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Give Light and ‘the People will Find Their Own Way TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1941 :

FOR DEFENSE AT HOME

~HERE is a serious situation of confusion and cross- a "purposes in the field of national finances, and it urgent. f

y demands correction. |

: | Congress has two eominitivesmitive appropriations com- | was not his weapor..

mittees of House and Senate—which are concerned with | spending. It has two others—the Ways and Means Com- | mittee of the House and the Finanée Committee of the |

| | Grover Hall, perso! lally.

‘Senate—which dre concerned with raiging revenue.

These two sets of committees don’t work together. There is no communication between them, and no united |

of a constantly growing deficit. | - Bad enough in thos€ other years, that has now become

| intolerable. This country can’t hope to achieve permanent military security unless it makes at least a start toward |

eventual financial security.

An excellent remedy has been Sromsed, It is that one,

general House-Senate committee on Government finances be |

created to co-ordinate spending and revenue-raising, its mem. |

bers to be the ranking Democrats and Republicans on each of the four present committees.

general policy and keeping to it.

This plan has been advocated by Treasury Secretary

sive claim to prompt consideration and adoption. We urge Congress to adopt it now. : 171/4-billion-dollar budget should provide incentive. There is danger that the proposal to spend this incredible sum in a single year will have the oppasite effect—will numb all sense of caution and lead Congress to conclude that it 3 is

: useless. to attempt a sound fiscal. policy

‘If that happens, there will be the "usual grabbing | and logrolling to boost appropriations even beyond the: Presid dent’s estimates. There will be the usual cowardly shirking of responsibility for imposing adequate taxes. Extrava: . gance will run riot, and this country, while it arms for des ~ fehise against enemies abroad, will plunge ever more swiftly] toward disaster at home.’ |

BIG DEAL IN RUBBER | | HE War Department announces the purchase of -$80, 381 "worth of rubber bands from an Indiana company. . Having stretched hard to think- of a few | snappy remarks about ~ that, all we can produce is a pair of hopes: (1) That the Army isn’t falling back on slingshots. (2) That, being so

(wd supplied. with rubber bands, it ican now dispense with ;

some 8 of the Govetjment's famous red tape.

LIGHTEN THE POSTMAN'’S BURDEN

Li Dies Committee reveals that our postal system | is distributing free of charge tons of propaganda from the _ totalitarian countries. From Munich, Germany, one agency alone sends yearly 40 tons of anti-democracy printed mat . ter, by way of Russia, Japan and in Japanese vessels call

) ing at our-West Coast ports.

g The propaganda extols the advantages of life under tal rule, depicts the dictators as the unselfish benefactors of the countries they invade, preaches religious and racial hatreds and otherwise seeks. to influence American . sentiment in favor of the foreign policies of the Axis powers. Why, asks the Dies Committee, should American taxpayers be compelled to’ finance this ‘steady assault upon

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go opinion in this country ?” | : Si Hl

Why, indeed? The international postal union is a covenant under which Governments reciprocate in fhe handling of the mails. The country of origin collects the postage and the country of destination distributes the mail without charge. | It works fine for ordinary postal purposes. But there is no retiprocity. in this propaganda. Our Government mairtains no agencies to propagandize| the peoples of Germany, ‘Russia, Italy and Japan. And if some private American citizen were to mail out a few tons—-or pounds—or pro-dero-Leratie pamphlets, does anyone think that any of the abovenamed governments would distribute the material th rough its postal system? Of course not, : : ‘Congress should promptly put a stop to this subsidizing ign propaganda. The long-suffering American taxir gught at least be spared the i ignominy of footing the x campaigns designed to promote American disunit; .

NE STRIKE AVERTED Pe LTE THE 240 employees reported for work, and the Ranger "Engineering Corp. plant at Farmingdale, N. Y., went speed ahead on its contract for 2000 Army and Navy lane motors. : he employes had voted a strike, to begin last Thursday A few minutes: before the strike deadline, John s of the United Mine Workers, who handles C. I. O.

ems for the labor division of the Defense Advisory | w

Commission, stepped in and persiiaded the union Jeaders to

fer action until this Monday Inorning. By Saturday he |" the Department of Labor man, W. F. McCann, had ar-1

a peaceful settlement which gives the workers, not. |

ey had demanded, but substantial pay raises and other {

We applaud the good worlk done by Messis, Dosis, and | Cann, the i ingngs of the union to on ‘the strike

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effort to formulate a general fiscal policy. That system, or lack of system, is largely responsible for the sad story of too many. recent years—the story of expenditures always | exceeding estimates, of outgo always ahead of income, and Hf “The earth,” he

