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"HOW ABOUT THE HATCH LAWS? ET'S have an all-out investigation of campaign expenditures and activities—and let the chips fall where they may. ; The recent campaign was the first to be conducted under the Hatch laws. Let's find out whether those laws have been pbeyed or violated—and if violated let's insist that the guilty be punished. Let’s learn wliether loopholes have been [carved out, and need to be plugged; whether some of the provisions have been proved impracticable and unenforceable and need to be modified.

. 1a. > 8 = The Hatch laws of 1939 and 1940. were passed upon

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the insistence of the people that the dirty politics of spoilsmen and muscle men be curbed. The laws provide, among other things, that citizens on relief must not be pushed around by politicians, that all citizens are protected in their right to cast free ballots without coercion from any source, that public servants paid with Federal money must not be compelled to contribute fo campaign funds, that no citizen shall contribute more than $5000 to any political campaign, and that a party’s total Presidential campaign expenditure - must not exceed $3,000,000. ; : President Roosevelt approved those reforms, and by his signature put them on the statute books. Wendell Willkie also embraced them. Before the second Hatch act was passed, Mr. Willkie voluntarily announced that, whether passed or not, the provisions of ‘the pending legislation would be observed by his campaign managers— including the prohibition against any contribution in excess of $500 ; To a casual observer it seemed that a whale of a lot of money was spent on newspaper ads, roadside billboards and radio oratory. Let’s find out how much and by whom. And the political machines appeared to be as active as usual. Let’s reveal| whether voters were pushed around, and by whom.

2 ” 2 “ A committee of the Senate exists for that purpose. Senator Gillgtte of Towa is the chairman. So far it has been a do-nothingl committee. ‘But it still has an opportunity to make good. | Two years ago a similar committee, headed by Senator Sheppard of Texas, performed yeoman service in exposing the pernicious practices of the WPA and the state machines in| Kentucky and elsewhere. The exposures in previous campaigns by committees headed by Senator Nye of North Dakota and Senator Reed of Missouri are still well remembered. These periodic investigations are needed to keep campaigns clean and lawful. Lyin It is up to the sluggish Gillette Committee to prove that it is worth its salt.

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THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

HE Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will open its 194041 season this coming Friday and Saturday and there is every indication that the opening pair of concerts will attract capacity audiences.

The Symphony Society and Director Fabien Sevitzky have built in a very few years one of the country’s great ‘musical organizations and we in Indianapolis have good reason to be proud of its accomplishments. ; We sincerely hope that this season will bring even more success and encouragement.

HE SAW FRANCE FALL

THE post mortem on the Battle of France is glutting the - magazines and bookstands with dissertations by Frenchmen on why their country lost and who were to blame. One of the latest books—“I Saw France Fall,” by Rene de Chambrun (Wm. Morrow & Co.) —is both an eyewitness narrative, swiftly and simply told, and a political document from which we Americans might draw conclusions to our advantage. An aristocrat and the son-in-law of Pierre Lava), vice premier of beaten France, Count de Chambrun will no doubt be accused of rightist bias. But even if you discount for a natural antipathy to radicalism, the conclusions of this lawyer-soldier-diplomat are persuasive, . He blames a number of things for the fall of France. For one, the French “absorption in the idea of security’ — a tert on the Maginot Line and on purely defensive strategy, entirely abandoning the war initiative to the enemy. (The Maginot Line, he says, cost enough money to have given France the world’s greatest navy). For years the French politicians had promised continued peace, “and the people naively forgot that Hitler alone could make such a commitment.” (Americans might think that over). Glib fools had convinced many Frenchmen that German military strength was a myth, and that France was impregnable. But worst of all, according to de Chambrun, was the notion cultivated by vote-getters in recent years that “almost a stigma” attached to the word “work.” During the Battle of France he was told by Minister of Armaments Dautry: “France had to be plunged into war, much blood had to be shed, before labor was told what an effort it would have to make if we were to survive. Then it was too late to organize production.” Apologists for the Front Populaire will tell you the real fault lay elsewhere—with the “200 families,” with stupidity and graft in high places, with bungled diplomacy. There is undoubtedly blame enough to spread among all classes. ' | - Today, nursing her wounds and her pride, France has entered a period of retribution. He recalls that “during the past 19 centuries of France's history her present territory has been in enemy hands in whole or in part for 1700 years.” And he concludes: “My country will rise again.”,

HOW TRUE! IF all autos were placed end to end, it would be Sunday.

