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THE answer to the question “How grost is {he need?’ : : made so often to the Clothe-A-Child staff is contained ; fi the simple fact that The Indianapolis Times has beend Jl} ced to discontinue accepting applications from families .
seeking clothing for their children.
The Times sincerely regrets this step. But it must Te 1
pointed out that it would be unkind and unfair to continue | to ‘accept applications when there are already more names of children on the approved lists than can possibly be filled. * The simple taking of an application does not mean that The Times has accepted it and will clothe the children; But, unfortunately, it does mean that-hope has been kindled that
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LORD LOTHIAN NTIL events exposed the true Nature of Adolf iden 8 aspirations, the Marquess of Lothian, who died yi day in Washington, was an advocate of Ey the Chamberlain, pre-Munich sense of that now opprobrious word. In 1935, after visiting Hitler, Lord Lothian pronounced fo Fuehrer “sincere.” .Naziism, he said, was “not imperialist inthe old sense of the word.” Although as secretary to Lloyd-George Ye had beefi.one of the sub-architects of the Versailles Treaty, he deplored the postwar treatment of Germany and condoned her de-.
parture from the League of Nations. : After Germany remilitarized the Rhineland, in 1936,
he indicated sympathy for further German aspirations and
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. remarked: “If Danzig wants to rejoin Germany, it is not |.
: : worth a war to prevent it.”
In 1938 he wrote: “If another war comes, the dis
# passionate historian a hundred years hence will say not that
Germany alone was responsible for it, even if she strikes ‘the first blow, but that those who mismanaged the world between 1918 and 1937 had a large share of responsibility |
for it.” But after Hitler violated the Munich agreement by
seizing Czechoslovakia, Lord Lothian—like the late Neville Chamberlain—saw what the world was up against. Aban-
~ doning hope of a reasonable arrangement with Hitler, he |
came out for conscription.. We do not rake over the speeches of the past in order to reproach the late Ambassador. On the contrary, it seems to us that his desire to right some of the wrongs of Versailles and later was entirely admirable. The trouble was, as Lord Lothian himself indicated, that the righting of these wrongs was Stor an embittered German people grasped at Naziism“as the only escape from de-
& gradation. And once Hitler got started, there was no pro-
+ pitiating him.
88 » The mistake of Lord Lothian, and of so many of ne
“© yest of us, was. in fajling to recognize that here was not
just an honest patriot, a redresser of grievances, but a _ ruthless dictator bent on world revolution and world em-:
¢ pire.
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Once the truth was plain, Lord Lothian was a single‘minded champion of British rearmament and war. Few British posts are as important as that of Am“bassador to the United States, and few of his countrymen could have served here with such distinction. His striking plea for more American aid to Britain—
* read to the American Farm Bureau Federation by a col-
Jeague while he was on his death-bed—was a fitting end for one who served his country so well.
NO SHORT CUT ON BRITISH AID
ENRY MORGENTHAU announces that he “will never be a party” to a loan to England as long as the Jom : son Act stands. Jesse Jonesg announces that “the i one who can lend Britain money is Congress. There is no power in the RFC _to make such loans. The reason is the Neutrality Act.” Thus the two principal money men of the Administration dispose finally of any suspicions that the Government, in casting about for ways to aid England financially, might fry to short-cut Congress via loop-holes in the Johnson and Neutrality Acts. : : The Government has nde taken many ghortiof- | war” steps in England's behalf without consulting Congress, ‘most notably the destroyers-for-bases deal. From nov? on 4he legislative branch, on which the ultimate responsibility of declaring a war would fall, should be fully consulted on every proposition that might tend toward sonfronting it : ‘with that desperate responsibility. ;
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: STUFF FOR 0. HENRY
“THE story isn’t authenticated, but it’s going the voude. + and even if it isn’t’ s0 it should be preserved as fiction. For in all the record of power politics, back through’ the “centuries to the grandeur that was Greece and the glory
that was Rome—-of the Metternichs, the Machiavellis and It's a tale of
the Richelieus—there is no better material. ‘not just the double-eross, but the double-double. : As it goes, it seems that Mussolini thought he had Metaxas bribed. The asking price had been 50 million dol- | lars but II Duce chiseled it down to 20 million. 5 The idea was to ‘attain a pushover, a super-Quisling, ‘a grand entrance and no fight; a pompous and full:dress conquest: without risk of life or limb; a fifth column job that wotild make Hitler's capture of Norway, the low” countries and France seem amateur stuff by. comparison. As. the story continues, Metaxas took the 20 million,
pent it on armaments, and used them on the invading
$aians. Hence the debacle.
