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Give Light and the People Will Vina I'hetr Oon Way THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Democrats Claiming Credit for

Convicting Browder, but Fact Is Bolos Fared Well Under New Deal

EW YORK, Oct. 31.—The Democratic National Committee has been trying to expunge the

| record of President Roosevelt's tolerance ot Com-

munists and their activities’ by citing the tact that, in his second Administration, Earl Browder was = convicted of violating the passport

law. I think it was unwise of the boys to do this, but now that they

RE-ELECT LUDLOW

E BELIEVE it would be a calamity of the first-order to this community if Louis Ludlow were not re-elected to Congress next Tuesday. We know of\ no congressman in Indiana who has worked harder or more ¢onscientiously for his constituents. He is no breast-beating orator. He makes no pretense of being a statesman. But for solid usefulness to his community and the people in it, we wouldn't trade Louis Ludlow for all the silver-tongues in| Washington. He puts in 12 hours a day on his job, and on anything vital to Indiana he can command more action than almost anyone we know. He is opposed in this election by James A. Collins, a former judge. We respect and admire Judge Collins. Under other circumstances, he would be worthy of support. But not against Mr, Ludlow. We believe Louis Ludlow’s record during the last 12 years is such as to command the unqualified support of all citizens.

1917-1940: THINK IT OVER

TIME: August, 1917. Scene: ‘A room in a Washington hotel. Characters: Lord Northcliffe, head of a British war mission; one of America’s greatest newspaper owners

Northcliffe speaking: “It will not be possible for America to arm, train and transport to France enough troops to be a military factor before victory will have been won or lost. What we want and all we want is to see the manpower of America mobilized to produce arms, munitions and

Less than 12 months later approximately two million American fighting men were in France. : * Again now we hear the argument that Europe does not want our soldiers—only our armament. This time not from- an avowed and out-in-the-open British propagandis but from an American Ambassador, who comes home t electioneer for the man to whom he owes his appointment. Think that over.

HAGUE, TRUE TO FORM

FRANK HAGUE, the brassy dictator of Jersey City, displayed typical Hague impudence before the United States Senate subcommittee which is trying to find the truth about election frauds in his domain. Sneers, shouts, insults, irrelevant answers or none— these were what the investigators got from Boss Hague. Four hundred of his henchmen, crowded into the hearing room, laughed and cheered as he told the Senators to take their “10-cent, picayune investigation” elsewhere. In defying ore line of questioning Mayor Hague was especially emphatic: al “You're not going ‘to investigate finances,” he shouted. “That's not involved here. I'm telling you that. You're not going to push that down my throat.” Here, too, the boss was true to form. New Jersey in-

\ ; 1p vestigators have had no more success than the United!

States Senate in attempting to trace the connection between Hague’s rise to political power and his rise to great wealth. His official salary has never been more than $8000 a year. He has refused to lacknowledge any other source of income. Yet he has bought many hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property, and he lives like a millionaire. Well, Mayor Hague can still afford to be insolent. So long ag his great friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, remains in the ite House and needs the votes he can deliver, the Jersey Fuehrer has little to fear. Federal patronage and the prestige he enjoys as Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee will continue to grease his machine.

to pry too deeply | into those “finances” concerning which Hague is so touchy. But we believe the time will be less haughty—when the er that enables him to defy investigation will be brokén. And despite all the ballots that may be crooked next Tuesday by the machines of Democratic bosses, we hope that time will be brought near by the election of Wendell Willkie.

come when Boss Hague will

ONE BILLION B. C.

HIS may be the year 1,000,000,000 B. C. on Venus, announces H. Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, who goes| on to explain that the first primitive forms of life may be just appearing on that planet as, he believes, they did on the earth about a billion yearstago. It is an intriguing topic for speculation. Imagine the algae, or amoebas,| or whatever they are, starting to stir beneath the heavy carbon dioxide. clouds of Venus. Picture their infinitely slow development, millennium after millennium, through countless stages, until their remote descend-

like ourselves, And then think of these future peoples of Venus as attaining that high degree of civilization at which whole nations of them will have learned to employ devices of science and invention for the noble purpose of trying to exterminate whole other nations. ~~ . If it be essential to the cosmic scheme that Venus. should become inhabited, it may be just as well that those first stirring forms of life have no brains and no Royal Astronomers to tell them about neighboring planets. Could they think a billion years ahead, we suspect, they might

struggle before it starts.

