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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1940

COMMON SENSE ABOUT WORK R. HARRY A. MILLIS, scheduled for the new chairmanship of the Labor Relations Board, radiates common sense—a gommodity direly needed in that body. What| he says in a New York Times interview is a pleasing and heartening contrast to the brittle and evangelical pronouncements through recent years of the Maddens and the Smiths. . He sees nothing sacred about the 40-hour week, if more hours are needed in a national emergency. Yet he believes 40 hours enough in ‘many occupations under ordi-

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to. put in 60 to 90 hours. If you are ‘in a spot where there is a nervous and physical strain—like keeping up with an assembly line—that’s one thing. | If you are doing something of a strictly creative or administrative nature, it’s another. Under such circumstances you are not happy if you have to quit by the clock. | : : A lot of work can’t be called fun. As one of the two black crows said in their radio skit, “you can’t find any pleasure in |it”—if it’s a case of firing a steamboat. But much of the world’s work, for the individual engaged in it, is the most fun in life. : The Pp int being that Dr. Millis seems to be bringing to the whole labor problem in this country—which with the A. F. of L. and C. I. O. in convention this week takes a large part in the current domestic scene—a sanity which has been sadly lacking for much too long.

CAN'T SCARE BENITO IGNOR MUSSOLINI throws out his chest, thrusts his chin forward and bellows into a mike that he'll beat the Greeks if it {takes him a year. Those he is comforted by the dictum of Marshal Joffre, who said of Scotland’s kilts “for love they are wonderful, but for war they are impossible.” Yet, unless every correspondent in the Balkans is hypnotized by Mr. Metaxas’ brandy, those mountaineer panty-waists are pushing Musso’s shock troops from pillar to post. So 11 Duce rants and threatens. He'll show ‘em. Tough guy, this Caesar. Italy’s population, 44 million; Greece's seven million. If that isn’t enough margin, “Mussolini thunders that “Germans and Italians together, we are a bloc of 150,000,000, resolute, compact and firm from Norway to Libya” (except for slight dents at Taranto and around Koritza). | : They can’t scare me and Hitler both!

BUTTERING UP MOSCOW

OVIET RUSSIA has a population of more than 170,000,000 and it is growing fast. It has an area in excess of 8,000,000 square miles (more than twice ours) and this, too, has geen growing in the last year. It has a huge army, and its voice in power politics carries enormous weight— witness the |[Russo-German bombshell pact of 1939 and its quick sequel, the invasion of Poland by Germany. It may be that a few years hence Russia will be more “in the middle” than in the saddle; that is, if England caves in and the Nazi war machine becomes available for use in the East—perhaps for a grab at the Ukraine, as envisaged in Mein Kampf. But for the present Russia wields a powerful veto power in world affairs. A word from her, for instance, might determine whether Turkey is to become involved in the Greco-ltalian war.

A word from her might make China's further resistance

impossible, and release Japan’s military forces for conquest of the Dutch East Indies, of Hongkong and Singapore, and eventually of the Philippines. The importance of Russia as a key to the world map of the future can hardly be exaggerated. That ‘is why we have continued to maintain an ambassador in Moscow through thick and thin, even while our Government and people were assisting Russian-invaded Finland, and even while Russian agents are trying to meddle with the domestic politics and economy of this country in direct violation of Moscow's pledge of 1933. : : : That is also why, as Mr. Denny points out in his current series of articles, Washington is snuggling up to Moseow in various ways these days—diplomatically, that is, not ideologically. : It is scarcely a cordial relationship. Each country despises the other. And yet, the world being what it is, and our list of friends being limited to the hard-pressed British Empire and defenseless Latin America, it seems common sense for our Government to do what it reasonably can do to dissuade Russia from a full-fledged partnership with the Rome-Berlin-Tokio Axis. :

DON’T WORRY—YOUTH IS ALL RIGHT

WHAT manner of men were aboard the Jervis Bay, eggshell converted British liner, when it wrote in letters of fire and blood a new British sea epic by rushing to suicidal attack on the German pocket battleship when it fell like a hawk in a chicken yard on the 38-ship convoy? * Were they old, hard-boiled sea dogs? No, they were 19 and 20-year-old naval reservists. These were the boys of a generation called soft and degenerate. They were the despair of ponderous elders, with their jitterbug ways and Oxford oaths. Yet they served their guns until the rising salt water slopped into the muzzles, and fought a fight as brave and unflinching as any of the tars of Nelson. ; This talk of soft, degenerate youth is an Old Husband's Tale. What the young men of today are called upon to do, they will do, and do it gloriously, as did the callow young re_servists who died writing history on the sinking J ervis Bay.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

