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* PLEASE BE CAREFUL
" MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1941
ORE than 60,000 children in Indianapolis went back to school today. They have to cross innumerable corners
depe lent upon the sanity and care of thousands of us who |
drive automobiles.
Let's be careful if only for their sake.
RISKS
oosevelt. ese are true words.
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Let us look at some of the risks. | If we don’t supply Britain with the armament and food she needs, she might be conquered, and her navy surrend- . ‘ered. | Then we would have to defend two oceans with our
©: In supplying Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan. We:
fave their enmity already,
That is a risk we do not want to take. So ~ wé shall sacrifice every other effort to producing arms, and fg siboiving Britain with what a: we risk incurring the enmity of That is a risk we shall take.
she needs.
and we can cope with it
better if Britain, with our help, can survive.
If we put no limits
on our help to Britain, if we let]
one step lead to another, without caution or restraint, we
run the risk of getting into the war,
first with our Navy,
then with our Army. And then we might find ourselyes -engaged in a years-long struggle with the continent oi
came an exhausted. prey to ‘such as overwhelmed Russia,
other war.
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hat might go on and on until we be-
civilization-destroying forces Italy and Germany after the
That is a risk we must not take. J The only way to break the cycle of wars that breed revolutions and revolutions that breed new wars is to break J it by the decision of one great nation to make
herself so strong that she can stay out of war.
ENEMIES ON OUR SHIPS
EAMEN of the American legitimate grievances and
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Merchant Marine have had real need of strong organiza-
tion to better their conditions. That need provided oppurRe for the C. I. 0. National Maritime Union. |
| ' But here, as in other fields, Communist trouble-makers also saw a great opportunity. They have undertaken to dominate the Seamen’s Union and other C..I. O. unions of
longshoremen and radio operators. plentiful. Their efforts to undermine dis-
tivity has been
Evidence of their sc-
cipline at sea and to spread subversion provided reason for
grave concern, even in calmer times. In these times, when the Merchant
Marine is a vital
w auxiliary of national defense, such activity is intolerably
interests of labor. . fense program.
dangerous.
Realization
For the Cémmunists are not serving the real | Their prime purpose is to wreck the de-
of that fact undoubtedly is
‘behind the Washington reports that the Navy has plans to
"take over the entire Merchant Marine in time of emergency : or ‘war, replacing civilian seamen and radio operators with | be blue-jackets. 2 fo co | So we're glad that members of Congress are taking in- | terest in this situation, seeking information about the ex- |
tent qf Communist control in the maritime unions and demanding an end to such control. Rep. Dirksen of lllinois goes so far as to propose a law to bring all merchant ship
crews into the active naval emergency.”
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reserve ‘during the defense |
| We're not so sure of the wisdom of that proposal. Four years ago the Navy undertook to enroll 80,000 seamer in |
: 2 the Merchant Marine Naval Reserve. Actually, it has en:
rolled only 339. The Dirksen plan, it seems to us, might
bring into the reserve a great
group of men who don’t want
to be there, including many Communists and sympathizers whose opportunities for doing harm might be increased.
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We believe that the great majority of the 65,000 sea‘on American merchant ships are loyal to the country,
$l t they are unwilling victims of a perniciously active ‘Communist minority and that it would be a genuine service to them—as well as to the country-—to drive the Commun-
ists out of places of influence in their union. - As a logical
: first step, we applaud the request of the U. S. Maritime Commission by Rep, Keefe of Wisconsin for a full and frank i report on Communistic activity on ships under its jurisdic-
‘Such a report might well impel the C. I. O. high comaand, under the new leadership of Philip Murray, to help oyal rank-and-file members of the maritime unions in over-
rowing Communist control.
That would preserve the
unions for their real and essential purpose. If the unions do not clean house, sterner measures may become inevitable, or the American people, in our opinion, will demand that the personnel of the Merchant Msarine—to which President Roosevelt has just proposed to add 200 new vessels at a cost of $300,000,000—be freed of the influence of enemies and
saboteurs.
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BOYS AND MEN FIRST
N the movies, as in some other enterprises, they pay off.
in the box office.
The customers say Mickey
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‘ness with Spencer Tracy second, Clark Gable third and Giéne Autry fourth. Among the women, Bette Davis ranked highst, but there were eight men who drew more cash through
he ticket window.
