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WHY THE HURRY-UP TALK?

J ORD HALIFAX must know quite well that there is not

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the island is to be undertaken soon, that Congress can do to accelerate

‘the slightest possibility of Congress pefusing to vote aid

. —enormous aid—to England. I

advertised invasion of ther: is precious little out ‘service of supply

He must know also that, if the

before that showdown occurs. So we are moved to curiosity about the noble Ambassador’s visits to Congressional offices, where he has been oa ing personal inquiries about the: legislative “Hime table”

the Aid-England Bill.

.It is highly unusual, and in A circumstances ‘might be regarded as highly irregular, for a foreign ambas- _ sador to proceed in this manner. For doi mestic persons with axes to grind at the Capitol we have & name—lobbyists. But at least Lord Halifax is open and aboveboard, and we * aren’t disposed to criticize him for going (oirec to the source for his information. What we do question is the need sr a speedup of the _ legislative process. I If it is true—and we have heard nothing convincing to the contrary—that even if the Lease-Lend Bill were passed this afternoon it would not increase American shipments to England in the next few months, then what's the hurry?

If it were possible, by passing & bill i in a hurry, to con-

jure up overnight a lot of new bombers and what-not for

~ England, there would be some point to the hurry-up talk.

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But since the bill deals with eventual and not immediate

~ supplies, it doesn’t seem clear why Cdngress should give

this possibly fateful measure less than the fullest discussion.

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EXFORD GUY TUGWELL, asked about what Senstor ~ Wheeler told Ambassador Dodd at a dinner party in Mr. Tugwell’s home some seven years ago, replied: “As a host I am, of course, unable to repeat any of the conversation.” How quaintly old-fashioned is Mr. — attitude! To be sure, it used to be the rule among gentlemen that conversation between guests in a private home should not ‘become the subject of gossip outside. Hlven guests, as well

as hosts, used to consider themselves Honor bound by this

rule—and even in Washington. But times have changed,

and authority much higher than Emily Post now sanctions

the violation of this ancient rule of hs spitality to serve a pditical purpose.’ “The President of the United £ tated considers it proper to tell the press what he says Amb assador Dodd—now dead —told him about what Senator WL. ecler said (and what the Senator flatly denies having said) in Mr. Tugwell’s home.

This hearsay evidence, which the Pres ident refers to as

corroborative testimony, is thus employ ed in an effort to

discredit Senator Wheeler as an opponeht of the Lend-Lease

Bill. + We happen to believe that this hill 5 hould be debated on its mérits ; that attacks by Senator WH eeler on Mr. Roose-

val ’s good faith and by Mr. Roosevelt on Senator Wheeler's

gdod faith are alike unfortunate because they obscure the real issues, and that the gossip of Washington’ s dinner tables and cocktail parties ought to be kept out of it. But perhaps our attitude is as hopelessly old-fashioned ag Mr. Tugwell’s. |

| -~ OUR PLANE BUILDING STARTED

WO years ago this month one of | this country’s most .¢ modern bombers crashed in Cal ifornia, killing its American pilot and injuring a French| military observer. ‘That incident let the country in on the fact that France,

= which even then believed the Hitler inarch only a matter

of time, was negotiating for planes ih the United States. ere was widespread criticism of the Roosevelt Administation in Congress and elsewhere. It was accused of givrf our own military secrets to Europe an nations. President Roosevelt explained that the French had wished to buy planes here, that U. S. ais reraft factories were largely idle, that they would be bengfited by the foreign orders. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau went before a Congressional committee to | Justify - the French plane program. "In that same six-month period, the first half of 1939, the U. S. built 1029 military planes, and in the last half, 1112 planes, In the first half of 1940 output went to 2273, and i in the six months just ended, it was about 3600. = French and British orders were la rgely responsible for this tripling of production and huge increases in aircraft factory capacity. ‘ This capacity is there today, a tremendous asset in turning out planes for defense of Great Britain and for our own armed forces. Serious as is the 30 per cent lag cited recently by William S. Knudsen, existing factory capacity is vastly in excess of what it would have been if the Government had pot pushed the French-British program. The Administration

may be criticised for not having taken earlier steps to |

timulate plane production for our own defense needs—but at least some belated credit should go to Secretary Mornthau and those around him who determinedly fostered a program which was unpopular then but which is of instimabc value today.

