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Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1940

RILEY 5551

“A BASIS OF NATIONAL UNITY”

N the one hand, William Allen White and his Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. On the other, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Gen. Robert E. Wood and their America First Committee. They seemed so far apart—so sharply and bitterly divided on the issues involving peace or war for our country —that for a while it was feared that the people choosing sides in the great debate would tear our country to pieces. But now the chief disputants are revealed as standing remarkably close together.

What a relief it is, after having read Mr. White's re-

statement of his committee’s policies, to read now the applauding concurrence of Col. Lindbergh and Gen. Wood on most of the essentials of Mr. White’s program. They have common objectives—to keep our country ou of war and to make our nation strong. ;

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Mr. White déclared that his committee ,opposes repeal of the Johnson Act, which forbids loans to defaulting foreign powers; opposes any change in the Neutrality Act which would permit American vessels to carry contraband into war zones; opposes using American warships to, convoy armament traffic across the Atlantic. i A mistaken fear that the White organization was com‘mitted to opposite policies was a primary cause for the organization of the, Lindbergh-Wood group. The effect of Mr. White’s statement: should be to dispose of these controversies. The two groups, it now seems, differ only in respect to the aid which the United States should extend fo Great Britain. Mr. White’s committee still thinks that the best defense of America lies in making available to Britain a larger portion and an increasing volume of our own armament production. The Lindbergh-Wood group still believes ‘that all of our productive capacity should be devoted primarily to supplying the needs of our own Army and Navy. ~ They are differences of degree, more than of principle.

» ” » ” Col. Lindbergh says of Mr.\White’s statement: “He offers us a basis of national unity that every American should welcome as a sjgn of growing strength among our people. : “That disagreement still exists about what aid we give to Europe is relatively unimportant. We can argue about ~that among ourselves as time passes. We can argue as Americans with divergent views, offered with mutual respect. The important thing is that we unite on the destiny of America; on Hi of building strength at home and keeping out of war abroad. In this Mr. White has given us an example of true leadership.” Here is democracy functioning, with tolerance and good will, toward the common goal of productivity, internal

strength and peace.

POT AND KETTLE

'S a sort of Christmas-Eve present, a three-judge Federal 1

District Court presented “ASCAP”’—the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers—with a kick in the pants. : Sitting in Tacoma, Wash., the court ruled that ASCAP was an illegal combination in restraint of trade, and therefore did not come into court with “clean hands” when it challenged a Washington state statute which in effect outlawed ASCAP from that commonwealth. - In the next few days, according to information which ‘4, seems to be reliable, ASCAP may enter into a “consent i" decree,” under the whip of the Justice Department, whereby it will divest itself of some of the monopolistic features of its operation. : : There is little double that in the current controversy between the radio broadcastei's and ASCAP neither side is lily-white. Each has its monopolistic aspects. And we, the yEublic, are caught in the middle. ) ~ And so we say: While the Government and the lawyers argue about. the technicalities and legalities, in Heaven's name, before the ASCAP-Radio contracts expire on New Year's Eve, driving off the air most of the tunes we love, can’t the pot and the kettle kiss and make up? Can't you boys get together?

THAT NEW RIVER CASE

TWENTY years after enactment, the licensing provisions of the Federal Water Power Act have been sustained by the United States Supreme Court. They have been a matter of controversy all of that time; for 15 years the particular case recently decided— the New River case—has been before the Federal Power Commission or the courts. At various periods it has been a major political issue. It'has been debated in Congress and in various political campaigns; officials have risen and fallen because of it. Thousands of ‘dollars have been spent in legal fees in the course of the litigation. But at last the Supreme Court has sustained the right of the Federal Government, in broad terms, to regulate hydro-electric projects built on navigable streams; to supervise their accounts, to require establishment of depreciation reserves, to require surplus set aside as amortization reserves, to regulate rates if the states involved don’t do it, and at the end of a 50-year period to recapture the project under certain conditions. And does this mean ruin for utility companies? Apparently not. The stock of Appalachian Electric Power Co., litigant in the New River case, went up on the New York Curb the day the decision was announced to 110 7-32. The decision created little stir. Thus do the burning issues of yesterday become the commonplace of today.

SPREADING OUT | “A MERICANS really are spreading out and settling.down. © Seventy-seven out of every 10,000 draftees call for gize 12 shoes. :

Ice on Wings By Maj. Al Williams

This Continues to Be the Bane Of Aviation and Little or Nothing Has Been Done About Offsetting It.

