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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1940

OPPORTUNITY COMES AGAIN!

OUR years ago, hailing the second election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, we said this: - “Whether he lives up to the magnitude of his chance, “8s he has in his first four years, will be determined, we believe, in a very large degree by whether he has within him that rare capacity to rise above those perfectly human impulses which prevent most great men from attaining the full measure of their opportunity. : “Now he stands the victor, with whip in hand, if he wants to use it. Will he? Or will he throw it down? The hatreds will soon be gone with the winds of a blustery campaign, now dead. But the job will remain. He will need all the help he can get. He should not increase the resistance, but rather do all in his power to diminish it. Backed by the indorsement of the people he will not find it difficult to convince even many. of those who were bitterest in their opposition that his objectives in this democracy of ours are in the interest of the welfare of the United States of America. - | “He should not weaken. But he should gather togethen

behind him all the strength and all the unity that the worth- |

iness of those‘objectives can muster. The speed and sureness with which we move from here on will be in direct ratio to the magnanimity and the objectivity which this much-maligned President is able to show.”

os ” » os 2 FJ We said that, having tried to the best of our ability to help Mr. Roosevelt win his overwhelming second-term victory. -And today—having opposed him for a third term— it seems to us that no citizen, whether he was among those who supported or those who opposed in the campaign just ended, can do the President and the country greater service than to say the same things now. We believe the American people deeply desire to be united, and certainly there has never been greater need of that strength which can come only through unity. We believe millions are yearning to respond to a spirit emanating from the White House, as it did in another trying time, of malice toward none and charity for all. The job to be done is even greater than it was four years ago. The doing of that job will require of many of us that we be good losers. But of others it will require something more difficult, and more important—that they be good winners. | : 8 = * . 8s 9% 8 One thing more. In the campaign we expressed, as did others, the fear that Mr. Roosevelt would take America into war. The returns indicate that a majority of the people did not share this fear. We hope we were wrong. We are going to presume we were wrong, unless and until developments prove otherwise. But concerning one thing we know we are right. The price of safety and the price of liberty are the same—eternal vigilance. :

NEUTRAL EIRE—HOW LONG?

IRE, the Irish Free State, is neutral. She is also defenseless, unless bravery and small arms are to be accounted a match for the modern engines and techniques of war. Eire has declined to consider letting England take measures for her defense. She seems content to take a chance that Germany will not seize her as a springboard for invasion of Britain from the west, and as a larder for Nazidom. She has.not even the facilities to forbid use of her western harbors as nests from which U-boats may spring at British convoys. oe Whether or not Irish waters are being used by U-boats up to now, certainly the subs (plus surface raiders and bombing planes) are beginning to take terrific toll along Britain's life lines. The Nazis say two of their U-boat commanders have now accounted for more than 200,000 tons of enemy shipping apiece. The great liner Empress of Britain, 42,000 tons, was a recent victim. : The Nazis claim a bag of 1,308,600 tons of enemy shipping in September-October, and even though this figure may be partly tall talk, there is no doubt that the British merchant marine is hard pressed. Winston Churchill said in Commons Tuesday: “The fact that we cannot use the south and west coasts of Ireland to refuel our flotillas and aircraft and thus protect trade by which Ireland as well as Great Britain lives, that fact is a most heavy and grievous burden and one which should never have been placed upon our shoulders, broad though they may be.” : Immediately there was a hue and cry in Commons for gome arrangement which would allow the use of Eire’s harbors without infringing her neutrality.’ Here is one of the most heartbreaking problems that Mr. Churchill ever faced. With Eire unprotected, she is a gucker for an unannounced German invasion which would put the Nazi planes and legions on England's western flank —and probably make the wearing of the green a capital offense. empt Irish territory—no matter how vital to the security of both Eire and England—without stirring up a hideous hornet’s-nest of ancient enmities. President de Valera, in pondering these matters, would do well to reflect upon the fate of other leaders of small nations, leaders who are leaders no longer, and whose nations have ceased to exist.

MAYBE QUE expanding Army is installing high-speed electrical machines to keep its personnel records. By means of special cards with holes punched in appropriate positions, so it’s said, each soldier will be assigned work for which he is best fitted, will receive his mail on time and get his pay promptly. This, as any veteran of 1917-18 can tell you, will g less than revolutionary™—if it works.

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| Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Tender Solicitude Shown Guffey Contrasts With Harassment of Small Garage Owner on Taxes Owed U. S.

