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Despite Failure in 1918, F. D. R. Aims Higher Than Wilson Did in Seeking Freedom for the World

VY ASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—One of the most debated questions iu ‘the public's mind, the President's speach on the state of the union didn’t say much “thac he has not said before. It is far more significant in what it did not say. One thing it did not say were the words “short of war” in’ promising aid. Many of our most ° ” belligerent unofficial arm-chair - strategis fe began advo-’ cabling aid but stressihg “short of war” have now also dropped that , qualificatidpn, and some want war right, now. : ‘ : | The President followed these ° . only in .droppiug the words “shorts of | war,”. which was so careful - to|. include in his campaign speeches. Nevertheless, he did indicate that definitions of “acts of war” jn international law are‘ “out” so far as he is concerned, siice the Axis powers :- To x Lis eth wand LODO 10. WI i: "| have disregarded these laws. In this he is probably. |" Joe Beckelt, the human horjzon line, as we used i LA PRET ! 23 o> xf © LAN | right, but most of the opposition to his proposals has. ‘to call him, as a bum, too, arid Fred Fulton was a > = £y i ,not rested on purely fechnical acts of war, which are :- museum bum, but they -seemed! to realize that they ; Ce ; ne 3 not physically acts of warlike aggression<like trading, were bums and never embarrassed anyone but their the “destroyers. They have questioned our taking handlers wheh they soared out|jof ‘their corners and physically offensive action in foreign waters that. . Ta thousaris jeered, would automatically engage us in war—like crashing 8 eur a blockade with a nayal convoy, .

. . - ND, of course, that Kaiser : # ®. 8 eath of Madge Oberholtzer. The courts of Indiana found | LX description of a bum when [he yelled the German N the whole list of questions in this category, the ~ im guilty and sent him to prison for life. Since that time, | equivalent of “one side, please!l’ and high-tailed for |. 4 [Dessags is resunuingly Sent Are we to in Stephenson and some of his followers have exhausted every | Holland, deserting his soldlers and his people when DE eran ‘3 : : | ; ded him most. { cq 3 ro) ) legal means in their efforts to effect his release. jit they nee

| Bub what ja bum this Duce {i, this col 1h our shipping and our people out of danger zones? . 3 . ut- what a bum s Duce {is, this colossal phony Are we to permit shipments of contraband of war in IE iis ctirvent tepouks are ya be believed, he is noW flay} who pisced Lins! sf the heat | 5 mob of riesques American Lis or a shipments to belligerents ng his final card—asking an eleventh-hour pardon from a | thow generals in lion-tamers’ ulhiforms, backed by all | Governor about to step out of office. We think Governor !

the chiseling grafters and the [posturing fancy-dans ‘with the implied threat of naval action against any . Townsend is too smart an individual to wind up his term | His gorillas waylaid some individual on dark we are going to evade but not repeal it. We are to | joined up ard denounced theirj|love rivals and those iron hat in [a heroic pose agdlinst the sky—against

Phil Scott Was a um, and So Was “Carhera, But the silliest of All in Or Out of the King, Is ll Duce!

| NTEW YORK, Jan. 8—What] What a never-w-+be-adequately-lau

a bum! : ed-at palooka Benito Mussolini turned out to be tiie minute they rang the bell, yanked the stool from

1 under him and sent him out to fight! qj | History: lias given us some memorable b in the ring and some historic stumble-bums in command. o|| nations, too, but never * one (like this Iludricous tramp with the silly tassel dangling before his eyes from a. trick hat _ designed to /nake him look feroclous and scire the world. . Fainting hil Scott was a bum, but, after all he was a sportsman and a ran, too. He didn't go around bljwing his face full of wind like al brat in’ a tantrum, BE. | giving people the glare and telling | the world what a killer he was.|| He was just a journeyman bum. His manager woujld dig up a fight for him, and he never said any mo p than that heswould

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> RILEY 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way i WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1041

[OWNSEND AND STEPHENSON. , EPORTS are current that Governor M. Clifford Town-} : "+ send may pardon or parole D. C. Stephenson just before | the Governor relinquishes his official post on Monday. |

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We hope the reports are untrue. D. C. Stephenson was convicted of the murder of a 1. But he is the symbol of a great deal more. ‘His name | s synonymous with a chapter in Indiana history that was sotten and filthy from end to end. "He brought the name of indiana into nation-wide disrepute. He was the man who soasted of his ability to name mayors and governors and senators and who boasted “I am the law in Indiana.” The end of the road came for Stephenson with the