Fair Enough: By Westbrook Pegler Americans Not Citizens of Union But of U.S. A, He Reminds Editor Assailing Him on 'Coercion' Angle EW YORK, Nov., 19.—The Commonweal has been

. kind enough to provide a springboard for this day’s performance with the remark that “he,” mean-

immoral about ‘forcing’ workers to belong to unions.” ‘Squsing the use of the quotehooks around the word “forcing,” which is typical of the debating practice of those who take the collecfivist side of such arguments. [ confirm the Commonweal’s guess as tq what I seem to think. I would like to digress, however, to-expose the insinuation conveyed by those quotation marks. They are meant to-suggest that such force does not exist and to create in the mind of the reader a false undersfanding. ; that I have misrepresented the : situation. The, fact is that vast numbers: of Americans have been forced to join unions against their will in order to obtain or retain jobs. The compulsion is real and provable, and so is the reluctance of the individuals. And the compulsion yas affirmed in a 4-to-3 verdict of the California Supreme Court just lately. - ” ” os

may find thousands of American citizens who will freely testify that they have been forced to join various unions, some at extortionate rates, in order to

make their services and skill available for the national defense in the construction of cantonments and other works for the Army. . > Now, ‘having called them cold, I will proceed to show that there is something vastly immoral about the compulsion of which I have written more than once.

“seem never to have conceived that there are social and civic dutiesas well as rights. An American citizen has certain positive obligations with regard to citizenship, whether he likes them or not. The duties of social and economic citizenship are being defined. If a man refuses to meet them the social organism of which he is a part can properly coerce him, always within the framework for coercion provided by the Bill of Rights.” The answer is that the social and civic duties of the American citizen are defined by the United States Constitution and the laws, along with his rights. The duties are mostly negative in the form of standard, well-understood verbotens. If he refrains from doing forbidden things he will, generally speaking, perform the positive duties of citizenship, too. +" 8 = ; E has no duties to any private organization unless he voluntarily assumes them. And if it be established that American citizens must join unions in order that their economic rights may be protected, then these unions must be subdivisions of his Government and not private organizations. If the Government is good enough to govern the nation to which he gives his allegiance it is good enough to run his union—which of course, gets us into politics and very close to Mr. Hitler's type of labor organization, which makes the bargains for the workers and makes the workers make good. eo The American unions have absolutely no standing as public bodies. They are supposed to be voluntary associations, but they have been emboldened to regard themselves as,sub-governments, but without responsibility to the Government, to their members or to the community. What is this business, anyway, .about social and economic duties of citizenship in private, compulsory groups, enforceable by “coercion. provided by the Bill of Rights”? An American is not a citizen of a union. He is a citizen of the U. S. A.

Business By John T. Flynn

Wall St. Views Debt Rise Plan as Aid for British Tantamount to War

EW YORK, Nov. 13.—Up she goes!—the debt, the stock market ‘and a general feeling that the Government is about to shoot ihe works in the war— no declaration of war, but a delivery to England of

just about whatever she wants. The $20,000,000,000 additional debt limit is looked upon in Wall Street as the prelude to all this—the first step There is at present in the Government’s hands a margin for new borrowing of $4.000,000,000. Add $20,000,000,000-to that and it makes $24,000,000,000. That’s about what we borrowed altogether during the World War. And $11,000,000,000 or nearly half of that we loaned to the Allies. So that this proposal is just about twice as large as the debt we contracted for our own preparations in the last war. It is a bit staggering. Wall Street can hardly be blamed for surmising that it means war. If it does not mean war, then what is the need of such a vast increase in the debt limit? Congress added $4,000,000,000 to the Government’s borrowing powers this year. And the Government has not yet used any part of that margin. However, immense provisions: have been made for defense contracts. More than $7,000,000,000 in contracts have already been approved, though not yet awarded. Then there is the cost of the new army, etc. Only a part of that $7,000,000,000 will be spent his year If the Government were to add $5,000,000,000 to the Govern=" ment’s existing borrowing power that would bring it up to $9,000,000,000. And there is practically no chance—unless we plunge into the war—of exhausting that limitation this year. > ” ” ” HY then should the Government ask for $15,000,000,000 more than it will use this year? The only answer which Wall Street can make is that it contemplates preparations to aid England which will be tantamount to war.

