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doople Will Find Their Own Way NOVEMBER 41, 1940

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WE'RE THANKFUL TODAY— BECAUSE the election is over, the bitterness of the campaign has ebbed, and there stands democracy as stanch as ever. I Because the work of organizing this country’s manpower and industry for defense (and for aid to England) is moving forward. I Because England and Greece are proving that dictatorships have no exclusive patent on military efficiency.

Because free speech survives in England as in Amer-

ica, despite everything. Because the solidarity of the Western Hemisphere is being attested daily. i Because the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are still there.

Because we are at Peace,

AS WE GORGE OURSELVES ou T this season when we are stuffing ourselves with turkey, it’s a good time to give some serious thought to those millions of hungry in Europe of whom Herbert Hoover writes and speaks. And it would also be fitting to tell ourselves that “there, but for the grace of God, go 1.” Further, to realize hat we who think we are so comparatively fortunate ma | not be so lucky after all, if what sweeps forth from famine should reach our shores. Writing in Collier's, Mr. Hoover says: “When the food supply falls to famine levels people don’t lie down and die from starvation. Long before they get to that point their physical resistance is so lowered by malnutrition that they die of disease. The children weaken first, the women afid the| old men next. The common cold turns to pneumonia. Influenza seems to become very much more virulent and deadly in its passage through non-resist-ant populations. Typhoid and smallpox are more prevalent because of lowered resistance. Typhus always appears, for when a population is approaching famine it will eat all of its fat supplies and thus [deprive itself of soap. Soap is the greatest disinfectant that the human race has discovered. With the absence of soa ), lice at once spread, and from lice comes typhus. This problem of great cesspools of contagious disease not along concerns the victims directly but it also concerns the entire\world.” sa x 8 oe # If anyone ever qualifies for the title of expert, Mr. Hoover does on this subject. And he sums the case of Finland, Norway, Belgium, Holland and those other countries caught in the jam of Hitlerian conquest this way: “Unless some sort of method can be set up with the belligerent governments by which aid may be extended to these victim nations, the world will witness this winter a "death roll from famine far greater than during all the four years of the last World War. It will witness the death or stunting of millions of| children who surely have a right to live... as famine and disease rise with the winter, the cries of these people will any war hysteria, or iJ government official.” The problem is one of the toughest we have ever studied. The first impulse is to simplify, on this line: Food shipped to conquered countries will be seized by Hitler. (Hoover thinks that can be prevented). Therefore, don’t do anything about it—because we don’ want to help the world’s greatest bandit. There is no way to make war nice. If Hitler is licked it will be the British blockade that does it. So we're sorry, but that is that. Fy : But is it? Or is it over-simplification? We wish we had the answer, but we haven't. We merely propose that we all take a good, new, open-minded look at the problem; that we don’t let our opinion jell, until we have done that.

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SPREADING SOCIAL SECURITY | NE thing that both Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie advocated in the campaign was that Social Security be extended to include citizens not now protected. Senator Wagner of New York, always in the forefront of social legislation, has announced that in the next Congress he will préss for action on his bill to extend old-age and survivor insurance to some 10,000,000 additional persons —including roughly 4,000,000 farm workers, 2,500,000 domestic servants, 750,000 employees of non-profit institutions, and 1,500,000 employees of states, counties and municipalities not now covered by pension plans. The bill also would provide unemployment insurance for about 5,000,000 more workers, including those now exempted because they work for business firms having fewer than eight employees. : The big difficulty which confronts this attempt to provide Social Security for farm hands, house servants, and employees of small establishments is that of bookkeeping. Already, for many small employers affected by the present law, the trouble of keeping records is more burdensome than the tax. : But surely some more simplified tax plan can be worked out. It certainly should be. For of all of the groups in this country, none is more in need of security against an old age of want than are the cooks, maids and nurses of . the town homes and the hired hands of the farm. And no employees in private business have greater need for unemployment insurance than those who work for the smaller firms. We hope Senator Wagner succeeds.

