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those Caribbean Islands particularly; vast rubber, tin and + other strategic materials. billion dollars from the last war, borrowed on the unsecured or, we might say, “polite” basis. In the name of}

is the time to apply that wisdom, ’

us more if we junk the “polite” theory of international

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PEOPLE ON THE MOVE EN states will lose in the number of their Representatives in Congress, and eight other states will gain, as the result of the 1940 census. Indiana will lose one consional seat. : Be The first thing Washington thinks about is that certain Congressmen are going to lose their jobs. But how unimportant that seems when we look back over the decade that has just passed, and consider the millions upon millions of private American citizens who lost their jobs, their farms, their homes. | This small redistribution of Corigressmen will take place largely because those millions of private citizens had to pull up stakes and go elsewhere in search of new jobs, opportunities and homes. ™ : The mass migrations of a restless decade, and the minor consequence of a few shifts of seats in the House of Representatives, are part of the story of a changing Amer. ica. Come to think of it, the story of America in a way always has been the story of people on the move—starting when John Smith’s ragged band sailed up the James River and the hungry Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock. Probably many of the “Okies” who recently moved from the Dust Bowl to California, if they could trace their genealogies, could claim membership in the descendants of the Mayflower and the F, F. V. fei Si At least the early and the latfer-day migrants had in common the same great quality of git-up-and-go.

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CAESAR'SLUCK = AESAR seems to be drawing nothing but low cards. * He jumped on France when it looked as if the war was practically over. And yet British fleets still sweep “our sea.” : : ak He grabbed. British Somaliland. That must be thin comforb to his armies in Ethiopia, cut off completely from Rome supplies. | : : : He launched a grandiose advance across the sands toward Egypt. But his Marshal Graziani went so far and no farther. Suez and Alexandria are still bossed from London, not from Rome, His latest bid for “a. place in the sun” has strewn the sunless Balkan mountainsides with the corpses of countless humble Italians. And still the Greeks press on, threatening the Albanian oil supply of oil-famished Italy. The air arm of the despised British Navy played bull-in-the-China-shop 3t Taranto, leaving his warships atilt all over the place. En er In his rage he “accepted the resignations” of old Marshal Badoglio, the conqueror of Ethiopia, as chief of staff, and of the governor of the Dodecanese Islands, and others. He lost a couple of generals in an airplane crash. He found it necessary to make his people eat less spaghetti—a hideous deprivation to Italians. Worst, perhaps, of all, he saw his troops driven out of the Albanian city he so recently renamed for daughter Edda, whose acid tongue is not likely to let-him forget this humiliation. And now it is said that a pal who has been sitting on his hands in Berlin is sending out ‘peace feelers, trying to inspire a Turkish move to settle the Greek-Italian war. Et tu, Adqlfo?

JUDGE WHITE'S REAPPOINTMENT . N view of the widespread recommendations for his reappointment, it is not surprising that Governor Townsend has named Judge D. V. White for another four-year term on the Municipal Bench. : Judge White has served in this post since 1925. He is able, popular and generally well regarded. Governor Townsend’s choice seems to us a good one. : :

BRITISH COLLATERAL? WHY NOT? . A LTHOUGH, officials said, it is not ordinarily polite for sovereign governments to ask collateral when lending money to each other, the collateral question is very live in the United States with reference to Great Britain.” That, from a dispatch having to do with the conversations about loans and credits between our Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau and Sir Frederick Phillips, Undersecretary of the British Treasury. It raises another study mn realism on the whole subject of war loans. We don’t know just where the polite tradition started or how long it-has been going on. But we believe it should be ended. It’s loaded with ill will both for the lender and the borrower. We made one elaborate Beau Geste with our bankroll in the last war, and thén became Uncle Shylock. We stayed Shylock until. the, wheel ‘of history turned to where again we are greatly needed. But we will go through the same dreary cycle once more if this time we let sentiment and grand gestures, instead of realism, prevail. The hangover headache will be just as severe. o The best way in the long haul to maintain good rela~ tions between the English-speaking cousins is to deal as

vate life. There is nothing sacrosanct about sovereignty. England owns’ things we need and can use. She may run shy on dollar credits but not on assets. Bermuda and

She still owes us around five

common sense,

‘why shouldn't the collateral question be a live one? |

5.8 | . If there is any wisdom whatsoever in all the adages | about burned fingers. and benefiting from experience, now |

We will like the English better and they will respect

finance. a Until our own tax collectors, dealing with qur own citizens, are willing to operate on an “oh-it’s-nothing-at-all-don’t-mention-it” basis, come the Ides of March, let’s not,