The present committees would, of course, continue and lose none of their authority,

but they would have the machinery for establishing a sound) TS I TRITIY an ad | forget that the focls who form our inobs may be influenced profoundly by the manner: and prejudicede | deportment of people of their own kind above them

Morgenthau, by Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance i Committee, by Rep. Woodrum and other Democrats on the ? | of the Gentile. Our political and social position are House Appropriations Committee, by ‘Rep. Treadway and other Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee,

With all this bi-partisan support the plan has an impres,

far Enough By Westbre ok Pegler

Hatred Without Inciting It, and Lived to Be Revered by Home Town

EW YORK, Jail. 14—Grover Hall, the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, who died last week, ‘'was-one of the grees test journalists in the history of the profession or creft. The little newspaperman was wise, brilliant and brave, but with his wisdom and ¢ourage he stirred in an ingredient ¢f Human understanding which distinguished his fighting tracts - {rom mere flames of anger and llatred. | He-did hate the evils that he fought, the greatest of which was {he brutal bigotry of .the modern Xu Klux, but. without sparing the @vils themselves ie nevertheless vould spare those who were guilty _ of them in a way which somehow #hamed them inwardly without humiliating them to the point of (bstinate violence. Hate, however, He fought ‘hatred without inciting it and, though many men were for a time aroused against hini, he lived to see la day when he (was honored in his home town, as &n honor to the town and the people were proud to! say they knew

‘All this seems {0 call for some example of his

| greatness. That I am able to. quote from an auto- || graphed copy of an editorial of

his called The Egregious Gentile Called to Account. This was an essiy on anti-Semitism in which he began by saying thiit the Gentile brother of the Jew, | “invites and deserviis arraignment before the bar of | bis own conscience.” The turn of thought and i phrase in which he called the Gentil: before the bar i “of his own conscit nce” was an exar pple of his wise

i! tact. ‘wrote, “swarms | | with men- who think they are experts on Jews. Nobody attempts a critical estimate of the Gentile, as a Gentile.. . . . If the Gentile could but bring himseli to face his own microscope, held iit his own steady ruthless hand, the experience might save him from possible disaster which his demeanc: invites. " “We think we (io no harm to o Arselves and our common institutions when, in individual social relations, we patronize the Jew. We think we are shrewd, discerning fellows ‘when, in contemplating a citizen | and neighbor who happens to be a Jew, we think of him and discuss him, first, as a Jew! and then whatever else he may le. . . . We hound the Jew while imagining our= selves to "be his friends, meaning by: ‘we’ those of us that comprise the majority of us Americans, and

in the scale of lif¢. . I have ny disposition to lo werate the status

more secure. We make more money than the Jews. We ow nothing of the bitterness that flavors the acrid cup of a helpless minority group. We have been so long . . |. in undisputed power, politically, economically -and @gpiritually that we have never had

| ||| an opportunity t¢ know whether in facing an inThe President’ 8g

vincible oppressor of our kind, we would be brave. . I as a (ientile, know thai if I wish I can

| steal, le, murder, get drunk or commit any other of

the known indecincies, and that while I may be punished, I, instesd of my kind, will be put on trial. In no circumstarices would I hear ‘that’ taunting phrase, ‘Gentile. ' Catch him.’ ”- A great Ameri‘an, the judge wes, ‘whose country

| and profession aie the better for his having lived

and worked among us.

Business

By John T. Flynn

First 9 Billion Deficit for World's New Deal Is Only the Beginning

EW YORK, Jan. 14—It begins to look as if that silly old dollar sign that the [President was go‘ing to knock ou; of the picture is back again and looking bigger and better—if sillier--than ever. Eight years ago we began a New Deal for America. It has cost to-date 60 billion dollars and an increase in the national debt of 28 billions. Its .purpose was. to || bring security and abundance to + America—just little America. By the end cf the seventh year it had bogged down. That is, there

ment was in complete collapse. And it was still’ necessary to increase the public debt by three or four billions a Year to keep things going. And business ‘was getting ready for another: header. Now we have launched another: New Deal, Tt has four points. | Of course it will hiring security, freedom from want! freedom of. speech, ‘freedom of ;re-. ligion, freedom rom fear. And the beautiful part of itis that it is a Néw Deal; not jus; for little America, but for the entire world—* everywhere in the world,”

Deal for the world! : Obviously thi bill for America’s New ‘Deal is going to look very litle alongside of this world New Deal. And, to give yo1 a sample, it stars off with a deficit, not of three billions, but of $9,310/000,000. But this is just the first ijistallment for this year. We are advised there will be more—from three to 10 billions more for bundlés for Britain—bundles of battleships, planes, guns, et, that we will pay for.