TRUE TO FORM HEN Franz von Papen was sent to Turkey a year or so ago as German Ambassador, we recall suggesting that the Turks had better begin nailing down everything that lay loose. Well, 38 persons have just been arrested in Instanbul in the breaking up of the biggest spy ring ever uncovered there, together with a list of 150 German agents active in keeping the Gestapo informed. Whether von Papen had anything to do with this, we wouldn't know. But when you know the Old Maestro is sitting in a room, and you hear sweet music coming out of that room, you know who is playing. » ow

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Freedom of Press, No Less, Seems In Peril as Night Club Bars Writer In Feud Between Gossip Columnists.

EW YORK, Nov. 21.—Great indignation has been aroused in certain circles here by a writ of

banishment against one of the leading journalists of New York. It appears that the Stork Club, the swank rendezvous of New York society, revoked the visa of Mr. Harold Ross, the editor of the New Yorker, in circumstances involving the freedom of the press. Mr. Ross not only con= firms the report but adds that the issue is net personal but, in his belief, fundamental. “I think it is fundamental,” Mr. Ross states—“some word they use in editorials.” Mr. Ross relates that on the evening in question he went to the Stork Ciub as the guest of a lady who was having a little brawl in honor of the engagement of two young friends and was just sitting there eating olives when the ministre de la presse of the Stork Club came up and said he might stay the evening through but could never come back. 3 Momentarily stunned, Mr. Ross’. brain reeled as he| speculated on the reason for this drastic action. He thought for one mad moment.of panic that he might have forgotten to put on his pants, but a glance told him that this was not the cause. He left the table and hurried to the press headquarters, where the columnists regularly accredited to the night club sector receive their official press releases, to inquire the reason.

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| S the press officer on duty shook out a hand towel and brushed his collar for him Mr. Ross asked what .it-all meant. The words poured from him in a torrent. : |“What's it all mean?” he gasped. “I mean what does it all mean?” “What do you mean what's it all mean?” the press officer evaded, giving Mr. Ross’ shoes a fleck. “You mean somebody's been mean?” Convinced that he could obtain no satisfaction from this suave and wily functionary, Mr. Ross sought an interview with the prime minister of the Stork Club, Mr. Sherman Billingsley himself. But Mr. Billingsley had left for the evening. However, the ministre de la presse did grant him another interview, admitting that he was banished on account of something which had been printed in the New Yorker. It further appears that the offending item concerned the dean of the night club of the gents’ room corps of | journalists and that prime minister Billingsley had been put on the spot. The dean had threatened that if Mr. Ross were not banished he, the dean, would regard that failure as a deliberately unfriendly

act and start a press campaign against -the Stork Club

—the way Adolf Hitler does to little nations. ” EJ ”

R. ROSS further states that as he entered the Stork that evening he noted an incident which did not impress him at the time but became significant later. “I noticed the dean sitting Yngre as I came in,” he said. “I did not consciously see him, but smelled him out of the corner of my nose. Soon afterward the dean left, and again I cannot say I saw him go, but I noticed a distinct improvement in the atmosphere. “I have since learned that the dean went to another night club, riding in a light tank escorted by the first and second platoons of a company of his bodyguard, and from the other club phoned his ultimatum to Premier Billingsley, who thereupon ordered the press minister to issue the order of banishment. : “I ‘am convinced that Billingsley was put on a spot, but, as I say, this action strikes at the very taproots of free American ideals. If you could work in the word ‘fundamental’ again I would appreciate it.” / Mr. Ross now /joins the company of journalists who have been banished from Rome, Berlin and

Moscow, but he says he has secret agents planted

in the Stork and will defy the censorship in this way. Premier Billingsley himself is much upset. He is a saloonkeeper,/ not’ a diplomat, and the delicate problems of press relations involving the dignity and vanity of the gents’ room corps of journalists are a constant peril to his business.

