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_ARMS FOR INDQ-CHINA? ! :

OU don’t hear much’ about it any more, but Siam is supposed to be wa China. The Indo-Chi Do you think we ize the President to decide suddenly some morning that |

rese accuse Japan of egging Siam on.

defense of Indo-Chins is essential to defense of the United

States, and thereupon—without consulting Congress or anyone else—to start sending the Indo-Chinese warships, airplanes, guns, efc., to use against the Siamese? Most Americans, we believe, would say that we emphatically should not have such a law. Yet that Presidential decision and action would be legally possible under terms of the so-called Lend-Lease Bill, now before Congress.

The bill's announced purpose is to provide Britain armament aid in her present struggle. But its sweeping provisions would aut norize the President--any President, present or future—-to supply munitions fe any side of any war on any continent at any time. Just suppose that, five years hence, Bolivia and Peru happen to get into 3 scrap. (We hope, and believe, that f they won't.) But if they should, this bill would give whoever then happens to, be President power, without saying &. word to Congress, to decide that Peru’s Beten; se is vital to ours and forth ‘Peruvians to use in conquering the Bolivian —or vice versa. We feel sure that Mr. Roosevelt wouldn't even think of taking sides in that manner. » E 4 n | * : \ But no one can read the future, and no one can tell what future Presidents might do. And since our form o: government puts on| Congress the final responsibility for determining policies, passing laws, declaring war, appro- _ priating money and prescribing its uses, Congress should. not shirk that responsibility. The pending bill is urged as a measure to provide arms for Britain. Congress should decide how much, if any, further aid should be given to Britain, and fix the terms and conditions by specific legislation. Aid-{o-Britain is one issue. But before Congress can even begin to consider that issue on its merits, it will have to strike from the bill all those blank-check powers. The measure, as now ‘worded, is much more than p bill to help Britain, It is a bill to authorize Presidents to take sides in any or all wars.

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A UNIFORM DRAFT POLICY

RS. ROOSEVELT, who somehow finds time for allot everything, has/taken up with national draft headquarters the lack of uniformity in classifying married men under the Draft Law, and she predicts that the situation will he corrected “very shortly.” : ‘We welcome the First Lady’s activi ty in behalz. of changes which seem to be urgently needed. ; The Draft Law,| properly, gives local draft boards wide latitude to use their own judgment in classifying individu al registrants. But it| turns out that boards in some states are putting all married mien into deferred classes, while | boards in other states are certifying some married men— especially those whose wives have jobs or independent incomes—as. available for immediate service, : Obviously, we think, there should be cne general, cotin-try-wide policy. | Working ouf a fair general policy may not be easy, but we believe the miational headquarters can do it without violating the principle of reasonable autonomy for lccal boards. And the pclicy suggested by Mrs. Roosevelt seems to be worth serious

consideration. Here it is: First, the draft should be limited to unmarried young men who have not embarked on any particular occupation, or/who are not in the middle of educational or other activi-

so long as the supply of such young men holds out. | Second, if the time comes when it is really necessary to take married men, those who are able to support their wives from investments should go. Third, if the need becomes still greater, those wliose wives are self-supporting should be taken, .

FIRST TAX WARNING

VEN if you never before made an income tax return, you may be required to make one this coming March. . So get ready. : : { : Approximately| 8,000,000 more people will have tc file “returns this year than reported incomes to the Governinent last year. The mote-thamdoubled number making a return is due to the fact that this year every individual having a gross more, or married people living together. with a combined gloss income of $2000 or more, mus: file |

Hitherto the figure determining Whetlior one filed a

return was a net figure; now it is gross—all income, re-

gardless of exemptions. | Probably less than half of the 15,000,000 peopl: ex-

. pected to file a r¢tyrn this year will have to pay a tax when

exemptions are taken and calculations made. But the re-

turn must be made nevertheless.

