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> RILEY 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1940

THE PRESIDENT’S TALK

THE President did not speak softly last night. All Americans, whether or not they share wholly the ~ sentiments he expressed, will agree on one point— We had better lose no time in whittling our big stick.

Mr. Roosevelt's declaration of policy was sweeping, in the sense that it went a long way in linking the defense of ‘America with the defense of Great Britain. But it was general, rather than specific. He indorsed none of the definite proposals that have been made for further immediate aid to Britain, such as sending our merchant vessels into war zones or convoying munitions shipments—which many Americans honestly fear would inevitably lead to active participation. Nor did he close the door to such suggestions. He just refrained from mentioning them. On another matter, we are happy to note, he was more positive in defining the limits to which our Government will go. “There is no demand for sending an American expeditionary force outside our own borders,” he said. “There is no intention by any member of your Government to send such a force. You can, therefore, nail any talk about sending armies to Europe as deliberate untruth. “Our national policy is not directed toward war. Its sole purpose is to keep war away from our country and our people.” a Right now Britain is engaged to the hilt in repelling the threat of invasion. For that purpose she needs all the weapons we can send her, but she does not need our men. If she turns back the Nazi foe, however, Britain may later on want to carry the war onto the continent for a knockout blow. But that is something-the British, greatly outnumbered, could not do without the help of a gigantic A. E. F. Mr. Roosevelt’s statement serves notice that if any such long-range reconquest of Europe is contemplated, America will not be a party to it. 2 2 ” 2 ® All Americans, we think, will applaud the President’s words of defiance in reply to the threats of Hitler, of the Nazi and Fascist press, and of the German-Italian-Japanese pact. For Americans are unanimous in their firm resolve to uphold their own national rights and interests against all challengers. There will, however, continue to be differences of opinion as to the extent of the aid we should give to Britain, and the methods we should employ. For many still draw a distinction between our own defense and Britain’s. Those questions of extent and of the methods of our aid to the beleaguered British will be debated at length by the Congress which convenes Friday. And the decisions, we hope, will be reached through traditional and constitutional processes. : But there will be no responsible dissent to the Presi- ~ dent’s patriotic call upon the American people “to put forth a mightier effort than they have ever yet made to increase our production of all the implements of defense.” “The nation expects our defense industries to continue operation without interruption by strikes or lockouts,” the President said. “It expects and insists that management and workers will reconcile their differences by voluntary or legal means, to continue to produce the supplies ~ that are so sorely needed... . “I appeal to the owners of plants—to the managers— to the workers—to our own Government employees—to put every ounce of effort into producing these munitions swWiily and without stint.” The response should be wholehearted; it must be, for thus only can we fashion our big stick.

PREPARE TO WHISTLE

PTIMISM about a peaceful settlement between the broadcasters and ASCAP has been rudely deflated. ‘ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) finally turned down the consent decree proposed by the Justic Department, under which certain allegedly monopolistic practices of the society would have been abandoned. The result of the rejection is two-fold: 1. The Justice Department announces that it will have the law on not only ASCAP but also on the NBC and CBS broadcasting chains and on ASCAP’s new-born rival, Broadcast Music, Inc. Criminal proceedings are contemplated, under the anti-trust laws. :

2. With the stroke of midnight tomorrow, herald-

ing the new year, no radio station except the relative few that have signed new contracts’ with ASCAP can use any music out of the vast collection which that society controls. ~~ We had hoped that the broadcasters and the musicmakers would get together in some reasonable compromise. That appears to be out the window. Instead, their fight will be settled the hard way, in the courts. And until the judges unravel all the complications of a very complex situation, those who like the old songs will have to get along with whistling ‘em.