Business By John T, Flynn

Belief U. S. Can Continue Spending Borrowed. Cash An Amazing Illus

&#VHICAGO, Nov. 21.—One of the most amazing illusions in this world is the one that a nation can save itself by government debt as a permanent policy—and that is what the New Deal economists are talking about in Washington now. The policy is based on the theory that the capitalist system of private ownership does not produce enough money income or purchasing power to buy all the things that the whole society needs for a universal decent scale of living. In this they are right and no one has yet discovered the means of remedying this. The New Dealers, however, insist that this inadequacy of income must be made up by Government-created pur- . chasing power. They estimate that the Government must create about 12 billions of such purchasing power a year. Now there is much to be said for the theory that the Government must create purchasing power. A more orthodox version of this theory is that the Government must tap the unused savings of the society by taxing all incomes large enough to afford savings and thus turn all of those incomes back into the stream of spending. But obviously the Government cannot, in addition to its present burdens of supporting the ordinary expenses of the Government and servicing the national debt, tax the people to get another 12 billion. As a matter of fact, the Government will have to get the greater part of this money —indeed ‘almost all of it—from borrowed funds. And this the New Deal advisers admit should be done.

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TOUT one thing must be very obvious. If the Government must borrow every year to create part of the national income, obviously it can never pay its debt. A government that is going in the red each year cannot possibly pay back what it already owes. If it pays any part, it must make that up by additional borrowing. Obviously therefore, the national debt must increase forever. It is now 44 billion—not counting five billion of guaranteed obligations. Mr. Morgenthau wants to increase the limit to 69 billion and the conservative Senator George suggests 75 billion. At the rate we are going on national defense we will soon use up this margin. We have. already authorized 15 billion in national defense expenditures. The greater the debt gets, the greater the borrowing will have to be, because the Government’s tax burden will have to take care of the interest. When we get to 75 billion and then to 100 billion, where will we go from there? Of course the theory of the permanent creation of 12 billions a year of purchasing power by the Government will still hold. The country will grow bigger. Prices will rise. These two factors plus the interest factor will call for 15 billion. I would like to hear a description from someone of what is to come after that.

So They Say—

LET US PAY more attention to what Government aid may do to us as well as what it may do for us.— Clark L. Brody, Michigan Farm Bureau official, * * *

IT IS UP TO the people to decide the future course of events.—Gen. Juan Andreu Almazan, president-reject of Mexico. &® * * OF COURSE, people will think I am a liar and a fool, but I don’t care about making any money from this picture (Fantasia).—Walt Disney, movie

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

QUERY BY A PERPLEXED PATRIOT By Just Wonderin’ What's happened to all those defense tours which we had been told were so essential prior to Nov. 5 or thereabouts?

» " # “PANTYWAISTS,” SHE SAYS OF ROOSEVELT BACKERS By Sideline Sittin’ Lil

The results of this election knocked me clear off the sidelines into the “slough of despond™ from which I have emerged trailing the banners of my pride in America in the dust behind me! I have been seriously considering moving to Canada, swearing allegiance to King George—his people seem to have intestinal fortitude to the nth degree. I am convinced we have become a nation'of pantywaists when 25 million people permit a man who seeks only personal aggrandizement to stampede them into perpetuating him in office by crying “Wolf! Wolf!” Time alone will tell whether Mr. Roosevelt is the great man these voters think him, (r the man I think he is—which opinion I will delete, to save the editor the task! ” ” ” VOICE IN CROWD MAKES PLEA FOR TOLERANCE By Voice in the Crowd Free national unity is based on only one principle. The only thing that can support unity is tolerance. People of widely different views can unite as one and accomplish any common purpose for the common good if they tolerate each other. That is the basis of freedom, of

‘representative government, of char-

ity, and of plain common decency. Clyde Miller, Helen Hollett and a score of writers in the Forum who are condemning Willkie, who has done them no harm and who has done the country a great service by causing the people to vote, are not hurting Mr. Willkie and the millions

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who voted for him, but they are {hurting in their small way the prin[ciple of national unity, The Repub{licans conceded Mr. Roosevelt's lelection on Nov. 6. They all joined heartily in uniting behind Roosevelt for a solid front in the common interest. They did a far better job than the people who are squawking because Republicans are allowed to live. The great American press that was almost solidly behind Mr. Willkie immediately began to beg for national unity the day after the elections. The press knows, and half the people know, that if the third term, the march toward National Socialism and the march toward higher deficits, were bad before election day they were also bad the day after, but they joined the parade toward unity of action for the common good. There has never been a finer demonstration of true Americanism than when probably more than half the people (after making allowance for public beneficiaries) defeated at the polls, joined hands with the victors to make the most of it and save Americanism. America will be lost when we all think alike, but we can accomplish anything together if we have tolerance, and people who can think deeper than their skin will have it.

