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Give Light and the People Will Fist Their Own Woy THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1041

WILLIAM NILES WISHARD SR.

HE “grand old man” of Indiana medicine is dead. And * “we in Indianapolis have lost more than a great dcctor in the death of William Niles Wishard Sr. We have lost an outstanding citizen and a loyal friend. _. Dr. Wishard’s accomplishments, recognitions and degives take considerable space to list. To him these were unimportant. His life was built| around public service, dating: from the day he began his pr actice in Southport in 1874. He measured his service in [its broadest aspect and ‘he gave his time and his energies throughout his life foward attaining more benefits for the largest number of people. Indiana has very good ‘reason to remember William Niles. Wishard with respect, admirgtion and gratitude. |

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3 IN THE STREAM 0 swiftly runs the stream of news 5 that an observer pausing to ponder one event finds [otters crowding on its heels. * James. Clark McReynolds announces he will retire | from the United States Supreme Court on Feb. 1, two days before ‘his 79th" birthday. Appointed nearly 27 years ago by Woodtow Wilson, who believed him a liberal, Mr. J ustice ~ McReynolds turned out an ultra-co nservative. - We could .never doubt the sincerity of his opinion that the New Deal was destroying the Constitution. Yet if he and a few other elders had been less stiff of neck, nore able to adapt their views to new times and changing) needs, an unfortunate - controversy might have been avoided. President ' Roosevelt will now make his sixth appointment to the nine-mem-ber court. We hope he will promote someone of proved experience on the Federal bench—someone like Judge Sam Bratton of New Mexico or Judge Florence Allen of Ohio.

Report. pars that John G. Wi ait, Republican! and former Governor of New Hampshire, will be the new Ambassador to England. He would be a fine man for a tough job. Everything we know about Mr. Winant is good. No hidebound partisan in politics, he regards public life first and foremost as an opportunity for public service. We believe he would be a keen observer and an accurate reporter of developments in Britain, always remembering what Ambassador Kennedy never forgot—that an American ‘Ambassador’s prime duty is to America. b 8 nis # 8» = # _ The State Department lifts the “moral embargo” against shipment of warplanes and plane -equipment to . Soviet Russia. Maybe this is a necessary move, and maybe it will improve Russia's attitude tdward the United States and Britain—although, if we hadn’t sworn off name-calling, we'd be tempted to say: it looks a little like appeaseraent. But we don’t trust Stalin, and lifting the “moral embargo” “doesn’t wash the blood of: Finland off his hands. As to warplanes, Russia probably won’t get many, our full output being pretty well ticketed for our own and Britain's needs. We trust the State Department will keep a constant eye on this reinstated customer, making certain that no planes, no machine tools, no copper or .other war materials sold to Russia will find their way into ‘the hands of Hitler. s ” J Labor Minister Ernest Bevin [tells the British Flouse of Commons that England is ready to draft labor for war factories. Some people say that this i is a lesson for America, + and so it is. But the lesson is not| that we should prepare to draft labor or prohibit strikes. Iti is that American work‘ers and American employers: should determine fo settle their disputes peaceably, without stoppages of work, keep production at a maximum and so |avoid any necessity for this country to follow Britain's example.