WHAT EXPANSION MEANS

IRPLANE production has been disappointing to all but the most pessimistic onlookers. Most people, however, have only the sketchiest idea of what expansion in that industry means in concrete terms. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce has provided some figures which give a little insight into what expansion of an industry means. Last January it employed, the Chamber states, 60,000 shop employees. Today it has 164,920. By next June, when current expansion programs are completed, it will have 382,000. You can’t just step out on the sidewalk and hire the first man who comes along as a shop man in an airplane factory. To triple the number of skilled employees in an industry within a year, and to have laid the foundation for sextupling it within a year and a half is something. True, it is not enough. But it does not exactly indicate

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: By Westbrook Pegler

Now Definitions Are in Order, So Here's Hoping the ‘Cartoonists Recast Their Political EW YORK, Dec. 30.—A mild rebellion is in progress against the careless use of such terms Aas

“appeaser” and “interventionist,” and while the mood is up I should like to propose for oblivion some

_political stencils which have been used for years by

the cartoonists. First on the list is the symbol of capital, or the employer, consisting of a fat and fat-headed individual, feasting on rare viands and exotic delicacies at a table laden with wine bottles —to which there is ho objection, except the devastating fact that it is absurdly incorrect. John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the height of his career always pictured as the champion monster, was in reality a scrawny dyspéptic who, during most of his service as a social and political symbol in print, lived almost entirely on baby food, never touched alcohol and contributed heavily to the campaign which brought down on his fellowmen. the scourge of prohibition. s Henry Ford ‘also is a teetotaler and prohibitionists, and Sam Insull—whatever his tastes may have been, of which I have no knowledge—was a runt for size, as lean as the handle of a hoe and, in his countenance, the direct opposite of the loose-lipped, big-eyed individual whose figure appears year after year in the unimaginative and, from the editorial standpoint, generally incomplete Publications of the extreme left. ”

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not a few who command, if they do not exactly enjoy, such volume of mass hatred as these cartoons are intended to express, and I must say that those who so regard them are underestimating the enemy to a perilous extent. They are, in the main, very alert, intelligent men who drink seldom and not very much, and their appetites as to food run pretty well to steak, chops, stews and hash. They are too smart to fall into (the habit of getting drunk, and they work suaa long hours, many of them having auxiliary offices in their homes, that nervous tension makes them a little wary of unwise eating. As to most of -them, one important reason ‘why

they are bosses is that, from the very beginning, they |

drove themselves harder at their jobs and were smarter and more able and resourceful than their contempayaries in the shop or office, and an important reason why they remain bosses long after they have amassed enough wealth to last as long as they may normally expect to live is that the competitive spirit is an important part of their makeup. They like a contest and, in their later and wealthy years, find themselves less in competition with their employees than with the rivals whom they have known for a long time and delight to outsmart in business. The figure of the long-haired intellectual or radical is equally misleading and needs revision in the interests of truth. The fact is that, like the bosses, the intellectuals of this group are of no. particular physi=cal type and may be as bald as the sole of your foot and malignantly bright in sophistry.

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” HE intellectual is more-likely than the hosses to overdrink and scold the waiter about the condition of the camembert, il he likes to flay around in space, and hootch or wine gets him off the ground. He doesn’t have to get to the office in the morning, and if he doesn’t make the deadline at the butchers’ paper magazine with his 1500 words it means nothing to him to stand off the landlord or Stee his dinner tab on the spike at the basement table ote The labor leader in the square cap and with his

sleeves rolled up, revealing brawny forearms, is al-

most a total fallacy, as a glimpse at the national conventions of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. will prove, and certainly the figure known as the worker himself, also in square cap and with bare forearms, is no more typical than that of the anarchist of Communist with bushy black whiskers and a bowlingball bomb. William Z. Foster, whose standing in the revolutionary mob is to the left of Earl Browder, looks like a Toledo fly-cop, and Browder himself might be a suburban dentist and a past president of his local Kiwanis or Lions. These types need retyping if various elements among us hope to be able to recognize our favorite eriemies on sight.

Business By John T. Flynn Failure to Supply Master Plan to Tool Industry Delays Plane: Output

EW YORK, Dec. 30.—One hears various rumors about different bottlenecks in plane production. But the big bottleneck continues to be and will remain the machine-tool industry. This being 5, of course everybody jumps on the machine-tool industry. Why doesn’t it produce faster? Why has it bogged down? It hasn’t bogged down. The criticisms come from: a complete misconception of that industry. Before you can make a plane or a plane engine, you have got to have a design for the plane, After that you have got to have blueprints of the machines that will be used to make it. You cannot walk into the office of an airplane plant with blueprints of a new plane and have it made for you. It can | turn out one such plane a month or maybe a week. But it will have to work by old-fashioned individual machine methods. If you want quantity production the airplane plant will have to tell you it cannot turn out your planes at once. Before the planes can be made en masse, machines will have to be invented or designed to do the job. Therefore blueprints of the machines will have to be made. Then the machines will have to be made.

