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the People Will Fina Their Own Way

: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1940

ONE MINUTE TO VOTE QTATE law provides that the voter is allowed one minute to cast his ballot on a voting machine. Just one minute—60 seconds—to pull the propex ¥ levers for 37 national, state and county candidates, not to mention ‘three constitutional amendments. : It is an absurd restriction. And it poses a real dilem‘ma for the independent-minded voter. That may be enough time to vote a straight ticket, but it is too skimpy an allowance for anyone who desires to split his ticket intelligently. Those who develop last-minute jitters and pull the lever for a straight party vote are bound to elect some candidates: who ought to have been defeated. What then, under the circumstances, is the conscientious voter to do? How" can he cast his vote effectively in the meager time allowance of 60 seconds? The following suggestions may help. those who have been troubled by this

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ET’S assume that you are a Republican voter, that y intend to support a majority of that party’s candidates, ‘but that you also wish to support several Democratic can‘didates. Which ones and how ‘many ? Bearing in mind the fact that you will have time for only three or perhaps for scratches, we suggest the following:

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Vote for Louis Ludlow in place of James A. Collins for Congress in the 12th District. Rep. Ludlow’s number is 13B on the machine. He is thoroughly deserving of re-election. | : : Vote for Roberta West Nicholson in preference to Lawrence A. Shaw for state representative. Shaw should be defeated. Mrs. Nicholson’s number is 27B. Vote for Walter C. Boetcher in place of Paul E. Te- . garden for County I easurer. Mr. Boetcher’s number is 32B. ; Vote for David M. Lewis for County Prosecutor in ~place of Sherwood Blue. Mr. Lewis’ number. is 14B. Vote for Al Feeney for County Sheriff in place of Otto W. Petit. Mr/|Feeney’s number is 33B. Although there are other desirable candidates on the Democratic ticket, we list only the above five because we believe they are the most important and because we doubt whether any voter will have time for more. # 2 = | # TOW let's take a look at the problem from the point of

view of a voter who intends to support a majority of We would urge in this

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the Democratic Party’ s candidates. case that you: Vote for Wendell L. Willkie instead of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mr. Willkie’ s number is first. on the machine, No. 1A. . Vote for, Raymond E. Willis instead of Sherman Minton. Mz. Willis’ number on the machines is 2A. And,. finally, vote for Edward J. Green for Joint State Senator instead of John Bright Webb. Mr. Green’s number is: ‘No. 19A. | Here again, as we pointed out earlier in connection with our suggestions to Republican voters, the one-minute

time limitation prevents a more complete list of choices. os

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# 2 # N We offer these shiggestions only on the basis of their “ practibility, and not as our full list of those we believe to

be the ablest Gd

SMOKESCREENS

HONY accusations, whispers, over-emphasis of trivial incidents—that sort ‘of thing is old stuff in American politics. . But in this year 1940, with its real issues of tremendous importance, it seems a pity that the voters have “to wade throug the usual bog of chicanery and hysteria. Both sides are guilty. Wallace is still hollering that Willkie is Hitler's candidate. Ickes bears down on Willkie's German ancestry (piously insisting that this is no ground for opposing him). The President himself, the great “inspector,” intimates that Willkie is a weasel. On the other side, former New Dealer John Ww. Hanes says the “third term is an anti-Christ movement,” and in Philadelphia billboards proclaim that the way to save the churches. is to vote against Roosevelt. The stupid “kneeing” of a Negro cop by Steve Early is whooped up as a hatter of colossal moment, rivaling the Elliott Roosevelt captaincy. 27 Jtmight be a good idea for voters to step back a few paces, mentally, and contemplate the issues from a distance at which these flyspecks do not distract the eye. The important issues are simple enough The third-term tradition vs. “indispensability.” The speak-softly-and-carry-a-big-stick policy of Willke as against the Roosevelt practice of “sticking pins in tigers” all over the world while our $roops train with wooden guns and dummy tanks. “Encouragement to- individual enterprise and new frontiers®as against the New Deal's big government policy of borrow-and-spend and insolvent state socialism. -The new broom, as against the perpetuation of one“man rule and a bureaucracy that has gone stale, cynical and

: arrogant. Those are the ren) issues.

SPEAKING OF CHAMELEONS ;

“O% industrial plant is built; the problem is whether it is not overbuilt, Our last frontier has long since been reached.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, San Francisco, Sept. 23, 1932. | : “The productive capacity of the United States which has made it the greatest industrial country in the world will not fail now. And that is not just a campaign promise.” | —Franklin D. Roosevelt, Boston, Oct.”30, 1940.