Re-election of Browne ¥o. High Office Nullifies A. F. of L, Action

Orleans convention, not only nullifies the fake disS avowal of gangsterism adopted: by the meeting, but warns labor that ‘the hoodlums are strong enough to defy the other leaders and the rank and file, Er The national convention of the A, F. of L. didn't" dare throw them out, Indeed, before the question ever went to floor, Joe Fay of the New Jersey mob of labor racketeers slugged. Dave Du- - binsky . for proposing such- a “lousy” item of. legislation.

that sectioh of the report of the executive council which said, “we disavow racketeer- | ing, gangsterism and disregard for law,” because gangster Browne was one of the signatories of that pious fraud on the rank and file, and every. other member of the council, including William Green, ‘the president, knew all about Browne. Green had upheld one of Browne's gangster appointees in an open-and-shut case in St. Louis in which he ordered the Central Trades Assembly to

of a vicious racketeer. : J 2 ”

REEN has urged unions to conduct their affairs lawfully, and has even called on public prosecutors to do their solemn duty. But in this case the St. Louis Circuit Court and the Court of Appeals had overthrown Browne’s gangster pal in an effort to emancipate the victimized American workers, and still Green used his official authority as the highest officer in the federation to uphold the criminal. Green overruled the courts.

Do you think I would say this if I couldn’t prove it? Wouldn't Green deny it if he could?_ At the same convéntion in New Orleans Joe Moreschi, the president of the Common Laborers’ Union, which has not held a national convention in 30 years, reduced the maximum initiation fee: from

the fee would be dropped to $2, on national defense

sition to demand anything of any American desiring to work on a Government project in the rearmament program. This union has absolutely no standing in view of the fact that for many years Mike Carrozzo, an oldtime handy man around the 22d St. levee district in Chicago, held a sheaf of local charters and, at the expense of the rank and file, acquired wealth so fast that he was able to maintain two country estates and, on one of them, a herd of thoroughbred racing stock. tJ ” o

T is amazing that the decent, conscientious national figures of the A. F. of L., of whom I still insist there are a few, were so far gone morally that they could permit themselves to sit through the sessions at New Orleans and not even peep, much less fight, to delouse the organization and the cause which some of them joined in their youth as crusaders ‘for the worker. Even the best that Dubinsky and his delegation’ could do when Browne’s name came up for re,election was to refrain from voting. ! Meanwhile, however, the fight goes on in the public courts in actions brought by public officers and courageous individuals, most of them employers. Tom Dewey, in New York, continues quietly to mow in the crooks whom the A. F. of L. tolerates and, for his independent courage, is named as an enemy of labor by men in the labor movement who themselves should be thrown out in disgrace for treason to their people. Here a thief, there a gunman, over yonder an allaround crook who, muscles into -industry or trade, using his union to muscle out.competitors, the gorillas are falling Before public opinion and the law, with ne help, héwever, from the A. F. of L. and very little from the terrified rank and file.

Business By John T. Flynn

Voicing a Suspicion on Eccles’ Plan To Aid Britain With a Loan

EW YORK, Dec. 9.—Men inside the Government ‘Nand representatives of England are working day and night to produce reasons why we should lend money to England. Jesse Jones says Great Britain is a good risk. But the prize package is that invented by. Marriner Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve System. . . Mr. Eccles suggested that Con gress consider a low-interest loan to Great Britain, secured by her gold and her security holdings. i Mr. Eccles of course invents a

usual, the reason is one of-those in which it turns out that we will be the principal beneficiary. ‘If we do not make England this loan, all the gold she produces~about 750 million dollars a year—will come here as it is mined. Thus it will tend to swell our gold reserves and add to the inflationary stocks of gold here. > This is a ‘singular reason. If England produces that gold, what is the chief use of it to England? To pay for purchases she makes outside of England. K

cause England will use it to buy things. her his money and take here is what will happen: : We will have a lien on the unmined goid; - That is fair enough. But as fast as the gold is mined, it becomes cash. The first year there will be 750 million dollars of this gold—solid cash—which will come out of the British mines, but which the English ‘cannot use because we will have a lien on it. Sie 2 #2 =