‘Duce's Valiant Sprinters Win New Laurels Against the Greeks, Even Topping Speed’ of Earlier Retreats

EW YORK, Nov. 19.—To the historic honors won

at Adowa, Caporetto, Guadalajara and Lissa, the dashing invincibles of Benito Mussolini have now added new glories, inflicted by the Germans in Albania and the British at Taranto, where the Duce’s indomitables upheld the famous, if somewhat queer, traditions of

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their arms. To be sure, the flight of the irresistibles in Albania did not

equal in magnitude the spectacu-

lar advance to the rear which has made Caporetto a name too sacred to be mentioned out in Italy, nor in speed and form with the magnificent feat of footwork achieved at Guadalajara in Spain. But, man for man, the forces which ran the Greeks to exhaustion over the mountains in

of Caporetto, and the heroes of Guadalajara will have to admit that they did their running on a faster and straighter track. a After all, spirit counts for a great deal in Musso-

lini’s scoring system, and the forces in Albania cer- | i

tainly deserved to be marked. All in earnestness as they tore for home when the fighting started.

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F there was any blame at all, it belongs to the Duce, in 4selecting for this contest a terrain in which the roads were narrow and winding and the curves improperly banked. Reports from the Greek side agree that the track was not at all suitable for championship performances. The conquering legions were compelled to slow down on the turns to pitch over the cliffs, and there were bottlenecks in which some of the slower members impeded men behind who were full of run and wanted only road room, So, notwithstanding the fact that an extraordinary proportion of invincibles were caught the forces involved doubtless will receive from the Duce the cherished right to wear the proud insignia of a cloud of dust, which is awarded to all distinguished regiments of his forces. This device, unlike the battle honors of other nations, is worn between the space between the shoulder blades, where it is most likely to impress an enemy. Undoubtedly, the Duce’s quartermaster department will now be called on for a technical report on the efficiency of a type of running-shoe worn by his invincibles in the flight from the Greeks. After Guadalajara, when so many casualties were found to be suffering from hob-nail wounds in the rear, it was decided to do something to abate this hazard, and rubber spikes were substituted for a time, but were abandoned when the soldiers stewed them in gear grease and ate them for mussels, a great delicacy as long as they lasted. The more daring minds on the Duce’s staff proposed long, wicked sprinters’ spikes and a mere shell of a shoe for the utmost speed and a regulation issue of tin-body armor in the sole of the pants to reduce casualties from tramping.

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UT, after all, the imperial legions of the allconquering will are not mere sprinters. They are distance runners, too, so we do not know whether they were using spikes in Albania where they ran a marathon race. 2 It is hard to see how Mussolini can conscientiously honor the heroes of the naval engagement at Taranto on an equal scale with those of the old battle of Lissa.

ditions of Lissa, but, after all, they didn’t run away during the action. They had already run away and were hiding at the time, whereas, at Lissa, the Italian fleet not only achieved a historic defeat but followed that with a magnificent flight from the Austrians comparable, in sea warfare, to the most glorious feats of running ever recorded by the land forces. If the Duce starts rewarding men for inartistic

hosts will begin to sock themselves on the chin just to win medals for their shoulder blades. In the Duce’s hosts of land, sea and air, two elements should always be combined in any traditional performance, defeat and flight. Taranto was not entirely in the best tradition.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Some Grumbling Being Heard on the Allocations of Defense Contracts

ILWAUKEE, Nov. 19.—While of course everyone seems to pe for as much national defense as pessible, every town and state has its eye on the way the contracts are being divided. . There are dismal growls about the manner in ! which some states seem to be favored and others neglected. For instance, in Chicago they ask why

New Jersey has got contracts for |

931 million dollars while Illinois has got only 235 million. : Michigan, with her vast auto industries and subsidiary parts and metal industries, cannot understand why she gets 340 million in contracts while California gets 973 million. : In Milwaukee some businessmen point out that Wisconsin has ; got only 53 million in contracts while South Carolina has over twice as much. + There is the suggestion that politics has played a part. Yet the figures hardly support that. Illinois was a pivotal state in the election; Virginia was not, yet Virginia has got 784 m‘llion in contracts while Illinois got but 235 million. . How far politics has been mixed up in defense contracts no one knows. The episode of Chip Robert, who resigned as secretary of the Democratic National Committee when it came out that his firm had collected nearly a million dollars in commissions from defense contracts, has naturally left a bad taste. Yet contracts have been approved hastily, with plenty of contracts to go around, and they have gone to the states where the needed industries are situated.