DON'T LET WORDS DIVIDE US

N either side there are the extremists— those 011 one : hand who :would give the President all power, and those on the other hand who would give him hone. But as discussion of the Lend-Lease Bill proceeds, we think it becomes: clearer and clearer that most of us-stand between these extremes, and not far apart, our differences’ "being chiefly a matter of emphasis on mere words. Many of us say with Joseph P. Kennedy: TWe: are against this bill in its present form.” And many others of us say with Wendell Willie: “We are for this bill, with modifications. PE After all, aren’t we all saying almost the same thing? And isn’t it stupid and dangerous for us to divide info two _ camps, or to let ourselves be: classified as for the President _or against him, depending upon ‘whether we put our emphasis on being for the bill or for its modification ? ~ Let us emphasize both. Let us accept it as agreed that there is to be a bill ‘and that it is to be a modified ~ pill. That done, let us proceed calmly and without quarreling to decide upon the modifications that are needed. ~~ Messrs. Willkie and Kennedy agree that there should be a definite time limit on the powers to be. delegated to the President. They agree that Congressional control of the national pursestrings should continue. They agree that the bill should be fully debated and carefully studied, to make sure that relaxation by Ci ngress of constitutional check on the President go no further than is necessary to insure all aid to Britain—short of war. They agree that Congress should share the re ponsibility, Mr. Kennedy suggesting a small congressional committee to serve with the President. Somewhat the same idea was expressed © by Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, one of the finest of the up-and-coming young Republican. Governors. If all of us who stand between the extremists would accept these suggestions, passage of the bill in & form nerally satisfactory might be | greatly expedited. mcrae 1,

MEMBER THE MAINE AND VERMONT?

see by the papers that one of the new battleships is ‘to be named the Maine.

olis Times

|'and doing separate—iand hence slow—jobs.

Fair Enough 3y Westbrook Fegler

Let's Not Be Too Hard on Benito!

Were It Not for His Invincibles : ‘Hitler Would Have It Much Easier

xv YORK, Jan. 23.—After all, fair tai fair, so ose sracks at Benito Mussolini should now salute him as an ally rather than an enerny in je war; and. thank

she poor stumbling clown for his help to date, which -

-.seems: likely to Increase as time goes on,

Up. to now he has performed 3

‘two great services for our side: First, he made it possible for the British to obtain another toehold in Europe after Hitler, at the cost of a vas; effort, had thrown them across tlie channel, and, more recently, he had compelled Hitler to divert fiom the attack on Britain

a considerable force of planes; |:

pilots and auxiliary personnel to save 'the bum’s dashing invincibles

in Albania and Egypt. These feats

add up to the equivalent of an important military victory for Britain, for they have made it necessary for Hitler to fight on anotaer front at-a time when he might have been permiited to concentrate everything on Britain. Now we can understand why Hitler wanted Mussolini to remain neutral, and why the British and, at the time, the French hope. he would not come in on. their side, anyway... Had he remained neutral the invincibles would still be a threat of unknown gravity in Africa and Albania, whereas now everybody knows

that they can't fight a lick and, as an ally, are a |

military liability to der Fuehrer. . 8 = OR nearly 20 years Benny was building this low-

comedy army of his, but now the record proves that they weren't any good for anything but parades

{ and for chasing unarmed savages with tanks and

bombing planes. They have answered the bell four times, and the only fight they won was a felonious assault, rather than a wai, on Haile Selassie’s barefoot boys. Everybody else has slapped them silly, and even when France was dying and Benny leaped‘'in to take part in the kill the fallen victim gave him a kick in the face which made him quit after a few kilometers. Had the bum entered thz war on the-side of -the Allies, Hitler would have romped over him in a few, days and established “himself all over the Mediterranean, for obviously, the Invincibles, who couldn’t hold off the (reeks and couldn't even handle the British far from home" while their main effort was directed to resistance in the. British Isles, would have been a pushover for the avalanche which crushed France. - To realize what an aksurd: clown Mussolini is it is necessary only to observe that the English slapped his face, pulled his cap dgwn over his banjo-eyes and made him run .all the way home through crowded streets without his pants while the Battle of Britain was raging with a ferocity unequaled since Verdun. And this is the same tremp who was talking about the cowardly British and telling the world what he was going to do to them. He is the one who had 10 million bayonets out of a population of 40 million people, and used to yell apout his vast flocks of planes and suicidal pilots but, when the test came, had to holler to Hitler to come down and save him from sand-lot opposition. yng 2 » ”