Much propaganda is being handed out that the increase in the debt will be greatly limited by the increase in taxes which will result from the employment and prosperity of the war preparations or the war itself. If this debt limit is permitted—and used, as it surely will be -—we will have a national debt of about $73,000,000,000. We have 44 billion now. We will add $25,000,000,000,to the $44,000,000,000 now outstanding, plus $5,000,000,000 of guaranteed obligations. We will get this money at low rates now. But when the war is over we will be confronted with higher rates when it is refunded. We will therefore face a permanent charge of around $2,000,000,000 a year in interest alone on this debt. Taxes, will have to be enormously increased to take care of these charges, so there will not be very much left for paying off the debt. In other words, we are preparing to burden the nation with a permanent charge of interest almost as great as the cost of operating the Government in 1928.

So They Say—

—Eva Le Gallienne, actress. po * . * THAT THE PEOPLE will now unite behind the new President, does not admit of doubt. It is the Amefican way.—Gen. Pershing. A * " ‘ee

FRIENDSHIP'S a trade—you expect to give, and you expect to get.—Jascha Heifetz, virtuoso of the violins = . . .

THE SOVIET UNION has extended its borders, but we can not be contented with what already has been ; achieved.—Defense Commissar Timoshenko of Russia.

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE is a relic of the past

which serves y20 useful ‘purpose , . , tor Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

ing me, “seems to think jthere is something vastly |.

OREOVER, at this very hour the Commonweal |

“Mr. Pegler and his ilk,” says the Commonweal, |

‘among the taxpayers of the city

THE THEATER IS over-centralized in this country.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

NO DICTATOR ROLE FOR MR. SCHRICKER! By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind.

One thing about Governor-elect Henry F. Schricker, nobody is going to charge him with being a dictator during his term of office. At the present writing he seems much more likely to become the world’s champion dictatee. ” ” ” HAILS OUR EDITORIAL ON G. O. P. “CRUSADE” By Edward Barker Your main editorial of Saturday, Nov. 9, with the caption of “Cru-

sade” must have rejoiced all your old readers, ‘as it did yours truly, when you urged candidate Willkie and Chairman Martin to drop and forget the word “Crusade” as one already much overworked and abused. As you said in your excellent editorial “to contemplate four long years in the evangelical tempo gives us pause and leaves us cold.” However, the main purpose of this letter is.to register my joy at your quick return to your former status as being the sanest and most progressive newspaper in the country. All hail to your return to your rightful place as “leader” in the newspaper world. While such editorials as :‘Crusade” are written and printed, America is safe! . ” ” ”

SOME POST-ELECTION GRIEVANCES ARE AIRED By Civiticus : Now that the excitement incident to the national elections is a thing of the past it might be of inferest

to refer to two local matters that should be of some interest in cons nection with certain items of news pertaining to the City of Indianapolis, and to the County of Marion that may have been given little ox no thought by the citizens. Some two or three weeks ago, in reporting an automobile accident in which a sergeant of the Indianapolis police force was injured, {tf was stated that the wife of this sergeant occupied the position of- telephone operator at police headquarters. The thought, thet might come to the minds of the average citizen; 1s why the wife of this sergeant should he employed in that position at 4 salary of approximately $75 to $100 per month when the husband sergeant i$ in receipt of a pay check of approximately $175 to $200 per month. 2k Are there not telephone operators

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titled to, this job? Why this cheap nepotism in the police force? Another item worth some thought is the action of the Marion County Republican Central Committee in sending through the mails in an open envelope and 1 cent postage yellow circulars stirring up fears about old age pensions. This certainly was a cheap method of soliciting votes from the old people who are in receipt of small assistance from the state. It would be of interest to know what “good” Democrat in the Marion County Welfare Dept, so lowered himself to furnish, by gift or sale, the official and confidential mailing list to their political opponents. - » u ” 7 TERMS SCHOOL VISIT A CURE FOR THE BLUES By Arthur S. Mellinger This week will be celebrated as open house in our public schools. The primary purpose of education is to kindle a desir® in the minds of boys and girls to develop and use their mental facuities in a constructive manner. For 10 years we have been going through troubled times. | The past political campaign has been very strenuous and confusing, but we have settled our differences of opinion in a civilized way. The future lies ahead. Let us all put our shoulder to the wheel and help to do our bit by co-operating in every way as citizens of this country. This week the old traditional “Hoosier Hospitality” extends to you a welcome to visit the schools. Whether you have a boy or girl in school does not matter. If you businessmen or housewives will lay aside your daily work and visit a schoolropom some place for half a day, I think you will be very much benefited. | I'll bet a lot of you folks have not seen inside a schoolroom since you graduated years ago. You are paying taxes to support this system. Take time to see if you ‘think you, are getting your money’s worth. The best cure for the “blues” that I know

