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- RILEY 5551 Give Ligh and the People Will Find Thetr Own Way SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1940

MURRAY'S OPPORTUNITY HILIP MURRAY becomes president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at a time that is rich in opportunity, as well as heavy with responsibility, for a labor leader in such a seat of power. : Lyrae And even though in his first words as president. he blasted hopes for an early peace with the American<¥ederation of Labor, we believe that labor and the publi¢ interest will be served by his election. For here is a man whose single life-long interest has been collective bargaining— not personal power, not private wealth, not political influence, The circumstances of his elevation were auspicious. The C. I. O. convention had just gone on record against ‘Communist as well as Nazi and Fascist doctrines—which may serve to restrain some of the left-wing influences that have plagued certain C. I. O. unions. He was nominated by John L. Lewis and seconded by Mr. Lewis’ frequent adversary, Sidney Hillman. He was elected by acclamation. ~~ But he faces a tremendous job. Labor is on the spot. The Gallup Poll reports that 60 per cent of the people favor more regulation of labor unions. Communism and racket.eering (the latter in A. F, of L. unions particularly) have ‘given much of labor a black eye. Jurisdictional strikes rising from the C. I. 0.-A. F. of L. split have damaged and offended the public. And now the defense program magnifies the responsibility of the unions to the whole community —the responsibility, shared by employers, of getting production in high gear and keeping it there. : We have never heard anybody accuse Phil Murray of dishonesty or of communism or of bull-headedness. We have heard employers criticize him as “plenty tough”— but they say it with the respect that is due to sincerity and honor. John Lewis yesterday -called -him an “industrial statesman,” and this unschooled but scholarly ex-miner deserves the title. ~~ We do not look for Mr. Murray to retreat in labor’s . battle for economic advances. But we do expect that he “will apply common sense in the settlement of controversies “between labor and labor, and between labor and capital. And we anticipate that at all times he will have at heart the welfare of the whole nation as well as the welfare of those particular Americans he is now called upon to represent, :

~ . MUNICIPAL AIRPORT FINANCES : THE INDIANAPOLIS Municipal Airport, like most such : fields throughout the country, has operated at a loss each of the 10 years it has been in existence. The loss has not been great to be sure, and can very properly be charged -off as a legitimate investment to encourage air travel and to make the city an important air terminal. I. J. Dienhart, airport superintendent, believes the time has come when the field should be placed on a ‘“pay-as-you-go’”’ basis. There are several reasons why we agree ‘the attempt should be made. First, and most important, is the fact that the airlines can stand on their own feet these - days. Air travel is popular and should be increasingly profitable to the companies. The days when special inducements were needed are about gone and the lines should be able to pay a fair share toward supporting important terminal ‘points. THe second reason is that the city will have no “fat” in 1941 to give special assistance to any department, no . matter how desirable the purpose. Further than that, the airport is growing apace and it is going to need more revenue to improve its facilities. | ; . We feel certain Superintendent Dienhart is on sound "ground in his proposal to the Board of Works.

: THE SAME SIREN SINGS _T00 frequently appears the not very subtle plea that if we would only declare war, peace would soon result in ‘Europe. nin : £ In other words, if we threw our full weight into the conflict now it would stop the fighting because a German ' victory obviously would become impossible and therefore - we wouldn't really have to get into the bloodshed after all. 3 This is insidious, dangerous, and, to some, alluring. “It would be more alluring™Nf it were not for the fact that the . same line of specious argument was voiced once before « within the memory of the generation now living. Back in 1917 it was heard. All we needed was to de“clare. That would cook the Kaiser's goose. We would :- never have to send a single man abroad. The argument took. In less than 12 months two mililon of our boys were “over there.” The cost of that for us was 126,000 killed, 238,800 wounded and missing, billions in money, veterans’ hospitals filled with the lame, the, halt and the blind, and the whole * story of those two years is by no means yet told. e An individual or nation can’t be blamed too much for %: listening to a siren once—but it will be nobody’s fault but ' .. our own if we crack up on the same rocks twice. Let’s kill this one in the cradle.