EW YORK, Nov. T.—Never has my mail been as heavy or as grim as during the last seven or eight weeks, but at the last hour there came one ray of mirth from a deadpan humorist in the state of Washington which I feel obliged to share with others

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

It’s Triplets!

at a time when so many of us have forgotten what fun was.

He leads off with the fact that |-

he served 17 months in France, on

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tion of operating a small garage. Being ill at ease in the presence of numerals, he hired a bookkeeper whosé work was satisfactory until an auditor streamlined the books and made some changes in his income tax procedure. “Thereupon,” he says, “a Government collector swooped down on me, raked over “what ancient records we could find as far as 1935 and announced that I had to dig up $400 for Uncle Sam. Not having 400 bucks, I was given the option of paying this in four installments. “My last installment comes due in two months, but about three weeks ago another collector goes over the same records again and declares the other Shylock is all wet and I must pay 493 bucks more, in addition to the previous 400. I had to hock my life insurance on the first rap and now must devise some means of caring for No. 2. 2 s #

“y WAS one of the dummies that enlisted in the last war, thereby losing out on nearly two years of fineygravy which the stay-at-homes grabbed in the shipyards of Seattle. After 20 years of struggling with a small business my home is still unpaid for, and now my Army insurance is in hock.”

Our unhappy friend will be even more distressed to learn that his $893 is needed to help pay the debt of $4165, plus compound interest for 15 years, which is owned by Joe Guffey, the New Deal Senator from Pennesylvania and a deadhead de luxe passenger on the ship of state.

Senator Guffey has indicated a willingness to pay his income tax when he finds himself able to do so, but he is the sole judge of that, and in the long meanwhile he lives in a style that doubtless would awe our state of Washington friend, draws $10,000 a year from the Treasury, and is able to make political contributions to the party of humanity. I will bet our friend doesn’t get $10,000 a year.

UR friend will be interested, no doubt, to learn that his $893 will be used in some part to pay back the money which we borrowed from ourseives to pay Communists for traipsing around the country making propaganda movies and presenting propaganda plays to the effect that the American form of government is a failure and ought to be abandoned in favor of something imported from Russia. And I want him to know about the case of Mr. Jack Dempsey, international treasurer of the Iron Workers’ Union in St. Louis. Mr. Dempsey was a cop in Cincinnati and got into the union racket after he was kicked off the force and fined $1000 by the Federal Government in a prohibition case. That, too, happened 15 years ago, but Dempsey forgot the fine, and so did the Treasury until these dispatches reminded them of it. Since then Dempsey has paid the $1000 fine but no interest. I will bet our friend is paying at 6 per cent in that matter of $893, and I would give something to see the expression on his face when he reads that the above Dempsey almost got away with a $1000 fine.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Old-Age Pension Advocates Played Only Minor Role in Recent Campaign:

EW YORK, Nov. 7.—It begins to look as if some fires are going out in America as well as in Europe. In the hectic campaign, in which almost everyone had a fling, I wonder how many have noticed the absence of certain names from the news —Townsend, the Allen Brothers, Dr. Bigelow. Perhaps some will hardly remember the latter two. The camp fires of these valiant generals in the great crusade for travel money or ham and eggs for the aged seem to have paled ineffectually in this campaign. It is a sign that the energy has gene out of the extravagant old-age pension movement which flamed up after 1933 and produced so much havoc in so many states and, indeed, in so many congressional bosoms. ; Only two years ago the great “ham and eggs” crusade roared over California, bedeviled all the politicians, elected a governor and a senator—though it did not pass the constitutional amendment. The plan was defeated again in 1939. In 1940, alas, the proponents could not get enough signatures to get it on the ballot. And, most tragic of all, the father of the Allen brothers, who put on the amazing ham and eggs campaign to make themselves dictators of California —and nearly succeeded—has had to apply for an old-age pension himself, because his two sons are themselves scraping “the bottom of the barrel” as the old man put it, and can’t even support him. f- 2 ”

R. HERBERT S. BIGELOW was the Ohio oldage pension evangelist. Only two years ago: he was promising the old people of Ohio $50 a month for every one over 60, and $80 for couples. The doctor meditated another putsch this year. But, as he pondered it, he came to the conclusion that the fever for it had subsided and that his plan could not win 4 in a referendum. So the doctor has bargained this off for $40 a month for people over 65 and will attempt to get thé Ohio Legislature to act on it by petition. But it was not very much in the campaign. One remembers how this unhappy movement swept over such staid old commonwealths as Massachusetts and actually had the politicians there by the throat—Yankees though they be and knowing better. But it has simmered down there, too. Three days after the great 1936 election, Colorado awoke to the glorious news that the voters had ordered a $45-a-month pension. I was there when the cheers rang out. Nothing could have seemed clearer than that the provision could never be carried out. Of course it never was, though it nearly wrecked the vital services of the state. Now there is a plan to compromise on $30. This was a tragic interlude of the era of the promisers—the men who promised the abundant life and set the unhappy aged victims of our system to believing they meant it. They have grown weary of the struggle and so have the voters. reform has departed.