WE FACE IT CALMLY

NE vegetable growers have basen’ told by a oh t plant-breeding expert that the United States will face a serious spinach shortage in 1942. Imparts of spinach seed from Holland, sources of 90 per cent “this country’s supply in the pat, have been 8 opped the German occupation. ) hd So perhaps we SSS soon submit to a drastic rath ioning

| Business Manager

Price in Marlon Some

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Story of an Elevator Operator Who Defied Scalise, Then Resented - Friends’ Efforts to Get Him a Job

EW YORK, Jan. 16.—One trouble about unem‘ployment is there are two sides to every question, and ‘if it was like you could just give them a job and they would take off their coat and go to work that would be one thing, but sometimes it works out the other way. Like this ' ‘guy. he comes ‘around and. says he is an elevator jockey, but they

l otherwise, George Scalise’s gorillas .would picket the spot, the boss! says he can't stand the

aging aggressive war on Franch Indo- |

should have a law that would author-;

seriously affected by military service,

bring goods to and from the plant, so my friend, he joins the union. But he is an independent dummy, and so one day when the union agent comes ,around to. put the bite on him for some tickets to & benefit for the boys my chum . starts to denounce him fearlessly, and the ape says "all right, that will cost him a saw for willfully re-

and example. q boy dogsn’t want to pay, but it is warm in the elevator and cold outside, so he gathers up 10 bucks and pays the fine, but he is pretty sore, and he goes around with a brick in his hand trusting that some day he will draw a bead on Scalise or one of his baboons, ° As it turns out, after a few months Tom Dewey puts little George over a barrel and our friend comes blowing the whistle like Benny Goodman—only louder—and they sent Scalise away to college, and our friend is full of cheer. By this time, however, he is a first-class private in the army of the unemployed, because he again retarded the growth of the union

holds he can only say, “no pair.” ” ” ”

ELL, wien a guy is a standup guy like that and fights those baboons without protection and blows his | job you want to help, so there is a big shot in the real estate thing, and he says he certainly will do his best to get him a job, as that courageous kind of citizenship should be encouraged. Some of those babs are pienty mean, especially against a poor loner wil 'h no influence, and after a while, sure enough, what do you know? The real estate mugg calls up and pays send our chum around, ‘he thinks he can put him to work. By this titne the monkey has checked out of his room, however, and it takes several hours chasing around town, but finally he is surrounded in a terrible old Brownstone fleabag. Our boy certainly is in deep pover by from the look and smell of where he puts on the [snore, but he is out of town just at present, so we chase him up by wire and tell him | to scuffle on pack and get in touch with Mr. So-and-So, ‘and think no more about it until today. ‘Well, ther, today Mr. So-and-So sends a note, and it seems| he passed the word to a friend in the real estate thing, and this friend sends for the monkey and (wants to put a suit on him and give him a job riding up and down. But does our boy swoon with delight to get off the street and establish relations with a payroll? If you think so you are just leaping crazy. | » ” ” IRST, our boy demands to know who gives this company his name, and he is boiling mad because they have been messing in his private affairs, figuring that it is very humiliating to have to get blabbed around town, practically like it was on Page One of all the papers, that he was out of work. Furthermore, he doesn’t kelieve they have got this job for him, but thinks it is just a gag, and then he accuses th; employment [clerk of spying on him, because hardly anybody kndws where he lives and, otherwise, how did they find out? He is so indignant over this interfered with his private life that by now the clerk trns him over to | the superini¢ndent, who explains again that they only want te give him a job in recognition of the way he practically took his life in his hands but he says he is a fre¢ man in a free country and nobody is going to go around spying on his private like—job or no job—so to heck with them and their elevator, and, anyway, he is practically deluged with offers, and it:as just a question which one to tdke. - 80, you sgze, sometimes to get the straight of it about unemployme nt you have to get the other side of the: story, because people aren’t just cattle but all kinds of individuals with pride and temperament. And you. have to handle them just exactly right.

Business 18 John T.: Flynn © Government Should Not Guarantee British Properties If Sold in U. S.

EW YORK, Jan. 16.—Some hard-headed business« men here keep asking why the Government pro-. poses to buy and pay for armaments for England, when England can pay for them herself. Up to now no explanation has heen given by anyone for this « persistent question. ‘The Federal Reserve Bulletin reports that to date England has paid out but a small portion of the funds she has on deposit in this country and but little of the property credits she has here. The figure given by the Reserve Board, which seems to be the latest, is that Britain has here available gold, securities or property that could be converted into as much as seven billion dollars of purchasing power. While our Government is acti- | ally proposing a blank check, ostensibly to the President, but actually to Britain through him; no official will ‘tell anyone why a customer with seven billion dollars’ worth ‘of purchasing power must be given a mass of goods which, whatever the form of the brans.action, w {ll never be paid for. There | seems little doubt that some negotiations are going on—or at least conversations—with reference to selling in this country certain direct property investments a by English firms. This is a plan to sell plants owned by British investors outright to Americar. investors. . The proposal is to have a group of invesiment trusts here buy those plants—or the ‘securities which represent ownership of those planis. # » »