We don’t know what this proves, unless it proves that
he movies are attended by more wives, sisters and daughby husbands, brothers and sons. Men must work:
than
en must weep or emofgptherwise, Fb
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| great ignorance of tl | gress would not have
| tive council, and tha} this big parent organization dis- | claimed both the power and the duty to clean house.
be completely honest with ourselves, we must
| union of Sidney Hillman himself vc | 111 the last election in a manner whi
‘constitutions and| their history. | not held a convention in 30 years for example, can-
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By Westbrook Pegler
Congressional Inquiry as Urged By Smith Committee Wild Be Sure To Revise Opinions on ieme Unions
NEY YORK, Jan. 6.—The most important recom- | mendation of th¢ Smith committieé of the House of Iiepresentatives which investigated {he Labor Board and the Wagner Act was the one wliich proposed a Corgressional study of the whole’ question of labor ad relations. Of couise, events may rush upon us in a storm and prevent orderly consideration, but I ara assuming, foi the moment, that it will be ‘rossible to poke along in a delibprate and sures footed way. If that is done Conguess is sure to cjiire its mind of a great many superstitions ‘concerning the structiire and practice oil unions. | It would be just as well to admit that the Wager Act, as origirally ed, wai an ‘emotional item of legislatior| which revealed tlie subject of unijns Surely Con- ; this lsw had the fact been known that professional criminils were operat ing some of the impertant unions (f the American Federation of Labor and were represented in its execu-
Congress would pot fhave taken the ‘esponsibility for driving hundreds of thousands of wo kers into unions against their will, | i IH Hi : | . = = : JT is impossible to believe that, evin in those emoLl tional days, Congress knowingly would have become a party to a deal by which unions were given |the power to intimidate workers in | public elections, and even to shake down workers gnd employers as
well for political party funds. | | || These are some pf the discoverie; that have been made since the Wagner Act was lailed as Labor's | Magna Charta, the/law which was supposed only to guarantee the right iof collective bargaining but which created abuses as bid as those which it was intended to correct. A calm inquiry would how that in the ters were coerced ch, invoked by an employer, would have landed the rgscal in jail. | It would show that a local of David Dubinsky’s union ordered its members to attend a political rally for Senator Mead of New York, inder penalty for failure. And, of course, it would prive that the Wagner Act established! a legal basis fo the operation of rackets at the expénse of the worlers, industry, the national defense and workable relations between labor and industry. | . : ‘|| To recapture thé mood of the tinie when the Wagner Act was passed it may be recalli)d that the American Federation of Labor was conimonly and carelessly regarded as ja great, voluntal’y organization of workers standing together, against \buses by the emnloyers, but still in| need of Federal backing to thwart the bosses at their dirty practices. But that was just a general impressién which made tie employers, as a dlass, appear to be a bad lot and the unions, as a class, innocent and noble groups. i i 2 a » ! : n. TOW it is plain that all employers were not cruel ; and greedy ahd that there wire some very bad men in control of} the unions, including some clever rough-and-tumble [swindlers who h:ld their power by the methods of th? grafting political boss and lacked ¢riminal records ¢nly because trajlition warned the public prosecutors to lay off the uhions. There are plerity of honest union leaders who would testify, if placed under oath to the perfidy of othér union leaders, and it would {ake no squealer to reveal, under intelligent questioning, that the two big organizations—A. I. of L. and C. I} O.—are enormous private governments with all theills and faults of public government, but in exaggerated form because they have been practically immure from public inspection and goveinmental restraint. Once the facts were revealed [Congress would be bound to adopt smendments to the Wagner Act or other legislation to abolish, rather han license, union abuses. This neec, not be a dramalic or corny investigation of the midget-on-lap type. A few individual workers could be used at witness(s to prove various forms of oppression by unions, bu; the union powers and practices could be learned by examination of their union which has
not be said to represent the will ¢f the workers.