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be asked not to lend billions of dollars in cash but . billions of dollars in equipment for which we must. spend, or have spent! billions. / For this, it is said, we shall be repaid either by - the return ‘of that equipment or its equivalent, or by. shipments of goods and commodities, rubber and tin for example. The absurdity of this as to the equip- .. ment was discussed here yesterday. As to the commodities, what is proposed is a barter and to what ..

of Italian suburban society who were arching their be Jigerent blockage o Yim? On, Yese vila) guess 33 necks at other men’s wives aiid took over a whole yp oy the Jorn Act "there is an indication that. ! : A | nation as a cheering section foil his vanity. re DL 3 40 with an act that can only bring him regret to the end of % / streets or mpbbed them in ty ir homes and made his days. . . : | them drink ¢astor oil and kerj)sene and told themStephenson is. entitled to no special consideration, no | selves that that was brave going. The muckers all mercy and no kindnesses from the state he begrimed. | to whom they owed honest deljts of money and had | £ : | them killed ¢r sent away to exile camps. He had big posters made Pliuming himself in an

eternity, eveh—as the greatest man the world had

AGITATION TO NO POINT | | man Ra. .. |. || ever known, whose glory would|never die. end? : TT SEEMS to us highly regrettable that so much agitation | 2 = A The British Government doesn’t own the rubber :

< : ; : : i - i i i ; =. : and tin. Its subjects in Asia and Malayasia own ™ has been .stirred up over the locating of the proposed ; LL this {ime the big bum vias bragging of his in- No — them. Britain will [hdve to buy and pay cash for Arlington Ave., be-| y

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- . $6,000,000 Naval Ordnance Plant off tween 16th and 21st Sts. | Although we have no complete information on the plant, it is our understanding that the plant is to be a permanent industry and in no-sense a temporary defense factory.- It is also our understanding that the buildings are to Ibe so situated on the 160-acre site as to improve the appearance of the present location. | "|. Industries do not come knocking at the doors of cities every day. We do not mean by this that factories should be ‘get up in the middle of strictly residential areas at whim. | Lox What we do mean is that criticism should be construc- PR OR a hel ere ocked Kicking tive and not point-blank invitations to get out of town. |:and gave them the foot while fhey were down. Then

|| be went intq Greece, and was|ichased out so fast by I - . a little scruls army that, in

| ot ming away, he didn’t | . : even have time to take down his own daudghter’s BRITISH LOGIC name from over the postoffice in Porto Edda. And LONDON dispatch on. British reaction to President Roosevelt's message to Congress, published in the New

vincibility, his indomitabl: will and telling the ; 3 world about his irresistible l¢gions. Those legions ther, 2 he i % 20 When: the Jame SORES: WHY | were something. Four millionsoldiers he had, in a couldn’t she just ag w gage pay 5 nation of 40 million, and vast jierds of tanks that he cash to us? We might not then want a couple of like to show| in the movies, snjorting over the land- billions of dollars worth of rubber and tin. » ” ” o

scape with himself scowling from an imperial review- . oa 3 LL that part of the message, its silences as well |

ing stand, with his chin thrusj out. That chin effect recalls the flemark of Jack Demp- as these bizarre suggestions, remain to be: sey the first iime he ever saw Pjlimo Carnera—another cleared up. With ifs main part, all-out, and greatly bum, though a friendly bum arid harmless. Dempsey speeded arms production and defense, the whole . was old then and out of actipn, but when he was country will follow him. Some of it has been ahead a ly Ei ge, oy a, oh of him for years. [It is just possible that the unexchin. I would love to have a rn at that en pected obscurity of the other part is a matter of So the bum went to Spain [jor a little no-decision war, and baiely escaped a knokkout by a lot of raggedy tramps| and claimed th b

The Hoosier Forum

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

CLAIMS OUR HOSE DAMAGED IN LAST FIRE By J. A. D. . ; Fire Department Roosevelt's Hose Company leaves much room for pondering. Here we haven't even finished

painting out the “scorch marks” from their last fire, and our neighbors, who e too indifferent to maintain anything but a fire hazard, are crying for our new hose. The last time they used our hose they just threw it back over the fence, burned and stinking, and the

bing elbows with the would-be aristocracy. It may be possible that the Civic League could persuade our congressmen to have all factories along with the: workmen removed from Indianapolis and then we could attend our club meetings and take care of our shopping without the annoyance of coming in ‘contact with the common herd. I -am sure the downtown stores would approve |: this plan.

