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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941

$17,485,528,049 el ND the staggering figures: in President Roosevelt's budget for the 12 months beginning next July don’t tell the whole story. . He Additional billions will be asked for aid to Britain. There will be other expenditures, not now foreseen. As the President says, “no one can predict the ultimate cost of a program that is still in development, for no one can define the future.” But beyond doubt Federal spending in fiscal 1942 will far exceed the record of 1919, when America poured out 1814 billions to help win a war.

Mr. Roosevelt's budget message is admirably frank. It promises no miracles, conceals no essential information, “and puts before the people a clear picture, so far as it can "now be drawn, of the financial burden that they—-and their - children and grandchildren-—are asked to assume. ‘We believe the people will shoulder this burden willingly and cheerfully. I They have a right fo demand that the President and Congress seek for even greater economies than those promised in the ordinary costs of Government. Supporting the policy of retaining “the ideals and objectives of eur social and economic programs in the face of war changes,” they have a right to object to extravagance and waste anywhere © _ in the vast Federal machinery. Bil ! The people expect that the nearly 11 billions budgeted for the defense program—a program whose fatal cost through fiscal 1942 is now placed at 28 billiong--shall be used to produce the promptest and most efficieit results. If it buys what the people intend it to buy, & defense : so strong that America can remain at peace, this budget y pa will be a cheap price to pay. i

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2 x = # =» |» Mr. Roosevelt is sound in saying that a start should be made this year toward meeting a larger percentage of that price from current tax receipts. We welcome his advocacy of additional tax measures based on the principle of ability to pay. And it is encouraging to note that the latest Gallup Poll reports that the American people are ready to contribute much more generously to the cost of defense. Fifty-one per cent of those questioned declared : that every family not oh relief should pay an income tax based on the family’s earnings, no matter how little. _ But, as the President says, a substantial part of the defense program must be financed through - borrowing. Properly he suggests that the borrowing should be direct "from citizéns, rather than from banks. Buf we can’t see ~——4We-wisdom ‘in the Presidential hint that.Congress remove | the legal debt limit; which only “serves as a fiscal monitor.” After all, a monitor can be mighty useful, and this is hardly the time to proclaim that the debt’s only-boundary is the sky. : : :

IT’S A BUCK-PASSING PLAN

TN RECENT weeks Republican leaders have been sitting around thinking up bright ideas about reorganizing the Indiana state government. {in One of the least bright, on the basis of reports so far available, concerns the plan to place each of the state's 21 penal, charitable and benevolent institutions in the hands of a bi-partisan board. ir : The very- nature of the plan suggests an gwareness of the fact that a number of these institutions haye not been well administered, that the public is becoming &cutely conscious of this fact: and that the device of |siparate, bipartisan boards was conceived with the idea of avoiding future heat from the public. ho 5 #8

The proposed plan of having 21 bi-partisan boards, rather than one centralized group, is so obviously unsound, uneconomical and unworkable that more, rather than less, ~ heat is inevitable. Let's look at two obvioug examples of weakness: I 1. One part of thé Republican program calls for adoption of the merit systém in state institutions. Under the proposed arrangement, the 21 boards would be in charge of this program. This would mean that 21 boards would set up 21 “little” merit systems, make 21 sets of job classifica- + tion, hold 21 sets of examinations, and hunt out 21 qualified “persons as personal administrators. In addition to all these duplications of effort, clerical staffs would be duplicated 21 times and administrative costs would be duplicated at © every turn. It is estimated the cost of these 21 merit sys- ~~ tems alone would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $65,000, with no assurance that the job would be done either . completely or efficiently. The cost of setting up a single merit system, covering all institutions and eliminating all +, duplications, would be approximately $26,000. 2 2. Decentralized control also may operate to eliminate numerous services now offered to institutions which no single institution could afford to pay out of its separate budget. These include special medical care, psychological ¥ and psychiatric services, nursing supervision, farming as- . sistance and the like. The need of all institutions is for ‘more assistance of this kind, not less. ,

8 & ie The list of the weaknesses of the proposed plan could ‘be extended at length. We respectfully suggest that the ‘Republicans consult some sound authorities on the matter of welfare institutions before they commit themselves ir-

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Fair Enough -By Westbrook Pegler