Business
Gold Pressure Causing Worry, but Nothirig Can Be Dohe at This Time EW YORK, Jan. 6.—The piessure of the gold
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FAVORS THE AX FOR PINBALL MACHINES By Times Reader
. . . The papers reveal actions being taken against some pinball machine operations. It’s about time something should be dene about these machines that are scattered all over the city—whether they are being used for gambling purposes or not. The suggestion of using an ax on all of these machines would be the best thing that could happen to them. At least it would be the end of one easy method of taking money from minors which seems to be within the law. » » ” EXPRESSING DISLIKE FOR CURRENT RADIO MUSIC By Mrs. D. E. Day “Why do 130 million people have to listen to this putrid music on! our radios? : We pay good money for fin radios and what do we hear, some old dried up songs and music, if you call it ‘music, and songs no one has ever heard simply because the broadcasting systems are determined the American people must accept their ideas. We can't even hear the familiar theme songs and music .from our
that is getting in our hair is forcing Federal money controllers to think. The simple truth is that we hive a wildcat by the tail. The whole gold episode is a perfect example of | | what happens when an unconsidered and fcolish policy is once adopted. Whin the mistake is discovered th: conditions that have been priduced by the mistake are so vist that it is impossible to cure {he mistake without creating worie conditions than when the misiake was made. The gold purchasing plan should have heen abandoned in 1936 Every year after that abandonment of it became more difficult. Ani yet every year | after that the dangerous effects became more scrious. Abandonmient of it now might well produce such a grave unsetilement of world exchange markets as to make the war trade—which is the chief trade we now enjoy—aimost impossible. England is the largest producer of gold. She mines about $750,000,000 of gold & year. She can turn that in here a: $35 an ounce. f we stop buying at the guaranteed price of $35 an cunce the purchasing power of her gold and the subsiiy which she gets in fact out of our gold-buying policy will be impaired if not removed. |
i » 8 ® | : HE cost of everything Eng and is buying here
in turn be forced to do sometjing about her currency—a thing she cannot do ai matters stand. We might be immeédiately confronted with an unfavorable balance of trede and a collapse of one of the chief props of the fictitious. prosperity we enjoy. The tide of protest against tlie gold-buying policy, nevertheless, continues to rise.| The utter madness | of the schemé¢ becomes daily niore apparent as the world’s gold pours in on us ani our whole banking structure becomes more and mdiré affected by it. Yet grave as jt is, there is nothing tliat can be done about it, particularly now. | : It is, hotfever, reassuring to find the Reserve Board at the|peint where it atleast feels that some sort of count¢r-balancing force must be brought into existence. .
So They Say--
., LET US MAKE the wisli that America will, throughout the coming year, be strong to do the right as God gives her to see the right.—President Kenneth Irving Brown, Denisoi University. i * Ji
of the mind of the free man is a love of truth.— President E.| .E. Day of. Cornel! University. . - ie
IN THE SORROWFUL irternational period in which we are living, ne couritry in the world can be insensibl® to the suffering; of others.—President Avila Camacho of Mexico. ) £ * »* i. ' DEMOCEACY is not merelr a good form of government; it is the best. —Presidint Robert M. Hutchins, University ¢f Chicago. I . § »
sional huménitarians,—Clarenc: Pickett, Quaker relief worker. *
FOR MY OWN part I wait
no single step taken ‘en
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relating to war that is not gijen time for public de-
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might be immediately incriased, and she would .
THE FUNDAMENTAL elerient in the discipline |
THIS 18 NOT A world that can be saved by profes-
favorite shows. . . . The musicians have a union. Why not support their composers and walk out at one time and the radio broadcasting systems will come’ to their senses? Here is hoping we can hear some real music soon. I don’t suppose this will ever be published as it is what every American citizen is thinking and too timid to write. ” 2 ”
COLLEGE MAN REPORTS
AGAIN ON STEEL MILL By Curious . Since I started working for this steel company more than a month ago on reserve labor I have worked in five different mills “as needed.” With a university degree I have been doing work that anyone with strong hands and the brains of a frog could do. I have been doing much listening, little talking and read The
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day. In the mills I have not once heard nafional defense mentioned. Last Sunday at midnight I started to work on the 12 to 8 turn. At about 6 in the morning I went to sleep standing straight up! Most of the workers are swarthy, being of Mexican or south European stock. For the first time in my life I have met four adult American citizens who can neither read nor write our language. They can speak our Ainerican language well enough to be understood—sometimes. There are few Swedes and Nordics, those few have high paying jobs. ” ” ” SAYING A KIND WORD
FOR THE APPEASERS By R. L. So you're an appeaser, eh? Shame on you. For, according to the President's inflections, an appeaser is a nasty bit of moral degeneracy one shouldn’t be caught touching with a ten-foot pole. All of which makes us gals charged with keeping the home fires burning pretty red in the face. We're the world’s foremost appeasers and always have been. Our motto, moreover, for preventing disastrous domestic wars, if we want to stay out of divorce courts, coincides with that ancient Chinese saw: “To keep the family peace one must bear and forbear seventy times seven. Appeasement and - forbearance are twins, with a lively sense of justice, much kindness and love and a strong dash of humor. There can be no chips on the shoulders; bitterness and rancor are banished along with hate, and the favorite paths by which they travel are charity and understanding.
