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“Give tons and. ‘the People Will Fina Their ow ‘Woy ber TUESDAY, JANUARY 7,181 ~~ |. |

NOW UP TO CONGRESS re. HE President has done his job. He has Fenorted to Congress on “the state of the Union,” declar: ng that the country’s safety is “overwhelmingly involved in events far beydnd our borders,” and that it is up to us to provide munitions and war supplies to those nations across the

~ geas which are resisting aggression, because their re “gistance

keeps war from this hemisphere. We shall supply ships, planes, tanks, guns in increasing quantities, and depend upon repayment in kind after hostilities are over says Mr. Roosevelt, and we ghall not

2. “acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and spovsored

by appeasers.” This is our national policy, says the President, and we

shall go through with it regardless of the threats of the

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Thus the Prevident in the performance of his, constitutional function puts the situation up to Congr ass—t the branch of our Government which has the constitutional power to declare war, appropriate money and Prescribe its uses. |

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” s ” ” t 4 Debate will be comprehensive and spirited-—as {should -be.on igsies so vital. Congress will want te explore, more fully than the President could in his brief message, the possible ‘consequences of the course advocated. And Congress will want to determine whether we are prepared to meet those consequences. That is the responsibility of the -lawmaking body. The public, too, will, and shou! Id, participate. in this discussion. It seems appropriate to offer again a plea for (olerance of each other’s honest opinions. There was one paragraph in the President’s message which we hope will not be distorted and misapplied: “The best way of dealing with the few slackers or trouble makers in our midst is, first, to shame them by patriotic example, and, if that fails, to use the Jofgreignty of government to save government.” "Insofar as the reference is to subversive groups, fifth * columnists and saboteurs, the President is eternally right. Our Government cannot be tolerant of treasom. But we hope no self-appointed patrioteers will take it upon themselves to put the brand of slacker or trouble-maker on patriotic citizens who may conscientiously disagi'ee with this or that phase of the program developed. | Democracy begins—and must continue—at home. Free ~ discussion is the essence of democracy. Unity, worthy of the name, cannot be inspired or promoted by pointing the finger of shame, or utilizing the strong arm of the Federal Government, to silence press, pulpit or public forum during

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"the formulation of a program that must be the joint effort

of all branches of government and of all groups oi citizens. There should be no resort to totalitarian methods in this great effort to save America from totalitarianism. 2 a 8 2-8 # On much of the President’s program, we think, there will be no responsible dissent. On these propositi¢ ins there should be substantial unanimity: That opportunities for all of our citizens should be widened, their security bulwarked, their civil liber ties pro-

tected, their living standards. raised.

That our own defense should be “all inclusive,” That “a free nation has the right to look to the'leaders ‘of business, of labor and of agriculture to take the lead in stimulating effort, not among other groups but within their own groups.’ That we should “put patriotism ahead of pock athooks,”

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and pay a greater portion of the cddts through courageous

taxation.

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OUR 100,000TH TELEPHONE HE little ceremony conducted yesterday at the installation of the 100;000th telephone in Indianapolis was more than a gesture. It is another significant milestone in the growth of this community. Back at the turn of the century the telephoiie was an

: exceedingly expensive luxury. The research of science and the development of that knowledge by industry has made the telephone one of our chief methods of communication—

and among the cheapest. , Even though many of us regard the telephone as a

Necessity, many students of business look upon telephone installations as one of the truest barometers of conditions.

