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Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1040 !

WHY BRING THAT UP! ° RAVE hate to remind the Greeks about it, but today is the *' anniversary of Russia’s attack on the Finns, who proceeded to push the invader around plenty—for a while. ~ * Better luck this time, let's hope.

“SEA POWER NOT OUTMODED YET HE Mediterranean has been a proving ground for navies = gince long before the Battle of Salamis, 480 B. C., where . the Greeks smashed the Persians. Today in the same sea ‘and elsewhere British naval power, the ponderous trident with which Britannia has ruled the waves so many years, is meeting a prolonged and momentous test. «In this war there is no mass engagement of whole fleets, as at Jutland in the spring of 1916. This time the naval war is a matter of hit-¥ffd-run, of sniping and raiding. And, unlike 1916, sea power is both challenged ‘and abetted by air power. New weapons and tactics are being tried. © British sea power has suffered stunning reverses—the

i) aircraft carrier Courageous ahd the battleship Royal Oak

were sunk by U-boats early in the war; warships failed to. bar the Skagerrak to German troopships, Norway-bound; submarines, planes and surface raiders have sunk millions of tons of cargo ships, and cut so deeply into England’s

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ings and the Brit] ~ a going concern.

But there have been victories, too. There was the fatal

mauling of the Graf Spee by lesser vessels in the battle

of the Plate; the evacuation of the trapped B. E. F. from Dunkerque; the sinking of dozens of U-boats; the reluctant destruction of the cream of beaten France's navy; and more recently in the Mediterranean the savage raid by

= ship-kzsed torpedo planes on Italian capital ships at Taranto, followed by this week's disputed brush with an

Italian squadron off Sardinia. re The fate of sea power is still in the balance. But Eng2 land’s lines of supply are functioning, Nazi Europe is under blockade, England is uninvaded, Suez and Gibraltar and Malta and Aden still stand, Mussolini's imperial army in. Ethiopia is cut off from relief, and his legions in North Africa are getting no nearer the Nile. °*

' England may not win this war with sea power. But

as long as Le say “thumbs up!” to nightly bomb-

navy is still in being, England remains

' WERE ELECTION LAWS VIOLATED?

A TTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT JACKSON'S announce“nient that a Federal grand jury will make a broad investigation of alleged violations of U. S. election laws will _hearten the country that has demonstrated its desire for a * thorough-going political clean-up. + Mr. Jackson has said that officials of all political parties

4 and committees, together with their: records of contribu-

“tions and disbursements, will be examined, to determine whether, as charged, there was general violation of the - Hatch Acts and the Corrupt Practices Act through excessive

use of money in the recent natignal campaign.

. Coniplaints' that the Hatch Acts’ limit of $3,000,000 upon campaign expenditures was violated or evaded by both Republicans and Democrats have often been heard. i. “We hope to determine,” the Attorney General said, “whether this and other provisions of the Hatch Acts have been violated or if they have been evaded through the use legal loopholes. If the law has been violated, there should ‘be prosecutions; if there haVe been evasions, the loopholes “should be tightened up.” 7 Such a statement, and such a proposed grand jury investigation, will, as we've said, hearten the country. Be-

‘the Hatch Acts. Without general popular backing, neither

house would have approved those two measures ~ Having seen their desires for a political clean-up enacted into laws, the country had a right to be disgusted at the charges that the new measures to protect the ballot

‘have been violated, there should be prosecution; if there ‘have been evasions, Congress should close up the loopholes

i] TRUCKERS SEEK RELIEF ‘RUCKMEN being human, their campaign against in- = terstate trade barriers is animated more by a dollars-‘and-cents self-interest than by altruism. But it seems to us that they have all the best of the argument. The truckers are urging that the Interstate Comce Commission seek authority from Congress to elimpate these state-line hurdles and restore the free flow of handise along=the interstate highways. They intimate—with good reason—that the railroads jave been responsible for some of the nuisance regulations at plague the cross-country truck lines. The railroads 2 often been adept at lobbying state legislatures. - The Lord knows the railroads have problems. But rely the way out is not the devious way of saddling comfitors with uneconomic and unreasonable burdens—which zh on the public. : : The I. C. C., which regulates the truckers, ought to be apowered to relieve them from the present crazyquilt of 2 fees and regulations, - ; ss. 8 = 3 ; ® 8 8 Speaking of the railroads—everybody in-uniform and should applaud _the generous offer of the carriers to port uniformed soldiers, sailors and marines on holr trips, anywhere in the country, for 1 cent a mile.

