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| WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1940

THE DAY AFTER

RESIDENTIAL campaigns generate and elections dissipate bitterness. That is the manner of our political life. The ballot box is the safety valve. In that fact is found perhaps the most fortunate of our folkways. That emotions ran a higher pulse in -this campaign than in most was not, after all, strange—for feeling rises _ in ratio to the seriousness of the times. | Even racial “and religious intolerance crept in occasionally, and of all the 1940 phases that was the most regrettable. But. in like ratio, the cooling-off process will occur. Unity will, come more rapidly because of the common realization that unity is much more needed, ‘and needed more quickly, than in calmer days. When the ballots were being cast yesterday a thing characteristically American occurred. With the tumult and the shouting still echoing over the land a good losers club was heralded as the national need. With that we, as losers, agree, and join. Without pretending that we are happy las we would ~ have been had our man won, we repeat the words of anather loser: ; ¥ “Whoever is flocked, » said Alf M. Landon, “will be my President.” ® We believe that, spoken a few days before election. expressed hen the sentiments of every true American and gupresses hem today.

us ONE LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND

iJ AM not an-isolationist. 1 am not an interventionist. I . am neither a militarist nor a pacifist. 1 am not for gppeaseme t. ‘I am concerned with America first. I be-

Heve that the vast majority of the American People are just,

that also. z ‘The policy I suggest is: 7 “1, Furnish all the support to England we can within the law. . . . 3 “2. Stop cultivating hysteria at home and sticking pins in tigers abroad. . £ “3. Make just one more talk and then stop talking. © “4, That one talk should emphasize that this nation wants peace with the world, It should inform the world that we are arming this country to the teeth; that we are organizing its economic strength in every corner, from the cellar to the garret: that after a year or two years, or whatever timé that job takes, we are going to talk again. Then we re going to say exactly what we expect the relations of other rations to be to us and our interests. Then we will be talking in the one language which they understand. “5. For the moment that would be enough stateseogathin "—Herbert Hoover.

MARK THE DATE, ‘SEPT. 7

T has not yet been marked down on the calendars as a public holiday. But Sept. 7 has been marked by Eric Sevareid, European news commentator. * That was the day, Sevareid notes, when the Nazis began bombing London’s East End, and to him: it marked the end of the British ruling class. While the war. goes, while the bombs: fall, a i revolution is going on in Great Britain. Sevareid believes, thus adding his observation to those of many other foreign commentators who have noted the same: thing. ‘When bankers and cabmen sleep side by side in. the same shelters and a hair’s breadth on the. cross-wires of a bomb-sight are all that determines whether death falls on Buckingham Palace or a Stepney pub, something happens that will not be ended when the bombs stop falling. © This, too, we ought to remember when we try to calcuthe effects of war upon the world.

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“FOR THE GOOD OF ALL? | , ih

HERE is no way to have more wealth ‘except thbagh greater production-of wealth. There is no better way to a wider distribution of wealth than by making the necessities and luxuries of life cost less. “Reward, or profit, is an essential element of antionol economy in any country—the United States, Germany, England, or Soviet Russia. Profit, the remainder after deducting expenses from receipts, is the only source for the levying of taxes, the accrual of indispensable emergency reserves, and the financing of social objectives. For the creation of pro which under effective competition is dependent upon minimum or efficiency costs, private enterprise is indispensable under a democratic form’ of government. It must be preserved and fostered. Private enterprise in the form of the activities ‘of independent American farmers, manufacturers, ‘and retailers has proved that it can produce better service in the form of lower costs and better products than bureaucratic government ownership and socialized yperation. 3 “A good society must also apply an aggregate social test. If employers are permitted to: destroy the health and vitality of workers by long hours, failure to prevent industrial disease, or by the malnutrition resulting from Tow wages, the nation at large suffers. No nation can benefit from the decrepitude of its population. Industry can mo longer select only the cream of American youth, leaving middle age to ‘Government relief. It has a responsibility bo all age groups. Trade associations, agricultural organ‘izations, and labor unions can no longer ‘concentrate on the ddvancement of their own members but must charge themselves also with self-discipline and a communal responsiMBBS, occ is not an all-sufficient end in itself. It is %eaningless if it produces merely that kind of freedom’ $hich is marked by unemployment, ‘poverty, and the pro#otion of self-interest. Democracy must be disciplined hd productive to have meaning. It must exist for the good all.”— (From “America and the New World Order,” by ¢K. Howard), »