AKE YOUR OWN HOME SAVE

S it worth while to check over your own home for fire " risks once in a while? It certainly is, and here is the proof. St. Paul, Minn., ducted a campaign of home inspection for fire hazards. ce 1935 it has cut fire losses for home dwellings by 42 cent, the American Municipal Association reports. That shows what dn organized campaign can do in a But what can be done for a Sey, you can do for your home.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Guild Encourages Dual Unionism

EW YORK, “eh. 3.—A strange situation has developed in the life of the American Newspaper Guild, a C. I. O. group, in Chicago, which caused a bitter and disastrous strike against the Hearst organization which rar. 13 mon:hs and wiped out or hastened the extinction of hundreds of jobs in the editorial, mechanical and other departments of the defunct morning paper, the Her-ald-Examiner. Beaten in a strike which was called by a majority of a minority, the Guild found itself repudiated as the bargaining agent for the editoria. and other white-collar workers! and displaced by the new editorial union of the American Federation of Labor. After the strike many of the strikers returned to work on the surviving Hearst afternoon paper, bu; the Guild Reporter of Jan. 15 reports that under the terms of a new agreement between the owners and the A. F. of L. union the management has been firing the Guildsmen, 90 of

porter went to press. The Reporter says discrimination against Guild members, because of their membership and their strike record, was perfectly apparent, which probably is true. The manzgement replied that under its contract with the A. F. of L. union, now the accredited bargaining agent of the majority, it was required to fire enough Guild members to place ‘90 per cent of the jobs in the ranks of the new union. 2 uo ” AVING canvassed the facts thus far, the Guild Reporter then says that Victor Pasche, the sec-retary-treasurer o: the Guild's national body, “exposed the hypocrisy of this statement by pointing out that the Guild had many similar and even more stringent Guild shop contracts, but always worked out such arrangements by enrolling non-members rather than by demanding that the management discharge them.” So the guild, beaten and repudiated after a rash strike brought abcut by tlie Communists, now proposes to violate its own discipline by permitting its members to join a rival unicn. Very oddly, it happens that at the present moment in New York five members of the staff of the Daily Mirror, another Egzarst peper, are summoned to a Guild trial of the Moscow type and are threatened with the loss of ‘thzir jobs for doing that very thing. The five Mirror workers felt that the interests of the members had been betrayed by the Guild in negotiating with the manageraent and resented also the obvious domination. of their local by Communists. Therefore they formed a local of the A. F. of L. union and resignec from the Guild, only to discover that the Guild, like the Communist Party, has a concealed man-trap provision in its constitution which holds that a member may not resign but may be expelled, with penalties. The existence of this provision, expressed in deceptive, negative language, was detected some time ago to the surprise of many of the members who had not understood that, in joining the Guild, they joined for life. However, the man-trap interpretation was denied until recently, when the case of the Mirror employees forced the issue. The Guild now says a member may quit the Guild but that, of course, in doing so he would also quis his jok. : ” Ld EJ On Chicago the Guild is willing that its members should commi: the treason of dual unionism, should withdraw their designation of the Guild as their bargaining agent anc, join a rival organization which .the Guild has deriounced as an anti-union movement, while in New York the Guild is about to, try five members on formal charges for doing the same thing. Moreover, in the Chicago case the Guild itself insists on the principle of the closed shop, or Guild shop, which amounts to th? same thing, but now denounces as hypocrisy the enforcement of the same sort of agreement with the new A. F. of L, union, to the: distress of the Guild and its members. The five Mirror defendants probably will not appear for trial and doubtless, in that case, will be condemned in their absence like the Moscow heretics. They all risk loss of their jobs and other persecution by the Communists, but they take the position that, as citizens, they have a superior right to resign and that, having resigned, $hey are not subject to trial or penalties. It may also be observed that they have valid precedent for theif course in the contention advanced in Chicago by Mr. Pasche.

Business By John T. Flynn

U. S. Facing Serious Shortage of Ships as British Needs Increase

EW YORK, Feb. 3.—N» very clear notion has yet been given Congress as to just what the President intends to do with the power asked under the bill, H. R. 1776, which is called a “dictatorship” bill by one group and a “lend-lease” bill by another. But . as the days go by it begins to look % as if the things which Britain wants (at once are ships and planes. Obviously, since the need is said to be immediate and desperate, there i3 no time to build ships to aid her, Therefore it seems fairly obvious that our Government will use their power to buy existing merchant ships and “lend” them to Britain, On vhis point there is a good deal of resistance in shipping circles though, naturally, shipping people are timid about expressing their opposition. One of the weakest links in the whole chain of American defense is merchant ships. The merchant vessel in time of peace is more than likely to turn up as a transport in time of war to carry soldiers or military supplies. America has not enough ships to carry even a modest share of her own trade. United States vessels transport about 30 per cent of our imports and only about 17 per cent of our exports. We do not have the ships. In the event of war a large part of these vessels would be taken over by the Government as naval auxiliary vessels. We had at the beginning of this year only 1251 ocean-going vessels. Only 676 of these were cargo vessels, The rest were tankers and passenger boats.

