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Their Own Way 29, 1941

Give Light and the People Wilt Find | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

CASUALTY TAGS—4,500,000 OF THEM

FAITH in that little phrase “short of war” comes harder and harder these days. On another page you will find a 0 placing a single order for four and a half million identification ‘tags for its dead and wounded. |We're all in favor of preparedness, but this seems to be preparing with a vengeance. An Army officer explains that the order doesn’t mean anything ominous—that these casually tags will be useful in maneuvers. But it'll be a long time before the Army can “throw 4,500,000 uniformed men into the field for maneuvers or anything else. May we be pardoned for being curious?

story about the Army

SPEAKER KNAPP’S WARNING

PEAKER JAMES M. KNAPP issued a much needed warning yesterday to the Indiana ‘House of Repregentatives on state finances. : Of the 211 bills and resolutions| introduced so far in the House, he pointed out significantly: THAT 35 of them would “decrease state expenses by a total "of $15450,400. Tr THAT only 3 would decrease existing THAT 19 would decrease state rey $56,151,000. That's not an unusual situation in any Legislature, and it would not ordinarily cause great boneeor But in this particular session, where the majority is occupied solely with the business of snatching all the jobs in sight, it is a matter of grave importance. of Frankly, we're happy that someone like Speaker Knapp is on guard and alive to the possible dangers ahead.

state expenses. enues by a total of

BETTER WAY TO HELP BRITAIN

THERE are many possible substitutes for the Lend-Lease ‘Bill by which we could provide planes, ships and guns to the Allies as fast as we could under this measure—and with much less danger of getting involved in the war. And, incidentally, without requiring Congress to abdicate “its responsibilities. . For one there is the suggestion of Senator Taft of Ohio, that we make straight dollar loans—starting with a credit of one billion to Britain, a half-billion| to Canada, a smaller sum to Greece, saying to these countries: “Here's the money; come make your own contracts for war material.”

But we still think the best idea would be to have no loans or leases of. dollars or munitions or anything -elgse—but instead to make an outright swap with Britain. | Let us offer to buy from Britain all the Western Hemisphere real estate she is willing to sell—including Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, the islands of the Lesser Antilles, anc. Guiana and British Honduras on the mainland. We could afford to pay a good price—indeed a very steep price. If ~ she would part with enough'real estate we could pay a sum ample to wipe out. Britain’s war debt and still leave plenty of billions to her credit in American banks to pay for all the weapons we could produce for her. Sure, there would be some adjustment to make regard“ing British subjects in possessions passing under American sovereignty—but such problems are not insoluble. And when the war was over Britain wouldn't owe us lanything—and we would have these defense outposts, whic! we sorely need now and may need even more in the years to come.

SOLDIERS AND SCISSORS |

HEN Ivan Barzella Heiderich was a baby he had long golden curls, and his mother [couldn't bear to cut them. Mr. Heiderich, now 33, still has the curls, and they have just presented a problem to the draft board -at Mari: etta, Okla. He didn’t ask deferment, but neither did he want the Army to shear his locks. The draft board has solved that problem, after a fashion, by deciding that Mr Heiderich should continue in his present occupation, farming

But why, we want to know, must a man get his hair cut if he joins the Army? That seems to us an absurd anc dangerous notion. The pages of history are filled with the exploits of long-haired warriors. There was Samson, un beatable until Delilah used her scissors. There were d’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. There was Wellington, conqueror of Napoleon. There was our own George Washington, who wore his in a braid. | And coming nearer to our time, there was George Armstrong Custer, whose tresses, if we mistake not, were both: long and golden. General Custer finally’ came to disastrous last stand—but only when he met a fighting man with even longer hair, Sitting Bull.