5 Le F..D} Rs: Fecent ' Speeches Silent

“ OnJoe Stalin and He Wonders Why Since He ls as Guilty as Hitler

EW YORK, Jan. 9.— Our President is a busy man, with headaches enough to start the seams of the Capitol dome, so that vhich I am about to say is tossed into the discussion with no flippant or nagging

inten: but only to recap ure a page which apparently d blew off the rack during both of his racent orations on dictators— the dirty dogs—and what they can't do to us. ; ‘ Ir neither of these state papers did I detect any reference to Josef Stalia, whose sanction, it may be remembered, was the go-ahead whic started the present World War and who has been just as guilt,’ as Adolf Hitler, though in a less spectacular and perhaps smarier way, in the matter of consuming little nations which were mincing their own business and hopirg nobody would notice them, That Stalin is a dictator who denies religious, intellectual and political freedom to his subjects is a proposition that doesn’t even require discussion, and certainly it would not take five minutes to produce, out of the newspaper files of the time, proof that Hitler started this war only after he had received Stalin’s okay in the forms of ar economic and military conspiracy against the free heople of the world. From the fact that Hitler didn’’ make his move uitil he and Stalin got together we may conclude that €talin knew and intended that his treaty with Der Fuearer would start the Germans rolling into Poland in that terrible hour which all the worlc so long had lived in fear of.

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SEN thereafter Stal n’s, faceless men shoved into Foland to a line' wliich had been agreed on with Hitler, and when their armies met Poland was no more and God only knows what happened to the unfortuhate human beings who had fled from Hitler's killers into the country where they found themselves trapped by the robots of the Red Tsar. Stalin, by agreement with Hitler, spread out: over the Baltic couniry and, in a mov: which all but the few Communists among us regarded as a terribly wicked aggression against a sriall, clean, virtuous nation, all but killed Finland. It probably will be finished off this year in another of those ponderous but irresisti-

-ble sirokes of a giant whose B. O. alone is likely to

strangle any civilized ¢pponent. ; Ever since the war began by Stalin’s permission Hitler's acquisitions of slaves and living-room achieved at tlie cost of military effort and skill have been acco:apanied by roughly ing gains of slaves and land for Josef Stalin at practically no cost to him, except in the cas of Finland. Morally there is no difference between Hitler and Stalin, and in their attitide toward the 'Jnited States they have been abou’ alike, too, having both maintained conspiracies here against our peac: and safety, financed and directed from their respictive capitals while they were making a pretense of (liplpmatic friendship. Ii there is any difierence at all it is in favor of Hitler and against Stalin, because we had had trouble with the Muscovites before and, as a condition of the reswaption of diploma ic relations in 1933, made them proniise, in so many words, to leave off revolutioneering in our midst. NM a » ® H xe given thet promise, Stalin went right ahead with his internal anti-American conspiracies under Earl Browder and similar traitors, and this activity continues today in the longshore, maritime. transport and telegraph unions of the C. I. O. and in-the Youth Ccngress—although the American people are pretty well onto these trestheries now. I'am, in spite of my wish to get unified and wholly credilous and co-operative, nevertheless suspicious of this omission of all mention of Stalin and Russia among the enemies of the American way, because—no kidding—New Deals,” irom the very beginnings, have seenied to think that Stalinism or Muscovism was in som¢ way less horrible than Hitlerism. No Hitlerite ever has been discovered in this Administration, but thers have been many horn-rimmed ideology stiffs stasiled away in Government jobs, where they could rais¢ unremitting hell with common, law-abiding, trusiing, taxpaying Anericans, and Mrs. R. and Ickes have taken public opportunities to roast wienies and bob for apples with them, Vell, anyway, just where do we stand on this dictator and this aggressor nation, which conducts its aggiession mostly in the role of buzzard on the scattered members of helpless, unoffending little , states wkhizh have been blown apartsby Hitler's killefs?

