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ND CALIFORNIA A COUPLE of| grim front-page stories— : Nazi bombers drop a million pounds of explosives, killing or maiming an estimated one thousand persons and causing, “terrible desolation and fires” at Coventry, Eng‘land’s motorsmanufacturing center. - The Vultee |aircraft plant in southern California is closed by a over minimum wages, stopping production on British 2 American defense orders.
COVENTRY
” a ” The United Automobile Workers Union, representing production employees at the aircraft plant, contends that the Vultee:company’s current profits should easily enable it to pay beginners more than 50 cents an hour and to step up the schedule of raises as workers advance from appren‘ticeships to semi-skilled and skilled classifications. That may be true} The company, of course, retorts that the aunion’s demand of 75 cents for beginners (later reduced to 65 cents) is “unreasonable.” And that may be true. We know nothing about Vultee’s profits, if any. And all we know about beginners’ wages in the aircraft indus-. try is that they‘seem to be lower in southern California than in most! other sections of the country—and off-hand ‘we can think of no sound reason why that should be. The workers have every right to demand wages as high as their productiveneds and the company’s profits justify. : n is not a proper place to settle the Neither is a picket line a proper
Our nationalidefense situation is not one, that can afford the luxury of strikes or lockouts, even of short duration. It is andatory that production of planes and other weapons be u interrupted and ever-expanding. t is bending every effort to continue the pregram on a voluntary basis, because own that Americans usually do things better and faster by: co-operation than under compulsion. But if necessity commands, the Government will not hesipulsion ; it cannot hesitate.
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who are making the greatest sacrifices of the defense pro‘gram have no: hope: of dividends or even a 50-cents-an-hour minimum wage. They are the young men who under‘go the hardships of| camp and training for $30 a month, and a minimum loss of} a year out of their private lives. And | ‘they should not be kept waiting for weapons while man- | agement and labor wrangle over capital's right to profit and labor’s right to better wages. ; Disputes there will be. But they can be settled without stopping production. Any differences that can be settled by a lockout or a strike can be adjusted just as satisfactorily over the: conference table, by mediation, conciliation, arbitrati fy hile production goes on. And they must be. :
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SOMEBODY'S FAULT IT is reported from Ft. Dix, N. J., that National Guardsmen recently called up for Federal service are sloshing around without overshoes in ankle-deep mud. ' The overs oes, | it is said, are available—but in wareouses and freight! cars, which is small comfort to the y the gumbo off his shoes and worries about the flu. | © Soldiers must xpect certain hardships. But it is no credit to their superiors that such simple necessities were pot provided b a of after the recent protracted rains in that oti
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| ridin | ALASKA GROW "FTHE sparse population of Alaska has becom one of the , American di fense headaches. That vast territory has attracted so few settlers that many have feared that it would be a push-over for any invader. Thus it is reassuring to see Alaska’s population growmall, it is now revealed as 71,911 as 8 10 years ago. That is growth at the rate of 21.1 pen cent, a rate exceeded during the same period only-by Florida and New Mexico. ) pot ulation is now growing still faster, of ays draws a certain amount of civilian the army posts, so still greater growth , but it is still a pitifully small body of st territory on the direct “invasion airline” from Asia,
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I IMAGINARY BARRIERS JASCHA HEIFETZ, the violinist, said a very sensible = thing the other day. He was just back from a 25,000mile concert trip through South America. : “It is plain silly to say that we can't understand our Latin-American [neighbors, or that they can’t understand us,” he said. “I think it's a peculiarly insidious form of propaganda, this emphasizing the alleged ‘differences’ be“tween North and South America.” {* Heifetz, a citizen of the world, has found that directly and simply approach d, people in South America are “simpatico,” just as eyeryy here, and he regrets that talk of mysterious misunderstandings is possibly preventing young
once. ; i A little Jesh emphasis, please, on our differences—a ttle more on our similarities, which are the similarities of all mankind. |
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By Westbrook Pegler
Light on Judge Padway, General
Counsel of A. F. of L., Whe Praised Browne's Report at Union Meeting
EW YORK, Nov. 16.—Anyone who is interested in the attempt to purify the American Federation of Labor in the impending national convention in New Orleans may appreciate some background information on Judge Joseph A. Padway, its general counsel. Judge Padway is the highest legal authority in the federation and a veteran operator who served a spell as judge of the civil court in Milwaukee, served many years as counsel of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor and became general counsel of the A. F. of L. in 1938. Judge Padway’s heart is in the labor movement, but he is not an amateur lawyer. His zeal for labor has paid him well. He is now general counsel for seven international or national unions within the federation and special or occasional counsel for others. His clients at this time include the Stagehands and Movie Employees’ Union, under the presidency of George Browne and he once got $1000 for doing a job for the Building Service Employees’ Union, whose recent president, George Sealise, the old-time white-slaver, is under sentence to a long term in prison for robbing the union membership. + Judge Padway revised the constitution of this union—a charming document—and got $50 a day for his toil.
