Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1940 — Page 12

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Give LAght TUESDAY, DECEMBER: -10, 1940 J

WE'RE NOT ALL FORTUNATE [T is unfortunate,

may be temporarily unemployed. Some may be unemployable for one re:

og how well he city’s industrial machine may be: bum ming. We believe that fact needs to be emphasized ‘a as githls year’s Clothe-A-Child campaign moves into the final { two weeks of its activity. 4 Some of usimiay have the feeling that with déferise tn dustries booming, there is little need for. Christmas. charity. giving. The truth is that the need is greater than ever. There are thousands of men in Indianapolis who cannot find work in our exp ding industrial plants because they lack training. It is in this group that much of the need centers: The Indian olis Times started the Clothe-A-Child movement because it believed (and we still believe) that youngsters must mot be kept down because their families are unable to proyide all that they need. Warm, new clothing means more to these little children than just plain Christmas. It means an increase in morale so that they no longer feel asha of tattered clothes iin-their schoolrooms * and so that they may concentrate on their schoolwork. Copsod 00 is actally ‘a Christmas gift that reaches beyond hristmas. You can see it in the eyes of orphans and those Foungsters : from families which “have never had a break.” : If you can, help clothe a child

- LABORS RESPONSIBILITY

PLEDGE to co-operate in “uninterrupted production in defense: “industries” is made by the Labor Advisory. Committee to the National Defense Commission. Serving: on the: committee which enunciated this sane and patriotic’ Pol cy ‘are representatives of six A. F. of L. unions, six €: I. ; unions and the four railway brotherhoods —spokesmén” for ‘workers: in such key industries as steel, coal, aircraft, ai tomobiles, textiles, building construction, machine tools and the railroads; ia The specific pledge is: No strikes in defense. industries ‘until all of the Government's. conciliation facilities have been exhausted. | In a statement elaborating on the great importance of ca tinuous production for defense needs, the committee appeared to range itself on the side of the suggestions made often lately that the Government expand its mediation facilities. One proposal is that all defense industries be brat under a mediatory system modeled after the Railway Mediation Act, which has been so success-

ful: in keeping tk e trains continuously running for many |.

~ years. This syst m—with its cooling-off periods for negotiation, mediation, fact-finding reports, and access to arbitration—is one which should succeed in other industries as well as it has on the railroads. Under such a system labor does not surrender its right to strike, yet seldom does

it resort to a w lkout. Labor's great stake in keeping the defense wheels ‘turning ‘was eloguently -expressed- by the trade-union advisory group. “Labor recognizes fully that if the democratic way of life is to be preserved and enlarged our country must prepare itself for tial defense—morally and msterially, said this committee. | “Labor knows that it is the first to be trampled under the march of dictatorship. Labor knows that if workers are to remain free men, and keep their free choices, democracy—as a living faith, as a living reality—must be equipped to meet the ft of totalitarianism, within ‘and without.”

ELECTION POST MORTEM

A FEDERAL Grand Jury in ‘Washington, D. C,, is trying to find out whether there were any violations of the Corrupt Practices Act or the Hatch Act in the recent Presidential campaign. A Senate Clomz mittee is Feported to be: engaged in a, similar inquiry. Ts ch chairman, Senator Gillette, recently estimated that arotind $20,000,000 was spent in the campaign. If true, that’s about, $14,000,000 more than the law allows— or, perhaps it would be more precise to say it is that much more than Congress intended to allow. For in passing the last Hatch Act Congress stipulated that $3,000,000 should

‘be the top-limit expenditure of a committee handling a Pres_idential candidate's .campaign. But in the recent contest.

there were several committeés and organizations, not very closely tied in with the regular Republican and Democratic

MARK FERREE

but nevertheless true, that in the best of | | times there are many individuals who need help. Some}

n or another. Widows gay need assist-|#

ance. Orphaned ehildren constitute another part of thel mang fought supéthly dishonors his comrades at the |

The list is long and the need is ever-present, no | other end: of ‘the -Axis. greatest’ military fore ‘the ‘beach and; thanks in part to their luck, most

‘attack by. the best : “important point “bania, ‘swhere the’ ndomitabics had the - initiative