Business By Johri T. Flynn

Money Experts Should Be Called . To Help Congress on Gold Policy

TEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Congress at last is going to | get a chance t9 do a little something about the gold purchasing plan. The Federal Reserve System— the President's own board—has recommended that something be done to protect the country from it. Also from-the power the President has to devalue the dollar and to issue billions of greenbacks. The manner in which some of these powers was given to the President is perhaps forgotien. In the early days of the Administration, the President let it be known that he was opposed to inflation. , He had actually offered the Treasary portfolio to Carter Glass, arch-enemy of inflation. - Then Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, who had been clamoring for inflation via the Federal Reserve System, of ered an amendment to a pending bill authorizing ani directing the Government to do various things—to ssue Federal Reserve notes to the point where prices would equal the 1926 level and to issue three billion, I think, in greenbacks. This amendmen; was about to pass. Congress was full of inflationary zeal. It actually had passed the Goldsborough bill ‘or a managed currency. At this point the President urged a modification of the Tliomas amendmer t—a modification that would lodge th power with hin: to be used at his discretion. Having obtained the discretion he could, of course, refuse to exercise it. Anc thus he was hailed as having defeated the inflationists. Dw : : | This’ is importint because a part of the scheme ir passing that liw was not to frustrate the inflailonists.

: sw. coe, 8 » » ve : ‘ TE President subsequently inflated by a different JL process—the, creation. of vast ‘bank deposits through Government loans. And through a later bill ha devalued the collar. ‘His powers over the dollar, still hang over our currency as a ow of uncer=tzinty. His gold purchase plan has created a condition that seems tc baffle treatment.

tilat the gold hercafter coming under the gold purchasing plan be sterilized by being isolated from the Covernment’s rescrve gold. There is grave doubt that this will do the trick. Cn the other land, the attempt will require a riechanism- that will produce other disturbances in the banking situajion. Yet it is difficult to determine Low the purchasing can be stopped without producing rerhaps even more serious disturbances. The Banking end Currency Committees of Congress should invite the leading monetary authorities of the ration to come t¢ Washington and thrash out before that committee, in a full and open discussion, the course to be take. It is to be hoped that there will ke no off-hand reilroading of these measures through Clongress—in spite of that fact that the recorhmendations of the Rese ve Board seem eminently sane,

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URGES U. 8. STAY HOME, BUILD UP DEFENSES By J. J. Stith Jr... Detroit, Mich.

Roosevelt will ask the aid of Congress to help settle an argument of which the American public should not be interested. He has enough troubles to solve without Europe’s. licans, both should bolt the door on any war dispute in Europe. Build an Army, Navy, weapons equal to none. Overseas invasion will lead to a distracted world, not only America. Mr, Hitler no doubt will take care of himself, and England likewise. With our debts soaring to the 60-billion mark; a feeble country should not invade. It will do well to hold its position here.

” ” ” WELCOMES NAVY PLANT TO WARREN TOWNSHIP By A Warren Township Resident

Well, well, so Irvington wants to make the front page again. My, isn’t it too bad their homes are going to be contaminated by the homes of honest working people. If they had loyal, good reasoning they would know a factory worker cannot afford a $7000 to $15,000 home. They like nice homes just the same as Irvingtonians. Then some of these homes have been built for 15 and 20 years, while the beautifull $7000 or more homes have only been huilt about three to five years. If any more homes are built, and we hope there will be, I am sure they need not feel disgraced if some factory worker builds a home, say, costing around $3000. I wonder how far they think Irvington and the city limits extend. To inform them that this is in Marion County, not Igdianapolis, I quote: The city limits travel along the east side of Pleasant Run Golf Course to center of E. 10th, west and around the cemetery southward, then back to the center of E. 10th St. at Anderson Ave., west to a point 175 feet east of Arlington Ave, north 200 feet, then west to Hawthorne Lane. So you see the zoning board and Mayor have no power over us. We

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are glad the Government chose our community for the naval ordnance plant. , . . Yes, we will wire our Congressman, but not the way the civic club wants. We are for it, and may we say we are very near the site, in fact, less than a square from it. I don’t believe you need lose any sleep over the situation, just take a look at our township schools and civic activities. Irvington has a long way to go before it can equal the community and good neighbor spirit found in Warren Township outside of Indianapolis. . . . If Irvington is so concerned about unsightly conditions, let them take a ride north on Ritter and on 16th St. east of Emerson and look at the trash, tin cans and garbage dumped on our county roads by residents of Irvington and all parts of the East Side. . . . If you want to keep the good will of the people of Warren Township, it would be a grand idea to drop your protest against the factory. It won't hurt you any more than a lot of things that are inside your city limits. 5 8 8 =» URGING UNION MEMBERS TO CLEAN HOUSE By W. 8. Ta “Full steam ahead,” says - the President in a message we should have heard last May, when the might and the intent of Hitlerism were evident at last to all not diverted from unadulterated patriotism by politics or another personal ambition. “More. and more production,” says the President now, but - only

