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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1040 CHURCHILL TO THE ROMANS

TALIANS are emotional and especially susceptible to]

oratory. All history tells that. And Winston Churchill knows it. The world’s greatest living orator, he played on that national trait yesterday ‘in the hope that he might move, as did Mark Antony, “the stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.” : : In light of all now going on in Africa, Albania and elsewhere, that very thing might happen. The latter-day “and synthetic Caesar may end up about as popular with the ~multitude as did Brutus after Antony got through with him in their oratorical contest. Anyway, we'd hate to be in Mussolini's spot right now, for Churchill has all the art that made the Roman citizens turn on the Brutus they had cheered only afew minutes before any cry “Revenge! Burn! Fire! Slay!” As very pertinent to possible developments following Churchill’s bold venture, we recommend a re-reading of that portion of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” which pictures the reactions of an Italian populace to just such oratorical expertness as Winston Churchill's radio address to the Romans of 1940. : If there is anything in the turn-over-in-the-grave tradition, both Brutus and Antony are even now tossing in . jealousy. :

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3500 SAD CHRISTMASES AST year there were 3500 homes in the United States where sadness reigned, not because of deep-seated conditions not easily remedied. These were homes that should have been happy. But they were darkened by 3500 traffic deaths in the Christmas month. This year let us try to keep many of these homes alight. ~ We can do it by using caution and Christian forbearance on the road. If you're taking a Christmas trip, remember that winter weather is tricky; start in plenty of time so that if you run into bad weather you won’t have to hurry. If you drink at Christmas parties, don’t drive.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

We Don't Have to Like: the British To Realize They Are Fighting Our Fight and to Admire and Help Them

EW YORK, Dec. 24.—Tt is pretty silly to argue the proposition that the British people do or don’t. love the Americans or vice versa, and I would be willing to concede that they hate us, and that this feeling is mutual to get at the only question that matters in our -present problem which is whether they are fighting our enemy. . Often on a ball club there are men who detest one another and don’t speak in the clubhouse, on the trains or in. the hotels and speak no more than they have to when they are on the field, But they co-operate in the ball games, because each man has to play his best to hold his own job, and if. the ¢lub is in the running for a pennant any little failure by. one of them impairs the chances of all to catch a bonus of several thousand dollars out of the players’ pool. . Sie There is no particular reason why we should love the British, and anyone who thinks they have no reason to dislike us must have been 'way off somewhere during the late campaign when we were telling qurselves and the world some very unpleasant truths, but | truths, about ourselves. If you take your own word for it we are not so hot, either,

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UT whether or not we are fond of the British in the, so to speak, personal sense, they certainly do deserve the admiration of anyone who respects bravery. I doubt that any other people in the world, including the Germans, would have stood up under the intimate hammering that the British have endured since. Hitler cleared his enemies out of France and went to work on their homes. I think New York would have panicked very quickly under the same kind of punishment. I would expect Chicago to be much tougher. . Aside from the effusiveness of the French, who never seemed to me to be at all sincere, no people really loves the Americans, but we are always getting crushes on others, and we seem to think that we have to kid ourselves into a romantic state about an ally or partner before we can co-operate effectively. In that respect we are perpetual sophomores, and consequently we are always fetching deep sighs and burning the gal’s picture in the grate. No other nation in the werld has reached into its pockets for dough and into the larder for hams and canned goods tc tush help to stricken sister nations as often as we

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His Tail Caught in the Wringer!

have, We even get into fights with ourselves about this impulse as, for example, now when we are having a domestic spat over the proposal that we should undertake to feed the millions of captives who face hunger and perhaps famine for no fault of ours but only because those incurable and incorrigible disturbers of the world’s peace, the Germans, started a world war for the second time in a quarter of a century.

