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look at the battle of Britain, leaving it to others to

of America.

distinct contribution. It removes all suspicion of partisan

thereby enabling Congress and the publie to consider the

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program on merit alone. “And considering it on merit alone, the people and their

lawmakers naturally will want to start from that point

everything possible to aid Great Britain short of going to | war and short of undermining our own defense. In weighing the President’s blank-¢check bill as the messhre designed to carry out that policy, some congres: sional ‘and popular leaders have suggested certain amend: ments that seem well worth considesing. One of these is that a time limit should be placed on ' any grants of extraordinary authority that are voted to the . President—so that delegated powers will automatically revert to Congress, without the needless risk of a later test of strength wherein a two-thirds vote of both houses might be necessary to override a possible Presidential veto. Thal _is a prudent restriction, and one thet Congress historically insists upon in any grant of emergency powers. . Other suggestions run to the pertinent question of just how much extraordinary authority is required to attain the admitted objectives. Our agreed purpose is to give aid to Britain. The President’s bill goes beyond aiding Britain. It would permit.the transfer of American armaments to any nation whose defense the President deems vital to our defense. Congress may properly decide to modify that language, so as to keep to itself the final right to decision as to. ~ which countries shall receive the planes, ships and guns bought by American taxpayers. | As written, the pending bill would authorize the President to sell, lend, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of . any weapons we may possess or may in the future produce, | One slight check proposed on the exercise of this power is ' that, before any weapons are transferred, the responsible officers of the Army or the Navy should first certify that those weapons are.not essential to our own defense. That would not tie the President’s hands. He managed the big * destroyers-for-island-bases trade under a similar requirement in the present law. . 1 And since the “short of war” qualification still stands as a red light to all our undertakings, Congress will. want 10 examine thoughtfully that section in the President’s bill which would permit warships of friendly belligerent powers | to be repaired and outfitted in our own navy yards. Congress

will want to consider whether such a concession might not |

{ invite war to our shores, rather than keep it away. oh The great debate has started. -And with Republicans | Willkie and Landon disagreeing as sharply as Democrats | Roosevelt and Wheeler, the people and their elected representatives can decide this proposition, and all its phases, on merit.

MRS, DEMARCHUS C. BROWN . HOUSANDS of Indianapolis persons who received a wicarious thrill out of her stories of trips in far-off lands will miss Mrs. Demarchus C. Brown, ‘this city’s most distinguished traveler and lecturer, for whom funeral services will be held this afternoon. For more than a quarter of a century, Mrs. Brown had organized groups of local persons and had conducted tours abroad. On her return, she would lecture brilliantly on their adventures and she was constantly in demand as a speaker.’ She was more than a traveler ahd lecturer, however. She was a devoted citizen of Indianapolis, always interested in every cultural undertaking, always ready to help and her death is being. mourned by hundreds who knew her as warm-hearted friend and confidant.

MR. ARNOLD AND THE STAFF OF LIFE | A S a trust-buster, Thurman W. Arnold is beginning to make Teddy Roosevelt look like a piker. During his tenure in Washington as ‘chief of the Justice Department's ‘anti-trust division, the breezy and versatile gentleman from - Wyoming has turned a moribund body of laws into a going © concern. : He has laid about him in many directions, in spite of ~ howls of dismay and anger from High places. He has cracked . down on doctors, for boycotting the group-health move- _ ment; on both labor and employers in the building industry, - for assorted unsavory and uneconomic practices; on the “oil industry, on the lumber men, on radio (and ASCAP), “and this, that and the other. | And he has had great success. Of the 33 Sherman Act cases terminated in the last fiscal year, he won all but two. (In the two previous years together, only 12 cases were ‘won “and four lost.) ; : Mr. Arnold’s latest venture concerns a matter that affects us all—the price of bread. % The merits of this particular case are for the courts to decide. But it is a satisfaction to know that the “staff of life” has a two fisted guardiah angel. oh

AD TEETH—BAD ‘MAN |

is said that Hitler seldom goes to the dentist, for fear of being hurt. His teeth are bad. Maybe his wickedness

i caused, at least in part, by poison Potted into his system rom rotten teeth.