‘degree and flatter-the Greeks outlandishly. And even if it be conceded “that, as it has been said, some of .those Greeks speak” with an Australian or cockney | accent, that doesn't: improve the case for fascism, |. “because - the: Fascists already have said that the

| glorified war in song and story and

S| Fair Enough’ By Westbrook Pegler . Fascist. Defenders, in Pointing to

The Feats of Their Pals in Berlin

YEW YORK, Dec. 10—The' comparison between the conduct of the Duce’s dashing indomitables in Albania and that of the British in France is not very -complimen fascism, but it has been offered by some loyal followers of Mussalini in this country

brought it up. - To start with the British. dis

that the British nation was caught flat-footed even after a year of borrowed time, and that the force

comparison with the. great German machine. The British were

never before encountered, and any | ; Italian who denies that the Ger-:

..a hopeless stand against . the © on earth the British reached

Nevertheless, a

of them were rescued. In any case they were under i r in furning now to Al-. Sgattst a *iirdiTate power.

ee.

To. compare the German army with the’ Greek army is to belittle the Germans .to an insulting

British fled contemptibly in France. Such teasoning is unwise, because it argues that the Pascists’ were doing all right until a small force of cowards joined their enemy and put them to flight. It should be remembered also that the Italians under Mussolini had been arming, marching, shoot-' ing, puffing out their cheeks, beating their chests and leaping through circles of fire and over hurdles of bayonets for 15 years. Even babies were dressed in uniforms and taught to lisp that they. were ers. Long before Hitler came to power Mussolini’s Italy. the public schools, and their aviation, which was their special boast, had fattened its vanity by shooting: barnyard: ducks in Ethiopia and Barcelona. If any nation ever prepared for conquest, subordinating all else’ to thought and talk of war and preparation for victory over weaker people, that nation was Fascist Italy.

ET, when war finally came, Mussolini feinted until the death rattle of France could be heard all over the world and then stabbed the fallen neighbor—a blow which should have hurt the Italian ‘people as much as it hurt the French. If that stroke did not: fill the Italians with.a sense of remorse and shame, then that cancels all their boasts of superior civiliza--tion and military valor. ‘The Fascists had been in Albania for two: years, They had had time to make the most: through preparations for the conquest of a small, poor and ills: armed enemy, and their sideshow wars had given them an opportunity to acquaint their soldiers with war under ‘comparatively safe conditions. ‘They did‘ not" have to start cold. But, when _it happened, the indomitahlés were chased out of a country in which they had every advantage, even abandoning the seaport “which the. Duce, in his fatuous vanity, had. named for his daughter, the wife of the boastful Count Ciano. This was not the German war machine which disgraced fascism after so many years of pot-valiant boasting. It was the army of the little Greek nation. It was not the British who fled, but the dashing nvincibles of Benito Mussolini.

Business

By John T. Flynn

What Mr. Jones Would Say if Town In Default to His Bank Asked Loan

EW YORK, Dec. 10.—Jesse Jones says England. is a good risk. Mr. Jones controls a great bank in Texas. Now let us suppose’ a Texas city’s mayor comes to him as a banker ‘and asks a loan of two million dollars. Mr. Jones, being a private banker, is interested in risks. So he asks-the mayor some questions. First he wants to know. if the town owes anybody else. The mayor shows him last year’s statement. What? says Mr. Jones. Your town already owes 33 million dollars. That’s an enormous debt. That means around $700 for every .man, woman and "child in the town of 48,000. Dear me! mutfers Mr. Jones, that isn’t very good. By the way, he asks, do you owe us anything? The mayor sputters a little and admits the town does. . But of course, suggests Banker Jones, you have been paying your interest right along. Phe mayor concedes he hasn't. Well, says Banker Jones, let me see how we stand. He calls the bookkeeper and asks what the town owes the bank. The bookkeeper says it is about four million dollars and that it hasn't paid any interest since 1933. Well, says Mr. Jones, who is a good deal aroused by this time, did you get after them? And what did they say? The bookkeeper replies that the bank’s lawyers did get after the town but that the mayor got very much insulted at being asked to pay. . In: fact, he said that you, Mr. Jones, were just an ‘old Shylock for wanting your money. At this Mr. Jones does not say “dear me!” but uses words which they have in Jexas that are a good deal more expressive. He informs the mayor in very strong termg that he admires his brass but that the bank—Private Banker Jones’ private bank—cannot consider uch. a town ‘a good risk.

= 2 ‘es HESE figures for the town, ‘the population, the

that as of March 31, 1939. She went into the red:

$5,732,000,000 this year. It will be worse next year. This would be comparable to our going into the red

British Retreats, Oily Dishonor|

and therefore may be examined | out loud. They may. be sorry they a

aster, it will be conceded- surely.

was a bow-and-arrow army by|.

attacked by methods and weapons |’

the world, which is the |

a nervous case and has a bad heart.