OT only does the formation of ice on an airNines wings and tail surface slow the ship down and decrease the lift of the wings, but it also causes the wings to stall at low angles. : Every pilot is first taught to beware of pulling a ship up beyond the stalling dangle (the wing angle ‘beyond which lift is first greatly depreciated and finally destroyed). The curvature and general design of the wing establish the stalling angle. Now just for the sake of exposition, assume that a heavy layer of roughly formed ice has distorted the wing curvature. The natural result is that a wing which originally stalls at an angle, of 13 degrees above zero (parallel® to the earth) may be expected to : stall at as low as nine degrees. What does this mean in terms of everyday piloting? There is a great variety of instruments in a pilot's kpit—too many of them by a long shot. But there is no instrument which indicates the angle (fore and aft) of a plane or its wings. Therefore, in this age of “instrumentitis,” the flying man is forced to depend on his “saddle® sense” to acquaint him with the exact angle at which his wings are - above or below the attitude of level wing’ position.

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SSUME that you are flying a big, heavy plane. which requires considerable altitude to regain flying speed. Your wing will not stall until you have pulled the wing up to or above the angle of 13 degrees. Now you find ice forming on your wings, bulging around the leading edges. And naturally this heavy and profane hand of Old Man Ice is undoing everything your designer-engineer accomplished. The result is that your wing is stalling (losing the “lift” necessary to maintain altitude) at a much. lower angle than 13 degrees. What angle? You don’t know. Your only expedient is to nose the ship down to gather flying speed. Something has happened to the efficiency of your wings. You know it. But you don't know how much. Your problem is simple if you are at a safe altitude. But if you are coming in for a landing and .this situation slips up on you when you are not quite as alert as you should be, real trouble is at hand. Icing cannot creep up .on you without a warning. You see its first approach. But you see only if you are alert enough to keep looking for everything.

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HE air is by no means still nor of uniform temperature. Not even the air in your room. In atmospheric and’ temperature conditions conducive to

icing, you can run through a small batch of air just |

right for icing (a fraction of a mile in diameter) which will affect the efficiency of your wings. Approaching for a landing, you will hold your speed say 25 miles per hour over stalling speed (determined by wing attitude). Iced wings wash out surplus margin in speed, and you find out too late—and too close to the ground—that you need more speed. You haven’t room below to get it by nosing the ship down, so you try for it with full engine power. We've tied a few knots in the fog’s tail—but icing is still aviation’s chief headache. :

Business By John T. Flynn

Extra Output Not Needed, Yet There Is Much Clamor for Steel Expansion

EW YORK, Dec. 26.—Throughout the business world a feverish cry is being heard—“Expand! Expand! Expand!” The cry comes from Washington. A great deal has been made out of what has been called the bogging down of national-defense pro- . duction. One reason given for this is that the plant capacity of American industry is not large enough. Therefore it must be enlarged. And as ‘a sample of the hysterical clamor for this comes the demand for a great expansion of the steel industry. . To anyone familiar ‘with American industry, the whole episode is a little disheartening. Producing defense machinery is a matter of management. It cannot possibly be carried on'in an atmosphere of hysteria. Nothing in the world can slow it up more than the creation of unnecessary plants in industries that do not need expansion. And the steel industry is an excellent example of this. Nobody knows the steel industry better than Ernest T. Weir of the National Steel Corp. He puts the case with utter clarity. ; : During the last 10 years, he says, the average yearly consumption of steel has been 36,000,000 tons. Next year the steel industry, with present expansions, will have a capacity of 85,000,000 tons. -At the present time the steel industry is running close to its capacity. But that is merely because it is filling advance orders—making steel that will not be used until many, many months from now. In other words the steel industry is actually working ahead of

other industry. No how much steel will our own defense plans A call for in the next year? Three million tons, says Mr. Weir. And the defense demands from abroad will call for 10 million tons. Why then should the steel industry be called on to increase a capacity that is already too large for the country? The bottleneck is not the steel industry. It is after the steel leaves the steel plants that it begins to slow up in half a dozen serious bottlenecks all along the line. The best way te slow it up more is to attempt to use the energies that ought to be employed widening those bottlenecks in building more plant capacity in the steel industry where it is not needed. We are faced with a great order for munitions. This order is placed with a nation that has not got a great munitions industry. The production of munitions has not bogged down. It is simply that the job of transforming an industry made to build refrigerators," locomotives, automobiles, monkey-wrenches and such things cannot be done in a day. : Very foolish men made very foolish promises about what we would do. The promises were silly when made. They ignored the facts, and this columh tried to call attention to that at the time, What has been] plain to business men and those who know something of industry is now becoming plain to the politicians. the editorial writers, the writers of poetry and plays who have been whipping up the hysteria without the feininst perception of the materials they were dealing with. >

