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CONGRESS: ‘ALL’S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD’

(COVENTRY, Taranto, Koritza, Lough Swilly, Libreville, Martinique, Tampico, Cambodia and all those other exotic place-names that stud the front pages lately might as well be in the wonderful Land of Oz, as far as the leaders of Congress appear to be concerned. They want to go home. _ They have been suffering for weeks from acute frustration of the ay-tank-ay-go-home impulse, and this time they seem to mean business. Tomorrow, it is reported, they will try to adjourn the 76th Congress sine die, which is to say for keeps. Republicans and some Democrats will resist, but if enough of those Democrats who deserted Washington long gince can be rounded up to vote yea, the present Congress will vanish into a void from which only the President, by ordering a special session, can resurrect it. This means that in the seven weeks remaining before the 77th Congress assembles, on Jan. 3, the legislative arm of the Government would be in a state of abdication. Maybe this would turn out all right. The country used to be able to struggle along without Congress for seven weeks or even seven months. Maybe nothing will happen - between now and Jan. 3 that requires Congressional atten- : tion. But think back to a seven-week period last spring, in which occurred the invasion and conquest of the low countries, the British retreat from Dunkerque, the entrance of Italy’into the war, the fall of France. a Those matters gave Congress plenty of work to do. Witness the 17-billion-dollar defense program. i Other world-shaking events may be in the cards for * these next seven weeks. What if Russia and Japan should sign a pact? What if Japan moves against the East Indies? © What if England’s navy suffers terrible reverses, and the question of releasing more of our warships is broached? What if strikes in our defense industries spread? What if something breaks in the Caribbean or South America? In a year when the unexpected is the rule, Congress ought to be on deck.

DOGS—AND APPEASEMENT

E know a dog. He is a scottie. On his collar is stamped a telephone number. He strays—and how. Despite all precautions, 16 times in his young life he has got away. He always heads for the thick of things. But 16 times he has been returned. The latest was yesterday. A lady in a big auto saw him near the center of a long bridge, trying to get across, with cars all around him, She stopped, tied up traffic for a couple of blocks, rescued the little scott, and delivered him to a policeman. It happens that those who have played a similar rescue role have represented most races, colors and creeds in these parts. : All this in a world of war and human hate, bloodshed, starvation and pestilence caused by war. You give the answer. We can’t. Maybe it simplifies down to what Mark Twain said—the more he saw of men the more he liked dogs. But we think it goes deeper than that. Without trying to be a pollyanna or a Dr. Coue, we believe that most people are kindly and will help you get your dog back. To put it another way, that appeasement, in the dictionary meaning of the word, is actually in the | heart of folks, despite the terrible lacing the world has had sin¢e Munich. : Of course there’s a limit to appeasement. You can’t, for example, appease a rattlesnake. But generally speaking, appeasement more nearly fits the natural impulse of man than does the antithesis. Otherwise, Christ would | have been forgotten in the year one. And little children, | and little dogs, when they stray, would never be returned; | persons such as Florence Nightingale and such institutions | "as the Red Cross never would have been heard of.

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It’s been a long, hard battle through the ages—between | the philosophies of force and of appeasement. But the tally will show that while conquerors and tough guys have rampaged up hill Re maarrs Caesars, Napoleons and Hitlers have had their’/rises and their falls—the undercurrent which is appeasement has been more constant than the power of brute force. To appease meaning, according | to Webster, “to make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state |

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of peace; to allay; conciliate; assuage; compose; hush; | soothe; tranquilize.” Or, we might add, to help the other | fellow get his dog back. When all the hell of present days is over, some form of appeasement will prevail. Because it’s the only way, except destruction=-absolute. We know, for example, that if Col. Frank Knox found | our dog, he'd see that it got home. For we know him as | one of the kindliest and finest of men. Yet, as Secretary | of the Navy, he feels it incumbent to say in a Boston ad- | dress that in times like these the United States “would not ‘appease anybody on earth.” Hard, belligerent words those—but, nevertheless, if Frank found our dog, he’d bring him back.