No what will happen to this gold—this solid bullion—this gold cash? Will it be sequestered— tied up in a bundle and held by us as a pledge for the loan? If we do that, then England will be in the pbsition of the man who went to the bank and wanted to borrow a hundred dollars and give a hundred dollars in cash for the loan. We would be holding 750 million dollars in cash as &eéurity for a loan by a country which would be paying interest on the loan—a curious thing. for a country pressed for money to be doing. _ Of course ‘there would be no sensible reason for Britain not paying the gold to us in settlement of that 'part-of‘the loan, thus reducing it and cutting the interest, since she couldn't use the gold anywhere else, -And if she did this the gold would flow in to us just as ‘swiftly as it would if we never made the loan. Its inflationary effect would be just the same. And thus Mr. Eccles’ reason for his queer invention goes up in smoke. : But may we not ask—how do weXknow England will own this gold for the next five yea It does not belong to Great Britain but to other countries—170 per cent of it in South Africa, If Germany delivers a knockout blow it is possible this is the one prize she will want, And it this the chief reason for this proposal? Is it to get us involved in a mortgage on Brit-

If we lend unmined gold as security,

So They Say—

THUMBS UP, BRITAIN! Chins up, Americal As long as men and women rededicate themselves to the

| cause of democracy, the democratic way of living

shall not perish from the earth.—Frederick Cone, vice president of the New York chapter, Sons of the

American Revolution. is %® * ®

at Harvard; the students are fat and lazy from too head of Harvard's soclology department. * :

for fear of ripping the plush, make an exception in our al dealings with those from over the seas.

Fair Enough ~~

By Westbrook Pegler ete

~ In Disowning Union: Racketeering

EW YORK, Dec. 9—~The re-election of George{ Browne, to the executive council of the Ameri-| can Federation of Labor and to the additional office | of vice president of that organization in the New|

There was. sneering humor “in ;

ignore delegates elected by a rebellious rank and file | and to seat, instead, delegates representing the faction

$50 to $25, and to promise that in some circumstances | *%

Jcannot indict a whole nation. That

reason for doing this. And as |YOU know, and then this world

it comes here, therefore, it will come here chiefly be-

ain’s gold supplies so that we will have to fight for them? 3 : af

' UNFORTUATELY, there is too much soft living | much to eat and drink.—Prof. Pitirim A. Sorokin, |

AMERICAN students are awake to the heed of the |

jobs. This might seem to be a generous and patriotic 55 gesture, but for the fact that this union is in no po- |,

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I wholly defend to

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disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—=Voligire.

SHEDS NO TEARS FOR OUR MR. PEGLER By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. Westbrook Pegler reveals-that he has brought down upon himself some choice Italian curses as a re-

sult of his recent tirade against Italian honor and courage. No doubt Mr. Pegler was amused rather than hurt by these blood-curdling invectives. Sometimes I suspect he even angles for them. In-any case, they are a logical result of some of Mr. Pegler’s inflammatory and wanton irony. . In Italy, as elsewhere, there are doubtless individuals of the highest honor and courage, and these, however few, were wronged by Mr. Pegler’s outrageous insinuations. You

is as true today as it was when Edmund Burke said it nearly two centuries ago. 8 8 = A TONGUE LASHING FOR THE TONGUE LASHERS By M. F. :

To one and all Democrats and Republicans: I've been reading the Hoosier Forum for quite some time and I never saw s0 many soreheads and mud slinging as there are. Now I ask you is that true sportsmanship and true Americans? : ~ We are-all supposed to be civilized educated people. All right, instead of fighting each other why not take the bitter with the sweet and the sweet with the bitter and make the best of it. “We all have to still live

would -be so: much better. There isn’t-any of us wants to go to war but the way people are fighting and tongue lashing. each other in the Forum is outrageous. : All you tongue lashers had better get -clean-minded before it's to late. The write-up in this Forum has been pitiful. Now let’s clean up the Forum and forget the past and live in the future since we have to and everyone be happy and do their part and prove we are true, educated, peaceful Americans. This country is too beautiful to have the people acting so crazy... . Those people should join Hitler's gang. They don't belong over here in this civilized country of ours. They don’t act like grownups to me. If they were our children fight. ing back and forth we sure would

Side Glances—By Galbraith

[and connivance of moneyed -highbinders, to capture a political party for a‘beast of burden and then carry as many as 10 states in an election under the guise of a “crusade” for righteousness, it is time to revitalize the warning that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” A rampant, free-lance Willkie as President, without a sense of responsibility or allegiance to any party, but with a static party eating out of his hand, and with his policies motivated and directed by self-centered, predatory business interests, would embody a threat of economic dictatorship more realand banal than any other danger to this democracy. Therefore, any party must rid itself of its Willkies or the people ; must rid themselves of such party. An open letter to the Police De-|Any unity embracing such evil is a

partment: Who gets the support of league with disaster.