““Weyearn for an O. Henry to whip hi short story inte] the
Fair Enough
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words which should snap the spell. ‘the Geri man point of view they were ‘much bett
why the. Nazifted brutal, treacherous to be ‘found in ‘his
tio has + any right licts with any inferest iy. That has ‘been 8d: “In the attacks on
re onliterstea ih, so to speak, mo: : of the Nasi spirit nucly in ‘these actions, but the expression of to unwittingly given in Hitler's speech to his ay will show a loss. In that addtess Hitler: wis unable to -imagine thai; the ptople of the United States might be ca puble of patriotic ¢ be due to anyt but that which he would call civic degencracy and fear. of Hitler. He certainly must_have heen advised that, from a state of alarm ‘last spring, the Americans. hed spun off into a domeéstie spat over the: too total which monopolized their interest to the almost tota neglect of the menace of Adolf Hitler, , Be,
election over, iA Americans ul dawdled in ‘the throes af an awful political hangover, A comparative few young:men went off fo military camps, ‘somé of which were ‘unprepared fo house
-’| them decently; the two big:labor organizations met 4 in rival benventions to | armament |
‘sneers, the re« orogram bogged down and the President of the Unitod States found conditions so relaxed that he could crank up a warship and go Off on a cruise. A. more favorible pe: bg ‘tom Hitler's standpoint, it would be impossible to imagine, for it is not denied that this nation niust be Britain's arsenal, shipyard and farm, not some time put now. Hitler realized this better than. the Americans, who had begun fo mumble agai about Britain's eld sins ‘against ‘Ireland and the was thé enemy of the United States, (Charles Lindbergh Had said that we could live on friemdly terms with Hitler victorious, and there were
but for the innate evil of a predatory, breed whose historic brutality is so wholly packaged in the, gharacter of one man this nation might have “snoozed on. The time. -was ripe to let the Americans’ drowse, but Hitler,” fortunately, took this hour fo declare that, contrafy to his past preaching, ‘this was a war against capitalism, a war between two worlds, two philosophies, his and ours, naming the United’ States. e 8
OD ‘the struggles iri Joris Bolshevism, that ») shrieking fraud, becomes openly, at last a war of German bolshevism against she only system under which freedom exists. And from Hitler comes the admission that amy means, even ‘that bolshevism which he reviled for years, is legitimate to serve -the brutal aspirations of a killer nation. The right to live, of which he spoke, is a right of Germans only, not of Czechs or Belgians, Danes, Norwegians, or Poles, and any wrong done in the name of ‘Germany is right, because the super-race of chosen people alone of all the world have rights, ' Every foul -and. stealthy attribute formerly imputed to that useful old goblin, world Jewry, is. discovered now at work in the interests of world Germendom. Americans are put on notice that the American world, the American philosophy, must go; because ‘they interfere with the German right.. This warning has been sounded before, but never soopenly by Hitler, who obviously must feel that by now the American nation is too far gone in sloth, corruption and internal rancor to he capable of resistance. This wasn’t mere recklessness on Hitler's part. It was the spirit of the German nation expressing again its determination to rule a worls of sub-human slaves.
