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| FRIDAY, JANUAR Y

HAVE THEY HEARD YOU

ROUND Congress these day 3, Wwe are told, wou hear

many such statements as this:

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CORRECTLY? 2.

“I think this lend-lease bill goes too far. And 1 don’t

like it. But I think my people back

for it. Just look at this Gallup Pdll; it says that 60 per

cent of the American people think i help England than it is to keep out

if in helping England we take the

I'm beginning to believe that my

ready to go to war.”

With due deference to the Gallu

t is more important to of war ourselves, even risk of getting into war. people back ome are

p Poll, we do not believe lly favor taking steps

which will get us into war, or taat|a majority realize that

that a majority of Americans actu

i some of the steps advocated would almost inevitably mean

war. We know that American

unanimous in favor of Britain, an

help to the British short of war.

sentiment is practically in favor of giving all Since no overt act has

§ been committed against our neutrality, and since anyway we have as yet precious few planes and guns to fight with, ¢ we think the American people are too hard-headed to # “commit the folly of willfully plu: ging into war. 1 But the important point is that many Congressmen

¢ ardor for peace.

they think their constituents want

§ So if you who read this—you|

And Congressme

usually vote the way Jem to vote. who are voters—don’t

¢ have begun to believe that their ¢ ry aah are losing their

i Sani to get into war and don’t w ant Congress to pass legis-

ation that is likely to get us into you to advise your Senators and

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war, then it is time for Representatives of your

opinions and wishes. .It is time to invest 3 cents in postage, i: or the price of a telegram tp W ‘ashington. let them know how yeu feel, and they happen to vote con-

If vou fail to

; trary to your desires, then don't blame them.

: oN SAVING LIVES

HERE is some reason to hope th Committe on Traffic Safety is

intentioned group, but one which

t the'Mayor's Advisory not just another wellmay give Indianapolis

% something it needs so badly—a single, integrated, harddriving committee interested chiefly in saving lives.

This city’s traffic record last Regardless of the cause, someth ing,

co-ordinate all activities so that so

year was disgraceful. has to be done soon to le measure of protection

can be given to children, pedestrians and motorists. For too long, we have struggled along with half a dozen

: or more well-intentioned and pe

trying to do their best to help conditions.

has taken steps to bring all these co-ordinated movement.

ectly sincere groups all Mayor Sullivan groups together as one

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The new committee has it within its power to be forth-

right and frank. We hope it takes

the opportunity. )

INDIANA'S LOSS

IY selecting Richard W. Bunch tol the National Youth Administr

ation, , the Fed

be personnel director of leral Gov-

ernment is taking one of this state’ s finest public servants. To Mr. Bunch belongs a good deal of the credit for the

§ growth and success of the Indiana here -has been distinguished by his

merit systern. His record

integrity and intellectual

honesty.

We wish him success and happiness in Washington

and we hope his successor will be equally as able.

| DOWN THE PRIMROSE PATH

WARNING: deserving of wide attention comes from Dr. Harold G. Moulton, the wise economist who heads the

8 Brookings Institution at Washing}

on,

Its gist is that, unless the Government adcpts prudent financial policies now, we are headed for a price-inflation boom and, later, for another awful bust. As Dr. Moulton

: Says, NUMerous persons—some of i cial positions”—hold to the opposi

them in “important offiite theory, that—

: “, . . Instead of worrying about the public debt, we ; should concentrate during this (national defense) emer2 gency on the greatest possiBle amount of spending, public

k and private . . . it is argued that

taxes on the masses of

¢ the people should not be increased because it is desirable t that purchasing power for consumer goods should be exE g panded as much as possible in order to help take up the in-

& dustrial slack.” |

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Indeed that theory is championed by persons in mighty

t important official positions.

