grabbed itself about two dozen aviation shore bases and is now operating coast defense from the shore. What a nice time we are going to have getting those fellows straightened out.

Business ‘By John T. Flynn

‘Few Believe It, but Truth Is F. D. R. Did Little About Banking Reforms

EW YORK, Oct. 30.—One of the most difficult tasks in this world is to overtake a falsehood once it gets a head-start without contradiction. There Is probably nothing more fully accepted by

the people of both parties than the banking reforms of the last seven years were the work, of the President. Yet the fact is that the President had little to do with these reforms. Some were put over against his wishes and some without any active interest in them by him. There were four important banking episodes since 1933. They were. (1) the bank closing incident * of March, 1933; (2) the deposit insurance act; (3) the GlassSteagall act reforming banking procedure; (4) the Federal Reserve organization act. ! 1. The first of these—the bank closing incident— came as the President was inaugurated. As a matter of fact, all the arrangements for that closing, including the documents incident to it, were prepared by the Treasury under President Hoover with awaiting Roosevelt’s inauguration. Indeed, Hoover tried to get Roosevelt to agree to a bank closing before he was inaugurated.

When Roosevelt took office he merely carried out the closing which the Treasury had worked out. In this episode he played before the people the part of a hero. Yet Raymond Moley tells in his book now, while these grave measures were being planned by the officials of the Treasury, the President was more interested in collaborating with Admiral Grayson on the details of the inagural parade.

2. The deposit insurance act was. as Mr. Willkie has correctly pointed out, sponsored and pressed by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, and as Mr. Willkie has justly said, every important official connected with it has recognized this publicly. In fact it is the simple truth that the President was not in favor of bank deposit insurance. Yet now, almost monthly, people are told how much they owe the President for this.

3. The real bank reform bill was the Glass-Steagall bill introduced by Senator Carter Glass. This was the bill that did away with bank afficilates and attempted to bring holding company banks under control, and ended :private banks and many banking abuses that had caused so many scandals.

The President, for reasons I have never been able to learn, refused to give this reform his blessing, would not put his “must” on it, held it up until the Chase Bank scandals were aired before the Senate Banking Committee and then, without the President’s approval, Senator Glass pushed that bill through the Senate and House. When the President signed the bill he joked Senator Glass on how he (Glass) had slipped it over. * 4, The only bill the President can call his is the bill which reorganized the Federal Reserve System, giving greater power to the Reserve Board over open market operations, etc., and increasing the power of the Government over.the banks. It was in many respects a good bill. It originat with Marriner

nothing else can he really claim credit.

So They Say—

THE MORE FUNDAMENTAL threat (of Fascism) lies in those many places where our social and political structure fails to meet the fundamental needs of our people.—Stephen Raushenbush, former Munitions Committee investigator! . * *

THE MEN WHO make steel stand today over 500,000 strong as an Army already. mobilized for the protection of our democratic form of government.—C. M. White, vice president Republic Steel Corp. v * » *

YET AGAINST each weapon sooner or later we find a defense—and against the weapon of propaganda our only defense is a free and responsible press.—Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher, the New York Times. ‘ * * * LET US REALLY be realists! Our defense against those who would destroy this cherished freedom will depend ultimately on our willingness to fight and die for it—Rev. Dilworth Lupton, Cleveland Unitarian minister, ; . * * THE BRITISH PEOPLE are adults. They are willing to face ugly truths, stand on their own feet, permit freedom of speech and even change governments and find democracy compatible with war.— James Marshall, president, Chicago Board of Educa-

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Another Packing Case!