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

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UT when did the people of any foreign country ever do the like of that for us? They may send us a telegram of condolence in the case of an extreme disaster, but the odds are that it will come collect at that. : Of course, the British don’t love us, and it would

ford’s

PREFERS VITAMINS LEFT IN FLOUR By Freader

Thnk you for Dr. Jane Stafarticle “Third of U. 8S.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious tontroversies excluded, Make

CONTENDS ORGANIZATION WORKERS’ CHIEF HOPE

By Arthur Scott, President Indi Local uy t anapolis

* There is a type whose reactionary and misleading counsel to laboring

Gen. Johnson Says—

| Some Now Being Called 'Appeasers' Were the First to Call Attention | To America's Failure to Rearm

"ASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Has the witch hunt : ‘actually begun? I haven't heard it, but several letters and telegrams inform me that a conspicuous radio news commentator is warning the public to “watch carefully” members of the Keep-Out-of-War il Committees because they are “api peasers” and “are trying to make us afraid.” . Gen. Bob Wood, who was honored by Congress for his work in helping fo build the Panama - Canal and brought back from an important post in France in the A. E FP. to spark’ the American war production effort as quartermaster general, is being put ‘on the pan. Col. Charles Lindbergh, who brought home the greatest “honors American aviation ever : J knew, and who first jolted Amer lcan and British complacency by revealing the tre mendous hidden powers of German air armament, is now under the wand of the professional witch finders,

WEiat goes on here? Most of the people who want to dress up Uncle Same as‘ something more canny than his old role as the world’s prize fat boy with the bag of candy in a world of dead end urchins, awake long before these tardy tom-tom beaters were even sware that there was a vast, sinister and growing danger in the world,

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GQOME of them had been hammering at the inex ‘clisable indolence of England, the equivocal horse trading of France and, above all, the spineless ine activity of America, long before the “cloud no bigger than ‘a man’s hand” became a thunderhead and began to belch lightning. All of them are, and have long heen, for all-out defense of this country. All are against hysterical dissipation of it. Who speaks for Aimerica—they or their critics? If they were so much more nearly right before, maybe they are more nearly right now, when they question whether we should rush headlong into a gun fight with our gun not even loaded and, as a first act, give away our guns. : . « Our greatest lack right now is Will Rogers, who said: “America never lost a war or won a conference. We can wonder what he would say about “let’s take the silly fool dollar mark from aid to Britain.” : From how many billions have we taken the “silly fool dollar mark” for foreigners it would be hard to say. We took them off from the bill we footed for the last World War to a present total, with interest of about 14 billions.

OD alone knows to what extent we took it off in ‘defaulted private loans to “backward and crippled rountries,” including Germany, after the war, He alio alone knows to what extent we chucked the “silly fool” dollar mark by buying the world’s gold and silver at fictitious prices, fixed by us, at from almost double to more than double their true value, produstion cost plus reasonable profit. The total cost of ;all (these incredible follies, no man can compute, -

Starving but not Hungry; Bread Revolution to Restore Vitamins.” Though it took no great courage to publish news of that ‘revolution’ after the Food Standards Committee adopted standards on flour, etc., to include added vitamins, you are to be commended still—no other newspaper in this region contained

but it runs into the fiscal stratosphere. If we get hypnotized into financing this war, ib could be doubled. If, in addition, we get into it, the sky is the limit—but there is a limit, according 40 Mr, Einstein, even to the universe. Ye:, we can take the “silly fool” dollar mark -off the wasting of our “sweetness on the desert air,” but there is one place from which we can’t take it away, We can’t take it away from the taxes on the grocery

your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

One way to bring Christmas happiness—don’t bring

> \ be foolish to say that we do or should love them, but if Christmas tragedy.

it is recognized that Adolf Hitler is our enemy, and certainly nobody is crazy enough to suggest that he is our pal, we owe it to ourselves to do everything we can to help the British. That isn’t favoring the British, although we may tell ourselves that that is the way of it just for vanity and emotional fun, It is smart doing. They do the fighting and take the bumps while we stroll down to the gym and take some exer-

people recurs in The Forum column. The best advice one of these could dish out to the millions of unemployed was for them to go into business. ‘Where to get the capital, what about the monopolies, the chain stores, the many already en-

LORD HALIFAX Fo : ORD HALIFAX, like his late predecessor at the British

Embassy in Washington, is a former man of peace who

recommended (for that very reason) as a roughage, but more recently

once thought that Hitler might be amenable to compromise and reason. . That hope must have died hard in him, for he is one of those Christians who have given more than lip segvice to the commandments of the Old Testament and to the teachings of Christ. But soon after Munich he seems to have become resigned to the inevitable. : A few days after Hitler welshed on the Munich agreement by sending his troops into Czechoslovakia (March 20, 1939), Viscount Halifax, addressing the House of Lords, expressed “profound shock” at the Fuehrer’s denial of “his own principles’—i. e., the self-determination of peoples— and in temperate language, as always, warned: “History records many atterapts to impose a domination on Europe, but all these attempts have, sooner or later, terminated in disaster for those who made them. It has never in the long run proved. possible to stamp out the spirit of free peoples. If history is any guide, the German people may yet regret the action that has been taken in their name against the people of Czechoslovakia.” War came less than half a year later. And now Winston Churchill is sparing Lord Halifax from the lofty post of Foreign Secretary to seek in America the physical means of preserving the old world’s last great haven of that “spirit of free peoples.” : The pioneering of that mission hag long since been ably done by Lord Lothian.. than his predecessor, but as a statesman profoundly devoted to the human liberties and the way of life represented in democracy, he will be welcome.

