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TIME FOR A REAL-ESTATE DEAL E be, 10RD LOTHIAN, flying back from London, announces

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that England is near the end of her financial rope. Eng-|

land, in other words, will soon be unable to buy American

planes and oil and guns,

- If England is denied American supplies, she will Jose the war. [There.is no question about that. There is also no questioning the desire of the American people for a British victory. : So, what to do? Repeal the Johnson act and amend the neutrality act, so England can float loans in this country ? Ask your banker how much money England in her present danger could borrow from the banks and investors of this country! Much as we hope for and look for her eventual victory, she is still —from a strictly business viewpoint—a bad risk. Let oy Government lend to her? Well—she still owes

. our Government more than five billion from the last war,

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- and any schoolboy knows we’ll never see that money again.

Surely those World War loans brought us enough hatred— enough “Uncle Shylock” stuff—to warn us off that unpleasant path, Well then, what? : It seems to us the time has arrived for the British to sell some real estate. \ England has certain territorial possessions in the new world, They are of little value to her, strategically or economically. They have an immensé potential value to the . United States as bastions in the defense of this hemisphere.

- That much has already been recognized in the destroyers-

for-bases| deal, whereby we acquired on 99-year leases the right to establish naval and air stations in eight British

possessions in this hemisphere. » 8 8 » o »

It seems to. us that the practical thing to do now, in England's emergency, is for us to buy her Caribbean. possessions and Bermuda outright—and the Fyxench and Dutch colonies as well, although these presenteamore complicated - problems, Wg It is to the interest of all American republics that these holdings be acquired in fee simple, so that questions of

ro rights and sovereignty will not be revived at the end of a

99-year lease. What the Americas want is for European

. flags to be hauled down for all time. If the United States

paid the full price, the possessions could be governed as ter- - ritories—like Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Hawaii. If other American republies came in on the deal, govern-

~_-ment could be set up under a pan-American mandate.

We may have to pay a stiff price for this real estate,

% which, ‘economically speaking, consists of so many acres of

I... sanctioned since the beginning? | ¢ things as the Dies Committee, with all its lumbering thumb

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mountains and swamps and slums and unemployment, with only an occasional oil field and resort town and banana plantation on the asset side of the ledger. But as the price of a permanent protective screen of bases under the Amerjcan flag, safeguarding from a covetous world the Panama Canal and the Gulf of Mexico and a northern South America, it might not be excessive. Nor too high when compared to the cost of building and maintaining enough naval vessels

. ‘to give comparative protection.

And—such a deal would provide England with credits, preventing interruption of our supply of weapons against Hitler.

DIES, JACKSON AND THE FBI JIN A tangle with Rep. Martin Dies, Attorney General Jackson praises the Justice Department’s FBI, calling it “the finest investigative organization in the world.” We believe the FBI merits that superlative. Certainly, as compared with the FBI in the days of William J. Burns, A. Mitchell Palmer and the unsavory Gaston B. Means, there has been’ such an improvement as to-call for unstinted credit to J. Edgar Hoover, a genius in organization hard work, and morale. : ‘ The Jackson-Dies row is a clash between two methods of sleuthing—one, the Justice Department’s; the other, the congressional investigating committee’s. The first, as Jackson emphasizes, involves due process—Reliable, thoroughly sifted, admissible evidence, presentation to grand jury, indictment and trial. The second is a shotgun technique. The Justice Department must, properly, hunt with a rifle. With the Congressional investigating committee, rules + of evidence are pretty much out. The have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife technique prevails. It is interlarded with political speeches and the flashing of camera bulbs. We never have liked it, whether it be the Black Committee raping the telegraph files ‘and indiscriminately dragnetting the citizenry, or the Dies Committee, operating under the same formula.

jr pix. =» ..» yn» THE whole subject, however, deals with a condition, not

. a theory. Why has the Congressional investigation been Because of just such

It was the Dies congressional investigation that made this country Communist-conscious, and first turned the light on the NazigBundist, Fritz Kuhn, later sent to jail by

Thomas Dewey.

