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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1940

INO GLOATING—NO SULKING TODAY the American people go to the polls as partisans. That is their privilege, and that is their duty. Tomorrow they will face a privilege equally as great and a duty fully as important—the privilege and duty of turning from partisanship to sportsmanship. Democracy, we hear it said, has been put to a severe test by the fervor and the bitterness of the campaign. But democracy was not endangered by the fact that political differences existed and were hotly argued. The real test comes now. : . We believe American democracy will meet that test, as it has many times before. We believe the people are eager to lay politics aside and join hands to make this country secure against dangers within and enemies Without. © The next President, whether Republican or Democrat, will need the support of a united nation. And, by the same token, the nation will need the leadership of a President whose aim is unity. el : So, whatever the returns may show tonight, let us hope that the election will produce good losers. and generous winners. ‘Let us resolve now not to gloat in victory and not to sulk in defeat. We are partisans today, but wé are all Americans, with a job to do that calls for a solid front.

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s 8 = a 8 8 = * Regardless of who occupies the White House, or which party dominates Congress, the big tasks ahead are the same. First of these, by common consent, is the building of a strong national defense. Whether Mr. Willkie wins or loses, what we repeated time and again during the campaign will remain true: “Only the productive can be strong, and ‘only the strong can be free.” To make ourselves productive and strong so that we shall remain free will require the common effort of industry and labor, of Congress and the chief executive. : * Second, and as part and parcel of this first big task, ig the re-employment of the 9,000,000 American men and women who still wait outside the gates of our system of productive enterprise. To put these jobless to work will réquire the giving of employment to the billions of American capital also still idle. This program of production and progress is great enough to call forth the selfless service of all factions and groups. If we succeed all will gain; if we fail all will lose. 3 To the winners of today’s election goes the responsibility: for leadership. That does not mean that the losers should abdicate. Theirs is the important function of opposition, a co-operating but an exacting opposition. We have learned by sore experience .that our democratic system operates most efficiently when the minority is strong and active, policing the majority and working with it in the common purpose of advancing the country’s welfare.

READING FOR LOSERS 0 every American officeholder who meets defeat at to- > day’s poll—from the lowliest constable or justice of the peace to the highest officials of state and national government—we recommend a reading of Henry F. Ashurst’s farewell to the U. Sh§gnate. Some excerpts follow: : “I am sure some y colleagues expect.me to describe the sensation of defeat. The first half-hour you believe that the earth has slipped from beneath your feet, that the stars above your head have paled and faded, and you wonder what the Senate will do without you, and you wonder how the country will get along without you. But within another half-hour there comes a peace and a joy that would be envied by the world’s greatest philosopher. . . .

“A man only moderately versed in statesmanship, and with only a small degree of sportsmanship, is bound to admit that in a free republic, in a Government such as ours, it is the undoubted right of the people to change their servants, and to remove one and displace him with another at any time they choose, for a good reason, for a bad reason, or for no reason at all. If we are to remain a free people, it is the duty of public servants not grumpily and sourly to accept the verdict of the majority, but joyously to accept that verdict. . . . . “A great many people unwisely imagine that the beauty and serenity of life inhere in office. No, royalty and honor do not necessarily inhere in cabinets, congresses, and courts; réyalty and honor inhere in the citizen. Honor of itself dpes not reside in office; honor resides in the man.” -

BUILDING FOR PEACE

should be and must be, the world being what it is. The shipyards ring, the barracks rise, the tanks rumble off the assembly line. : But in the meantime America is also building for peace. Stewart McDonald, Federal Housing administrator, estimates that by the end of 1940, America will have built as many single-family homes during the year as the 1920-29 average, or about 427,000. Four hundred thousand homes is a lot of homes, and proof that Uncle Sam has two strong arms—a right arm with which he can provide the sinews of war, and a left with which he can build new homes for his peaceful people. It is the “guns or butter” story all over again, and one more proof that the United States can have both.