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ATER the general counsel of the A. F. of L. Indorsed Scalise’s application for a Presidential pardon at a time when Scalise was openly associating with Little Augie Carfano of New York, Charlie Fischetti of Chicago, a gunman like Carfano and cousin of Al Capone, and Frank Nitti of the Miami criminal scum. But, of course, Judge Padway had no idea that Scalise was still a gangster. The judge likes to think the best of his fellow men. Last June Judge Padway attended the annual convention of Browne's union in Louisville and uttered some remarks which I shall quote briefly. At this time it had been shown that Browne was a gangman who rose to office following the assassination of Tommy Maloy, a gangster, and that two of Browne's personal ambassadors plenipotentiary were criminals and active crooks. One of these, Willie Bioff, at the very time that Judge Padway addressed the convention, was serving six months for managing a bevy of harlots, and yet Judge Padway, before the convention of the racket, spoke of his association with “Mr. Bioff.” “Yesterday,” said Judge Padway, “I had the opportunity of listening to a very splendid report on the activities of this international covering the past six years.” : ” 2 = HAT was telling them, but you ought to read that report of George Browne. It weeps for Bioff, his personal agent who not only had a record but, in
‘California, as representative of Judge Padway’s client,
accepted $100,000 from'an employer with whom he was having negotiations on behalf of the union, plus tickets for himself and one for a de luxe cruise to South America on the Normandie—cost $3600. The report of George Browne extolled and defended this foul criminal, and yet Judge Padway called it “a very splendid report.” ‘ Judge Padway also reported that he had worked with Browne “on the St. Louis situation” and said “your report indicates that that was settled satisfactorily by him.” The fact is that in “the St. Louis situation” another criminal named John Nick, also an appointee of Browne, had so viciously oppressed the union members that the courts forced him out, notwithstanding Browne's support. Browne's “very splendid report” said Nick had resigned his vice presidency .because of illness after “faithful and capable service,” when the fact was that the Department of Justice was after him on charges which have now won him a substantial term in prison.
Business By John T. Flynn
Inflation Confusion Due to Belief Term Fits Only Runaway Type
EW YORK, Nov. 16.—Ambassador Joe Kennedy says in an interview that inflation in America is impossible. He adds that Montagu Norman and Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, English and German bankers,
have blown economics out of the window. Norman, he says, laughs at inflation, “What is it?” he asked Kennedy, “You try to define it.” Kennedy's comment carried the implication that nobody knows what it is because, perhaps, all the old economic laws have gone by the board. Well, here’s an attempt to define inflation. I do not blame newspaper readers for being mixed up about it. The word is bandied about to mean all sorts of things. Now let us suppose I have a : thousand dollars. I spend that thousand to produce goods. I pay it to workmen, material men, all sorts of people who furnish me with their work, their services, their goods to produce those goods. When the process is completed, I have the goods; all these other people have my thousand dolars. : That thousand dollars is now available in their hands to buy my goods. Now this is what goes on in this country every day. Only instead of one man producing goods and spending his money to do it, millions do that. As the process of production is com-
‘pleted the enterprisers have the goods, and the people
to whom they pay the money as the cost of production have the money. That is the money that is available to buy the goods. That money is the income of the American people. It fiows out of the capital funds of the enterprisers. It is made into income by the process of production. Production sets the capital funds of the enterprisers in motion and turns it into income. Of course all that income flows back to’them, when the people buy the goods they have produced. And the process of production is repeated indefinitely,
. 8 nN T= income thus produced is normal income—or rather, it is income produced in the normal processes of making and selling goods. Now whenever income is produced in the nation
which does not come out of the capital funds of pro- |
ducers or as part of the process of producing goods, you have inflation. . For instance, if the Government prints a thousand dollars in bills and distributes them, that is inflation— very slight, hardly noticeable, but still inflation. If the Government taxes a ctizen, takes part of his funds and spends them, that is not inflationary, because it draws its taxes out of the existing capital funds of the people. If the Government borrows a thousand dollars from me and lend that money out of my existing funds, that is not inflationary. Before the loan I had the money. After the loan the Government has the money and spends it instead of me. But if the Government borrows the money, ,not from a citizen, but from a commercial bank, a bank of deposit and discount, then that is inflationary, because by that very loan a thousand dollars in new bank money is created and is added to the sum of money available to spend. The confusion comes in supposing that inflation is necessarily destructive and that the word applies only to runaway inflation. The question is not whether we will or can have inflation. We have it. The ques-
tion is will we have excessive, destructive, runaway ine
flation, That is another question.