OUR $365,000,000 CHRISTMAS GIFT NL THE American public is about to present itself with a © $865,000,000 Christmas present. That represents the savings which 7,500,000 Americans have piled up during the year in Christmas Club savings funds in 4800 banks throughout the country. In Indianapolis alone the amount to be distributed is $1,234,998 which was deposited in 31,840 accounts, an in- ~ % crease of 5672 in the number of accounts and about a quarter million dollars in savings over last year, k When 7,500,000 people are able to save $48.50 apiece .* during the year to give their families a Merry Christmas, * and when the total distribution is nearly 5 per cent above last year’s, the country can’t be said to be going too rapidly on the rocks. "Every indication points to the busiest Christmas season in many years. It is only one more of the many things . for which Americans have reason to be humbly thankful in a world much of whose Christmas season can scarcely

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‘der the precedent of

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Labor Unions Have Set Precedent For the Fight of North Carolina's

Laborers to Bar Work to Outsiders. |

EW YORK, Nov. 23—The United Press tells us that construction work on a dam in North Carolina has been seriously impeded by strife, between local workers and men of special talent imported from the North and West. According to the U. P, the dam is “an important link in President Roosevelt's plans for a series of power projects to aid in the national defense.” The superintendent of the job appealed to Governor Hoey in Raleigh for protection for his “foreigners” in a situation amounting to mob rule, and the Governor sent highway police to restore order. What is wrong with that picture? : - According to the eOntentions of both the American Federation of Labor and the C. I. O.,, nothing is wrong with it. The Southern workmen, even though it does not appear that they are organized

.in a formal union, are well within the rights claimed |.

by the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. and many precedents recognized by the national Government in recent years. : _.A group of men have taken the liberty of establishing certain qualifications for workers on the job. They insist that only local men be employed and their

picketing is riotous, but they can plausibly insist that |- the rioting is provoked by the “foreigners,” who in |

this case have the status of scabs, rats and finks. If the scabs, rats and finks would go away or the company would agree not to employ them, there would be no rioting. a ” ”

- SIMILAR proposition was stated by John L. Lewis in a wire to President Roosevelt when a great force of coal miners was gathering in Pennsylvania for ‘a march on one of the steel centers to win an organization strike for the steel workers. Mr. Lewis viewed with grave alarm the events which might occur uhless the national Government appeased a large body of men who were threatening to riot and, perhaps, unerrin, Ill, commit a massacre. It may be observed parenthetically that Adolf Hitler always employs the same reasoning. Appease him and he will not kill you. Oppose him and you are responsible for the consequences. At the present time the American Federation of Labor is pursuing a course on various national defense jobs parallel to that of the North Carolina country workers. The construction unions of the A. F. of L. have established hiring shacks on the premises where cantonments and ‘other defense works are building at which citizens desiring to work must buy work licenses. The license fees run from $20 for common laborers to $80 for carpenters. “No fee, no license, no job” is the rule, and if the contractors should insist on hiring non-union men the unions would picket, reserving the right. to riot if peaceful picketing should fail. It would seem from what most of us know that this North Carolina incident is not a union matter, But. that does not alter the case. A union charter is no legal license to riot.

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1 A. PF. of L. and the C. I. O. have no more rights than the unorganized locals or homers of North Carolina. They are just groups of private individuals, and ‘the organizations themselves are only clubs or associations. The charters which they issue to their national unions and the charters which the nationals hand down to the locals are not public licenses’ and confer no rights onthe groups or sub-

groups or the individual members which do not belong “equally to other citizens. , There is nothing unusual, however illegal it all may be, about the conduct of the North Carolina .men. |

They say outsiders may not work in their part of the country. The A. F. of L. has said that for years, but has made special rules to permit an American citizen to work in new territory, provided he first spend a certain period in idleness and then pay a naturalization fee to the local union. 2: Am I pointing out something alarming? Does any group of men anywhere have a right to bar other

men for reasons of its own, whether because they are,

freckled, bowlegged, out-of-towners, vegetarians or philatelists, and beat them up and blame them: for their own injuries? Look at the record of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O.

Business

By John T. Flynn

British Propaganda Is Blamed for Agitation to Repeal Johnson Act.

T. LOUIS, Nov. 23.—All of a sudden—indeed all in a week—as if directed from some central source, a new propaganda has been launched. I have been traveling around the Middle West reading the newspapers of various cities and of their neighboring towns.