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So They Say—

THE MAN WHO owns stocks and bonds and has a taxable income must make more sacrifices of his income in order to preserve any part of the whole.— Alf Landon, quondam G. 0. P. presidential candidate. “w

~~ PRODUCTION for defense cannot over a longrange period improve tlie basic standard of living. — Henry H. Heimann, executive manager, National Association of Credit Men. * » w ANY TIME I can get anything free from Manhattan, I'll take it.—Borough President George U. Harvey of Queens, on decision to transfer “Civic Virtue,” much’ discussed statue, to that borough. ? : » LJ] Ww

WE WILL ATTAIN no good peace aims hereafter unless we have good bomb aim now.—Hugh Dalton, British minister of economic warfare, " » *

. IN AMERICA, if one would be respected, he need only be respectable—Judge Robert N. Wilkin of

Cleveland to class of new citizens. . * i » ENOUGH'S enough.—Mrs. Pierre Riendeau, 179, Montreal, asking divorce from her 86-year-old husband of 60 years. %® » . "THE UNITED STATES is not escaping and cannot hope to escape the profound consequences to our way of life which must follow the chaos abroad. —

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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

FEARS WAR PERIL IN LOANS TO ENGLAND By S. H. Mothers, wake up! Let us not be fooled that Eng-

land’s begging for money is not repeating the 1917 debacle. As an Englishman explained to me this summer, England could have paid us back, but they considered it unnecessary as we buried so much gold. . ' Therefore, let England release the gold she has buried here, and pay as she goes. Let them give up all the property they own and pay for what they want! For God’s sake and the lives of our loved ones, let us fight against any more loans to a nation that calls us Uncle Shylock and laughs at us behind our backs. We want our sons to- live!

” 2 2 ENDING HITLER TERMED WORLD’S COMMON CAUSE By W. E. D.

Can anyone doubt that every possible help should go to England at this time? If she needs money let us tax ourselves to give it to her, for then it goes where it can be more effectively spent than elsewhere. Italy and France are scarcely issues. The one matter is Hitler's elimination. The German people, no less than the folk of other lands, have been betrayed by an unscrupulous fanatic who believes it his mission to subject Europe to his philosophy and rule. To save Europe itself, and not England alone, from the devastation of Hitlerism where it strikes strongest is the free world’s common cause. ” 2 ” TERMS BRITISH ATTITUDE

THREAT TO LABOR By a Veteran

Let us have done with hypocrisy. Gleaned from your news columns it appears that we, the people, are now confronted with the threat that if we do not immediately pay | outright for this latent surge of false prosperity that has heretofore loomed as our reward for the hysterical campaign to produce implements of destruction, the pseudo purchasers of those products which our ndtion is now geared to produce to its daily limit, will refuse to buy from us. In other words, England, admitterly with back to wall, now attempts to intimidate the American laborer with the puerile threat to his economic existence that unless

America pays herself for Britain's

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American produced weapons then Britain must cancel her orders for same. Thus is implied a threat of surrender, for England's utter dependence upon our capacity to produce for her is freely and universally admitted. Let us now remember in this critical hour that Britain's bankruptcy dates from her dehial

{of her just debts of the last war

and not from her current credit balance here which, in the event of her capitulation, would be demanded by her conqueror. tJ 2 ”

VIEW HELP FOR BRITISH AS PROTECTION FOR U. S.

By Leon E. Worthall vis The last war was to have brought a new era—an era of peace and international accord. This failed to materialize because we helped strangle the League of Nations, the only agency which might have been an effective instrument toward maintaining international stability and international peace; the only agency which might have adjusted any wrong dorie at Versailles. Since the close of the “war to end wars,” we have seen the most brazen international brigandage in the world’s history. . . . England and France were the last citadels of freedom to be attacked;

|France has already capitulated and

now England is alone, the only line

lof defense between American free-

dom: and the totalitarign state. Surely for our own safety, so that “freedom may not perish from this earth,” we should do all that it is humanly possible to help England, short of sending our boys over

|there. Any help which we may give

to make safe our own freedom is a worthy saerifice. . . . ® 2 ” PLEADS FOR TOLERANCE OF CLASHING VIEWPOINTS