the Police Department? The good "8 8 citizens of Indianapolis? : A WORD OF PRAISE From early morning till late at|FOR THE MACHINE AGE night, the Police are kept busy, py r, w. York. Ft. Wayne, Ind. riding around the downtown area marking automobiles for over-time parking. : ‘ Who are these terrible people who have the gall to park in the downtown business section? = Are they law-violators? Or—are they people who have come to shop, to spend their money with merchants who pay taxes? The taxes which pay the salaries of the Police Force. An entire family can come to town in one automobile but when Dad has spent 50 cents or a dollar to park his car in a garage, some child will be without a toy for Christmas. 2 Give the people of break! Step away from one of these parked cars and listen! .. .. You can hear the rattle of dice in the gambling house across the treet. A little more attention to that type of law violation might protect a home from being without a happy Christmas! -

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reprimand them or at least an educated parent would.

: Sen. A DIG AT THE POLICE FOR NO-PARKING FERVOR

By J. L. G., General Manager of a Downtown Business.

sq you and all Americans can enjoy

modern items. If it wasn’t for machinery, only the rich could afford cars, radios and what not... . As for the man you say resigned a ‘position paying $75,000 a year to be eligible for another position paying the same salary, I take it for granted you mean Wendell Willkie. Twenty-two million citizens congratulated him for the courage of giving up a job to lead a crusade, not for a job but to be your servant. If he is getting relief (farm relief) on his five farms, President Roosevelt is to.blame. He stopped tillage by paying farmers to leave their land lay idle and put more people on relief and raise commodities beyond the poor people’s pocketbook: Mr. Willkie doesn’t need a job; he is financially independent, but was willing to serve you and I and telief, : ss 8 8

CHEERED BY DENNY'S SERIES ON STARVING EUROPE By Frank Lee ; I wish to thank you for Mr. Denny’s splendid series of articles on the food problem among the

conquered people of Europe. This fs the clearest exposition I have yet seen of this extremely delicate

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2 = = MR. MILLER AGAIN! ‘CAMPAIGN’S JUST STARTED!’ By Clyde P. Miller 2 ?

No, the campaign is not over—or rather the campaign of 1944 has now begun. When a malignant, rabble rousing demagog like Willkie is able, through the devious power

time and seek a way to meet that need.—President .MacCracken ot Vassar College. bs

problem. " Undoubtedly most Americans want to help feed these starving people if they can find- a way to do it without helping Hitler. 4: Mr,: Denny's suggestion that an important: matter of timing is in- | volved: and that eventually Britain will permit: food cargoes through the blockade as she did in the firs World War gives us hope that this troublesome problem soon will he solved. age :

DOWN MEMORY TRAIL By ANNA E. YOUNG There is one kind of friend Who rates with the best; Who stands—somehow |. Apart from the rest. After knowing this friend 1] . You are better—far Though the friendship endured, |. Shall we say=—but an hour, And you feel—somehow. "Twas a friend who just stopped : Phen i given | And you hope:you have 1 “As you gained—without fail Something to take Down—Memory Trail!

DAILY THOUGHT ‘Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your

tribes, and I will make them rulers over you~~-Deuteronomy 1:13.

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‘strip our own defenses and our

In reply to Charles Burton’s arti- |i cle of ‘Dec. 4: Had you used com- |i mon sense: in your article, you would | § have written it vice versa. The ma-|} chine industry has created employ- | § ment by mass production at low cost | 3

automobiles, radios and many other | §

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It's Time to Pause and learn, if ‘We Can, just What the Facts Are Before We Finance Britain's War

rASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Why ‘can’t we be given some facts before being asked to defer or mercantile marine,

third to a half of the wealth -cres

spend ere sind’ ‘ated here ‘Christopher Columbus, to finance a

foreign war—and then get into it all across the world? . : The gallant knights of the ® round table who are so keen and - strident on our doing this to re dress the wrongs of the world are, of course, as sincere and patriotio as those who are not so keen® But does either camp have a suffi .cient basis of facts upon which to rest a reasonable judgment? ° : One set of reports says that . Germany is failing through the econdmic strangulation of the : blockade. Another says that her reserves are ample, and by mixing chemically proe

‘duced vitamins with various forms of filler and using

other ersatz materials she can continue indefinitely at least to defend her gains. :

1 comME say-that we must fight for England to pre

7 serve democracy, others that the upper hand in England is state socialism and that—win, lose or