"And they cannot be made by mass-production methods.

It is necessary to understand that the machine-tool industry—save for some small parts—is not a massproduction. industry. Now, as I get it, before there can be production of planes on a mass basis this Government—or whoever wants ‘them—has got to make a master plan of the plane it ‘wants in abundance. And the machine-tool engineers of the Government have got to furnish to the machine-tool industry the plans for the machines they want. And my understanding is that the ma-chine-tool industry has been begging the Government to do this and it isn’t being done,

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Ans machine tool—a small engine which can grab a piece of metal as in a hand, while another gadget on it turns and twists it into the shape desired —can turn out such pieces of metal by the thousands every day. But that little machine-tool engine and mechanism has got to be produced first. And before it is produced the size and shape of that little piece of metal us be decided on. Before it can be decided on, the part it is to play in some large machine, such as a plane, must be settled on. When that is done a good machine-tool engineer can design quickly enough the kind of machine tool that will produce it. Then that tool will have to be made by ordinary handmachine methods. If is slow, but its slowness is compensated for by the speed with which it does its job when it is completed. American industry can make 500 planes a day as soon as the Government settles on an airplane design,

-supplies that to tool engineers, gets from them ma-

chine-tool designs, supplies these to the tooling industry, and gives them a year or so to produce the tools. Not until then.

So They Say— I SAY WITH SADNESS that there are too many potential Lavals in our own country. —Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, - o THE DIFFICULT 8 that which we can do \odap)

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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.—Voliaire.

A TIP FOR READERS ON THE NEW DEFENSE BREAD

By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind.

Doubtless many readers are asking: How can I tell whether the bread I buy is the new, vitaminrich defense bread, or ordinary bread? The answer is:! Read every word on your bread-wrapper. What you see or don’t see there will tell tell the story. And here’s something else: The new bread should cost you no more than the old! o ” ” ACCEPTS CLAPPER’S| ANALYSIS OF CRISIS By H. S. Raymond Clapper’s articles are based on a true perception of world conditions. When Mr. Clapper says, “The whole future of the world, our own future included, is staked on England during the next few weeks,” he realizes the need for immediate and generous help to Britain, It is necessary to see things as they are and not blind ourselves by wishful thinking and plod along at a pace that is too slow to keep up with the lightning speed of present day warfare. To give sufficient help to Britain now will be a safeguard fo us in the future. » » 2 | CONTENDS PEGLER CRITIC MISSED THE TARGET By W. H. Edwards, Spencer, Ind.

Tom Berling, in his criticism of Westbrook Pegler, misses the real target worse than he accuses that writer of doing. Pegler has done a service to the public in exposing the racketeering that has crept into the unions, gaining such control over honest unionism that public opinion is

orous steps to curb the idea that unions are above the law. For many years, the labor unions had the backing of public opinion; that was during the time of Samuel Gompers, when unionism was promoted by reasonable methods instead of by violent strikes and

going to force Congress to take vig-|

(Times readers 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 on request.)

terrorism. Now, under the weakkneed administration of William Green, unionism has lost the support of public opinion. Union leaders may sneer at public opinion, but the fact remains that the general public has a powerful ‘influence over Government. Sooner or later, Congress is compelled to bow to the force of public opinion. This writer—and I believe the general public as well—doesn’'t want unionism destroyed; rather we hope to keep the unions from destroying themselves. Buf remember this: The American public will not tolerate racketeering in national defense. s 2” ” DEMANDS RESPECT FOR LIQUOR LAWS By Mister X - The reaction of the United Dry Forces Association was the result of women in taverns and the selling of liquor to minors. We do not wonder why people want the return of prohibition when the public doesn’t handle its drinking with respect. Drunken driving, tavern brawls, tavern shootings, the selling of liquors to minors, and the littering of our sidewalks and streets with broken whisky bottles has gone too far. Maybe the public will co-operate with law enforcement agencies of our City, County and State if the threat of prohibition looms before them. I don’t want the return of prohibition, but I do believe in stricter observance of the law and public decency. . . .