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By Mai Al Williams

‘Germans Thought They Had Learned Plenty in Poland But Had to Revise

Dive Bomber Tactics in Lowlands! 2

IR warfare has upset the world’s most “brilliant 4 new military conception. No6 one knows much about its use. | stant, use: The picture is moving so-tapidly that, : just about the time one lesson is learned, other and ‘unforeseen fac- “ tors pep up. The first trial-and-error move

in this war disclosed short-sighted |

planning by the Germans when they transplanted their Polish and Norwegian air tactics to the Low Countries and French battle fronts.” The Poles were deficient in 50-caliber and: other types of machine guns for use against lowflying aircraft. . In the Polish campaign, particularly, German dive-bombing operations, necessitating the close approach of aircraft to the ground; disrupted the ground troops disastrously. There were three instances where concen-

trations of Polish troops threatened to upset the’

German land army advances. Into these situations pounced the dreaded dive bombers, destroying bridges, roads, supply bases—and troops on the march, > & ‘sn =» HE British and French caught the significance of the dive bomber and speeded up their “produc-

tions of heavy, anti-aircraft machine guns, which

fired projectiles ranging from one-half to-, threequarters..of an inch in diameter. The Germans thought they had. demonstrated the all-time, alt= around. sufficiency of the dive bomber. Airmen have been lukewarm from ‘time %o time about what would happen to the dive bomber when faced by great numbers of such heavy machine guns, firing straight aloft at‘ the: diving plane... .When a duck happens to fly smack dab at a gunner, the chance of missing. is greatly reduced. . . \ When the target—be it ‘duck or plane—is flying at full speed and at right angles to the gunner, the accuracy business means: “leading” tHe target and trying to make allowance for the speed. But flying right into the gun barrels means; no lead at all—and is point blank firing. Success is dangerous, since it often leads one to lose sight of factors that should be weighed. When the Germans transported all they had learned about dive-bomber operations in the Polish campaign into the Battle of France, the French and British scored heavily against the dive. bombers with their massed aircraft- machine guns. Noting this, the Germans quickly switched, while in full swing, from their carelessly launched attacks against anti-aircraft positions

and concentrated on. dive-bomber attacks” against.

troop and supply concentrations béing the: -Aghting

-{ronts.

[a : UT still the German's od yearned all vey had to know. When they had broken the French

“and British ground forces,"and both were in: full re- * |: treat, they-sent their heavy bombers against the

British at Dunkirk. Their success with heavy bombers against the British in the Norwegian Campaign, and the fact that théy had encountered none of the: British first-line, single-seater fighting planes (Supermarine “Spitfires” and Hawker “Hurricanes”), led them to discount these very fighters in the belief that the fast bombers could get in and out before the fighters could nail them. With the French Air Force broken at. this period, if the Germans had kept in mind the lesson of the supremacy of the fighter against thé bomber (learned specifically in the Spanish Civil War), they could have annihiliated the British forces seeking to embark from Dunkirk. And when the British singleseaters jumped the German big bombers, the result was disastrously heavy casualties among the bombers. Airpower follows the historical: pattern of new weapons, new: tactics—in a new typ# of warfare. The engineers supply the machinery—but it’s up to the general staff strategists to find the correct imethods for using that machinery most efficiently. The engineer has a wind tunnel to try out his model -plane. The strategist has to find the tactical answers under fire, in battle.

| Business

By John TF. Flynn

Speech to Doctors Recalls F. D. Rs Conflicting Stand in 1936 Campaign

EW YORK, Nov. 6.—President Roosevelt, in dedicating a health institute at Bethesda, Md., told the assembled doctors that neither he nor the American people have any intention of having: socialized medicine in this country. -