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PLEDGE HE Reynolds Metals Co., a nation-wide manufacturer of aluminum sheet and alloys, operates 17 plants and subsidiaries in various cities and employs more than 7000 people. The president of this company and the presidents. ghop-stewards and other officials of the C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unions with which it deals under closed-shop contracts have just signed a pledge. The company and the employees promise, individually and collectively, to devote resources and facilities, energy and unfailing loyalty, “24 hours a day, seven days a week,” to production of materials vital to the national defense. - Here is a fine example of co-operation in industry and labor —co-operation of the kind this country needs to boost output and prevent stoppages of work. Lie. We shall watch with interest the keeping of this pledge. _ and ‘evidence that it will be kept is found in the fach tha:

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By Stephen Ell

Roberts’ "Wiswell' and Saroyan's Stories Among Best Sellers Here; "Out of the Night" a Spy Thriller

OF OF THE MOST popular books around Indianapolis at the moment is Kenneth Roberts’ “Oliver Wiswell” (Doublecay, Doran; $3). It is the dramatic story of the eight tumultous years from wig + Dexington to Yorktown and while it may run to excessive length it is a dramatic and moving story of oné of the greatest periods of history. . . . Another book in demand around these parts is William Saroyan’s “My Name Is Aram” (Hare colrt, brace; -$2.50). Saroyan presants ong Aram Garoghlanian and in 14 siories, he brings you the whole range of humor and delight that only true artistry is capable of. “My Name is Aram” is really grand reading. i” »

ND FOR a variety of tastes, I give you: . “Juggernaut (ver Folland,” by Eelco Nicolas van Klefens (Cclumbis University Press; $2), being the Dutch foreign minister's personal story of the invasion of his country. It is a tragic book, in which facts do the work of adjectives. “France Under the Republic,” by D. W. Brogan (Harper's; $5), the story of France from 1870 to 1939 as told from the clear and logical position taken by a historian. This is an important book for the wouldbe historian or dehater. “The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach,” by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, accompanied by four 10-inch records of Bach music (complete, $5), just issued by Simon & Schuster. Needless to say, Mr. Van Loon presents his Bach with his usual skill, earnestness and wit. As to the quality of the music, we'll have to leave that fo experts like Mr, Thrasher. The records were made by Grace Castagnetta, pianist. “Hoss Doctor,”|iby E. J. Dinamore, M. D. V. (Waverly House, $2.75), the story of a rural Massachusetts vet who has written about his profession with no regard for the squeamish. Our city folk would do well to read it.| They would get a heightened respect for a too oftén disregarded calling and the men who practice - it.

Mr. Saroyan

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AKE A NOTE of ‘Out of the Night,” by Jan Valtin (Alliance, $3.50) as one of the new books you are going to hear a gpod deal about in the months | to come. “Out of the Night” is the life story of a professional revolutionary, a man who spent 20 years as a secret agent of the Communist Internationale. Few books published in 1941 will be more exciting. Sabotage, smuggliiig, abduction, mutiny, murder were Jan Valtin’s daily fare., Both Valtin and his wife fell into the hards of the Nazi Gestapo and the author’s story of the tortures and brutality inflicted upon the prisoners is pbout the strongest reading you can possibly] encounter. Baltin’s wife died in prison and his sol: is a ward of the Nazis. Valtin is currently a refugee from both the Nazis and the Communists. If you have any qualms about brutal language, pass this one up. 8 » 2

EING HOOSIERS, niost of us undoubtedly will be interested ir the mew biography “Robert Dale Owen,” by Richard William Leopold, just published by the Harvard University Press ($4.50). It is a thoroiigh study—scholarly, objective .and intelligent. It W rite-weshes nothing in Owen's life, but rather preseits an objective story of a strange character in Indigna’s history; plus a great deal about

The Hoosier Forum

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

PLEADS FOR A BREAK FOR SMALL EMPLOYER

By Laymon Thorp, Greensburg, Ind. Nearly every day some new bill

historic New Haimony. . If any of you make a habit of collecting books concerning Indiafa, youll have to add this one to

Business: By John T. Flynn

News From Brazil Recalls Dispute With Senator on Press Censorship

is in evidence on compensation. Now it’s to make the employer liable for full time medical service. Maybe that’s all right. I know that this compensation law is go-

business. It’s too high now. Why not a law to help out us little contractors and employers of seven men or less who just barely make a living “on this Social Security Law”? We collect 1 per cent off the employee and an equal amount or 1 per cent from our own pockets and we don’t even have the

ing to put the little man out of}:

WMTEW YORK, Jan. 9.—A small news note from Brazil brings up a little controversy this writer had with Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma two weeks

ago. 5 A dispatch t¢ the Herald-Tribune describes what happened to an editor in Rio de Janeiro. This editor is described as operating as a “pro-democratic” paper. That ought not to be such a monstrosity in this continent. But it seems this editor had some strange ideas. He thought military men ought to stay out of politics and he said so. The consequences were swift. Two truckloads of soldiers backed up fo his printing plant and occupied it. They held the fort in “cas? there is any more inclination to offer unwonted advice.” The sequel is no less strange. Control of papers in democratic Brazil is under the propaganda department. “Every newspaper,” we were told in the dispatch, “is subject to censorship,” and the President controls that censorship. The editor is known to be friendly to the President.. Hence his view was suspected as being that of the President's. . Yet the newspaper was raided by the President's minister of war. And the President was compelled to suspend the paper for 48 hours as a sort of compromise. Which seems to prove that even a President, having set in motion the iron wheels of press control, can have them started up even against himself. But now for Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma. In a radio debate I reculled that the Senator, some months ago, had said that in the event of war the Government would have to control the press. And as his colleagus in the debate had said we are now actually at war, I wanted to know if Senator Lee thought the time had come for the Government to’| control the press. The Senator hotly denied that he had said this. He claimed he inerely thought the Government should have the right to take over a newspaper or a radio station to make propaganda. | # = = LEAVE this question to the Congressional Record. . The Senatcr did irideed insist that the Government had a right to take a radio station or newspaper to make propaganda. And if it has a right

the right to take one or all: in every town in the land. I do not see how he could go further. But here are the excerpts: “Certainly the Government ought to have the power to take over a factory in case of war. It ought to have the right to take over a radio station. It ought to have the right to take a newspaper for propaganda to protect itself.” (P. 16901, 76th Congress, Third Session.) | “If the Senator is thinking of freedom of the press, is it not true that in war time we suspend freedom of the press snyhow?” (P. 16,902.) Referring (fo these statements, the the Senator said later, “If the Senator will read the record he will find that I stated ‘in case we were in the war. I am sure thé Senator himself realizes that we mus have control ¢f the press in case of war.” : The Senator seemed to take this for granted, although it has never been done yet so far as I know. The question then .arises—how -long will it be before a truckload of soldiers will back up to some paper that is rot “co-operating” with the opinions and philosophy of our Government?

So They Say—

THE ONLY THING that will keep one man or group of men from steqling a government and administering it in the interests of a privileged few is a free press.—GCrover Palterson, editor, in a tribute to Eenjamin Freanklin. ® » * IN TAKING UP THE slogan that America must be the arsenel of the democracies, are we forgetting that America must be the garden of the democracies? -~The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, New York.

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IF THE TOTALITARIAN forces of the world are victorious, all the hard-won rights of labor will be destroyed and both capital and labor will become the involuntary vassals of an all-powerful state.—Joint

the company has dealt with unions throughout its 13-yea: . history and has never had a strike. i

"statement of the new Office of Production Manage-

benefit of any of it.

to take a newspaper in New York, it will also have |g

Why should the contractor or employer pay for

someone else's old-age pension and

probably go to the poor house him-

self?

Why don’t some of our noble law-

makers get behind this and see what he can do? ployer some kind of a break. the employer was included in this social security relief Bill

Give the emIf

Smith wouldn’t have as hard time collect-

ing his internal revenue.’ ” » =

DOUBTS BRITISH RIGHT TO CHAMPION DEMOCRACY By Birdie Sgmner

Since many letters are being writ-

ten for and against aid to Britain, I wish some reader would answer this question: When did the British Empire with a King at the head of her Government become the center of democracy?

Ireland who shed her life blood

and is not yet entirely free, and India with its Mahatma Gandhi could tell a different story. few Americans would take the time to read England’s history and the horrors and cruelties inflicted on nations who had no desire to be a part of the great empire, we would not prattle as artlessly about Eng; land fighting our battle.

If a

England and Germany are at war

not because of the United States, and not because of democracy, but because both the Germans and English are bulldogs and both want to be supreme. -

If we have to hide behind Eng-

land’s skirts, peeping around like a kitten and spat at Germany, it is high time we

ng an occasional

prepared ourselves and stood on our

(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.)

own feet. Are we going to become so afraid of Hitler that we acknowledge it and keep reaffirming it as the President is doing? Where is that old spirit of 1176? We had better quit getting maudlin and weeping in our cups over England and stiffen our own backbone. England has a motto “there will always be an England.” We had better apply that to our own country or we will be sunk in the morass of an always bloody and fighting Europe.