LIDAY NOTES

CE PRESIDENT GARNER is discharging his arduous “duties from the familiar surroundings of Uvalde, Tex., id Republican House Leader Joe Martin has gone to the amas fo recover from the hard fight he won to keep

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By Westbrook Pegler -

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Needed Telling; He Says of His Exposes of Certain Labor Unions.

that these dispatches reveal an anti-labor or antiunion bias. As a friend has pointed ouf, I am partly at fault because, c - have not paused at. regular in-

and remarks were not aimed at " labor or unionism, as such. J

vantage of the truth in saying that I have proved my two principal contentions, namely, = that the C. I. O. has been badly infected with communism in controlling positions and that the A. F. of L. is tolerant to a dangerous degree of racketeering and criminality. More than a 'year ago, while A A covering the Ham ‘N° Eggs election in California, I positively confirmed, from the highest authority on this subject in the state, my conviction that the California C. I. O. was controlled by the Comniunists. A few days ago Robert Jackson, our Attorney General, who has been accused of sympathizing with the Communists but never of Redbaiting, announced that the FBI had satisfied. itself that the Vultee aircraft strike had been caused and prolonged by Communist influence. And, notwithstanding: the inclusion of communism in the resolution of condemnation adopted by the C. I. O. in Atlantic City, the fact remains that the John L.. Lewis faction includes elements in which the Musco-

men and the transport workers. . EJ 2 2

HIS fact was freely admitted, in fact savagely alleged, against Lewis in the last days of the Presidential campaign by leaders and ‘pyblications of the union movement sympathetic with the Roosevelt candidacy. : Lewis claims the fierce, personal loyalty of the mine worke®s, but that union is a dictatorship, politic-

| ally and financially, which would explode into revolu-

tion against him if the suppressed rank and file had the slightest chance. ; As to the problems of racketeering and criminality in the A. F. of L., this body admitted the truth, grudgingly, in open session in New Orleans and then adopted a miserable resolution which amounts to nothing more than a confession that the leaders lack the manhood, -the courage and the citizenship to kick out of powerful official positions vermin who have lived on the earnings of prostitutes. - But even conceding that my contentions have been sustained, I still might be accused of antilabor or anti-union bias. The question is why I presented and hammered away at the facts. Those who accuse me of bias think that theirs is the only possible answer—that I want to destroy the unions and expose labor again to the cruel rapacity of soulless corporations and heartless individual employers.

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O this I could, but will not, make the sanctimonious answer that my motive is to help labor clean house and thus to strengthen the unions.’ There is, however, another answer—my answer. That is that I am a newspaper reporter or journalist and tha the truth was news. The truth created arguments, and I answered the arguments. And if I have failed to extol certain unions which profess to be wholly free of Stalinism and reasonably honest, the reason is that they are no better than they should be. They should be loyal to the U. 8. A. and absolutely honest. Those are standard, minimum requirements. We So oo hals Siizens being the bar in this country praise them for refraining from tr - tion and theft. 2 reason, persecy Until about two years ago I was heartily - but thoughtlessly in favor of all unions just because they were unions. Since then I have discovered that the

American concept of unionism violates some rights

of citizenship and property and permits traitorous or ignorant and crooked leaders to menace the safety of the country. Will go into that later.

Business By John T. Flynn -

British Appeal for Loans Part of Propaganda to Get Us Into War.

EW "YORK, Nov. 30.—The question which the United States must now settle—and do it very soon—is this: Can England pay for the things she is buying in this country? : : When the war started the British Empire had available for purchases here the following assets:

' GOld TESEIVES .........ss....$2,740,000,000 Dollar balances ............. 940,000,000" Securities senievenss 1,235,000,000 ~ Direct investments .......... 1,460,000,000

: $6,375,000,000 5 Dace figures are supplied by the National City ank. It is not possible to say how much, if at all, the gold reserves have been decreased. The Canadian and Empire gold reserves have increased. It is a fair estimate that the gold reserves of England available for purchases here ‘have not decreased at all. : What the dollar balances are now we cannof tell. But at the end of June the dollar balances of England and Canada had been decreased to $667,000,000. In the . same 10 months Great Britain and Canada sold about $187,000,000 of securities, leaving a balance of $1,045,000,000. Direct investments : had not been disturbed at all. By the end of June, therefore, we may estimate that the Empire had about $5,880,000,000. Of this $4,422,000,000 would be gold, dollars and quickly negotiable securities. tJ » 2