This was, of course, very good. |

news to the doctors. However, the incident recalled to my mind what happened in 1936 with reference to this same subject. At that time the whole subject of socialized medicine was a very lively one. The movement for it was powerful. The President, running for re-election, was riding.on top of the top-most wave of popular support. Under these circumstances he sent for one of the leaders in the movement for socialized health insurance, brought him to Hyde Park and.told him that the first act of his Administration after inguguration would be to press for the passage of a bill for socialized health insurance. He therefore asked this gentleman to prepare the necessary bill or data for a bill on that subject to be ready for the great event. This naturally pleased the gentleman who had been so graciously introduced into the President's plan. However, when he announced it to his colleagues, one of them bowled him over by digging up a newspaper of the day before or thereabouts containing a account of a speech made by the President at dedication of a hospital in New Jersey. The doctors were assembled there as they were-at the Health I stitute in ‘Bethesda the other day. It was necessary for the President to say something that would ple the doctors. ” ” 2 { F course the great foe, naturally, of socialized health insurance was the medical profession and particularly the American Medical Association. So in his speech the President told the doctors that they

could rest assured that the Government would do + nothing about this dangerous subject that did not have: the approval of the medical profession. This

was, of course, another way of saying that the Government would do nothing. Here were two diametrically opposite pledges. One was a pledge to the doctors to do nothing that their

profession would oppose— and they were opposed to.

socialized medicine or socialized health insurance. The other was a promise to a health insurance leader that such a measure would be the first act of his new ag ministration. : The question, then, which confronted these healt}

.insurance leaders was—which one of these groups w

going to get his pledge? As we know nothing was done about sovializet health insurance. And now, four years later, the President lells the doctors definitely that nothing will be done. That incident, with its speculations—interest, ing as they are—we may well consider closed.

So They Say—

"THE MENACE that comes to us from Spain is more subtle and longer lasting than that of the other totalitarian nations .—Dr. Henry Miller Busch, Clie land College. [ » ® -, AS BETWEEN two great nations, there is no ck thing as complete command of the air.—Former Pres-

ident Herbert Hoover. > -~ ®° SA W.

THE W.C. T. U. vould welcome having the ques-

tion of prohibition put directly to a vote of the people.—Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national W. C. T. U.

president. * *» .

DEMOCRACY IS a way of life as well as a king- . Clarence A. Dykstra, draft by

dom of: ts.~Dr, rector, hin

The trial and error method still is in con-|

military strategists. In the. true sense, it is a | ‘2

— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES — Now to Get Back to Our Plowing!

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5 1940

Gen. Johnson * So

The Hoosier Forum

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

CONTENDS TRAFFIC LIGHTS

DELAY RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC By A. Motorist It is my belief that much of our downtown traffic problem could be solved easily by shutting off the stop-and-go lights at rush hours. As I understand it, the problem is

always to clear the automobile traffic from the downtown district. I think it is true that once automobiles get out of the mile square, the lines of trafic move along at a higher rate of speed. If the stop-and-go signals were turned off and officers stationed at the .important corners to get eastwest traffic through, we could speed up the clearing of the downtown area by at least five miles an hour. ” ” s

TAKES A SLAM AT ONE-MINUTE VOTE LAW By T. W. 8. I agree with you that the one-

‘minute limitation on machine voting

is absurd. I am quite sure that when that law was passed the length of the ballot was relatively small and a person could easily vote intelligently: within the space of one

RE eitions have changed, however. No individual can exercise his real right of franchise by voting for 37 people in the space of 60 seconds. The Indiana Legislature ought to make the amending of this law its first order of business when it assembles. » 2 » ”

A CHEER FOR MEXICO AND A PLEA FOR CO-OPERATION By R. B. For years this country has regarded Mexico as the bad little boy of the continent. There have been incidents such as the Zimmerman note and the oil appropriation to fan the anger of U. 8. citizens. But Mexico has suffered and. still is suffering from “growing pains” that stir up not only its own citizens but those of its neighbors as well. However, the most cheering news your paper has printed for: many

c | months was the action of President

Cardenas in co-operating with the

(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.)