HELP FOR MARTINIQUE

MARTINIQUE, a French islet in the American Indies, | has had a gloomy outlook since the fall of France. She remains loyal, officially at least, to the Vichy Government. | ‘But Vichy can do nothing for her. She has no money | with which to import necessities from the United States; | she has little or no market for the sugar, rum and bananas she used to ship to Europe. | . At the same time, France has enormous funds in the United States—perhaps two billion dollars or more—which have been frozen by executive order since the surrender to Germany, to prevent their reaching ‘Hitler, : We are glad to see that the Treasury has now released | a portion of these funds for the relief of Martinique. No ' Syestion of possible aid to Germany is involved, especially | since the released money will not be shipped to the island | ‘but will be made available only for purchases in this country, |

| at 75 billion. That means another 31 billion, | what is 65 million dollars for Mr. Moses’ road? It's

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Little Men of Clerks' Union Asked To Finance Appeal of Labor Leader

Convicted in N. Y. Jewel Robbery

EW YORK, Nov. 18.—Some of my friends among the professional labor leaders are fond of saying that disclosures concerning a few dirty criminals in organized labor have been over-exploited and that, after all, one must expect to find a few crooks in any Jarge body of human beings. But I have observed that when a com=paratively obscure criminal is turned up by way of proving my contention that the official list of the A.F of L. contains the nucleus of a first-class rogues’ gallery, the big labor leaders immediately reply that this is petty stuff’ and not worth mentioning. . Yet we have to remember that it is the common gorilla in the local

union who deals directly with the |

little people of the rank and file, and it is of such a crook and his dealings that I write today. Our subject is a stickup man and racketeer named Michael Lomars, the business manager of OConfectionery and Tobacco Jobbers’ Employees Local 1175 of the Retail Clerks’ International Protective Association. This international is also the parent union of the Retail Food and Grocery Clerks’ Local 1204, whose business manager, Nick Elia, was convicted here in April of this year of extorting money from the proprietors of retail stores and markets and sentenced to a term of 15 to 30 years,

a 8 9 OMARS got into the union about 1933 when Bioff, Scalise, Circella and the Natti-Capone criminal scum of Chicago and Miami decided that this was a safe and lucrative substitute for bootlegging and kidnaping. Lomars and some other crooks got together in a hotel room in New York on the night of July 1, 1937, and sent out two of their number—a man and a woman named Dorothy Stirrat, alias Dolly Turner, also known as the Lady Finger—to scare up a victim in the night- clubs. Dolly and the other gorilla’ went to the Plaza Hotel

where they spotted Mrs. James V. Forrestal, whose |

husband is now an Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They phoned Lomars, and he and two others piled into a stolen car and drove to the Plaza, where Dotty and her friend fingered the Forrestal car as it drove away. Lomars and the boys followed to the Forrestal home, where Dotty’s friend—who shall be nameless because he hasn't yet been caught—and Reuben Klansky, robbed Mrs, Forrestal of jewelry worth more than $50,000. Klansky testified for the people in the trial of Lomars, ‘which was conducted by Herman Stichman of Thomas E. Dewey’s staff, and on Oct. 30 of this year he was convicted of armed robbery along with Joseph Weiss, the one who accompanied him in the stolen car. The Lady Finger also was convicted of robbery, but because she was not armed her offense was less serious. Weiss has a record and so faces a minimum of from 30 to 60 years, but Lomars has no previous convictions, so the least he can get is from 10 to 30 years. Klansky has not been tried as yet.

® s » OMARS is now in the Tombs awaiting sentence, and, out of sympathy for their devoted leader, the members of Local 1175 showed up at a meeting in a hotel Wednesday night to hear a very moving plea by a brother introduced as Albert Greenberg, business

| agent, for money to finance brother Lomars’ appeal.

The speaker said the executive board had decided that a day's pay from all hands would not be too great a sacrifice for the lofty purpose of getting brother Lomars out of “that miserable jail.” However, he had since consulted counsel and counsel had advised him that such an assessment would be unconstitutional. So the brother identified as Greenberg had taken it on himself to amend the recommendations of the executive board, and he now proposed that the members be permitted to give “voluntary” contributions of from $2 to $5 out of their little pay for long hours at uncertain and arduous employment to be collected by a committee of devoted friends of brother Lomars, :

Business

By John T. Flynn

All Sorts of Projects Being Urged To Bolster Our 'National Defense’ HICAGO, Nov. 18.—Moving around this neck of our woods one notices a great, indeed a terrific,

zeal for national defense. There are few towns that haven't looked around and discovered some road and

harbor or river bed or dock that doesn’t need fixing |

up “for national defense.”