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THEY BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY

a" do not feel that any man is indispensable. If ever the time comes when there is an indispensable man, then we shall have to confess that democracy is a failure and that the dictatorships of Europe are justified. We are not yet ready to give even casual consideration to such a defeatist attitude res (From a public statement signed

by 21 college and university presidents, announcing their

support’of Wendell

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Willkie), :

have opened the door let us see what the wind blows in. * The truth is that the evidence against Browder was turned up by + the Dies Committee, which had persiste@ in its work despite acts of political sabotage by President Roosevelt himself, by Mrs. Roosevelt and the New Deal's Washington newspaper claque. Mr. Roose- ~ velt took it upon himself to atsbi tempt to discredit this agency of Congress when-dts revelations embarrassed some of his political supporters, and Mrs. Roosevelt showed up at the sessions of the committee at a time when the American Youth Congress was under inquiry and sat there knitting to demonstrate publicly her sympathy. Mrs. Roosevelt also invited a number of the young things to lunch at the White House, and her entire conduct obviously was intended to rebuke the Dies Committee for daring to hear evidence that her favorite youth movement was a Communist Trojan Horse—or, let us say, foal. * Much evidence of Communist domination was re=vealed, and J. B. Matthews, the backslid Bolo who was both witness and investigator for the committee, wrote, out of his own long and intimate experience as a fellow-traveler, that the Young Communist League, in concert with left-wing Socialists, captured the Congress in its infancy.

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HESE reminders will be promptly denounced as a personalized smear of Mr. Roosevelt, which

"the Democratic National Committee now openly com-

pares with Abe Lincoln, but the fact is, nevertheless, that the Fauntleroy railsplitter, as Mr. Ickes might call him if he were vituperating on this side of the argument, actually did try to Kill off the Dies Committee when its revelations were going against the Communists. Mrs. Roosevelt's part in the case also is a matter of recent memory, and. Rep. Dies once openly protested that individuals in the New Deal press delegation not only distorted descriptions and accounts of the hearings but pursed their lips and blew loud, lewd notes at witnesses as they gave evidence against various cells, fractions and individuals. Not only that but for years, or approximately until the time that Stalin openly joined Hitler against civilization, the sympathy of this Administration was distinctly with Communists and others who denounced and damned the capitalistic, or American, system of iconomy, and government dictatorship, as such, was ot opposed. : > ” ” § ivi the Fascist and Nazi dictatorships were condemned, and those who had the fortitude to insist that there was no important difference between Stalin, on one hand, and Hitler, on the other, caught hell from the Left. The Administration did not openly take part in this phase of the play, but those who did berate the persons who could see no difference were pals and house pets of the Administration. And Mrs. Roosevelt, Ickes and Robert Jackson

|| evidenced a provocative preterence for organizations

which were either opénly Communistic or known to be dominated by Moscow, such as the Lawyers’ Guild, the Workers’ Alliance,, the Newspaper Guild and the League for Peace and Democracy—and, of course, the Youth Congress. : So notwithstanding the conviction of Browder in an action forced on the Administration by Martin Dies against strong White House opposition, the record of the New Deal on Communists and commurism is not one that the Democratic National Committee can safely boast of.

Business

By John T. Flynn

3d Term Only One of FDR's Efforts To Undermine Liberties of the People

EW YORK, Oct. 31.—The two great battles of mankind have been for political” freedom and for economic security. The, greatest victory in the first battle has been won here in America. The battle for economic security has yet to be won. Men in America are not agreed on how economic security can be won, but at least one point will command the support of every true American. That is that in cur effort to win the second battle we must not lose the victories of the first. We must not, in our » striving after economic security, surrender our democracy. If we have political freedom it is because our fathers put into our hands certain protections to guard against the invasion of the auto- : crat. Those protections are certain devices of Government that operate as restraints on the power of the Executive. As long as we have those restraints in our hands no man can become a dictator. These restraints are very few in number, but they are priceless in their power. They are, first, a writ=ten Constitution; second, the division of the powers of Government into executive, legislative and judicial; third, the power of the purse: fourth, the tradition by which the executive must lay down his authority and relurn to the body of the people after a iimited rule. Now let us see if we have weakened these restraints in the last seven years. First, we still have the written Constitution, but on one occasion the President wrote to Congress calling on it to vote for a bill even though it believed it to be unconstitutional. - Second, we still have the division of powers of Government, but greatly weakened. Two great attacks have been made on this restraint. (1) The President attempted to pack the Supreme Court hy choosing enough members to create a majority that would do his bidding. Congress blocked that. (2) In the NRA, Congress, which is charged under the Constitution with making the laws, at the bidding of the President delegates its power to legislate for our economic structure to the President. The Supreme Court blocked that and held—unanimously— that it was an abdication by Congress of its Constitutional duty. ” ” ”