Without this committee the borers from within prob‘ably would still be unobserved, the Youth Congress still dining at the White House, and the C. I. O. still singing Jow, instead of roundly shouting down, the subversive ‘elements in that labor movement. We prefer, much, the due process of which Mr. Jackgon speaks, But when he now says that Communist influ‘ences \have caused the Vultee airplane strike we can’t _ overlook the part the Dies Committee played in developing the background for such a revelation. : : It all seems to shake down to, this—that both the Department of Justice and the Dies Committee (like it or not) re useful in a dangerous time like this.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Impulsive Joe Fay Did Labor a Faver by Popping Dubinsky and Thus Highlighting Those Rackets

EW YORK, Nov, 25.—Rank and fille members of the American Federation of Labor owe thanks te Mr. Joe Fay, the head man of the New Jersey branch of the A. F, of L. and a member also of Frank Hague's mob, for taking pops at Mr. Dave Dubinsky, the president of the garment workers, during a social interlude in the national convention in New Orleans. By pasting his distinguished colleague Mr. Fay suddenly gave national emphasis to the demand for the elimination of racketeers, grafters and plain journeymen criminals from positions of leader-

ship. It happens that the territory in which Mr. Fay operates is a particularly dirty jurisdiction, where

union leadership is as crooked,

. brutal and stupid as the political leadership, and it is easy-to understand why Mr, Fay regards as “lousy” Mr. Dubinsky's resolution to eliminate racketeers. The attack on Dubinsky, which developed into a three-round brawl, began, appropriately, in the bar of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, a true spiritual home for individuals of the type which Mr. Dubinsky’s resolution would detach from their graft and powers. The Roosevelt, and particularly the bar, was the headquarters of Huey Long’s gang of thugs in the day of the kingfish’s greatest power. Its manager was Seymour Weiss, the criminal genius of the Long mab, now under two Federal prison sentences for operations having to do with the famous double-dip swindle against the people of Louisiana.

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T must be noted that but for the impulsive and characteristic conduct of Mr. Fay the Dubinsky resolution might have been shoved around and whittled away to a harmless and meaningless general re= pudiation of sin, with no practical or personal applica=tion to any individual, heod'um in the councils of the

A. P. of L. But now, whatever the fate of the resolu-

tion and regardless ofithe form in which it is finally adopted—if it is adopfed at all—public opinion will realize that the/ situation has not been exaggerated in the press in ‘the last year, incredible though the diselosures may have seemed. . It may even be possible to persuade Congress to appoint a special committee to examine evidence that the leadership of the A, F. of L. unions constitutes a very ambitious rogues’ gallery and to develop before the country the fact that many uneoenvicted crooks in the union are crooks nevertheless, who use their union offices to promote various rich rackets in private business and politics. As to Mr. Fay's insinuations that Mr. Dubinsky himself may have personal knowledge of racketeering in times past which does no credit to his garment workers, it would seem to be vp to Mr, Fay to present his evidence on behalf of the labor movement which he holds so dear and for such compelling reasons. »

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UT this much may be said of Mr. Dubinsky’s con--

duct as bearing on the purity or impurity of his motives which are open to suspicion of political opportunism: Mr. Dubinsky has been in the labor movement for many years, and the racketeering of which he is so abruptly and piously aware has been going on for many years, but he never became aroused until the situation had been widely, if not thoroughly, exposed in the press. It may be observed also: that neither did John Lewis ever exert himself noticeably against criminals and other racketeers in the A. F. of L. when he was a strong influence in that organization, although just now he is full of scorn for William Green's group. This fact creates a suspicion that his expressions on the subject of criminal leadership are only political repartee. I am glad Mr. Fay has drawn attention to the A. F. of L. leadership in New Jersey, for I have much data on crooks of various kinds in the unions in his zone of influence. There are some charming gorillas in his territory who will not enjoy fame, and Mr. Fay has done an effective, if unintentional, job as advance agent for the public denunciation of a mob of racketeers as evil as the worst in Chicago, Cleveland or Brooklyn.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Merging C. 1. O. With A. F. L. Under Present Setup Would Be 'Calamity’

EW YORK. Nov. 25.—As the popular word today is “unity,” of course, this goes double for labor. And so as the two great labor organizations came together in convention, political and editorial opinion went into high about the importance of unity for them. But it is by no means certain that the union of the C, I. O, and the A. F. of L. now is the best policy for the country, Certainly this division in the ranks of labor is unfortunate in some respects. And one of these days they ought to be united. But there are other sides to this picture. Union means union with the American Federation of Labor, It means in the long run a victory for the craft-union idea as against the industrial union. And- that would be a calamity for labor, But furthermore it means the postponement, and doubtless the complete abandonment, of any effort to force a reform of the A. F. of L. It must not be forgotten that the A. F. of L., like so many old organizations, has fallen into many grave evils. ‘The most serious is the presence of racketeering in so many unions—not just a few but very many. ” ” o8..