® 2 ” . AST year we sold 186 of our ocean-going ships. This was a grave drain on our resources. In the same year we built only 55 vessels of all sorts. We “sold more than a million tons; we. built only 486,000 tons. At the beginning ¢f this year we were more than half a million fons lower in ocean tonnage than at the beginning. . We do suffer from a serious shortage of vessels. Admiral Land of the Maritime Commission says we need at once 643 ships. As our shipbuilding facilities are necessarily limited, shipping men are wondering where the ships are to come from, If the President is einpowered to ‘give away or lend or sell any more of our merchant ships, the vessels will come out of our ocean-going tonnage. The notion that we will get those ships back when the war is over is not very gocd. The United States Lines transferred eight trans-Atlantic liners to a Belgian firm and the Belgian flag, in order to escape the ban on American flagships going into the war zones. Five of these ships were sunk, The mortality among any ‘ships we sell or lend will be very great. The ships we have are generally pretty old. A large number will go on the scrap heap every year.

herself hopelessly without auxiliary vessels for the Navy as well as without idequate trade routes.

THIS IS THE filth year since the outbreak, yet there is no sign oF a solution.—Japan’s Premier Fumimaro Konoye on the China o Incident.”

destroyed ‘the Hiace where the truth 1s

Pateruvsier Row,

told. —Wendell Willkie, on seeing the destruction in Londox. publishing ce ‘

In Chicago but Will Try Five in|. New York for Doing the Same Thing

whom had been lat out when this issue of the Re-

If ships are sold to other nations America may find |

The Hoosier Forum

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

SCENTS DILEMMA FOR LEGISLATORS ON LIQUOR By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport, Ind. The liquor issue is certainly going to put some members of the Legislature in a dilemma. Take, for example, one particular Representative. If he votes wet he'll be going against his campaign pledges; if he votes dry he’ll be going against his personal tastes. I guess maybe it’s true at that—that sometimes a man just can’t stick to his principles. (Not all of them, anyway.) 8 & =a

OPPOSES REPEAL OF LIEN ON PENSIONERS’ HOMES By James R. Meitzler, Attica, Ind. When the pauper pension bill was passed it was provided that those so aided, who owned property, should give a lien on that property in order to reimburse, wholly or in part, the taxpayers who provided the money. This worked no hardship on the aged, but eliminates the obvious injustice of depriving the taxpayer of his money in order to leave an inheritance for those who refuse to support their parents and dump them on the public. Comes now the Republican Wage Earners League asking a repeal of that part of the pension law, claiming that since persons without property receive the same aid this lien is “in fact penalizing thrift and savings.” Now the truth is that the pensioning of any person, merely because he needs the money, is a penalty on thrift and industry and a premium on extravagance and sloth. The diligent and frugal taxpayer is stripped of his earnings to provide a pension for the lazy and wasteful. Even if a pension was granted all persons of a certain age, without regard to need, the same law would operate. The worker would be forced to support the loafer.

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| SAYING A GOOD WORD FOR

THE YOUNGER GENERATION

By Carroll Collins

I am the mother of four splendid children, but I shudder at the opinion of some of my friends about the modern generation. They think today's youngsters are lazy, incompetent, headstrong fools. No other generation has need of as much

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sympathy and understanding as the

present.

If they could find steady employment their whole lives would change. If a man or woman is interested in the line of work he or she follows they will produce the best results, but they also need to be told no task is too menial to be a stepping stone to higger and better things. Criticism and gossip not only hurt their characters and reputation but break down the very foundation of their ideals. I do hope people will think twice before they make this remark: “Oh! Do they work there?” I know girls who would be fine secretaries waiting table. Musicians working in factories. Those jobs are not below their dignity or education. These youngsters. have what it takes to get through life, any honest work that pays is a living and believe me they won't stay at the bottom long. More power to them and may better things be just around their corner. I wish people would try to love and understand these children as I do. They would find real men and women in the making. #" ” ”