Eccles and was forced through by the President. For |

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The Hoosier Forum

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

GIVES DER FUEHRER CREDIT

FOR MAKING JOBS By T. J. 8. '

Secretary ‘of Labor Miss Perkins states in the paper that we have 600,000 less unemployed during August and September. This alone proves, that if we are voting for the men who gave us jobs it would have to be for Hitler. Without the manufacturing of war material we still would have 10,000,000 unemployed. There are always canning factories busy canning fruit and vegetables during this period of the year. Again just temporary work for a few. If peace was suddeniy declared where - would this false prosperity be then? Voters think long and earnestly before Nov. 6. Let’s elect Willkie and go back to the American way of living. 8.8 8 HE SAYS HOOEY TO THE POLITICIANS By J. B: P. Harry Hopkins says that the American people haven't any sense! Was the guy right or was he wrong? Now let's see about this. Here we have a nation of something like 130,000,000 people. Among these people there was enough brains, sense and decency to invent and produce more physical necessities, comforts and luxuries and to create a higher standard of living than in any other country on the face of this earth. But there wasn’t enough brains or sense or decency among these same ‘people to prevent a bunch of tricky politicians from grabbing control of things after the hard work was done. After all how much real sense have the decent people of America really got? Was Harry Hopkins right or was Harry HopKins right? ? ? : 2 2 HOCUS-POCUS, SAYS THIS GENTLEMAN, OF G.O.P. By A. M. R.

All this hocus-pocus can’t make anything but a Big Business mouthpiece out of ‘W.. Willkie. Since a third term seems to be the only thing the Republican Party can harp on—everything else appears to meet with their. full approval—after due deliberation, of course, just what is wrong, in their opinion, with our present government? Until] we—meaning all the people,

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rich and poor alike—strike a happy balance, we must have some one who is, technically speaking. a dictator. Some one who must be able to handle -both capital and labor. Until Mr. Roosevelt's Administra-

tion, Wall Street, or the employer was the dictator, with the average man, or worker, dancing to their tune. - I honestly believe that Mr. Roosevelt has tried to strike that balance. At any rate he has come as near to it as anyone could, considering the opposition he has had, for after all, Republican Party to the contrary, he doesn’t have totalitarian power. We still have our Congress, and Senate, we still have our Representatives to do our bidding, at least we elect them for that purpose. ar You say—we have dozens of taxes. Sure, wasn't that the only way? Wouldn't you rather pay $10 and earn $100 than stand in a soup line, which seemed the only remedy the Republican Party could offer for starvation.

” 2 ” USES OIL SUIT AS AN ANSWER TO V. L C. By S. Ellis

“Voice in the Crowd” in your issue of Oct. 23 states “that no one is on your back in America” and “any able-bodied man can better his condition in America if he is ambitious to rise” also “no one will push him up no one wilt push him down.” I have before me as I write, a page from an Indianapolis newspaper dated June 18, 1940, in which it describes the action of an oil ¢ompany suing 13 major oil companies for over one million dollars damages. Please allow me to quote: “The suit alleged that between 1931

and. 1937 the defendants conspired

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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"Doc, could you lend me a measle quarantine sign for a week?

My wife's aunt is planning a visit!’

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to restrain etc.” The complaining company, please let me quote again, “alleged that in 1937 it was forced to sell for $28,000 a business worth $50,000 and that it also suffered losses of possible aggregating

interstate commerce,

$372,498.14.” “Voice in the Crowd” is welcome to the full account of this item which utterly refutes his arguments and I will write this, that since “Voice in the Crowd” does not give his name I will send him through your paper if he so desires it, the portion of the newspaper I refer to. ” 3 ” PREFERS PATRIOTISM TO NATIONALISM By Rav Perks The difference between patriotism and nationalism, while a difference in degree, is, at the same time, an extremely important difference. The patriot loves his country sincerely and cogently but also rationally. He sees the weakness as well as the strength of his country, the vice as well as the virtue. On national issues he is governed by his mind and not his emotions. The nationalist also loves his country but in much the same way that he loves his sweetheart— blindly. His perception and ability to think calmly are clouded by the flag being waved ip front of his face and the blare of the military band in his ears. Our “God Bless America” signs, our numerous patriotic songs, our flag waving are dangerous. They constitute nationalism and nationalism is the force that enables an unscrupulous leader to induce an ordinarily intelligent populace to cross the ocean and “save the world for democracy.” : Let’s be fervently grateful and exceedingly proud that we are Americans. However, let’s be sure that our gratitude and pride do not make suckers out of us.