It lis advocated, very much

i as Dr. Moulton states it, in President Roosevelt’s budget

_§ message, Others in Washington, t be for national defense and aid to

however keen they may Britain, seem even more

£ enthusiastic for using these causes in an attempt to prove that pump-priming will work if only the Government pours

in, as fast as it possibly can, all i get its hands on. There is plenty of evidence

the billions if can possibly

that pump-priming works

at all only so long as the Government continues to pour in billions; that the pump always slows down again when the priming eases off, while the addition to the public debt

remains as a burden on the future,

And there is no evi-

dence that pouring in two or three times as many billions would produce a different ultimate result. The policy Dr. Moulton urges is: Hold military appropriations to clearly established essentials. ‘Cut non-military

spending to the bone, broaden the Increase the tax rates all along

base ofthe tax system. the line. Balance the

budget, with Federal, state and /local governments meeting all their necessary expenses by, taking, through taxes, 25 per cent of a national income estimated at 85 billions a

year for the next three years.

(Even that, says Dr. Moul-

ton, would leave the taxpayers more money than ‘was left them in fiscal 1938, when taxes took 22 per cent of a

6-billion dollar national income.)

Trying that policy woul:'t be: fun. Ik would call for 1t might t of .

home want me to vote |

Fait Enough By Westbrook Pegler Aviaticin Way on the Way Out as

nist: and the Nazi; to observe the squirming of the Amer can people in @ desperate e to escape communiim and Nazilsni, which are pret much the same. The more we wiggle and writhe the tighter our bonds are drawn like the cords en- - meshing the’ victim of a ribald prani known as the sack trick. which the bootleggers sometimes practiced on their friends in the: day of rons Bn f this dreadt e world o ful thihg and protect American

the very. thing: we loathe and fear, and it is only a wish and not 8 promise to ourselves that when the war is over the people of the United = States on again‘ break rarks and discipline a8 in 1918 and 1919 How can we ever know that go have won ‘the war, presuming that we will go to war and. win, when by. that time there will be only a few “minor pecularit.es to distinguish our brand of government from thet which we arc so determined to put down? Does anyone believe seriously, I wonder, that private owiiership will survive this war, when we have been obeerving already, in peace time, eight years of unrelenting effort from the top of the Government and all cown through the departments of the national Administ Hation to establish some form of socialism?

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T= British; of couse, will never be able to pay whit they ‘owe, dnd not only that, but they themselves will have socialism when it is over, and will simply repudiate the debt and use our own words to justify their contenjion that it never was a debt | at all, hut our own expenditure to save our own | lo American way. The cost of it all in spending of

Britain: ‘will ‘be such that it will be hopeless to try to carry. on in the old American way-—the only way, incidentally, under whi ich. the American liberties can exist. | I suppose some leaders of labor unions really do believe that it is-a fin¢ thing to hera~all the workers of a huge nation together in two great organizations, or, better still, in one organization. But the Communists, and Nazis must find humor in that, knowing, as they! do, what a handy, compact force this would be with: ‘which to boss all labor from one desk in one Governiient office. ‘Already millions of patriotic Americéns ‘are caught in unions—some of them willingly aiid suspecting mo danger, others by force of coercior-—and are now,subject to orders from above. We find Sidney Hillman in command of labor's effort ir, the national (defense, and nowhere are there any sigiis that the Government repudiates the Communiste and party-lrers in the Labor Board and other d:partments. Gathered together in the unions, labor niw can be told, and will be told, politely at first anil bluntly as time passes, to forget any frivolous _| notions’ that unions are free organizations and their | own my Jsters. | : ” ” # HE, labor leaders, like the industrial leaders in Gérmany, will be allowed to keep their nominal authoriy only as long as they please the Government, and when private ownership of industry has labor, cf course, will be employed by the Government and will obey the boss as a patriotic duty. . There will be law: covering that problem when the war is over. In 2 very short: tinie now opinion in the press will be curbed in thetinterests of the great national effort to. prevent freedom of speech, thought and writing, for alr¢ady the feeling is on the rise that criticism of