the English properties must he sold, someone must buy-them. .The best buyer, of course, would be some group representing strictly private money, investors ho can afford to take the risk. The proposal being made is to sell these plants to investment trusts. And while there is certainly nothing improper 'in that, there is/ an obligation to the men and women who have their money in those trusts not to commit them to some speculative adventure and then leave them holding [the bag. Investment trust officials will have to rememniber that they are handling fiduciary funds and have no right to dedicate them to defense purposes unless the transaction is approved upon the soundest bushiess

principlss. © The amount of property involved in these dississsions &mounts to $700,000,000—at least so it is rumored. This is by no means a forbidding sum. One wonder therefore, with all the idle money in the market, why there should be any talk of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. taking any part in the transactions. Either these properties should be bought by investraent concerns upon a sound business basis, or by private individuals upon any basis they wish, or not at all. In no case should the Government buy them, J And they should not be bought upon any basis which would : equre a Government guarantee,

So They Say—

IF Lh was anyone in occupied ‘France whio had nover seen a German before, and thought he was a good animal, he knows different now.—Anne Morgan, head of the American’ Friends of France. ;

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made him join the union because, |’

tarding the growth of the union by word, deed |

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OPPOSES BAIL FOR ACCUSED, MURDERERS By Clérence F. Lafferty I am in no position to say whether the denial of Stephenson’s parole was justifiable or not. But, if: thi¢ state is to handle all murderers alike, as it should, then our county courts should not be allowed to let accused murderers go scott-free on bail.

” un ” , URGES SCHRICKER COPY AL SMITH’S METHODS By Ex-New Yorker Let Governor Schricker, in his

present difficulties with a hostile

legislature, take comfort in the way ' Al Smith handled a similar situation when Al was governor of New York. When the lawmakers threatened. {to get out of hand Al simply took to the platform or delivered a few choice words over the “raddio” and in a short time he had ’em licked. Time after time Al went over the heads of the legislators in these direct appeals to the common sense of the people and they never failed

im. We feel pretty sure the people of Indiana won’t stahd for any monkey

business by their legislature either.

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‘| CASTING A DOUBT ON THE | “OUR WAR” ARGUMENT

By John Rust, Berkeley, Cal. Eleanor Roosevelt's column of Jan. T rebukes Republican members of Congress for failure to applaud the President's “State of the Nation” address, and assumes that their silence was motivated by partisan politics. It is equally possible that many of the unenthusiastic Congressmen simply do not agree with the President ...:. When the President insists that we have a stake in this war other than our own self-preservation, and when he intimates that Great Britain is fighting our battle for us, and that if she loses we are virtually beaten too,-he is by no means reflecting the beliefs of all patriotic citizens. Apparently Mr. Roosevelt is attempting to sell participation to the American people under the guise 1that we would be fighting a holy war—a war to give the whole world Mr. Roosevelt's “four freedoms.” We are to become crusaders, to fight all

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the evil forces and peoples of the world so that we can give all the good folk the blessings of Mr. Roosevelt’s particilar brand of salvation —whether these good folk want it ornot .... If “these resolute peoples,” meaning principally Great Britain, actually are fighting our battle, actually protecting. our skins, why are we not in ‘the thick of the fight? Are we too cowardly to fight our own battles? But are these resolute peoples (again referring to Great Britain) really fighting our battles, as the President has virtually assured them? Are they not fighting their own war to protect their own skins? Does not any help to us, insofar as they are concerned, come merely incidentally? And has not the necessity for this struggle in a large measure been brought about by the

stupidity and cupidity of their rul-

ing class? Truly they are waging a gallant fight, for which we applaud them. But actually we owe them nothing more than we owe fp any people fighting bravely. Owing them nothing, we certainly should ‘not contemplate aiding them to the extent of endangering our own national existence and with a total disregard of fair repayment. The. President, speaking of the period between 1815 and 1914, said that, “The strength of the British |2 fleet in ‘the Atlantic has been a friendly strength.” In the interests of historical accuracy it should be remembered that, during the Civil War, England actively supported the South. She outwardly supported the principles of secession and slavery. Actually, she supported her own economic interests. - The “Alabama” and other English-fitted privateers almost drove the commerce of the United States from the seas. The point involves much more than historical accuracy. It involves a lack of straightforwardness apparent in the President's speech. However, let historical bygones be by-