If this be true, Indianapolis is prospering. James F. Carroll, president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, in handing the 100, 000th telephone to Mayor Sullivan for the first call, said that the company looked forward to another 15,000 $y 20,000 installations in 1941, ie We hope that even that mark is exceeded,

HISTORY LESSON JV USSOLINI, on May 20, 1925: “Italy can never tolerate that patent violation of treaties—the annexation of Austria by Germany. This annexation, in my opinion, ‘would negate Italian victory, besides increasing the numerical and territorial power of the Germany.” | Mussolini, on Oct. 6, 1934: “We have upheld and shall * continue to upholl the Jpfiependence of the Austrian republic.” A Mussolini, on Feb. 13, 1936: “The independence and ‘autonomy of Austria (must) be respected.” i ¥e ® s a March 12, 1938: : Hitler takes over Austria. What used to be the Austrian-Italian frontier becomes the Ger-man-Italian frontier. ‘Mussolini doesn’t lift a hand, or even

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s| Fair Enc By ‘Westbrock Pegler

Only Certiin Labor Groups Resent’ Attack on

Vena lity of Leaders, His Answer to Union Publication

7.~The Northwest Organizer, cation of the Teamsters’ Joint is, has reprinted an editorial rell the reaction to revelations part of his pals. The North welt Organizer replies to: detailed, spdcific disclosures of criminality in | some labor organization by “citing a number of recent cases involving persons and firms ‘éngajed in other lines. [First is. that of: a New York brikerage firm “caught swindling” customers out of $50,000 “c¢rtainly,” the Organizer observes, “a minor peccadillo for a Will Stress outfit.” INext, the Organizer says, “a boi. is newspaper” and two of its officers were just convicted of coneniieloy in restraint of irade. Next “11 conspirators who mon opolize the natiol’s nitrate products” have just been’ indicted on a charge of conspiracy to control supply and price. i Then we have a jiew York broker, sentenced to a year in jail for frauf, and an item from a Southern city in which 38 corls were found guilty of taking bootieg bribes and anpther was fined $50 for cursing a Negro witness against him, . A New York insurgnce broker, charged with criminal ‘assault on a 17-year-old girl, is next on the list, the Northwest Orjranizer, observing that the rape of children is “a conimon practice of the rich who love to talk about the sanctity of the home and how the Reds are out to dei jtroy it.” ;

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{ERE are four [other citations, {Howard Hopson ‘ase, but these will give you the sone ral idea, and a fill canvass of the docket would leave me no room for| imy day, which is as follows:

The Organizer’s ed torial says all: the persons and companies cited in its list are ‘members of hangers- -on! of the “upper class”. find that those Who:bark at or~ ganized labor can’t sem to see heat, of racketeering, and thievery By stich, of course, that crooks: are .copstantly and punished in all lwalks: of life, but. that only in certain of the labor: groups ‘is. the’ denunciation and legal prosecution of a knave resented as ah attack on a whole class of innocent people. The reason is thit the proportion of crooks is higher in union leadeiship than in most occupations, thanks to many yearii of immunity from prosecution by public authorities.! Now, seeing their racket challengéd at ‘last, the fakiers are greatly alarmed, and by es which they publish to protect their. powers are trying to convince their rank and file victims that punishment of those who persecute then} will sowehow haim them. Possibly the theft] dillo? in Wall Street; but it is also a ntifor pecca--dillo in union manage¢ment, too. I have called attention to a Chicago jiidge, a shameless labor faker, whose law firm for a /lozen years wrung about $60,000 a year from the mejnbers .of a janitors’ union; to Georze Scalise, the {hief and fifth column of the Capcone-Nitti mob in| labor organization, and to a rich and powerful unipneer who grafted $100,000 from the pension fund of lis members but stil] holds his job.

EW YORK, Jan. cil of Minneapo. presents very edness on the!

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ilewspaper which is said to have f restraint of trade I have no bbserve that the Government. as yainst those who expose union croolis. And as to th¢ nitrate man, as yet merely indicted but not convictitd, I would point out that scores of wiion racketeers Have been indicted on the same charge and that the| labor racket has been yelling bloody murder Shing these indictments and Thurman [Arnold of the Department of Justice. The insurance brigker was promptly arrested on the rape case, with nj protest from his colleague nor any appeal to the policyholders to resent a foul con=spiraty against their] interests and the observation that (the rape of yoting girls is a common sport of “the Irich” comes awkwardly from men who welcome to thie company two | convicted white slavers in the role of important labo leaders. The crooked Southern cops have not keen .defended by the police! of the mation, but a. crooked, renegade cop by nami Jack Dempsey is international secretary of a big A. 1. of L, union, and, the revelation of his moral unfitries{ for a place of honor in the labor movement is talen very much amiss by labor Tackqteers everywhere,

Business By John T. Flynn : Congress | Should Hasten to O. K.