and wrong. Strange it is that so many of us see fascism or Naziisni in the minds of those who oppose regimentation Of men and tht confiscatien, by indirect means, of property, when the record shows that fascism and Naziisni are based on regimentation and confiscation. And, ol course, the Communists are delighted by every new stp in the direction of fascism or Naziism, because, {after all, their ism differs only in the label. We can't see it, Liecause we are so close to ourselves, but the eneniies, including Russia and the Commiinists here, can see that already we have had to - adopt (their own ways to deal with them on even terms in our international relations. So. just as they took part in the Spanish war, but only with. “volunteers.” and denied any formal participation, the United States now is going to war without a formal act of |Congress. We can tell the American way goodby now.

Business By . John T. Flynn si! g

| Our Leaders Ignore Fact Britain * May Turn Fascist Even if Victorious

EV YORK, ‘Jan, 17.—Listening to the arguments af those who want to go “all out” for Britain, it is fot possible to escape the feeling that.an immense number of things are taken for granted. Fo!" instance, it is taken for granted that, if Eng-

lind wins and Germany is defeated, democracy. will be saved in Europe, Hitler will be driven from France, the Low .Countries, Poland, ete., liberty will return to Europe and peace will reign over tl nat continent.

Upon this assumption it is now roposed to send to England our werchant vessels, our warships, ur war planes, our cannon, ihstruments of war of every“kind, 4nd it is perfectly obvious that we canriot do this without impairing our -own strength. This is defended, however, upon the theory that these war machines will be in safe hands for us. Bul what do we know about what will happen to a victorious England?! By winning the war England will j10t come into samy sources of wealth. She will end tae war with thé most staggering debt any nation has ever kndwn—a clebt utterly beyond her powers to carry, Her whole economy will be shattered. What will happen to democracy in an England thus torn? Has if ever occurred to our statesmen that lingland, after (this war is won, will go Fascist? It is ‘assumed she will if she is beaten. But that she may do so even if she wins is completely overlooked. Al least one Englishman highly esteemed here thought that might happen. . Lord Lothian, late British Ambassador, not. jong ‘before the: war—that “democracy itself will not ke able to stand another war. To fight it you will have to abandon your Parliamentary system and the ‘fina cial needs could not be met by ordinary metHods. » ang thas. is the simple truth.

OMETHING is going to happen in England when this war is over. The labor groups hope she may take a swift urn in the direction of the left—to a hastily improvised socialism. But does anyone suppose the powerful ruling aristocratic groups who have always ruled -Englénd will permit that without. a struggle? And ‘the means they will use will be to atternpt a “British fascism. They have ‘expressed themselves in the past as very tolerant of the idea. And the awful dislocations of tae war will certainly drive England swiftly to fascism or socialisri. My.own guess is fascism. ; Suppose this We true. What will be defenders of demicracy in this country think if they should discover, after all the celebration of the victory has died away, that the vast armaments we gave to Britain and which may still remain in her hands are in the hans of another Fascist power and one which owns jinnuinerable bases in this country-—owns in fact more land in America than we do? I; is a terrible gamble we are taking without weighing the risks-~moving forward under the lead-

mer.tal attachment to the British Empire,

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So They Say—

INFLATION DOES not begin until production capeicity, through # shortage of machines, raw mate. rial, or workers, cannot meet increased demand.— Col. {Philp B, Fleming, Wage-Hous Administrator,

We Imitate Nazis and Communists |. In’ Our Efforts ‘to Combat Them |

EW YORK, Jan. 17. Lt Hist amuse the Commii- - :

civilization from it we resort to |.

our owr and lending or, more truthfully, giving to |

the President or resis’ ance to his plans is iii i,

said only about two years ago— |.

ersbip of men whq are actuated by a purely senti-. ;