Side Glances=By Galbraith

gones. Let us face the present issues, with candor and with courage to see situations as they really are . ... Let us decide, first, whether our aid to Britain and to other belligerent nations is really aiding us, and if so, how much; next, the point at} which aid to these belligerents ceases to be truly and hardheadedly advantageous to us; thirdly, how we can secure definite Yebayment of such aid as we must, our own self interest, give. Finally, let us decide whether we should go to war or not. Let/ us either clearly and safely keep outhof this war, by steering our nation policies away from the present “short of war” measures, or honestly and bravely enter the fight in the traditional American fashion. ” ” EJ

SPURNS “CHARLEY McCARTHY” IN GOVERNOR'S CHAIR

By N. G. Again party politicians are making a football of your and my government. Why? Every citizen should make a study. of government prin.ciples, what is back of the present movement, and make sure if proposed changes are sound. A good government should not be a thing to be bandied around at the will of party politicians. Vital gevernment provisions should be safeguarded by a constitution where politicians cannot alter it at will in order to secure party patronage. Our Indiana Constitution is now 90 years

think they are, the change should be a new Twentieth Century constitution—drawn by a bi-partisan convention. : What should our Governor be, a Charley McCarthy, or a real leader with power and authority? The

and if we hold him responsible faithfully to execute the laws, let us not strip him of the powers of a real executive, ‘ 8 ” ” SOME MORE COMMENT ON THE ‘COLLEGE COMMUNIST’ By Auntie Candide

metamorphosis of “Curious” lightens the column with a touch of drama. Take a pint of “college Communist,” put a dollar in his pocket and presto! you have a capitalist, busily laving himself with whitewash. The humanitarian concern for the lower third, the scientific impatience, with a lopsided economy, the moral indignation over injustice, all yanish overnight when you feed the brute. And why not? Scratch a Communist or a Fascist and nine times out of ten you find a hungry man; the tenth is one who has hungered desperately and hasnt forgotten it. So “Curious” wasn’t so curious after; all. Should any reader be a little disillusioned to see again how easily men forget the night once their own sun rises, then wait yet a little. “Curious,” once secure and “respectable” in his $10-a-day job (but garrulous still) will gently deride the discontent in the lower brackets. Will he share their organized efforts to improve their lot, lending his education to the unlearned, his ° intelligence to the stupid? Not on your life! “Curious” has had his little fling at liberalism and truth to tell, it wasn’t much of a fling. Voice in the Crowd, move over!

GOOD IS JOY By MARY. WARD

Joy brings a light fraught with gleams Darkness grows bright In the golden beams. . Joy ¥, idely swings The door, to Fou Dull clam And thrusts Soh out.

Joy is its name.

DAILY THOUGHT Tn God I will praise his word;

in God I have put trust; Iwill not: fear what flesh

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JAN. . 26, : 1943,

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Says— Willkie Just a Big Hoosier Hick . For Supporting ‘Lease-Lend’ ‘Bill And Repudiating Campaign Stand

ASHINGTON, Jan. 16—The Bill of Rights doesn’t use these words but what part of it means is that it is every'American’s sacred privilege to say what he pleases, think what he plesges and e¢ his mind as often as he desires. ‘That goes for Wendell’ Willkie. But with ' such privileges go :. obligations, . moral if not legal. Mr. Willkie, after a considerable period of hesitation: as to just ‘what: it: was all about, during. which his stock slumped from the remarkable high * of the Philadelphia ‘convention to a. very low peint. in August, finally began to attract followers again. ‘He announced that he was leading a crusade to return America to the Americans. He stood against any further delegation and cone centration of power in -the: President. He was for aiding Britain “wtihin our own and international law,” but he felt that if Mr. Roosevelt were re-elected it would be construed as a mandate for an immediate headlong rush toward war. He, Willkie, stopd for caution and discretion’ and the building of an impregnable American defénse. In private conversations; he was even more exe plicit on this and revealed that: his only ‘reason for not ‘being explicit openly was that he feared ‘that he would lose the support of certain great New York publications.