DEFENDS SCHRICKER IN FIGHT WITH G. O. P. By Julia B. Wilson

I am 18 years of age, and have only been interested in politics for the last year or so. Consequently, I don’t consider myself in a position to give advice on how to run the Government, but I do have a knowledge of fair play. It seems to me that ever since Governor Schricker has been in office, the members of the Republican Party have been making it as hard as possible for him. I think it is a disgrace to the State of Indiana, and an insult to the intelligence of the people of Indiana. If the majority of the people hadn’t

considered Mr. Schricker qualified

Side Glances —=By. Galbraith

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for the office of Governor, they would have most certainly voted for his opponent. I think it is about time we stopped quibbling- about who is a Democrat and who is a Republican. After all is said and done, we are all Americans. United we stand, divided we fall!

o » ” DOUBTS CAPITALIST GROUP IS MAKING SACRIFICES By Walke+ Hull, Freetown, Ind.

As there are some who say a man past 40 is too old to work, now when you turn a man with a family

out without a job, no money to| §

feed and clothe his family, buy

fuel or pay grocery and meat bills § and he can’t get employment be-| |

cause some bigwig says so, you have put one more on relief and started one more on the road to

rags.

Not only that, they are taking]

up all cheap lands to get it out of poor men's control,, thereby throwing more and more out of homes and that means more on relief and when a poor man needs a small loan ‘he is told he can’t put up proper security. But England and other foreign countries can be given billions of dollars, with nothing said about security. Giving away billions of our money causes bad business conditions at home. Yet we, the laboring people, are told we must sacrifice for national defense as capital and industry is. That sounds fine and rich indeed but how is a man without money or employment going to sacrifice? Don't let anyone tell you capital and the manufacturers are sacrificing anything. Instead they are making large profits. ss 2 2

LIKED HUTCHINS’ TALK, RAPS DEUEL'S ARTICLES

By John R. Surber, M. D,

Your editorial on Dr. Hutchins and the Drift to War, and your faithful reporting of Dr. Hutchins’ speech were read with gratitude by one who contemplates the awful wastefulness of the impending tragedy—our involvement in Britain’s war. Why couldn't these articles appear on the front page? Unfortunately, this is about all most people read. Most of the people still don’t want te go into the war in spite of the build-up for intervention. Certainly such wo gles should replace those by W. R. Deuel, who would create many illusions in our minds about the Germans.

COVENTRY

By DANIEL B. STRALEY Bind Your wounds and bury the

ead, A grieving world the tears will shed And for their souls will breathe a prayer While yet the cruel cross you bear. Oh, hapless ones, who grope the nes - - When the barbaric tempest wanes To search among the ruin heaps

| Where mangled love in blood pool

sleeps And innocence: who knew no guile, Lies charred beneath the smoking

pile And Motherhood with = shattered orm : No longer fears the blasting storm, Give to the grave the mortal shells. Seraphs will sound their requiem

bells. ey for all Christendom have bled. They Xe. her honored, martyred ea Bind your wounds and bury the

3 dead. 3 ighteons world the tears will

And for their souls intone a prayer While yet the cruel cross you bear.

DAILY THOUGHT

This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments; thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.—Deuteronomy 26:16.

to every

Gen. Johnson Says—

Greek Suddess With the Bayone? Means War Still Can Be Won by the Old Method of Physical Contact

ASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—As more reports from the Albanian battle come through, it is more apparent that the skirted Greek equivalents of the Wcrld War kilted Scotch “Damen von Hoelle” (Ladies from Hell) have added a new postcript to this war—or rather, a very old one. They have proved once more the effective ness of cold steel, breast to breast, even in modern mechan- * ized war. The suggestion comes to me from Roy Tinney, a newspaper colleague, but an ex-hayonet-ine structor of the late world une pleasantness, Interpreting current reports, he says of these Greek bayoneteers: = “They duck dive bombers, detour around tanks and : ignore machine guns until they are in thrusting distance of Pege ler’s bums. Then they proceed to fight as their foree fathers fought. The Evzones’ ancient method of fight ing so offended Mussolini’s invincible legions they simply had to leave the field.”

