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wo Ligh and the People Will Find Their Own Way ‘MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1940

WO BUDGETS; ONE POCKET . . DMINISTRATION leaders in the Treasury and Con-

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a Dnited Press, ; Scripoe tomers ky oy paper Alliance Service, and Audit BuTesty of Cireulation.

gress, earnestly seeking an acceptable budget policy,

are considering a two-pronged program— 1. Reduce all regular expenditures as much as possible, and assess permanent taxes designed to bring in each year enough revenue to keep thé “ordinary” budget in balance. 2. Authorize an addition of 15 or 20 billions to the public debt to finance “emergency defense” outlays, and then levy special “temporary” defense taxes to amortize the rearmament cost over a period of years. # # 8 ®

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. not new. President Roosevelt suggested some such scheme a few years ago. His purpose then was to distinguish between the regular. service of Government which continue even through prosperous years, and the “extraordinary” expenses, arising from the depression. : That plan didn’t make much headway in ' Congress for reasons which now are all too obvious. The budgeteers found it practically impossible to draw a line. For with each succeeding year of the depression, expenditures which had been regarded as “extraordinary” tended to become accepted as routine. In the years immediately preceding the depression, the Federal budget leveled off at around four billion dollars. Early in his second term, with recurring demands for aid to farmers, relief and public. works, Mr. Roosevelt expressed doubt that the budget could ever again be brought below seven billions. It is now running around nine billions, not counting the extra defense outlays. 8

2 #4 = Isn’t our government in somewhat the same predicament as a family afflicted with a year of sickness and a multitude of hospital bills and doctors’ and nurses’ fees? If the family could be certain that all would enjoy good health for several years to come, the household budget could be adjusted to amortize the costs of the year of sickness over a long period, without any painful ‘sacrifice of the luxuries to which the family had become accustomed. But a prudent family would not take that risk. Instead it would tighten its belt, learn to do without expensive luxuries, strive to build up its income, and prepare itself for whatever the years ahead might bring. It would be neither a pessimistic nor a fatalistic policy for our Government in this crisis to follow the same prudent course. It is the history of mankind that peoples who have had the fortitude to make sacrifices have mustered the power to overcome difficulties and climb to new levels of greatness and well-being.

MEXICAN RELATIONS LOOKING UP . HERE appear to be good grounds for hoping that relations between the United States and Mexico are entering an era of friendliness and mutual confidence. Mexico's new president, Gen. Avila Camacho, cannot but feel grateful to our government for the fact that his inauguration yesterday came off without a major disturbance. For the ceremony could hardly have.been a peaceful one if the defeated candidate, Gen. Almazan, had not withdrawn his claim to the presidency. And nobody should know better than President Avila Camacho that President was largely responsible for Gen. Almazan’s

n.| Almazan doubtless polled a great many more votes thar were officially counted for him. He was reported to have had a good portion of the Mexican army on his side, and he was still a contender for the office until President Roosevelt formally’ Tecognized Avila Camacho’s election by appointing Henry Wallace to serve as his personal representative at the inauguration. Gen. Almazan immediately bowed out. Mr. Wallace, incidentally, appears to have made a good impression on our Mexican neighbors. The sporadic outbreaks in Mexico City last week apparently involved only a few extreme left-wingers, who feel a cold wind blowing in their direction with the Cardenas regime passing out and a more moderate administration coming i .

FLANK ATTACKS ON THE POCKETBOOK HESE are hard and trying times for the patient Amer-

ican taxpayer. That admirable citizen realizes there "are certain city, state and national expenses that must be incurred. He knows the bulk of the money for these necessary things must be raised by taxation : in some form or other. ‘But what he objects to—and rightly so—are the often concealed flank attacks upon his thinning pocketbook, the niggling assaults embodied .in a multitude of bills passed without rhyme or reason. * The National Consumers Tax Commision, Inc., estimates that the 43 state legislatures, including Indiana, which meet next year, will consider more than 60, 000 bills, of which 11,000 will be tax measures. ; The commisison predicts that, if the solons run true to form, they will enact 1800 of the latter, or an average shout 42 per state. It would seem a good moment to call Yor a moratorium on most of these.

