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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1840

TOMORROW'S ISSUES *

E oppose Roosevelt: ; Because one-man rule is contrary to the whole idea of democracy. Because one-man rule is sweeping the world and we are not immune. a Because a third term is a long step toward one-man rule. Because we believe Mr. Roosevelt is heading us into war, and war means one-man rule overnight. Because deficit government spending weakens the nation, creates a permanent emergency, saps the inde--pendence of the individual, builds up the power of the state and leads to one-man rule. Because we believe that all other issues are secondary to this issue of one-man rule. Because we would vote for any good American to break this dangerous trend against government of the-people, by the people, for the people.

WPA AND ELECTION.

' On the WPA rolls July 3......1,611,213 ' On the WPA rolls Nov. 2 ......1,778,600 | Increase in four months ....... 167,387 (OFFICIALS of the WPA, of course, maintain that this increase has 10 political significance—that in fact they have kept within a schedule which was outlined to Congress early last spring. But times have changed.since early spring. Then the vast national-defense program was not even contemplated. No one knew that Congress would soon appropriate billions upon billions for rearmament. The prospect was, at best, for only a small increase in private employment by the end of the summer. : Instead, there has been a great increase in private employment. Advocates of the third term like to brag about that. We hear it claimed that more people than ever before are on the payrolls of business and industry, many | of them put there,|to be sure, by Government spending on defense. : Yet spending by WPA has followed a pattern planned to deal with a very different situation. As in other election years under the New Deal, the WPA rolls have grown larger as the campaign proceeded. We hope tomorrow's election will end that practice. .

CAMPAIGN OMISSION IN 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was very specific in telling what he would do about the nation’s fiscal problems. He would reduce taxes, he said. He would cut the cost of government 25 per cent. He would achieve a budget annually balanced. In 1936, he said our Government was on its way to a balanced budget, and that under his leadership the goal

would be reached. In 1940, Mr. Roosevelt has not bothered

fiscal problems.

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THE BEAM IN OUR OWN EYE WE are appalled at the slaughter of civilians in Europe by indiscriminate bombing. How many men, women and children have been snuffed out in London and Berlin while going about their daily tasks, we do not know, though figures released from both countries show the toll in mounting thousands. ‘Meanwhile, the death toll of our own streets and roads has also mounted, in the first nine months of this year, to 23,830. | That is 1500 more than in the same period last year, the National Safety Council reports. To this excessive toll Marion County and Indianapolis contributed a total of 97 deaths up to Oct. 1, or 31 more than a year ago. The man, woman, or child suddenly. struck down on the highway without warning is just as dead as the bomb victim; the sorrow of their family and friends is just as great; the loss to the country as telling. And however useless war may be, it is no more useless than the death we permit to stalk our streets. .

WHO SPREADS FEAR?

MANY insurance company executives, charged Mr. Roosevelt at Hartford, are trying to spread fear among policy holders. He accused these executives of “the most dastardly and most unpatriotic action of any Americans I " know of.” This is the same Mr. Roosevelt who, at Pittsburgh on Oct. 19, 1932, denounced the “extravagance” and the ‘“‘unprecedented deficits” of the Hoover Administration, adding: “When we come to consider prodigality and extravagance in the Federal Government, as distinguished from state or local government, we are talking about something even more dangerous. For upon the financial stability of the United States Government depends the stability of trade and employment, and of the entire banking, savings and insurance system of the Nation.” Since Mr. Roosevelt came to power in Washington— The Federal debt has increased from less than 20 biltion dollars to nearly 45 billion dollars. The number of Federal civil employees has increased - from 572,091 to 1,023,341. ‘| | Spending by the Federal Government has increased from $5,142,000,000 in 1933 to $9,666,000,000 in 1940. IR The Federal deficits have averaged $3,237,000,000 a by year for seven years and the 1940 deficit is $3,932,000,000, t- although Federal taxes have increased from $2,005,000,000 fin 1930 to $5,924,000,000 in 1940. And, Mr. Roosevelt, now seeking a third term of power over the financial stability of the United States Government, tells us that it is insurance executives who are spreading fear for the safety of policy holders’ money invested in \e insyrance system of the nation,

-which 1 will outline in the next article,

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Senate Should Be More ~Careful Of lts Membership if It Desires Public Respect, He Tells Wheeler

