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Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1940

SQUARELY N THE SPOT not heard the last of certain election incirticularly some that concern County Clerk Ettinger directly. His delay in sending out paper ballots early to those precincts Where it was certain the vote would exceed the capacity of the voting machines was, to view it in its most charitable light, a major blunder. A less charitable view is that he deliberately used the powers of his office to disfranchise voters. Fi Whatever his reason, there is no question that many voters were inconvenienced and perhaps a goodly number disfranchised. It is further possible that his four-hour delay caused technical errors that may invalidate many of the paper ballots. The recounts will determine that. For once, Mr. Ettinger’s devotion to pattisan interests rather than to public responsibilities has put him squarely on the spot. The black eye given him by one of his irate party associates in the primary won't hold a candle to the one he’s got coming from the public.

CAPITAL'S REFUGE

IF we are to spend increasing billions for armaments— and we must—and if we aren’t to cut down on other Federal spending, which we apparently aren't, then we have to get the'money somewhere. And if we won't face the music of a tax program to raise comparable totals of revenue, then of course we’ll have to borrow more.

So no one should be surprised by Secretary Morgenthau's announcement that the Treasury will ask Congress | to boost the 49-billion-dollar public debt limit to a new | level of 60 or 65 billions. And the election having gone that | ‘way, it should be taken for granted that the lid will be lifted. | Secretary Morgenthau makes one proposal which we hope will be given favorable consideration. That is that | the income from future issues of Federal, state and local government securities be declared subject to taxation, Be-| cause of the present tax-exemption of these securities, the Government is deprived of revenue it sorely needs, and an appealing inducement is offered to wealthy citizens to invest in non-risk, tax-free bonds, while productive business enterprises go begging for risk-taking capital.

A HISTORIC SERVICE ENDELL WILLKIE made a splendid campaign, reviving the opposition party which under weaker and less inspired leadership might have died. The two-party system is essential to American democracy. Therefore Mr. Willkie has rendered the nation a historic service even today, when the majority unmistakably favored continuation of the party in power, 45 per cent of the people voted for a change.

Whenever in some future election, whether it be the next one or some one thereafter, the majority wants a

change, the means of making that change will be there for | |

Thanks to the tireless energy and selfWhether |

the people to use. sacrificing devotion of Wendell Willkie for that.

Mr. Willkie himself is ever a candidate again, the public in) ;

the campaign just closed has been made acquainted with a | splendid citizen who will continue in his lifetime a powerful | and valuable force in the life of the republic.

STATEHOOD FOR HAWAII?

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hood. So the territorial legislature will petition Congress to admit the islands as the 49th state. The 1940 platform of the Democratic Party Pledges to Hawaii, as well as to Alaska and Puerto Rico, “a larger measure. of self-government; .leading to statehood.” Congress may well ask the people of Hawaii to wait a whil longer, on the theory that this would be a dangerous time for political change in that vital outpost of national defense. Hawaii's polygot population, totaling 412,000, including | some 151,000 members of the Japanese race and fewer than 60,000 persons whose citizenship derives from the fact that they or their ancestors came from the American mainland. This “race problem” time will solve eventually, but until there is greater assurance of peace in the’ Pacific it ‘may be safer not to submit the possibly conflicting interests in the islands to the test of self-government. However, if Hawaii must be asked to wait for statehood, there is another pledge of the Democratic platform that should by all means be carried out. That is the promise of “equal treatment” for the citizens of the territories. The Hawaiians have had just complaints om this score. In the “matter of sugar quotas, for instance, they have been discriminated against as compared with producers on the mainland. This is something that Congress can remedy. The people of Hawaii should not be compelled to suffer any economic penalty because it may not yet be desirable from the national viewpoint to give them statehood.

PROFIT AND LOSS

HE magazine Business Week carries a table showing the earnings of all American corporations over a 12-year period, 1926 to 1937, inclusive. The best year was 1929, when all corporations ran yp an aggregate net income of $8,084,000,000. The worst year was 1932, when the corporations showed an aggregate net loss of $5,376,000,000. The average total net income was $2,365,000,000, or a return of 1.7 per cent on an average invested capital of $139,964,000,000. Meanwhile, over that same 12-year period, the average rate of return on Government bonds declined Slowly from . 4.1 per cent to 2.6 per cent.