PREFERS CARDS AND HORSES TO BASEBALL TICKETS

By G. M. Weaver . I noted with interest two letter in the Forum the past week which deplored the Baseball Ticket setup in this town. This is right up to the minute as there is always a new shake with a change of prosecutors. I have tried the tickets as I like a gamble as many others, but after a short while I soon found out that it would be the better part of good judgment to go back to the horses and cards, if I wanted to gamble, as you do have a faint chance there. This nickel and dime donation has been called a poor man’s gamble. It's a laugh. The same as the old shell game, the sucker hasn't a chance. It wouldn't be a bad idea if the Prosecutor did take note of it. ” ” ” POINTS TO WILLKIE IN PLEA FOR UNITY

By Another Vagabond . Folks, why not take things unpleasant in our daily stride as Mr. Willkie is doing. If we don’t discontinue the practice of petty discontent and political hostilities we will eventually save the dictators

the trouble of weakening the morale of this country for we will

Side Glances—By Galbraith

teat, “

"We both have to get out of the house for an hour or so every afternoon—our home is cluttered with females barking ‘Don't! " 'God.—Samuel Johnson.

already have the job wrapped in cellophane and postpaid. Our legislators, congressmen and other notables who take time out to fight a private blitzkrieg to determine who and which party is most powerful and who can show the most authority are forgetting the old strategy of a “fight in the enemy” camp usually wins a battle. The dictators are waiting and doing a lot of wishful thinking along these lines. » s ” ANOTHER COMPLAINT

FROM A JOB SEEKER By H M. Hats off to John E. Haley; His article in Friday's paper was a very interesting one to me, and I must say, “the truth in plain words.” Since I quit high school six years ago to help make a living for my mother, I find everywhere I go this question, “What experience have you?” It thoroughly burns me up (using a slang expression) because, as he says, one must have a chance to get experience and this experience cannot be gained -unless you are given a chance. ‘ What is wrong with America? Personally an employer or business

gave them the experience.

chance.

ployed and seeking work but am met with the inevitable question, “What experience have you?” I say, “Wake up employers—give us a chance.” » ® » AGREES WITH WILLIAMS ON COLLEGE FLIERS By J. Roberts Maj. Al Williams never wrote a more timely piece than the one, “College Fliers.” When American boys can’t get jobs because they haven't been to college it is time we shut up about democracy or to claiming any knowledge of what constitutes brains or education. To bar American youth from any job because he has not attended a college is about as stupid as the Republican campaign propaganda that college men are theoretical and “we need a President” who has carried a dinner pail and come up the “hard way”!!! College and university attendance has become a racket. It does not altogether mean education, but right down ignorance, snobbery and persecution of millions of lads of initiative and brains. Let us give the young folks a chance to prove themselves and end this college fetich.

TO OUR BOYS

By ANNA E. YOUNG The music of the Symphony Is: so satisfying—sweet, With its measured bars so perfect Lifts you way up on your feet.

And there’s harmony and splendor In “he: rollicking zipping swag Of the peppy tunes in set up Of your favorite pastime rag.

But can you find a thing—more touching -Anywhere throughout the land Than the tramp—tramp of our

DAILY THOUGHT

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt Swear by his name.—Deuteronomy

SHAME ARISES from the fear of men, conscience from: the fear of

Gen.

might find more earnest and will-|: ing workers if they employed a few| of those “inexperienced” men and | § Most | § men who have the “fighting” spirit |} are ready to learn if given ali

At the present time I am unem- | {#

Johnson © Says—

Mar¢h of Dimes Helps, but Too

Much Emphasis Should Not Be Put On Dimes When Dollars Are. Needed

ASHINGTON, Jan. 20. — The march of dimes method of raising money in the ‘annual drive to finance the fight against infantile paralysis was an excellent idea, but it is not the only way and it has its drawbacks. This column is all-out for it and this writing isn’t intended to dee tract from it in the slightest—only to call attention to -the other ways. Too much emphasis on the dime stunt and not enough on the others has a tendency to gear the gifts to dimes and it takes ten million dimes to make a mil. lion dollars. Ten million is a right smart mess of dimes. Some cynical wisecracker once said that the grit (four pence or eight cents) was invented to enable the : Scotch to practice philanthropy. That is a dirty dig at the Caledonians, but it isn's all nonsense. Some people can cool the burning of their brotherly love with no greater sacrifice. 6 The fight against infantile paralysis needs more

of its precise cause to enable the medical profession to go out and throttle it with preventives, as it has conquered typhoid, for example. Much money is needed for research and the funds available are totally inadequate. b ” ” ”