It will be recalled that Zangara, who shot at President’

evelt but missed, and fatally wounded Mayor Cerniak icago, suffered fronr bad teeth.

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‘WE ENDELL WILLKIE is flying the Atlantic to have a | | lead the “loyal opposition” in what he once called the Battle |

Mr. Willkie’s statement endorsing, with modifications, the President’s lend-lease armament program makes one

| politics from whatever differences of opinion may develop,

Fair Touch By Westbrook Pegler “repalvin. Slams - Profi beering but

Notes Some People did All Right |

In New Deal's War on Poverty

EW YORK, Jan. 13. ~Driving t the office today, George Spelvir, American, thought approximaterly as follows: | Well, the way I [feel about it you take like nowadays when all you hear ahout is, i’ you are a dope

you are underpr} \vileged, and if you -

are a crook, “well, then, you aren't as bad: as the big corporations, but . if you are a sa and work your \ head off, then, they will come around and tell You how terrible it is about selfish people who don't give a hang for enybody else when everybody knows some people are just bums, and ‘when they do get old of some nioney they never bay their doctoi bills or grocery bills or .anything, Although, sure, I admit it doesn’t have to mean you are a bum Suet because vou had some bad breaks or you woted for Roosevelt, but it. doesn’t mean you are a louse, either, just because you happen to do your work right and take care of your own kids ad your bills and you voted for willie. Like when I wa: a kid if you wire a big shot you had an iron deer on your front lavn, and everybody used to think if you had an iron de¢r you were a rich louse and stole your money, but jus; the same every-

body wanted to be 4 big shot, and ni os of tram Li | ‘where there was a complete meeting of minds, namely from | Everybody took care of their own kids and the

the position taken by both Mr. Willkie ancl Mr. Roosevelt in | the election campaign—that thge United States should do |

President's wife wasn’t funning arcund trying to fix it so the Government would take care of your kids so you would vote for her old man, and her own kids could sell a lot of izisurance or pull down $1500 a week shooting off their face on the radio.

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AP still all this popping off abput how this time nobody is going to get rich out of the war, and

. what I’ would like to know is didn’t they say this

whole New Deal vias a war against poverty, and I wish you would be 50 kind as to kinclly tell me who got any richer than hi: family did out pt that war if you will be so kind. Sure I don't think anybody ought to get rich out of any war, but it certainly is mighty funny to me like if an ordinary citizen makes a couple of passes and wins some dough by hard work and brains he is a tory if he wants to hang onto som of it, but if you happen to say aye, yes or no about the way Mr. Big’s

family got rich out of the war agéinst poverty, then

you are an appease or-something. | Because, like I say, everybody vianted to have an iron deer on their front lawn, but thie New Deal comes along and says, “all right, boys; nobody gets any iron deers any more, bul we will spread the wealth around 50 everybody will get a cast-iron rabbit,” and the first thing you know they are all tearing down to the junk yard to raise two bits on their rabbit, and in a few days only a few people have got | ‘their rabbits left, so thé New Deal says agai, “okay, it ain’t right for some tories to have a cast-iron rabbit on their front lawn and all the underprivileged Laven’t got any, so we will call in the rabbits, and from now on everybody gets a cast-iron. mouse for their front lawn.” t J ” 2 )

ELL, it goes ¢n like that, witl everybody getting a cast-iron beetle, then a :ast-iron bug and finally nobody has ot anything unless they happen to be certain parties who didn’t take ‘hat stuff too seri‘ously how nobody as supposed to get rich out of the war against poverty or the war against Hitler. But you take a walk out in the country and put a board against a high stone wall and look over onto a big private lawn tlie size of a country club and there you see whole herds of thousands (of cast-iron deers, and whose place do! you think this 152 Well, one thing is sure: You don’t live there, you bum of a tory appeaser, because you are all flattened