s 2 2 ™ the Orient, when you go intq a first-class hazaar to buy or just to shop, the : iperchant first seats

you in a com ortable chair, clans his hands, summons his servaiit who profers you la drink—a creme de menthe or ber kdictine—and, if jou are willing, several. By that iime he has created a sufficient intoxication—or at least disturbance of your centers of prudence—to fell you a $5000 necklace, even though you do not kndw how to pay for it. That is whet happened here. A highly professional piece of mercliandising has been done on us.

ple’s minds atout our independence, our homes, being in danger. | A fever has been preated—an intoxication. ‘And wile in that state this amazing, halfinsane budget is being sold to us. The terrible part of it is that one day we will sober up. On that day there if going to be an appalling headaghe. Americans in| their present teniper understand that with budgets like this it is sticking a knife into its own veins. Yet that is the simpl truth,

it is not doing that. It is pre under the pre.ense of defense. /nd it is taking one of

destroy itself. Walt and see.

So They Say--

LONGEVITY

means to defend ~—President Roosevelt to Congress,

p ICAN south, starting on its first worthe job toglay, is going to be proud to remember do the year 1941.—Col. Philip B. Fleiss,

Wage-hour a iministrator. .

and empires are at.an end, and that. world federations ‘are: the. only way out of world chaos.—H. G. Wells, "British: nove! ist. +1. DON'T HAVE as much rioney as I used to, but ! I have learncd an appreciation of life. I am content. ' Tommy loughran, one-tigle light heavyweight “champion.

LET NO dictator teams will % feb

tne {pression that - Amer. = p= Ri ARsting::

Grover Fall, Alabama Eclitor, Fought |

were still 11 million peoble who couldn’t get work, Private invest-.

as the President so eloquently ‘proclaimed. A’ New

Drink | after drink of strong stuff has b¢en ‘poured over peo- |

Perhaps it i$ impossible to make.

This country should prepare for its defense. But | ‘paring to go to war Y

the-oldest anc best tried methods known to history'to’| |

is exquisitely hereditary. — Dr. | |" Lewellys F. Barker, the Johns Hppkins Medical School. 4°

WE CAN MEET the demands of armament becatise’ ’ we are a people with the will to ‘defend and the |

x AM. convinced that the diys of separste nations

* THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __ What a Partner!

TUESDAY, JAN; pn 104

The Hoosier Forum

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

ONCE AMAZED, NOW FEELS THAT TIMES FOLLOWS MOTTO By A Times Reader I was amazed at The Times’ editorial of Saturday, Jan. 11, when it revealed the 1941 State Reorganization Bill in its true light: “That it is not public service. It is sheer greed.” I was amazed because during the election it seemed that The Times: had turned Republican. However, I am ready to give credit to The Times now for following its motto, or slogan, or whatever it is —“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.” yn 2 MIRROR DOESN'T SHOW HER WITH ‘BLOODHOUND DROOP By Ann Cutter To whom it may concern: In these days when it seems that almost everyone is disagreeing with everything and everyone else, I wholly enjoy reading this column. But today the letter warning women of cigaret smoking sent me dashing madly to my mirror. I have smoked cigarets for 15 years. And, well, maybe I wouldn't know a ‘blood-

hound facial droop’ if I saw one. I looked long and hard and bedarned if I eould find even & trace of what I imagine a ‘hb. f. d.’ is. My own}

“|smoking experience causes me to ‘|'disagree- with his entire letter, but

the part that really burns me up is calling smoking “un-Christian and soul-wrecking.” My work takes me daily to groups of women, almost always these groups are divided into half smokers, the other hélf non-smokers. The smokers half, as a rule, has the majority of women who mind their own business, and don’t spend valuable time gossiping about and condemning other people. ” ” ”

ENGLAND FIGHTING FOR U. 8.2 CALLS IT BUNK By Fourth Generation American “Frankie, stop twisting that cat's tail; you'll make him scratch you.” “If he does, I'll kill him.” The mad man of Europe, what-

ever else could be said about him, has certainly shown wonderful patience and self-restraint. Our President has persisted in actions which Germany might well

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consider cause for war against the

U. Ss. Every effort is being made in Washington to work up hysteria for war, by old duffers who would not have to fight, but who hope to make a few more millions out of wholesale. murder. That England is fighting in defense of America is pure bunk. Britain has never been our friend. She played us for suckers in 1918 and now is doing it again. As for loans to England now or rental of munitions, what businessman would loan money to a man who still owed debts of 22 years’ standing? ‘With all the propaganda about “England fighting our war” England will have a right to say to Uncle Sam, “you told us and your own people that we were fighting for your de-

fense, so why should we pay for the ‘munitions you sent us?”