So They Say— REALISTS and prophets are persecuted in our own day as prophets of doom. People are more in-

clined to listen to Pollyannas.—Rev. Dr. Christopher J. McCombe, New York Methodist minister. * * *

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I CANNOT CONCEIVE of 5000 or 6000 American troops and many more American civilians (in .the Philippines) being left unaided if an emergency came.—Secretary of War Stimson, * * *

WE ARE IN the presence not of local or regional wars but of an organized and determined movement for steadily expanding conquest.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 3 . ® ® * THE LOANS WE HAVE made in Latin America are doing good. The construction of the Pan-American Highway is especially useful in opening new markets. —Jefferson Caffery, ambassador to Brazil. ; * * ®

IF DEMOCRACY in our home towns does not function, then we cannot expect to maintain it nationally.~C. A. Dykstra, president, National Municipal League. . ” *

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disagree with what you say,

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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WOMEN AS SOLDIERS WINS APPROVAL By R. K. I see in Liberty of Oct. 8 where Rupert Hughes thinks women should be enlisted as well as men. I agree with him. There are many things women can do besides keeping the home fires burning. They can shoot pretty straight when they are mad enough. 2 ” ” LAUDS OUR ATTITUDE DURING THE CAMPAIGN

By Appreciative Let me thank you for the sentiments expressed in your editorial, “The Day After.” As a Democrat and a lifetime reader of The Times I was disappointed that you did not continue your support of Mr. Roosevelt. But I cannot say that you fought unfairly or took any undue advantage. Indeed I am confident that your type of campaign, as contrasted with that of some extreme partisans, undoubtedly was a big factor in carrying Marion County for Willkie and some of the other Republicans. You have proved yourself a good loser after a fair fight. I hope all others on the losing side will follow your example.

EER WARNS AGAINST PERIL OF PLANT EXPANSION

By Reader

Germany’s military preparedness was achieved at direct cost to civilian life. The famous “guns-instead-of=-butter” phrase well described the situation. With capacity to produce only a limited number of things, civilian life had to be content with less when military preparedness demanded the lion's share.

The United States is in many respects more fortunate. There is good reason to believe that in many instances we shall be able to produce what is needed for military purposes without greatly cutting down normal civilian use. Steel is an example. . Wilater S: Tower, president of the Iron and Steel Institute, is authority for the statement that present producing capacity of the iron and steel industry is ample to meet all essential needs now in sight, and that without any great amount of plant expansion. Naturally, defense orders must have first call, and so some civilian orders may be delayed. But Mr. Tower believes the industry can actually produce all the steel that can

(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.)

be used for defense and still have plenty for automobiles, construction, and the customary needs of peace. He feels that urgent defense needs would be more quickly and effectively met by giving defense the right of way, and temporarily curtailing civilian - supplies, than by rushing into construction of additional plants, which would probably take a year or so to become effective. This problem will have to work out as we go along, but after-war deflation would be less dangerous if undue expansion can be avoided. ” EJ ”

INDORSES STAND OF AMERICA FIRST GROUP By E. G.

America’s speedy flighi along the road to war has undoubtedly been hastened by the propaganda spread by the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. This organization, which fallaciously contends that England is fighting our war, is doing its best to involve our country in the European struggle.

In spite of manufactured waves of hysteria, the majority of Americans are opposed to intervention in European or Asiatic wars. However, under the relentless bombardment of propaganda, this majority is being gradually reduced. If this trend continues, American intervention will be inevitable,

At this critical time the appearance of the America First Committee gives renewed hope to those of us who believe in preparing for defense but do not believe in fighting someone else's war on foreign battlefields. The America First Committee is dedicated to the same principles of isolation from Europe’s eternal wars as was the father of our country, George Washington. Headed by a group of Americans whose loyalty and patriotism are beyond reproach, this organization gives to the people of the United States an opportunity to reverse our direction on the road to war. It is not too late—yet.