By R, P. O. According to William Lemon the majority of people who wore a Willkie button are silly and childish. In that case my opinion doesn’t amount to much. This country is still free and every man or woman

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

ttle home relief?"

is entitled to their viewpoint without insulting slurs being thrown back in their faces. Mr. Lemon is entitled to his opinion but Mr. Meitzler is also entitled to his. I doubt very much if Mr. Lemon is any more qualified to run the Government than Mr. Meitzler. I know I am not. I'm not conceited enough to think so. "I may be wrong but it is my honest opinion that the masses will wake up and find that they have been asleep at the wheel. Other strong nations woke up too late. It isn’t impossible in this country... ® 8 ? Sn CRITICIZES F. B. I. ON HANDLING OF NAZIS ' By James Nor Val Quin III Felicitations to Mr. J. R. for his article, “Refugees Fighting Naziism,” We need more men with ideas pertaining to such work. It seems that every one. talks about this but never acts. Perhaps Mr. J. R. and myself should get together and combat the Nazis but no, the F. B. I. made a statement that they desire to handle it without interference by the citizens. What are they doing? placing the names of Nazis on paper and putting it (the paper) on file. Then after our plants and bridges are blown up, they may be able to find thé name of the man or men

my estimation, . . . ” 2 ” URGES DONATIONS TO WAR RELIEF GROUPS

By a Member of Commission on World Peace of the Methodist Church I note by the news commentators that ships of food are not allowed

English shipping division, yet there are many Christians who will feel that we have a duty as a nation, of Good Will to all mankind, to put into action our Good Neighbor policy toward all these perishing peoples. So for the sake of these, until the blockade is opened, any citizen who desires to do so may contribute gifts of money. The American Friends_Service committee of which most of the personnel are volunteer workers are buying food in the Mediterranean countries to feed them who need it most. For example there are many camps in Southern France that have thousands of homeless and many orphan children in them. For details write or send your contributions to. any of the following: American Friends Service Committee, 20 South 12th St., Philadelphia, Pa., or Joint Committee for European Relief, 420 Lexington Ave., Room 426, New York City, or Fellowship of Reconcilia= tion, 2929 Broadway, New York City. . i 2 2 8 WARNS REPUBLICANS ON POWER GRAB By Frank Lee I think in time the Republicans will very much regret it if they put through a program depriving the Governor's office of most of its powers. > They seem to forget that a majority of Hoosiers voted for a Democratic Governor and thercfore is as much entitled to the office as they are to theirs. The chief thing is, though, that Hoosiers will not stand for anything that will lower the dignity of the Governorship. They want an executive with power to- get things done. . ...

A THOUGHT

By ELIZABETH TROUT Out of the vast abyss of time, There ' came a precious thought to me. It hovered near me all that day, And o'er and o'er it seemed to say: Kind deeds are priceless, yet so free, Aren’t they too rare with you and me?

DAILY THOUGHT

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward 1 be great.—Luke 6:35.

LOVE an enemy {is the distinguished characteristio of a re-

night, war relief tonight—hew,

liglen which is not of man but of

| know whether Mr Murray’s plan is practical. | late Walter] Chrysler told me years ago, when this

They are

doing the dirty work. Too late in

through the war blockade by the;

"THURSDAY, DEC. 2, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

Auto Industry One Unit to Speed Plane Production Has Great Merit

increased plane production may be wrong in places, but it has at least a germ of the right idea in it." Boiled down to its bones, what he proposes is to make a single great production unit of the whole

automobile industry, instead of a cluster of competing companies. That idea was also at the center of his earlier plan to speed production by creating a control for each industry. That also is the idea of ‘treating such industry as a unit and so mobilizing each separately and thei marshaling all these great units in one combined economic regiment for defense production. : That is exactly the essence of what was done in the War In< : dustries Board in 1918. It is ex~ actly what is not being done in the Knudsen four-man production office. : . What the War Industries Board did was to res quest each) great industry to appoint a “war service” committee, which could speak and receive the Gove ernment’s instructions for the whole industry. Then there were organized in the board ‘community come mittees,” ollie for each or more industries,

r never became necessary to make this alignment and method too formal or sticky, but it was an arrangement that enabled the organization of the Government overhead to mesh with the overhead ton. trol within each industry, like the interlined fingers of your twg clasped hands. Every production problem was broken down by ine dustries and considered in joint meeting of these committees or their representatives. It. is the only quick way {o explore the productive facilities of each industry, to prevent overlapping, confusion and waste; to determine the merits of vexed questions of priority, relative effort and bottlenecks.