=TEW YORK, Nov. 4 —Advocating the exclusion of disreputable journalists from the press gallerles of Congress, Senator Burt Wheeler of ‘Montana uttered a remark which deserves more than the momentary notice which it received in the heat of the

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campaign. “People must have respect. for members of the Senate and the House, especially in these times when there is a trend toward totalitarianism throughout the country,” said Senator Wheeler. Now, to this the obvious reply is that the Senators and Representatives bear the first and greatest responsibility in this matter. Senator Wheeler was referring to a newspaper report which | Senator Barkley denounced as 4 scurrilous and contemptible, and it may be that in this instance they were on solid ground, for there is no denying that in the last few years Washington journalism, which ‘is the best in the country having the best journalism in the world, has been degraded by the rise to prominence of numerous disciples of the Samuel Pepys school. It is had enough that such evil should be permitted to make print when it is confined to the affairs of worthless individuals whose lives are spent in New York saloons, but it is unpardonable that newspapers should patronize the product of individuals .so poor in professional pride and ability as to imitate this foul offense against the freedom and the future of the American press in covering the Washington scene.

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ERE gossip i$.not news, and there is nothing more dangerous to the press than the publication of gossip in the guise of news concerning men and matters of national importance. The newspapers certainly have d great responsibility and an important self-interest to serve here. But when Senator Wheeler says that “people must have respect for members of the Senate and the House” he should look about him. Surely it is not the duty of an honest press to attempt to manufacture respect for the egregious Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania. Senator Guffey still owes the United States $4165, plus interest for 15 years, on an old income tax bill which has been outlawed by the statute of limitations. Other citizens are required to pay their taxes and endure every year the punitive political harassment by which the Treasury, under the New Deal, attempts to discipline dissénters, and it is futile to command them to respect Senator Guffey. In fact, the Senate as a whole suffers to some extent in the esteem of conscientious citizens from the presence there of a deadhead and deadbeat citizen. Senator Truman of Missouri, the political servant of the old Pendergast gang, is another colleague of Senator Wheeler who will be respected no more than the people respect his old boss, Tom Pendergast, and perhaps a little less, in view of the fact that Pendergast had no official responsibility. He was just a free-style crook in general practice, but Truman permitted Pendergast to elect him to the Senate, and the Senate welcomed Truman without question. ” un ”

ENATOR PEPPER of Florida and Senator Downey of California are two more statesmen of the upper house who, for reasons less odious but equally important, will receive less than a full measure of respect from intelligent and conscientious Americans, and the same must be said of every other Senator who paltered with the pathetic but dangerous Townsend or ham 'n’ eggs vote to win his certificate of election. Senator Slattery of Illinois will receive exactly the respect which his record deserves, and of any Senator who owes his presence in the upper House to the late Huey Long or Huey's political heirs it may be said, in paraphrase of Samuel Seabury, that it is impossible to elevate him to the level of any decent | man’s contempt. The press is: ‘héiman, fallible and in spots contemptible, and offenders against good men and journalistic honor deserve the very punishment that Senator Wheeler recommends. But bad journalism is less dangerous to the prestige of the Senate than the character and political background of its members.

Business By John T. Flynn

F.D.R. Turns to Permanent Spending To Replace Private Investment

EW YORK, Nov. 4—The third phase of Mr. Roosevelt’s economic policy—and perhaps the latest phase—came after the breakdown of the NRA and the AAA and following the 1936 election. The Supreme Court had held that Congress could not abdicate its power of regulating commerce to the President. It held that Congress could not regulate agriculture. Besides this the NRA and the AAA were breaking | down through sheer inability of the Government to obtain compliance with is decrees. The period of an economy planned and directed by producer groups under Government supervision came to an end. The President had sought also to taper off his spending program, And as 1937 wore on and business began to wilt when artificial Government support was withdrawn, the President found himself in a very serious jam. By this time he had gotten into a grave quarrel with a large bloc in his party and into an ugly and angry snarl with business, following the court-packing proposals. And now the failure of the economic system to respond when spending was withdrawn left the President literally without any central economic philosophy under his plans. The old, orthodox capitalism he had now pretty plainly rejected, while he had lost interest in the idea of a centrally diretced economy. The bitter controversies with the conservatives and moderate Democrats made him more and more hospitable to certain groups of what are called liberals and radicals, though this 15 in no sense an accurate name for them. The President now turned whole-heartedly to the plan of a permanent spending program. Aside from certain welfare measures, he had left no other economic policy but this.