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necessary or prudent timing controlled by .sonfething that is happening or intended abroad, and which Harry Hopkins is going over to explore. On'the main questions of immediate policy we must wait and see. The message is not revealing. But it sounded a new mote in the nature of Woodrow Wilson’s high emprise, but overtopped it by far. We are going out this time not merely to make the . . world safe for democracy but to do much more, to. procure “everywhere in the world” four “freedoms’— of speech, or of worship, from want and from fear— | to all people whether they want them or not. It's a lot of territory and some job—Uncle Sam, Old Dutch . . Cleanser! For the whole, grimy, cockeyedeworld: We tried that once on a much smaller, scale, Can't we; ever learn?

it. was just a gymdidn’t count. Then

while this was happening thi British—those bums who had siiown their cowarjlice at Dunquerque— yelled, “Be sbsent, bum!” andl chased #1é big tramp clear out of Egypt. j So this i the bum that Cleneroso Pope and the bums of the Italian consular s¢rvice have

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branding tax-exempt government 2 per cent honds and less as “slacker dollars” and preaching taxation on

URGES STATE COLLECT ON AND CONTROL GAMBLING

_ York Times, contains some. interesting quotations,

“striking -and inspiring phrases.” guns delivered—at once.

sets it forth:

It reports that Britons are pleased with the Presidents But they want brave words translated into deeds. They want ships, ‘planes anc And here is the nub of their argument, as the dispatch

“The United States says over and over again that ‘we |

to sell to frep Americans of It Mussolini What a

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RESENTS ATTACK ON TAX-EXEMPT BONDS By James R. Meitzler, Attica, Ind. Good faith is the cornerstone of credit. Few do business without borrowing. The lender must have security he will get his money back

future government borrowings. What security is a bond when the

.|same Congress and Court which

has undermined the credit of farm land, can cancel interest and absorb principal by taxation? And if you need the money before payment day, what market for such bonds? : The Chicago banker who said

By Traveler There are possibly 25,000 card games, domino games, race pool rooms, vending machines and other forms of gambling devices in Indiana operating today. And the State of Indiana does not collect a license or any fee. Because it is all against the law, although con-

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson.

«rg~HE smart set all do their bif as war Samaritans,” ,

Cholly Knickerbocker informs us, with illus= - The news irks. ,

trations, in The New York Journal.

sidered legitimate by the majority and patronized by them. Why. should we allow this to go on? In this session of the Legislature, legalize, collect and supervise,

me. Not that I have any hard feelings toward the smart set, as such, but they always seem to be about: three jumps behind the times. - with their worthy endeavors. Perhaps if the smart set had worked as hard years ago at being ! good citizens as they now work to carry charitable loads, there would have been less need for taking: care of refugee children and:stag- | ing fashionable- teas and other

there were worse places than tin cans for money said something. ” » ” SUGGESTING A TENT FOR ‘CLASSIC’ IRVINGTON By D. R. Whitaker The “classic” part of Indianapolis is receiving quite a lot of un-

War Spendings Go lo ‘House of Have’ And the. Little Guy Pays and Pays

: EW YCRK, Jan. 8.—In {he last war this Government spent some 33 billion dollars. Someone asks—what has become of all that money? It is zs good question, because it brings up a question that ' one cannot [ask now without [peing classed with poor en White as an Ameri-

cannot afford to allow: Britain to fall’ It says over and over agdin that Britain must be aided in every possible way, not because Britain should be saved but because |: Britain is essential to United States defense. If that is 1 | what ‘the United States’ thinks, then, virtually speaking, | the United States is hiring us to. fight its battles, ag we

plus hire, otherwise there is no incentive to loan. Real estate and government have been considered good security. But when the Supreme Court upheld the Frazier-Lempke Mortgage Act, that a landowner could cancel his debt by paying his creditor the appraised value of the land no

2 8 8 : FEARS INABILITY TO GIVE BRITISH SUFFICIENT HELP By A Reader

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are fighting for the United States.”

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accepted that the British are fighting our war, then all t rest follows as clear and irrefutable logic. |

once hired Hessians in an effort to subdue the thirteen

: “But we are not getting our pay. The United States | has come long and far, but not far enough. If we are figh'- | ing for the United States and if it is willing to give us | money or credit on that basis, we have the right to ask 5 it to go further. Since we cannot bring material overseas . | ourselves, we have the right to ask the United States to co + "go, always remembering that the United States has said |§ | that the only reason it is helping us at all is because ve

The argument appears sound. Once the premise is riti he,

go far. We will

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British taxjayers and she still Buf, of cour