HIRD, the power of the purse has been seriously weakened. Under our Constitution the Executive must come to Congress for money. In theory this is still true, but one of the first acts of the. New Deal! Congress was to appropriate $3,300,000,000 and hand it over to the President as a blank check. From that moment Congress became a rubber stamp. The Congressman who ‘wanted an appropriation for his district, had to go with his hat in his hands to the President. ( Fourth, the final great restraint upon power was the third-term tradition. While not in the Constitu-. tion, it was stronger than the Constitution. Constitutional provisions have been extinguished and amended, but this has stood for 150 years—until now. Now the President seeks to destroy that. . There is, in short, not one of the great restraints on dictatorial - power which the President has not attempted to destroy. That is why this election is a crisis in Constitutional Government.

So They Say—

I HAD TO PERSUADE the professor that a woman of 78 had as much right to learn acting as a girl. I finally wore him down.—Adeline Reynolds, 80, who has just signed a movi» contract. o - * *

THE OUTSTANDING characteristic of the educated man is that he does not act or reach conclusions until he has heard the evidence.—~William M. Eaves,

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The Last Few Days

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The Hoosier Forum

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

IT’S O. K. BY HER IF ROOSEVELT GETS RICH By Mrs. N. G. 7 It’s downright funny to read some of the protests about the Roosevelt family making money. What one of us wouldn’t like to make a million and a half dollars? We wouldn't be human if we didn’t. But why

is no poor man either. Did Roosevelt earn his for him, too? I say more power to them and to the President. ® = =

KICK LEWIS OUT, C. I. 0. ADVISED By Fred Keller Having listened to J. L. Lewis’ speech last night and as a former members of C. I. O, U. M. W. of A,, and will say it is time to kick J. L. out of the C. 1. O. , .. > : ” n ” BOUQUET FOR HILLIS FROM RAILROADER’'S WIDOW By Mrs. Estelle B, Davis - As the recent widow of a Pennsylvania Railroad employee, whose husband was a member of the Advisory Committee, Relief Department, I, a member of Ladies Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lodge 25, would like

to make more explicit, that the rank and file of the majority of railroad workers are not Democrats! On the front page of the November issue of the Railroad Trainmen magazinie a picture: of Franklin Roosevelt is shown, but as in the case of the New Deal, this does not imply that the vast majority of Railroad employees are Democrats or that they actually desired this exploitation of F. D. R.’s picture. Mr. Whitney, the president of the Brotherhood at the £6th anniversary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the 50th anniversary of the Ladies Auxiliary, spoke here in Indianapolis in 1939 at the Claypoui Hotel along with many Democratic speakers; incidentally taere were no Republican speakers on the platform. However on the back cover of the official year book and state meeting program, our Republican candidate for Governor, had subscribed for the entire back cover space, with the Words, “Greetings From Glen R. Hillis, Kokomo, Indiana.” This in 1939! The Democratic candidate for

make a political issue of it? Willkie] "

(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.)

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Governor, Mr. Schricker, voted for the defeat of the full crew law! Many of ‘my friends among the railroad workers were amazed, because they had thought he voted for it. Here is proof that he voted for defeat of the full crew bill, the record compiled by Martin H. Miller, state representative of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and A. E. Gordon, chairman of the B. of L. F. & E. and another gentleman, and incidentally the two former men are now Democratic State Office holders. Henry F. Schricker, Democratic candidate for Governor, voted against the full crew bill when it came up for final passage. (See page 792, Indiana State Journal, 79th Session.) Now then—compare the two candidates! . . . ” sn ” HE’S JUST FED UP ON THIS FEAR BUSINESS By Martin Washmuth Mr. Roosevelt compared the present day with the world wide depths of the depression in 1932, something from which America has never fully recovered. . . . We are in as bad, if not worse, condition than we were then. Class hatred, debt, war hovering over us, and still unemployment. Yes the unemployment has shifted to some extent. All of this is enough for me and it seems that it ought to be enough for others. I don’t want to be an alarmist. But when the people of a nation have a fear of an Administration, a fear to speak to their neighbors, a fear to speak to their friends, there should be a change before it is too late, I have no fear tliere will be no election. The Constitution, I feel, safeguards that. He could not declare himself a dictator without creating a revolution at this time. I do have fear though if Mr. Roosevelt is reelected that something is going to happen, and that is war, more ha-

tred and perhaps a dictatorship. . ..