.| cold do yeoman service in ferreting out and destroy-

Flying Forts By Maj. Al Williams

National Defense Sure to Be Harmed If, Big Bombers, of Which We Have Too Few, Are to Be Sold Abroad

T= Flying Fortress is an American development uniquely suited to our defense needs. The big four-engined bombers have a tremendous range and

.ing an enemy approaching the United States coast. A If we are truly thinking about \national defense, we need to consider the Enpijcations of depleting our fleet of flying fortresses by selling some of them to any belligerent at this time. A flying fortress pilot and crew require much more intensive training than the personnel for singleseater fighting planes and other types, and we must have ships in. which these men can be trained. Our Army Air Corps has set up some truly remarkable per- : formances with the flying fortresses. Spanning this continent non-stop. and flying to and from distant points in South America have become routine with this type of giant bomber. But peéople are too prone to dwell upon the performance of the ship involved, ignoring or minimizing the human factor which made the flights practicable. When the Air Corps organized its - long-range bomber squadrons, particular attention was devoted to selecting the best types of piloting personnel. The basis of personnel training for long-range work was the “combat team” idea. Pilots, co-pilots, gunners, bombardiers, and radiomen assigned to each flying fortress were trained to work as a team, and were kept together, as a team. The chief pilots selected had had about 10 years of flight experience—men of a type not to be found on every airport. " 2 E now have about 5 per cent of the number of flying fortresses and about 2 per cent of the personnel for the long-range bombing forces needed to defend the United States. The only way to make up some of that deficit is by training new crews. |

Book learning or classroom instruction merely prepares a candidate for this type of specialized work. Beyond that there must be actual experience aloft in the art of handling the giant bombers, celestial navi+ gation, bombing practice and all the departments of flight operation, Without the ships, we shall find ourselves facing some zero hour with hurriedly delivered flying fortresses—and no men to fly or service them. A lot of veritable flying junk (still classified on the books as fighting warplanes) is lying around in the Army and Navy air services and it should be assigned immediately to reserve training units. There are pursuit squadrons which have never been permitted to try out their hands on “P-40’s.” That batch of 50 or 60 “P-40’s” employed in the recent Washington demonstration represents about 65 per cent of all the “P-40's” we have ready for service in the entire country. This “P-40” is powered with an Allison liquid-cooled engine, with which the majority of our

the “P-40’s” are being shifjped abroad by the boatload.

military pilots and ¢ shifped are unfamiliar, Still, What about our country?

. z ” ” HE Grumman mid-wing fighting plane is miles faster than the standard fighting ship of its class in our services. That, too, is being sold abroad. And still, in public flight demonstrations of America’s aweinspiring might in the air to frighten dictators, we

find droves of old biplanes of designs and performances that are seven and eight years old. : The United States will have to make up its official and public mind as to just which it intends to do: Arm itself in' the air or continue shipping its best fighting aircraft abroad. This fundamental question must be answered one way or another, and no more fooling. Continual strength: is given to the rumor that our flying fortresses are destined for England. I have -been told that we would - ‘soon lose these giant longrange bombers. What about America?

Business

By John T. Flynn"

FDR Reversed Orthodox Economic Plan Soon After Taking Office

EW YORK, Nov. 2.—We have seen that the President’s first economic plan was orthodox capitalism, with regulation to prevent combinations and abuses, pay-as-you-go financial policies, abhorrence of public debt, welfare legislation. Shortly after he took office he organized his Administration upon: entirely different economic principles. The hew policies were based on the following theory: Capitalism is built on competition of private owners. Competition breeds over-production. Overproduction causes low prices. Low prices cause losses. This results in throwing men out of work. Depressions and unemployment result. Following this theory, then, the President proposed that industry must be controlled strictly in order to control production and ‘prices, limit competition and, in many cases, make it difficult for too many to enter the industry. The control, he proposed, should be located not in the hands of the Government but in the hands of combinations of producers or businessmen—code authorities, which would have the right to make rules, regulations, laws controlling competition, credit, accounts, production, prices, etc. This should be under the general supervision of the Government. Thus, instead ‘of forbidding combination, he proposed to compel combination. Instead of enforcing the Sherman anti-trust laws, he suspended them. Many people called this communism, socialism. It is the direct opposite of socialism or communism. ” EJ ” HIS system is essentially a nationalist system. If an American producer must. be a member of a code authority in order to compete, if he cannot compete under the law unless he complies with the code rules, obviously we cannot permit foreigners to compete. We cannot possibly regulate hours, wages, credits, conditions of competition and production in foreign factories. Hence the plan inevitably forces its sponsors to

will explain why, when Secretary Hull went to the London Economic Conference to promote his ideas of wider foreign trade, it was necessary for the President to check him and, in fact, to avoid embarrassment, to wreck the conference. Along with this theory of a controlled economy, the President introduced a complete reversal of his first finance plans—the balanced budget. He decided, instead of balancing the budget, to create new purchasing power by issuing Government money. He did not print money. Instead, he created new bank deposits or bank money by making Gevernment loans at the banks. This policy he has continued.