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ENJOYS ERNIE PYLE'S STORIES FROM §ONDON By A. G. : - : I have enjoyed Mr. Pyle’s eolumns

d land his impression of the English

people is the same as mine in 1932, when I was in England. I thought they were the nicest possible hosts and the most agreeable people. Eng-

be a staggering Dlow to what we eall civilization. I look to Mr. Pyle’s tutus letters v ith real joy. ' ” ” ” AN APPEAL FOR JOBS FOR LEGLESS PERSONS By Charles E. Black : I have been thinking for quite some time of bringing the plight of thousands of our citizens, whom I happen to be one of, to the attention of the public. This is a group of which there has been very little heard of--fhe men and women wearing artificial legs. . . . It is a fact that we have a Vocational Rehe¢bilitation Board nation-

ally and locally, which does func-

tion I suppose to the extent that is required of it. The Board will, if you are unfortunate and apply to the board for vocational ‘training, after. investigation, arrange for this training.

What I would like to ask at this point is. what good does this training do if, after completing such training, employment in the face tories is denied begause of the restrictions in the compensation insurance carried by the factories? The majority of these people are

day’s work as anybody else. Many are highly skilled in various types of work and are efficient and conscientious. These people can move around as fast on their feet as the able-bodied. person and I cannot see why they should be considered a liability or for that matter even as a cripple because after having met with a serious accident they become more alert to hazards. The majority of persons wearing artificial legs get ‘around so well that very Tew people ever suspect that they walk with the aid of an artificial leg. A large portion of this unforjunate ‘group is either on the relief rolls or employed on the WPA. We do not want to be dependent upon charity or WPA for an existence: Most of us have families and want to provide for them a decent

land falling to Hitler's might would |

capable and able to do as good a}

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living and live a normal happy life the same as our more fortunate brethren. The national defense program has and will create millions of jobs. I would like to know why a piace could not be made for us unfortunates. We are all good American citizens and quite a lot of us have lost legs in the service of our country. We only. want a chance to show our ability and earn a living by working at a private job in the indus-

‘tries of our state and country.

offer this appeal to you, the public, in hopes that it will be a means of getting results.

#2 n CHEST X-RAYS URGED FOR ALL SERVICE MEN

By Samuel Bushwick, President American Association for the Tuberculous At a recent. meeting of the New York County Medical Society Dr. Ramsey Spillman charged that the Government. in order to save $135;000 in X-ray expenses has sent 300,000 National Guardsmen to camps without adequate -chest examinations and has thereby caused a risk of at least 36 million dollars in future liabilities.

We already have written to President Roosevelt calling attention to these charges and have, pointed out that mot only is such action economically- shortsighted but shamefully inhuman. The 3000. Guardsmen in the group who will be found wtih tuberculosis, according to Dr. Spillman, and who might have carried on their normal activities with tuberculosis inactive, will under the stfenuous military duties become activated cases with tuberculosis consuming their lungs. Not only is this a grave injustice to these men but at the same time the thousands of other men with whom they must associate are exposed to tuberculosis infection from them. There has been considerable talk about bringing tuberculosis under control, and it has been apparent

Side Glances=By Galbraith

The , laughter dies, the

that Federal co-operation was needed to accomplish this end. The failure to examine every one entering’ military service is a step backward. We accordingly urge your readers to write to President Roosevelt requesting chest X-rays for all men entering military service. » ” ”n

CURIOUS FLATTERED BY CRITICISM OF FURIOUS

By Curious

I am a little happy and rather flattered by the fury of “Mr. Furious’ ” criticism of my report on the steel mill working conditions. His is the kind of empty dream and walking shadow fury which is thrown at the big timers: Clapper, Pegler, Flynn, etc. I am not highly educated. I am only a university graduate. Institutions educate only if they enable one to learn forever after. I work in the steel mills because it is the first job I got after finishing the work required for my first degree in the university. Now I am being paid more money than if I were teaching in a high school and my chances for earning even more seem .excellent. I do not care for an-office job! because ‘more wages can be gotten in production than in keeping check on the same. Furthermore, any physical labor, be it common or skilled, is easy for a weight lifting champion. I .am sorry to have vexed you “Mr. Furious” and I hope this explanation will alleviate your pseudo fury. 2 8 =» ANOTHER DIG AT CRITIC OF WOMEN SMOKERS ' By “JCM” Ann Cutter—You are perfectly right except that ‘you were a little too easy on the gentlemen. ‘I have, in the comparatively short span of my existence, seen a few examples