OR this there is literally no cure in the A. F. of L. as at present organized. The Federation is in fact a federation. It is made up of individually autonomous unions. This is all right within limits. But the Federation has insisted that it has no power to go into unions poisoned by racketeers and clean them up. The job has been left to the prosecuting attorneys. And when they have undertaken it the prosecutors have been denounced by the Federation. The racketeers and their somewhat more respectable allies are high in power in the A. F. of L. The C. I, O. has, of course, made mistakes. This was a new, a tremendous movement, an upsurging of hitherto unorganized and despised groups of workers. It was inevitable that the leaders should make mistakes. And all the mistakes were not on the side of the labor leaders. The employers made quite as many. The charge of “red” against the C, I. O. is unjust. Of course, there are a féw reds jn it. But its leaders are not reds. isis no red. He is a labor leadér who has d his unions against politicians instead )\ of /Tepresenting politicians in the unions, To tur at movement over to the weary, aging, racket-ri of Labor would

a crime against labor.

So They Say—

WE WHO WERE No Third Term Democrats have no bitterness over the result of the election. We are confident that the President and his supporters have none toward Democrats who differed with them.— Floyd E. Thompson, chairman, No Third Term Democrats of Illinois. - * * : THE MOST important factor that guided me through life was, and it still remains, love.—Ignace Jan Paderewski, piano virtuoso, who at 80 left Europe to come to America because he “could not stand it” there. NE * % » SHE 18 still the loveliest woman in the world.— Husband Arthur Hornblow after his wife, Myrna Loy, confirmed that she would seek a divorce, 9 * .

THE UNITED STATES will face a world of gov-ernment-controlled trade and finance and of barrier trade, no matter who wins the war. But a Nazi vietory would be far more disastrous.-=Dr, J.

dimstronsogDr. & Aoi iegler professor

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Think of All That-Energy Going to Waste!

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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.

ANOTHER DISSENT ON

SURRENDERING LIBERTY By B. Perry I sure agree with R. P. and Ralph R. Canter Sr. in regard to the speech by Eleanor Roosevelt. Of course she is one mother who has|. not had to see her bays go to war to fight for our freedom. Who are we to.give up our free-|% dom to, and if so how are we to regain it? Some may like dictator-

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word itself. Democrats are always speaking of “Hoover times.” There are surely a few people left who remember “Grover Cleveland times.” As for Wendell Willkie being a mud slinger, I heard every talk he made. They were honest and fair and no mud slinging. I am not referring to men who spoke in his behalf. Everyone knows Willkie told them facts and they just can’t take it .. . » ” on TAKING A SLAM AT THE WILLKIE CRITICS By H. Fosni Who is continually griping about Mr. Will. kie? You know the general public hasn't much use for anyone who will kick a fellow when he is down. aren't you satisfied that you Democrats won the national election? An one-man party seems to be in order if the one man is a Democrat. Is that it, Mr. Miller? You can only surmise what Mr. Willkie would have done; you have no way of knowing. Even though Mr. Willkie was defeated, he awakened the American people to alertness. From now on I don’t believe the office holders

ship, but I for one do not like the

ht his Clyde Miller who is |

» CONTENDS SAPHEADS ELECTED ROOSEVELT By 1. B, P, Willkie a dictator? . . .Who has been “dictating” for the last eight years—and who is this Clyde P. Miller—and where does he get his guff? I thought it was Franklin D. Roosevelt (not Willkie) who ran for a third term. Miller's stuff sounds very much like Pot calling a white china dish black. I'm only a chump, but I know what I see when I see it, and I've seen a lot, but I've never seen so much pure, unadulterated, concentrated filth as I saw pulled in the campaign and election just past—in order to put over a guy who had already run the country by trick and guess for eight solid years. It was intimidation, misrepresentation and a lot of promised graft pulled on a simple-minded bunch of | sap-heads who had nothing else but 'a vote. Now that we've got what | we've got, dudes like Miller still keep | yowling about something they den’t know anything about. What's the matter—did the worst man win again?