dustry and on the farms by controlling it to keep prices up, he attempted to increase purchasing power by borrowing at the banks and spending it on relief and projects of all sorts. These two theories, therefore, became the cornerstones of his new ecomonic policies—control of the instruments of production and distribution in the in-

creation of purchasing power by Government deficits, This was the second phase of his economic plans, Thete were two more.

So They Say

IN MY OPINION, the fools are more dangerous Hak She Fn Column.—Channing Pollock, author -of “ e 00. »

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THE WORLD .may surrender. itself to. hatred, but

“music will outl ve hate. Nothing can hurt art.—Fritz Kreisler, violir{ master, Shay

exclude, as much as possible, foreign competition. This [-

Thus, while he attempted to limit production in in-

terest of limited production and higher prices, and |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

‘My Friends’

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

A NOISY BOO FOR THE LEWIS-G. O. P. MARRIAGE By E. B. The great political miracle of the century has taken place in the conjugal union of John L. Lewis and the Republican Party. The nabobs of high finance have taken to their bosom the arch conspirator and enemy of business, the man whom they counted as the prototype of Hitler in. his being responsible for the bombing of their business relations with their employees. I believe that this miscegenation will prove a boomerang to the Republican Party in its repercussions, for it will reveal anew to what extremes of desperation they will resort in their efforts to get back into control of the feed bags of political office . . . ” ” 2 WPA WORKER TAKES DIG AT NEW DEAL CRITICS By Haze Hurd I am writing this article for Edward F. Maddox and James R. Meitzler of Attica, Ind. My dear friends, I am a WPA worker and

have been leaving all the room in the Forum you two fellows. Just wish to say if you would come out on a WPA job and see the Roosevelt buttons on men’s coats and hats you sure would change your mind about the way they are going to vote on Nov. 5 and it is untrue about WPA foremen and superintendents using their authority to force men to vote Democrat. ¢ I have never heard a buss on WPA tell me or any other man "how to vote and never have seen any discrimination against any man that was for Windy and there is a few on WPA silly enough to vote Republican. But I don’t believe it will be over two per cent that will vote Republican’ and the best news I have heard during this campaign is John L. Lewis will resign on Nov. 18. That sure would be a blessing

‘Ito the American workingman.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

_ (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.) :

LISTENS TO ‘WINDY'— SHE'LL VOTE FOR F. D. R,

By Laura Meyers Out of curiosity I have © just listened to the broadcast of “Windy Willkie” and I do mean Windy .. . Mr. Willkie cinched my vote for Roosevelt. If Roosevelt was running for the 30th time he would still get my vote. .\ . In 1930 I was in high school but couldn’t continue my education without the proper clothing and sometimes, having just half enough to Bo I quit school for a $3 a weék job No funds were appropriated for folks like us. We could root hog or die for all they cared. We didn’ ask the world for a living. We wanted jobs. We now have jobs and we have Roosevelt. Why shouldn't: we hang on to a E/gv0d thing when we've got it? .

a a = TAKING A SLAM AT OUR COLUMNISTS

By Ruth Foust ; What does it avail us—having freedom of the press—when that press chooses to present a prejudiced version of the characters and accomplishments of our Presidential candidates? : Again Westbrook Pegler attacks Mrs. Roosevelt; Gen. Johnson lashes out at the President—as usual, interpreting events in his own inimitable way; and you, my dear editor, tell Us flatly that we cannot “laugh off” John L. Lewis’ oration. When Mr. Lewis, with tongue in cheek, speaks in a shocked tone of ‘the

gore. mo pve seme, se. 1.0 00 0 i or” L“But how are we going I i hori, a prodigy it we : + a . n 2 Le ih

danger we face from dictatorship in the third term—Mr. Lewis, mind you, who is the only true dictator that this country ever has tolerated —then we must laugh, or .cry: for America’s lost sense of humor. Where, -in heaven’s name, is our sense of balance and fair play? Irvin Cobb -exorcises the shades of Girdler and’ Weir, hanging over Willkie, by ‘asking if a man should be asked to leave his church because a few other members of the congregation are hypocrites. Cannot that same premise apply to Kelly-Nash and Hague? Cobb also, by implication, ridicules Mrs. Roosevelt's many admirable activities.