U. 8S. ban on supplying war materials to Japan. There is an example of Mexico extending its right hand to us in promoting -hemisphere solidarity. Instead of bickering about our differences with our neighbors to the South, it is time for us to settle them and then really get going— really do something—to make Mexico a respected and trusted friend like Canada. ” ” 8 A PAT ON THE BACK FOR OUR RADIO STATIONS By Radio Fan The. criticism I've read recently in The Times about our radio stations not carrying all the important symphonic broadcasts probably is justified. Still, by and large, I think Indianapolis is pretty fortunate in the general excellence of radio entertainment that these stations furnish. It seems to me they are trying to do a good job and I have no doubt that eventually they will work out a solution that will meet the criticism of those who prefer the loftier types of music. ” ” » 4 CONTENDS URGE FOR FREEDOM DOES NOT DIE By A. B, C. People have lost their freedom from time to time down through the long centuries. But they have never failed to regret that loss and to strive to regain it. : The world has changed, the editors of Das Reich, a Berlin newspaper,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

"My wife is.giving ge s lscture—would you have your boys

seems to believe, For this paper is urging the people of The Netherlands and of Se¢andinavia to “cease regretting their lost freedom and be glad to join the German Reich . People are stubborn about things like that. They may be conquered, They may be held down by military occupation. They may be denied freedom. But the longing for lost freedom is something that is not so easily removed as a pair of tonsils. It lies down deep in man, out of reach of the surgeon’s knife—or even of the bayonet. ” » ” PARK LOVER REGISTERS A LUSTY PROTEST - By J. C. This is only a mild pita) and it comes a little after the fact,’ The writer, however, is looking forward

to next year.

year was one of ° the months of the year. It was mild and fair and just begged people to be outside as much as possible. Because, however, all the city park benches and picnic benches were taken from the parks according to a paper schedule, not according to the weather, hundreds were deprived of the pleasure of enjoying our parks. > I'll venture to say that at least three and probably four weeks of excellent outdoors weather was lost to the parks. If surely doesn’t cost more money just to leave park and picnic benches out longer. Why couldn’t they be put out and taken in according to the weather, and not according to a prearranged schedule? ” ” ” ‘ANOTHER REBUKE FOR OUR TRAFFIC RECORD By Pedestrian

Just, because the picture is no better throughout the nation that’s no reason why ‘we should be having a .worse traffic death record this year than a year ago. Particularly after all those high and lofty promises we heard “that this year was going to be different. Seems to me our enforcement would be a lot more effective if our traffic cops would quit hiding behind the billboards and side -streets and get out in :the stream of traffic on actual patrol. That's the time to stop the speeders—before they've caused their mischief and not afterwards.

ABODE BY VERNE S. MOORE

O, God let him"live in a house On the crags by the sea; Where the mad waves dash on the rocks below And the sea-going craft beat a trail of foam i As | they move on their courses away.

Let him sit in the dusk by his house On the crags _by the sea And watch the bold stars as they go Down, down to their death in the infinite sea.

Let him sit in the dusk by his house And be alone with his thoughts On the crags by. the sea.

DAILY THOUGHT

Nevertheless. for thy great mercies’ sake + thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious Jud merciful» God. == Neltemiah

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All. Good Americans Must Accept The Verdict of the Polls and Unife For the General Good of the Nation

“RENTON, N. J., Nov. 6.—By the time this is pub= lished the election issues will be decided. Re=

gardless of ‘our feelings, it is the duty of all to accept

that decision. “That is our.democracy, for which we must fight to the last in this dangerous world—the ‘most precious thing in our nas tional life. This may not be easy: Ti has. been the bitterest campaign in my experience. Deep ods a vr given—and receiv Low blows have been struck. Hatreds have been incited. Class and religious prejudices have inflamed. Hints of: reprisals, pressions and even persecu have been dropped. Never KM this country been so torn and we united. We can't let “this go on. ‘hls perhaps understandable in such an election, where many old and strongly-held principles and : honored American traditions were at stake, but was not one of them that was not subject. to oie of the people. As that vote decides, so it 18, Bad and surly losers at suchi a time as are. badd and surly Americans. | :