HAT was the end of June. In the last five months, of course, these have been reduced, but it is certain that they have by no means been cut in half. It is a safe estimate that Britain has around three billion of gold, securities and dollars available to pay for what she buys here, not counting another billion in direct investments. _ If this is so, then why is it necessary to borrow money here? : There is no necessity. The reason, however, is very obvious. The American citizen must get this fact firmly fixed in his mind. At this moment Britain is carrying on a ceaseless propaganda to get us into the war. What is the best way to do that? . In the last war, early in the proce , Winston Churchill wrote to a friend that England should arrgnge to get as many Americans enlisted in the British Army as possible.’ He was not interested in the aid they could give. He said: “Nothing will so add to American sympathy for our cause as having Americans shed some of their blood over here.” This affords a clue to how British propaganda works. Britain wants America to lend money—billions—to Britain. Nothing will-so much add to sym: pathy for their cause as having a billion or two dr three invested in it. . That is the reason for the campaign Which now begins, It is part of the propaganda to get us into e war. E

for Britain

So They Say—

THE JOB OF getting the United States adequately defended is a job of the greatest magnitude ever given the industrial leaders of any country in the world’s history.—Alfred P. Sloane. * *® *

_ THE ONLY possible hope of evér approaching the condition of a warless world lies in the principle of collective security among the democracies.—Dr. Robert A. Millikan, prgsident of California Institute of Technology. : ‘ee ‘8 *

IT IS A FALLACY that man lives only for human society or for: the state. In this materialistic strain much of the dominant social thinking of our time is

being done.—The Most. Rev. Samuel A. Stritch, arche

He's a Reporter and “the Truth

EW YORK, Nov. 30.—Some of our union I eaders N and some union publications have been saying |

tervals to say that my revelations’|

I am sure I take no unfair ad- |

vite influence predominates, including the longshore-

in reportifig and discussing facts, I|

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

A REBUKE FOR MINTON ON THE ‘BUYING’ ISSUE By J. B. P, : : Sherman Minton is now squawking about wealthy people “buying” an election, = Listen, Shay—what has “your leader” been doing ever since he got in office? The trouble with that one is that he did the

work pay the bill.. There's something queer about these New ‘Dealers—if they win they want to raise the devil and if they lose they want to raise the devil—but someone else pays, pays, pays.

2 8 » SLAMMING WILLKIE'S CHOICE OF LANGUAGE By C. B. wi If Mr. Willkie was trainéd ‘by our best tutors and in our best schools we had better get busy and train our children ourselves. “If our children are being taught such language and such insults on people

we had better put a sto pto it now. That is sure a slam on.our tutors and also America. We mothers— I'll say most mothers—do not approve of our children using such

- imud slinging. No use finding ex-

cuses because all the people heard what he had to say. . . .. I know some of our good -Republicans who did not vote on that.account. They didn’t believe in the third term and said Willkie wasn’t any man for President. . . . Mr. Willkie may be a smart, well-educated man but he sure does not show it. He does not show good teaching at home. You can plainly see who he represented, big business. . . . CET 27,000,000 SAPHEADS CAN'T BE WRONG?’ By Mr. 8. J. C. It seems that there are so many die-hards that the devil himself will be lucky if he receives his dues. Mr. J. B. P. of the Hoosier Forum states very correctly and convinces me that he is a chump first class, when he states that the country has been run by trickery upon sapheads.who could not possibly know what to do except vote for the man who had showed the light of day to their homes and friends to the tune of plenty for their families to eat and a job to earn more as long as health permits.

“buying” but we poor chumps who|

(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.)

I want to call Mr. J. B. P. a nar-row-minded die-hard for his simple attitude for inasmuch as 27 million people wanted the President who was elected Noy. 5th to direct our destinies for four more years, ‘that many sapheads could not have been all wrong. : The “Great Crusade” to turn our, just as great, country back to “Hooverism” and “Wall Street” has come to an abrupt end carrying with its band wagon just such ‘Great Crusaders” as Mr. J. B. P. who would rather see the blind, helpless, and under-privileged classes pushed down just a little lower than to see them have an equal advantage with high caliber chumps like himsels. Mr. J. B. P. possibly never- Worked for 25 cents per hour as a lot of us other saphead Roosevelt supporters had to do. If not, then let Hoover, Willkie and Wall Street make that a possibility for you. The sooner you go through this experience the sooner you shall know who the ace misrepresentator is and has been for the 12 years preceding the “New Deal.” eo eo @ N 8 #2 =» JOBLESS, HE'LL TAKE THE G. O. P. DEPRESSION By Richard A. Thompson