T is natural-to laugh gt Benny, for he is sure-fire comedy, out you can’t hate a man who harms your enemy in a war, gnd Mussolini certainly has done Hitler no good. More important than that, however, the palooka has. given the world proof that dictatorship, with all its guile and power over people is not. necessarily the most pfficient form of government for a nation in peace or in war. No dictatorship was more strict than Benny's, and the people were compelled to give him everything over all those years—manpower, obedience, wealth and co-operation—but when war came and the British varsity was engaged against the Germans Mussolini couldn’t even reach the line of scrimmage, much less gain a yard, against their scrubs, and was forced to

send for ringers lest he be chased clear out of the

stadium. It may be true that this puts Hitler on the Mediterranean, but that malies him stretch and spread himself, too, and until Be nny is definitely fired by der Fuehrer it will be necessary to let him play at being

1 Caesar with his Invincibhles, which will mean easier

going for th: British than if Hitler were in charge. Certainly it is cheaper and easier to fight the poor tramp than to carry him bodily as an ally and rescue him from his enemies. So far his decision to throw iri with Hitler and ball’ up the play on the other side Benny the Bum deserves the thanks of those who hold him in contempt.

Business By John T. Flynn

Explaining the Delay in Reaching That Goal of 50,000 Planes a Year.

EW YORK,, Jan. 23.—One of the most difficult facts for the American public to grasp is that America cannot turn out all the airplanes it wants and in any quantity by its magic “mass production” technique. The reason it cannot may he seen in some facts about one big airplane engine plant which is hurrying to swing into action. This is the big extensioa of the - Packard company where RollsRoyce engines are fo be made. It is many months since the contracis for these extensions were made. There was "a condition favorable to speed in the fact that the plant was to make engines whose character, lines, parts were already established. THese are big engines. They have a horse-power of 1000. In size, ‘parts, accuracy, i, they are entirely different from sutomobile engines. You cannot take an

‘| automobile engine department and ‘turn’ it. instantly

into an airplane engine department. The job is wholly different. To make these huge engines a set, of specially designed machines have 0 be installed. It will require. 12563 separate machines to make all of the parts that go into these engines, | . Making these machines is the first big bottleneck in starting such a plant. They cannot be made by mass production methods, although when they are made they can turn put parts in mass production

‘quantities. These machines have. to be carefully

fashioned hy mechafi¢s working at lathes and dies These

2563 machines are not ll alike. Each one 8 difterept. Pi 8 ” has been easier fo get these machines in his case than in most airplane operations because the

machines themselves hid already been designed. That saved many months, if not half a year or more. Yet.

up to the present time only about half of these pro-

ducing machines have been delivered to the Packard | plant. It cannot hope to produce -an airplane engine |

for another six montis. When this plant is ready. to turn out machines it will have a probable capacity of 40 engines a day. Thus it cen make abput 10,000 in a year. However,

this is only one type of engine. The Rirplane service And there are no | “orders placed for tha; many planes of this ‘type. | tutn out planes on a real mass-production basis | —not 40 & day, but 4)0 a day or 1000 a day—it will,

requires many kinds of planes. To

according to airplane authorities, take two or three years of further inv:stigation and experimentation: ‘by that industry. This is why the big talk about 50,000 airplanes a yesr is so foolish now, and ‘could gone guly from men isrofoundly ignorant of the ways ustry.

So They Say—

- BH I BELIEVED America could survivy economically, then I would not take a single risk in ternational entanglernents.—Wendell. Wiss, Repub-

lican Presidential candidate.

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i pousTS Sed mi HusgivIngs of o our citizens ‘are

Americans who! have tossed. off eT

that Britain could: collapse and‘ involving this country in any in-

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ME ~~ J YOU'RE AN; % peressea fs

. ° : : © The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.