2 f J ” 0 conclusion about this war can be made too much simplified but, on the other hand, nothing should be unduly complicated. Old military princie ples never adjourn “sine die.” The urge of troops for physical contact is the most effective offensive psychology that can be cultivated. The Germans, in 1918, feared the bayonets and ear-splitting knives of the Senegalese above all wea= pons. “As Rome shortened her swords she broadened her borders.” It is still doubtful whether you can destroy good troops with artillery fire or bombing. The only certain way remains the shotk of physical contact. That doesn’t mean that you can “ignore machine guns” but it does mean that war is ‘still a fight. If soldiers can become convinced of their invineibility at close range, their guiding thought is to get at the

‘enemy and that is the only way battles are won,

S doesn’t mean to deprecate all the power and necessity of modern, motorized, mechanized armament. This column advocated it all-out long before even our general staff appreciated what the Germans were doing. But, at the same time, there is such a thing as killing the offensive spirit by. too much armor—too many Maginot Lines, The Germans haven't done that. Eye-witness accounts of their thrust along the Meuse are too ful] of beserk catapulting of human missiles on motorcycles and in armored cars against seemingly impregnable French obstacles to suppose such a thing. Neither defensive nor the offensive is exclusively the proper military prescription at all times—but neither policy is any good without troops who, when they see an enemy have any other impulse but to close with him and tear him apart. It isn’t pretty but it is war—which, next to Bedford Forrest's: “Git thar fustest with the mostest men” never had any better maxim from Hannibal to the present day, than Jack Dempsey’s: “Get in there and keep.on socking until something drops.”

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE citizen of the Untied States who is not aware of propaganda pressure these days doesn’t have a good memory or lacks the ability to reason. There may be dire peril to us from the dictators. But that doesn’t excuse our paroxysms of fear that we shall suffer the same fate as Holland, or Norway. Obviously, of course, if we néglect our own pro= tection, the time may come when we shall have to meet enemy ine vaders—but surely no one in his right mind believes that Hitler can make it over here very soon. Yet this, in effect, is what we hear hourly over our radios and read daily in our papers. The Big Bogeyman scare grows more terrible every moment and Hitler becomes more invincible with each interview, Can't we be sensible and reason together? It seems not. First and foremost, the Administration wants the Lease-Lend Bill passed in substantially its present form. Even if it’s a good bill, the technique of getting it over is bad. It is the technique of fright which paralyzes the popular will—the same technique used by the dictators themselves on their own people—and it ought not to be taken lying down by citizens of a democracy. "Yet what will happen to me because I write these words? I shall be accused of harboring traitorous sentiments. I shall be cursed as a Nazi sympathizer. Why? Only because I hesitate to fall in wholeheartedly with giving one man, even the President, s0 much power as this bill asks for. Many good people I know are heartily in favor of the bill. And I do not call them traitors to democracy for that, even though I feel sure they are relinquishing something precious that a turn of events might withhold from us for a long time to come. But I know, also, that they are honest, sincere Americans who are thinking first of their country. The most fearful omen for our future is this tendency on the part of so many sincere people to name as renegades every one who disagrees with President Roosevelt. Those who love democracy ought to remember that it can survive only where voters are given the right to debate vital issues, ani that debate is not an evidence of subversive inflyence, but a right bestowed by our Constitution.

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QWhat is the origin of the proverb “Like will e” A—Tt is found in Both Greek and Roman classics. Homer wrote, “Like is dear to like.” It is quoted by Cicero as a very ancient proverb. An early British addition is “Like will to like, as the Devil said to the collier.” A French form which brings out the meaning is, “Those who resemble each other assemble with each other.” Q-—Are the employees of a wholesaler who does & strictly local business, subject to the Federal WageHour Law? A—The Wage and Hour Division, U, 8. Departe ment of Labor, has held in some cases that a wholesaler, who makes all his sales locally, is still subject to the Wage-Hour Law because he gets his goods from outside the State. Q—How does the British Spitfire interceptor aire ' plane compare in size with the U. 8. Curtiss P-<40? A—The Spitfire has a wingspan ‘of 36 feet 10 inches and is slightly smaller than the P-40. which has a span of 37 feet 8 inches and a length of 31 feet 8 inches. Q—What does the United States Bureau of Ene Staving and Printing make’ in addition to Paper money A-It also makes postage stamps, revenue stmps, official checks, drafts, ‘warrants, commissions, cere tificates, transportation requests and liquor permits. Q—What was the order of birth of Presiden Franklin D. Roosevelt's children? A—Anna Eleanor, ‘May 3, 1906; James, Dec. n, 1907; Franklin D., March 18, 1909 ‘(died Nov., 1908);

| Eniott, Sept. 23, 1910; Franklin D. Aug. 14, 1014:

John A., March 16, 1915. Q—Wh ere and by whom was the first business school in the United States established?

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