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will have the Course to pull some # » =» of the rotten stuff they have gotten . by with in the past. For this alone | PAYS 4 TRIBUTE TO we owe-him a lot. THE WILLKIE BACKERS If) you, Mr. Miller, are such an By Mrs. P. F. ardent New Dealer it ®n't any of| ope reading Clyde P. Miller's letyour business who we Republicans | tr, Nov. 12. would think he is very run in the next election. You will egotistical in thinki he is right have enough business finding some- | and 22,000,000 people wrong. The one of your own party strong willkieites are standing back of the enough td run against Mr. Willkie.| Administzation but not silent, We So far as is known the gentleman |a]] have freedom of speech now, and in question has never announced |if Mr, Willkie keeps up his crusade his intention to run again. You maybe we can keep our free Ameri-

eeble old American Federation '

Democrats must know he really has something or you wouldn't expose your fear by knocking him"so much. For my part, I'll back Mr. Willkie if he runs as many times as William Jennings Bryan.

can ways. There were fine well educated people, such as doctors and antithird term Democrats and others too numerous to mention, who formed organizations to work for

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Sn. would, indeed, be

Mr. Willkie. It was a good thing for - this state to change. Maybe some of the liquor and textbook rackets will be stopped and a new history put in the schools that is not written by a Southern man who knows nothing about the Civil War and uses profane and obscene language. ’ : Mr. Willkie might of been elected if he hadn't repudiated the Communists, Fascists and Nazis. Of course, the WPAs wouldn't vote for him after he told them he would make jobs for them. It maKes no difference to them if the taxes are raised every six months on the people to pay for their recreations. I guess you can't blame Mr, Willkie for the turmoil in the unions and the blowing up of the powder mills. » » » SIDELINE SITTIN’ LIL GETS A SCOLDING By “Good Loser” To: Sideline Sittin’ Lil. In my humble opinion the sideline is the place for persons of your type. We have no place in our scheme of things for one who harbors ideas such as you profess.

For your information, the ban-|§ ners of pride in America will never | §& be dragged in the dust even by | one such as you. You say you feel |

this way because Mr. Roosevelt was re-elected. I, also,

in the White House, ashamed to hold up my head. On the contrary, I am proud and grateful for the fact that I live in a country where, regardless of the man elected, the rest of the country will accept the verdict in a spirit of good fellowship and support the successful candidate. Na I, personally, doubt that the Canadians would want you, at least not if they should read the ideas which you had the “intestinal fortitude” to place on paper for all to see. z . o n o RAISING SOME QUERIES ON THE WILLKIE UNITY

By Clarence F, Lafferty Is Willkie an egotist? If so, has that egotism developed into the conceited self regard “I am a great man, and a born leader . .. I shall prove that greatness and leadership by creating and leading an opposition faction”? . Is he consistent? Does he ask for unity, and then overjoys at the thought of the active part his opposition has taken in the issue of Congress adjournment?

Does he feel that it is national

unity to create this opposition by building up hatred between the two political parties—the Democratic and the Republican parties? Is he aware of the fact that national unity is the Democratic, Republican, and all parties united as one people—Americans “with hatred and malice toward none”?

NOVEMBER BROADCAST

By MARY P. DENNY

Gloria of wind in November day Sweeping with glory the autumn

way : Following the path of the first sun

ray. : A song of wonder of the far airplane. Low rustle of the grass. / Where the squirrel and gray rabbit

pass. Crescendo of the north wind Where the grape thickets vine.

Low murmur of south wind over

the lake, Beauty of dawn with the first snow-

flake, Voice of the wind and the wave and the sea Singing and singing in autumn free. They mingle afar in November strain Sending a glory over valley and plain,

DAILY THOUGHT

And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. —Mark 5:34,

AITH IN AN all-gesing. nd per-

backed Mr. |} Willkie, but since he was not placed I am not | §&&

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Dr. Dykstra to Follow Through on Restoring Draftees to Their Jobs, Thus Avoiding Mistake of First World War