PET NEWS a » ARS. LILLIAN COLANGELO of Detroit, incensed over the capture of her dog, bit the dogcatcher on the arm. Earl Leonard's pet bullfrog went on a rampage at Hickory, N. C., swallowed three goldfish, and then choked to death ‘on a katydid. And at Santa Rosa, Cal, Otto Schalich’s cat ‘caught fire from oil dripping from the kitchen stove, dashed outdoors into a haystack, and burned the barn,

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New Books

By Stephen Ellis

Bruce Lancaster's "For Us the Living" One of the Finest of All Works on "Honest Abe" Lincoln and His Times

ko; HEY done it for us, the living, so I reckon it's for us, the living, to make sure what they fought for and got killed for goes on.” In. that Lincolnian summing up of the War of Independence you find the title theme of Bruce Lancaster’'s magnificent new novel, “For Us The Living” (Frederick A, Stokes; $2.75). This is the story of Lincoln’s boyhood, of his

struggles to make a living, his con-

stant striving for an education. Mr. Lancaster has not made Lincoln the hero of his book. Rather, it is the story of Hugh Brace, the pioneer lad whose right arm 1s noticeably shorter than his left, and who became Abe Lincoln's close friend. The story of Hugh Brace beBruce Lancaster comes the story of Abraham Lin-

coln as both boys fight their heritage as “movers” |

and strive to establish their roots. In his 556-page “For Us The Living,” Bruce Lancaster has recreated the Midwestern wilderness that fathered Lincoln, our own Indiana Pigeon Creek, the epidemics of that early frontier day, the Indian warfare and, most powerfully, the men who made this country, : It deserves an A-1 rating. It must go down as one of the finest of all books about “Honest Abe.”

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R. LANCASTER, you may recall, is the author:

L of the thrilling “Guns of Burgoyne,” and it is brought to mind by the publication of “Sergeant Lamb's America,” by Robert Graves (Random House; $2.50). The author of “Count Belisarius,” “Claudius The God,” and “I, Claudius,” has brought into the setting of early America all the skill and writing ability that made his books of the old Rome so dramatic and intriguing. “Sergeant Lamb’s America” is the history of the revolution through the eyes of a soldier of the king, who saw continuous action under Gen. Burgoyne and who was one of those captured when Burgoyne surrendered his army at Saratoga. Robert Graves is a top ranking artist and he maintains his reputation with this one.

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HEE HILL and Herbert Agar have just written ““Beyond German Victory,” (Reynal & Hitchcock; $1) a 117-page picture of today’s world. crisis that deserves to be read by all Americans. With force ‘(and brevity) it sets out Nazi aims and our role in those aims. It is a plea for American action, for an America that is strong and forceful. In the authors’ own words: “We must have an active foreign policy, a dynamic world strategy, in peace no less than in war. Isolated America becomes encircled America. If the United States does not go to the world, the world wil}

come to the United States, and come in military form.” - ” FJ ”

WE LEARN FROM Bobbs-Merrill that Indianapolis’ -Bertita Harding has already finished half of her manuscript for her latest book, “Throne inthe Andes: The Braganzas of Brazil.” : . Mrs. Harding went to South America to do her research work on the lives of three generations of the royal family that ruled Brazil.

. 2 a =n. WINSTON CHURCHILL, whether he wins or loses,

will go down in history as one of the most dramatic

figures of the 19th Century. You will understand him a little better through the new book by Rene Kraus, “Winston Churchill” (Lippincott; $3).

Business By John T. Flynn

F.D.R. Embraced Defense Spending When Economic Policy Broke Down

EW YORK, Nov. 5—The final phase of the Roosevelt economic policy is now in full force. 17 may, perhaps, be called a modification of the third phase. } : As I have explained already, the first phase was the correction of the abuses of orthodox capitalism in the interest of a free enterprise system. This was outlined in the Democratic platform of 1932 and the President's speeches in the 1932 campaign. The second phase was the complete reverse of this—a system of comprehensive control and direction of industry by groups of organized producers under Government supervision in the interest of scarcity and higher prices and wages. This collapsed with the NRA and the AAA. Remnants of it merely linger on. The third phase of this economic policy was based on the theory of Government spending as a permanent policy. Spending, at first, was looked upon as a mere transient expedient to get business going and relieve distress—recovery and relief. . But when the scond phase of the Roosevelt economic policy broke down, the third came in—spending as part of a plan of Government “investment” to take the place of the decline and, perhaps, disappearance of private investment, The trouble with this was that the word “investment” was used to describe any sort of spending, rather than real, economic investment, as distinguished from spending. And now the fourth phase is another form of this Government “investment’ theory. It is the system of armament economics.