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=e remain issues that were not voted. - os among these is the extent to which our people wish to be involved in war, This must still be dee bated and fought in Congress, but as to everything which goes to make us strong for defense, our warring factions must do their utmost to be united—one for all and all for one—the country, ; Although I do not at this moment know who will he President, the result of the election seems certain, There will be a much more even balance of power ih Congress. There will be no rubber-stamp legislature as little more than an echo of the executive will of a single man. That is all ‘to the good. It is the constitutional American democracy asserting itself. The executive can have no more extraordinary personal powers than Congress grants, and Congress will do well to grant more only with extreme caution—no matter who, is President. All emergency powers necessary to ade~ quote defense have already been. given—indeed, more than are necessary. The people must retain their power to keep us at peace as long as that is possible, » » » HERE- is only one instrumentality by which lis people can voice their will in this regard. It is Congress which alone can declare war. That is why a more evenly balanced legislature Just now is: 150 great a blessing.’ It is a good’ thing, too, that the election is close. We should hear no more the 1937 cries of the victors,

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“we have a mandate,” and, therefore, we hope, ro

new attempt to ride rough-shod over minorities through popular inhibitions and constitutional . re strictions. Goosestepped Nazi-99 per cent “ya” votes. are what create dictatorships and make wars. There will be mo war. There will be no American Fuehrer, if we can maintain a large and live political group of oppcEls

tion in the country as well as in the Congress. -

It was a hard fight. I, for one, am glad it is over, For me it involved something like the job of “taking in washing by‘day and digging wells at night.” I'm tired and battered and I'm going down to Bethany Beach and sleep for a week—turning over each day only long enough to get my column out.

A Woman's s Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

II our community a number of blind and crippled people have been made self-supporting through the efforts and intelligence of the local Lions Club. By spending a very small sum a broom factory: was started. > At first it was hardly important enough to be called by such a name, but, since the blind are often expert at hand work, applicants for jobs soon ine creased until at present the busi . ness supports 10 families, One man who ‘was receiving $21 from . county, now earns $85 a month. The sponsors of . the project looked "after the advertising end at first. They presented not only brooms. but the ‘thrilling story of hope. renewed in human hearts, Now the product sells itself. And as a consequence’ our town has a new factory. nearby farmers have a new market for their broomcorn and a group of peeple have regained pride in themselves. No matter how financially. successful the project may become, something far more valuable than money has been put into the community. Helpless individuals have become self-supporting. Men who considered themselves burdens upon families and society find ‘they can produce something which other ‘people need, There is no feeling quite comparable to this, no thrill that can match the sense of usefulness which burns in the heart of the individual who, by paying as he goes, knows he is a valuable member of his Soe cial order. This is the, season for Community Fund drives, People are sharing their money with the needy—but how many of us are concerned with ways to give them dignity as well as breed? Charity which keeps its recipients on a perpetual dole is as wicked as it is false. True charity means the sharing of our wits, ingenuity, intelligence and eration ing as well as the opening of our pocketbooks. 3

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford : Ls Tl pees

ANY a mother worries Becaiise per J the end of his second year losss his fd lusty appetite; 4 and fails to show consent’ to

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William Siddon Langford of thie" Batley Hospital, Columbia University, told. members 6 ihe American Dietetic Association. Ba The child's appetite naturally decreases somewhat at this age because he- is: .no ‘longer growing at the rapid rate of the first year and a half or two years of his life. Trying to make the child: . #at’ more will often establish a state of tance, Dr. Langford says, which has a marked and unfavorable influence on the parent-child relation. “It is only recently that those concerned with the feeding of young children have come to: devote as much atfention to the question of getting the child to take the food as to supplying him with adequate ‘| food,” Dr. Langford points out. “The personality of the child and his environment must be considered, and also the fact that the needs of the child fctuate from time to time. “Some children will take all the food offered and look for more. Most, however, will eat osdy until the appetite is satisfied. One group. should be proe foie from over-feeding, and the other from UHGeLe e g. “Often a healthy infant knows. better than one else when he has taken the proper Jan food. Some infants are naturally disinterested .in food. Often the disinterest is caused by association with a tense, agitated parent or 8... Excitément or suaden change in surroundings frequently causes temporary loss of appetite, which" Af ‘met with alarm, may become permanent. “An infant derives satisfaction at f

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