ASHINGTON, Nov. 25.--Dr. Dykstra, Adminis=trator of Selective Service, is alert to one of the greatest mistakes of the World War draft. That * had to do with the demobilization of drafted men, rather than with their selection. The present organ- ; : ization of local and appeal boards for selection follows faithfully that earlier model which worked beautifully in selection. In 1918, the Selective Service System planned to use exactly the same machinery for returning the boys to civil life, - They were to be sent back to the boards that had ‘taken them. There, as.in their taking, they were to be clothed, housed, fed and receive their Army .pay until, with the assistance of local boards, they were re-employed. The powers that were said: “Na!” ‘They wanted to “liquidate” the war—instantly. The whole backbone of war regulation was withdrawn suddenly. That left a structure of artificially high prices and industry para. lyzed hy quick eancellation of billions in war cone tracts. Our whole business system went into a coma. Into thesé economic doldrums, the selected men were kicked—given “travel money” home and there abandoned, a 4 # 3 T created bitter resentment. The boys found that, while they had been away, somebody else had gtten their jobs, made much more jack then they had and, in some cases, married their best girls—and they couldn't get. work. Their Government had taken them with glittering promises. They came home to find that Mr. Whiskers was only a stepe uncle. It was a dumb-bell blunder. ; Dr. Dykstra says it will not be repeated and that the discarded 198 plan for reabsorption of drafted men in industry through local boards and otherwise will be adopted and improved upon. The present law requires that these boys be given back their jobs unless their employer can make an ironclad case for not .doing it. : Lic The major complaint about this draft is that:«it is moving too slowly. The same sort of criticism, in 1617 forced the War Department into .an' almost fatal blunder; to order men to camps before ‘they were ready to receive them. Let's not again be bumsrushed into that tragic error. : 5 = = T'S a lot better to take whatever criticism there may be for not having proper housing, clothing and food and to tell.our people the exact truth, than to try to cover it up at the expense of the health and welfare of these kids.- It can’t be covered lang, Sickness and suffering and even deaths will make a lot more noise and public resentment than any delay in preparation, ie : > Another miner criticism is that the Army won't accept convicted felons from the draft beards, that they deserve another chance. That sounds all right, but this new Army is of the highest moral tone. Mothers of these boys wouldn't feel easy without the Army's rule. It works some hardships, but its repeal would work more. - Conscription fell into such disrepute in England that it has never quite recov. ered because the “press gangs” did take, apparently in preference, the scum of the earth. We can't do that. The French solution might cover the probe lem, put them into an exclusive corps d’elite. ” However that may be, this country doesn't need to ‘worry about Dr. Dykstra’s administration. It is-as near perfection as any such effort could be,

A I . . A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson = rOMEN constantly insist that their thief concern is the future welfare of their children. And

many of us these days are “offering our sons” to serve and if need be to fight for their country.

noble sound. But I wonder some=

times whether we are noble enough and patriotic enough apd whether we love our children .enpugh to take the hard instead of the easy wdy toward paying for the national defense program. , The easy way, of course, is to increase the debt limit, which means letting the children and grandchildren pay for this war, just as every generation has .,always paid for the wars of its parents. The hard way is to pay as we go——insofar as we can. And this war will. be the most expen~

All this has a

sive in all history. , “a So let's examine our words carefully. How much really do we lové-America and democracy? Enough to take a notch’in eur own belt? Or do we merely sense that bigger and better armament programs may mean for a while bigger profits for us who are alive? Imagine, we suggest to ourselves, what we can give our youngsters with those profits! College degrees, automobiles, fine homes, travel. Yet are not these the very things with which our critics say we have oversupplied our young—the things that make them soft? _No doubt about it, we American parents are be- | hind the eight ball. A great deal depends upon how we act now. If we say to Congress, “Spend, borrow. the sky's the limit,” then our descendants will be justified in charging us with ruining them, because some day theyll be presented with the bills, If, on the other hand, ‘we accept the heaviest tax . burdens we shall thereby prove our patriotic and. par« ental devotion, Which shall it be, mothers? We are moving into a war economy, We voted for it, we say we want it, but are we going to pay for it out of our own pockets now?: An affirmative answer is the best proof of anybody's patriotism. :

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford : /

EEP your elbows inside the automobjle, Other= wise you are in danger of getting a “car window elbow,” which means you may have a partially er completely disabled arm. for the rest of your life.

disabling of injuries peculiar to the automobile,” Dr. Howard B. Shorbe, of Oklahoma City, declared in a report to the Southern Medical "Association. A typical description of an injury of this sort,” Dr. Shorbe said, “would consist of an average man of ‘27 years of age, driving down the highway with his left ‘elbow resting in the window. A truck passes and while it appeared close, he did not notice that it was too close. He felt a sudden, severe stinging in his left elbow and was surprised to notice he could.not move his arm or use it. Pain came on immediately and was severe. He noticed there was considerable bleeding about the arm and found multiple wounds about his elbow. from which the bones protruded. If he is a particularly sturdy young man he could drive for a short distance before the shock was so great that it was necessary for him to stop and wait for assistance. There are many Sages Yeporied in which the arm was entirely amputated at time of the initial shock, but fortunately this is the rare type.” Besides the crushing of bones about the elbow and the wounds where broken bones come through the skin, the great nerves that go down and supply the muscles of the hand and fingers are frequently injured so that a useless hand results, Dr. Shorbe explained. j ’ : rE oe x These accidents can easily be prevented if drivers learn to keep their elbows inside their cars. Most motor vehicles today have arm rests inside where the elbow can be placed in driving. Drivers should learn to use these, particularly if driving. a car without { : ‘am ‘window

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