# n= MINTON’S WAR STAND

ANGERS A DEMOCRAT By Mrs. 0. C. Neutzman

Do we voters of Indiana want to return a man to Washington, D. C., who wrote one Indianapolis woman a few weeks ago that he went to Europe and fought during the World War and it did not hurt him and he would not hesitate to go again? That man is none. other than Senator Sherman Minton. All voters who do not want our youth shipped to Europe should not vote for Senator Minton, In fact the only Democrat we Indianapolis voters will have the opportunity to vote for on Nov. 5, who is fighting

{all moves which might lead us to

war, is Rep. Louis Ludlow. To use Mr. Ludlow’s’ own words ,“I will not be stampeded into sending our youth to Europe.” « z ” »

WE GET THE BIRD FOR BEING ‘UNFAIR’ By W. O. Lewis

. There is an old saying that a half-truth is worse than a liec A half-truth is deceptive. It is like a swindle in a confidence game. For a while The Times was engaged in the half-truth policy. Its whole editorial page was de(Continued on Page 15)

+ THE STARS By MARY WARD

Evening is bending low Beneath the stars That send to earth a glow Despite all wars And while the nations plow Their furrows deep | i Heaven's stars even now Truth’s vigils keep. |

DAILY THOUGHT

Then Job answered the Lord and said, IT know that! thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from | thee.— Job 42:1, 2. By

WHAT we are afraid to do before men, we should be afraid to think

oe WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30, 1940 |

Gen. Johnson | Says— ds

John L. Lewis Battled All His Life For Common Man in Labor's Ranks And Isn't Leading Him Astray Now .. EW YORK, Oct. 30.—The attacks on John Lewis: from some elements of labor and all the fourth "* New Deal because he indorsed Mr. Willkie have no . '

sweet taste, Mr. Roosevelt's

claquers maintain that he is theonly friend of labor, John Lewis». f.. says .not and. so, to them, that’ ': makes him an “enemy of labor.”=" A worker who could swallow that. .. must be so far gone in emotion ‘that he could be persuaded that : black is white. The fourth New >. Deal has depended on Mr, Lewis” et more than on any single laborite °° —until now. ‘Mr. Roosevelt sought his support in this campaign. Now Fiorello La Guardia .ranks him’ -. with the forces of evil and he is - about to be read out of the C. I. =: O. by that great labor leader and » enemy of economic royalists, Franklin D, Jr.—who:~ never did a tap of work In his life and registered his disgust at the princes of privilege by marrying a du Pont. °° he Maybe, as politics, that is understandable, but the back-stabbing by leading lights of the workers can't be - so excused—especially in the C, I.. O. Never before John Lewis was there any full and effective labar or-" - ganization and collective bargaining in eur greatest: industries—steel, automobiles, rubber, oil, electrical," lumber and shipping. Never, except for John Lewis, would they ever have come. Lam 2 # » RL THER labor leaders so opposed it that John could , only do it by secession and the creation of C. I, » O. He believed in protection and organization for all labor, the lowliest as well as the artistocracy of labor. 2% They didn't. He parted company. The result was an. ng addition to the ranks of organized labor of four mil-. lion workers and a tremendous improvement in wages" - and working conditions for all workers. Fry Exactly that was what I was trying to do in *~“ N. R. A. There is not a single advance in the con-"" dition of organized labor that didn’t have its birth ° in the nest of the. Blue Eagle—the acceptance by in= * dustry of the rights of labor to organize and bargain collectively free from the influence of ‘employers— maximum hours and minimum wages—the abolition ~ of child labor—the creation of a labor relations board ¢ for the settlement of disputes. Mr. Roosevelt says that the men who opposed .that oppose him now. Well, + * John Lewis and this writer oppose him now, and we ‘* . helped do that when to do it was such pioneering and - battle against both reactionary employers” and reactionary labor leaders that sometimes I felt I hadn't '" a friend on earth: ’ ; red ” » » ' " HAD at least two. One was John Lewis. The other ° was William Green. It is sad to me to see these two men split today. In those days I, never asked: - either for a sacrifice of his position for the common aim that was not made. I never asked either for help’ that was not given, Nejther ever gave me a promise that wasn't kept. )