So They Say—
NOTHING CAN TOUCH America if it has unity; nobody can harm it, if its people stand together.— Richard L. Strout, political reporter. * - *
A NATION cannot be a knight errant.—Gen. R. E. Wood, Sears-Roebuck chairman. . * » .
THE WAR HAS broken down British reserve. Britcns now talk to one another without being introduced. —William Hillman, European war correspondent. : :
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1 wholly disagree with- what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
NOT SO PLEASED BY 1] TWO PER CENT RULING By A Two Per-Center Well, the Two Per Cent Club is about to die and few will mourn its passing—least of all the little fellows who had to dig down into their pockets to keep the thing going. . es And yet there is something to be said on the other side, Campaigns do take money, and since we have not yet achieved a satisfactory method of financing them through appropriations of public money for all legitimate party purposes, the question of what shall be the source of legitimate campaign funds still remains unanswered. After all, there was a modicum of merit in arguments of those who upheld the Two Per Cent method. t ” ” ANOTHER DIG AT THE DEPUTY COUNTY CLERK By D. J. Danforth Just a word of protest in regard to the article by Mr. Gasper, deputy County Clerk, in Tuesday’s Nov. 12, 1940, Times where he referred to Mr. Willkie as “Windy Willkie.” , , . No gentleman would refer to any man as “Windy” that is able to receive the nomination for a public office, be he Democrat or Republican. But, when it comes from one on the public payroll in the County Clerk’s office where they are supposed to serve the public, it is too bad. There is one thing sure, if the Democrats can not put people of merit on the payroll, they are on the way out. The voters are going to see to that,
s ” = AID TO ENGLAND HELD CHRISTIAN DUTY. By Ruth Foster, Secretary A Christian Duty.. The Indiana Defense Committee requested Dr. Jean S. Milner to rewrite and amplify a statement made about Christian attitude toward aid to England. Dr. Milner responded as follows:
“The Christian religion has a
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vital stake in this situation. Christian leaders of all shades of Christian conviction are urging aid to England as a solemn mandate the American Christian Church "dare not ignore. The defeat of England by the anti-Christian forces would be the most disastrous defeat that Christendom has ever known. Those forces have dethroned the. Christian God and worship in His place an idol that they call the state. The destruction of Christianity through rejection of its basic principles is their goal. The democratic idea stems directly from the teachings of the Christian faith from which thé culture of Western civilization got its convictions concerning the value of human personality, the dignities, rights and inalienable liberties of men. Whatever strikes at these great articles of our democratic faith strikes at the very heart of the Christian commitment to man and to God. i “Christians must do more than pray for the defeat of Hitler. They must act. It is their duty now to advocate aid to England. Pacifists and isolationists ignore the deeper moral issues involved in the present conflict. Religion and self-interest alike command us to be co-operative now in the defense of freedom and of Christianity. Otherwise we shall be contributors to the likelihood of victory by forces that would enslave humanity and crush the last vestiges of ethical Christianity.” Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin and Robert Spear are among those of prominence in the Christian church who have taken the same position as Dr. Milner.
Side Glances—By Galbraith
COPR. 1940 BY NEA NC.
T. M. REQ. U. 8. PAT. OFF,
“Father came with us only on condition that he wouldn't have to
miss the afternoon symphony."