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VY huous economists and near-economists and social dreamers began to fabricate theories for him which he seized eagerly. At this point the President, under their tutelage, adopted the theory that the capitalist system and its essential motor—private capitalist investment—was nearly worn out. : These new advisers furnished him with the principle that Government “investment” must take the place of private investment, But Government “investment” was given various unscientific meanings. It became merely a fancy name for spending—spending, however useful, that was not investment at all, This is the point at which the Roosevelt economic philosophy has now arrived—that the economic system is éssentially crippled, that it can be buoyed up only by Government spending, that this spending must include huge amounts of borrowed money and that this money must be borrowed for “investment.” But by investment the President apparently does not mean necessarily self-liquidating investment, but spending on any sort of useful project. Thus the theory of the permanent and ever-growing public debt becomes, whether he realizes it or not, a part of the economic policy of the President. This theory, however, has taken a change in the last year or more—has itself passed into a new phase,

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So They Say— |,

REGARDLESS of the outcome, no Englishman is ever again going to be able to assumes a ruling position by birthright or heredity —Eric Sevareid, broadcaster returned from the European front. * » -.

I HAVE NO uncertainty that we will be able to place America in an impregnable position.—~A. P. Sloan, General Motors chairman, E :

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disagree with what you say, but wi defend to the death your right to say it.—V oltaire.

GLASS-STREWN STREETS BRING SHARP PROTEST By A. Ross When auto accidents occur glass is strewn over the streets. Are there clean-up squads to remove this mess or is the glass supposed to remain on the street until it has been removed eventually by the tires of numerous passing cars? 2 #5 9 PLEADS FOR SYMPHONIES ON LOCAL STATIONS By Lillian D. Boomer Behold me—just one of countless perplexed music lovers here in InMay we ask—can you discover for us why the long-time custom of broadcasting the Sunday afternoon concerts of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Our Hoosier Forum mail bag has brought us hundreds of political letters daily. We have printed as many as possible. We regret sincerely that we could not print them all. THE EDITOR.

has seemingly been discontinued— or mutilated as evidenced by last Sunday’s offering? We cannot help but wonder why—after the precedent of years we are no longer able to tune in on our local stations for a clear reception of these concerts, but must go staggering all over the dial in generally an unsuccessful effort to pick up this program—and forced to turn off our radios in a state of disappointment and disgust. There must be innumerable lovers of symphonic broadcasts who feel the inconsistency of a situation now prevailing in this territory when neither the Sunday concerts of the New York Philharmonic— Columbia, nor the Saturday night concerts of the N. B. C. Symphony Orchestra directed by Steinberg, Bruno, Walter, Toscanini and others, are available over our own stations. Recently we have welcomed the national movement for greater appreciation of music through records. All this means a wider knowledge of music and a definite enrichment

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of life. Some of us are wondering if the friends of that movement might not enlarge their interest and influence to include broadcasts, particularly the two programs mentioned? Records of fine music mean much to man. So do those broadcasts. There is a long, hard winter ahead of us, with many dismal shut-in Sunday afternoons. Hosts of people have held that time sacred to the glory, the beauty, the inspiration and the spiritual satisfaction found in listening to those non-commercial programs, listening to what is now conceded to be the finest music in this hysterical world of ours. Our musical souls ask for “bread.” Shall we be given a ‘stone”?

ga 9 LONGS FOR “DECENCY” OF OLD-TIME SALOONS By E. C. Fisher Some few years back we were so disgusted with the conditions existing under National Prohibition that the public was overwhelmingly in favor of the repeal of that act. In this state—as well as many others—we were told that repeal was the cure for those conditions. We were promised that the old saloon would not be returned. The gang now in power in this state told us then how much better conditions would be under repeal.

Since 1933 how many of us have longed for the good old saloon days to replace the present day .conditions. Any self-respecting saloon would turn over in its grave to have our present day heli-holes called saloons. We haven't the saloons back. They kept their promise in that respect. Last Friday our newspapers carried the story of the murder of a 16-year-old youth, after midnight, in a place a few short steps irom

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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one of the busiest corners in the state of Indiana. This place is officially designated as a cate. It required a murder in the place after closing hours to start an investigation to see if the management of this place was observing the law in regards to closing hours and serving of persons under 21. Why can these places operate the way they do? One word answers that question. Politics ....