who would be glad to get, and en-

of is to spend a couple of hours in a schoolroom, seeing the happy,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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bright faces, hearing their candid remarks. If you visit a schoolroom, let your mind forget the cares of the day, and enjoy the optimism the children possess. You will come away with no misgivings about our future welfare. ‘ Let's all visit. and pay respect to our greatest institution, the “Public

School.” ” ” ”

YEP, THIS HAS OFTEN PUZZLED US, TOO By One-Who-Knows Some folks can’t figure out why people with less .sense than they have get along much better, ® ns » URGES EDUCATION FOR TUBERCULAR CHILDREN

By R. J. Dearborn, Principal, Rehabilitation Department, Sunnyside Sanatorium

consider what more can be done for a comparatively small but important number of intellectualy normal children who now are denied the benefits of an education, in this state. I refer to tuberculous young people who are confined to sanatoria, often for several years, overcoming the ravages of tuberculosis.

the brain. It is only the body that must remain quiet and at rest. Education tends to lessen worries and thus to hasten recovery. It has a well recognized therapeutic value, as well as an economic one, both to the individual and to society. Without education, success is more diffcult to attain. . Illiteracy should not be added to the other handicap of years lost from enjoying the pleasures and activities of young life. At present, the young victims of tuberculosis, in most of Indiana’s sanatoria, cannot meet the legal requirements for sharing in the disbursements of the ‘public school funds. /Tutorial instruction both in grade and high schogl sub-

jects, is™necessary for them, and at their bedsides. Our laws do not iprovide for that kind of dnstruction, even though all other kinds are an impossibility for the tuberculous. They can not be moved to class rooms, not even in the same building. Only an addition to our laws can make education available to these young persons, most of whom broke down while in the public schools. .And the entire cost in Indiana would not equa] one penny per in-

|habitant of the state, while their

proper education would insure a better citizenry and greater happiness for all of us, including our own strong and able-bodied offspring, any one of whom may become a victim of that terrible disease at any time.

~ NOVEMBER By MARY P. DENNY

A long dim shadow on the tree. The last faint hum of bumble bee. . A heap of drifted leaves The white tones where the frost cleaves. The sound of birds in flight , Winging along the woodland’s . height, The frosted pear and peach And apple trees that reach To beauty in the autumn way. Sunbursts of leaves in red and gold And tones of color in far sunset - glow. Y All beauty of the autumn way In golden summer aftermath of day.

DAILY THOUGHT

The meek shall eat and be satisfled: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live forever.—Psalms 22:26.

SELFISH MEN may possess the earth; it is the meek only who inherit it from the Heavenly Father, free from all defilements and per-

plexities of unrighteousness.—WoolI La

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A Woman's Viewpoint

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Steps Should Be Taken at Once by A System of Priorities to Prevent Inflation From Getting a Start

VW sum TON, Nov. 13.—This is another column about our present greatest danger—not from any outside source but from an enemy within, It is not any traitorous fifth column, but a force more insidious, capable of sitting unseen at every dining table in the | country and hogging half the scanty fare of the lowliest, making life harder for everybody— especially the poor. I mean war inflation—or the higher prices that come with war or even tle threat of war. This creeping danger has already begun to appear. It has always happened in the past, but in the last war we learned how to contrpl it, It must not happen now. It comes from two causes—both controllable. The first is the fear among people who have money that, because of increased war expenditures, insufficient revenue from taxes, and increasing public debt and deficits, their money—which is simply the Government's ‘promise to pay, is going to be no good. So those doubters rush out to buy things—real estate, commodities and common stocks. That rush to buy, of itself, creates an abnormal competition, That of itself runs prices up, It has already begun. : 4 ” ” ” HE second cause is war shortages. They may oc cur in only a few fields like airplanes, skilled la= bor in particular crafts, and—as is happening now--in metal products like iron and steel. In our trae ditional economy the longest purse takes the shortage product. The process of counter-bidding, sometimes by one Government agency against another, produces the result. That also is happening now, : ‘In war, and in the highest national interest, we cannot ration scant supply to the longest purse, It must go to the most necessitous use, regardless of the highest bid. We are in a sort of siege. We are a wasteful people. We must ration what we have—and it is plenty—so that nobody hogs anything. That is a very simple process. Our World War system is a model. I am immediately putting in the hands of the President a power of priorities. That is an easy thing to do. It doesn’t deprive anybody of anything. It merely says that whatever needs are greatest—whether in power, labor, materials or finance—what the nation needs for defense shall come before what any of us needs for our pleasure, and no higher price offer will get anybody anything. On the other angle—fear of the value of mohey— Mr. Morgenthau is right on one thing. The debt