; to go out and beg for a living.

|family. Is this justice? . . .

THE debt are in proportion “to Britain's , finances. | With 48 million people—or 37" per cent of our popu= | lation—she owes 33 billion dollars—or rather owed |

$3,070,000,000 last year. She expects to go in the red | |

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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.

'A BOO FOR NEW DEAL’S STAND ON VETERANS By Mrs. D. B., Kokomo, Ind. I never miss reading the Forum and: myst: say that I enjoy these ‘articles, but this is my first letter

that I have read sure sounds as though the people are doing much more mud slinging than anyone on either political party did. ‘I am an. e€x-service man’s wife and I think that the way the Democratie party has treated our boys is a shame. My husband served 18 months overseas and is disabled. He was refused WPA work, but the Government claims he isn’t disabled enough to draw a pension. He. is

. Now the outcome is. that he has|-

Go to any big affair and I'll bet you will see some overseas boy trying to sell a button or some kind of novelty to make a living for his

a 8 8 CREDITS FOREIGN POLICY WITH F. D. R’S VICTORY . By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. . The theory ;that Mr. Roosevelt owes his election ‘almost entirely to reliefers and other incompetents is doubtless a soothing one fo the vanity of Willkie supporters, . -Unfortunately, however, the size ‘and distribution. of Mr. Roosevelt's’ plu-. rality give unmistakal e evidence that. <although these ‘groups indisputably played ai part, their part was not a decisive one. Most impartial * observers ered the ~President’s re-election to “the Roosevelt-Hull foreign policy,” People of all walks admire its firm= ness and decision—especially. 80 since each of its decisions, to date, has seemingly proved the right one. No better example of this could be cited than that of a few weeks ago when Japan signed the triparty pact, obviously directed at the United States. Its dire implication fell upon the world like a bomb-shell. This country answered that threat, not with indecision or retraction, but with an ominous withdrawal of her nationals from the Far. East. Japan countered with-an instant withdrawal of her claws. What else could she do, under the circumstances? Moreover, our step had been taken without: ‘inflammatory threat and . bluster, thus allowing’

and what I want to say is everyone|"

-|didate. If AI Smith had any respect

(Times roadérs 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 Sn fequest)

Japan: to back down without losing face.

s = = DOUBTING THE MERIT OF POST-ELECTION .UNITY

By Ben Wright, Clayton, Ind. How should we regard those whom we have elected to public office? .A popular conception is expressed in this quotation from “DEMANDS RESPECT FOR PRESIDENCY” in last Tuesday’s Forum. “Respect is always accorded those chosen "to public office by a free and intelligent people Iogardiess of their opinion: or policies.” I, listened to numerous’ ‘speakers for “hoth’major parties and I got the impression’ that none of ‘them had much respect; for the opposing can-

for Mr. Roosevelt or Harold Ickes for Mr. Willkie, they were able to conceal it. Now if you give the hundreds ° ‘of ‘campaign workers all over the country credit for honestly expressing: their sincere’ convictions, we must’ also give them credit for being sufficiently human to retain the same: convictions after tlection as’ before If a political leader, after careful consideration and investigation, considers an opposing candidate to be.incompetent, unfit, a foe of labor, business, the underprivileged, and the aged, and also a menace to our form of government; and so advises; the nation on Nov. 4th, I don’t-ex-pect him to say on Nov. 6th, “Now that Blank has been elected forget all the things I told you about him: We must no longer think or say those things or we won't be good Americans.” No sir—if what we have been told is. true, we can have no respect for our offse holders. If it is not true, then our leaders have lied to us and we therefore can give them no respect. Remember, this:would be true regardless of the election outcome. Our system is not conducive of respect for the seekers or winners of public office. I do not approve of rabid, partisan hatred among us voters but I think it is nore unforgivable among those

Side Glances—By Galbraith

who shape our opinions by word and pen. 2 » ” A SLAM AT HOOVER ON THE FOOD ISSUE By Harry C. Matlin : Here of late I have been reading