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L= no one suppose that the vast program of Government spending on armaments is an accident or the result of a sudden hysteria because of the war. The ‘President played with the idea long before the war started. He commented to. visitors on the success which men like Mussolini and Hitler had had in abolishing unemployment by putting their people to work in the national defense industries. He was not aiming at war. He was aiming at continuing his spending policies on war preparations. The whole program of spending on peace-time projects had run into its inevitable resistance. The President was aware of this and had foreseen it. And, as early as 1937, he was seriously considering shifting his spending from peace-time to military and naval projects. I called attention to it that early. The reason for this is, of course, obvious. He was up against a powerful attack upon spending on peacetime projects. He had to find projects to spend on which would break down that opposition. The perfect, project, of course, is national defense. Only it is necessary first to start a fire—a fire of national fear— as a basis for it. But when a man starts a fire like that he cannot tell where it will spread. This, of course, is what has happened. The fire

has spread until people have.been sold the preposter- |.

ous idea that Hitler is going to come over here and conquer us as he did little Belgium and Holland and Denmark. And the spending program has gone into a form of madness. But that is the economic policy at the base of the President's current plans—armament economics,

So They Say—

BELIEVE ME, he’s worth every dime of it.—Frank Nichols, the Veloz of the dance team of Veloz and Yolanda, who gave up $10,000 a week to rear a boy baby. * : * * * WE SHOULD STOP looking for panaceas. The solution of our problems rests within ourselves.—Dr. Barclay Atcheson, magazine editor. - > LJ

. I NEVER GAVE it any thought.—Mrs. Earl Browder, wife of the Communist Party secretary, when asked if she agreed politically with her husband. * % *

WE MUST BE strong economically, not only for the sake of our national health and happiness, but to ‘meet the trade competition that most assuredly will be hurled at us when the wars abroad have abated.— .President James S, Kemper, U, 8. Chamber of Commerce. :

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~ Reflection

The Hoosier Forum

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

A LUSTY CHEER FOR THOSE POUGHTY GREEKS! By T. K. Hurrah for the Greeks! I always did say and I say it again that if Hitler has to depend on the Italian Army he’s going to land up running into the Black Forest. The Italian Army never could fight a lick. |It can’t now. You wait and see that if the German troops don't come | in to pull big-mouth Mussolini out of trouble, the whole Italian Army will wind up running! into the sea—backwards.

. 8 8 8 PUTS LABOR COURTS IN NAZI CLASS By George Crawell, Mount Summit, Ind. The ian reputation of the

Nazi civil and criminal courts seemingly has little edge over the newly

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views

mony), no compensation would be allowed. The Board of Review has already indicated that the Appeal Tribunal decisions will be affirmed. How under the name of common sense can it be said that inspectors, metallurgists, timekeepers, sweepers, etc.,, are thus rightfully classified? Under such a ruling I see no reason why one man cannot successfully put on a strike, which is what has

created Labor Courts of our State and Federal Government. In either case it seems necessary to be on! the “in” if justice is to be expected. |

I am president of an independent |

substantially happened at this steel mill. Since this trouble has arisen, we have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election. To

labor union| and it has been quite date no time for a hearing has been apparent to me and to all the mem- given. Subsequently to our petition, bers of my union that unless we join|the C. I. O. of the Remy Corporathe C. I. O., we need not expect fair tion of Anderson filed a petition treatment from the petty and Juve~ {for an election. That has been nile officers comprising the State granted and an election has been and National Labor Boards. held. Why? Because the National I am not speaking generally, but !Labor Relations Board is strongly specifically. | I refer to the strike ia cahoots with the C. I. O. and had at the Ingersoll Steel & Disc Co. of every reason to .believe that the New Castle; Ind, the strike that Remy plant would go C. I. O. By

cost my men eight weeks loss of} work. ‘Here's what has happened to date: t A handful of men (C. I. O.), representing about one-tenth of the plant’s 350 employees, called a strike, the real purpose of which was for sole bargaining rights over the whole plant. . They attempted and did keep a part of us out by force.. They blocked the highway along the side of the factory. An appeal was made by us to the Governor for State Police aid. He denied help and very conveniently found other and more “urgent” calls for the State Police in other parts of the State. We were denied unemployment compensation from the State Unemployment Compensation Board because, in a few words, the C. I. O. didn’t want us to have it. Why? Because their boast of power would have been but a jack-in-the-box. The Board based its decision upon che theory that all save those in the office force were on production and that since these few men were striking for the good of all (a supposition not substantiated by testi-

the same token, our petition is scuttled away in musty files until we begin to see things as the Board would have us see them. I feel that these boards are unAmerican in their partisanship and when I say that, I believe I am safe in saying that I speak for the men I represent. The C. I. O. Union is un-American under its present directors but I feel certain that whatever the National Labor Relations Board does to thwart us, it will never succeed in forcing us to submit to the domination of the C. I. O.