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“STUFFED SHIRTS” IN CONGRESS DRAW REBUKE By a Hoosier The proposal to bar from the Congressional press galleries newspaper writers who hold up members of Congress to ridicule has made

' |certain members more ridiculous

than anything the newsmeén could

write about them. Generally speaking, we believe a member of Congress deserves respect. It is a position of honor, and should be so regarded. Indiscriminate ridicule of Congressmen in general or as such plays directly into the hands of dictator-minded people. But the honor of the - position must not be expected to protect individual Congressmen from ridicule when honest reporters and political critics believe they merit it. Only the stuffed shirt is really vulnerable to pin pricks.

2 8» SOME LUSTY RAH RAHS FOR PURDUE’'S COACHES

By Grid Fan Three cheers for forthright Mel Taube of the Purdue coaching staff for telling the world that the Purdue coaches accept personal responsibility for everything that happens on the field.

“I would have done the same thing myself.” That was Mel's answer to the thoughtless critics of a kid quarterback who elected to hold onto the ball for another down instead of kicking on fourth down in the closing seconds of the WisconsinPurdue game with the result that Wisconsin went on to win.

pan now for a long time and some of the episodes of the current season haven't exactly put the public in a cheering mood ior the fall pastime. Some of this criticism has been namby pamby stuff, but a lot of it comes from real lovers of the sport who have been getting pretty well fed up on putting all the blame on the kids who take the raps. It’s about time someone spoke up on this situation and we are glad that Mel has done so in words that everyone can understand. Let other coaching staffs follow suit. ” » ”

WE TAKE A SCOLDING FROM A CAMERA FAN By Camera Addict

self a progressive newspaper I wish you would please tell me why it is no section of your paper is devoted to news of interest to the city’s legion of camera fans? You have sports pages, society pages, financial pages, comic sections, cross-word puzzles and Heaven knows what else devoted to group interests—and yet camera news is conspicious by its absence. And this despite the fact that there are’ thousands right Here, in Indianapolis who think that the photographic pursuit is one of the finest forms of recreation there is. Well, maybe you didn't know we were so numerous, or that a camera

_|section would improve your paper

and ‘help your circulation. If so, please accept this timely hint. And we're not charging you any-

thing, either!

TRAIL’S END By H. D. SWIGGETT |

When the day is done, and the shadows fall, O’er the silent forests deep, One thing is sure, and that you'll

d, With the little brown thrush’s cheep. The end of the day and the end .of the trail

a friend indeed, a wildcat treed, And a campfire blazin’ fine.

DAILY THOUGHT

Watch and pray, that ye enter . not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.—Matthew 26:41.

GOD IS BETTER served in re-

"Men never change in this town—their grandfathers got round-

up th

sisting a temptation to evil than in prayers.—Penn,

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As the sun sinks through the pines,

Gen. Johnson

|" Youth's Support for Willie Most

“. Remarkable Thing About Cdmpaign;

; AT “War Issue May Have Won for GOP

EW YORK, Nov. 7.—Due to the limits of space and time this column also has to be written before results of the election are fully known. It is like having to write about violets on the slopes of Vesuvius I would like to skip it. In this domestic eruption, we seem to forget all about the war which, after all,. is the greatest interest outside our shores. Some Rooseveltian columnist who seems to have miraculous sources of information, says that the great Winston Churchill is getting very impatient about us. He wants to ‘ know when we are coming into this shindy. I hope Churchill can restrain . himself because we're never comQo ing in. It will cost us anouler hundred billion and if we spend that much and get into the war, we shall have seen the last of our demo-cratie-and economic system as we have known it.

~|... The mast remarkable thing I saw in this election

was the enthusiasm of young people for Mr. Willkie. He himself seemed to grow younger in this campaign

{regardless of its grueling demands. I never saw Mrs,

Willkie look better than on its last night. I think she is the best campaigner he has had. When I told her that, she said, “Oh, no, all I did was.to wave. ® 88 ‘