Jef a man whom we all know well,

and. whose name takes me back

- {ahout- nine .or ten years ago when

things were really black for the biggest majority of us, and looking for revolution on every hand due to a good majority of real Americans going hungry, losing their life savings and what little property they called home. ° Just becatise this great ‘humsnitarian and: good samaritan that he is trying’ to make himself out 10 be—in the eyes “of 8 if countries| dominated i id his. clique . to"ease|

makes a lot of noise about getting food through the English Blockade to the starving Europeans, or, we will say, to Hitler's army, because,

tries, ‘that’s right where it would ‘finally land—in the dirty German soldiers’ mess kit. ‘Being a World War Veteran, with two years overseas, through that last big fracas, makes me laugh every time I think of Hoever being a humanitarian to ‘anything but himself. If he is so kind, why didn’t he take the opportunity in 1931 and 1932 to do something for the real

it then. a 2.» 8 : PROTEST REGISTERED BY ABSENTEE VOTER By R. E. Hill I am one of the many railroad

sa I have to vote by absent ballbt. I voted in 1936 against the New Deal, but my ballot was. never sent out 3” my voting place to be a never complained about it t this year I voted by absent baliot also; my ballot had been taken:out of the envelope and replaced by a straight Democrat vote. Now I think the Election Board here at Castleton| (which is my voting place) are all ‘Jhonorable gentlemen, but I think it is about time to clean house down at the Marion County Court. House,

tampering wih a Saxpager's ballot:

| WANTS ISLANDS BovemT | FF {TO GIVE BRITISH Casu: : By K. J T.

a useful public serviee: when. he pointed out that our relations With

and ‘that some day:

‘misund _|ings may arise which would:jeo |dize our lease on those: recently

quired islands in the Atlantic. °°

and the Panama Canal. ‘We should

do’ anything their ‘situation’ then, but- now. ‘hel 2

if any food got into those coun-|.

and loyal Americans that so needed

workers that do not agree with the] New Deal, and I have never voted:

I am away from home in my Work

‘William Philip Sirmins pirtonned 2

Britain may not always be: Plassant

There is no question that ec | Ln these bases to protect our coast cities |:

War Dermat, ‘Which Pigs Been

Perfecting a Plan for 20 Years, Can't Be Blamed for Defense Delays

WV AsEmvoTon, Dec. 10.~The rearmament program is dawdling for two reasons. Government

| 1s not" organized for industrial mobilization, and

reither is industry. This is not the. fault of the War Department. This. tountry made two startling . contributions to. the art : : and science of major modern war i in 1917 and 1918. One was the selective service idea for the mobilization of man power.’ The other was the War Industries ’ Board method for mobilizing ine dustry. Neither was fished out of a hat, Both ‘were perfected through a painful period of trial and error mistake and’ correction—until, at

Almost as soon as the war was over, the War Department began a careful study of both. Few regular officers had. been included in either effort, but

| nearly all the principal actors were living and the

records and reports were copious.

Year after year, these experienced men were brought back to lecture class after class of officers in the War College and Army Industrial College on all these experiences—the underlying principles, the.

+ | blunders and triumphs, the blind alleys explored

and all the stone walls against which these ploneer had butted their heads. :

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AS a result of all these studies and Adio the War Department drew up plans for both mobili zations for major war—men and materials. Year after year, these plans were revised and carefully checked with the veterans of the earlier effort. : On the principle of industrial mobilization, of which he had directed the 1918 effort, Bernard M.

patiently helping | the War Department to perfect an adaptation of his original plan to every changing circumstance. When this emergency arrived, the War Departe

| ment was ready with plans complete almost to the

‘last comma for both selective service and the indus-

‘| trial effort.

The War Department’s draft plan was permitted to be put into effect with very few changes, but, for some reason, its equally well constructed and war tested plan for industrial mobilization was ditched. . The result is before your eyes. The draft machinery is running as. well as any such great effort could be expected to run. In industrial mobilization we are repeating by page and number and almost by date every. single blunder of 1917 and 1918. These all had _ been plotted and provided against in the War Department plan. : 2 8 8

I: is impossible. to carry on without confusion, waste ‘and delay an armament program running into billions by simply flinging it to a peace-rigged industry as a bone is tossed to a dog. It requires careful organization of both demand and supply, organization ofethe many and sometimes conflicting . Government procurement agencies, as. well as organi-

That has not been. done and that is what is the matter with ‘things. As this column has repeatedly insisted, control of price inflation is an absolute. necessity. It.can be.

estimated that such inflation since this program began will cost our country at least ‘an additional © $2,250,000,000. That is just a beginning. - 1 don't’ know how long. we are going to continue fumbling with this thing, I am not one of those who favor betting everything ‘on. Britain, but whether for our own or Britain's sake, we must provide some organization and controls to get the production of which. America -is. capa le and. to Bek it without extravagant ] : wo

column touted as: a mt from intense’ and peculiar expe myself as an expert on this oe