: ® 2 oo» : MVM CSEaveR, it does not follow that, because a billion in contracts goes to New York, New York will .get the entire billion. Raw materials, semi-

processed materials, steel, iron, metals of all sorts, textiles, parts, will come from a dozen states. Just

| how that billion will be divided no one knows.

There is, of course, no doubt that the defense contracts played an inevitable role in the election. Take the list of allocations to a handful of pivotal states:

Connecticut esssrenseeasns.$383,000,000 Illinois sesssenaass. 235,000,000 Massachusetts ..eeeivenenesss. 712,000,000 Michigan «...covervie?saive... 341,000,000 New YOrk ....v.ocesesscessses 962:000,000 New Jersey ...cveevvseserees.. 931,000,000 Ohio ......coveveivenne Pennsylvania ...

. There is a total of $4,462,000,000 in contracts in these eight decisive states—more business than they have seen in years and which has produced something resembling real prosperity in their industrial centers.

So They Say—

DICTATORIAL regimes boast of being totalitarian. To be that means to deny individuality. And art is, in its essence, individualistic and free.—~Count Carlo Sforza, Italian exile, i * ® ® WOMEN HAVE great potential powers and everybody realizes it but women.—Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, Baltimore women’s club leader. ¥ ; * . . , FIFTEEN BILLION dollars of the annual national income goes into the garbage pail in the form of purchases of liquor, narcotics, gambling, sex magazines and other things that undermine the health and employability of our people.—Roger Babson, economist and Prohibition Party leader, A ® ® . I HAVE NO USE for Communists, but I like Russlans.—Lieut. Gen. Yoshitsugu, newly appointed Japa-

nese ambassador to Russia,

%ecent days have no need to apologize to the survivors |

{plain evidence and beyond reasondefeats he will cheapen his honors, and his imperial |

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

THAT PAY-OFF DELAYED FOR SIG. MUSSOLINI By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. Mussolini figured he was getting in just before the pay-off on bank night. Imagine his surprise when it turned out to be a long and bhoring double feature, with the payoff indefinitely postponed!

» 2 ” CONTENDS MEXICO WOOING COMMUNISTS By “Loyal Opposition” It seems to be well established by

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in these eight intervening days? Don’t our defense plants need inspecting any more? It seems to me if it was dangerous to be away overnight the first. of November it still is; the only difference I can see is the election is won. But still I am just a housewife and am not supposed to know or remember. Okay! Let's have unity and I think Mr. Ford has given us a fine

able doubt that Mexico is headed straight for Communism. Since Communism is one of our worst fifth column elements, and sinte the Republicans were severely castigated as partners with these dangerous radicals during the recent campaign, what is the mean- } ing of all this recent news about example but please let both sides alliances and partnerships with practice it. Mexico, well known to be drifting » into Communism? Who is friendly to the Reds now? Is our government going to help Mexico's Communist government with arms,

planes and money? Do we want! yn her speech at Springfield, Ill, to arm our enemies?

Roosevelt The people of the United States °% Nov. 13, Mrs. Eleanor

are just as much opposed to Com- said in part that “America must not up the rights of a

munism as they are to all other be afraid to give alien isms being established in this free people.” 1 am wondering if ! peop { re, a oi |this 18 the beginning of the dictator help Borba obit oo En ‘era which was predicted by so many people of Mexico? during the recent WPA election which took her husband out of the, ® =» 8 Presidency and placed him on the A KIND WORD FOR FORD, Hivos, ’t 06 best vedrs spent two years— ARAPFORF.D-R of my life—in France and Germany BY Puzzled in defense of the very thing—the As I turned my paper, I found a 'rights of a free people—she so open-

i i lly requests us to give up. I can visbit of news hidden away among the > Teason for the wife of our

ads and I think it rates the front president to make such a remark, page. : . |unless she is in accord with policies “Henry Ford offers the use of his of those who now govern life in Rusgiant River Rouge plant/to be used |sja, Germany and Italy, and their in training machinists in-the naval |conorts who rule with an iron fist expansion plan.” It goes on to say,|in Finland, Denmark, Poland, “Ford's unsolicited offer was accept-|Czechosolvakia, Belgium, Holland ed speedily.” To me this was an|and France. offer of a great American citizen| I can not agree with Mrs. Rooseand I couldn't help remember the velt in her statement that by “givunfair whispering smear campaign ing up the rights of a free people, against this fine American. we can always get them back again.” On Thursday morning another If the people of these United States item on a back page that I think ever relinquish “the rights of a rates a front page, too. “Nov. 13/free people,” we are doomed to such President Roosevelt takes cruise for an existence as are the citizens of rest and fishing.” Has the war sit- the above mentioned countries, and uation in Europe cleared so much don’t be kidded into believing we

Side Glances—By Galbraith

#2 = COUNTS HIMSELF OUT ON SURRENDERING RIGHTS

By Ralph R. Canter Sr.

COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF, TE —— OR

"You want the Morton boy? Which one, the town loafer or the

one that's president of the grain mill?"

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will ever be able to get them back again. I am a firm believer in this nation, and in its Constitution and will ever be willing to defend it from any aggressor, and cm therefore very much disappointed In learning of the willingness of our “First Lady” to give up the ideals that have built our nation into the most wonderful nation in the world. I sincerely trust that her husband does not share her views in this case. If he does, ‘Heil Hitler.’

2 x» nn ETTINGER EDITORIAL DRAWS A REBUKE

By Mayme Wolf Seems to me the crystal ‘zing of ‘the editor of The Times wns very

[such wrong in his Presidential | prediction, and I think I would quit |the gazing and get down to actuali-

(ties and really realize chat the

Democratic public is becoming very, very tired of supporting a paper that can viciously, m~iiciously condemn a man who has so ardently and honestly and tolerantly tried to keep the election (for both par- | ties, mind you) straight, anc willing [tor inspection by either party or {an;’ newspaper. | In a recent editorial, I remember ja very fine (but unexpected) compliment paid to Mr. Ettinger upon his efficiency and capability of handling the Selective Service organization of this county. In the

you so suddenly change? I dare say if the Republicans had been

stead of most of them, Mr. Charles Ettinger, the County Clerk, would have been commended upon his efficiency. Why can’t the editor of |'T" » Indianapolis Times give ©. man ‘credit who is trying so hard to serve his family (and he has a family of six future Democrats), the public and his party as efficiently honestly and diligently as he can possibly do? I don’t think Mr. Ettinger could hardly expect the support of The Indianapolis Times when our Pres|iden¢ of the United States was only | mentioned whenever they felt they thad to, and then in the Classific1 Ad section. Yes, Mr. Editor, it seems to ma your accusatiuns are unfounded and your peper would have been much more respected with the catty remarks unprinted. It seems ethics have no important place in your organization. Of course this article will never be printed in your paper but I could not conscientiously stcnd by and let an innocent man be eo unduly persecuted. Also want to add I am not on the county or state payroll, nor do I expect to be. I am just a citizen of a county that is supposed to have a free press and a free speech.

GIVE US MEN

By DANIEL B. STRALEY'

Oh, where are the men of yesterday Simply fashioned of sturdier clay, With tongues of flame and arms of might, With courage to dare and with vigor t

o fight For the land that to Freedom, our | Freedom, gave birth, For the flag, for the home, For our all upon earth.

Oh, God, give us men with loyal hearts, With will to repel conspirators’ darts From without, from within, barb and shell And the poisonous tenets sprung out of deep hell And infamous treason from treach€rous pen Against our flag, against our homes. Oh, God, give us men.

DAILY THOUGHT

The fool hath said in his heart, There 1s no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.—Psalms 53:1,

MAN IS NOT made to question but adore.~Young. i

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Defense Effort to Cost Staggering Sum and the Public Is Entitled To Full Information as to Progress

ASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—How much is rearmae ment, or actual war, or both, going to cost us; and when and how shall we pay for it? Nobody can answer accurately, because nobody can foresee the course of such a war. We must have total

defense. No matter what it costs, we shall somehow have to pay for it—we or our children’s children. Certain as is that conclusion, there should be at least the attempt to let our people look in the face of the facts that we do not know, “The Administration has just announced that the War Department, since July 1, has awarded contracts in excess of 4.5 billions and the Navy about 4.2 billions, total 8.7 billions. “And for all . defense purposes more than 10 of the 16 billions voted by Congress to reinforce defenses have been obligated.” This is confusing because the difference between 8.7 billions for armament and 10 billions for “de-