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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PARENTS GET A SCOLDING FROM HIGH SCHOOL GIRL y Mariam Williams, a High School Student I have observed a letter, written

by a mother, which appeared in the Forum several nights ago, and I'm

wondering on how much knowledge

of children and the problem in|

hand, that she is basing her opinibn. In her opinion (to say the least): she held that the Police Department of Indianapolis wasn’t doing

everything possible to insure the safety of that city’s school children. It is not the police or the teachers’ fault that the safety regulations are being ignored, but it is the fault of the parents, in failing to teach their children, any different; that children are to be found on the streets after dark or late at night. You cannot expect a child to be ‘a model traffic law observer, or to be at home off the streets by a decent hour, if such rules. to that effect aren’t enforced in the home. If the~parents would realize their responsibilities, due not only to their children, but to their community, and co-operate with the teacher and police on this problem, there would be much less need to fear for the safety of their children. You generally get out of a child the amount (and no more) of knowledge and training that you have put into him. A child who is not taught to observe his civil laws does ‘not make a good American citizen, in ater life.’ People should understand a problem thoroughly before he or ‘she endeavors to solve it. 8 8 = A LOUD RAZZ-BERRY FOR THE EGG THROWERS

By W. A. B.

Who said America was a land of “Free Speech”? | Mr. | Willkie has a hard time using this privilege, He has a right to run for} President and speak in his own be- |!

Wendell L.

half, That is his “American right.”

We do not have to vote for him, but};

we should let him talk without throwing eggs and tomatoes at him.

JOHN LLEWELYN LEWIS AND THE UTILITIES

By a Democrat

Utilitiy users may be prepared for a hike in their rates for I am told the John L. Lewis broadcast cost $65,000. ” ” »

“NO MORE MANDATES,” HIS RALLYING CRY By W. B. Cooley

During| the final critical days of this campaign there is one point, little discussed, which it is my conviction should be emphasized and reiterated—the grave necessity for each Anti Third-Term citizen to cast his ballot. . At first glance this seems almost a ridiculous statement, but from many contacts during the past few weeks I have noticed an attitude of futility on the part of many, based on the almost impossible task of overcoming the enormous power of the New Dealers in this election, arising from their control of Federal office holders, relief, corrupt

political machines, and unlimited |" _{ money, :

After the 1936 election Mr. Roosevelt claimed that his large majority (Continued on Page 17) :

INDIAN SUMMER

By VERNE S. MOORE O the skies are smoky, smoky In the hazy autumn weather It is time of Indian Summer When the landscape floats together: The skies are lurid, fiery Like a woman's eyes with sorrow When she will not yield to tears Nor accept the sad tomorrow.

DAILY THOUGHT

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.—Psalms 23:4.

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The Truth: About Defense Is That Willkie and the Public Have Been Ahead of F. D. R. in Demanding It

EW YORK, Oct. $1.—At Madison Square Garden the President alibied his defense failures by o saying that he did provide a fine defense, and anyway the Republicans prevented him from providing defense. If he did provide deffnse, why did we have to riate or authorize upward * billion dollars in 1940 after disclosures that, on land and in the air, we were practically with out any modern fighting equipment at all? The truth is that on the one hand we had no defense and on the other, both-the.. President and his Secretary of War repeatedly assured us that we had. He dragged out the ancient alibi that we are unprepared because, prior to. 1933, the Republicans didn’t build up our defense. As had been repeatedly shown, the Republicans constantly appropri ated for defense a larger share of the national budget than the New Deal did in any fiscal year up to 1940, « and a larger absolute.amount than did the New Deal in the fiscal year 1934. y I But the real reason is that Hitler didn't start to | arm until 1933. Until then, Germany was wholly helpless, disarmed and surrounded on all.sides by hostile bayonets in overwhelming strength. Up to 1936, France with her allies plus England could have cut through Germany like a hot knife through butter. As to the navy, the London Limitation Treaty « was still in effect. The Republican couldn't legally and shouldn't morally have started rearmament. That , part of the Madison Square Garden speech is rank deception. #88 ® HE second leg of the Rooseveltian alibi is that JA Congress wouldn’t let him rearm. - The answer to that is that in the Recovery Act of 1933, Congress gave him authority to spend any part he wished of » the bulk of $3,300,000,000 for the “mechanization and motorization’s6f the Army and building up the Navy and - heavier-than-air-craft for defense. 6 Exgept for about $30,000,000 for the Navy, much of that money went for raking leaves. “Motorization and mechaniza~ tion” means the dreaded Panzer divisions. He built not one of these. His third alibi is that a “little group of wilful men” (Republicans) in Congress prevented defense: That 4 is exactly Chamberlain's alibi, but in Mr. Roosevelt's case it is much more absurd. He had a rubber stamp Congress. He could have had whatever he wanted » as the record proves. He didn’t try. On the contrary, he consistently ignored or primed out request after @ request of the Army for defense funds. He continued to do that right up to January of this year. If he foresaw, as he says he foresaw, this dizadful situation overseas, his lack of leadership and courage is , utterly inexcusable. He had no plan as late as June, 1940. He Asked for a pittance for defense and told Congress that was all he needed and. to go home. He didn’t lead defense. Republicans in Congress did, at popular demand. B®