Times’ editorials and columns every
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Mrs. in front of the name she assumed has at some time in her married life had grounds for an all-out domestic war to the divorce and finish. But appeasement—that nasty little word--was used to preserve the home and safeguard the welfare o the children. : Why should international appeasers suffer opprobrium? Had the British made a real attempt at honest appeasement instead of a plan to stall off Hitler long enough to doublecross him with Russia later, the story might have been different. In a time when everybody was doublecrossing - everybody else, Hitler simply had ‘the distinction of doings it first. s » » " SUGGESTING A NEW IDEA IN WARFARE
By J. T. Now that the. whole world fs about to participate in another silly war, I tripped over an idea that may help promote peace of better quality. Many letters published in the forum have covered the subject of peace, how it can be accomplished, the cause of wars, etc. Some are
sound and some are even funny, but §
no matter what weight they carry the idea rapidly is forgotten. :
My plan is to have every government that keeps an army for pro-|
tection or for conquést form army teams. They would play every week.
Stands for spectators (bomb and| would be] §
bullet proof windows) built so that the armies could give their best. No conscripts would be accepted, volunteers eligible only. Every year there would be “Olympics” whereby the best teams of their regpective governments would compete for international honors. Varied climaxes for the spectators could be given, such as blowing up the bleachers, pouring liquid fire into them or, even gassing them to deat.r.. There would be rules and regulations governing the teams, etc. : Every participating government should encourage and employ the most devastating destructive methods obtainable. In due time the governments would find that they would have to drop out of the war games (like Chicago U.) due to lack of volunteers. The peoples would get their stomachs full and finally the whole idea would drop out of the picture and the peoples would settle down with a saner mind.
sn» ASSERTS BRITISH LIKE TO TAKE OUR MONEY
By W. F. The British tell us persistently that they can take it. Naturally we believe it, but we must understand they mean our money. They are always ready to take everything they can get, but they never give back what they have taken. We better leave them alone—let the Germans give it to them.
CLOCK OF JANUARY By MARY P. DENNY
Tick-tock, tick-tock, Hear the clock of the New Year. Bright and clear, bright and clear, Sounding forth the hours of time In a free and glorious chime. Songs of all the coming year, Summer, winter and bright spring, Ring a joy in everything. , Counting off the gl To all the trees and " tower. , | Gives to all of nature wing Simple joy to all that sing. Tick-tock, tick-tock, Hear the clock of the New Year.
DAILY THOUGHT
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes betwéen your brethren, and judge ‘righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.—Deuteronomy . A
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Federal Reserve Suggestions and Partial Approval by Roosevelt May Remove Danger of Inflation
ASHINGTON, Jan, 6.—~Nothing more necessary and constructive shan the Fascderal Reserve anti-inflation recommenadstions has come out af Gov= ernment in a long time and nothing more hopeful than the President's apparent acceptance of them ab ' least in part. Early in his first | Administration, Mr. Roosevelt was “sold” a cluster of schemes to increase deflated prices by monkeys ing with money, debasing the na= tion’s currency. None was quite so bad and bold as openly printing money, just forcing people to take engraved paper without any real value behind it for their goods and. ‘services. Nothing was quite as bad as that, but all slanted in that di- | rection and one law authorized the | President to do just that to the ex | tent of three billion dollars. Among them was the. authority granted to the
| President to debage the value of the dollar by buying
gold and paying for it as much as twice as much-as it is worth, and to buy silver also for much more than it is worth and issue dollars against that phony price at a still higher figure. Another, more difficult to ex plain, was the plan and practice of spending billions more money thar Government had, paying for it by bonds sold to the banks (rather than to individuals), and letting the banks pay for the bonds simply by crediting Government with the|price of the bonds. | » » Wom going into too/ much detail, the tene dency of this is exac the same as printing bales of irredeemable money unless some limit is put’ on the bank's power to use this swiftly increasing mountain of credit exactly as though it were actually money deposited by their customers from their earn= ings ‘or sale of goods. It expanded the amount of “bank” money to fan= tastical heights just as printing truck loads of flat paper money expands: the. currency. The effect of either kind of expansion will sooner or later be to make people afraid of the value of money and start an upward spiral of prices or downward spiral of the value of money. which is the same thing and both are “inflation.” | : Briefly, the Federal Reserve recommends putting a limit or a complete stop to all these authorities and practices and also to put a limit to the amount of our vast gold hoard that can be used as a basis for further: increases in the volume of either bank or actual money. None of these authorities was used in full and none actually produced the real inflationary effects for which all were designed, but the danger of those effects exists. | a ; Probably not many people will go to the trouble to understand this or get very much excited about it, but
| it is a wise and timely move against as great a danger
to national security and defense as war itself, the danger of wartime price inflation, .