’, = 8 TOSS OUT WILLKIE, REPUBLICANS ADVISED By Clyde P. Miller

Before another election it is hoped that the Republican Party will completely rid itself of Willkie. Every danger of dictatorship in this coun-

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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spend the evening asking ‘people coming along?’ or 'Doing i that cough?"

try is embodied, not in successive free elections of the same man, but in one election of such a man as he and no danger threatens outside of his sinister type. In the first place it is important to preserve our American party system of government. A political party, not an individual, should be the governing instrumentality responsible to the people. Willkie is essentially a free lance individualist with no sense of responsibility to any party, no loyalty to any party. If elected he would regard his election as a personal triumph. He merely used the Republican Party as a personal asset — a political spring board. Of such type are dic-

of a political organiaztion would hold sway. sonalized

administration would

extra-political sources seeking to control government. Of such is privilege-seeking Big Business, which, to succeed, must have a party in tow and a mouthpiece mouthing the language of the common people, while it deviously seeks to subject them to its power. It was the threat of such a dictatorship from which the good sense of America so recently saved us. , , .

EJ ” ” A BIBLICAL QUOTATION FOR ADOQLF HITLER By James L. Yan Zandt To Adolf Hitler — “Ye lust, and have not: Ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: Ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because lye ask not, ‘ “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. “James 4:2, ” 4 ” ANOTHER POT SHOT Xa AT MR. CLANCY | By A. E. H.,, ex-service A. E. F. In regard to Daniel Francis Clancy of Logansport, Ind. who suggested we 22,000,000 Willkie supporters replace the New Dealers on the draft list, in 1916 the Democrats shouted about keeping the country out of war but April, 1917, we went, and many did not return. Now Mr. Clancy, you suggest the same thing over. How about a few of the New Dealers getting some

delayed experience which we true ‘Americans have already had?

THANKSGIVING By MARY P. DENNY We praise thee Lord for everything. For flocks of birds a-wing, And over notes of autumn wind. For glory of the harvest time, For corn and wheat and hay For hours of light of autumn day. For russet glow of peach and

pear. For all fruit and grain of autumn time, For beauty of the river side Reflecting skies of utumn wide, All beauty of the earth and sky A gloria of wonder lifted high, Shining in air in glory far Reaching in glory to the sky.

DAILY THOUGHT

Hear counsel, and ‘receive instruction, that thou mayest be Wise ‘in thy latter end.—Proverbs

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THE END of learning is to know

God. —Milton, ’

Johnson Says—

We Have Troubles, but Compared With the Miserable Lot of Others Our Land Is a Paradise on Earth,

ASHINGTON, Nov 21.—It usually isn't easy to write one of these set-pieces expected on feast days and holidays. There is too much smug serenity in dishing up a lot of platitudes that are in everye body’s mind anyway. Especially on Thanksgiving Day

