Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1941 — Page 10

th ROY W. HOWARD RALPH BURKHOLDER

© in part against the President’s Lend-Lease Bill.

| in administering aid to Britain.

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KENNEDY'S TESTIMONY . -- Josten P. KENNEDY is a notable exception to the rule

that American Ambassadors to England usually become

‘more English than American. : The Court of St. James didn’t dazzle him. He remained American to the core, as the British press remarked when he came home last fall to speak for the reelection of the President. He- -returned from London still believing—not, as some others had been telling us, that every American should do his du ty by Britain, but that

i every American should do his duty by America.

to keep out of wat, and no combination of ag-

As he sees it, that duty is, first, second, to arm so powerfully that

| gressor nations will ever dare attack us.

Yesterday Mr. Kennedy told his story the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, testifying in part for and He supported the President’s program of full aid to Britain, short of war—not failing to emphasize that latter phrase. And, adding point to the emphasis, he agreed that it would be proper for Congress: (1) To forbid American warships and

| merchant vessels to enter war 20m€s ; (2) To fix time and money limits on- Presidential powers, and (3) To name a

small Congressional committee to serve with the President

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Mr. Kennedy's principal disagreement with sone mem-

| pers of the all-out aid-to-Britain group concerns their

premise—that Britain is fighting our war. He insists that Britain is fighting her own war. 'And since he was there when the war began, our official representative in London, ‘he must know when he says that the United States was not consulted about the start of the war and has not yet been

“informed of Britain’s war aims.

- ‘Mr. Kennedy has said that if he thought our entry could bring the fight to a successful end in a year, he would favor an immediate American declaration of war. He trusts Hitler, Mussolini and other dictators no further than he could throw. St. Paul's Cathedral. And, though Britain is fighting her own war, he has asserted that we should do everything we can to help Britain except join the fight, since by helping Britain we gain time—and time is what we most need to make America so strong that the bullies of the world will leave us glone. That’s hard sense.

THE FOG OF WAR | |

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| NEWS OF NORWAY 1 . . JRROM ‘the Norwegian Legation | iin Washington cores the first issue of’ a bulletin—“News of Norway'’--which proposes to inform the ‘American people about what is . happening in that country under German occupation.

What is happening is sad and terrible. The Nazis,

; breaking their promise not to use Norwegians for pur-

poses of war, are trying to enlist young men in (ferman military service. : The cost of living has risen sharply. Mu-

micipal officials are risking punishment by resisting at-

tempts of the invaders to control their cities. A citizen of Bergen has been sentenced to 18 months at hard labor for ‘writing a letter displeaging | to German censors. ‘And yet, amid their hardships, the people of Norway are preserving their sense of humor, says the bulletin, citing this apecdote: A German soldier, entering one of the largest department stores in Oslo, marched toward an elderly saleswoman, clicked his heels together and barked: “Heil Hitler! Where is the hosiery department?” Whereupon the Norwegian woman pied her right

hand over hér heart and replied:

“(od save our King! Three floors up.”

OVERNMENT economists ncw predict, says a United Press report from Washington, “that national prosper-

ity gating 1941 will surpass the fabulous ‘boom year’ of

| Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

‘Dogs Yelping in the Moonlight Not Unlike Their Masters Who Growl At Each Other and Then Subside

EW YORK, Jar. 22—Som¢ nights when the moon is bright the dogs around and about get into the wildest wrangles, usually starting-with some chance remark by one of them which seemingly could be dismissed as nothing kut a harmless crack. But on such

nights—anc| they seem to come in:

cycles—their tempers flame, and something that the big black one says will call for a snappy retort from a little mutt, and the. nondescript up on the rock will put in his 2 cents, and away they go for hours, It all has a ring of insincerity when you try to analyze it, as though they were trying to outclever one another in repartee from a safe distance and under certain well-understood rules which apparently preclude physical con= troversy For when morning comes, and they are out and around again, the ancient amenities are observed as usual, without the slightest reference to the most insulting remarks of a few hours ago.