of bigoted and narrow thought, | but I believe this to be the most| §

horrible. So the smoking habit affects the brain, does it? How does our friend explain the fact that a large majority of the leaders of our country both male and female, are smokers? This “nasty and poisonout” habit doesn’t seem to have affected their brains. Incidentally, neither of the “Great Dictators” are smokers. Form your own conclusions. You deny the fact that your features have assumed that “B. F. D.” I haven't the pleasure of your acquaintance put : I'd be willing to back up your denial. I haven't led a particularly sheltered life and I have my first time yet to set eyes

on an example of feminine ‘pul-}.

chritude that has assumed what I would call a “doggy droop.” At any rate, the effect of tobacco on the possible degeneracy of our nation is, I would say, the least of our many worries. ©

JANUARY NIGHT By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING To Ster's country night sounds Out through the gloom and heavy

mist We see a twinkling lantern’s ray—

Hear ringing notes of old hound’s |. _shipers if they could be persuaded to take off Sen itor

Two others join their voices soon, And take the trail of fleeing coon, The dogs take stand at old oak tree, While ts of men call lustily.

Then lo, it seems the prize has fled, ; va by hounds the men are led, remote the baying sounds, And fainter ‘grows the .lan

As on they go tiroigh. wood and fens, baying

ends, And then they vanish out of Sint Naught left but stillness of

DAILY THOUGHT rd

O God, be not far from me: 0 S08, aks ans Jur wy ei

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NY AsmvoroN, Jan, 17.~One thing should be

- search. Write your questions clearly, tern| inclese s three-cent postage stamp. Medical or legal:

‘be the windiest,

na Johnson Says» 11}

Lend- Losce Bill Gives “President ; Unlimited Power to Give Our Arms To Any Nation Anywhere -on Earth’

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made and kept clear about the fight on, the. “Lease-Lend” Bill in its present form. It is the issue here is not whether we shall send aid to B . There are, on either side of the “lease-lend” argument, men of geveral shades of opinion. on both sides of ‘that question—from those who believe in all aid Britain may ask, to other: men who insist only so much be_ sent as will not slow up a make impossible our own de~ "The debate here ‘is ‘Whether on the plea of aiding Britain—by methods “short of war” principal. ly by selling or giving supplies, with or without credit—whether on that plea, one man; the President, should be given unlimited authority to dispose of as much as he pleases of the material resources of the United States and its armament in ships, guns, planes and ammunition, not merdly to Britain but to any nation anywhere on e Those who want to aid Britain say they wish to do s0 to defend America. By this most of them mean that they want to keep the ocean approaches to our country open by supporting the British navy and the British bases in the Atlantic and elsewhere. But the “Lease-Lend” Bill intends something much more than that. Taken with the President's fireside chat! and annual message, his war aims are no longer mirely : to defend America in this sense. . Boul iH \ : HEY are no longer “short of war.” They ake to “defend America” by insuring freedom of speech and worship and from want ‘everywhere on earth,” and to secure all nations from attack “anywhere on earth.” Under the terms of the bill, all that is necessary for:him to do to be free to send our military and naval substance to any country whether it is at®war