And this new drive stares at me in

one way of another from most of these newspapers. Looked at in a single news-

paper, it is nothing to arrest at--

tention. But springing into dozens of papers at once—in national columns, local columns, editorials, new stories, speeches—it is difficult to escape the belief that some directed and organized agency is inspiring this same note in so many places at the same time. It began a short time after the-elec-tion. And it is found in European dispatches too. It is that now America must come to the aid of Britain financially—that we must amend the Neutrality Act and repeal tle Johnson Act in order to make our financial resources available to Britain, The reasons given are as follows: 1. Britain is having great difficulty in getting dol-Jary-sihe dollar exchangé to pay for her purchases ere. 2. If she converts her security and property holdings in this country—amounting to billions—into dollars to pay for arms, the effect will be severely depressing on the market for American securities. 3. The effect of making Britain pay cash for what she buys here, even though she has billions here, will be to drain Btitain still further of her gold. And if this takes place, the gold of other countries. having fled here, the end of the war wil find the world without gold. Europe and Asia and Africa will be compelled to demonetize gold .or at least to organize their currencies without it. resulting in a huge devaluation of our gold and a loss in billions. . 4. England is spending so much that she cannot keep it up and she cannot win unless we help to pay

‘a large part of her hills.

THE object of all this is British propaganda to get

us involved in a financial way on a large scale.

: I do not blame the British for doing this if they can

get away with it. The question is, are we willing to fall for this propaganda. It is

in the war and for no other purpose. : We have been told up to now that Britain needed no. financial aid—just a chance to buy all she needed. Now we are told she needs the financial aid. At the same time we are told she does not want us in the war—as we can help her more by staying out. But only last week a member of the British purchasing commission here declared that it “would be a glorious day for Britain—the day we enter the war.” And so—step by step—step by step we move in.

So They Say—

NO AMERICAN should have fear James A. Farley.

for the future.—

* * * A SCIENTIFIC TAX law would place all death taxes in a sinking fund .. . applied annually in its entirety against the retirement of the national debt.— Henry H. Heimann, executive manager, National Association of Credit Men. , } * * *

MANY BELIEVE that Eton and Harrow are the schools of England. That is incorrect. The common schools of the common people—in them the present British attitude was made—Dr. Reinhold Schairer, professor in London University. ne :

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STAYIN’ RIG AN! KEEPIN’ THAT

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

RESENTS COMPARING F. D. R. WITH LINCOLN By F. F.

- As an admirer and a student of the life of Abraham Lincoln I wish to protest the theme set forth in Eleanor. Roosevelt's syndicated column, in which she likens the Great ‘Emancipator to our present Chief Executive. : ig Were Abraham Lincoln living today -it is not difficult to imagine in what light he would regard Frank Hague, Ed Kelly, Pat Nash, the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt.

3 » 8 s SHE'S FOR HANGING ON TO OUR LIBERTIES By Mrs. Charles L. Blume

* I read in Thursday's Times Mrs. Roosevelt's statement that the American people should not be afraid to give up their liberties for the present emergency, since, being a free people, they can always get them back again. . This strikes me as belonging in the same class with F. D. R.’s brilliant pre-election remark that since we owe the 55-billion dollar national debt to ourselves (a great part of it in the form of Government bonds which represent the life savings of private citizens), we do not owe anything. : Now, I should like some competent New Dealer to explain to me how, . if we give our power, as a sovereign people to the present ‘Administration (which has yet to relinquish any “emergericy” power willingly), we are to get it- back: should the Administration not want to give it back?

” ” » CONTENDS MANY AMERICANS SHARE THAT HEADACHE By Henry 8. Osgood

The current issue of The Times has g vitriolic attack on Mr. Willkie from a. Bloomington, Ind, correspondent, Helen Hollett, in the nature of tirade in which she spilled a plenty of bile in an effort to disparage Mr. Willkie and called general attention to a so-called headache she and other like minded, including the Democratic Party, had suffered in consequence of Mr. Willkie's participation in the recent contest.'. . . It is well to call attention to two

(Times readers are invited to express - their views in .-these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must - be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

or three facts with which intelligent Democrats are perfectly aware as well as Mr. Roosevelt also.

. First," that the fifteen Southern states in a ional elections: with rare exceptions line up as a “Solid South” against any Republican candidate regardless of said candidate's qualifications which makes a safe bet in advance as to the said candidate’s chances in the face of sectional prejudice and is no possible criterion as to such candidate's personal or national worth in -such a contest. Second, the worthy Third Termer was ably supported by the underworld as the big corrupt political organizations in all the large cities throughout the North rolled up magnificent majorities however obtained of which your Bloomington correspondent was duly proud as valuable assets of Mr. Roosevelt's glorious victory as she offered no adverse comment. - Third, our worthy Third Termer was and has been the Democratic meal ticket for the legal number of

terms of the White House incum-|-

bency and has distinguished his reign by his efforts to disorganize the Supreme Court and other na-

{tional safeguards:and also suceed-

ed in piling ‘up a stupendous national debt, second to none in the

|world’s ‘history which your corre-

spondent neglected to mention. The headaches referred to have assumed very ‘much of a national character not wholly confined to the Democratic Party. ” ” ” CONTENDS ALL STRIKES SHOULD BE OUTLAWED By P. C. N.