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SOME KIND WORDS FOR MR, SCHRICKER
By C. W. A. All lovers of good government will welcome the decision to dissolve the Two Per Cent Club. ,, , Maybe it would have died anyway because there is no doubt this unsavory method of raising campaign funds has hung like a millstone around the neck of the Democratic Party in tHis state for years and undoubtedly played a part in the state organization’s defeat in the election. | On the other hand, most politiclans are pretty thick-skinned and if Mr. Schricker had not passed the word an effort may have been made to bear down a little harder on those who still | hold their jobs in order
to make up for losses sure to be oc- |, casioned by Republican replace- :
ments in many state offices. The Two Per Cent Club was only
tottering and all Mr. Schricker did |§
was to give it the necessary shove.
” ” ” CHARGES WILLKIE ‘EGOISM’ GAVE U. 8. A HEADACHE By Helen Hollett, Bloomington, Ind. Through the columns of your newspapér I wish to congratulate Mr. Clyde P. Miller for his splendid letter which appeared in The_Times issue of Nov. 13. Every word that he wrote was the truth. Mr. Willkie always was more or less afflicted with a chronic ailment
called egoism. Recenfly, it seems to have developed into an acute attack, seriously affecting his brain. His egoism is just one big headache to the rest of the nation. It seems to me that Mr. Willkie is trying his very best to divide the people of this nation into factions, while at the same time he is preaching unity. All he has to do now is to remember that he is just another defeated candidate and let our beloved President run this country. Remember, it was the majority of the people | who preferred Roosevelt to Willkie, so why does Willkie seem to think that he can [run this country? | . Remember, too, it was Willkie who first broke a tradition of 150 years, by running for the highest political Job in this nation as a non-poli-tician, an inexperienced man. He was the first in the histo: f our government to do so, and those of you who voted for him also broke a tradition. President Roosevelt
so easily broke one. Remember this, too, that Britain is evidently well pleased with the aid it is receiving from the United States, else the Britons would not be overjoyed at our President’s reelection. Willkie tried his best to make this — sending more aid to Britain—an issue in the campaign. No, the people of this nation did not make a mistake in defeating Willkie!
JEWELS By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY
Carve me a necklace of pearly clouds And a wrist watch from the sun; Give me ‘al voice like a singing breeze | And love when the day is done,
Grant me a place to call my own, A garden, a bit of sod; Then I can tell what heaven is like Where the soul communes with God.
DAILY THOUGHT
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be [surely put to death.— Numbers 35:31.
BY TAKING revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in
now to say: “Pile on the taxes.
Gen. Johnson Says—
Confiscatory Tax Would Slow Our Production, Increase Prices and Seriously Harm Our Defense Effort
ASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—In this war preparae tion our Administration is facing a colossal Job. I think it got off to a very bad start, but faire ness and candor compel me to say that it seems now to be getting into its stride. It will succeed. It's got to succeed. ’ Having had intensive experience in some vital aspects of a previous effort, I feel competent to comment on a few things—e and not from theory. I think I see practices advocated hers, that I would have used had I been in a more responsible posie tion. A case in point is selective service, which not only successe fully followed the World War model in both fraction and terme inology but also made the ime provements and changes then learned. Recently this column has. commented on the means we found to control inflation in 1918. Most of it occurred bee fore we got into the war. Our controls did at least delay it. Consider the prices of iron and steel. On the basis of an index figure of 64.7 in 1915, they had risen to 170 in April, 1917. Before our controls clicked they went to 230.02 in July, 1817. By November of 1917, they were 143.7. # 8 ® LMOST more important than winning battles is low prices and increased production. This ine sures not only ample military supplies, it means also civilian welfare. It may mean permanent prosperity and re-employment, It certainly gives tolerable living conditions and avoids the burden of fantastical debt after the war and havoc of a crazy inflationary boom, and an inevitable bust and unending years of dise astrous depression, such as we are suffering now. I have discussed war inflation and its cures. Now I want to talk about a kindred subject upon which I have merely touched—taxation, It is the fashion What we need now is confiscatory taxes, especially on profits.” For excess and profiteering gains, yes. But on ordinary profits, new investments for increasing production or on living costs it would be a blunder amounting to a crime. : : What we need is not merely more taxes, but more revenue and more production. Revenue is mostly a sum in multiplication—“total * produc tion, profits and sales multiplied by whatever per= centage of taxes you assess on them.” Revenue at any given tax rate will surely rise as you increase production, profits and sales. It may not rise at all if you increase the percentage of taxes. » » ” ! OR example, a 40 per cent tax on .80 billions of national production is 32 billions of revenue, but a 32 per cent fax on 100 billions produces the same amount. In between is no difference in revenue, but there is a terrific difference of 20 billions in price pro duction, consumption and employment.