I can't say that those early efforts for labor: had equal help from people who support Mr. Roosevelt now. His Secretary of Labor sniped at it constantly. - Mr. Wallace's organization poisoned the farmers against it—said agriculture should get theirs before: labor, and that higher wages under N. R. A. raised.the price of overalls and cotton gloves. Ir. Roosevelt himself countenanced a disloyalty in the organization itself which led to its downfall. But here, as elseWhere throughout his whole life; John Lewis fought night and day with all he had to give for the common :- man in the ranks of labor—fought to victories that ~ advanced that cause more in a few years than in all. ° the years ot the labor movement since its beginning, He never lead labor astray -in his life. He. is not leading it astray toward Willkie. . Beture workers close their ears to him and listen to politicians in either the fourth New Deal or labor * organizations. they should compare with his the per- ° formance in their behalf of those who seek to crucify ° him now. That will show who has been their friend

and where their interests are—John Lewis and Wendell Willkie. .

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A Woman's Viewpoint - By Mrs. Walter Ferguson a

BEcavee it so aptly illustrates a ‘trend of modern thought, a recent paragraph from Mrs. Roose~ velt’s “My Day” column is worth examination. ; She speaks of her meeting with a‘ rancher’s wife in these words: “Mrs. Davis has an attitude toward . her foster children that 1 particularly admire. In answer to a remark of mine that the young-.. sters must want to do something for her she said. ‘I wouldn't expect them to do anything for us. .. any more than I would expect .. it from my own children. We work and they worked for our home but when they go out on their own, their lives are their own . without any.demands on our part upon them. A fine. attitude and . ‘one many of us might emulate.” ; Sorry, but a good many of us find it" hard to subscribe to the theory. The notion that a couple should take foster children into the home, share everything with them, educate and. train: them, and then look for nothing in return is too , noble for ordinary individuals to swallow. Moreover, if followed ‘to iis logical conclusion it would let loose upon us a bunch of ungrateful, selfish men and ’~ women. ! Spd fe Most people are convinced that dependent parents can, and often do, seriously handicap their children. There is no escape from such tragedies, which are "° too common and which arise from the selfish attitude of parents. 2 But surely there is a happy medium to be reached. One extreme seems as vicious as the other. The’ world will ‘not be bettered by exchanging selfish parents for selfish children, who in turn are certain to develop into fathers and mothers without a sense of responsibility toward their own young. I still believe in the Fourth Commandment, and I'm orthodox enough to feel that a country which departs too far from its ideals will surely suffer. .

Watching Your Health :

By Jane Stafford | he ana TE old fatalistic and hopeless attitude about re- .. sults of treatment for A Sys. n appears from a report of Dr. Re ; V. Seliger,. Johns Hopkins Medical School, 0 the Research. Council on Problems of Alcohol. i i ip wl Many alcoholics are past correction, he says, but “3 carefully selected number can be guided and helped to attain the goal of all treatment, Votal ..

abstinence.” i ; = For treatment of alcoholism to be successful, the patient must re ,, says Dr. Seliger, “that any Gs reasonably intelli and singere- person, who" is ' willing to make a~Sustained effort for a sufficient period of time, is capable of learning to live without alcohol.” ! . gl Most people seeking psychological help for abnormal drinking, he continues, ‘are above ‘average in intellectual endowment. They must use this in< *. tellectual endowment to guide them in every on, . learning to be controlled by judgment instead of by their feelings. AE I a . The real goal for the alcoholic trying to recover from A lines is, besides abstinence, a and efficient life.” jk : - He has lo learn to give up nok only the drinking ‘but the motives behind it. These may have beenia childish craving for attention; a desire to get: rid * of disagreeable states of mind by escaping from | reality instead ot by facing and solving difficult proklems or situations; or longing: for self-expression 3: which seemed to be satisfied while drinking. . © .. 18 he psychiatrist san nein. alcohols by t - ing him to recognize the damen des bee '; hind the alcoholism and to re-educate or retrain hime self to handle these difficulties in 4 grown-

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