I view of the miracles of lifesaving that medical research has worked in other flelds the reluctance; to finance a multiplication of the effort is hard to: understand. This remark doesn’t apply merely to infantile paralysis. Senator Pepper has never been able to get action: on his bill for a modest appropriae tion for research concerning the much more widee spread plagues—common colds, influenza and pneu monia. While we are spending billions on machinery to maim and take lives by mass-murder, we might. not miss a few millions spent on machinery to save lives. There is no project of public financing of re< search concerning infantile paralysis. It depends in no small part upon this annual drive. Sh Treatment of this disease is so expensive as to be beyond the reach of the poor and even some in moderate circumstances. Not many hospitals are fully equipped to give it. Yet, considering the obscurity of the disease, treatment is remarkably effective, ranging all the way from complete cure great reduction of its terribly crippling effects. ‘ Dimes have helped nobly, but it takes dollars te: do this job. It takes a lot less trouble to write out and mail a check for as many dollars as you can give, than it does to go out and get ten dimes, fill the slots in a coin card and then mail that.

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HREE methods are used in this drive—the dime cards, the President's Birthday Balls-and enter= tainments, and finally just the simple old (and far mere effective) way of filling out and mailing a check. ¢ One year, when I conducted this drive for New York City, the fact that contributions could be mailed to the President at the White House on his birthday, was so great a deterrent among the Roosevelt haters and so great an encouragement to his idolizers, thas we had two kinds of dime cards—one that didn’t mention the birthday and the White House but only infantile paralysis, and one that did. We hung up some kind of a record on our. total take, but the spite and libels that made a necessity for doing that nauseated me. I am as deep in the Roosevelt dog-house as anybody, but I know, from intimate experience with this effort, the utter falsity and meanness that creates this kind of resistance, Infantile paralysis knows no politics. It was with the greatest reluctance that the President permitted his name to be used at all. He did it only on the argument that it would fill a great human need—which it has done. These funds are administered, fairly distributed and rigidly accounted for by a bi-partisan board of very distinguished Americans. Have a heart. Do your part. Forget prejudice. help helpless children to enjoy their American erifage.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson .

“IP OMBS fell at random.” How often we read those words nowadays. From the phrase James Hilw ton got a title for his new book, “Random Harvest” (Atlantic Monthly Press). Hd It is by no means a pessimistic book, but somehow through the weaving of its uns usual plot, the beauty of its poignant love story and even its appy ending the reader seems to’ walk in a long English twilight straight toward the impending Night. Mr. Hilton writes. with a quale ity rare ih our time—spiritual force. Even his most casual stor are tinted with supernatural threads. The characters he creates are guided by something. mightier than reason—instinct, Without seeming to do 80, he.

of man under the inexorable pressure of Fate. And so this book leaves you with a pleasant taste and a heavy heart. It seems strange and altogether horrible that you and I should be living in a time when the might and majesty of England is passing away—yet, so it is. For, whatever emerges from the present conflict in Europe, one thing will not survive —the England that James Hilton loves and that Rue pert Brooke died to save. The only way we can possibly reconcile qurselves to the thought is by hugging to our hearts the knowledge that chahge is inevitable and may be for good, No matter how desperate our desire, or how valiant our battles, the old worlds vanish. Every war, whether it be little or big, causes some shift in social patterns, destroys for all time some precious haunt’ of human hearts. The beautiful in tangibles are wrecked quickly and ruthlessly unthinke ing men, or they dissolve under the slower but equally destructive corrosion of time. But go they must, and this fills every era of our history with a series of farewells. y ; “A To console ourselves we can only dream of faires worlds to come, resolving to work for social justice. and international understanding. ¥or in Sur hears, we know what present events prove: “With the people perish.” ig + Say

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