SCOTT FITZGERALD : : ANY Americans in their 40s must .feel a twinge of nostalgia as they read of the death of F. Scott Fitzgerald; and a sense of growing old, too; when they discover - that the name means little or nothing to young people today. ‘There was a time, just after the World War and through the middle 1920s, when Scott Fitzgerald's novels and short stories were the chronicle, if not also the gospel, of a generation that came of age in wartime and proceeded . after the Armistice to turn disillusion and abandon into a design for living. : As an interpreter of his times, at least one facet of his times, he was a skillful artist. But when the gin-and-flapper era faded, he seemed unable to adapt himself. At 44, when death came to him, he was still the sad young man of an almost. forgotten interlude in the history of American manners and morals.

MELLON, MORGENTHAU AND F. D. R. “JT is almost grotesque to permit the present anomalous situation to continue, for as things now stand we have on the one hand a system of highly graduated Federal in- ~ come surtaxes and on the other a constantly growing volume of securities ... which are fully exempt from these surtaxes, so that taxpayers have only to buy tax-exempt securities

to make the surtaxes ineffective.” —Secretary of the Treas-.

ury Andrew W. Mellon, Dec. 21, 1922. And when he said that Andy hadn’t seen anything— either in‘ the way of “highly graduated Federal imcome surtaxes” or in regard to “a constantly growing volume” of tax-exempts. Sa ro The present Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morenthau, is making the same argament that Mr. Mellon did, and even more pointedly. If you believe that tax laws hould apply equally to all incomes “from whatever source jerived,” you should give your support to Mr. Morgenthau nd President Roosevelt in their effort to persuade Congress

pass a law forbidding future issues of ‘tax-exempt

cise and learn some holds from the professor. Then,

any item on the subject.

Lord Halifax khows us less well |’

if they be licked, we are in shape to do our own fighting, and if they win we are in a position to give them the glare when they start saying we threw them down. Is this a sordid viewpoint? life it is sordid. - Nations, all but this one, are sordid, and our emotionalism is often only a mask for sordidness, although often it comes from the heart. The British aren’t fighting Hitler for our sake. happened to be right under the gun geographically, which was their hard luck and our good luck, but judging by what Hitler seid the other day the only reason he isn’t clawing at us now is that the British

Hawever, those deeply interested in this matter feel disappointed in that the vitamins are merely added. It would have been better—and more logical—to have permitted them to remain in the flour, and related products, in the first place instead of milling the flour so highly as to destroy all the vitamins and minerals and then add what it took out. Perhaps there’s no difference to the consumer as food, but it makes a difference in price. 4 !

You bet your sweet

They just

are keeping him otherwise engaged.

Business By John T. Flynn

Wabash

Plan Revealing Plight of Railroads

EW YORK, Dec. 24.—The Wabash Railroad is one of those American carriers that have been in trouble for some time. submitted a plan that illustrates very well what is ican railroads. . Hoover was in office

wrong with Amer

. #8 LAUDS STAFFORD SERIES ON DEFENSE BREAD By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind.

The importance of Jane Stafford’s series of articles on “defense bread,” as she calls it, can hardly be overestimated. I clipped. and posted each on the bulletin board at my place of employment, which happens to be a modern wholesale bakery. Times readers who missed them should refer to them if possible, or better still, clip and save them. Millers and bakers have long been aware of the rich vitamin and mineral content of the wheat germ, but