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Shay termined} to beat my. wiob score, and by the time she ost I'll either be broke or own the bowling alleys."

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SOCIAL GAINS TERMED A HOLLOW MOCKERY By Voice in the Crowd

Highly interesting and perhaps 40 per cent correct, is Arthur Scott's writing in this column of Dec. 24. Very grave indeed are the social problems of today. For 10 years we have been trying to solve our problems by legislation and by grouping

demand consideration by means of organized pressure, and we have not only failed to solve the problem, but we have interposed a costly Government that skims the i of labor and industry to a point where so-called social gains are a hollow mockery. We have made no social gains. We

compulsory saving, whereby a percentage is taken from pay envelopes and put into a public reservoir, supposedly to remain there until it is needed, and affirmed by law rights that have always existed. Freedom in Amirica as we have known freedom looks very doubtful in the future. Too many people do not recognize freedom, too many people do not want to be free, and in our form of government, whai the majority wants determines what we Shall have. Only those people can be free

viduals and demand for themselves and the other fellow the right to live as individuals. It seems that our social problems would largely disappear if a majority of our peo-

‘|ple would solve their own problems

as individuals. If we. cannot do that we are sunk, and all of the regulative boards that could sit side by side in the District of Columbia cannot save us. We are individuals, we will be free or not be free, as the majority rules it, but all of the men in history. that desired freedom wante to be free as individuals. There is no other freedom. 2 2 8 SPEAKING A WORD FOR THE POOR PEDESTRIAN By K. T. J. | Most motorists are also pedestrians at some periods of time but you would never think so by the way they drive through the hap,

1 less individuals who are afoot.

Under the law the pedestrian has the right of way—but just try to get it in this town! A person takes his life in his hands every time he walks across some of our downtown interesections.

traffic lights that would give the pedestrian his turn to cross a street, especially at our five-point intersections? It's done elsewhere with SUCCESS. « « «

NEW YEAR RADIO By MARY P. DENNY _

I hear the radio of the New Year Sounding over field and heather Where the birds of winter gather. Sound of snow bird on the wing As the bells of New Year ring. Chirp of quail and chickadee. Gobble of the barnyard turkey. Sound of morning cocks and geese. | Drift of wind above the barn. All the voices of the farm Sound on nature's radio Over way of shining snow Through the bitter 8 and cold. Joy Bells sound out everywhere Tingle in the winter air.

DAILY THOUGHT

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased: and he that humbleth himself shall be axalted. Luke 14:11.

IF THOU wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. For-

[ons hve little and others much.

into organizations of businessmen, | farmers, labor, pensioners, etc., that

have only instituted a system of|

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Arms Production Is Lagging; I Is Badly in Need of Leadership And Only Roosevelt Can Supply It

ASHINGTON, Dec. 30—~The committee to get us into war seems to be having its own trouLo In spite of its full page advertisements at who - knows-at-what-cost or where «the - money - comes« trom its most honored, respected and trusted meme r and chairman, Willlam Allen te, has announced a position with which this writer is in en- . thusiastic agreemen aren’t coming.” On the heels of that, however, ° and at the birth of the Presi dent’s forthcoming brainchild on our position in this war, 160 of the - participant patriots and petit ers are. him to go - ‘whole.

t is hard. to pretend to say a what we ought to do about:

this. On one point there .is no. «

disagreement whatever. We ought to get ready our- | selves, no matter what may happen. We ought to get ready with armored ships, gunned to capacity and with armored divisions gunned no more lightly. ¥,

® » ” ~ E are not doing it or, to the extent that we are doing it, we are moving at a pace so slow that it is a disgrace to the American reputation for efficiency. Make no mistake about that. Our rearma=-

| ment program simply isn’t moving. Every mistake

‘and blunder of the World War's early staggering '

\steps is being repeated with what result in lost time

and squandered millions, we have yet to learn. A Congressional committee of investigation will re« veal all these things and such an investigation is invitable. That isn’t the important thing just now,

|The important thing is to get production. While this

column isn't in absolute disagreement that it should ne gotten for Britain first, it is in thorough agree--iment that it should be gotten for our own defense

ace. iP This, just now, is a matter of leadership, of in« spired leadership. While it is quite true that some«

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metallic tonnage off the production lines, it is also. true that enthusiasm, unity and the will-to-do is as . necessary as electric .power—and we simply do not . yet have that in this effort.

ss ay OME people say, that to get it, we must declare J war. That's what they told France. If war were - declared, that zip would still be necessary and it dee pends on some personality, like Horatius at the bridge,

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| like Andy Jackson at New Orleans. A declaration of war has nothing to do with it. The selection of a

man has everything to do with it.