There is nothing more corny in the tricks and devices of the writing craft thar the attempt to translate the thoughts end commerits of dogs into human language. It is usually done in pidgin-baby-talk idom which certainly is inappropriate to the robust nastiness that fill the night on these occasions. I haven't the faintest idea wha! these dogs really are aroused about, but in tone and the incoherent drift of their wrangles, they make me, a columnist, feel self-conscious and embarrassed so soon after a national election.

® » ” OME of their angry cries stem to have the ring of “dirty Communist,” “labor baiter,” “Wall Street lawyer” and “appeaser,”’ but it is impossible to make any sense at all. For two of them will be yelling away in the most ferocious direct debate when a third chimes in with sdmething that might be “yes,, and why doesn't Joe Guffey pay his income taxes like the rest of us?” which is cutting, of course, but, after all, a very remote side issue.

There is a grave St. Berngrd whose bearing and comments could be likened to those of a shaggy elder statesman, with nc selfish political ambition, who interrupts only when the strife becomes unbearably pointless, as though to drop in a wise observation out of long experience. Through the shrill and angry irrelevancies that bounce from ridge to ridge in the bright, cold night, and endlessly on to other ridges, the clamor extends nobody knows how far, his deep voice offers a suggestion, usually rather condescendingly, and the others stop for a moment, as though at a loss and rebuked. But then there comes a sharp and aggressive ,“and, furthermore,” from the yellow cocker, and they are all

at it again, excepi the St. Bernard, who goes back to

his office in the Senate, so to speak, and withholds’ himself from the snarling futility of mean dispute.

» » i». HAT starts them off, what they settle by their ill-tempered wrangling or why, of a sudden, it seems agreed that the debate is ended, with so many issues still unsettied, no man can know any better than they can know why their people do the like. But certainly many of their commants have .the sound of

- extravagant overstatement, distortion and petty fault-

finding, and you would assume that, after this, certainly many of thém could never be friends or even civil to one another again. I am almost certain that the name-calling—as President Roosevell, of all persons, once said—is the refuge of the one who had run out of intelligent argument, and there is one disputant whose fierce personalities irresistibly remind me of Mr. Ickes. Yet, as I say, almost as though the election returns had just come ir, there comes a moment when, by common agreement, they fall cuiet, not in an instant, of course, but quickly, nevertheless, with just a few voices trying to carry on in distant places a while longer. Receiving no answer, they, too, subside, and peace comes to the hills in the inoonlight. Whatever they say, obviously in the heat of debate, they do not really mean their more extreme aspersions. For when day comes, barring a few sulky growls and some rise of hair along the neck at first, they resume relations with rarely a serious fight. And they are all pretty decent, friendly dogs, too, when you | ¥now them personally.

Business By John T. Flynn

Senater Glass Again Attacks the Evil of Banking Holding Companies

EW: YORK, Jan, 22.—Senztor Carter Glass is still on the heels of the bsznk holding companies. The years 1927 to 1932, with their rising tide of bank failures seems so far away that many people have forgotten one of the reasons for so many bank disasters. There 4s a notion prevalent that all the bank weaknesses of those days have been cured. As a matter of fact, practically the only irpportant thing the Administration did to aid the banks, outside of the government aid given in the crisis of 1933, was the Bark Deposit Insurance Law. It never seemed to get up any | steam about the fundamental weaknesses of banking that made banks crack. : . |- was done hy Senator Glass in the Glass-Steagall Bill. That bill did put an end to affiliates of a certain kind. But it did not put an end to what was just as bad—banking holding companies.. The affiliate was condemned by every thinking. person. It was a device. by which the bank and a separate corporation, known as the affiliate, were owned by the same stockholders. They were: legally separate, but the certificate of stock which granted me ownership of a share in the bank also recognized | my ownership of a share in the affiliate... They were run by the same management. And the effect was that the affiliate was able to do all those things— those reprehensible things—that the bank itself could not do under the law. This was stopped byt the: GlassSteagall Act.