Railroad Receivers Submit

And now its receivers have

When President He was severely criticized by Mr. seyelt because hesdid nothing about the railroads. The railroads, said 'Mr. Roosevelt, are burdened with debt. Instead of gettirig rid of the debts by liquidation, Mr. Hoover, he complained, was keeping the debts alive by making loans to the roads.* So Mr. Roosevelt demanded that the lending cease. In this he was eternally right. The railroads—or most of them— were, and are, in the position of a house that cost $10,000 to build

tain oils which quickly turned rancid, thus destroying a flour’s keeping qualities. Some three years ago, however, a way was discovered of extracting these without injuring the rest, and since then progressive bakers have been availing themselves more and more of this dietically enriched flour. But even earlier many bakers had been mixing into their doughs an odorless concentrate extracted from codliver

and now has $20,000 of mortgage on it but is only worth $5000 because it is old and in disrepair. The owner has to rent it for $30 a month because he cannot borrow any money on a rundown property so heavily loaded with debt and hence cannot compete for tenants with any of the new houses being built. This, of course, is an over-simplification of the problem, but it contains the essential truth, The roads cost a lot of money but are not worth that much now because of age, disrepair and competition, and the owner cannot do anything about bringing them up to date because the properties are so overloaded with mortgages that their credit is exhausted. :

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Ir the case of the house the ordinary rules of business and finance and law go to work on it. The property is foreclosed. Someone buys it in for what he thinks it is worth. The debt gone, the new owner can proced to paint it, put on a new roof, introduce a new Hollywood bathroom and a whoopee room in the cellar and rent it at a profit. . But most important, the new owner comes into the market for materials and labor. The process of liquidation opens up an outlet for investment money. ‘This is the great railroad problem. And the strange thing is that after criticizing Mr. Hoover justly, Mr. Roosevelt proceeded to do the same thing on a larger scale. Now in the Wabash case, here is a railroad with a capitalization of $325,269,000. The receiver proposes to rip 165 million dollars of this out-of that load. The preferred and common stocks would be practically wiped out, save that the holders would have the right, to subscribe to new preferred and common stocks, paying cash for them. This is what is needgd to be done. I have not examined the plan in detail, and of course it may be faulty for some special reasons, as, for instance, the allocation of new bonds for old ones. But in essence this is the foremost problem of American railroads. The failure to deal with this problem is the chief reason why no important investment is taking place in one of the largest areas for investment in the counry. And the reason the remedy is not being applied is because the Gdvernment has been derelict in its duty and has run out on its promises.

So They Say—

IF 1 DIDN'T THINK there will be a time when |

this country will have no unemployment, I'd quit my job.—Isador Lubin, director of statistics, Department of Labor. » $ . .

ARE TRYING fo buy days with dollars— Tru, Cor Bustacss tin on the defense

oil by a process developed at Columbia University.

The bran, or outer coat of the

wheat berry—contrary fo common opinion—is almost neglighle as a source of food material, being praetically 100 per cent undigested in the human system. It was formerly

physicians | have preferred other bulky “but less irritating foods for that purpose. Commercial bakers and millers are to be congratulated for their diligence in benefiting the public with these truly revolutionary dietic improvements. at an added cost to themselves and so little prospect of direct or immediate profit.

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» DISPUTING FLYNN oN THE INVASION THREAT By W. H Edwards, Spencer, Ind. John T. Flynn, the Wall Street writer and British hater, speaking before a large audience recently, stated that “schemes are being devised to force U. 8. into Fatal Step”; he also stated that “Not a single reputable military authority believes that Hitler or Hitler and Mussolini, nor Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, plus ‘Japan, can invade $he United States.” * oo 0 We don’t know who the “Reputable American military authority” may be who was consulted by Mr. Flynn about the danger of this country being invaded, but we do

unfortunately it also contained cer- | KnOW that many trained military

men who claim no expert knowledge can point out how and where weak spots in our coastal areas make invasion by a powerful foe a shining mark. : The danger contained to our Nation and our people in the prominence given to Mr. Flynn’s speeches and writings is ‘apparent to every real analytical thinker. Other nations which are lulled to sleep by propaganda assuring them there was no danger of invasion are now under the heel of Hitler. We of these United States make no claim to being the “Master Race,” nor are we going to doze

while others make good their claim,

of being born to rule over all other

nations and people.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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gaged in duplicate and superfluous business, the sharp competition, frequent failures—all these are blithely passed over. Such counsel can serve only to direct the worker away from that which is most vital to his interest. Honest counsel for the laboring massés directs them toward organization. Workers, by virtue of the way they get their living, are not individualists. They come together by the hundreds and earn their living in a co-operative way, works ing. socially. : ¥ They have such common intey ests as better wages, less speed better hours, improved conditions, and security, Naturally they organize, the same as do all other groups having common economit

bargaining, the right of which they

of law. The workers are sooner or

the unemployed.