time—and time is precigus—will

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prove whether ‘the obstructionists in gévernment, labor and management have heard and obeyed. We cannot serve both the nation,and selfish self-interest and hope to match the efficiency of the dictator powers. on “No strikes or lockouts” says the President, yet we read of a threat~ ened strike to close the Ford Motor plants and of many smaller juris« dictional or organization delays. Why doesn’t the rank and file of labor assert its independence and prove its patriotism by cleaning house of its czaristic, gangster or Communist ‘bosses? “ t » SETS PEGLER STRAIGHT ON ASCAP MUSIC By E. B. Mr. Pegler doesn’t seem to know that ASCAP’s music embraces the works of such composers as George Gershwin, Deems ‘Taylor, Rodgers and Hart, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Victor Herbert, Sigmund Romberg, Irving Berlin and many others— men who have created music which has given great enjoyment ta the

people of our country, and the whole | ji world, with the exception of tourse| &

of Mr. Pegler. He should also realize that the “horrible sounds”. he complains of

are caused by the swing orchestras | which if they can’t swing ASCAP |: and

music will swing anything everything they play. yy 8 » DEMANDS RESPECT FOR PRESIDENT’S OFFICE By A Republican ' I'voted a Republican ticket. I'm glad of it and would not change it for the world. I attended a family. gathering and tuned in to hear the President deliver his recent radio address. During his speech I heard a 15-year-old daughter ask her father who was speaking? He replied: “A lot of bunk.” . Now, the Presidency of the United States is the highest office we have to offer, and it should‘be respected as such, whether or not we agree with his individual ideas. And at no time should we as parents toss into the winds this disrespect when talking with our children. I ask you, should we classify a man who scoffs at our President in front of his own children a good American citizen? . ® 8 ; CALLS FOR CREATION OF INDEPENDENT AIR FORCE

By A. M. K. This being the age, not only of specialties, but also of specialties within . specialties, the time surely has come for the establishment of an independent air corps, made up of and commanded by men trained

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aviation, headed by a minister of the air in the President’s Cabinet. Airpower can no longer be regarded as a mere adjunct to military or naval operations, for aircraft, per se, plays its own role of first rank importance on a defense or offense program. We have a Secretary of War, we have a Secretary of the Navy, why have we no Secretary of the Air?

EQUALITY .By JANE SIGLER The rose is just as perfect, The dewy grass as green ! For any peasant’s daughter As for an old-world. queen.

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"And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and sad. Blessed ve ye poor: for yours kingdom of God.~-Luke 6:30.

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r THURSDAY, JAN. 9 1041 Gen. Johnson Says—

Disagreeing With Mr. Lippmann Who Argues Election Gave F. D. R. A Mandate on His New War Policy.

TASHINGTON, Jan 9.—Walter Lippmann asks ' | Why the “policy” laid down in the President's annual message should be debated. He says that. it has| been passed upon by the people not merely in the elections but in the ee) and that if on Mr. Willkie or Mr. Roosevelt had not indorsed it neither would have been nominated. “... when the voters went to the polls they knew* that the winner of the election would declare the policy the Presi" dent has now declared.” i No issue was presented. Both" candidates agreed on aid: by. Heol Shor: of war,” but sin o s was not defined no “policy”: ‘was considered. Mr, Wikia, wa the astonishment and’ dismay of} many of his supporters, didn’t ex=+ | plore the subject or give the peoe’ ple a chance to hear debate on any par} of the great~ est of American questions. Since there was no issue; on any policy there is no popular mandate, Ji Mr. Lippmann cannot fairly contend that My. Roosevel, mentioned in the campaign any new Amers: lcan crusade to insure, not merely to us but to the: whole world, freedom of the press and. .re ocial’ security and perpetual peace. It is League of Nations’ stuff which this country once overwhelmingly re-