‘cause the (jovernment has pi balance the budg of the Governme the ‘war expenditures. .Thut

can Laval. war econoi

The question is one of 11CS. One is [not supposed to worry about such a thing. It is a minor detail. Bui the laws of economics go on whether we mention them or not. +: they last long after

the war is Great Rrftain borrowed a billion pounfis on the ‘Napoleonic wars. She still owes it. At 2 per cent interfist a year, some 10 billion dollais in interest has been wrung oui of the hides of the lowes the billion pounds. a billion pounds doesn’t

to fight this war, beously announced that it » the peace-time exb

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I will borrow all of ake; it worse than the

matter how small a part of the debt that appraisement was, it ruined real estate as good security. A Jay County farmer was allowed to redeem a loan of $16,000 made by an insurance company, on which he had paid none of the principal, no interest since 1930, no taxes since 1929, by paying the land’s appraised value, $6000. ‘The insurance company lost $10,000 plus 10 years interest and taxes paid. The debtor got the land which may become worth $16,000. Nice news for the 65,000,000 thrifty Americans who have their savings in life insurance. During the first World War it was considered patriotic to. loan money to the government at 4% to 4% per cent. These bonds were safe. The interest was sure and

warranted publicity, just because our Government is planning on building an ordnance plant, within a mile of the outskirts of Irvington. 1 personally cannot understand why a “hullabaloo” is being raised by the respected gentlemen of the Irvington Civic League (or Club) when a most simple plan might make everything work out to the satisfaction of everyone concerned. My plan would be to hire Mr. Lorenzo Jones (of radio fame), have him invent some sort of a sight-tight and air-tight fence to encircles the “classic” part of Irvington. Have him build it plenty high so that a canvas could be stretched over the top serving as sort of a roof. This would eliminate the soot and smoke in the classic part from the factories lo-

We are reaching the point where ;

we will find it impossible to give to England the aid they need to defend themselves against Hitler, let alone carry the attack 'to Hitler's back door in sufficient strength to endanger the latter's rule of the European continent without actually going to war against Germany. And according to reports, our rather weak Army and air strength will prohibit much effort in that direction and with billions on hand for rearmament. Latest reports from Knudsen and his committee show very slow progress.

" ” ” OPPOSES INTELLECTUALS IN VIRGIN ISLANDS By J. D. ‘

every sort.

Plainly speaking, the smart set, because it has the means to play, plays too much and at the wrong -- | times. This is true of all localities, because, although. Mr, Knickerbocker. may not:

agree, every comunity has its smart set.

them in the interior of the country spend a great. . deal of thought and money imitating the one whose doings are regaled to us by Cholly and his writing -

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solved to tise their wealth to correct social

benefits for down-and-outers of,

S. : Seiki “ivy It is a great pity that women who possess wealth and social prestige, and whose influence because of :- that is tremendous, are so little interested in humanitarian questions hetween wars. If they were, many of the conditions which contribtue to domestic and in=~: ternational disharmony could be eliminated. Eighty per cent of the national wealth belongs to women." Think of the power this gives them. Thipk of the wonders they could work, if a sufficient number re-.

In a way, it seems to me the women of the smart: '- set could actually bring about a renaissance of hope in America. They could re-establish decent moral standards and awaken a desire for. spiritual growth.’ A good many rich men in our country have come to see that they are merely custodians of their wealth. When will rich women begin to feel the same responsibility? a

hast war. vthen we borrcwed|| “cost. When the’ Government spends it. | The money. then circulates idround but’ ultima) the hands bf people who do 1 save it. rw

only two-thirds of the I am opposed to turning the Virgin Islands into a dumping ground for Europe's so-called intellectuals. True,” the islands are badly in need of intelligent men and women who are capable of lifting the natives to a higher intellectual level, but why look to Europe for such people when we have plenty here who are ready, willing and able to do just that? ;

2 = 8 DENIES LINDBERGH WAS A WILLING EXILE By C. D. The dogmatic Mr. Pegler quite overreaches himself for malevolence when he blandly asserts that Col. Lindbergh willingly exiled himself from his country. It is a queer mind, indeed, that can call this exile voluntary in view of the unhappy circumstances surrounding it—a first born son murdered; the sorrowing parents subjected to untold annoyances, and the very health of the second child menaced by the flashlight cameras of the . fourth estate, It is not a pretty picture.