AYBE so. But she represents to millions the average American's idea of a wife and mother. The Willkie family—father, mother and son-—some-how carry: that idea over without words—perfectly united, mutually adoring, a companionship as homely as an old farmhouse. . Mr. Willkie represents something the most precious and valuable in American life, and the whole country has come to know it. Eggs, wastebaskets and political scurrility cannot obscure it. He and his family are the prototype of the average American of Main street, If he had had at least a little professional organization—if he had been attended by people with a little more experience in campaign speaking—if advisers who were rank war interventionists had not prevented him from taking the forthright stand against war that is in his heart, his election would have been a walk-in.” I know that from my own experience in many states, and before audiences in the aggregate tens of thousands. It was the livest issue in this campaign, but such as Mr. Willkie’s instinctive shrinking from any appeal to emotion—any appeal to anything but what he regarded as debate on absolute factual issues alone—things that did not reside .in conjecture but that he could prove by the book—that

he wouldn't use it. » ” »

T was pretty but it wasn't politics—even perfectly

legitimate politics. Yet, much as I regret to see a failure fully to express and to represent what I know to be the heart and soul of the American people —because there was no way to lay it out with a Tsquare and compass on a drawing board blue print— he wouldn't touch it. Yet, I am glad to have been so closely associated with a man so scrupulously con= scientious, so fundamentally’ honest. Even Lincoln was a far better politician. Willkie did not win. But it may not be that the American people have failed to recognize just about the most truly American institution in all America—Wendell Willkie and his family. or , Whether or not it created a President is not so important as that it did get an audience for the greatest voice for honest and homely common sense, and a protest against any kind of political excess and hysteria that speaks on earth today. That voice will continue to be a great national asset. .

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Jo

E'RE in. for another scolding, this time from the National Economic and Planning Association which, after a two-year survey, is out with the charge that women with better educations are not bearing their share of America’s children. i Maybe the boys made a mistake when they let us learn our ABCs. For, undoubtedly, the fact that we are better educated has something to do with the question. Sad as it may be, the better educated American woman is not producing the normal number of children, for several excellent reasons which her education makes apparent to her, First, she is aware of the economic struggle which must. inevi- : tably be faced by her descendants unto the third and fourth generation. If she happens to live in a large city, she knows they are likely to exist in an engrmous, highlygeared, mechanized bedlam, where the struggle to survive is| so terrible it breaks the hearts‘ and kills the spirits of millions, rn us : - The educated woman knows, also, that the\ world hell. She may not be able to explain why this should be so, but she knows it is. The educated woman ‘sees a studied effort being made in her own land to keep her clags under the yoke of perpetual and ever-growing taxation, while those who depend upon the Government for a livelihood are allowed to multiply as the sands of the seashore. / * She understands very well, because she has bgen educated to comprehend the meaning and uses of taxation, that if the trend continues it will be ‘nip and tuck with her whether she can feed, housesand clothe these other people's children, to say nothing of keeping any of her own in reasonable comfort and security. : 1 . The educated woman, moreover, realizes that, although’ she is educated, neither she nor her daughters can have much to say about how her taxes shall be spent or how the affairs of the nation and the world shall be managed. ; > Because she is educated, she is fully aware thai the work of a mother, or a wife, or a daughter, is worth nothing to the nation in solid cash. She feels rebellious that the fruit of her body should continue to make cannon fodder to satisfy the ambition of uneducated men. !

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

HE young man or woman who has just finished

, school and started his or her first. job has reacHed a “dangerous age” with regard to health and

posture, a University of California health adviser

Warns. Sioa HOY The whole routine of the young graduate’s life generally undergoes a radical change when he starts on his first job. Instead of a leisurely schedule of school and home study, with regular and extensive participation in sports and plenty of social recreation, the young graduate must be prepared to catch a 7:30 or 8 o'clock bus or train and settle down for a six- or seven-hour stretch at a typewriter or switchboard or work bench. The only break is the lunch period of one hour or less. . : When one settles dowh to a ‘desk job through the entire day, it is pointed out, certain muscles tend to lose their tone and strength. Poor posture may be one result. , ig The young graduate on his first job is likely to feel so completely grown-up and independent that he may unwisely disregard all health rules® and admonitions. Lunching with fellow workers at restaurants instead of at home or at the school cafeteria, he may disregard the requirements of a’ healthy diet. If the job starts earlier than school did, he may, in his rush to get off, fall into the bad habit of skipping breakfast. After along day of sedentary work with no break for exercise or recreation, he is likely to. be more tired than hungry by evening and consequently may only nibble at dinner. As: a result, his health may suffer. " Regular daily exercise will help keep muscles trim, posture erect, and appetite up to If new job is largely a sitting one, walking the .office is advised. This may not -

the distance is great. In that case, the young, advised to spend. 10 to 15 minutes

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