jected. N R. ROOSEVELT campaigned in the presence of’ the Neutrality and Johnson Acts. He made no: mention of any change or any evasion of any of thesesuch as is contained in the “lease-lend” plan, nor did he indicate as he did Monday, any policy about what: kind of peace America will “accept.” Unless “Amers. ica” is at war she can’t either “accept” or reject peace terms. : Candidate Roosevelt advocated methods only “short of war” and promised never to send troops abroad. The phrase “short of war” was dropped out in the Message and we are now said to be “committed to full support.” Who consulted us? Not the Cone gress. Not the people. Not the election. Further-+ more, any professional soldier knows that the policies advocated in the Message never can be achieved with= out war and an expeditionary force. ‘ : If Mr. Roosevelt had made during the campaign. any such warlike utterance as his Annual Message, he would have lost millions of votes—if not the election. Notwithstanding Mr. Lippmann, if Mr. Willkie had done so, he would never have been nominated. Mr. Roosevelt's conduct’ was good politics, but it doesn’t justify saying that, because these “policies”: have been voted upon, if they are to be debated nowit proves that democracy doesn’t work. The truth is, that if they are not debated now it, proves that democracy has been whipped through: hysterical fear into totalitarian silence and acquies« cence or beguiled into believing such absurdities as Mr. Lippmann’s assertion of an issue debated andclosed with a mandate. | © 8 = i

HERE has also been too little clarifying debate: T on the sloganeering assertion that Britain is “fighting our war.” Says a New York Times’ dispatch from London, paraphrasing the British reaction to the message: “The United States says over and over again that Britain must be aided in every possible. way . . , because Britain is essential.to United States ~ defense . . . the United States is hiring us to fight = its battles as we once hired the Hessians... but we are nol getting our pay’—meaning thereby that the: United States isn’t insuring delivery of munitions by putting its Navy into: the armed. Atlantic convoy service. . ia Mo That argument is unanswerable if we are always * remembering” as the British. opinion .cannily ,con= tinues, “that the United States has said that the only." reason it is helping us at all is because we are fight" ing for the United States.” By too much sloganeer=* ing and too little debate we are. “mumbling, fumbling -

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A Woman's ViewpointBy Mrs. Walter Ferguson en Ea

MODERN classic appeared the other day. It “was written by Oscar Ameringer in the form of , a letter to Eugene V. Debs, address Spiritland. 4 ‘ “It is 20 years since I wrote you last,” Mr. Amer« i inger begins, “You wére then in the Atlanta Peni« | __ tentiary where they had sent you~ for opposing the last war, But this isn’t what I'm. writing you about these Merry Christmas’ days. “It struck me that maybe up, there you people don't kéep kp of what's going. on down ‘here. Leastways I hope so, for how could there - be happiness in

Heaven if the blessed got the daily papers and radio broadcasts from below? Knowing how you loved A : the people, and how hard you" strove to make life better and ® sweeter for them, I wanted to let you know what has happened in this world .since you left us for the last: time.” hye From that joint the state of mundane affairs ig described—labor strikes and revolutions. wa yy . “The present war,” he continues, “promises to be: . even bigger and better than the last. PTO “At this writing, Generals Hunger and Pest are: still waiting in reserve. However, both sides are, fervently petitioning Heaven to rush them to theiri: aid. Fortunately, at this stage of the war, casualties | among women, children and non-combatants greatly; exceed those of the warriors, and even among the. lattersonly the younger, most virile and most infellies gent are being killed in. a large way. 3r oF Nn ny “I surely hate to see our country get into another:: war to make the world safe for democracy. The last + one finished democracy in Europe, and another one : will probably finish it here at home. .... rr “As to the probable winners of this war, my ewn: guess is that it will be a tossup between universal: chacs and" Stalin, with the worms, buzzards, snd’: sharks holding the stakes and Uncle Sam holding» the sack. . : Sig “So I'm right glad you arent with us any longer. We'll soon be meeting again, anyway. When you sea+ my old comrades, give ’em my best wishes and tell :

‘em Y've kept the faith. Oh, yes, I almost forgot. If you see The Carpenter don’t fail to give him. my love and say how sorry I am he died in vain,”

Watching Your Health © By Jane Stafford ; or hs

| you are planning a vacation trip to get away. from” the snow and cold weather this winter, remem to be careful about the water and milk you large cities and resorts, the water and 1 are generally safe, but if you stop elsewhere, ing as to whether the milk is pastueurized ar supply regularly inspected and certified partment authorities. If someone tells you

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