“ Excessive taxes produce three results as sure as sunrise. They reduce total revenue because they invariably increase all prices, and reduce production and employment. They do the latter for another reason. Since they must be paid at all events, they decrease the incentive of people to invest to produce, We must finance production in this war by putting private capital to work, or we shall pay for the failure to the end of our days. The way to keep it from working is unreasonably to increase taxes on its normal gains. Taxes as low as possible, low prices, high produc« tion, consumption and employment are the vital things to this nation not only for today but for gen« erations to come—more vital than victories and bate tles.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HE head of Mme. Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize winner and now a refugee from Norway, would serve as a perfect model for a sculptor who wished ta catch in marble the soul of a vanquished land. And once caught and held in imperishable form, it would be tlear to all who ever looked at it that souls are never conquered. = Only material possessions can be taken away from good and cultured people. Grief has plowed deep lines upon the writer's face. The immense burden of some spiritual malady Sos to be pressing ‘on her heart. Certain movements indicate a confusion in her mind as it fumbles with the intricacies of a strange language and considers new problems. But that massive head of hers is unbowed; determination sits like a visible crown upon her broad brow. Her eyes are undaunted; she can smile, She is, in fact, Womanhood, impregnable, unafraid. And so when she tells her audiences that Norway may be down but will never be out they have to believe her. The power of her personality makes that truth self-evident. Over and over she repeats the message, “The spirit of Norway cannot be destroyed.” Over and over and over she says it, as if she were also reassuring herself, And we believe with all our hearts that she is right. The spirit of Norway will not be destroyed because it is also the spirit of democracy and the spirit of Christianity and because it symbolizes man's ever= recurring hopes for shaping a more serene and whole some earth—and these things are imperishable. : History itself proves their indestructibility, for what is history if it is not a record of the struggles of brave men in every age who, having seen a vision, moved to make it real? Sigrid Undset is as different from you and me, plain average Americans, as could be imagined. She is Scandinavian to her finger tips; stolid, slow, unconcerned with frivolous matters. But because she is a mother who has lost a son, because she is a citizen who has lost her country, and because she is a woman who has faith in the ultimate triumph of human freedom on the earth, she is our sister as well as our welcome guest. . !
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
E = year in the United States there are 8,000,000 cases of the eight common communicable dis eases of childhood—measles, German measles, chicke enpox, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, mumps and whooping cough. This is a “reasoned estimate” given by Dr. Philip Moen Stimson of New York City in a report to the New York Academy of Medicine. “Only a million and a half of these are reported,” says Dr. Stimson, but the average 20-year-old Amer ican has had slightly more than three of these ine fections, or one each year for six children, and there are 48,000,000 children under the age of 21 in the United States. Hence, these common contagious dis~ eases are of great importance from the viewpoints both of frequency of occurrence and loss of time, of crippling and of death. : d “In the last four years the reported death toll from these eight diseases has averaged a total of 11,600 a year, and it is impessible to estimate how many people have been crippled in vision, hearing or other functions by an attack of one or another of these infections or by complications thereof.” Protection by vaccination can now be given against four of these diseases—smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever and whooping cough. The smallpox and diphtheria protection are universally recommended. The scarlet fever and whooping cough protection are not
‘yet advocated by health authorities as routine proe
cedures but many doctors are advising these, espe cially the whooping cough protection. In fact, small babies are now being protected against smallpox, whooping cough, diphtheria and lockjaw or tetanus. Adults as well as children need to be protected against diphtheria, Dr. Stimson points out, calling attention to the fact that in the last five years in New York City one-fifth of the cases of diphtheria have * been in adults, who have died of the disease at the
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rate of slightly more than four out of every 100.