ins 8 E says the “reactionary” Republicans stopped him just as (he says)” a reactionary Sovernment weakened France to its fall. Apart from the fac ° that the Republicans were a pitiful minority and couldn’t stop, anything, is the gross deception that a “reactionary” government weakened France. It was A' . an imitation French Fourth New Deal government that boondoggled while French defense went to seed, * just as it wag’ an American Fourth New Deal government that To while our defense languished, And he calls that Republican sabotage of defense. The President quoted the individual expgessions of a few Republican congressmen as opposed to defense, He isn’t running against them. Willkie is the other candidate’s name. He has been miles ahead of Roose= velt in urging defense—just as Congress and the people have. ° He gave one hint of what will happen to critics and truth tellers on defense if he is elected. ‘He says that to tell the truth about defense will scare and divide our people. “ He should take a look at Churchill and the English, 2 They are united and strong because they trust him. { They trust him because he keeps his promises and tells the truth about their weaknesses, however bitter. We are weak and not ‘united because millions e of American don’t .trust Mr. Roosevelt, because he doesn’t keep his promises and is careless with the truth, Americans are no more afraid of truth than the English, That is why “we want Willkie.” » J .

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

T may be possible, as many sincere people believe, to, defend democracy with battleships and guns, but’ assuredly the old notion that man can thus protect * his. women and children will have to be discarded. At last we.are face to face with the results of male * inventive genifis. A new kind of martial struggle goes on, whose main objective is to terrorize, maim and wipe out civilian populations. Any future historian who can ascribe glory to the enterprise of » modern warfare will be endowed with a macabre imagination. Britain at bay is a magnificent sight. But this time it is not the soldiers alone who meet death for e country with ~dauntless valor, Women ' and children live amid falling bombs and see their friends killed, a spectacle heretofore reserved for battlefields. After the present catastrophe is ended, it will never again be possible to tell ourselves that women are the : weaker sex. In the horrible world that has been made dy for them, they are asked to bear babies and watch = '@ them be blown to bits. They must keep the home fires burning while they suffer sleepless nights and fearful days. They endure the new anguish and all the old agonies of suspense about the fate of their » men and the future of their children. 4 Yet in this world women have really no voice in the making of peace treaties of war policies. They are mute while men go empire-grabbing in the name of protection for their wives and babies. In our own' ® land they pay taxes and obey the laws, submit to martial discipline and help in every patriotic aim, but are not represented on draft boards and have no voice in war policies. to ¢ When will intelligent men protect their women and children in the only way protection can be rendered— by working for peace between wars, as hard as they , work for wars between truces? And when will women demand such protection from their men? Until we do, we are traitors to our children.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

O many women with cancer. of the uterus and other reproducing organs are still comihg for treatment too late to be cured. This is one of the { important lessons of a cancer survey reported by Dr. George Kamperman, of Detroit, to the American College of Surgeons. . Notable progress has been made in the treatment of such cancer, Dr. Kamperman declared. The average five-year survival rate among women . treated for one kindof cancer of the womb or uterus has been raised from about 30 per cent before 1930 to 45 per cent after 1930 and to nearly 50 per cent since 1933, Dr. Kamperman found from records of more" than 800 women treated for gynecologic cancer at Harper Hospital, Detroit. Now that doctors have radium and supervoltage X-rays to use in treating cancer, it is not always necessary to perform a surgical operation or the operation, if necessary, can be less radical by come bining surgical and radiation treatment. a Statistics from all clinics, however, show that ree sults from treatment of all kinds of gynecologic can= cer are still far from what is desired, Dr. Kamper~ man stated. All clinics report that better results are obtained when the diagnosis is made early. Cancer of the female genital tract is more accessible to diagnosis than cancer of many other organs, he -

$4 out, 5 would seem, he said, that early the Creator for all I have not| should possible in all such cancers, a. a ’ Es Aa i Lal we SH si) Are. still not ¢ bin at Ae 5

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