In The Times (Nov. 26) was a letter from James R. Meitzler of Attica contending that the jobless have only themselves to blame. I disagree. I am out of a job and have been for five months, with no immediate hope of getting one in the future. : Perhaps I may have been to blame for being out of one, but as for getting one I can’t blame myself for that. I. have applied to hundreds of places all over the state in my particular line of business and the answer is always the same—lack of business to employ any new help. If this is what is called “Roosevelt prosperity” then give me the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

used to kick back home about

"| remapping of Europe.

fish peddler of br derby fame. : OUR oe TRY

good old days of Republican depression. = At least a man could eat. I voted for Willkie and will vote for him again if he should ever choose to run. I've just about had my fill of Roosevelt and the dumb sapheads who put him in again. Four years more of him and we'll all be sapheads—or are we sure that it will only be four more years? i wiih a : A WORD OF CHEER FOR THE REPUBLICANS By James R. Meitzler, Attica, ind Now that the WPA candidate has won a third term, why are his supporters . continually belly-aching about Willkie? Is it because Willkie came so close to election? Is it because the drafted candidate came so near to being de-drafted? Instead of receiving: two-thirds of the votes the indispensable man got only a thin margin over one-half.

As for the 22,000,000 voters who stood against extravagance, miscalled humanitarignism, which heaps

tomorrow in order to throw bor-

as private business? Who stood for che rights of minorities and individuals in the management of their persons and property? These 22,-

000,000 will continue their effort to]

return to the principles of Republican Government. In 1942' they will be reinforced by manye.more who put property rights above parasite rights, and

third termer. And in 1944 they will elect a President whose experience, political or otherwise, is not limited to seducing the voters with public

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GIVES JOHNSON ZERO AS MILITARY EXPERT By Wm. Lemon Some of your radical correspondents seem to class us Roosevelt stipporters as imbeciles but any way we had brains enough fo pick a winner. Like Gen. Johnsons their

articles are read and soon forgot-

iten. The General seems to forget that all that stands between us and a German and combination Japanese invasion-is England. In my estimation as a military genius he registers zero. a But of course the fact remains that Japan is worn out and war weary with China, but as for that ‘European mad di he gains strength every time he gobbles up 3 small country but the chances are he will have Russia to contend with before he is through with his , The public trusts o thirdstermer for they know he knows the true international situation and doesn’t need advice from an [obsolete army general or any of those old Democratic pedestrians who walked out on him including our Fulton Street

By FRANCES RICHMOND

" More troubles come my way There seems to be no end They just keep g every day And still here there between Almost before I know it 1 Some joy comes slipping in. And when I hear of others grief Mine seems so small ¢ * Then in my heart I feel relief » To know that after all I'm blessed Just to live in a country That's not by war distressed

. DAILY THOUGHT With the merciful thou wilt thyself and with

debts upon the workers of today and

rdwed money to the dogs, who stood | § for the time-tried principles of|§ thrift and economy in public as well | §

handouff the borrowing, spending tim

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Worst - Dilemmas in All History; Midwest Supports Hoover's Plea.

T= question most frequently ‘asked in ‘my mail

and in open forums, especially here in the Middle West is “Why don’t we let Herbert Hoover go ahead ye his plan to feed the starving in the conquered countries in Eurepe?” It is just about the toughest ; - . question that could be imagined. Mr. Hoover's plan for no contributions. T countries have enough funds here to by at least part of their needs. 1 reports that leak through from them are that starvation, malnutrition and disease‘ have: already done great damage, that available stocks of food are low and that, as the winter advances, ther8 will be an increasing danger of famine . and pestilence threatening mere people than ever suffered so even: | in the Dark Ages. ile The people who will bear the brunt of this are not fighting. Troops are always fed first and, except ina siege, rarely starve. The sufferers.are civilians. of conquered countries and the heavier threat is ta the more helpless—the weak, the aged, women and the children, It would be possible for famine to mow them down in milllons—more effectively .than™any air raids or sinking of passenger ships. w || 8 8 8 *y N ‘ IE the wars Y the last century such, widespread suffering did not threaten. There was some vestige left. of freedom of the seas—for which, in part, we ° fought the World War. Except for an actual block ‘ade of a definite area of coastline, trade in supplies which were not contrabrand of war was permitted,

enemy nation is now ‘regarded as contrabrand of There is no more freedom of the seas. Any enemy Ietchantman is subject to seizure or sinking anywhere on the seven seas and so are many kinds of food en route to an enemy on a neutral ship. The British navy still effectually blockades her enemies, Britain will not permit food to go to the