1 =1t created a kind of piano keyboard upon which

Federal industrial control can produce, or try to pros duce, all thie harmonies and effects of which our economic music box is capable. Indeed if you don’t have that, in view of the immense volume of material and the vast complex of American industry, you are simply fumpling in a jungle of obscurities, cross purposes and ¢livided interests, with never enough facts to decide wisely or well and with not enough controls to act with full effect, even if you could decide, :

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B= in| August, the Washington Post reported “with some severity the President refused (a press conference) to make public the industrial mobilization 'plan.” This referred to the plan under study in the War and Navy Departments for many . years—based on the War Industries Board experience, “He asked why he should make it public any more than publishing the plan of the Civil War. ‘We are working in 1940,’ he said sha , adding that he wag not interested in any old nial H Apparently not, considering that no plan at all appeared until four months later after delay had begun to thregten disaster, and that when the 1940 plan did materialize it consisted simply in setting up a new but very different “authority” and at last ene trusting it not with a plan, but a problem still re= quiring a plan. Of the technical shop-practice aspect, I don’t. The

column was seeking to stir up preparation for mass production of war planes, that something like it was possible for the automobile industry. On such probe lems, he was a genius. So is Mr. Knudsen. If he says that Mr. Murray’s shop plan has merit, we can . be sure of if. : :

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ; W J HEN Alfred Noyes, the great English poet, spoke about his art:in our small neighborhood church I had the feeling that both audience and lecturer: were part of some fantasy. : : a Surroundings and. subject matter were alien to the present, to strife and war-making and the crisp, cruel CR prose of living. Perhaps at that, very moment bombs were dropping upon Sherwood forest, about which one of Noyes’ first poems is written. Maybe the most beauti=: ful traditions of our own land were . disappearing. But under the spell of the lovely words, truth shone ever clearer. All at once: you felt serene in the conviction. that although disorder, discord” and hate were all about us, still there would always remain those spiritual virtues of which poets fil sing—beauty and love and mercy and courage and goodness and they are the only. things that matter. : As Mr. Npyes pointed out, that which is not seen. or touched i$ just as true as the factual evidences of scientific investigation. Though modern wise men’ have proved the reality of the physical world, they have not been able to disprove the reality of the spiritual one} And I think they never will. Every person, whether: he loves poefry or not, hears now and then amid the feverish din of life the poet’s voice. It comes to him at strange moments and in strange places. For a little while he is conscious that his soul’ asks a hearing, “What have|you done with me?” it seems to say.. “Have you forgotten that I, too, am a part of your, being, and that without me the body is less than, nothing?” |i ~ : ‘There has never been a time when we needed so much to listen to these voices. Not only for personal happiness, but for national well-being. Man cannot live by bread alone, and no country can survive by. the strength of military might only. Somehow wa. must recaptul’e our belief in the power of spirit over matter—and we can’t do that unless we are to hear what|the poets have to say.

Watching Your Health .

By Jane Stafford

HE day When men and women can keep their” hair from turning gray, or maybe even fromfalling out, by taking vitamin pills or eating a certain food regularly seems still to be far in the future,” though no, one would be so rash as to predict that

it will never ¢ome. Rats that turned gray or did not, according to" what vitaming they were fed or denied, started the®

exciting if wicertain promise of an anti-gray hair: vitamin. At first, scientists did not know the vitamin’ that might banish gray hair, even in rats. They only knew that rats turned gray on a certain experimental: diet, and that the gray hair turned dark again when: a concentrate of food essentials were fed. Lt Scientists are not satisfied that they have dis« covered all existing vitamins, even though the list: now outnumbers the letters of the alphabet. al” analyses and feeding riments continue in the hope of d all the vitamins and how they’ help humans and other animals to have good From such: experiments came the discovery .of an anti-gray hair vitamin or factor for original discovery, this substance in diet that darkens the hair of graying rats has been identified

tively, at leas, as pantothenic acid, which is one of: the B vitamins is said to consist of the minerals, iron, copper manganese. Qilite recently a noted vitamin reported experiments showing that pontothenic acidhas no effeet on gray hair in rats. :

of Wisconsin that a vitamin which prevents

of pure crystils. As soon available, effor, will be cal nature, | Human applications are probably siveral causes.

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