~draw—though we may become allied in the war. with the appearance of a democracy, we-shall come out of

it married to a socialistic state in a “new world order,” which precious little resemblance to anything American. \Jf that happens, maybe the totalie tarians are right and this is a world revolution. We should know where we are going. r We are told, on the one hand, that British re sources to pay for supplies here are exhausted. On the other, this is disputed. We are told that Brit ish finances are sounder than ever and that her resources in all parts of the world are practically ine exhaustible. In the middle ground, banker Jesse Jones and orchardist Henry Morgenthau say that Britain—who already owes us and is lin default of upwards four billions and is now appirently about to ask for unlimited credit—is a “good isk.” We are told that our own security is dependent on multiplying our military and naval strength and equipment. On the other hand, it is urged that we detach the bulk of our Navy to base on Singapore, sell or give some of it away, and divert much of our airplane and other armament production abroad.

pes particular writing is neither to agree or dise

: agree with either side. It is to question the ree sponsibility of either side in bum’s- this whole ‘country to possibly fatal decisions without knowing what they are talking about. How England and France could have remained so ignorant of the land strength of Germany, I don’t know. The world is now painfully aware that they took fatal decisions without knowing facts. I only hope that we shall not follow that example. We don’t know, and I doubt whether our Governe ment knows, the facts in Britain and in Europe which we should know before we decide—and we appar ently don't know the extent of British resources here,

We don’t know, and I doubt if our Government knows

completely, the progress of our own defense. In this latter field, at least, it knows far more than it has permitted our people to know. - _- The ‘recent almost panic rush to get us, all une ready, into the war—mostly incited by people who will not fight and who have ngt shown enough facts to Justify their course—beats any hysteria in the whole of our history and that is going some. One thing at least is certain. We need total Amere Jon sesrmament and we are not getting it half fast enoug; d

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IF her current story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Adela Rogers St. John indulges in her usual flair for sorghum stuff. It’s almost too sweet to read. There are parts where the going is so sticky you feel as,if you were wading over Tr. It will be a popular piece of reporting. No doubt of that, for if there is anything Americans love it’s royalty. And when royalty and romance are linked—well, the bung is sure to pop from the mo“lasses barrel. 2 : “No little tiff, no: disillusion mars the love of Wally and Ede ward.” That fact is solemnly, even reverently, recorded by Miss St. John. It be wonderful if we could believe it. Wonderful, yet disappointing. For the thought of two mature intelligent individuals being so gooey is impossible to accept—at least for anyone who has Welckied the antics of human beings for any len oO e. : : fea And we take it-the Duke and Duchess are not divine. In fact, the most endearing thing about them is their normal reaction to abnormal situations. At a time when they were expected to behave like gods, they acted like any ordinary man and woman in love, No Jove would give up his throne for the sake of ‘a lady, ‘Only a man is capable of the deed, therefore, the one reason this couple is worth writing about is not ecause one of them was born in a king's house but because both behaved like plain folks in an emotional crisis, > : ‘ And plain folks do not live in a tiffless life after they are married. If they did it would be preity close to purgatory. Nobody doubts that there is a deep and abiding affection between the two. Nobody will say their marriage fs not successful or that they have failed to find happiness. But we cannot accept’ the notion that they are made of stuff too refined for common living. If they are, we don't care to waste our time reading about them, : Surely a man and woman who have shown such spunk as the Windsors deserve to be treated better than this—for the stories nearly all make them out to be automatons, going through a routine, or cotton« candy people, sweet but too light for real loving,

Health By Jane Stafford ne !

OYS and girls between the ages of 10 and 15 years are learning to be independent these days and some of them resent very bitterly being told by pare ents what to do or not to do. This includes advice and admonitions about diet. The “Eat your spinach—e Drink: your milk” command should be limited to babies, the odler boys and girls arn likely to feel. Most of these growing-up: children learn in school

that food is important for health and for giving

strength, endurance and poise. These lessons should be applies in their daily eating habits. Mothers’ efforts to have the pg do Ya gh Phe REIDaG RY J, food guide which g boys and girls can em=~ selves to check their own daily diets. This should foster both the feeling of independence and the formation of good diet habits that will stand by the child ; when he grows up and leaves home. The U, 8. Bureau of Home Economics suggests the foll guide to a good daily diet for any growing boy or girl: = | MILK (1% Pins 10] quar), bd add BUTER (1 to . ; Ss Tal - FRUITS AND VEGETABLES (4 to § servings). (Interchangeable to some extent.) A good balance is: = Sa One serving potato, - LTE One serving citrus fruit, tomatoes, or raw. One serving green or yellow colored vegetable, Two additional servings—fruits or tables ; (Emphasize green or yellow kinds.) . - WHOLE-GRAIN BREAD OR CEREALS (1 to 2

EGGS, MEAT, FISH, CHEESE, OR PEAB (2 gs). A