_ what is said here is not conjectur oy

A ‘Woman's s Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I~ tired of hearing the young: ‘insulted, They're soft; they're weak; they're *raidy cats.” So goes the wail I don’t believe it. The person who takes the trouble to become acquainted with a number of high school and college students, and who is willing to listen to their opinions, doesnt feel. that civiliza= tion will fall into. adieap: passing of the mature ga On the contrary, from the taunting # ug quicker it gets out {

i forget that. every progressive § . movement has been led, by rebels, “Most of these youngsters will ac ‘cept no idea antil it has been well examined. Even junior-high school pupils are prepared to stand up in meeting and speak their minds. They have clear-cut opinions. And college men. and. women, although they often present a frivolous front, are thinking seriously about the. strange world they are about to enter. Beneath their carefree, sophisticated, and sometimes graceless exterior exists a hard core of common sense and a burning desire to get to the bottom of these grave questions which bother us all. I believe, moreover, that the man who accuses them of cowardice doesn’t understand the m

for I think there is a law Again \of bravery. Put to the test, the majority woyld show -

true valor Just. ry Shey have siready shown a surprising amount © ependence “Naturally, life will tone down their enthusiasms. They Will, soon learn, as every generation’ has had to learn, : ‘that ‘compromises: ‘are necessary, and that good. men and women are too frail of spirit crusgdes. The struggle to.exist often depletes ; bf the most idealistic—and yet their

tof world passes away—as 8 They say 8 fiinced that the boys. and girls of 1 t make a worse one:than we did. frafd-to trust our’ Sams Getdfise u to thls

the end, they were working well, °

Baruch devoted much of his time and energy,

zation of the myriad producing agencies of industry; :

done. It hasn't been done. Already, it has been

organizations, and they operated independently in raising and spending campaign funds. Was the law thus violated, or merely avoide ? That is something for the Grand Jury

own them ou . Your editorial offers the solution, Britain needs cash. We: “need - the

16 billion dollfirs in a single year. Britain owes us more than f “billion dollars which she quit paying on in 1933 in spite-of the fact that she boasted after 1933 that she was recovering faster than we were. She has literally repudiated ‘that debt; Many financial authorities insist that Britain could not possibly pay.

N aching Your Heath e. By. Jane Stafford SERY 1a Do longer. Bniteid Yo tn young and

.|get together and decide on a 0 ‘I'The proceeds should give plenty of cash to fight Hitler, and}”

Cini of the | tions the functig

multiple campai

e be fixed at $3,000,000, or is more. motiey | adequate national campaign?" PHhose are

idential candidal

assed relentlessly—so the ‘public may ern

w much was spent by the Demoeratic. and:

ees, by their state committees, by: the illkie, by the Republicans for Roosevelt, |

used ta sake: thelr awn. sloth om b : Now they, lose thei shirts on ‘em.

{ or not is a plain matter of- fact. "She is not. Mr. | Jones :wouldn’t touch a risk like that with a.10-foot |"

‘Willkie Clubs, by the Independent: Voters | :

If she couldn’t pay that how tan she take one another

ear. this 18 to dncrease to 37% per cent. °

‘Hitler. But whether Britain is a good financial risk: le dn his bank. But he seems: willing to doit with Dads. Sam’s money. If his bank made such a-loan it would certainly lose its money. But that is all. But but countless billions besides, because we will be prac-

rom war. ya

So They. Say—

WAR ‘PRISONERS are the “forgotten men” of

hs : today. Tracy Suns, general secretary, ‘World Ali- |

ance, Y. M. C te ®

CYNIOUM which puls aside as naive and impulse to be righteous and unselfish

two billion on top of two or three billions which she 1° 4 has added since she repudiated ‘our debt? - af Sie Tiago tax rate now of 35 per cent on all com 1 = panies and individuals and: next

~ “You may sympathize with: Britain. “You ; may’ ‘hate’ 1

Af we'make this loan, we will not only lose the money | ahiwar aBd D0dRing afer, Gt ab ave 8 Jf:

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should give us added SECUINy 0 on this e. :

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of deatt ich J sul sat

greater security in veaiing £708 — - 8 a a f disease remediable by

strong. Older people, ‘even frail ones, can receive its benefits, thanks to modern developments in both surgery and. anesthesia, In fact, the Situation .

now reached the point where one surgeon, Dr. Brooks, of Vanderbilt University, De it is say that any one now in a

“fair to and satis-