considered a virtue? - I'll answer that one. Not since the Hoover administration! ’ ” ” ” OPPOSES THIRD TERM BUT BACKS ROOSEVELT By William E. Watts I am not in favor of a third term,

no better qualified man than Roose-

any man who has handled this country’s affairs eight years is in a better position to guide us through war times than a man whose greatest feat of leadership was connected with the profits and loss of a utilities company? A far cry from the responsibilties attached to guiding the destinies of 130,000,000 U. S. citizens. Why should Roosevelt now suddenly decide to resort to dictator tactics? As I see it Roosevelt had no better opportunity than ‘in ‘33 when this country’s spirits and finances were- so low that almost anyone would have grudgingly accepted a dark dictatorship rather than the comparatively darker future that then impended. ” 8 o

CLEVER PEOPLE, THESE REPUBLICANS, HE FINDS

By T. L. Republican politicians are clever. When they are in office they pursue a campaign of ridicule. They laugh of* their own faults by saying that Democrats are ignorant. And when the Republicans are out of office they resort to a campaign of fear. They whip themselves into a fury telling the people that the government, if not the whole world, is coming to an end. Willkie is trying to fool the people with such tactics in this campaign. Another weapon Republicans use is the old wedge of discord. . Split up the Democratic Party— destroy the loyalty of its members— that is the plan this year, ... Will-

‘kie is asking Democrats to desert

their party just as he did—for only one reason—bpecause he hates: President Roosevelt.

CURTAIN GOING UP By MYRA CAREY MORGAN The glorious dawn is in the sky.

‘Birds sing in the teges close by.

Calm and peace are everywhere, Curtain’going up on a picture rare. Golden glow swaying in the breeze; Late birds warble in the trees. The last rose o summer has bloomed; Asters are giving a rare pertume. Out in the yard a mother dog romps with her pup. Curtain going up . On a wonderful picture. How can 1 be blue or ever pine, When the curtain goes up on a scene so divine,

DAILY THOUGHT

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Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times ot refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord—Acts 3:19.

YOU CANNOT repent too soon, use you do not know how soon may be too late.—Fuller,

Since when, | may I ask, has doing-nothing been |

but if there is one, I can think of |§ velt for the job. Don’t you think | §

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. SATURDAY, NOV. 2, 1000

Gen Johnson

Says—

Answering Last-Minute . Absurdity: Willkie a Tougher Foeman, So Why Should Hitler Want FDR Defeated?

EW YORK, Nov. 2—This is a partial catch-all for late campaign absurdities. “Hitler wants to defeat Rocsevelt. He says so.” The wbrld is strewn with the wrecks of countries who believe what Hitler says. His practice is to say the opposite of what he means. Why should he want to defeat Roosevelt? He: knows®that Roosevelt is driving the United States straight to bankruptcy by the reckless increase of debt and deficits. He, does not want us to be strong In arms. He knows that Roosevelt permitted us to become woefully] weak in the face of growing: danger. He knows that Ro00s€~+ velt’s policy has been to impair : industrial efficiency. on every} > labor, the flow of prt ment capital, tion and inv

incite class warfare and hatred and that he is con": ducting this campaign on exactly that basis. He doesn’t want us to be strong in international relations. He knows that, under Roosevelt, we haven't a - friend on earth except Great Britain and a few (but far from all) Latin American countries that, in a military sense, are a liability rather than an asset. » » ” So Hitler wants to defeat Roosevelt and install. Willkie who is not only far more hostile to him :

to him because of his ability to reunite our people and increase their strength in arms, finance, indus-: trial production and in international strategy and . relations. It is one of the worst pieces of illogical nonsense, yet presented to our people. : Mayor La Guardia says that Mr, Willkie is not a

-| businessman but is so incompetent that if he is a

“businessman,” Fiorello “is an eagle.” He supports that by saying that while Mr, Willkie’'s company’s common stock descended to 112 on the stock mar=ket, U. S. Government bonds were soaring above par, The Little Flower need never worry about being: mistaken for. an eagle—take one look and hearhim, . Duck maybe—eagle never. Mr. Willkie's efficiency-rating among business executives is almost at the top. . FR