" ” ” GERMAN REFERENCE TO WILLKIE DRAWS REBUKE By Albert Trendelman, Shelbyville, ind. . I read where an American citizen said Willkie was a German. Suppose he is, what has that got to do with him running for President. I don't see as that is anything, as ire fought in the World War for America. I am a German, my mother and father were both born in Germany

but I was born in America and I fought in the World War to help make America safe for the rest of vou to live in, but I don't like to be insulted just because my mother and father happened to come from Germany. I am a Democrat, but that is no sign there isn't some Republicans as good as the Democrats. I know some people that claim to: be good American citizens that never paid a cent of taxes in their life and if you traced their family down they might of come from another country. ” ” 2 HOPES FOR A MILTIADES TO RESCUE GREECE By George Geroulis : Somewhere in Greece there must be a Miltiades! The dreadful news! —ITALY-GREECE AT WAR! This news, while not unexpected, must be profoundly shocking to all Americans of Greek ancestry. At this critical moment in the history of the mother of civilization let all her children scattered over the face of that earth their’ forefathers did so much to embellish, raise a fervent prayer to the Almighty to strengthen the arm of the Greeks and make them worthy of their immortal ancestors. The odds are not so great as they were at Thermopylae, Marathon, Salamis and Plataea. There, our ancestors fought against brave men. Against la mighty empire of illustrious military traditions. Now Greece, defending the approaches to Africa and to Asia as she once | defended the approaches to Europe, { has nothing to face but the miserable descendants of Spanish, French | and Austrian slaves. Soldiers | without history or traditions, save | traditions of treachery, cowardice | and defeaf. They are still the same | cowards that ran at Novara, at Cus- | tozza, at Adowa, Caporetto, and more recently at Guatalajera. Somewhere in Greece there must be a Miltiades awaiting his country’s call! :

OCTOBER RADIO By MARY P. DENNY

October is a radio station Shining light in all the nation In one great and bright translation. Sending songs of autumn leaves Shining from the bright beech trees. Lyrics of the woods in fall Shining from the elm trees tall. Murmurs of. the squirrel and rabbit And the brown bird and the cricket. Of the deer and tiny fawn Treading over bright park lawn, Songs of early harvest time All join the radio chime One great song on radio line.

DAILY THOUGHT

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk; then I will lengthen thy days.—I Kings 3:14,

NO PRINCIPLE is more noble, as goere is none more holy, than that obedience.—H. Giles,

MONDAY, NOV. 4 i Gen. Johnson Says—

- He Forecasts the Election of Willkie And Takes a Wallop at Some of The Smear Stuff Used in Campaign

EW YORK, Nov. 4—Here is another and, I hope, .

a final last moment catch-all of campaign absurdities, purveyed in part by such stooges of

.| municipal bosses as Mayor La Guardia turned out to

be. Fiorello earlier characterized Boss Flynn as the

_ political scum of the earth—a kind of Tammany Croker or Boss Tweed. Yet, the Little Flower swung on a Detroit guy who innocently asked him if Boss Flynn sent him there. The answer should have been “yes.” - was assault and battery. These Fourth New Dealers already have something of the arrogance of Hitler's men. Three New York police officers, in line of duty, recently refused permission to two unknowns to crash a police line holding back a crowd. One of them hap-

pened to be Steve Early—a secretary of the President.

According to Mr. Early, he used his hands to push back two. The third, according to the policeman (a Negro) he kicked in the groin. Steve indignatly said he only “used the knee.” Groin kneéing is the dirtiest fighting there is. We had a hard time teaching it to soldiers in 1918. Americans detest dirty pool. We had to do it, because when you are breast-to-breast with an enemy in war, who wants your life. there are no Marquis of Queensberry rules. That's how Steve learned it. ; » ” B= Steve wasn't at war. If he were an ordidary citizen, even his hand assault on the two white officers gould have sent him to jail. The Mayor says that Joe Pew dictated the nom-

ination of Mr. Willkie at Philadelphia. That's con- |

trary to fact. I know and like Joe Pew. an economic royalist with the courage of his conviction. He pays the best wages in industry. He takes care of his workers in sickness and in health, His men will tell you that he is the best employer they know, but he 1s frankly a political reactionary. At Philadelphia he was enthusiastic for Robert Taft. All the politicos were against Wendell Willkie. Mr. Pew actually did control the Pennsylvania dele~ gation. After sticking consistently with Taft—on that last ballot, when Pennsylvania's time to vote came, the state passed. If Joe Pew’s intention was to push Willkie over and claim credit, he certainly missed the bus. Every newspaperman knows the truth of what I say. Joe Pew never came out for

Willkie until others had nominated him. .