.now or not, is to “find” that to do so would help

American defense. That is power to declare and fight economic war for anybody anywhere. .Nobody expects such extreme absurdity in practice, but the way to test any such revolutionary grant of Presidential power, never before thought necessary in our history, is to test its actpal language. This Administration has frequently stretched less liberal donations of power than this to shockingly unexpected assertions of power. Furthermore, some of the language in this bill is so generalized (for example the appropriation clause) that it is not clear that it does not. deliver, to the President power to give away the finanéial roes of this country as certainly as it grants him. er to give away all the ships of our whole Navy: No showing of necessity whatever. is made for: this abject abdication of Congressional war powers and the attempted showing of necessity for: speed in: enacting this legislation won't stand the slightest. inspection. The next critical period in this war is between now and May and—bill or no bill=there is not another thing or moment that we could add to what Britain could enjoy, receive or even order from us in that interim, unless it is our intent to strip our Navy of fighting craft and our Army of planes, tanks. and guns, of which it has too little even to begin training the men it is calling to arms. Any such. intent has been specifically denied except, for example, as to “five out-of-date” planes. So was the intent to swap .the 50 destroyers denied. We don’t rely on that. The power is there to give away our arms. . » »

HERE is talk about ari attsh any such T designs by limiting this all-out economic war dictatorship and partial military and naval dictator= ship to two years. Many of the “emergency” powers granted sincd '33 have been so limited. All have been extended. Why? Because the granting of such massive powers with a time limit is also a grant of power to force th Jon tension of that time limit, It has proved so wi over and over again during eight years of gran emergency powers with a time limit—even. to the: hot tent of extending all Presidential powers for a shir

term The tendency of this Administration has beent al« ways to ask for more powefs than are necessary even for its avowed purposes. tendency has been, as now and as to the third term, to assert a reluctance to accept such powers—then the tendency has been to press them to the limit of their grants and refuse to give up any. On that history and in such erisis, if ever a bill needed robust debate, this is that bill. On our march to “dictatorship to avoid Siciarsip | it is “later than you think.” ’ :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

AST month, down in Memphis, politics and war were forgotten for a spell while the natives hate tled over another issue. A poor misguided woman, who evidently didn’t realize how firmly the cul of dog worship has gained footbold in America, te a letter to the editor in which she said that dogs were css and something of a! nuisance 4 a

ity. And did the fur fly? You fan always get a rise out of the public that way. Where it came 3, nobody knows, but there grown up in the United States Be notion that the dog lover isiale ways a gallant and noble being, Thousands of people who néver lift a’ hand in defense of n, ; woman or child will go bergerk and breathe forth the most grahdiloquent sentiments if a hint of criticism is leveled against any kind of a canine. To hear them, oy might believe they were fighting champions of j and right, of mercy and tolerance. Of course handling their Community Fund wo brings disillusionment in some cases, but we’ll them this much credit—they certainly leap to defense of down-trodden dogs. Dogs are canny creatures—especially the sort bur civilization has bred—although they are canny different way from their wolf ancestors; Women fre . them because they manage to create the impre of helplessness, of complete and utter dependence, gnd in the feminine affection for Fido there is a s g dash of the maternal. : By men ‘the dog is loved most became he a bootlicker. He is a compliment come alive, He€ is a passionate, effervescent and mobile expression* o

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‘the favorite masculine phrase—‘How wonderful

are!” In every motion and glance, the dog pays hors to his master’s godlike qualities, no matter wh low-down, scurvy fellow the master may. be. But. all this doesn’t argue that a large ca population is ah asset for a city. Examined the miscroscope of common’ sense, love for your is merely an extension of love for yourself, in no way that. you are nobler than somebody happens to adore cats. We'd have a lot more patience with dog T=.

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Questions and Answets

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Q—Are unordained church officers permt afte pronounce a benediction R A—They are Seton to use the bene diction, “May the Lord Rjless us and keep us,” etc, chan nglhg the word “you” to “us,” which makes it LR. rather than a benediction Q—Which month has the highest winds or

“most windy days?

A-—~The month of March is Popularly supposed t that is’ not necess true, fas fo ener. Tove i in wind velocities in that nor