In New York, Commissioner

Bob Moses, the great park builder, finds that we should build certain roads in and out of New York “for national defense.” The Commissioner has been building roads now ever since the depression began. New York is one great tangle of magnificent roads—for which it can thank the Commissioner. But they have been built with borrowed money—money borrowed by the city and by the Federal Government. That kind of money is running out. It is so everywhere. The cities have no more. And as for the Federal Government—it is now diverting all its money to defense. ; Well, what could be more necessary for defense than good roads? When Hitler's tanks and motorized troops come plunging out of the Atlantic Ocean at us and the population of New York rushes pell-mell in flight from the hordes, we have to have good roads to expedite the hegira. ”

| A ND who knows how far these seaboard refugees

will go when once they start? Pittsburgh thinks they may keep .going as far as western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh has been trying to get Pitt Ave. widened and rehabilitated for a long time, but hasn't got the money. But now, encouraged by Commissioner Moses, she sees Pitt Ave. as an essential item in the defense

program. It will be a bottleneck when the fleeing fugitives from the seaboard reach Pittsburgh and wish to continue their flight on into the Western Reserve. So Pittsburgh reminds the Government that Pitt Ave. can be fixed up much cheaper even than Bob Moses’ national-defense roads. : After all—why not? We now owe 44 billion. At this session Congress authorized pushing the debt limit up to 48 billion. Secretary Morgenthau proposes to up it 20 billion more. Senator George, conservative, enemy of deficits, champion of economy, not to be outdone—and in the interest of economy—goes Mr. Morgenthau seven billion better. He thinks we should stop

only a drop in the bucket out of that 31 billion. As a matter of fact, why not shoot the works? If we are going ahead this way, running up debt which we will get rid of by inflation and devaluation, why not shoot the works? Why not make a list of everything we have ever wanted to have—tabulate all our dreams—call it all national defense—and shoot the works—69 billion—175 billion—a hundred billion—200

billion—what does it all mean? We might as well do

this job right while we are about it.

So They Say—

DEMOCRACY works in America because yQu In Europe it failed because most of

| the people there acquired it, not through their own | efforts but through the Treaty of Versailles.—Count |

Ferdinand Czernin, Austrian refugee author. * * -

ACCUSTOM yourself to walk rapidly, even if you are going nowhere and have nothing to do.—Roberto Unanue, visiting Argentine newspaperman, setting up rules for visiting fellow-Argentines,

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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.

SUSPICIONS STIRRED BY SCHRICKER’S ACTION

By W. R. B. It is inspiring and somewhat refreshing to see our Governor take a stand against the Two Per Cent [Club which has been instrugental in replenishing the coffers of the Democratic party. I know. it is downright mean of me to be suspicious, but could it be that the Governor suspects that the Two Per Cent Club might set a

majority in Indiana. Governor, if I'm wrong. However it all goes to prove that a well balanced two-party system tends to keep politics clean whether they like it or not.

2 x nn SUGGESTS A WAY FOR REPUBLICANS TO SERVE.

By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport, Ind.

Gen. Johnson says that the opinions of the 22,000,000 people who voted for Mr. Willkie must be respected and opportunities must be given them to serve, “at least in non-political capacities.” A stanch New Dealer, I am nevertheless broad-mindéd, and heartily agree with the General. But where shall they serve? Well, the General himself grants that it must be in a non-political capacity. Let's see . hmm. Say! I've got it! Why not in a military capacity —what I mean is that would be a nice national sort of thing. Yes, sir, + think all of we New Dealers should bury the ax, let bygones be by|gones, and slip something to earnest, deserving Republicans. I think we should all immediately relinquish our seniority on the draft list to our G. O. P. pals.

8 x = WE TAKE A SCOLDING ON THIS CRUSADE BUSINESS By F. B. I I resent deeply your recent editorial and cartoon regarding |the word “Crusade.” To millions of people this word is a living animated symbol—our hope to carry on in the future. Nothing you can print will

!destroy it but if you wish unity to

prevail do nothing further to widen the breach by your obvious ridicule of the word crusade. I have never written a letter to any newspaper before and my first attempt seems inadequate to express

bad example for the Republican of- | fice holders who seem to be in the | Pardon me |

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my surprise and indignation that you would champion a crusade one week and deride it the next. Mr. Willkie lost the election but he won something even greater than a mere political campaign—the trust of the American people whether they voted for him or not. In:four more years this victory of the New Deal will have ended but the crusade will still be alive and breathing.

I read many newspapers but yours is the first one that has been guilty of extreme bad taste.