» o t 4 T never has been controlled before but it must be controlled this time. “If it isn’t, it’ will: double or treble the costs of living, of Government and of war itself. If that is permitted to happen, in view of the tremendous debt we have and the even greater expense we face, it could possibly bankrupt this nation and it certainly would increase the burdens on our long suffering people to the breaking point. ; What is af stake here is a matter of scores of billions of dollars, perhaps more than the cost of two or three world wars. Let's hope and pray that the project will not fail. . These Federal Reserve recommendations alone may. not be enough. They are one of many other possible controls, all of which must be made ready and promptly applied if necessary. The surest and the simplest is the Baruch plan of a statutory ceiling over all prices above which none can rise except as a price« stabilization board shall permit on a proper showing of necessity in each case. This may be a hard problem fo explain or understand, but our people must understand it bgcause it is the most dangerous problem that confronts us,
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs, Walter Ferguson :
HE Mormons have a nice custom, Each household sets aside one evening in 14 which is called “Family Night|” and nothing is allowed to interfere with its celebration. : Parents and children get together to discuss matters of group welfare. Budgets are studied, economics outlined, education and recreation plans’ made so that every person, even the littlest, is made to feel like a significant member of the family unit. : On those evenings differences are talked over. Parents as well as children confess their mise takes, and frequently, it is said, fathers and mothers appeal to the youngsters for advice about their own dissensions. They can be sure ” of getting honest opinions, for most adolescents are outspoken and not apt to spare adult feelings, The occasions are also used to encourage the dis play of any artistic talents. The family becomes the audience for amateur musicians, dramatists, writers and painters. Hobbies, domestic skills and ambitions are aired, the purpose being the encouragement of the individual to improve his natural gifts. To me, this sound as if it would be an excellent program fof every American home—Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Mormon or agnostic. During the last 20 years there have been many vast group movements whose purpose was child welfare and family co-operation. Thousands of professors, doctors and clubwomen have held hundreds of conferences. And it would be folly, I think, to insist that all this work has been wasted. On the other hand, it is also folly to believe we can bring up good citizens by belonging to clubs, no matter how grand their motives are. Good children are created in happy homes—and nowhere else. And happy homes are those in which husband and wife give more time to their younge sters than. they give to social affairs, organizations or noble causes. .
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
ACK SPRAT and his wife of nursery rhyme fame J are found in many a home, ‘although sometimes their roles are reversed, with missus refusing to eat any fat in an effort to maintain a stylisnly slim figure, Jack Spraf couples of 1941, however, should both eat some fat and some lean, according to the teachings of nutritionists. The basis of any diet, whether for reducing weight or.gaining weight, should be the same. It is in the extras that the meals for underweight and overweight persons should differ. 1 . A good diet must include foods to furnish fuel, protein, vitamins and minerals. Milk belongs in the’ diet of everyone because it is such a rich source of calcium, although it has other food valués, too. A pint of whole milk providesra little over 300 calories, which is less than a single serving of most desserts, Those trying to lose weight may cut the milk calories in half by drinking buttermilk or skim milk, but they must have some butter or other fat to give a staying quality to their diet. : * Cereals’ and bread, especially the whole-grain kinds, beléng on every diet list, nutritionists of the U. S. Buréau of Home Economics point out: Cooked cereals with plenty of cream and sugar are advised for those trying to gain weight, while these trying to. reduce should leave off the sugar and use milk ine stead of cream. For gaining weight, spread the bread thickly with butter; for reducing, eat thin slices of bread or toast with very little butter. : on Fruits, especially the citrus fruits and. tomatoes, and green leafy vegetables and some of the yellow colored vegetables belong in every diet for the. vitamins and minerals they contain. Those
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to gain weight can add extra butter or, cre: to their vegetables. Lo ipl