Federal Reserve System's Program

R’ SGARDING the been convicted | information, but I do labor: elements rail a

Ew YORK, Jan, 7.—It is going to be much more | difficult to getithe people interested in the report of the Federal [Reserve System on banks than in the production of fguns and the raising of armies. But lit is my guess that, unless we actually get into tile war, what happens to the blinks in this country is going to. bi: a. good deal more important than’ some of the things that make god moving-picture materials. i The Federal Reserve System hias made a group of recommendations. The object of these recomnjendations is to protect = this chuntry against the inflationary e/Tects of the defense program. 2s matters stand the country’s i2fefise on the financial front fiom the: attack of inflationary financing are far weaker than our defenses on the njilitary front. ‘And. the recommeridations of the Feserve System are, almost without exception, wise nes. "One of these refommendations has to do with the subject of bank (reserves. Rescrve System is coliged under the law to have a certain percentage of its deposits in cash on deposit with the Reserve bgnks. This is for the protection of lorrowers and thi public. It protects the public by ‘limiting the ampunt of deposits the banks can crezte by loans. At present a bai with the ReserVe bajks for every $100 of deposits ‘in the bank: As soon jas deposits created by loans— that is, deposits created without any actual deposit of :unds—rise to the point where the deposited reserve of the bank drops below $22.75—the bank can malie no more loans ; A : N| the last ‘seven years, as a result of our goldpurchasing plan ¢hiefly, gold has poured into this cowitry to the banks! The banks, of course, must turn the metal over to th¢ Government, but they receive in turn gold certificate}, which constitute their reserve. The reserve requirenients of the banks are now seven billion dollars more {han required by law. This means that the banks could increase their loans by 30 billion dollars before their loan power was exhausted. The. posiibilities of a junaway . inflationary “whovement bas:d on these resejves is one which scares bankers, economists and businessmen to death. And at last. the President's owr| representatives in the Reserve System have joined: in this fear. They have proposéd, among other Lings, that Reserve requirements of hanks be in¢reasid to 26 per cent... And they ask tha: power be granied to the Reserve’ System to in-

crease this as circuristances warrant.’ This is a very. |:

modest increase, butlit is a step in the right direction.” Unfortunately may - not be effective, . because when the’pressure jor inflationary activity gets sufficiently strong-a pclitical power dominating thé Re-, serve System may shon wipe it out. But: this is one’ recommendation of {the Reserve Board and - banks. that Congress shoyl immediately 2dopk. fi:

SANTA CLAUS. l. .What a man For years I've been paying all the bills and he fi all the credit. —_

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of $50,000 is “a minor pecca-T|

A bank in the Federal |

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DAY, 3

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The Hoosier Forum

disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

TAKING A SLAM AT THE ‘UN-FELLOWSHIP PRESS’ By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. There is scarcely a .reasonable doubt that the new “Fellowship Press” at Noblesville is to be in reality an “un-Fellowship Press.” Birds of a feather flock together, and leopards do not change their spots overnight. D. C. Stephenson may, as he says, have no connection. But Noblesville, Carl Losey, aif the former Grand Dragon, are associated in our minds with a sordid drama of un-Americanism, and the goatee’d Pelley fits into the piece like an obligato. It seems incredible that men calling themselves Americans would attack the very bases upon which this Government rests, and assail the foundations of democracy itself. The futility of it should impress it-

self upon them, if not its venality.