® 2 a SUSPICION STIRRED BY SERIES OF ACCIDENTS By William J. Thixton

Have read accounts in the newspapers and heard radio bulletins of the many “accidents” happening in factories within the last six months. Yesterday, Nov. 12, I read of three such “accidents” that happened within a period of 50 minutes. If there are so many of them happening now how long would our ammunition plants, our powder plants, our airplane, gun, gas-mask and many other factories last if we were actually engaged in war with a foreign power? Aud then what seems so tragic is the first report coming from the scene of the disaster of “no immediate report of sabotage.” It seems that the American people have awakened to the possibility of the United States becoming involved in another war so why can’t they awaken to the fact and realize of fhe many thousands of hostile aliens and even citizens within the boundaries of this country? The way I see it the Dies Committee on “un-American activities” might as well take a 12 months’ vacation and go fishing. I mean of course for.all the good their exposing and uncovering have done. . . Maybe some day if, and when this country is involved in another

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war, factories keep on being burned and destroyed by the rate of three and four a day, and National Armories burn with millions of dollars of losses, then we, the American people, will begin to realize that “accidents” just don’t

months, and let us remember also, that although a few bad apples don’t spoil the whole barrel they can certainly do a lot of damage. ” 2 » UNITY BEGINS AT HOME, WILLKIE CRITIC TOLD By C. T. J. Tuesday, Nov, 12, we were amazed when we read in the Hoosier Forum, | an essay on National Unity by Clyde P, Miller, charging the Waillkieites | with disrupting the univerte, and! also asking a purge of his own kind | for selling the Democrats down the | river here in Indiana. Unity, like charity, starts at home, so please, Mr. Miller, take stock of what goes on about you vefore you

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press. dark, dismal night your nouse be-

building, and your good neighbors both excited and confused, but with high hopes, run across the field to your assistance. But, when they observe you alone, utterly exhausted with a seared brow and blistered hands fighting a noble but losing battle, these idle worshipers lock arms around your premises and hold back the late arrivals who are sane and willing to help; and at the time the last roof falls in with all of your life savings, your neighbors exclaim, “Bravo, fight on, good soldier.” = It is too late then to cail for unity and condemn your associates.

” ” ” *HOKUM,” HF. SAYS OF FIRST LADY'S SPEECH By R. P. In a recent speech by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt I quote the following: “If we are to perserve our way of life,” America must “not be afraid to give up the rights of a free people.” “Do not be afraid to

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again rant your wrath in our public 1

Suppose after a long drouth crops fail, the well goes dry, and on a ||

comes aflame and the wicked wind | {& whips the blaze from building to |§

give up the rights of a free people, if giving up means we are to preserve our way of life, because as a free people we can always get them | back again whenever we want | them.” Well, well, and well! Are we, the American people, supposed to relax in our chairs by the ‘“fiteside” and swallow this kind of hokum?” 80 we can get our “rights” back again? Now, isn't that ducky— (on paper). America, be on your toes, is my slogan every day of the week, 365 days a year.

COMPARISON By VERNE 8S. MOORE “How old is the Old Beech Tree?” Somebody asked As we scanned its trunk Where it basked ‘In the autumn sun,

Nobody knew exactly The age of the tree, And few could say that it Was fair to see Against the sky.

Sometimes we find a heart Strong as a beech A soul that stands apart = That beauty did not reach, But filled with humanness.

DAILY THOUGHT

The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.—Psalms

GOD dwells far off from us, but prayer brings’ Him down to our

age-marred

earth, and links His power with our ojs~Mad. de Gasparin.

MONDAY, NOV. 18 1940 Johnson Sa ys—

Labor Peace Essential for Defense, Not Only Within Own Ranks But

fn Its Relations With Employers

ASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 18.—One of our great est needs for unity in defense is unity in the ranks of organized labor-—not merely a better relation between A. F. of L. and C. I. O,, but a better relation between labor and employers. I think it is coming fast.

The appointment of Dr. Millis to succeed Mr, Madden as head of the National Labor Relations Board, was about as good a selection as could have been made. Madden is an honest and sincere man, but he is also a zealot. He regarded his job not as that of an impartial arbitrator, but as that of a partisan crusader to extend the field of organization in labor; even to the extreme of doing it whether the particular labor involved wanted organization or not. That state of mind disqualified him for his particular job—high as his purpose was, Dr. Millis has written his record in intense experience and it indicates exactly the sort of man who is needed for that job—neéded not merely to bring labor factions closer together but also bring labor and industry into better harmony.