1 sut, and your own house is gone jor taxes and your

insurance and savings got taken a llong time ago, and the Government is| raising your kids now so they won't get wrong ideas about selfish greed. I guess there is nothing youi!-can do about it, though, Spelvin. Just relax. It is too late to do anything about it howl,

Business By John T. Flynn

Budget Message Discards Accepted Theories on Wise Fiscal Control

EW YORK, Jan. 13-On on? point the President’s budget message has made the Administration’s policy abundantly clear. That message threw every conception and theory of wise fiscal administration out of the window. It would be im- | possible for any statesman to utter || a fiscal boner more surprising or | even frightenihg than the Presi- || dent’s statement that what he | calls restrictive taxes will inter- | fere with the full use of our pro- | ductive capaciiy. This is cejtainly true, but it || is most certainly not true when | the high taxes are accompanied /| by a huge voliime of Government | borrowing. In fact, if there is | one principle ¢f sound fiscal policy | that is well known, it is that taxes are essential as an offset to heavy Government bor: ‘owing. The whole tenor. of the message makes if obvious that the President is exultant in the disctvery of a glorious occasion for extending prosperity by the bootstrap method—right up to 1943, when th¢ full force of the great defense program is going-tc explode in a magnificent burst of prosperity—according to the message. If we can keep the war going and the deferse going up to 1943, why not up to 1944? Certainly One thing is certain gle it blows up before 1944, ; Someb| pay is going to catch old ned.

8 » ” ERE we see in full flower that beautiful economic crackpot philosophy sponsored about a month ago by Messrs. Rexford Tugwell, Leon Henderson, Mordecai Ezekiel! and young Mr. Gilbert of the De< fense Commission. They declared that we had not achieved real rejovery because we had been spending only three billions a year on recovery and relief, whereas we musf| spend at least 12 billions. They also announced that this defense program was going to prove to the world that the Government, by spending 12 billions a| year, could produce abundance for all. hat is what the Government iis now doing. There is only one thiilg in this world program and that is for the war to end. If England beats Germany, or Germany cracks up, that will end the fear orgy by which the American people have ‘been whipped Up into this crowning folly. If Germany beats England the ectasy ‘can be kept up for a while, but not until 1043, In short, the American people are now about to witness what is perhaps the final chapter in the

great New Deel experiment of | | spending—this time:

on war. Men who a year ago were wheezing and muttering abou’ spending a few hundred millions. of dollars on starving American workmen are now ready to fling billions to a foreign country. It has certainly turned out onde more to be a grand war--for the time being.

So They Say—

THE IDEAT, STATE has never existed on earth, yet. men of vijion, from Plato to Woodrow Wilson, have ever ceased to picture Bp David 8. Muzzey, histo rian, be * *

IT 18 HEART-BREAKING. 70 find an American

woman burying democracy in quotation marks.—Mrs.

Irving Berlin | on Ann Lindbergl’ s “Wave of ;the Fuure ”»

ay,

THE MORK economists have tampered with economic conditions, the worse they have become; the more poiltical scientists have riformed governments the more are governments in eed of reform; the more sociologists have tamp with the family, the more the family has disintegr:ted.—Dr. Pitirim A. Sorokin, Harvard sociolqgist. 5 *

(GOODBY, thanks for A words of

BYR Eatlitr Blmith

ithat can wreck this

: ; The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

CONTENDS IT’S TIME WE ' THOUGHT OF OURSELVES By John R. Surber, New York City

It is well known that he who would sit in on a peace conference must first fight a war. Those who talk about what kind of peace is to be permitted need watching—they are looking for war. Peace and democracy for all the world i$ crusade talk—the same old story. The best way to have peace is to maintain it. We have it in the Americas. It was not maintained in Europe because the Allies did not organize and, prepare to keep it. The Europeans in this country are legion — and they're all telling us what we can do for them. We must be thinking and doing what must be done for ourselves. We shall have peace in the Americas only if we organize and prepare this heptl» sphere to keep the peace.