Business
By John T. Flynn
British Seeking U. S. Entry Into War In Order to Speed Up Production
EW YORK, Dec. 13.—The lines of the drive to incfease American participation in the GermanBritish war are becoming clear. America Is at this moment In the grip of one of the most gigantic propaganda drives in her history. And here is the line. It has been said for a long time that Britain did not want America in the war—that she did not need men, but only materials. If America went into the war Britain feared . that America ‘would immediately command s6 much of her produc- * tion for herself that England’s share would be smaller. But now a new situation has developed. It grows out of two factors. First, the damage that has been done to British shipping and to British production by the German air and submarine attacks is fester than had been supposed in’ this country. It is so great that England's position is now -serious and she must get more war equipment, more guns, more planes, more ships from us if she is to avoid an early peace settlemefit. On .the other hand American production is not: moving as fast as was hoped. In this respect the rather unguarded, even foolish, big talk of various American politicians led both Britain and her American agents to suppose that the supplies would be great. In the last week numerous magazines and news-' papers. haye broken out with stories of the lag, the widespread lag, in production. It is not precisely a lag. It is the inevitable pace of -a free , business system attempting to gear itself to a sudden change in production, in proqugts and in’ pace. 8 ] NGLISH leaders ~ et that the ‘only way to is for America to declare war. Instantly the vast war powers of the President will be involved. He will become a virtual dictator. He and the Army can then tell any auto or steel company or any factory or any mine or any labor union what to do, what riot to do. In other words, Britain wants America to. pe turned into an arsenal for providing war supplies for England. At the same time she will get the American Navy, and the use of American ships to transport. food and army equipment, and American warships to convoy them; and she will not have to pay for these things, since America, being in the war, will pay for *%hem herself. She will not have to part with her colonies or even borrow any money. ‘This is the direction that the organized and well-
taking. And there are certain agents who believe that this country can ‘months at the most.
So They Say—
TO BE CAUGHT by a raid when you're in the _bath-tubh is completely awful.—Eric Sevareid, forelsn ‘correspendent, in Cutrent History. : :
WE FUTURISTS rete the deeds of war to the ‘deeds of peace, and therefore we are very happy in ‘the atmosphere of Mussolini's war. —Filippp Tommaso Marinett!, Italian Futurist poet (64 years old),
_vantage of the quadrennial, madness of the B : ria Americans, but, though we lost precious time | nh anid our resolution wabbled, Hitler has now said the | |S5=
left unsaid. To us| “be a kick in the §
fort or that their lethargy could |
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those who clutched at that hope, toe. So, altogether, |
make America produce all that England wants |
financed propaganda of the British Government is now | ! brought into the war within two |
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LAUDING MORGENTHAU . ON BOND PROPOSAL By K. 8. C. x:
Secretary Morgenthau is to be commended for his attempt to do away with the evil of tax-exemp} bonds. It may very well be that this issue will not cotnmand the low interest rate heretofore enjoyed, but if it succeeds in‘ driving‘ other money into more productive activity it will certainly be worth while,
2 8 ~ PREDICTS BRITISH MAY SUE FOR PEACE By Observer
Well it looks pretty ‘certain now that England stands at the cross roads. Either we give them more help: and plenty of ‘it or they go down, For my part I'm all for “doing what we ean—short of war. But it looks as if we've already reached that point. It wouldn't surprise me to see the Brifish willing to accept a negotiated peace very soon. Having practically knocked Italy out of the war they should come off with most of their empire intact by favoring an armistice now. But if they wait it may be too late. =
" 5 » NEWCOMER SUGGESTS TRAFFIC LIGHT CHANGES
By OC. E. 8tasz ; { As a newcomer to your city, after having lived the last four years in other larger cities, including New York, may I present my views on your traffic accident problem. "1. Traffic lights should be placed] where they can be directly seen without looking around for them. Some of your lights are on a safety zone stanchion, some: before a street intersection, some after a street intersection, and distracting to a stranger driving.at night. A standardized method of placing. traffic signals should be followed. 2. Traffic lights should ‘not be placed in such a position that they are in the line of vision of illuminated advertising signs, especially red neon signs. Suggested solutions would be: a. Move traffic lights toward the