As between C. I. O. and A. F. of L., as Dan Tohin has been quoted as saying, jurisdictiongl disputes are going to make the job of bringing them together hard and long, but it can be done. » » ” HE attitude of John L. Lewis, head of C. 1. O., will have much to do with it. He said before the election that, if Mr, Roosevelt is elected; he will resign as head of C. I. O. He has not spoken since. Doubt is expressed about his action now. I have none whatever. I know of no instance of John Lewis breakifg his word. Since he said he will resign, he will resign, Then it seems to be feared that, by retaining his presidency of the United Mine Workers, he will exer= cise great influence in C. I. O. He certainly will, but I think that, never retreating from the principles for which he has fought, Mr. Lewis wants to see peace in organized labor as much as any man. One thing that superficial observers, hearing Mr. Lewis attacked by lesser labor lights, may overlook is that they don’t always express the opinions of the workers themselves and that, not only among the working miners but also among hundreds of thou= sands of other wage workers, Mr. Lewis is and will remain an idol. Labor as such won't gain anything and surely lesser labor leaders won't gain anything by crucifying Mr. Lewis. ” ” » AN TOBIN, of the teamsters, will work hard for unity, but in my opinion the coming labor captain is Phillip Murray. It is true he is in C. I. O,, starting as a miner and now head of the Steel Workers’ Committee. It is also true that personally he is very close to Mr. Lewis. But that friendship will not control opinions, nor will differences of opinion break that friendship. This was shown in the recent campaign, when Mr. Murray stood for a third term and Mr. Lewis repudiated it. Mr. Murray has, I think, to a greater extent than any other labor man, the confidence .of those who differ in opinions—whether A. F. of L,, or C. I. O, or employers in general. He did a magnificent job of organizing the steel industry and of so leading that union that it is already as well-ordered and responsible as any. : He is a great organizer and leader, a shrewd leader and bargainer, a determined fighter; yet reasonable, just and above all honest. ‘I would rely on his word as to a past event, an existing fact or a future proms ise as confidently as on that of any man I ever knew,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

4 HE women of Norway have made little impression on their country’s political policies,” according to Mme. ‘Sigrid Undset, the greatest feminine writer of our time. She believes they have made only a weak impression politically in other European countries, ‘and although a slow smile was the only answer to my impertinent question—“Do you think Ameri=can women have improved American politics?’—it was easy to guess what her reply would have been. She was loud in praise of feminine child-welfare work in her country, however, and of other humanitarian achievements, Nor way has a great many women doctors, who have made magnificent progress in raising health stand- . ards among the whole population, Educationally, too, the feminine influence has been great. Yet one easily gathered from her conversation that to Mme, Undset woman's chief business is to stick to her natural tasks. Ascording to the bulk of her writings, the great Norwegian author believes women should limit their labors solely to the feminine fields. Her books are all based on one theme. Woman fulfills her highest obligation through wifehood and motherhood, does her greatest work and finds her richest rewards there. Her large following of American readers cannot mistake Mme. Undset’s opposition to feminine meddling in masculine business. And yet how energetically man, in the group, goes about meddling in woman’s business. How horribly he intrudes into thé pretty domestic scene, where the “Madonna and Child” spirit: is supposed to reign. How ruthlessly he ruins all purely feminine good works, when he goes on a war rampage!

We care hardly contend any longer that the woman

who has been a first-class wife and mother can feel relieved of all further civic responsibility. Unless her influence goes deeper into masculine behavior than that of her mother and grandmother, she can expect that most of her teaching, however good it is, will be ignored. : . * Women and their children have to live in the world men make for them, unless they pitch in and help with that making. Will the new age into which we move be one of peace, progress and prosperity, or will it be filled with wars, degradation and poverty? It is a question women as well as men will have to answer,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

OUNG women who have had infantile paralysis as children need not fear that this will. make it impossible for them to become mothers and to have normal children. This cheering news comes from a study of more than 100 women who had infantile paralysis, 13 of whom were attacked by the disease during pregnancy. The study was made by Dr. Samuel Kleinberg and Dr. Thomas Horwitz of the Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York City, under a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. These doctors made X-ray pictures of 101 women who had infantile paralysis and found|that more than three-fourths of them had a dissimilarity in corresponding parts on opposite sides of the body which are normally alike. These dissimilarities, or asym metries, as doctors call them, were found in the pelvis, the basin-gshaped ring of bone at the lower end of the trunk through which the child must pass at birth, A curvature of the spine was the chief factor contrib uting to dissimilarity of the opposite sides. : These deformities, however, were for the most part not severe and would not lead one to expect an une usually painful or slow delivery. Of the 13.women who had infantile paralysis ate tacks during pregnancy, one lost her baby a week after she developed infantile paralysis. The others bore normal children with no more trouble than would have been expected without the infantile paralysis. None of the 12 children had any sign of infantile paralysis at birth and none has sc far developed the disease, which shows that there is no evidence -the disease is passed from mother to child, i “The type of delivery necessary to obtain a i child presents no different problems from those non-paralytic females with the same pelvic def ities,” ine eo Tepe. hare are rib indications, on para one, for terruption of pregnancy or sterilization.’ wil