#2. 8 -» FURIOUS VENTS FURY ON OUR MR. CURIOUS By Furious

I read Curious’ comments with deep disapproval. My father is a mill man but he is not an imbecile nor a foreigner. He speaks good English, reads the paper, and has discussed the National Defense program. If Curious is a' highly educated college man what is he doing working in the mill? It seems to me that he should be able to find a job in an office. Besides the mill employers are looking for men whe will work—not spineless creatures who go to sleep working and want to stand around talking defense. He evidently can’t get a job that demands brains nor can he fill a position that requires brawn so I gather he is a misfit.

8 ® =» FEARS F.D.R.s POLICIES DRAWING US INTO WAR By R. G. L. ; ‘Editorially The Times has said that for citizens to feel our entrance into the European war is inevitable

‘lis “defeatism.” Perhaps it is. At least

I shall continue to fight against entry to the limit of my 1/130-mil-lionth population power. : But the fact that our participation is virtually a certainty now is no longer denied by Administration

sage leaves no doubt about our commitments or thelextent of our “aid short of war.” It is war—only the technique is to provoke Germany to declare it so we are “forced” to de-

spokesmen. The President's mes-'

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fend ourselves. And the President can then say “I told you so.” Bullitt says we must enter now. All the thinking about war is based on premises which art not only unproved and unlikely but in times of cold sanity they would sound like sheer nonsense. Willem Van Loon calls this a planetary civil war. I like that description for so it seems to me to be. Only we aren’t fortunate enough to have a compassionate and understanding Lincoln at the helm. Instead we've got a hot-headed, prejudiced Anglophile who, like his uncle before him, “thinks with his hips.” Certainly not.with his head, from any indication. This World War II is so unnecessary. What differences there were could have been adjusted amicably originally. Now we have gone too far to turn back. And how right Mark Twain is about how the wap fever develops. Our thinking is so emotional and we're so far off base. Mrs. Roosevelt can write of being shocked at Republicans for being so partisan as not to applaud the President when he makes his invitation to a declaration of war. . « « I'm getting this off while I still may. This is running short for completely free speech. . Remember before the election some pedple said if F. D. R. is reelected we'll be in the war by spring? At this writing the date will be April. But I pray God not. 2 =n = URGING PUBLICATION OF NAMES ON DIES LIST By Mrs. E. B. Davis I have been ,wondering and pondering the question so many Americans are asking—why our President has refused to permit publication of Nazi and Communist names contained in the book compiled by the Dies Committee, which was really created by the Ameritan Legion which has been a constant supporter of the committee. Perhaps if these

names were to be made public, some high officials might come under the

Side Glances=—By Galbraith

America.

Sate to the ark; and there he

glare of unpleasant publicity and Mr. and Mrs. American Citizen might discover that their next-door neighbor, fellow-worker or merchant n.ight be on this list. During the present crisis, why not enact a law to abolish bunds and secret foreign clubs and societies, imposing a severe penalty for infringement? . . . The four totalitarian governments have totalitarian propaganda and thousands of tons of it come into our country. . . . This propaganda costs the American taxpayer, for we are paying for their distribution here in the United States. Suppose we lend our ships, planes and guns to England and Greece as the interventionists urge, and later we are attacked? We gave our youth, our all, to help during the last World War, but did any of the countries we assisted (exeept Finland) express their appreciation by even trying to repay us? When Russia desired France and England to adhere to their treaty in order to save helpless Czechoslovakia from German encroachment, could England or -France be bothered? No, they permitted those brave people to become German puppets, but now when the worm turns, it is a far different story. . ..