PLEBISCITE in Hawaii Tuesday resulted in a vote of | 40,000 to 20,000 in favor of asking for immediate state- |

Small wonder that many people have preferred to in‘vest their capital in no-risk, ta¥-exempt bonds, ; Pe. A A wi of 5 od

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Wrongs Which Willkie Attacked

Still Exist and To Ignore Them Is To Court the Hitler-Type Unity.

EW YORK, Nov. 8.—Some of the appeals for|

unity, now that President Roosevelt has been elected for a third term, suggest that those who make this plea were dishonest in their opposition during the campaign or would abandon principles for the sake of comfort, The wrongs which the Willkie campaign attacked are as wrong today as they were last week, and President Roosevelt's methods and associations have not changed. A President who would use the office of United States Attorney General for a petty momentary politicak advantage, as Mr. Roosevelt did in obtaining a timely deportation order against Earl Browder's wife, may be expected to misuse that : high office or any other high Gov- : ernment post again and again, That was a small incident in the fight and was overlooked by many, but it was very important as a sample ot the morals of the New Deal. The same deportation order could have been issued months ago or deferred until after election, but the New Deal had decided that the Communists had become a political embarrassment, and the mechanics of the scheme to deodorize the Administration began to unfold several days before the President, in Brooklyn, finally disowned them and tried to put them into bed with Willkie, : ” ” ” IRST the national committee called attention to the fact that Browder had been convicted of a passport fraud by the New Deal. Next the Attorney General came through with the deportation order whosé political timing was obvious. Then the President completed the play in Brooklyn. Prior to that the internal revenue had been used repeatedly for purposes of political harassment, and labor organizations, including that of Sidney Hillman, had resorted to coercion of citizens who are compelled by this Administration to be members of the unions.

1 have a card issued by Local 163 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union of Troy, N. Y,, actually commanding the members to attend a political rally tor James M. Mead, the New Deal Senator, on Oct, 22, “All members must attend and be on time,” the command read, but the local organizer denied that the meeting was to be political in character, yet announced. that those who failed to show up to hear the New Deal Senator would be fined a dollar. :

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HAT sort of thing was wrong on Oct. 22, and it is still wrong, and to yield the point. now in the name of national unity would be to promote the kind of unity that Hitler has and by similar methods. The practice of maintaining a kennel of trained

political polecats in high Government office for the purpose of abusing every citizen who has the honesty ||. and courage to oppose any political or executive out- | | rage against the minority rights and the republican |

form of government is an important issue still. Officers and employees of the Government have certain duties prescribed by law, and they should be deferred from | using the prestige of their positions to persecute or

harass citizens who happen to oppose policies of tHe |

Government. Willkie said it all when he remarked at the close of the struggle, have fought will prevail is as sure as that the tryth wili always prevail. Don't be afraid and never quit.” The popular vote shows that more than 20,000,000 American voters ain't reconstructed yit.

Business By John T. Flynn

Big Government Excesses Similar to

Those of Wall Street Prior to Crash

EW YORK, Nov. 8.—The election is now over, and | perhaps we can induce our leaders to pause .and |

‘“That the principles for which we | | By 'T. E. L.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

And So to Bed!

The Hoosier Forum

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

DIRTY STREETS DRAW CITIZEN'S REBUKE

I drove into Indianapolis the other day from Chicago and I was suddenly struck by how dirty our downtown section is compared to other cities. And I'm not referring to the soot, either. I mean just plain litter laying around the streets. Sor 2 xn

HE'D LIKE SOME ADULT

RADIO ENTERTAINMENT | By Disgusted

I'm glad to see your music critic, | James Thrasher, taking a fall out of the local radio stations for their

take a calm view of the very grave economic situation | failure to schedule the better known

which confronts the country. I remember in 1927 and 1928 the appeals that were.

made by many economists and | some thoughtful businessmen to |

the financial and industrial leaders | and to the political powers in Washington to pause, to consider

the steep and perilous mountain |

the country was climbing. I recall writing early in 1929 a piece about the stock “Unless the stock market looks itsélf over, does something to |

check the orgy of crazy speculation ! which is in progress and the grave |

symphonies, ' About all a person can get on his radio these days is a lot of trashy swing stuff and the awful jargon of

| some of these so-called comedians.