THE HITLER TOUCH : . THE contagious nature of Nazi ruthlessness and’ brutality has never been better illustrated than in the case of - Rumania. * Wherever Hitler's influence os prevailed, there murder and oppression and wanton cruelty have stalked. It is a familiar pattern. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, have all seen the worst traits of mankind come to the surface as goon as the Nazis roiled the waters. ; France, so far, appears to-have resisted the contagion, at least so far as bloodshed is concerned. But the germs e there. And when” starvation is added to the heavy urden of the French, it is not hard toi imagine that internal ne follow, :

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The idea of two.budgets forthe Federal Government is

Fair Enough By Westbrook’ “Pegler

“Rank. and File and Non-Members * Would Benefit if Unions Were Held

‘Responsible for Any” Misdoings N= YORK, Dec. 2—I1 was saying that until |

about two years ago I was heartily but-unin-telligently in favor of labor unions and that now I ‘have reservations. I have learned win regret that the union needs to brought under the same legal oe that gov most of us and should control us all. would benefit -the rank and file members as well as non-union workers and the rest of society. _ If unions were held responsible for ‘misdaing < they could: not reason- - ably complain unless it be argued that a mob has rights of lawlessness. After all, what is a, union but a private - ‘association ‘of in-

dividuals? Male? imagine the memor of the Union League’ Club

pouring out of their premises to surround & factory !

-and beat up New York policemen as the electricians

did recently, but I know that if they should do so |’

our little Mayor would cause the degradation or dismissal of any cop who failed to bring down his quota with firm, accurate strokes of his blackjack. The «political reaction of our city government to the violence of the electricians was quite different, poliical ‘and physical power. The union also has the aspect of the underworld in that members need not be consulted on issues affecting their right to Petain for their own use money which they have earned. y = 3 2

HE musicians, for instance, are wholly in the power of one man, Jimmy Petrillo, who admits that he is a dictator but claims to be a good one. No. dictator is good, but even a good one would necessarily be un-American or anti-American. The union exceeds its legitimate reason for being when it ate

tempts to coerce its members in their political deci-

paign by’ two unions which claim to be models of propriety, honesty and enlightened administration. These, were Sidney Hillman’s .clothing workers and Dave Dubinsky’s garment workers. I want to emphasize my contention that neither the A. F. of L. nor the C. I. O. nor any subdivision of either organization has any more legal right to violate laws gr persecute citizens than the Klu-Klux Klan had. When it is argued that persecutions or other abuses are as nothing compared with the good of the larger number the argument skewers itself on the bayonet which defends the legal rights of minorities in our kind of country. Our unions have really become subgovernments under the protection of our public government, but they do not even acknowledge a duty to obey our laws. Unlike public governments, many of them do not even pretend \to account for their money or to hold free elections,\and this failure, I think, has gone so far as to require compulsion from the government. I do not say that all unions are lawless, but I notice that those which are well-conducted resent the slightest suggestion that they should be checked up. In other words, they reserve the right to fudge. ” ® 2 OR do I agree to compulsory collective bargaining. I uphold the right to bargain collectively, but insist that the right to bargain individually is equally precious. Or, to put it “better, I indorse collective bargaining for those who want to bargain collectively—which .is as far as the law goes, although unions and the Labor Board have forced many Americans to bargain thus who didn’t want to. This was Aone by forcing them to join unions against their Now, does (all this show a bias against labor or unions’ as such? Many union leaders insist that it

anyone who reads the labor press objectively will be sure to admit that it is very unfair in its discussions of persons and opinions in disagreement with the union position. I am sorry to have to say that in all too many instances union leaders as a whole have failed to meet the requirements of character, intelli-

‘gence, citizenship and: honesty which accompany the

power that they have enjoyed. Because the restraints are almost negligible their position calls for unusually fine character, but on the average these leaders have been no better than dur minor politicians,

Business. By John T. Flynn

‘Terror’ of An Early Peace Proves Disturbing Influence on the Market

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EW YORK, Dec. 2—While the planes fly and the guns boom in Europe, the stock market does not neglect its accustomed round; up and down its fitful curves. But it does not move under the influénce of the guns—not, at least, the guns that boom in Europe. Of course the people who buy stocks¢ have difficulty making up their minds about this war. And while they are doing so- other " lesser influences affect the prices on the exchanges. A little before the electipn, hopes of a Willkie victory ran high enough among out-of-towners to send the market up. After the election the shadow of Mr. Roosevelt sent it down again. Then Mr: Morgenthau talked about a 20billion addition to the debt limit, the wild specter of inflation rode the winds and many people, with very false definitions of inflation, rushed in to buy. Since that time the prices have been going down until halted on Tuesday. The descent has been,due to two forces chiefly. First ‘of all, there are a lot of professional gentlemen in the market who are capitalizing on these shifting opinions and whose buying or selling gives an added

pens to be going, until they are ready to take their profits. As the markets are thin it does not take an immense amount of buying or selling to do this.