America ‘should arm with sutficient strength: to defend our country against any attack, but it is folly to ship our products to England to possibly be used against us at some future date. “Frankie, stop twisting the: cat's tail. ” : r Lo a CHARGES G. 0. P. WITH SELFISHNESS, JEALOUSY By Fair Play. and Common Sense Various groups of Republicans have apparently lost all sense of their sworn duties.’ They . have started upon & campaign of smear. Why? It is plainly understood they are sore because they did not capture the Governorship in the last election. Now . . . they propose to strip Governor-elect' Schricker of all his constitutiénal authority. It is a plain case of selfishness and jealousy. They, the Republicans, act as colts turned loose in an open field, knowing not what it is all about. They do not realize that it requires a two-thirds majority vote to override the Governor's veto and

Side Glances=By Galbraith

that is not what they have in the

‘|lower house of the Legislature.

In the event that the Republicans should make Lieutenant Governor

‘| Dawson’ the chief patronage agent

and dispenser, why have a Governor? I cannot remember when in the name of common sense and our fair state’s history has there ever been a plot to debauch the office of Governor. Let fair-minded ‘charitable Republicans weigh well the many proposals contained in the multitude of Republican bills which promises to .eclipse any previous state general assembly. It is a plain case of selfishness and greed with the most expensive session of the present general assembly ever lLield.

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ASKS “LAW OF MERIT” IN PLACE OF MERIT LAW By Walker Huli, Freetown, Ind.

I see much about County Welfare | | Boards and employees being on the | merit system. Now all the merit I|#

see about their so-called experts is

they are experts in offering alibis to] |

keep old, aged; needy people out

of a pension which Indiana law pro-| |

vides. As Indiana's Legislature will be in session this month and the present old-age pension law and. County Weflare Boards have fallen far short of what the public money is intended to do, it is now time to wipe out County Welfare Boards, expert investigators, merit system and all and create a new, workable old-age pension law that will give aged, needy people a pension which will at least secure them a living, and make it unnecessary to answer so mady silly questions by so-called experts. After answering those silly questions the applicants get nothing but a sugar-coated alibi which does not do them or anyone else any good. Do away with the present Boab system and enact a law that has merit, and that merit a pension and not, an ezperys alibi.

READER ASHS now LABOR CAN SACRIFICE By George Maxwell In some of his latest speeches President Roosevelt has expressed the wish for a higher standard of living for this people. Obviously

he had in mind the laboring class,|’

for those of the capitalist class are

already surfeibed with this world’s|.

goods. And in a previous speech the President voiced the hope that some means would be found to bring about a better distribution of

this land’s wealth Now on top of

this he calls on labor to sacrifice

}for the cause of defense I would >| like to know how labor can sacrifice

any of the little it now has and

‘| even maintain its present standard

of living, to say nothing of raising that standard. And as a sop to labor the President said that capital would be required to make as many sacrifices ‘as labor. That is rich indeed, and if the common people

~ § {fall for such ag: that, they ought ‘¥-| to suffer.

JANUARY PATTERNS

By MARY P. DENNY

Patterns of January Bright they shine. Patterns of January, In glittering line.

Crystals of snow In the cold air glow. Shapes of diamond And of emerald stone.

Patterns of holly And of mistletoe Under the glow Of New Year light.

Wrought in mosaic Of deep winter spray all the :

Bright January day.

DAILY THOUGHT

And the fame .of- David went: out into all lands: and the Lerd brought the fear of hinw upon all nations.—Chron. 14:17.

| NOTHING is so rast

.chanical energy that is

Gen. Johnson

Says— U. S. May Not Be at War if Congress

Passes Blank Check, Lease-Lend Bill, But President Roosevelt Will Be

ASHINGTON, Jan. 14. ‘When the blank check, W lease-lend bill has been bum’s-rushed through Congress, the United States may not be at war—but the President will be. oF He has announced bis peace terms—{reedom speech ‘and of worship, social se- : curity and the end of wars through disarmament—not merely in Europe but “everywhere in the world” including, of course, Russia. This : is tbe new worldwide New Deal with our taxpayers and workers, ° as they did for the American New Deal, paying as much of the whole. bill as the President shall deter mine. Mr. Roosevelt has also ane neunced the kind of peace in. which he will not “acquiesce.” i People who are not at war don’t, : prescribe either the kind of peace J that will be accepted or the kind that won't. The ‘President also asks for ultimate power ny dispose all the war strength in America, except mans . power (maybe?) to fight for whom and at any place’ he decides. 34 What is requested is the complete strength of the nation in economic war—and in these modern days that is 90 per cent of military war with a margin.