Congress for humane protective and relief measures. » » ”» REGRETS ERNIE PYLE WILL WRITE ABOUT WAR Ralph J. Rurr, Standish, Mich. It is with regret that I note you have sent Ernie Pyle on a mission to Europe, to write, I assume, on things of war. In my travels about the country, now and then I have stopped to chat with folks, and during our conversation Mr. Pyle’s column would come up for comment, and these folks like myself read his articles for the comfort they inspire. If a poll was taken of his readers, I ‘am sure they would represent a cross section of the kind of folk anyone would like to have for a neighbor, but now you have taken him away from us. I read about all the articles written by the leading columnists, even to Dorothy Thonpson’s, but 1 always leave ie Pyle’s to the last, because to me it’s like taking headache pills, I know it will give me peace. Well, let us hope fate gives him a break, and, he returns safely to write again about the little things of life, that bulk so large in our daily grind..

DEAR SANTA

By MRS. WILSON E. VOYLES I'd like to have a dollie, With eyes of real bright blue, And if you don’t mind, Santa, I'd like a doll buggy too.

Of course I want a sled. And if you don’t mind, Santa, A little red doll bed.

Oh Yes! I want a pair of skates, A wagon and dishes too! Ei And if you don't mind, dear Santa, That's all I ask of you.

" DAILY THOUGHT As for God, His way is perfect:

in Him —Psalms 18:30. ab HOW OFTEN WE look upon God

our last and feeblest

to Him because we then

interests. - They demand collective |§ have won the sanction and validity | later thrown out into the ranks of | §

baske: of every housewife or the drain on the “sweat of every man who labors.” ' ; For American defense nobody even mentions the cost. - For “silly fool” dissipation of American defense to defend the British Empire all the way from the straits of Malacca to the Straits of Dover, some of us will continue to mention the cost and the folly from now on, at least until the concentration camps begin to work. :

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HIT director of the American Forum reports that. Americans generally are strong against ine volvement in war. I know that an overwhelming majority of American hers feel that way. It 1s : true of course that a number of women leaders are ] : busy at the drums. But the huniy ble, obscure women still refuse to heed the din. And from their . group occasionally rises a rebellious voice. The follo from a recent letter is typical: ; “I am very much perturbed about the present propaganda to send our boys abroad; apparently “the lessons of the last war have not been remembered by our state and national officials. ' I think it | is time for the women of the .- country to organize and tell these < gentlemen that if they fall for rt any action which might lead to sending our sons\to fight beyond the boundaries of continental United: States, such perfidy will not be for= gotter: and such officials will stand condemned and ~ repudiated by the women of this country.” They are organizing, too. In Buffalo, N. Y, a group of mothers, wives and sisters of enlisted and draft-age men have started a movement they hope will become nation-wide. “Our, boys are offered for defense only—no foreign wars,” is its slogan. Mem bers lirge women who are interested to write to five other women, asking their interest and help. As a matter of fact, the unpublicized mothers of America could keep their boys from foreign battlefields. They could do it by becoming a little noisy themselves and by refusing to be moved by the prese . sure of those who, no matter how noble and sincere their inotives may be, are hurrying the nation toward

war gnd therefore toward disaster. Unless we fight hard in opposition, frightful things can happen. Le! us remember, too, that by right of discovery and toil this country belongs to the common people. - It is theirvight to decide whether their sons shall be sacrificed again in a useless foreign crusade. This time ‘we must not follow the drums. And we will not, - if ensugh plain people can shout down the yells

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of the few misguided notables.

By Jane Stafford -

TH joyousness of the Christmas holiday season is unfortuntely all too often marred by illnesses of‘, a more or less serious nature which result from neglecl of customary health measures. We all are : likely lo get overtired from the combination of strenuous shopping expeditions and numerous parties. Diet . rules are neglected. Finally, we increase our chances: of getting colds or other infectious diseases by ing more time than usual in crowded public places, Remember that most adults need eight hours of sleep out of every twenty-four, and children need more, according to their-age. If a late evening party is in prospect, it is a good i yefore the

‘to get & nap before party. One health authority says it is br up sleep in advance than to try to 3

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Dingle and others on special diets for health temptigions to break the diet at the holiday sea. good follow ‘is to eat yo

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