That they learn nothing and forget nothing is constantly being demonstrated. Can it be possible that we shall have, to teach some of them anew that they are NOT the law in Indiana? ” ” o FEARS MANY MISLED BY NAZI.PROPAGANDA By. .W. H. Edwards, Spencer, Ind. While some are claiming that we are being led toward war by, British propaganda let us weigh that

claim against the probability that many of our people are being misled by clever Axis propaganda of appedsement or a negotiated peace. In our consideration of how far we are being led by British propaganda we should reckon on the information brought to us by trained American newspapermen; they have no reason to mislead the readers of the publications they represent. On the other hand, we have definite information that the German stem of the Axis has by far the most efficient propaganda machide this world has ever known; possibly that is the reason why so maiiy . people, even members - of Congress, preach the deceptive doctrine of appeasement or .a negotiated peace. Some, too, are afraid that if we anger Hitler he will declare war against us. Since when have the citizens of these United States be- | come afraid to stand up for right and justice? One prominent man has stated publicly that we can carry on trade with a‘victorious Germany. Un-

(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.)

doubtedly we could—and would-—on terms dictated by Hitler's agents. Either we are going to travel the road of freedom with England or we will travel the road of treachery with the Axis; we can’t travel with both and traveling alone would be a risky proposition. 2 8 8

CHIDING OBJECTORS TO ORDNANCE PLANT SITE

By J. D. B. 4 We are informed through the press that certain citizens of a classical and intellectual section of our city view with some apprehension the location of a Government plant for -aireraft production in their vicinity. The men who will produce these essentials to national defense are highly skilled machinists, tool and die makers. After years of close association with them I find they are a highly desirable class of men and an asset to any community. Just how their presence in any community could affect property values adversely is not clear. Most of us sprang from the old rifle-carrying breed of Americans whose motto was, “Trust in the Lord | but keep your powder dry.” Our. geographical position may give us some assurance of protection. But let us have vision to: see our vast line: of sea coast, where mothers and daughters might have to share their homes with armed forces, who don’t elieve in our form of government. And thus in times of national emergency the tool maker again is on a par with Prime Ministers in time of war and the balance wheel of the nation in time of td ” ” OPPOSING WAR EMERGENCY POWERS FOR ROOSEVELT By Pro-American

There is without a doubt a movement afoot now, and we shall cer-

tainly hear more of it each ‘day,

{Side Glances=By Galbraith

for the granting of “war emergency powsars” to our President. Before we accept this nonsense as essential to our national defense, would it be out of order for this writer to ask The Times to list for the benefit of ts. readers such powers that would be vested in one man in the event such a condition should come to pass? Wouid it be out of order for us to recall certain so-called emergency | powers intrusted to our President dung the last eight year and now. that the “emergencies” no longer exist our President maintains those powers with no apparent willingness to relinquish them? We believe not, and we also believe it behooves everyofte to follow the build-up and sales talks preceding jhis movement and look ahead to the day when (and if) the emergency expires. It is our opinion the granting of such powers would be a great deal easier than reclaiming them for ourselves. ” 2 » OFFERING A SUGGESTION ON THE GARBAGE PROBLEM By H. A. H.

On Jan. 3 you had an item headed “Householders Asked Not to Burn Garbage,” by D. E. Bloodgood, superintendent of the Sanitation

‘Plant.

The reason hundreds of householders in the City of Indianapolis burn their garbage is because they do 10t have the money to buy a new

garbage pail. add lid every few 3]

monthr, then to be destroyed, bent,

dented, thrown back in the yard by | oi

the drivers of garbage wagons. I do not blame: the drivers. They have to go on the,run all the time. They do not have time to be careful, so if the city will put on more men per wagon and take care of our garbage pails, we will feel more like setting out our garbage.