over as deadly as military war, if not more so. pes

EJ " ® R. ROOSEVELT asks:-to be permitted to wield" 3 the substantial reservoir of the whole war power of the nation, not after a declaration of war by" Congress; but in his sole and unguided discretion not” only to declare this deadliest kind of war, but also © to wage it “everywhere in the world,” and not foi England and against _ Germany - -alone but against pat whomsoever he elects. It is urged that there.must be great haste on the * ground that appropriations for this purpose can’t - be asked for until this power is granted. What appropriation or expenses are needed to” lease or lend a piece of property? If it be said that some of the property to be leased or loaned must! now be ordered to. be built, nobody pretends that » Britain hasn't still plenty of money for her immediate: needs. The most recent Federal Reserve report indie ° cates that she has assets here of around seven billions, * It is objected that they would lose value and hurt" our markets if suddenly sold. This is probably true, but it would do neither if they were suddenly. hocked ":: to secure these leases and loans.

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TEE is no meed af all for headlong haste. Alf. A Landon is right. To lend war munitions, expects: ing their return, is, he says, like expecting the return--of a cake of ice loaned on a Kansas July day. The ; provision for payment in commodities is equally mise . J leading and under this bill payment could be made in any “benefit” that the President accepts—such as

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.an encouraging smile and a few kind words,

We have no effective naval vessels to send without.

“hurting our Navy. We can send no nrodern tanks, ..

planes or guns that wouldn’t delay the training af . our Army. Aid Britain yes, but in this momentous - hysterical spasm, can’t somebody be thinking one little thought about the interest and security of the - United States? .

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

SACRIFICE has become a -capital-letter word, Somewhat hesitatingly, but gallantly, a great : ‘ many young people are preparing to march into the. . future to its noble sound. It's a darned shame the movies won't get fhto : step. We are beginning to be sure feited with films owing the Army, the Navy and the Air Corps .. in magnificent form. But a recent release called “March With the. Marines” sent us home to bite into, a keg of nails to relieve our overs wrought feelings, It is possible the producers consider American young people. so dumb they will not recognize these efforts as propaganda at its flagrant worst? For this and” many similar films are so far- - fetched, so ridiculous and so ree mote from life that they defeat their own purpose. According to the movie version, life among the Marines is just one good time after another. The hero of this particular featurette was ‘always bursting’ Y his seams with patriotism. His self-sacrifice entailed nothing more arduous than drills upon a lovely greensward, dances at the officers’ barracks, and saluting the flag while dressed: in the most becoming uniform. When the Admiral’s daughter was thrown in as partial payment for his : many virtues, we felt that the whole affair was as - gay as a vacation at Miami Beach. Nary a hardshipappeared. The fuss we make about such a little film may be a sort of teapot tempest. But, remembering Mr, Churchill’s inspiring words: to his countrymen, we are more than ever against exposing our boys to war as . it is fought on a Hollywood set. Fairness demands that we mix a little dash of reality with the glamour, “Blood, toil, tears and sweat.” There in a nute shell is what the word sacrifice really means. -

Questions and Answers

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Q—Is the Capitol building at :Annapolis, Md., the original building or has it been rebuilt? A—The present building is the third on the sams site. The first, built in 1697, was destroyed by fire, and the second, built in 1704, was torn down to, make room for the present structure. Q—Where is the.most northern ‘highway in the. world? A

A—In Finland. It is a macadam road

rumning .- : 310 miles north from a rail head near the Art .

Circle to an ice-free Arctic ocean port. | . Q—Is malt used for other spurposes than. A—Some malt syrups are used in the home and medicines but approximately 90 per cent of the: ait - produced is used in the brewing industry. pi - Q—What is the annual total amount of reall; in the United States? Bok A—"n 1939, it was 38 billion dollars, a per cent over 1938. Q—Who was the author of the R enacted by Congress after the Civil En A—The bill bore the name of Th Chairman of the Committee on Reconst: House of Representatives. Q—What physical law proves that pe; tion is impossible? ; A—The law of the conservation, a which no law of mechanics is more £ .is an absolute barrier to all schemes mechanical means what is called p e! a machine which will do an ‘amou than the equivalent of the 0 [y, wh of chemical combination, ‘of electri is put into it. would be the creation of an adé in the universe, which is: not

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