1center -of _the street, or
b. Prohibit erection of red neon signs where they interfere with the visibility of the traffic light, or c.. Install larger bulbs in the traffic lights so that they will be bright er, than the interfering signs. 3. Install larger bulbs or sun light
la trafic signal is indicating stop or
- {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.) ’
shields on traffic lights on FastWest streets. It is often impossible during the daytime to determine if
go or ‘is not in operation. 4. The timing cycle of the traffic [signals here is the most absurd I have ever seen. The caution light should be on long enough so that a. pedestrian: who is caught; in the middle of the street on a signal change can WALK to the nearest curb before the cross flow traffic. starts. The go signal should be on long enough so that a dozen, instead of as at present two to four, ears can cross the intersection before the signal changes. It is my opinion that improper traffic signal timing is the major impediment to: the free flow of traffic during rush hours in this city. 5. Some intersections have stop signs on one of the streets, others have none at all. Either all intersections should have a stop sign on one of the streets or none of the intersections should have stop signs. . » 2 ” = VICTIM'S MOTHER PROTESTS RELEASE OF 10ZZO
By Mry, Virgil E, Disher .The murder and. carnage occurring in Europe at the present time has a tendency to lessen the value of human life in America today. The shooting to death of my 16-year-old son by a ... tavern owner . . . may not seem deplorable, except to me, his mother. However, many honorable judges in the State of Indiana have refused bail when one has been indicted by the Grand Jury for first degree murder, perhaps with. the conviction that he who kills . . . should be incarcerated until time for trial, but perhaps they were old-fashipned and not in tune with the stream-lined justice of today. . . . ’ I loved my boy. I miss him. do not want to be vindictive. I only want others fo be spared. : . . ’ I do not criticize the Judge for what he has done. I only think it is fair to me, fair to the public, and
fair to himself, to make a public
of this soupuy do not understand either the size of Tess of the def.
Side Glances—By Galbraith
statement showing where
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the Grand Jury of Marion County acted on insufficient evidence in indicting Mr, Iozzo and where the presumption of guilt was not strong, I pray that the courts of law: in Marion County keep faith with all} the people, poor and rich alike, s0 we the people may maintain our faith in the courts of justice. - 2 8 = 5 A COMPLAINT ON RELIEF IN WAYNE TOWNSHIP By Mrs, 8. Wilson I would like the taxpayers to know a little of the truth about the relief money that the state is spending, The people who are sick or too old to get jobs are forced to live on relief but they are not to blame because so much money is spent, Now for a few facts. A ton of coal is supposed to last a family a month if the family has one room or five or six to heat.. By a ton of coal I mean 2000 pounds. Buf relief coal conies 1500 pounds to a ton. And these houses paupers live in are as open ag a corn crib, At the store if is same. Everything is just a lit higher. Never a sale on anythin and a pauper must stand aside an allow others to be waited on firs Families on WPA get most of th
They sure live the life of Riley. One family I can tell you about
now gets basket relief and works every day on a truck. Some joke: If you want proof let me know. Wayne Township needs cleaning up more than Cenfer did. People who really need help never get anything. I can also give proof of this. Just come out some day and go up the alleys and see the waste surplus food by the basketfull that is dumped ‘out for the ash men to haul away. And yet others go hungry because three dollars doesn’t buy enough to feed a family. ¢. ‘2 = ® BLAMES HITLER'S RISE . TO DEFEAT OF LEAGUE By Old-Timer Unless help comes pretty soon from some quarter it looks very much as if the British will be conquered. If this happens the United States will stand alone, practically at the mercy of the dictaters. It is very doubtful that we can re-arm in time to ‘make ourselves a first class power. All this can be biamed to the-de-feat of the League of Nations, particularly ‘Article. X of that doc-
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If. the U, S. had entered ‘the league and if it had been kept no military * power : ceuld dominate the rest of the world as
| Germany has done.
Looks as: if ‘we'll have “to become |. a hermit nation—until some great power, probably Germany, sends a
us to take a place in world com-
merce. That's what. we did" with Japan.