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UT the same end could be accomplished by a holding company. In ‘hat case, Company X owns stock in the bank. Company X owns stock in an investment compzny, an investment trust, a railroad, a hotel or anything else under the sun. Legally all these enterprises are separate. But actually they are all part of the same shop. This Administration has never shown interest in the subject. In fact some of its economic royalist pets are .among the gga bark holding company operators. Now Senator Glass has offered a bill providing for the ending of bank control by holding companies. And it is high time Congress got around to doing something about this, Of course, at once the cry will go up that this is no time to make an attack on banks when the financial resources of the country must be mobilized. behind national! defense. This is not an attack on banks. It is a plan to protec: banks from those types. of companies and owners that exploit banks,

So They Say—

WE MAY NOT have to. choose between guns and butter, but the time is not far hence when we may

hdve to choose between guns and automobiles ~Amer-

ican Youth Cormission report.

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WHEN A ERITISH VICTORY is in sight, there

will be a revolution in: Frane.—Andre Geraud (Per- |

tinax), French fiewspapermai,

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AN ALCOHOL-DRINKING democracy cannot de-

velop ‘the maximum strength for national defense.— |

Senafor Sheppard, Tess proaibitionist.”

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The Hoosier Forum

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

BELIEVES ‘DOG HELPED FIRST MAN TO SURVIVE By “Neon” Mrs. Ferguson's article wherein she states that: “By men the dog is loved ‘most because he (the dog) is a bootlicker,” proves again that man can never understand woman —any woman. ; Women love pekes, poms and pugs probably, as Mrs. Ferguson admits, from the maternal angle, and sometimes, because, and if, she happens to be a leggy, streamlined model, complements and compliments her beauty. : But man’s love for the dog goes back to the beginning of time. When man, clothed in wild skins, cowering in his damp cave, first saw the wild dog, or perhaps wolf of a sort, regarding him at a respectful distance, he instinctively recognized him as a potential ally and friend. * The overtures and efforts of the two to consummate the ultimate friendship might have been the difference, or balance to decide whether primitive man could survive on earth.

E- 2 2 CHARGES F. D. R. REACHING FOR DICTATORIAL POWERS

By Sideline Sittin’ Lil Mr. Roosevelt is running true to form, losing no time in going after the dictatorial powers we all know he intends to get—or take. If only he wouldn’t put out that old line, that he doesn’t want these said powers—we really should have been spared that! We are about to see the Great Humanitarian become the Great Dispenser, and how!

#2 un » RESENTING JOHNSON’S CRITICISM OF WILLKIE

By .Jas. W. Reilly’. I am an. finlepentiert: voter who is proud of being an American, I voted for Wendell 'L. Willkie and I am still convinced I made no mistake, = No. third term’ is' my belief. I lost, so did about 22. million other Americans. Most of us. are Ainericans before politicians and willing to accept the results of. the. national elections. You, Gen. Johnson, give a bad impression. You admitted you made

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a mistake when you voted for this intelligent, broad-minded, great Hoosier American gentleman last Nov. 5.

Gen. Johnson. if you were blind |

as you advise in your support of Wendell L. Willkie in November, why, I ask, did you not investigate him thoroughly before you took up so much valuable radio time? It seems you did the nation a disservice at that time and should stop comment on matters of public affair. This is just a suggestion, you still have your right to abuse the Bill of Rights. What did you mean, Gen. Johnson, when in a former column you said you would support your com-mander=-in-chief? You blaspheme Mr. Willkie for a change of mind, but if IT am a judge of your writings you contradict your former stand. This is old but still good: “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” . ..

= =» = ; CHAMPIONS THE CAUSE OF DRUGLESS DOCTORS

By Mrs. R. M. E. A writer in the Hoosier Forum

has said that vindictiveness is beneath the dignity of the State of Indiana and should be, but what

about the case of the drugless doctors? One by one they are being prosecuted and their licenses revoked, but nothing is being done to stop the group back of it all. No consideration is given the sick who were depending on these treatments for relief and cure when other methods had failed. When we employ the services of an M: D. and he fails to cure (and none are 100 per cent) we don’t run to the Better Business Bureau and have this docter prosecuted, but call another instead. Let those who have failed to

Side Glances=By Galbraith

receive benefits from drugless doctors go to someone else and leave these men free to give relief and cure to those who do get benefits. In the case of Dr. Crum, his patients are not hysterical as some would have us believe and anyone who listened to the witnesses at the hearing would know that, but no consideration was given these testimonies. Can it be there are people in our state afraid to let these drugless doctors continue their practice and wonderful cures lest the public become ‘“drugless minded.’ It looks that way, ,

2 nu » DRINKS BARRED BUT EVERYONE HAD FUN By W. C. T. U.

with accounts of wars, murders,

disregard for common decency.