We Americans must be alert, for|# our own safety depends upon our |i: protection from within and also our | § own immediate and adequate de-|}

fense for our.United States! . ” » ” COMPARING THE NATION TO A GIANT OAK By 8. D. R. ’ America’s problem reminds me of a giant oak tree which stood in a commanding position among its neighbors. It sprang from an acorn with a perfect heart, grew sturdy ana stanch with limbs strong for its branches, which gave full leaf. And all view together the sky to reach. Its broad canopy sheltered it from the blazing sun and its leaves as they fell to earfh gave added richness to its soil. As it grew older it mellowed with age and termites crept into its trunk to feed on its bark and bore into its heart. Woodmen came, viewed it, trimmed and cleansed it from its plight. Thus rejuvenated it became a work of art. Yes, Uncle Sam needs all his woodmen loyal and true to gird and strengthen him for his work and building, too. He is calling upon his patriotic sons to guard our harbors and our shores from the angry waves and storms whichgybeat upon them. Yes, we have Work to do in this land of paradise. God bless

” £ » GETTING A LAUGH OUT OF PLURAL REFERENCE TO F. D. R. By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. }

“The Prime Minister paid tribute to President Roosevelt.” says The Times, “and called him a pre-em-ient figures.” Pre-eminent figures is right. Many a truth is spoken in. jest, and sometimes in typographical gerrors. The Prime Minister may have noticed, too, that the “pre-eminent figures” were all preceded by silly fool dollar marks!

BOOKS By NELLIE G. OWENS Old friends, always ready, When skies are dark grey, To brighten and gladden, Each long, lonesome. day.

Their; coats Jay be tattered, Torn their “pages and old, But loyal companions, Till life's story is told.

If isn’t rare bindings, Nor yet what they cost, For the shabbiest one, May cheer us the most.

DAILY THOUGHT And the anger of the Lord was

kindled against Uzza, and he him ‘because he put his

Sed before God. — Chronicles

THE OBJECT of putlisiuent is is Soieefold: For just retribution; for

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WR AER

Visit to Ade “Engineers” . Convinces . Him Production Kings Giving All They Have to Arms Effort

ETROIT, Mich., Jan. 13.—~The “captains 8 ang kings” of the production lines don’t “talking at” for extreme effort in national defense, least not in the automobile industry. I was asked. Mr. Knudsen to pinch-hit for him at his Jowg-dat engagement at a convention of . the Society of: Automonve Ex gineers. It was supposed. to be a _“pep talk,” a sort - 3 especially urging ‘the. ey of, orders, greater co- ! with ; the airplane :industr

the, invention of m us all gle skilled men and le. na

My pretty silly. I pared vd talk sounded

, several hours before I was scheds “uled to talk. In conversations with old friends in this industry and in press announcements that day, it became a that all I was supposed to talk about is being ic was started long ago and is proceeding with all the

‘speed and vigo~ that is to be expected from this pat-

ticularly swift and robust industry, "8.8 y

. Mice of the Society of Automobile Engineers

rarely display much of that quality of annual binge that gives so many American business conventions the appearance of a thlinkit potlach, and igorot canyow or the, yearly picnic of the brotherhood of bungstarters. They are about half way between a learned society and a union of hard boiled executives, This year it was all that way in the gatherings. “Life