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B": at the moment a good deal of pessimism about the war has begun to pervade the market. BY this I do not mean that speculators are convinced that England is going to be wiped out. They have begun, under the impact of news this. last week or

are not entirely to be counted out.

Peace, of course, would be a disaster to the market and to American business. We have managed our affairs so intelligently that now our chief hope of doing any- important volume of business this year \depends*on the continuance of a war into which we may be drawn. Peace would not, of course, halt the wheels ‘of

to do that. The drive for arms and more arms by the Government would continue. We signed up contracts for an immense addition te our Navy just after the last war ended.” But the hope of continuing the war economy would end. . And while general business would enjoy the momentum for a while, the market would begin swiftly to discount the peace. Stories about rising production schedules, ap_proachilig divindens, even surprise dividends, rumors of surprising earnings statements, etc., fill the air. These tend to boost prices. But over all hangs the terror’ « peace.

So They Say—

vocative remarks about the German military. . . . In this connection I remind people that the police -are SIGH) Chie of of Police August Pederson of Berg, No! ay.

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sions, but this was done flagrantly in the recent cam-"

does, but they are not unbiased themselves, and’

impetus to the market in whatever direction it hap-

two, to feel that the possibilities of peace of some sort |

business here overnight. It would take a good whiles

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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.

DOUBTS SCHRICKER SEES MANY GAMES By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind.

Governor-elect Henry F. Schricker complains that he saw some drunks at the. Indiana-Purdue football

ball game he ever attended. ” #” t- 3 TAKING A BOW FOR STIRRING UP CRITICS By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport, Ind. ‘I wish to acknowledge the recent tribute by “Inquisitive” in the Forum

in which he expressed his heart-felt gratitude for the sagacious, intellectual "leadership supplied to the masses by myself and one or two more minor contributors. “We,” wrote Inquisitive, “have been so enlightened by the articles of Daniel

a few others, that we began to feel sorry for ourselves and decided to study up so we could think and not put too much strain on these already overtaxed minds.” I hope it will not be deemed immodest for me to say that I, too, am aware of the enlightening quality of my rather profound and edifying essays. As to this Clyde P. Miller mentioned—I regret to say that I have never had the probable pleasure of perusing any of his writings. Not, or course, that I mean to infer that they are in any way inadequate. Not at all, And the “few others® mentioned—well, diligence and hard work will, I am sure, in the days to come bring them deserved recognition. . ! 2 ® ” A PLEA FOR UNITY BETWEEN ELECTIONS By Robert Paige : To Sideline Sittin’ Lil: You say that you do not respect your President, this is because you are unAmerican. You have proved this by saying you wished you were in a foreign country. There is one thing you don’t understand. For four years after an election we are neither Democrats nor Republicans. We are Americans and we respect the head of our government.

ways, which I claim untruths, in which our President got into office but after all you cannot be right and millions wrong. In fact my word is as good as yours. And I and millions others cannot forget the many good things our President has done for-us. I cannot see why decent

security, unemployment insurance,

game. Must have been the first foot-|.

Francis Clancy, Clyde P. Miller and|

You claim many disrespectful

working ' hours, better wages, social]

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

ete, would dissatisfy you. You say that “Good Loser” will find he is just a loser when he begins to pay. If it’s going to cost me a little more to live in a country that is free and strong, I will gladly pay. Even though you have the right of free speech I wish you wouldn't print that you don’t respect our President any more. We are striving for unity and your kind does not help. ” 2 » ANOTHER SCOLDING FOR SIDELINE SITTIN’ LIL By “Good Loser” To Sideline Sittin’ Lil: Iam going to surprise you by agreeing with in part, i e, in your description of the convention in Chicago. I feel that this convention was not a good

example of the American way of doing things, frankly, it smelled. However, I cannot concur with the general theme of defeatism you seem to feel. It is only by unity of thought and action that the American objectives will be attained and that unity is as important among the little people such as you and I as it is among the heads of the Government. Never forget that. While I do not approve of many of Mr. Roosevelt's methods, I do feel that he is sincere in his objectives and is therefore deserving of our support. You supported Mr. Willkie before the election; continue to do so now by practicing some of his ideas. He has set the example for his followers by being a good loser. We can do no less.