U. S. DRAFTS SONS, TAXES TAKE HIS SHOP By Cecil R. Ross

After serving four years in the U, S. Navy I located in Broad Ripple to operate a shoe repair shop. I have been operating this shop in the same location for 20 years. The net wages have never been more - than $25 per week. In 1939 the average was $22.63 per week; 1940 averaged $2035 per week. By living honorably, minding our own business and postponing meals we have mansgged to raise three fine boys who are now being drafted for military service. Saturday the Sheriff of Marion County notified me that in 10 days he would take my little one-horse business to satisfy a Gross Income Tax claim of $57.96. Now when our boys are sent to Germany and meet Hitler I want them to say, “Adolph, old boy, you only think you are tough. You should come to Indiana and let our tax leeches teach you something.” Wilson got me; F. D. R. got my boys; the sheriff got my $20 per week job. Now {f the county poor farm will take mother and me we will be all set. I have one consolation. Hell will not be quite so hot for me as the tax ferrets who put us on charity. ® #2 =» WONDERS WHY PELLEY CHOSE HAMILTON CO By M. E. Clark, Noblesville, Ind. } Isn't it singular that of the 92 counties in Indiana, old Hamilton was chosen to be the new home of ‘The Roll Call, the new magazine printed by Pelley and Losey? Althought it is in Johnstown, a suburb of Noblesville, it doesn’t have the name Noblesville on its cover but has the address at Washington, D. C. Situated a few hundred feet from the old strawboard filter, the stench arising from its unpatriotic utterances make the strawboard filter smell like roses. Why choose Hamilton, or are they|. among friends here? They should be among Roosevelt haters, or are they? And I mean haters. They preach the doctrine of aiding Hitler by blocking the Allies. It is the mouthpiece of the “Defend America First Committee.” Too bad to have our: 12th District Congressman’s picture on the front

.|page. I think I can name the next

Side Glances—By Galbraith

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

five contributors to the magazine if there is another issue out, but I hope there won't be. : ” 8 8 APPROVES AID TO BRITAIN BUT WITH RESERVATIONS By’ Claude ‘Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. ‘We are Americans first, and Democrats and Republicans second. As such we can follow Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policy as long as it seems practical and commonsensical. But when ‘it reaches the realm of impractical idealism, many of us are hesitant to follow. We are sold on “all-out” aid to ‘Britain. We’ believe she is fighting “our battle.” But we haven't lost sight of the fact she is fighting first for her own preservation, and “our battle” only incidentally. Nor are we convinced that our own preservation depends ultimately upon that of Britain. We feel no moral obligation, therefore, to extend that aid to the point of actual warfare. We believed once, and we believe again, that the world must be made “safe for democracy.” But we do not believe that: democracy should be imposed upon the world. Freedom of speech and worship, rights of minorities, and all the blessings of enlightened liberalism, are problems of internal governments. The United States could not impose and preserve them “everywhere in the world” without making of herself a military colossus and tyrant worse than Germany.

” ” ” A SLAP AT THE BRITISH RULING CLASSES . By Mrs. Mary Schepp, Martinsville, Ind. As a looker on in the great movie of life, we just can’t figure out why things ‘are done the way they are sometimes, but we can at least have our ideas, even if they are limited. Ernie Pyle said in His column the 14th, “My American accent alone 1s a key to unlock ‘almost any door in London—except the doors of the ex-

tremely upper classes, of course.” To

|utmost to support the Presi

the British think they are .when corapared to we people of the United States. The phrase “bundles for Britain” is a good one and it. tickles the

cause.” If you live in a secluded neighborhood, best take a trip out of it once in a while, you won’t :be contaminated when you meet up with poverty. Go to the end of your street where the houses are not so large, step into the side stpeets and you. will find thousands of undernourished children: walking on| pasteboard soles. © You will find fathers and mothers hungry and cold.

with those old words which mean nothing, “they can go to the authorities for aid.” Maybe it has been tradition in: their family not to beg. When you are toying with the phrase, “bundles for Britain” go: first and see if you can’t find someone near that needs your help.:. ., .