; is real, life is earnest” and, so far as they are cone

cerned, there is blood on the moon. Al] the large companies are joined up with the big airplane companies to produce parts or engines for airplane assemblies on a scale that is dizzy in its They may once have been some mutual rivalry, some fear among the aircraft manufacturers that the automobile people would like to take over their business, or some apprehension among the mo« tor folk that airplane work would hamper car production. There is no evidence of anything of that kind now. The Detroit people are actually taking the lead in combined production and, so far as I can see, holding back nothing. It isn’t confingd to aircraft produce tion, either. These great manufacturing: establish« ments are straining every effort to do whatever the Office of Production Management wants them to do on tanks, shells, guns, cartridge cases, armored cars

or whatever else they can fit into their production

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HEY are not haggling about profits or commer« cial conditions. This confirms at the manuface turing end what I heard at the overhead management end in Washington before I came to Detroit. In many ways, the extent to which this has gone is astonishing. In our competitive system where come bination and joint action by manufacturing concerns is forbidden under heavy penalty by the law, it re quires . at least some Government leadership, if not outright Government sanction, for competitors to act together. Up to a few days ago there wasn’t even ‘any aue thorized leadership. There still is no forthright Gove ernment sanction. In the meantime, without warne ing, even without prior planning, the biggest formless mass of billions in war orders was. beiched in the face of leaderless and unorganized industry—the bulk of it within the last few months. I do not mean to say that a vast production is going to begin to flow tomorrow but; after at least a glance at what is going on here, I think some of the estimates have been too pessimistic. Perhaps not in the necessary balance and co-ordination, but to very impartant results, I think we e shall have a tremendous outflow early in"1942.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HEN a nation goes to war it's “whole hog or none.” Americans who had hoped this country could stay out of foreign conflicts must now bend every effort to the paramount business of the day— the defense of democracy, not only at home but abroad. The President has made a moral declaration of war against the dice tator nations. And the President “is our leader and spokesman. When he commits us to a course of action, we must follow. Strictly speaking, the people of the United States have not been permitted to give an expression of opinion on the question which will so strongly affect their future dese tiny. Both major political candi« dates pledged themselves before election to keep American troops out of Europe. ‘And nobody yet believes that the common people of this country want to’ send our boys to another continent to fight. But the common people do believe that their President has access to facts they may not have, They believe in his honor and integrity, and so are easily persuaded to give what he asks, because he asks it in the name of something they love—their country. It’s a mean and nasty job we are undertaking, in spite of its aspects of nobility. We are Ning. x to se® aside all other business so that the manufacture of armaments in this “arsenal of democracy” can go full sieam ahead, We must be rolling up our sleeves Jor Ts fo get to ne best way to deal with a hard s ge and finis fo h it as quickly a8 While we are working at war, however, be hoped that our intellectual, political and Lieto leaders will keep part of their minds free in order to Susy the things of peace. ; e people will work, and if need be figh better grace if they can be made to feel leh Ju world is moving toward international understanding, War and democracy are not compatible, and while there comes today a great challenge to might and militarism, there exists an even stronger. challenge to Lumsnitarianism and morality. ar settles few issues. It is our behav of truce that affects the fate of ior while we prepare for Bois Ge grant that Americans may. also heir he and in their tho hts’ be eparing for the peace that will follow. i 4

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'Q—What are the ranks and coronet markiigs: of the British nobility below the Royal family? A—Dukes, eight strawberry 'leaves; mares, four strawberry leaves and four pearls mounted on high rays: viscounts, 16 pearls’ mounted,. and barons, six pearls not mounted, Q—Will wolves or coyotes mate with dogs? A—Wolves and dogs are known to mate frequently and coyotes and dogs less frequently, if at all. ‘Wol and dogs-may be completely fertile with one: but itis not definitely known whether the Tae of coyote and dog is fertile. ntitled to re

an a woman who is draw monthly benefits under e. aad receive a supplemental benefit in behalf of her huse band who is also aged 65, AR Who is not 1nstred vii, der the act in his own right? A—There is no provision under the Social: Security Act for the payment of a supplementary benefi behalf of the husband of a retired female nes In other words, the insured wife of an uninsured man may receive only the retirement benefit to. which she is entitled in her own right, with no supplenfentary benefit as in the of an insured ‘man with an uninsured wife. is is one of the apparent incone. ssi aneles of the nidting law. “a be the tail and mar of U. Army airplanes. wit Sings vb >

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