I, for one, am fed up on it. Keep up the good work and | maybe some day our stations will give us some real, adult entertain-

ment. market: |

itself

»..8 ia | GIVING A BOOST TO OUR OWN SYMPHONY

abuses. which have. always beep | BY Music Lover

present but which are now ex-| aggerated out of all reason, there is going to be not |

only a terrible crash but the Stock Exchange is going to be subjected to the most searching investigation in | its history.” When Richard Whitney, president of the Exchange, was convicted, and his personal effects sold, among them was a book of mine on the security markets. A friend of mine bought it at the auction and sent it to me. On a page where I ‘described certain improper transactions which were then popular and were laying up a world of trouble, Mr. Whitney had written in the margin—‘Bunk.”

No one needs to be reminded that the market did | {such broadcasts.

| undergo that investigation. And it is a singular fact that the performances for which Mr. Whitney was

Yet | convicted were those very things described on that é | page and which he branded as ‘bunk.”

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T is difficult to get men who are deeply immersed . in these feverish financial affairs to se the folly of their behavior. Now, however, it is not so much the financier as the politician. We are moving into an era of highly inflated activity stimulated and driven on by the Government in Washington. It must be said for businessmen that they did not like it -at first. But as the weeks wear on, and Business rises under its impact, their dislike is weakened: they become complacent; they think, as men are apt to do, that before it is too late they will be able to save themselves. But this orgy, of defense activity which the Government is whipping up on borrowed money can have one.end and ong only—bankruptcy. Bankruptcy for the Government and bankruptcy for countless scores of industrial groups that allow themselves to be drawn in on unsafe foundations. During the campaign the appeal to the voter on the score of saving “democracy” became a hysterical appeal—the candidates vying with each other. But now the campaign is over. Should not these leaders take a look? ‘ There is a country in which ordinary business investment and expansion are at a standstill. There is the rising tide of armament activity. There is the rising flood of Government debt for this purpose. It can have only one end. Is there anyone with the courage and the influence to save us from it?

So They Say—

IT IS ANOTHER evidence [that democracy in its fullest scope is working to preserve the fine arts and culture. —Peter A. B. Widener, on presentation of the family’s great art Solleclions to the National Gallery, * THE FREE WAY ot life Bet got to justify itself or perish.—Jan Struther, novelist. - ® » NOT ONLY DO these young men represent the future of our country; thgy are the future.—President Roosevelt at the first draft drawing. - > »

A SLOGAN is good only after it has been repeated 1000 times.—Price Gilbert, advertising expert, » » %*

NORTH AMERICAN militarism will be the most grandiose of all history. It will begin by inheriting the British Empire —The late Leon Trotsky in the last press interview before his murder.

IT IS AXIOMATIC 0 say that in the current Jirugsle ot Jorees = Sway he destiny of South Amerca Brazil Rolds the key —Walter R. in the for-Americin | ae

The gift horse of radio music has been subjected to some close dental inspection by Times readers recent(ly. But in the discussion, pro and con, of symphonic broadcasts over our local stations, one important consideration has been overlooked. That is the existence of a resident symphony orchestra in our city. The advantage of free radio concerts, and their particular boon to shutins, have been emphasized in the complaints that Indianapolis stations are not carrying enough of I have no wish to contradict these arguments, or to suggest that the NBC Symphony and New York Philharmonic-Sym-phony Orchestra programs should not be carried here. However, I do

| think that radio listeners should re-

member that these broadcasts do not afford the best and most complete musical diet. A broadcast concert in the home is likely to offer distractions to even the most sincere and zealous music

attentive listeners.

(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.)

lover. His eye may fall upon a book or magazine or (if. he be a she) there may be a hasty appraisal of cobwebs on the ceiling or curtains in need of laundering while the composer's creative soul strives toward the empyrean. The concert hall, on the other hand, offers the stimulation of actual presence at the music-making and psychic communication between the performers and an audience of

heighten enjoyment and make toward a perfect and memorable occasion. When we speak of the “cultural

advantages” of having our own symphony orchestra 1 believe we mean

‘this unique pleasure of audience par-

ticipation, to borrow a radio term. As for the financial consideration, the Indianapolis orchestra will offer this season, in addition to the 20 subscription concerts, five popularpriced concerts on Sunday, and a special series of four Friday night concerts within reach of many who could not afford the subscription series price. Our local orchestra deserves our support for the good (and selfish) reason that it offers more in musjcal enjoyment than a radio orchestra, however excellent and valuable, can give. And when many of the seats are almost within the movieticket range, the price doesn't seem too high. » ” ” FIRES A BLAST AT SALOON CONDITIONS By A Disgusted Citizen

Tavern conditions have become so bad they are worse than any of our

Side Glances—By Galbraith

cld-time saloons. Why isn't there more outcry? Is everybody asleep? We hated the old saloon because men went in and drank by themselves. The cry was raised that 122n spent all their pay-checks and that we were becoming an impoverished nation. The charge used to be made that the big distilleries controlled the saloons. And the politicians along with them.