# » ” DEPLORES ‘MEDDLING’ YN EUROPE’S QUARRELS By Kitchen Cynic The Administration is like a meddling mother-in-law in Europe's family of nations. Every step of the war from its inception was encouraged by our Sideline Coach, inciting the favorites to take greater umbrage at what might otherwise

"| be passed over peacefully, and need-

ing the opposition to greater anger. The most important thing the “democracies” are fighting for is human freedom and decency; theyre| so intent in saving these ideals they're willing to let millions starve or succumb to pestilence. But you're kin to an appeaser if you mention that what they're fighting for is being lost in the fighting. As it always is

People who are emotionally mature do not indulge in orgies of hate and “blow off their tops” as some of our highly placed officials have done. We may be intellectually mature and still not be adults emotionally, as many of our college prexies, professors and bishops are daily proving to us. Offhand I'd say we need some international psychiatrists examining the think boxes of those running the world to ruin.

INSPIRATION

By MARY WARD Mornings, when I have put the coffee on, In the soft suffusion of the dawn I draw aside the curtain and look

up And see the sky is like a deep, inverted cup; Then, how shall I express it, what shall I say? . There is the Inspiration of a new. day.

DAILY THOUGHT

Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men.— Proverbs 25:6.

TRUE HUMILITY is not an sbject, groveling, self-despising spirit;

it is but a right estimate of ourGod Ton.

Gen. Johnson Says— Fy

'Lend- Lease’ Plan Amounts to Gifts

And People Probably Would Prefer To Have Aid to Britain So Defined

ASHINGTON, Jan, 7.—Before ‘the great Con. gressional debate to get us into war begins, there ought to be a little clarification of terms. The “lease-lend” plan to furnish unlimited arms to

Brigain--guns, planes, tanks, ships and ammunition—"' isn't fairly named. In candor it should be called the “give” p gram for us to finance the B ish, Chinese and Grecian war at.’ a cost nobody has even taken the _ trouble to ‘compute, certail many billions. “a “Lending” munitions is doubletalk. There is no honest difference between our lending the money | to buy a battleship and our buying the battleship itself and lending that. We did it by lending the money in the last war. That was not returned. If we loan .the bat tleship and Britain loses the war, we lose the battles . ship or even find it fighting against us. ; + If Britain wins the war, we are told that the resulting peace will be so ducky that nobody will need - battleships any more. They would be worth nothing either way. It would be better to lend the money, better and much ‘simpler, and even more Tealistiop: just to give it. Why do we do all ‘this juggling with words? Who : are we Y crying to fool? England? That's silly.

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HE doesn’t care as long as she gets. the battles h Is it possible that we are trying to fool our ov people, who have been taught to be chary about I ing money to people who don’t repay? : They are; only ones there are to be fooled. It's’so UMNecessar. If they have made up their minds fo get: into. Ah war in this way, which is doubtful, they don’t ‘car + about that and it is an insult to their. ) try to fool them inte buying such thinly gilded Brick, 2 As this is being written, the information is pet 5 the authority to “lease or lend” is likely. ap * include not merely ships—warships and ‘mi atmen 55 .—and guns and planes to be built, but alse those al ready built. Let's understand this clearly also. It means that one man (the President) alone and withe out, consulting anybody, can strip our own scanty de- : fense of just as many warships, war planes and guns. . as he thinks best to win the Battle of England. He could give away the Navy if he so decided. : This is called “lending our hose to.a neighbor. whose house is on fire.” Cal] it that. But the argument for doing it is that our own house is on fire also, or about to be—not only on our front door on the Atlantic, but also, thousands of miles away in the Pacific, that we do not have hose enough and what we have is out of date and untrustworthy. How many*" neighbors “lend” or give away their hose in a case like that?’