E isn’t the kind of businessman that business-: baiters such as Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. La Guardia like to imagine and castigate—price raisers." He reduced electrical rates 40 per cent—farther than any company in the business—until his system had the lowest in the country. This business record was so striking that he was complimented even by Dave Lillienthal, head of TVA, for getting electricity to the, people at low rates. The reason why Mr, Willkie’s company’s common stock declined in price is because the Government in the TVA area, by virtual confiscation of values, left only enough for bonds and preferred stock, leav-* ing nothing over for the common. It is like the convicted young patricide who had killed both his father and his mother pleading for leniency be= cause he was an orphan. The only other gold brick I have room to discuss here today is the statement that Willkie was nominated by fake telegrams to the delegates. Every newspaperman who was at Philadelphia knows that is a lie. The Taft and Dewey management had that thought. After sending scouts through the delegations they abandoned it. The people—amateurs-— took: that convention out of the hands of politicians, just as they are taking this election. Every delegate queried said, more or less angrily, words to this’ effect: “Don’t tell me. I know the signers of these telegrams. Nobody -could goose-step them.” It is a popular crusade—not so much for Willkie as it is against political professionals.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ALWAYS hoped, but never thought, I'd live to see the day when Grandma's notions would be~ come popular again. Yet that day is dawning. ° “The ultra smart woman doesn’t smoke TRE. reports a charm expert. “It is no longer the vogue. to wear low cut gowns,” says’ another, “Modesty is the best. policy.” And a third chimes in with the news that “one’s sensibilities should be shocked at the: .sight of beautiful young girls acts ing like barflies.” And theré’s more to come. Some of our most eminent psychologists now give their approval to Granny's plans for bring-. ing up the baby—“Kiss, Rock and Spank.” It’s enough to make us shout Hosannas for the children’s sake, When I think of the poor little lonesome babies I have met whose parents, aching to cuddle them,’ repressed their natural desires at the stern commandof doctors and nurses, I could weep. What's happened to those babies? Well, some, at’ least, have become stand-offish, inartieulate, lonely: grown ups, the sort of people who: enroll in Dale’ Carnegie classes and have to take courses in “Howto Win Friends.” They got off to a bad start through no fault of their own. The first set of adults to deal with them were taught that babies. should be brought up without the: personal touch—rather like single chicks in large

"incubators—after which they were confronted by a

second generation of instructors who insisted that. they must develop the arts of friendliness. Cheer,’ gocdwill and affection waltzed back onto humanity's dance floor, and the poor victims of psychological ignorance—which was called knowledge, of course—were. forced to start all over again on a different plan. > I always thought Grandma was right about a good many of the things for which we criticized her. Considering what she had to work with, she brought up. some fine children. And often she did a better job’ by hand than a good many of her descendants did: by following the books. You can’t be very wrong about babies if you listen: to your natural instincts occasionally. And your in-’ stincts say “Kiss, Rock and Spani™—dony they? :

Watching Your Healt.

By Jane Stafford Me indigestion or stomach discomfort, especially:

in men who have passed their fortieth birthday, .

should not be neglected. It may be the first Sgn of stomach cancer. “It is quite necessary that the publie be im with the dangerous significance of the pm indigestion and dyspepsia,” Dr. Thomas F. Mullen of the University of California Medical School warned at the meeting of the American College of Surgeons. “Most persons consider a mild degree of gastric (stomach) - discomfort to be a part of the normal process of growing older and the words ‘indigestion’ ana ‘dyspepsia’ to most minds signify an uncomfortable but entirely benign process,” he pointed out. **¥et’ within these two words is the whole story. of np: gastric cancer symptomatology.” . In stomach cancer, as in every other kind of can=' cer, the earlier the patient is treated, the better are’ his chances for recovery, That is why Dr. Mullen, and other authorities warn people to heed the first. danger signs that may mean cancer. It is a mistake to consider pain, vomiting and loss of weight as early signs of stomach cancer. These. symptoms of the ailment usually do not appear until} the disease has been present and progressing tor!

,| some time. .

The man—men have stomach cancer “more frequently than women—who has never had before ad who is not really sick and can still play * his 18 hgles of golf needs to be especially suspicious: when h ds himself annoyed by indigestion or a. “little stomach trouble,” as he may call it. A f » of fullness, a tendency to belch, a consciousness of « having eaten instead of a feeling of arell- being after meals, should warn him to see his doctor promp and;

to persist antil Jessel satelul examinations

in every sense that counts and far more dangerous. 4’

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