‘as. a # OPPOSES U: 8S. PAYING FOR USE OF ITS MONEY By A. E. More

I read your Forum every. night and see all kinds of suggestions

the income of everybody not. on relief. I .want to say just-this, I am 65. years old, making. just enough

cannot get ‘employment. The Gallup. Poll said,

income tax.” Here is my view. I. suggest let . the Government -stop borrowing the Government money end stop paying . interest for ‘the use of Goverrument money to pri-| vate baniters. end you can pay for the defense preparedness with the principal and interest with Government ‘money: #an@l stop taxing the people’s: ‘Government for the use of their money. Two - Congressional Records No. S. J. Res: 188° and H. J. Res. 391 which reads: ““Conhgress ‘shall have the sole power: to issue money and regulate tHe ‘value thereof.” Wake

men and gét these bills, read them, and demand that these bills be passed and stop being taxed to death. This is not politics, this is the remedy for the U. S. A. Thel money system is being : operated

- without a constitutional. authority

by the bankers—this: is informa- |

.|tion from Congressman Mr. Voorhis

of California and Mr. Frazier, dates Oct. 10 and 13; 1939.

aN. un TAKING A SLAM AT THE “DICTATOR” CRY

: By Liberty

The propagandist working overtime on the. favorite American political bogeyman—the dictator—may actually accomplish what he boasts

will to aid Britain with every possible asset, “If short-sighted time-honored filibustering should force a dictator let

1it Se of our own ch

heartening ‘and of the, greats

. oh ste that leaders of the

Republican party have put

aside party politics dnd are d as

esident in|" the common’ defense. ,

A BARD'S OBIT By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

When I am buried’ please don’t say That I have. just been “laid away.” It ol much like the phrase a cler

‘day work.

DAILY THOUGHT

A good name is bettér than precious ointment; and the day of

| death than the day of one’s birth. esiastes °

me that just about. sums up what,

vanity of the people here to be able |: to say, “I am helping in this great:

This situation can't be covered up|

‘| or even war emergencies:

to raise defense money but the best | § one I read wds Jan. 8, 1941, to tax | &

to live—you know men of my age 4

“the poll & showed .that 51 per cent of the]. people. are .in favor of: increasing | §

up; citizéns; send to your Congress-|.

he will do, “delay ’em and fail ’'em”|. .|despite the very nearly universal

Would Soa, nia ti, yah of. ale.

Gon oes Says— i {74

Points to Detar That Bers in Argument That President Could

Ignore Congress Under "War Powers"

ASHINGTON, D. CO. Jan. 23.—There is 2 lot of argument in favor of ithe “lease-lend” W&? dictatorship bill based on the so-called gies “war-powers” of the President. The effect of it is to say: “To hell with Congress.” It is only by an act of grace that the President is consulting - Congress at all. He could, if he wished, do-all that is proposed by that bill to do’ under his ‘constitutional office of com+ mander-in-chief of the Army and. Navy sxd. the Presidential “warpowers” under the Constitution. © Abraham Lincoln, as President without any previous Congres-' . sional delegation at all, and under the war powers of thesPresident, simply set aside all the constitu- | tional guarantees and compro» mises that made this Union possi-. ble and emancipated the slaves. This is dangerous doctrine. If there is, in‘ our form of government, any: hidden pewer in: thePresident in his own discretion, without any. actual war, simply to set the Constitution aside, and do as" he pleases with the peace, prosperity, property and: destiny of the United States, we are. in a bad fix. If that is so, the “democracy,” for which’ the President so eloquently argued in his third inaugural, is at the mercy of his own whim. .

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HAT are the “war powers” of ‘the President under our Constitution? In actual war and in the area of combat on enemy territory they are, and they must be—as the powers of a commanding general in such territory—completely dictatorial and practically supreme: But: that kind of dictatorship does nat flow from his office ‘as the President of the United . States. It flows from his specific constitutional office. as Commander-in-Chief of our Army and Navy. : It was under this military power and under no: civil office that President Lincoln emancipated the’ ‘slaves, He did so only as an act of war, only in enemy territory in actual rebellion and his act was! “later confirmed by Congress. He did so, and said that he did so, not in his capacity as President—but in. the execution of his" office as Commander-in-Chief. This is particularly’ emphasized by the fact that when, under such flerce * factiorial dogmatic urging as is now ‘lashing Mr.