L conquered countries no matter how many people

starve and no matter that they are not her ehemies —some lately were her allies. She will not permit it because that blockade is her principal weapon against Hitler. It directly affects his strength in munitions and the rationing of his forces. It indirectly weakens him in another direction, Starving nations are more apt to revolt than those that are well fed. Hitler may have force enough to keep ¢his conquests chained, but that force will have - to be spread farther and thinner as the suffering of rebellious nations increases. If it gets bad enough it may collapse even Germany herself, Something like that did the work in 19818.- :

AR. HOOVER believes that a way can be worked out absolutely to insure that food will go to - some of these peoples without increasing German strength in the slightest—either by their grabbing ‘it directly or being enabled to divert more of the scant existing supplies from these countries to the German . people. The latter is precisely what they did when - we, fed occupied Belgium .in the last war. I doubt. if - Mr. Hoover is right. It is ‘a terrible heart-sickening problem but we have no part in it and shall have none, unless we get into the war ourselves. If we do, we shall have to - decide whether we want to fight helpless people with ‘weapons of famine and pestilence. As it is, there is not even any pressure we could bring to persuade England to relax her rules without embarrassing her - and being thought by some to be stabbing her in the | back and helping Hitler. - = \ ? : I can think of no worse dilemma. But it is an inescapable part of modern war which destroys everything, not merely armies and ships and cities

and the weak, the promptings of holy charity and all that is left of “the little’ mércy of man.” i

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A VHRISTMAS shopping is a minor art or a major ordeal, according to whether or not your intele ligence functions. Mine ‘doesn’t, but the ordeal is fun just the same. : First’ come the scouting trips. If you're my type you'll be slightly. deranged mentally and look it. Your gait is an aim- : "less amble; for you have no goal - and you stop frequently to dawdle . ‘ pver the extra-lovely displays. Your ° mind feels like an @dding machine with a slipping cog. “What a gorgeous red bag!” you mutter, and _are surprised to find yourself passing none-too-clean hands over the material. The eyes of the. salesgirl recall your wandering ° wits and you beat a shameful re treat. Can she possibly guess: that § * you are franically adding and sub= : tracting, trying gure to buy an evening ing sister and at the same e get Aunt Martha the sort of gift she deserves? It’s already half past two. You've bought nothing. vou feel like a sneakthief every time you edge into another shop. You're taking up the time of sales people without a notion of buying, and what possible excuse is there for a full-

t. So you get out notebook and pencil, feeling YS and businesslike, although by this time pains begin to shoot up your back, and your feet ache. | How few of the rightly priced items fit the needs of your relatives and friends! Besides, Christmas iy so persistent. It's forever dogging your heels. You went through the same experience a couple. of months ago in you sent those silver clips to Nora? And certainly Harry got two sets of pajamas last year—so they're out. Maybe you'd better go home and call it a day. And for. heaven's sake do some intelligent planning :

before your next expedition.

the last moment to buy “utterly inappropriate gifts which are tod expensive for your poc Taste that all adds up to what we call “the spirit.” ud : ; :

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By Jane Stafford id Bas for the thousands of appendict tis: laid squarely at the door of the victims in a statement from the

cie wi jut i Mog in as Hn spite- of the fact that much has been and written concerning the dangers of a heeded by many,” it is poinfedout. = ~~ ° © The appendix is a dead-end part of the la: He 3 testine, Soon 8 size of the little’ finger, located . the lower, quarter of. abdomen. W ; ‘gets inflamed, the patient Has appendicitis. from appendicitis results from poisons that s appendix into the © abdomen or that ; idly

thin film-like tissue somewhat like inside of the mouth. When more

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but the lives of both the just and unjust, the strong

A Woman's Viewpoint :

out how

woman to be so vacils lating? Perhaps it would be simpler if you made a

mber, 1939. Wasn't it the year before last

“That's only kidding, however, for youll dash in a$

ketbook. But

Waiding Your Healh

sands itis: deaths which occur each year in the United States is Tlinois State Medical So

that right-sided pain in the abdomen still goes une’

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