One reason for the defeat of Al Smith in 1828 was that he went through the Middle West, surrounded on the back platform, not by those prairie roughneck neighbors of mine, but by life-long friends—New York and Tammany politicians. right but they can never click in. the great open spaces. Al's answer to criticism was: “I am not ashamed of my friends. Take me as I am or not ab all.” That is high principle, but not good politics.

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ILLKIE hadn't been a particular friend or familiar of Joe Pew. But when he recently went through Pennsylvania, Joe hopped the train and stayed. That wasn’t Wendell’s fault. It was just his innate sense of hospitality. He couldn't kick an ardent supporter out on the right-of-way. It would be an absurd campaign that had to turn on an issue like that. Willkie is a commoner by nature and ‘conviction. Campaign circumstances cannot change him. Smear doesn’t work. Many observers believe that the silent Willkie upsurge may bring a landslide. The young amateurs may ‘not’ understand machine politics but they know how to ring doorbells. In going around the country, I hear that everywhere— from Lansing, Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago to Kingston in New York. I am told, not by Willkie

| fans, but by worried New Deal friertds of mine.

The result is no longer in doubt. Willkie will win,

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WE congratulate people who reach the century Y¥ mark. It's hard to explain why. Even those with good physical and mental healthi*¥*who. can, as the saying goes, “keep up with things,” inspire us with a sense of tragedy rather than achievement. They have lived well, perhaps, ahd they have gone on living—that is all. I know a woman who is nearing her hundredth birthday. She's a chipper being for her age, too, and everybody admires her. But she’s also the loneliest person I've ever seen. She is surrounded by one or two great grandchildren and other. distant relatives, but she does not ‘ belong with them in spirit. She is in life but not a part of it. She

moves and breathes but she doesn’t

live. y Her contemporaries, all those. individuals who shared happy memories with her, have long since died. In the words of the old song, she is “a Pilgrim and a stranger.” All her interests, all her ambitions, all her hopes and loves have been’ removed to another place. She is among people, but they do not speak the language she understands. Those with whom she could communicate because they belonged to her time have long since vanished. She is left utterly alone. To eyes that really see her tears must start, and to hearts that even faintly understand her situation the aching is almost unbearable. It seems to me that longevity is not a desirable’ gift of the gods or of science. ; with us here the old, familiar and well beloved things

and people, what is the good to ourselves of lingering * '

on? And so, I wish the doctors who concentrate their best efforts on the attempts to lengthen the life span

of a few individuals would work a little harder to

make the normal life span of all more endurable. A little life is good, but too much of it becomes’ a curse and a burden. The only compensation 1'can see for extreme old age is the hearty welcome one could give to death.

Watching Your Health }

By Jane Stafford

FEW of the many young matrons grieving because > they must remain childless have been helped, by ~ modern scientific discoveries about the glands of the °

body, to have the longed-for babies of their own. Science has not progressed far enough, however, to

promise a cure for childlessness, or sterility, to every

woman. The problem was discussed by leading authorities at the meeting of the American College of Surgeons.

Leading the discussion were Dr. Edwin C. Hamblen of

Durham, N. C.; Dr. John C. Burch of Nashville, and Dr. Conrad G. Collins of New Orleans. Several glands and the powerful chemicals they produce are involved in the situation, it was explained to me. Sometimes a woman remains childless because of some defect in the ovaries. These glands, however, are under the control of the pituitary, a tiny gland in the head. ! ; Ovarian failure may, therefore, be due not to a de="

fect in these glands but to failure of the pituitary to -

produce a chemical by which the ovaries receive the

stimulation necessary for them to do their part in en« -

abling a woman to have a baby. If all this sounds hopelessly complicated to you, it will at least give you an idea of the complications the

doctor faces when he tries to help childless matrons. *

He knows the various conditions, or at least many of them, which can cause childlessness in a woman. And he has at his disposal a few potent gland extracts which have been successful remedies in some cases.

One great difficulty, however, is to know which of

the extracts to use in a given case. The one that helped Mrs. A. may not be of any use in the case of Mrs. B., because these two matrons may be childless -

from different causes. So far, there is no way of telle-

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