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EAST SIDER SQUAWKS OVER TRAFFIC TIEUPS

By a Hoosier

I can’t understand traffic handling in Indianapolis. The worst job a driver has is to get cross-town. Have you ever tried to drive across Vermont St., east to west or vice versa? Well, you can get by where they have traffic lights, but if you happen to hit Illinois St. at rush hour you can sit there for 20 minutes and try to get across. If the police can’t afford a traffic

Side Glances—By Galbraith

crossword puzzles on her,

corn. 1940 BY.NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. Ss PAT. OFF. "Old Lady Watkins just complained about you working out the

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light there, they at least can send one of the motorcycle policemen up from the Circle and let him (direct a little traffic. : That's one thing this town has always been asleep on. You'd think that everybody lived either north or south. Well, they don’t. I live on the east side and work on’the west side and I like to get home just as well as the next man. Why all this traffic discrimination? i o o ” WHAT ABOUT THAT Z00? HE'D LIKE TO KNOW | By R. S. | I have been wondering what has happened to the zoo proposal as put forth by “Inside Indianapolis.” It seems to me that everybody interested in the proposal lost interest as soon as it became apparent that the City had made that $750,000 mistake in the budget. As I understood the proposal it called for a self-sustaining municipal zoo. That's what I am for. I do not believe the people want anything free. I am sure that they would be willing gladly to pay whatever admission fee was necessary. Our children need a zoo. the bi nati, St. Louis, Chicago, all the big cities have fine zoos. Even Lafayette and Evansville have us 3Kinned a mile. Let's get going for a self-sustain-ing municipal zoo. |

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A BOO FOR THE POLICE | ON OUR TRAFFIC RECORD .

By J. W. T. | People have been paying too much attention to politics. They talk|about the horrors of war. But what about the horror of our automobile death

toll right here in Indianapolis. Up and up it has been going and right now it is far higher than it was a year ago. It’s past time for traffic enforcement to get going. The Police Department keeps putting out honeyed phrases about continued enforcement but drivers keep on speeding up N. Meridian and N. Capitol at 45 and 50 miles an hour. On N. [Pennsylvania St. you have to drive like a demon to keep up with the trolley cars. Where is the motorcycle Every time you see a motorcycle that belongs to the police it| seems to be parked and the policeman away eating his breakfast or/ lunch or something. Is the Police Department ‘always eating?

squad?

» ” » . CONSIGNS TO OBLIVION MISS THOMPSON AND HUGH - By J. Little Tv

" There are two people I nominate for oblivion right now. First is| Dorothy Thompson and second Gen. Hugh Johnson. Both of them—on opposite sides of the fence—paid no attention whatever to fact and lied and lied and lied. . .. What we need in America is a little bit less of these kind of hatemongers.

MARK OF WISDOM

By ELEEZA HADIAN

When a rescue ship Is battling the waves - Beach-combers ashore Criticize the braves; When a trying job Is done and finished It is most easy To pick flaws in it; The trademark of man Capable and wise Is a silent, watchful mind For he can recognize A difficult task, Knows, eclipse of present Is the ‘greatest test Can’t spare time, breath, On sharp, flaying text— His turn may-come next At the receiving end.

DAILY THOUGHT

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.— Mark 16:16.

LOVE GOD, and He will dwell with you. Obey God, and He will reveal to you the truth of His deep-

est teachings.—Robertson.

Gen. Johnson Says—

Win or Lose Wendell Willkie and

Most Amazing Campaign in History

T. LOUIS, Nov. 5.—Never in any election have I seen such enthusiasm in youth as in young workers for Willkie. I have seen it wherever I have spent time and spoken recently, Lansing, Cleveland, - cago, Detroit, Kingston, Philadelphia, New York, Bt. Louis. These young amateurs in’ politics have turned in a remark-" able performance, showing up the

professionals. “youth movement.”

all their free hours ringing doorbells. They use only argument but they go to town. : ) When you stop to review year, you can't avoid saying this Willkie upsurge is one of

phenomena in our _history. " velt beat. Landon by about 11 lion votes. Even blindly fanatical New Dealers do not expect him to beat Willkie more than two million. Willkie enthusiasts expect Roosevelt to lose by three millions. As late as March Willkie was hardly known. The first Gallup Poll gave him only 1 per cent of the vote for nomination, although it is true that at the same time. tha D survey predicted his nomination. " » EJ

| HAT goes on here, a practical political tyro) in

less than eight months switching certainly nine million and perhaps 14 million American votes. The

like of it has never been seen before. And yet Mr. Roosevelt's claquers say, what every newspaperman , who was at the Philadelphia convention knows is not °

true, that there was no spontaneous uprising at Philadelphia, only a rigged convention. Roll river roll, | It was the greatest political deluge of all time. This

column is too astonished to attempt to make any . political prediction of the election, but if this kind of popular surge can be stopped by any kind of political

jim-cracks and finagling, even by the billions of dollars in New Deal spending, we might as well write democracy off as an American tradition, The people no longer rule, the janissariat does.