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PROTESTS BAN ON DRUGLESS DOCTORS By Mrs. R. M. E. “Time to Wake Up.” Wake up, citizens of Indiana before our right to employ the physician of our choice i taken from us. Are we going to stand by while a certain group fights to’ rid our state of drugless doctors, taking from us our freedom and liberty? The Constitution says no state shall make or

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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con WILL punish Mussolini for detying Him; also v invading. Albania, snd

enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of

of this group restraining drugless doctors from practice is actually

benefited by the treatments. Many have been cured who were doomed to long suffering or death, and any treatment which brings results is not a “fake” or “quackery” assome would have us: believe. We don’t want dictators. It dividual to choose their own doctor. After all, they pay the bill and if they prefer drugless doctors that is their own business. What is the trouble with the people of this state that they permit this persecution and prosecution to continue? Let us demand justice for these doctors. Let us have freedom and Justice for all. ] 8 8 =» WILD TURKEYS RECALL AN INCIDENT IN ZULULAND By Rev. B. G. Barker Apropos of your news item in one of ‘last week’s issues on the psychology of the wild turkeys that were released in Indiana and mysteriously disappeared. I wonder if it was not easy pick-

in’s and the instinct of knowing a which side of their bread was but-|#

tered that prompted them to give up their wild life and intrude their presence upon the first flock of tame turkeys they sighted from ‘aloft? An experience I had when in

group of monkeys in a tree about 50 yards from wheré I was standing. Little did I think that the noise made by the iron heels on my shoes was the sweetest music in the ears of the scores of alligators, rhinoceroses and hippopotami lying in those holes. The monkeys were in a perfect circle all chattering angrily and looking towards me. All at once they began running down and then cilmbing up the tree. They had cafried up a lot of good-sized stones. Hearing a noise behind me, I turned only to see an alligator creeping towards me. I did the mile in record time for me. . ... Both flocks of turkeys acted as one turkey, and did the same thing

fat: the same time. The monkeys

acted as one monkey and they did the same thing at the same time. I think it was a question of all the turkeys knowing what was good for them, and the monkeys . deciding what was good for me if I passed close enough, and that alligator knowing what was good for him, if he had once got me between his massive jaws. I have told this story many times in the pulpit, and some on: at the close of the service has never failed to ask the same question, viz, “How big was the alligator?” I always gave the same angwer, “I don't know, I didn’t stop to measure him.”

HOMEWARD By VERNE MORE I urge my truant cows Along the path that leads across . the hills. The silent. dusk steals through the trees and stills

The whispering of the boughs. | A shroud of black descends

Obliterating landmarks as I go Unfaltering along, because I know Foss the trail ends.

grope through woods bu * Without the guiding ow of star a

or moon . And pass Sirgugh darkest night, To 200k 5 ar Tos Blow,

DAILY THOUGHT

‘What thing soever I command “you, observe to do it; Shou £nals not add thereto, nor from t,—Deuteronomy 12:33.

life, liberty or property. The action|

jeopardizing the health and happi-| ness of patients who were being|

should be the privilege of every in-| {

Zululand many years ago may illus-| i trate this point. I went for a walk|# down the dry bed of the Tugela, : River, and became interested in a|}

Cor. Yohason od

Says—

Belief That in This Mechanized Era We Don't Need Old-Fashioned Infantrymen Is a Serious Error WWE TON, Del, Dec. 2—It is ‘becoming / c daily from all parts of the country thas

our military mobilization would have been better if it had been kept more closely in step with our industrial

Mobilization and been planned more deliberately,

- The drafted men now going ta camp wil serve only a year, unless we get into war -or some emergency situation. It is very certain that, within that year, we shall not have nearly enough of the new, | and complicated weapons of modern war to train many of these rea cruits and before we do have them, ‘they will be discharged. About all in which many can expect to become proficient is tha foot, bayonet and rifle work of the World War infantry. That is also badly needed. I do not agree with some of our military “experts” that everything the