I am interested in Mr. Pegler’s expose of corrupt practices that go

unchallenged in some labor unions. But Mr. Pegler doesn't go far

- LBOPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE; INC” T. M. REQ. U. 8 PAT, OFF. aay. sl "If this happened at any other kind of a contest you'd go storming to the boxoffice and demand a rain ‘checkl"

enough. May I ask when we Americans are going to get wise to a situation which both Germany and Great Britain were forced to solve? I mean, bluntly, that strikes are going to have to be outlawed, here as elsewhere. : We are a great industrial nation engaged in feverish national defense preparations. We cannot afford to have national production slowed down. Even in normal times

(should such an unlikely state of affairs evér come about) we would

be far better off in outlawing the|.

strike for good. Because a strike is just another name for wasting national wealth. And if we do not build our country up to its maximum what use to cry about being sick of poverty? As well bawl we are sick and refuse to see the doctor. If we cannot have an impartial tribunal to adjust labor disputes here let us admit we have no honest men left available for public office and that democracy has failed. If we can let us adjudge employer and union responsible for arbitration proceedings, fixing the

costs on the side found in error. Unions that call out men for trifles would hesitate before an impending Government decision that might

cost them thousands of dollars in| | damages, and employers would not| #& stand up to arbitration if they were Ai

obviously in the wrong of it. 2 8 8 GIVES HITLER CREDIT FOR RARE IMAGINATION By Claude Braddick

There is so much.profound truth ;

mixed with the speciousness of Hitler’s earlier philosophy that there is small wonder it was accepted so readily by so many intelligent Germans, and indeed by so many intellectuals everywhere. “Most people have no imagination,” he said. “They can imagine the futu:e only in terms of their own petty experiences” What a striking truth that is! Most of us—unless we are students of psychology—take it for granted that imagination is universal and unlimited. Many of us even suppress the precious little we have as something impractical; or confuse it with aimless day-dreaming. Imagination is ‘not a common quality. It is rare as radium and quite as precious. Lack f it holds most of us earth-bound. Possession of it can lift even a comic little frustrated man to undreamed-of heights. As witness Adolf Hitler! Likewise, his scoffing at the notion that history repeats itself is worthy of much thought. A blind acceptance of this half-truth—due to its constant repetition — has caused as much’ trouble in the world as anything I know. It caused the French to put all their eggs in one basket (the Maginot Line) and left them nothing to do but surrender when the German legions, led by one who possessed ‘imagination, simply went over and around it, rendering it

utterly useless!

7 DREAMER By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

Who can tell what the dreamer dreams Who sits beside the sea? Who can say what great joys the night May hold for you and me?

The dream clad soul is strangely strong. His heart is strangely free. And fortresses of life are weak When stormed by fantasy.

DAILY THOUGHT

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death.—Mark 7:10. NEXT to God, thy parents.—Penn,

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SATURDAY, NOV. 25, 1610

Gen. Johnson Says—

‘Short of War' Not Clearly Defined And So All Proposals to Aid British Should Be Very Thoroughly Studied.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—One important aspect of the recent election was that it did not debate to any clearnes sof conclusion what is meant by the phrase, “all aid to Great Britain short of war.” As a result, those publicists of press and radio, who

want. to shoot the works even if it gets us so far committed that any great tightening of the British military position. would leave no honorable course open but complete involvement, are implying that their opinion was underwritten by the election. The qualification “short of war” begins to carry a tone of irony. It is hard to see how any such attitude can be justified. That issue was not presented or voted upon. Both candidates pledged “aid to Britain short of war.” Both promised to keep this country out of war. Neither defined “short of war.” In the contacts of this writer with tens of thousands of people during the autumn, it. seemed clear that most of them had great apprehension about where our course in this direction is carrying us. Those who advocate it have conducted one of the cleve

erest campaigns of its kind in my recollection—both :

in the press and on the air.