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ERE'S another thing. The assurance is repeated that we shall never send troops.” Yet ‘Mr, Churchill says that this war must go on until the present system of government (Naziism) is destroyed in Europe. He said it long before Mr, Hitler said that it must go on until the present British system of gov= |, ernment (democracy) is destroyed. sey Now each man has said it of the other. Neither can do what he threatens without war on land. This | boasting of a complete knockout is and always has . been the invariable, and probably necessary, boast of great war leaders and should be appraised accordingly. Yet, if we must consider it seriously, it is simply not among the reasonable probabilities that Britain alone, only partially armed, could completely knock out Gere many on land, Germany with all the modern armas< "ment accumulated in all Europe in years and trained soldiers in a four or five to one superiority, England may and probably will win, but she:? couldn’t utterly outstrip Germany without help. We are the only respectable help available on land. If there is to be a knockout, we’ll have to get in there and punch. Let's go into this war ‘if we must, but - let’s not go into it fooled by any of the three current absurdities discussed in this column, absurdities which - are being insisted upon with increasing vigor by those : who wish to pull us into it and seem to think it can’t . be done without this too-transparent camouflage. i

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HILDREN must be fearfully frightened by some: of the thiggs they hear the: grownups say. “Huh, you k#fflow why the judges gave him first ~: in the.contest/ don’t you? He's got a pull with ther chairman o account of that contract last. year, re=-: member?” : “I wouldn't trust that baby as ® far as you could throw.a cat by.-: the tail. He'd steal the bread out of his mother’s cupboard.” “Oh, he goes to Sunday. school, y I know that. But he’s.as crooked as a corkscrew.” “I hope you don’t pelieve him... He's the , worst demagogue in the. , state. All he cares about his . country is the jack he can pull out of it.” Chatter; chatter, chatter— grownup talk—devastatingly disil- - lusioning for young trustful minds—bitterly harmful - to those who. need heroes to worship just as the adultneeds a God. A great deal of our conversation is careless, hi

1 out foundation in fact, an expression of half. ‘baked

opinion, or out-and-out’ gossip. We all talk too much. - and out of turn. We say things which are enly half-. , true. We attribute evil, motives to sincere -peapie., just as we attribute worthy motives to rogues Adults realize that more than half. the, stuff they’ hear is exaggerated if mot absolutely false, Being. inured to the embellishers of fact, they accept only... what their good judgment tells them is valid and ii the rest hearsay. ‘ But children are not so well armed against the! debunkers. From casual comments of ‘careless oe ple they pick up a good many wrong impressi some of which may affect their attitudes uring an entire lifetime.

Watching Your Healh :

By Jane Stafford

OST mothers and homemakers are obliged’ to! * take on the duties of a nurse when someone: in’: the home falls sick. If reports of a shortage ‘of?’ trained nurses for the care of patients in their homes", are true, homemakers will have to take over the nursing of sick persons even more often. A good prep=* aration for such duties is the course in home nursing’, which the American Red Cross offers through it§ local” chapters. In these courses, women can learn the correct way to do things in the sick room, and it should be remembered that the correct way is usually the . easiest as well as the best, for both patient and nurse in the long run. : Proper equipment for the care of the sick is mes portant. Much of this is inexpensive and many pieces: © can be improvised from household articles. . Hospital. beds, you may have noticed, are higher than those in most homes, The mos convenient height for the nurse is one at which the nurse when standing ereet" can rest the palms of-her hands flat on the top of the» mattress. Beds can be raised to a convenient height. , by placing under each leg a wooden block of the right, height. These blocks should be six inches square a hole three inches deep in the top to hold the bed leg, *# .» Rubber sheeting and rubberized muslin are good for protecting the bed but are rather SEpenaive.: , Pliofilm is less expensive and is a satisfactory sube

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stitute, says Mrs. Mary Peabody of the New 2 State College of Horhe Economics. er gel: for rubber sheeting may may be 10 or 12 Wicknesses ., of newspaper, ‘padded with eellu-cotton; piece of canvas painted on one side; or the: bac an; old” " raincoat stitched to muslin. a Patients who must be in bed for a ie ha . likely to develop sore ‘spots on the end of dr heels and elbows. Hospitals have rubber of ne to'rees lieve pressure at these points. An inexpensive es tute, Mrs. Peabody x dpongs:rubes Kec A hole in the center of a : tht can be bought at 3-and-1i-cent a : !