‘War Department has done is wrong and that this “old

doughboy stuff is as dead as the do-do.” The German armored, motorized and mechanized division operating in close co-operation with airplanes, air ihfantry and their own tanks worked a revolution in tactics but, alone, they could have won no vice tories. They lanced out like lightning at key points and SOB RUNICS Ions eSome limes 60 miles ahead of the advancing army—and paralyzed resistance to it. But behind Jthem rolled the first motorized infantry divisions at ‘great speed, and then foot-sloggers and’ daisy crushers. These latter were necessary first to mop-up the untouched defensive points and then occupy the countries. They are as necessary now as they ever were. ; : #8... : HE impression to the contrary that is being given ° to and widely accepted by the country, is very dangerous and very wrong. It is just as important: for our Army to provide and train old-fashioned foot

linfantry and motorized infantry as it is to provide

| motorized, mechanized and armored divisions,

Because we have no completely equipped Panzer

division and they can’t be improvised, delay in getting them is critical. But looking back at the unplanned and dilatory action of the rest ofthe Government in appropriating money last summer, I fail to see how the Army could have done very much better in its circumstances. : The principal. blunder—the one-year training period, which is so ill-fitted to the military problem— is not the Army’s fault. It probably would have been impossible then, to have gotten a longer period enacted. But if these men go out before we get .motorized equipment to train the more technical troops, we will’ have to start all over to man our Panzer divisions with too many men who have not yet learned even the rudiments of soldiering, :

NOTHER great drawback is that we do not have. a large enough nucleus of professional soldiers to do this job. The officers’ reserve corps is a good bee. ginning, but these men are mostly amateurs, Gere many started out to train with “an army of a hundred thousand sergeants.” We haven't got them. A cru< sade uld be started to bring back to duty all the really=veteran and efficient retired and. reserve or honorably discharged officers and enlisted men available. One more great piece of immediate progress could be made. ‘Motorized infantry is little more than foot soldiers who ride in au mobiles at 40 miles an hour instead of marching at 2% miles. The military mind ikes to see everything uniform and under complete control. So they like to have Army-designed and Army-owned truck transportation. But this is a nation on gas-driven wheels. By proper organization and planning we could mass. troops anywhere in the United States with lightning’ speed, and in civilian trucks and cars exclusively’ Plans and practice in this direction could go far to solve our Army motorization problem. We seem to be doing nothing whatever in that direction.

A Woman's ‘Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE eyes of the little boy blazed with excitement; He was in Toyland--a Boys’ Toyland, so different from that of the little girls where the dolls stand in perpetually lovely poses, or sleep in their carton

And this year how horridly dif< ferent the toys for little boys are In a good many stores the em phasis is on war. Helmeted sols diers, generals on horseback, ma chine gunners, Coast Artillery Bi Berthas mounted on plaster-of Paris bases, Red Cross nurses, am bulance drivers carrying stretche upon which bleed miniature fig ures of the wounded. I cannot describe how I felt I looked at them. I could o thank God I had no little bo whose eyes flashed with’ joy whe he saw the fascinating displays, for one of my boy: is old enough to fire a real machine gun and the other will reach that unhappy age in four years. The toymakers must keep up with the times for such is’the law of commerce. Nobody can bl them or the merchants. who depend on Chris trade to keep their budgets balanced. It is usele to rail'at any one’group for a condition which none of us seem able to mend. The world is crazy; shouldn't children’s toys be crazy too? te But how about those starry-eyed small boys? Perhaps it’s well that they have not yet p the age of reason. They probably go regularly Sunday School. At this season they will. lift ; voices to sing “Silent Night, Holy Night,” and sittin in their best clothes will hear their teachers : the precious words, “Peace on Earth.” They will watch their mothers string popeorn. for Christmas a Claus will figure in their dreams, and nightly they pray to their parents’ God, the God Who, acording to our creed, also had a Son Whose heart was moved with pity for men ard Whose commandment was “Love thy neighbor.” No adult logic can reconcile war with Christmas. What a puzzle it must make for the Shikirent,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford o it

IF you are depressed over world conditions or Worried by some personal problems, try . ‘yourself: up by correct posture. That may sound at Jing like ; foolish advice, but psychologists long ago. correct posture keeps up the spirits banish depressing thougitts.. Look, the faces of the people you pa will probably notice that a with a slumping body, and that the | briskly with head eteck | { looking. a