partisan. I have been asked by men on both sides to repeat two warnings I have given several times,

» ” » HE first has to do with registration. Thousands. of people think and are told by slickers that, if they have registered as a Democrat, they must vote” for Roosevelt or; if registered as a Republican, they must vote for Willkie.

either legal or moral, When a man gets inside that election booth he can vote his convictions at that moment, and it is his duty to do so. No matter how he registered, either as a Democrat or as a Republican, he must vote for the man whom he thinks would be best for the country. Willkie or Rposevelt, as his conscience dictates. . a z The second warning is even/more important. There have been’pressures of thre and promised favors on both sides. Se i It doesn’t make any difference whether the pres=sure comes from an employer, industrial foreman, a WPA overseer, a relief worker, a labor leader or a labor spy or fink. When you get into that booth you are alone with yourself, your conscience and your God. You vote as you believe, whether for Willkie or Roose~ velt, nobody will ever know. Nobody has a right to

give the answer such a question deserves. The only way we can keep the America we have known is to keep the ballot free and secret. That is the way it is today. 1

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE car in front stopped suddenly. A long line be~ hind it was forced to do the same. What had happened? A school child was being carefully escorted across the street by a watchful policeman,

dren are so well guarded upon certain occasions! That, of course, was my first thought. We all re-: act in the same way, I suppose, because the custom is a generally accepted one. However, it will bear some analysis and criticism, Are we not breeding a psychology of helplessness and arrogance in our chil-

~ of trafic held up in order that they may cross to the other side of a street? It would be strange, indeed, if they did not grow up to expect more favors from society than they deserve. It often seems to me that our whole approach to the problem of traffic and children is wrong. As early as possible they should—all .of them—be taught to walk to school or to use the transportation facilities which are provided for the purpose. The habit would offer excellent exercise, it would mitigate the early morning and late afternoon street congestion, it would

above all, it would teach children to use their wits and foster in them habits of self reliance,

It’s more than a little irritating to see youngsters carted to and from school by doting mothers, who afterward turn them loose to play games or roller skate up and down the dangerous streets. It is the first duty of parents and teachers to instruct children to awoid danger—not to guard them perpetually from meeting it, All these “I'll do as I please” notions will have to be discarded if we hope to see our own become stalwart men and women capable of self control. : They face many dangers from within and without, none of which can be overcome unless we train them to do a few hard things. Every person is subjected to daily traffic hazards. pedestrian would grow up to be a careful automobile driver. Certainly, anything that might dispel this “Get out of the way! Here I come!” attitude, would be a community blessing. Hane

By Jane Stafford

F you want to get an idea of how well you can stand cold weather, try the ice cube test. All you nede is an ice cube and a watch that shows seconds . as well as minutes. Hold the ice cube against your skin for two seconds. Then watch how long it takes for a red mark to appear where the ice cube was. If

not react well to changes in temperature. The ice cube test is recommended, among other measures, by Dr. Charles I. Singer of Long Beach, L. I, in a report to the American Medical Association on climate and military preparedness. Hemisphere defense, he points out, means that American soldiers may have to be sent to fight in. climates ranging from the frigid Arctic and Antarctic . regions to the sweltering tropics. ; Dr. Singer not only advises the Army to train recruits for climatic adaptation as well as for military operations, but suggests tests for determining the. adaptability of the soldier of whom special duties may be required. Among these tests he mentions the ice cube test. Reason for the ice cube test is that it indicates the ability of the skin to react to changes in temperature. -The skin is one of the organs of the body that bears part of the responsibility of keeping the temper= ature inside our bodies at its normal 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, winter or summer. When it is cold out-

This is an automatic regulating mechanism, and the * blood vessels of the skin have constricted in response when the ice is removed and the skin warms. As they

the reddening where the cube was,

His Amateurs Have Conducted the

This is the Hue.

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Watching Your Health :

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side, the problem of keeping warm is partially handled by a constriction of the veins and arteries in the skin. °

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