‘| fenses” is 1.3 billions, for which the exact use is not

specified. Some cities are insisting the Federal Gov. ernment rebuild their street systems “for national. defense.” Several other more nearly boondoggling’ spending projects are being called “national defense.” Finally the figure 16 billions voted by Congress to reinforce defense is a floater that checks with no forthright appropriation I can find. y ® aon . = URTHERMORE, the report is almost meaningless: - because, as quoted in the A. P. dispatch, ‘pros: spective delivery dates for most items are a closely on

guarded military secret. However, it im expected to

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be next summer before production will reach anything’ like full speed.” Yes, and then some. And why should preparedness time schedules be a closely guarded military secret? They are unlikely to be any secret to our prospective enemies. The trouble with our whole preparedness program over the past few years was the failure to let our own people know the truth. ‘ The last war schedules are no true yardstick today, but here is the way they ran as reported by the: Secretary of the Treasury. In round figures 1917, 1.2 billions; 1918, 12.3 billions; 1919, 17.5 billions; 1920, 5.2 billions; 1921, 3.8 billions—total 40 billions, not=: withstanding that the war ended in November 1918, What these figures prove is that reporting theplacing of contracts with no information as to delivery dates, is no realistic indication of progress at all, but: on the contrary, is highly misleading. They also give. some idea of a rapid acceleration of the mounting cost of industrial war production and the difficult of checking it when the necessity has passed. ® 2 ; WE spent 17,5 billions in 1919 after the Armistice, : just liquidating the effort. Before it was bee lieved that the war would end in 1918, our estimates were that 1919 alone would cost 30 billions. : It is true that we were equipping a far larger:

army, but we were not providing any such naval. armament as now and, for both Army and Navy,

rifles cost only a fraction of our present mechanized, motorized, war monsters. Finally, it is daily becoming more apparent that we are going to be asked again’ to pay for the armament of other nations, ji On our present planless progress, a cost of 50 billions is a minimum, 100 billions is easily possible, Added to existing debt, the total could equal half the value of our total wealth. If it must be so, so be it, but wouldn’t it be only prudent government in a democracy to give the people at least some kind of estimate of relative costs and values before we decide finally on vital’ courses of policy and action?

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

r] fmovan LONG periods of time men have been’ decorated for bravery in battle. Different nae tions have designed different emblems which only the bravest of the brave may wear. * But there is another emblem held high in the"

| one which every person, humble. or great, can use. The sovereign, who knights her braves is the: Goddess of Mercy, Her decora=. tion is the familiar Red Cross , button. . i This vast national organization. was incorporated under an act of. Congress in 1906. The list of its, good works from that day to this . would require volumes to relate. But wherever you are in the. United States, not far away there. is a unit of the Red Cross where: you can be of service. As a whole it becomes a. vast. volunteer army dedicated to saving instead of destroying life. and hope. Never a year goes by that. the Red Cross doesn't bring aid in some form to the: victims of disasters, great and small. When war: comes, it stands forth in magnificent stature. ] It is significant, I think, that the order should be represented everywhere by a feminine figure. The American Red Cross is the child of a woman's dream, and although thousands of men work with it and for - it, it remains feminine in essence. The spirit behind, it is the spirit of motherhood. It symbolizes mater= nity at its best, since it seeks only to nurse the sick, help the helpless, comiort the afflicted, feed the: hungry and soothe the sorrowful. That small button with its bright Red Cross means. that whatever happens of suffering or woe, the heart: of humanity still beats. It means that whatever comes mercy will stand triumphant on the ruins of every man-made catastrophe. The 1940 Roll Call now goes on. Don your badge of honor. os

Watching Your Health -

By Jane Stafford :

signs of yielding to chemical warfare on disease. From the Mayo Clinic comes a report of good results in treating an acutely ill parrot fever patient with sulfapyridine, the chemical remedy hailed last winter for its saving of pneumonia-threatened lives. Without claiming on the basis of this case that sulfapyridine might be a cure for parrot fever, Dr. H. C. Hinshaw suggests further ttial of this or other chemicals. in treating the disease. The suggestion comes at a good time, since more than one parrot fever outbreak has occurred around Christmas when parrots or love birds are frequently given as gifts. Such birds, even if they seem to be perfectly healthy and even if they have been raised" in the United States, may harbor the virus of parrot fever, or psittacpsis. People get the disease from: these infected binds, and it is not necessary to have handled the bird to get parrot fever. Many victims of | the disease neither handled nor, perhaps, even saw: the bird. The virus of the disease can spread for some . distance through the air. ‘ Birds which have been in a househ for some time are less dangerous than those rece: acquired, which explains why the Christmas season, when new birds are frequently purchased for gifts, is a time when parrot fever cases often occur. - Parrot. fever is a disease like typhoid fever with pneumonia, so far as symptoms are concerned; Children are relatively immune to the ailment. The deathrate among middle-aged persons is estimated to be about 20 per cent. If all the mild cases of parrot fever were recognized and counted, Dr. Hinshaw says," the death rate would probably be lower, *E The virus which causes. psittacosis, or parrot fever, is the largest of the filtrable viruses. Granules bee -

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