HE impression that te tried to leave was that he stood against the war-mindéd and those who had been careless of American defense as the apostle of all-out hemisphere defense and the traditional American ‘policy of a minimum of meddling with the interminable Buropedn conflict. On this basis, ls illions of people left their party’ moorings, some of them at great sacrifice of personal’ friendship and prestige, to follow him. Some gave him more help than the leading members of his own" new-found party. It was not a question with them of partisanship, it was a question of patriotism, Nothing has happened since to impair the apparent soundness of that doctrine. If anything, what has happened. since has strengthened it. But it would have been impossible for Mr. Willkie to have gone further than he has now gone to repudiate it and those ardent followers of it and him, He has made them appear to be the most gullible of suckers and himself to be what shrewder men suse pected all along, to put it as charitably as possible, an opportunist and a man who has not learned the first lesson of leadership, which is that no chieftain can expect loyalty from his people unless he gives an even’ greater measure of loyalty to them. This is the man who promised to lead a ove) wy watchful opposition.” "

N the surface, this - Administration seems indife ‘ferent to Mr. Willkie’s servile antics. But in fact, without according any aspect of official status, it is doing all that can be done to facilitate the propagandist journey to Europe of Mr. Willkie and his party —Mr. Russell Davenport and one of Mr. Willkie's banker friends. The House of Morgan—at least as represented by Thomas W. Lamont—and other great international bankers, are as active in guiding and propelling our steps toward involvement in this war as they were in 1917, And suddenly Mr. Roosevelt, himself, seems to be cuddling just as close to them as is Mr. Willkie in the latter's swift and startling change of front. It is no time to assail motives. All these men are patriotic and sincere. Actions only are important, It is wisdom, not motive that. is in question. It is be=coming clearer every day that Mr. Willkie’s charm and, appearance of cdndor were not enough fo counter--balance his lack of experience, education and poise.in

positions of public responsibility. . The glare and

glamour of his sky rocket excursion into national favor dazzled him, He is still dazzled and innocently | grasping through this. grand.new gesture for some, remnant of its fading glory. It is persuasive eddence that in this rarefied atmos= phere he is just a big Hoosier hick. I say this with great embarrassment but with perfect propriety, bes’ cause it also proves, that in this field, I am an Okla homa hick—just a local yoke). I supported him as. blindly-as anyone.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE rifle clubs ve. declared open season on Ferguson. Presidents: and corresponding secree. taries are gunning for me, with many members in full cry. Why? Becausé I Said the hand that rocks the cradle needs no trigger finger. - And so, they claim, a nasty crack. has been. taken at “sportsmen.” - Which reminds me that I want, to take another. Every time I see the word “sportsmen” in print or - hear it spoken as applied to hunte ers, it offends my sense of cone gruity. The title is a misnomer. It ought to be strigken from ‘the. records. My dictionary says that hunteers are sportsmen; them in the next line it explains that a sportse. man is a participant who come. tes fairly, playing the game for its own sake and n necessarily for the prize swarded, Therefore, while target and clay pigeon Shodters may be exempt, the guy who goes out after bjrds or animals can’t claim to be a sportsman, because the other participants in.the contest do not have an even chance against him. Oh, yes, folks, I ‘belong to: a family all of whose males were “sportsmen.” Periodically they put on: shooting togs,.filled their pockets with cartridges, and: trotted forth to compete’ with ‘the few small covies: of quail left in our, skate after thousands of former “sportsmen” had destroyed most of the species. te I've seen the lustful look on’ their faces when theyset out to bag a deer: -How big and’ brave and grand’ they felt and how lovingly they stroked their guns} It seemed strange ‘that such kind-hearted creatures could get so much enjoyment out of these adventures, and though I loved the men I hated their games;: Even the pale dog! has been made a party to their. nefarious play What ¢ ance does & bird have against a joan and a dog and a gun? Not a sportin, It is interesting, also, to ee! r SS this particular state of mind. aie 1 ve had to be restrained by law from killing off all the wild. life of the world. They have contrived the. Rost tin; . sportsmanlike, methods of hunting their Same, Is it any wonder that, with such a notion man has finally come to use the, same' m fighting his own ‘kind, and now drops: death on ha" mans who are as weak any : Delpless befote } % ) any small bird. . ($1 ly

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