Recently, however, I overheard a|# conversation betweert two business-|#

men which cheered me greatly. The

Paint Co. for its employees. These men were proud of the fact that no liquor was served or allowed in the building : “You didn’t have any fun!” -a third man suggested. The replies were emphatic. “Oh, yes, we did!” “I have never enjoyed a party as much in my life.” This item was, of course, too small to make the front page, but how significant it was! ere in our own city we have a business firm with officials whose standards are entirely wholesome. If we only had more like them throughout the nation! 8 v »

PROUD OF DAUGHTERS WHO DO NOT SMOKE By C. A. W.

Just to remind “J. C. M.” that newspaper arguments never settle an opinion one way or another, but if she had had a little more than a “comparatively short span of existence” (as she admits) she would know that about eight out of ten business and professional men are not favorably impressed by seeing a cigaret between the lips of a girl. I have raised four daughters and not one of them “indulges,” and they have plenty of friends both male and female, not particularly churchgoing people but plain folks even as you and I. I do not say that smoking affects the brain; I only say my opinion is, if there had been a normal amount of that gray matter she would have had enough will power never to

‘Ihave started the habit.

as» CONTENDS LAWMAKERS INCONSISTENT ON TAXES

By Reader . Odd, isn’t it, how lawmakers will debate and fight any effort to increase by so much ‘as a mill for new and necessary services or for making the old services more efficient if it’s for the benefit of the whole people. Yet they'll send the tax rate skyrocketing if it is to make the old functions and services more Inefficient for the benefit of the handful the rest of us elected,

. CONSIDERATION By JANE SIGLER I never worship heroes, Yet I shall never cease To have enough respect for them To let them live in peace,

DAILY THOUGHT

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.—Proverbs 16:18.

Our newspapers have been filled

robberies, and brawls. Like many} other old-fashioned readers I have|} been discouraged about this general |

event they were discussing was a|®# holiday party given by the Advance |j

Gen. Johnson

Says— Disagree With Him i You will, It

Must Be Admitted That Roosevelt Is; Credit to America and Democracy

ASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—No matter how much you may disagree with him, or how sincerely you feel that the course he has followed and is following is dangerous to the very principles he is trying

“to uphold, you have to concede. that our third-term

President is a great credit to our country in a troubled world. Nobody could help being proud. of Gen. Pershing among the Allied commanders of the World War. . Nc foreign general approached, him in soldierly appearance and’ bearing. None was his superior in~ determination or professional at tainment. None contributed morei to Allied victory. It made you glad that you too were an Amey. ‘ican to see him in any contras with soldiers of other nations. For \ every good quality of his js - characteristically American quality refined Hy brought to a peak of excellence. He looked American, talked American and acted American. ‘ We can enjoy exactly the same kind of thrill for exactly the same reasons about Mr. Roosevelt in con=trast with the leaders of ‘other nations. In his con= tacts with them he is the peer of any and the superior of most. : » ” 8

E acceptably personifies the majesty, dignity, decency and democracy of the United States.

‘| He does it with as little effort as he wears his loose,

and comfortable clothes. And this is so for the same . reasons it was so of Gen. Pershing—‘“every good qual-.-ity of his is a characteristically American quality - refined and brought to a peak of excellence. He looks American, talks American and acts American”—in: = the best and truest sense. All this was especially apparent and must have. been emphasized to the whole world throughout theday of his third inauguration. This column isn't go= - ing to go softy or “sticky-moufy-kiss” in its debate; ,