| limit should be taken off the Treasury immediately.

é haven't even begun to spend. Total defense may’ cost us as much as 50 billions more—but we've got to have it. ; 2 8 =n ] B: I think he is wrong on his other point, We can’t pay that now by taxes. What we most want is enough for everybody to eat, to wear and to enjoy at prices that they can pay. As the President «once wisely said, taxes lie as a burden on productidn. What, we need now is production to the uttermost. I don't care where taxes are laid. They are going to appear in higher prices in the grocery or clothing bill of every family, The idea that they will check inflation (high prices) is ridiculous, The higher taxes ‘go, the higher prices will go. As never before, for the sake of production and war morale of our people, we need low prices. The only kind of higher taxes that we should have is the kind that will completely take away any gain that inflationary war speculators could make by turning their money into things now and selling them at some later speculative boom-high to keep their money total intact—no matter how much the dollar may decline in purchasing power. ° > ‘All this may .sound heretical to some capitalists, but I am now thinking of only one thing: Avoiding the greatest danger to all of our people—the prevention of war inflation. The time to stop it is right now. Immediate action is needed.

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“THE other day a friend gave me several issues of a London newspaper. The date was mid-Septem= ber, when the whole world waited for reports from the little island of invincible hearts. ; There were all kinds of stories in these papers; scandals over the air raid shelters for the poor; recitals of R. A. F. daring; ‘pictures of houses and streets half destroyed; a bathing beauty with nothing much oh: editorials. that talked about “bombing Berlin to bits” and even a weighty discussion on post-war policies by Lloyd George. Also a wedding, with bridesmaids and veils and everything—no fooling! —and the bridegroom was none other than that romantic young screen hero, David Niven, in : person. But there was still another section, and it made London seem as close as the backyard fence. It was the section devoted to the problems of friendship, love and marriage, with the gift of a guinea offered for every published letter. } How dear and familiar those letters sounded! They dealt mostly with the troubles of young people in love. It warmed me to read them. They made all those people on the other side of the ocean seem as near as kinfolk. They reduced the war to the level of a madhouse brawl, a fight which, even though it may affect the destinies of millions, cannot stop the ‘pounding of’ young pulses or take the starshine from the sky, : \ For amid all those falling bombs, and beside the very debris of tottering civilizations, the young still love and marry and dream the old, old dreams for their children. So long as that happens, I suppose nothing can stop human progress. ‘It moves upward and then downward, but it always moves—a point we are likely to forget during our: discouraging mocments. : We forget that men and women lived upon this earth for a very long time before we got here, and that for them, too, the things that really matter were the ancient simple longings of the heart. As someone wrote recently, “The world is'no worse than the one to which Jesus came—and He thought it could be saved by love.” Aren't we sure now, aren't we dead sure, that love is the only thing that can save it?

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

(COUNTLESS little girls have been urged to eat carrots in order to ‘have curly hair, but science has not found any relation between .diets and curly locks. The carrots for curls and spinach for strength fables, along with other popular but mistaken notions about foods, have come in for some strenuous debunking by Dr. Helen S. Mitchell, research professor in nutrition at Massachusetts State College and Experiment Station and now working on the nutrition program as part of national defense. * Both carrots and spinach are good . points out, and they should be included in rounded diet. These two vegetables, howev perform miracles. : : ! Don't cross oranges, lemons and tomatoes off your diet list because you have gotten the notion that you are eating too many acid, foods, Dr. Mitchell warns. These and other fruits may taste acid, but actually most of the fruits and vegetables when digested produce just the opposite of an acid effect. If you eat a well-rounded diet, including plenty of milk, fruits, vegetables, and cereals with some meat, or poultry, you do not need to worry, Dr. says, about whether your diet is too acid. worry about

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