That is up to the President and he hasn't done. . it yet. What the apparently divided committee to get us into war has to say about this won't help. As somebody has said, any kind of a board is long, wooden, narrow and full of splinters. Committees are also like that. I recently inadvertently joined one, the America First Committee. A leading mem-‘. ber, Lessing Rosenwald, has since resigned. He is . probably right. Committees will never do this job. A man will do it, and up to this writing we do not ° seem to have him—not in the advisory commission for national defense, not in the great Governmental de« ° partments, not elsewhere.. il I know the man who could do it if he is not too tired, bewildered, and torn by conflicting advice. His , name is Franklin D. Roosevelt. He hasn’t done it yet. -

A ‘Woman’ S Viewpoint _ § By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

SN'T it amazing how a baby can move right n and’: make himself at home?

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pleasant anticipation. Now at eight-and-a-half - Tonths Billy is as much a part of the family as if he had existed a patriarch’s num=ber of years. Without taking a . single lesson in the art of win-

ning friends, he has everyone _ \

courting his favor, and although he is not worried about influenc~ - ing people, there are slaves to do _ his bidding. But that isn’t the real miracle. The real miracle is that a being - “who in 1939 had not drawn. breath, now gets quickly over the . room on all fours, stands alone, makes imitative sounds and has a personality as clear-cut as a

diamond. Each day new evidence crops out that .

while he may be a composite of his' ancestors, he is. . also an individual in his own right—a fresh being un-'. touched by evil, sweet as a new-blown rose, and yet _ out of whose eyes the spirit of Old Nick sometimes ~ shines, and whose will even now rises up to batile with ours. || By that glint of eye, by that beguiling in and winsomeness we know very well that the tug of war has begun—either he bosses us or we boss him. It is an unequal struggle at best, with the betting odds on the baby. As time passes we know he will develop a - thousand cute tricks for getting his own way and that we shall invent a thousand excuses from letting himy, have it. || Tn our serious moments we sigh and say what & responsibility it is to bring up a child. But pmb underneath our seriousness something bubbles, and . tlie little chant goes on—what fun! What fun! What Whas fun! | For happily the pleasure nearly always outweighs the sense of responsibility in the ren of adults to babies. And that is as it should be. Both would hive a mournful time otherwise. | The theorists talk about how easy it is to spoil thus ruin the infant in his cradle. No doubt md are right. But I am convinced that most of: en do not own a baby. And ownership is essential ifil eT intend to get to the heart of the matter. For these professors and psychologists are generally die « cussing babies in the abstract, and you are dealing with the most unusual and wonderful of babies— your own. a

‘Watching Your Health *.

By Jane Stafford

TL Sn nik is being distal i ) through relief channels this year,

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food which nutritionists have been praising for & long time. 3 Dry skim milk has all the food value of ! milk with the exception of the fat’ and" the

A found in whole milk. It is an excellent and eco |

| nomical source of phosphorus and calcium. | these minerals, you know, are needed to build s | bories and teeth. They are needéd by other

of ‘the body, too, nor are they needed solely by. children. Adults need these minerals also. Dry skim milk contains other important =n

| Like fresh milk, it 1S a good source of protein o

efficient type, used readily by the body. . Dry also contains considerable riboflavin. This ¢ is pne of the group of B vitamins which has ‘been found important in protecting against a thiamin, vitamin vi, is iso p ent in dry milk.

For housewives who have never used dry ‘befiure, the U. S. Bureau of Home Beontmicy the following directions: “In beverages, soups, gravies, sauces and © dry skim milk combines best if it is diluted water first. Then it may be treated in the si as fluid milk. To dilute, sprinkle the dry skim ver the water—then beat until smooth. ry skim milk to four parts water (that is the milk powder to 1 cup of water bal equal in food value to fresh fluid

keej:ing quality. Properly refi tion for several Thay. covered container, keep even det if

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