Wht We Sidi ' TORCH BEARER
By VERNE S. MOORE ' Fe are torch bearer for the human
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surplus food. No wonder men on) WPA never look for any other work. | &
has a married son who quit two jobs |§ obtained for him by the trustee and | &
mighty fleet over here and “invites”|
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+ Morgenthau Acts Wisely § in Effort “Te End Tax-éxémpt Bonds But His «Slacker Money Remarks Won't Help
to cut “out tax-exempt agentes securities i By in the right direction, although it will be a job. ‘That kind of bond should never have been Permitted ‘In the first place. They were issued . : partly because of a fear growing out of a constitutional principle— that of the Federal Government could tax the credit of the states, or the states could tax the credit of the nation, one form of govern ment could destroy the other— and partly because tax-exempt securities have a higher market value and therefore a lower ine terest rate than tax-free securities, { That permitted state and national - Governments to “hire” their hor rowed money cheaply by insisting on their tax exemption. : That principle worked fairly well before taxes in the higher brackets of income became almost con-. fiscatory. Before that, almost all investors, figuring the relative value of fixed-income securities, balanced’ security with rate of return and made their choice between “gilt-edged industrials” and “governmentals” “on a formula that figured a flat addition to income from the tax-exemption of Government securities,
With slight exceptions, big and little investors used
the same rule. Governments probably lost no revenue at all from tax exemption because the much ‘ high.
er rate on perfectly safe industrials made enough more faxallp income to offset the loss through szemp-
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® 8 8 ATER the higher brackets of large income began to be taxed from 83 per cent to 90 per cent by all Governments, after interest rates on “indus trials” began to descend to the vanishing point and the number of perfectly safe industrials began to decline, the old formula didn’t work any mére. The tax exemption became much more valuable to big incomes. For that and other reasons, there was a great rush of all investment, and especially the money of the very rich, into tax-exempt Government seturities, All :that is a very good reason for the new. rule ‘about tax-exemption, but it is no reason at all for | Mr. Morgenthau to begin to call any money invested ‘in tax-exempt securities “slacker-money,” or to mouth meaningless words about “drafting capital because we - draft man-power.”’ The latter 1s a particularly low grade of pure
demagoguery, which is the more to be condemned be-
cause what he proposes is not “drafting” capital at all, ‘As to the former, if investing in the only kinds of securities this Government has seen fit to offer investors . is slackerism, thén Mr. Morgenthau has invented a new idea of the duties of patriotism that Hobody ever entertained before.
URING thé World. War, this Government so emphesized . the obligation to invest in tax-ex-ker if you didn’t hock everything feasible, includihg your prospect of future income; to buy them. Even soldiers at the front felt the heat on their meager pay. Ever since, and especially during Mr. Morgenthau’s term of office, vast quantities of these securities have been literally forced on the banks for the investment of the savings of all the people. Now, overnight, Mr, Morgenthai discovers. that this was “slacker money”’— which can only mean that the investors or those who managed their money were “slackers.” : , That is no formula for national unity. Of course, it wasn’t intentional. It was just ignorant, but Mr, Morgenthau’s several similar slips haven't done the defense of this country any good. He strangely reached for control of airplane production nearly two years ago. The fumbling which resulted from that is as much as anything responsible for the present inexcusable lag ‘in production, whether for Great Britain or ourselves. What our defense program needs is competence.
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
TN Europe lack of food is thé main cause of starva= tioh; in our country lack of common sense seems to
be responsible, The high percentage of draftees
| turned down by the Army on account of physical de-
fects tells & story that ought to make uncomfortable reading for us all. And every man and woman in this nation shou read it. Especially some of our leading “angels of mercy” who seem wholly concerned with bolstering democracy abroad while it is permitted to decay at home. We live in a land of plenty, Not only is food abundant, but we have plenty of doctors, dentists, ‘-oculists, public nurses and people with the kindest hearts on earth, Yet 15 per cent of. the first men called to military service were rejected because of ‘bodily ailments. Probably if we had a record of all the mental under nourishment made evident by the draft, we would be doubly horrified. We are allowing the strongest prop of democracy to rot as we pour money into aid for the complete down-and-outers, and at the same time refuse to recondition for national service those who would make first-class citizens if given a minimum of medical ‘attention. Defective eyesight or hearing, for example, cuts down individual efficiéncy. Bad tonsils or teeth, and glandular ailments, work equal havoc. ‘Children and adults in ehormous numbers are afflicted with such misfortunes. . More and more work is being ‘done by interested groups to alleviate the condition, but much more will have to be accomplished before we make a dent in the statisics. -
in ot third of U. He ds These problems: are on our doorstep. Yet v across the giobe to.rehabilifate nity,
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