It locks to me as if the same situation is happening again. And this time we don’t have to worry

These things |

just about our men, It's our women our sons and our daughters. No [tavern keeper asks how old a girl is. I've known of girls of 16 and 17 going in and getting drunk. Why continue to refer to them as taverns or cafes. They're all {saloons—dirty, corrupt saloons.

EJ td J A WANTS CAMPAIGN BUTTONS |ADDED TO TIN RESERVE By Frank Lee

The Presidential campaign is over. There is no longer any use for campaign buttons, except for a few that will be saved as souvenirs or gravitate into historical museums. In the meantime, the government “is piling up metal reserves, and is storing up tin. as the Republicans are estimated to have put out 50,000,000 Willkie buttons and the Democrats 21,000,000 Rooseveit emblems, the whole iot would make a pretty impressive pile of scrap metal for use in the defense program. As they were melting in the furnaces of some great armorplate or shell plant, they would make a good symbol of ihe manner in which partisanship must fuse together into one united purpose to be strong. 8 #% =» TAKING A SLAM AT THE ELECTION MACHINERY By S. L. W. I do think some of our election machinery needs overhauling. I had to wait in line last Tuesday a full hour and a half so that I could vote. The precinct workers were grand. They weren't trying to electioneer for either side. They were just trying to keep the line moving | and to keep everybody in good. ‘spirits. They told me there were 1400 registered veters in the precinct. And for this large number, the

vided one machine. Just one machine, § You can figure it out for yourself, The law allows a person one minute to ‘vote on the machine. That means one machine can accommodate 60 persons in an hour. The polls are open just 12 hours. That means only 720 persons can vote. And there were 1400 voters! If that isn’t a brazen attempt to disfranchise some 600 voters in one precinct alone, what is it?

PRO AND CON By JANE SIGLER I am opposed to arguments, But all my life I have contended. I'm duty-bound. to take a part Because the right must be defended.

DAILY THOUGHT

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just; for the righteous God trieth Je hearts and reins. | —Psalms 7

WELL DOES Heaven lake care

Inasmuch ;

County Election Board had pro- |

fare likely t | the rest of their lives.

FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 1040 Gen. Johnson Says—

Disappointed But Not Downhearted He Urges Support of the President In the Critical Days That Face Us. EW YORK, Nov. 8—The election 1s over. I was

sincerely but terribly wrong. All morning I have been deluged by telephone, calls asking if I axe

; ready, as I promisés, to eat my eolumn of several weeks ago saying that Dr. Gallup's Poll predicting