1'Roosévelt, to force this great powerful, peaceful

country into war, Lincoln attempted to Hitlerize the civil processes of the United States Constitution and send to concentrtion camps, or by & star chamber process, whoever opposed his war policies, authority to do s0 was denied by the Supreme Court. ” “ ” HERE is no doubt that the “war powers” of-= Congress are allnost unlimited. They are like the . law of self-defense in homicide cases. They go to almost: any extent necessary to national safety and - ‘are measured only by the degree of' danger and theexpress prohibitions of the Constitution—but evens ‘they ‘are limited by those express prohibitions and ‘even as to the war powers of Congress, itself, the Court said: “We, by’ no means assert’ that the Congress can establish and apply the ‘laws of war. ‘where no war has been declared or exists.” We are facing a very dangerous question. Because” wars are frequently not “declared” in this mad modern world, does that mean ‘that the Constitution can be" ‘set asidé and\that the Government can convert itself” ito a dictatdrship, either through Congressional or” Presidential action, deciding that there is war when" there is no war? The argument on one side of the Lease-Lend Bill : is getting pretty close to. precisely that urging. If that, ‘bill passes in its present form, it will not merely be a ‘decision that, even though there is no war, Congress can exercise its own full war powers junking most of the implied restrictions of the Constitution, but that Congress caf delegate ‘to the President plenary * 3 powefs to. engage in actual, if not declared war,’ anywhere on earth, in favor of any nation and againss gy other nation as his fancy dictates. Stop! Look! Listen!

A Woman's Viewpoint.

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

PEeor comes- to me daily that common men and [ women are looking deeper than surface problems. Gropingly, they are dig-, ging down to fundamentals—the - solid rock upon, which the foundation of our, future democracy must rest if it is to abide. : This letter . is offered as proof: : “The reproduction of the: relief , lady’s letter was a sincere effort to give the reading public a picture of conditions as they are. The great producing element (I. hate the term “class”) in this na«: tion is only a little better off than~ the reliefers, and in some ways: . worse—for they carry the respon=’ sibility for their own support. : “Medical treatment and hos<" ' pitalization is practically prohibitive, unless we mortgage already’ insufficient family incomes for the rest of our life. The M. Ds, much ‘as they are doing, have only scratched the surface. The shiftless and the deadbeats pile up doctor's bills, but we people who have’ Seif umes! do without the medical attention we n “The situmtion is tragic. Many a ' noble mother , goes to an early grave because she cannot. bear to add worry to a husband who already carries a heavy, load. Then the compldint goes up that the population: is ‘decreasing among the desirable citizenry. How: are, ‘they helped’ to remain desirable, I ask you? . “We, the millions of workers, are compelled Foi economize on food until it is a national disgrace. ‘Our papers are full of budgeteli menus in a land with surplus crops. Yet, if we complain, we are acoused'* cof being fifth columnists. “I have a large family and life has been a bitter financial struggle every inch of the way. In the" ‘last 10 years our. family, without extravagance, could” have used $100,000 worth of manufactured products:Instead, we have had only about $15,000 worth. How does that tally with the over-production compla: about? And we had the capacity to earn that much during the time, if each had received as much as ‘$2000 a year. “I believe a better world: will come. out of. this. chaos, but I am still convinced the churches; with their present attitudes, are a failure, regardless of the: report in a recent Reader’s Digest. Had: their members been consistent in exercising the teachings of .Christ, this unfortunate condition: would not threaten r Christianity and civilization. . - “Their purpose seems altogether selfish to me. They. are concerned with life beyond the grave, and: their own life specifically, which is opposed: to the tenets of the Great Teacher.”

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