» ” ” IN spite of all that, I still believe that it is the overwhelming wish of our people to make this country defensively impregnable, to give ‘embattled Britain every aid we can without violating our own obligations of laws and treaties, and without either too much weakening our own defense or too rashly risking action that would make our participation unavoidable, ] An example of the latter. risk is the proposal made by many that we relieve pressure on the British navy by having our navy “convoy” British supply fleets from America half-way across the Atlantic ocean. You “convoy” a merchant fleet by sending warships with it to prevent any of its ships from being molested by its enemies. Under the laws of war, however, merchantmen are subject to their enemy’s right of search and seizure or, in some circumstances, sinking. The only way our naval convoys could prevent a belligerent’s exer= cise of that right would be to fire on him. If he were there in force that would mean a naval engagement—and we should be at war. The advocates of this cause say that such an argument is “legalistic.” That is saying, in other words, that the German Chancellor said when, in performance of her treaties, Britain went to war over the 1914 invasion of Belgium—war over “a scrap of paper.” It may be a legalistic argument, but it is the most realistic deduction imaginable. We should then be at war. Regardless of protestations and campaign promises, we should have to finance most of our allies and fight wherever, on the surface of the globe, the swaying fortunes of war took us.

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T is not necessary to our defense, Its risk of loss

far outshadows any promised gain. It is not what

our people want. If they are inched and edged over that brink, as they have beén constantly inched and edged toward it, there could be such resentment as to put us into war without the most necessary defensive element—flaming popular support and a justly indignant will to war. There are many indications of popular fear of something like this. That {8 why Congress wouldn't adjourn. That is why such non-interventionist Senators as Hiram Johnson, Bob La Follette, Bert Wheel er, Arthur Vandenberg and David Walsh were returned. y The case of the convoys is only one of several other courses now actively being urged which could also make war inevitable, There is no space to discuss the others here. But I propose to discuss them from time to time. They are not, as yet, Administration policies. Thus far they are only trial balloons of non-official pressure groups. They are, therefore, not, only fair, but necessitous subjects for debate.

/ . . A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson COUPLE of family-relations experts in San

A Francisco have announced that possession of beautiful romantic illusions will wreck marriage for the possessors. Now anyone who has stayed married lo the same person for a decade or more will accept this statement—but:- only as a half-truth: For without some illusions how could the institution of marriage survive? The middle-aged can approach the question as if it were merely another problem for scientific re"search. But for the young this is not possible, It's so much more than a social problem for them. It's moonshine wrapped in cellophane; it's riding after the hounds of spring; it's the scent of summer nights; it's wonder and mystery and the life urge, stirring within them. How can they be expected to regard it as casually or as calmly as the older heads who pretend to have lost their illusions—or never to have had any? The pretense is a shallow one. Even the learned professors were at one time moved by romance and probably didn’t stop to analyze their feelings when the love bug bit them. BL While we can deplore the havoc that comes from too much romancing about marriage, we cannot overlook the fact that it would be a sorry state without any romancing whatever. g ‘ . In the Nxst place these maligned illusions promise us all those things which seem most beautiful in life —true love, faithfulness, the kind of “togetherness” which enables a man and woman to become one as the years pass. It is foolish to expect perfection in marriage, since we find it in no other mortal state. But it seems to me equally foolish to be telling young people that romantic notions are bound to wreck matrimony. Marriage is like war in several respects. If you undertake it at all you must go into it with romantic illusions; otherwise your reason will prompt you to

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Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

VHEERING news for migraine headache sufferers C has just come from the Mayo Clini¢. If the headache is really the migraine type, the chances are four out of five that-inhalation of practically undiluted oxygen will bring, relief. Ls The oxygen breathing treatment for migraine has been given at the Mayo Clinic to more than 100 persons suffering from headache during the past year and one-half. Results in 97 of the cases have just been announced by Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. Some of these patients had migraine headaches and some suffered from two or more types of headache. Taking all the cases together, it was found that 62 per cent obtained some relief, 37 per cent had not been helped and 1 per cent were worse. When the reports were classified according to the type of headache, it was found that 80 per cent of the migrainous headaches were either stopped or else much relief. - Another 8 per cent were somewhat relieved and 12 per cent were unchanged. ol When the headache is not migrainous, there is only one chance in three that the treatment will help, the figures show. ih Sometimes the headache in the migraine cases is relieved within 15 minutes after the patient has started to breathe oxygen. In other cases the patient has to take the treatment for an hour or two. The oxygen is given by means of a mask devised by Drs. Walter Boothby, W. Randolph Lovelace II and pilots on high altitude

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