this Roosevelt landslide was gross ly in error. If it will please any& body, I am willing to eat that column, It would hardly give me indigestion. It is only 600 words. But I doubt the obligation. Dr, Gallup ate it before I did. He got so jittery that he covered himself on every side and finally said that the election was so close that a breath could swing it either way, Some breath! The best forecaster ‘I know is my mother—87 years old. Her constant advice to me was biblical, She boasts that she has read the Bible from cover to cover 10 times and I know it to be true. She said constantly in this campaign in the language of St. Paul: “It is no use to kick. If you can't beat four billion dollars, you can't beat 12 billions.” As the returns prove, she was right and I was wrong. O. K, Where do we go from here? | 3 #8 8 AM disappointed but not downhearted. After all, it was an American election. It expresses what our people think. I believe it was wrong. But I any eager to give the result all that I have to give. Sa must everybody. The President didn’t have a more earnest supporter in 1932 and 1936. He didn’t have a more earnest opponent in 1940. But now we are on the brink of war. He is my President and yours. He could ask me for nothing that I would not give. For the result, we couldn't have gotten a bad man; no matter who was the final choice. I know both of these men—know them as well as you know a college chum or the man next to whom you work. | I don’t call Mr. Roosevelt “Franklin” any more because, somehow you can't do that to the President of the United States. But I think he wishes people would and I am very sure that Willkie doesn’t like to be called anything but Wendell. The point is that both of these.men are plain Americans. It has never seemed to me that either of them went very far astray—except as to his advisers. Maybe ‘that was because I wasn't one of them. | #2 2 n UT I am glad to recall that before our rift in opinion, Mr. Roosevelt was almost as dear to me as a chum, confidant and companion jas any man I have known. So’is Mr. Willkie and while I believe the election would far better, for the country, have gone the other way, and while I am dissatisfied with the result, early on the night of the election, I sent the President this telegram: “Dear Boss. I have fought you, but the American people thought otherwise. We must all now get together. I am still a soldier and you are my commander-inrchief.” ' There is nothing more important to us than thaf idea. Jim Farley, who was himself torn at heart and dissatisfied, expressed it better than I could. Mr; Roosevelt must now be President of all the people-— every faction in the United States—and all the people must support the President. | Let's close up the wounds and fissures of this campaign. It won't be so much fun to write a critical column and while I shall still criticize what I think is wrong, I am for the overwhelming choice of our people as President and—however much it may have been questioned—for Stephen Decatur’s toast: “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may: she always be in the right; but our country, right or

wrong!”

A Woman's Viswpeint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A FAMOUS child training expert says that mothers should never punish children by ‘threatening to

| leave home.

The picture those. words flash upon the screens of

our, imagination are vivid, We see a little child,

stricken dumb with fear at the thought that mother may not bel there one day when he comes home. The house will be empty and still, It will be dead, for the person who creates the spirit which, makes it alive, will have vanished. His heart stands. still. Terror floods all his being, because there is no catastrophe which can equal that of being without mother. And what mother has not felt her own heart leap to the noise of hurrying footsteps, the bursting open of a door and a shrill voice shouting, “Hey, Mom! Are you there?’ Down all the years of life, those words echo and re-echo, They are music in our ears because they ‘express the desperate need of our children for our presence. “Mom” must be there, or be coming soon, else the primordial fear clutches at the throat of both little and big children, who look at her for a sense of stability which is the very essence of home, Young, beautiful, thoughtless women, sometimes fail to understand how desperate the need if. It takes a good deal of living to realize the true meaning of the word “Home.” It is clear only to the very young and the very old, although all the in-between ages aro faintly aware of its significance. Unhappily, the in dividual is usually too busy to stop and consider how important the significance may be for him. Every heart must have its home, From the cradla to the grave, that is mankind's eternal quest, and all little children who are wilfully deprived of such a haven by the selfishness or ignorance of adults may well charge that society has dealt harshly with them. If you are a mother you, too, must have sometimes thought that, Heaven will not be home until you hear ringing through celestral space that qesr familiar ") “Hey, Mom! Are you there?” :

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

HEN a child is sick, parents, nurses and doctor are likely to be so concerned with his recovery from the physical ailment that the importance of his

‘emotional and mental recovery may be overlooked,

‘As a result, the youngster may develop into the spoiled ‘child who becomes a neurotic adult, miserable himself ‘and making everyone around him miserable. The personality development of the child is based

‘on early emotional conditioning, Dr. Louis Adrian Schwartz, psychiatrist of the Children’s Hospital o

Michigan, pointed out at a meeting of doctors an hospital executives. Any period of illness the child

goes through, he declared, with its total emotional

squting, is consequently particularly crucial, As most parents discover, any child who is sick for any length of time comes to, expect and demand the extra attention and special treats he got while ill or recovering from a long illness. Some children, espe= Silly those who have been in an unhappy situation home or who felt their parents did not want them, Rs capitalize on the illness in order to get the at=

tention they have craved and nevsr received before | the illness. They will emphasize or| exaggerate every little pain or discomfort.

If they succeed through this action in getting the attention they want, they establish a pattern of such action for

The important point to remember, Dr, Schwartsg

|| emphasized, is to treat the child recovering from an ‘illness in as normal a fashion as possible. If his ill« || ness is going to leave them with some defect or dis

d to accept his handicap

ability, he should be hel at he must be sympathized

without having him feel

| with or treated as an object of pity or undue con«

sideration. Finally, if he was on the way to develop< ing a poor Derdenality before the illness, the period of .

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