I of what it thinks are Mr. Roosevelt's dangerous errors. -

in these critical times, but there is surely no aspect, of that in acknowledging a thrill of pride in the thought that I am a citizen of the same country of which he is President and that, in the face of a world: so' dangerous, this country has a leader of such coms, mendable stature. ' It detracts nothing from Mr. Roosevelt to say that, it is easier for him than it was for Gen. Pershing te-: maintain that international superiority of heroic bear=, : ing. The President's competition is not so keen. There was plenty of glamour and knightly seeming in, such soldiers as Haig, Allenby, Foch, Petain and little, less in old wotan Hindenburg, the sour super-junker. Ludendorff and the Reroeious Mackensen. an ” UT nobody could eg a place at the round *° table of King Arthur and his knights for such'® a greasy little bus-boy as Adolf Hitler or such a frog-" faced super-organ grinder as bellowing Benito. Even °' the myopic little Sun Emperor of Japan couldn’t crash *" the gates of any Valhalla on his shape alone. He would have to have more certified passports than it takes to get to Moscow. This doesn’t mean that appearance alone has much to do with the case. Napoleon couldn't have won any ~ physical culture contests, but he became a magic and heroic figure to his enemies as well as to his adoring soldiers by some superlative quality of humanity that”: placed him among the world’s greatest. No matter what fate may have in store for Mr, Roosevelt—and for us—I think that for good or-ill, hess will also take his place in that company. As President’: of the United States I don't agree with him, but asa! the of the United States I am proud of him Just b: e same. :

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE drive against infantile paralysis a on, Meals and women cannot close their hearts to the help~ lessness of children whose appeal is never changing and irresistible. As we sat talking over schemes to raise funds for braces and hospitalization, and to carry on preventive research, the thought of our inconsistency lay: like a heavy burden on my soul. How true it is that we never letar our left hand know what our right is doing! Here were half a hundred busy’" men and women, preparing to” wage a fight against a cruel and ~ insidious foe. We shall spend'’ many hours collecting money from one another. We shall give, and '* persuade others to give, and oa pe ’ the campaign is over thousands: of American children will be as<" sured of care and comfort and better health. Could any work be more splendid? Of course not. But we could, if we wished, carry it through to a” more perfect conclusion. Women who are interested in the welfare of tills dren ought to look into the slum conditions in thelr, cities. It is out of such unwholesome spots that many’ disease germs come. The quarters where our Negro populations are housed are often a disgrace.to Chris= tian leadership, and any doctor will tell you, they are also a menace to the health of the whole population, Cleaning up such filth is one way of fighting infantile paralysis and every other sickness, An intelligent effort to see that every child in your com= munity has enough food to withstand disease germs is another. Pre-natal care is another—and more im=- : portant, really, than any efforts we may make to safe- . guard the baby after it’s birth. a And speaking of babies—what, as women who love" children, have we done and what are we doing to build a world in which babies will be welcome and - safe? Are we not strange creatures—we good men and women of the earth? I Juprose we should give thanks that our hearts never fail us, even when our heads do not function. For while we manufacture shrapnel to maim children, we work frantically te save those: already maimed. It’s comforting to know that we do act upon our: best instincts individually, even though we behave like: - barbarians in the mass. Perhaps God will not count: our wicked deeds against us, since He knows we are caught in an evil web from 'which there seems to be

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S-Di John L. Lewis resign as President of the C. I 0.2 : A—No; he refused to be a candidate for re-elec-tion upon the expiration of his term, which ended with the 1940 annual convention of Ihe C.I O. Q—Is it constitutional for states to levy fmpers and export duties? ° A—Not without the consent of the Congress. an o—How much oxygen do submarines usually | oh carry A—At the present it is customary to carry enough . iy to last the crew of 40 to 60 men about 22 ours ’ Q—Are the granites produced in New Hampshire superior to those produced in the Southern States? A—The Bureau of Mines says that there is no ape proximate difference in quality and durability of any of ‘the granites. from all parts of the world are so enduring ‘that comparison is hardly necessary. Q—How much land in the United States is occu pied by cemeteries? A—The total area is estimated at close to 1,000,000 acres. 5 ow many United States Senators are foreign Tn? A—Three; James E. Murray of Montana was born. on a farm near St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada; Robert, F. Wagner of New York, was born at Nastgatten,' Hessen Nassau, Germany; James J. Davis of Pennsylvania wag born at Treegar, South Wales, .- Q—How did the number of WPA employees dur-.. ing EE compare with the Rimber E during,

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