—whether tt be the new one said to have been suggested by Sydney Hillman and adopted by the Presi dent, or the old one which George Washington and Abraham Lincoln seemed to think the Pilgrim Fathers favored, This time I feel differently about it. I want to write this piece. Many of us didn't like that switch of Thanksgiving when it was made, but now I am not so sure. There is ample justification for us to have two Thanksgiving Days. I think there is justification for 365 of them—not food-gorging turkey days but silently in our hearts—“When thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” Maybe writing a column about it isn’t following that injunction very well, but I'm not praying. I'm just giving thanks, ” ” » IZ thankful for 3000 miles of blue salt water on one side and 6000 miles on the other side of our coun= try, between us and pluperfect hell. I'm thankful that we have just had one of the most hotly contested campaigns and elections in my lifetime, in which many of us got mad at a lot of people and a lot of people got mad at us and we fought it out bitterly, but that immediately thereafter, we all accepted the result and in the face of outside dangers have drawn closer to each other in one compact front than we fave been for years. I'm especially thankful for this because, regardless of my sincere misgivings, it gave me a greater confidence in our form of government and the temper of our people than I had before. The conduct of the winners as well as, or even more than, that of the losers has given me more confidence in this Administration than I have had in a very long time. I am deeply grateful for that. 2 » 8 HIS year, I have had~more than my usual crop of apprehensions, sorrows, disappointments, losses and sadness for the suffering of some others whom I know and millions whom I do not know. But when I look abroad and see the populations of whole empires in such agonies and persecutions as have not been visited on mankind since the Dark Ages, I realize that we are living in a comparative paradise on earth, The man who could silence his gratitude for that hasn't got much of what it takes to be grateful—a human heart. We too are going to have to suffer greater restric tions and hardships and sacrifices than we think, bug there again, in comparison with what others are en= during we have the brightest hope on earth. It de=pends on us alone, and I am thankful for that also because I am confident that we can depend on us alone. If only we can remain united, tolerant, free and conscious of that very dependence on each other which is our strength—the strength of any democracy—if only we can remain as we are today, there is no dan=ger so great that we cannot dispel it. And, above all, in this world of destruction and peril, I am thankful for that simple truth,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OMMUNITY FUND drives are a regular autumn routine thrpughout the nation. It is to be hoped they will bring again to our attention the deep poverty in this country, and not poverty alone but incompetence, irresponsibility and economic waste.

+ While we open our pocketbooks to the appeals we might try to open our minds, too. Our hearts are generally o. k. But sometimes it looks as if the American bean isn’t working any too well, If it did we'd do something besides give money. Handing out checks is not enough, Working on the drives is not enough. The men and women of Amer= ica will have to do more than that, They'll have to separate the em= ployables from those who will ale ways be unemployable. And every one of us ought to get the figures on the number of children born to incompetents, criminals and morons. Pick up your newspaper any day and you'll find certain little notices—fillers, sometimes, often a short paragraph, brief stories coming out of the courtrooms. Let me quote one I read today: “Because her husband is being held in the county jail on charges of larceny, a 34-year-old mother and her nine children ask aid from the ctiy. According to relief workers the man has enough charges agains him to keep him in a jail the rest of his life.” And another: “Nearly 300 Negro families living ir% the Blank apartments were without heat and wate® today because of non-payment of bills. Some of them are on WPA; others are on direct relief.” In those apartments you will be certain to find swarms of children. Negroes or whites, where relief is most needed, the reproductive process seems to by flourishing. We want to help these people. But can we do i merely by repeating our annual contribution to the Community Fund? Of course not. Unless we can eliminate the causes of crime, poverty and incom petence, our charity will not avail. It takes intelligence as well as pity and generosity to keep a big |

_democracy going on high. And it’s up to every citizen

to give thought as well as cash to our Community Fund problems. .

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford tl

TE importance of starting rest treatment soon after the onset of paralysis in infantile paralysis cases is emphasized by a report to the National Foun« dation for Infantile Paralysis. The report, by Dr. George E. Bennett and Dr, Raymond E, Lenhard of Baltimore covered a study of 207 infantile paralysis

patients. : “Those patients who were placed on rest treatment

soon after the onset of paralysis made a moré striking

recovery than those where such treatment was de= layed for five or more months,” the doctors reported, “In that group with early treatment maximum recovery occurred at the end of one year and six months, with 97 per cent of the muscles attaining their maxi mum improvement within this period of time, “Of the second group of patients who received treatment late, 67 per cent of the muscles showed no improvement after the first examination. Of the remaining muscles, the improvement was negligile after the nine months’ treatment. “There was very little correlation betweem the de« gree of initial weakness and the degsee of aecovery: Muscles with less involvement at tne start of the study, of course, showed better functions in many instances at the completion of the study but muscles which started at zero did occasionally reach a good grade of muscle power and many with a higher initial grade of power remained unchanged or improved only slightly. Once the patient had reached the maximum recovery stage with but few exceptions there was no further change in the degree of muscle power. “Therefore, there seemed to be no need for continuation of physical therapy beyond the period of maximum recovery with the hope of r influencing the end degree of muscle power attained. “Once muscles stopped improving hospital care should be discontinued!” .