The big issue before Congress and the American people is whether to give approval to this basic assumption. JIE we grant that the British are fighting our battles, then,we’ - must admit: 1 That they have every right to insist that we putfit them with everything they need, not through sales or ‘leases either, but at our own expense; E. That we should deliver the supplies in our own merchant vessels; That we should send our warships to any point of the ~ compass where’ they will be most useful in Britain's fight _ for us; | ~ Indeed, that we should forthwith declare war, and get: jn with everything we've got, including sending our cwn: ~ young men to risk their lives alongside the youth of Britain, Granted that it is our fight, there is only one road. to travel—and our speed down it should be deterred only: by: the expedient consideration of “what will we fight with 7” Will Congress and the American people accept the premise from which these logical and faithful steps: nasurally flow? Or shall we return to the conviction expressed "go often when this war started—-that the British are fizht- | stream of blood. 1 : y& ing their ova war—and thereby reserve the right to (decide tie hg Ly oe in hy jeans ide step by step just how far we shall go in aid to. Britain. hold the riotes for the money they lent, who have the ~ So far as this newspaper is concerned, we still cling to | 1O%eY back and who will cintinue to collect interest that once popular phrase “short of war.”

cated in-the ordinary or common parts of industrial Indianapolis where workmen are employed and also keep the democracy from rub-

you ‘got all the principal on date due. If you needed the money there was always a market. Now comes Secretary Morgenthau

Side Glances=By Galbraith

borrows the money it gets into business. It ely all of it drifts into ot spend it—people who

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yver, all of that war exN penditure was in the h{inds of what is generally known as the House of Have. The 27 billions we spent on the depression to cate is, similarly, now in existence Hut is in the hands of the House of Have. A big. Nevi: York bank today reports deposits of $2,900,000,000. Half of it is inj cash. That started out chiefly as relief money. Wh mn we spend 50 billioh on this war the 50 billion will be in the hands of the same House of Have when war is over—no matter how much we tax. That's the way it works, And now have a look at it. The Government will “borrow thé 50. billion from ; ose whe have it. They

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

T this season when colds, sore throats and other: respiratory infections are more numerous and the weather in most. parts of the country is damp and chilly, the child or young adult who has had an... attack of rheumatic fever needs special protection. . The exact cause of this serious malady has not yet been discovered, but doctors know that when the patient has recovered from the first attack, he is likely to have recurring attacks for several years. Colds and sore throats and other infectious diseases are extra - hazardous for such patients. og SB ogi Many chilldren with rheumatic fever have been’ ‘able to avoid recurring attacks by spending the winter ‘and spring months in a warm equable climate. Unfortunately most bf them cannot be” sent South for: the winter because of financial reasons. RI atic” fever occurs most often among children ‘in families in the lowest income group. If the child who has ‘had ‘rheumatic: fever cannot be. sent away for | ‘winter, every effort should be made to see th living quarters are warm and that his cloth tects him from cold and wet when he goes © The period between the sixth and the 13 is the dangerous age for rheumatic fever, tween these ages that the greatest nux occur. “Growing pains” are often one Oo | toms. The child who complains of such pa ‘be taken to a doctor so that if the pains a . rheumatic fever, proper treatment can be mediately. { : Complete bed rest from the ve attack is required in this : in order to spare the child's he Rheumatic fever inflicts serk heart and is the chief ca childhood. .If fhe damage child survives the first attack from the further heart dams attack of the disease

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will ,spend {the 50 billion and, after a time, it will all trickle back: into the pockets of much the same peo‘ple. . And ‘when the war eniis, these people will own 50. billion | dollars of notes |against the Government and they will have the 50 billion back in their banks, . As for the great mass the population it will, long after the:war is over—g:nerations after in fact— continue tb pay in the neigh orhood of two and a half billion a year initaxes. The statues will go up to the ‘heroes. The history book ||will tell glamorous lies : about + the | statesmen who plunged the nation into a 2 %

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PORTRAITS OF TIME By DANIEL B. STRALEY

The December days aré gone. The year is stowed away But like a family album, We'll take it up some day And from it brush the cobwebs, The tarnished clasp undo,

on it forever—until the whol» thing blows up. But this

is a minor detail. Then with a tear and sigh and

So ] twinkle Il I 4 — ; We'll leaf the portrait through, NE of the admirable characteristics of President Roose- 18 2 ; WG LI =) : velt is his loyalty to those who have remained loyal to ns of 1 2 (BT | DAILY THOUGHT him through the hardest fire. So it is not surprising to : iT SNE Wh i & Wine is a mocker, strong drink nd him rewarding Sherman Minton by naming hia an nent abundantly sup- go is raging; and whosover is de- . : . ceived thereby is not wise.~Proidministrative assistant at $10,000 a year. : verbs 20:1. Mr. Minton has proved his loyalty as a New Deals: and THE FIRST draught serveth for personal friend of the President. He should make an health, the second for pleasure, the ent assists at, and we wish him well, . z ] fourth

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