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Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr own Way ; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1041

BRITAIN'S GREAT N EED: WEAPONS Now PEATE on the Lend-Lease Bill is disclosing a remarkable unity of purpose—an overwhelming national deter- | mination to provide the greatest practicable aid to Great Britain. This attitude in Congyesy reflects the sentiment of the American people.

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"Only the most extreme isolationists still contend that

the United States should retreat to a position of strict neutrality. They are few in number. And their slight’influence is counterbalanced by the correspondingly small and "unconvincing minority of rabid interventionists on ‘the other gide, who would go so. far and fast in helping England that they would plunge us into war before we have the arms with which to fight. ~~ Between these extremes stand the preponderant majority in Congress, in both houses and both parties, embracing the policy that was advocated by the two leading Presidential candidates and indorsed by the voters in the campaign of last fall—full aid to Brin, short of war.

The only important differences of opinion remaining ‘revolve around questions of how far we can go in aiding Britain and still avoid actual involvement. They are honest differences, and responsible leaders on each side admit the sincerity of the other’s- convictions. These differences should be, and are being, resolved by calm discussion and conclusive votes on each provision of the pending bill and each amendment proposed. The program thus hammered out by democratic processes should, and we think will, command the country’s wholehearted support. If the pending measure were a simple grant-in-aid to Britain, it would be voted speedily *and overwhelmingly. But there is a lot more than that to this Lend-Lease Bill President Valentine of Rochester University, who

_ favors aiding Britain but opposes this bill, summed up in

one sentence of testimony yesterday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ‘the feeling which many opponents of the measure share. He said: “The bill, if its words mean what they say, places in the hands of one man full power to dispose of, in any way which he pleases, to any foreign nation he pleases, anything

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injure any enemy, with or without payment, return or explanation to Congress or to this nation.” Congress, charged with the Constitutional responsibility of spending the people’s money and putting the people into wars or keeping them out, would be derelict if it failed to be deliberate and cautious in voting on | A measure

EJ ” 8 © Meanwhile, it is important to keep in mind the fact Britain’ s great need is an immediate need—and one which this bill in no way uhdertakes to supply. British ‘spokesmen say that they expect that Hitler's all-out attempt to invade and conquer England will come within the next 60 or 90 days. The only way we can help Britain meet this imminent threat, except by entering,the war and sending over our own navy, air corps and troops, is to speed up the production and delivery of weapons already on order. This hill won’t deliver a single plane faster to England. : Britain's fate in the crucial months ahead, so far as

we in this country are able to help her, depends not upon ;

the debate and decision of Congress, but upon the assembly’ line. It is there that our Government, industry and labor should make haste.

. THOMAS M. QUINN SR.

FJ HOMAS M. QUINN SR. is-dead today after spendin the last two years of a busy and useful life in a night-

i mare of scandal, personal attack and court proceedings. : Tom Quinn was a loyal, sincere and genuine ‘person. For more than 50 years he lived and worked as one of this |

city’s most popular citizens, never too busy to give his time and his energies to some worth-while cause or to befriend someone from his boyhood days who was running in bad

luck. He was regarded throughout the city with esteem |

and sincere affection.

- He was induced to enter politics and the sad truth is | that he was betrayed by friends in his first public office. |

But even after he went before a court, a broken man, to

‘All he would say was that they “didn’t know they were doing wrong, They didn't know what they were

doing.” ie

He was offered jobs by many leading doncerns. refused saying he wouldn't embarrass them. That was the measure of Tom Quinn. He always put “himself last. :

MR. FORD'S: OPPORTUNITY

AE have sometimes doubted Henry Ford's judgment, but never his honesty. We-believe he meant what he said: “We (the Ford Motor Co.) shouldn’t quibble about anything the Government wants to do. We and All other manufacturers ought to make anything we can’ (for the defense program)’ without a profit.” . Yet it is mighty hard to square that utterance with MY Food’s position that his company will not accept the Government's so-called: “labor clause” in any contract. This \ clause binds a contracting manufacturer to comply with all Federal and state labor laws. / This seems to us to be quibbling of the pettiest type. Evidently it does not seem so to Mr. Ford. Perhaps the explanation is that Mr, Ford and his lawyers place on (certain labor laws an: interpretation very different from that | of the Government. he Already we hear it said that the Government ought to take over the Ford plants and run them. We hope that n't happen. We're sure Mr. Ford knows more than e Government ever will about how to run those plants. s country needs his genius, producing for defense. He done many things, and he could do one of the biggest useful drawing

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air. Enough . By Westbrook Pegler ~~ Admitting a Geographic Error, He

_4 Dynamitings in. State of Ohio

erifine Bechtel, wixich purports on the durable subject of racketeering: ‘movement reference was made dynamiting . in- Dayton, and Bechtel fearlessly -but a little . rashly denounces. this remark a wicked falsehood. 1 say it was rash of him to this because, from his stand the subject is one which it better not to agitate, The fact is

in a single night in Akron, about a was later. The Canton blast demolished a steam shovel operated by a small strip-mining company, and the bombs destroyed three building jobs on Which C. I. O. labor was employed and killed an A. F. of I

explosives. The man who was killed was Robert Floyd, a natjve of Oklahoma, where he had served two years in prison for grand larceny, and a member of the operating engineers’ union of the ‘A. F. of L. Apparently he used a fast clock or misread the dial of the mechanism in the dark .as. he was delivering his . | message to the community, for He was. demolished 15€) . %

8 8 F of the engineers’ union, was -arrested and, according to the word of the Akron police department, has signed a confession on the basis of which the police arrested Harry D. Jones, business agent of the union in Akron and vice president, mo less, of the Ohi6 Federation of Labor, on a charge of malicious destruction of property. Since then the surviving Floyd brothers and Jones have been indicted on this charge. Jones was released on $7500 bond, while Horace Floyd has been held in jail in default of $15,000 bond. ‘The operating engineers’ union, which both of the Floyd brothers and Jones adorned, is the one whose sixth vice president, Joe Fay of New Jersey, slugged David Dubinsky at the A. F. of L. convention in New Orleans for daring to propose that undesirable charters be kicked out of the organization. Mr. Fay is a member of the Frank Hague mob in New Jersey, where he has been intimate with that sterling statesman and ornamental American character, A. Harry Moore, late member of the United States Senate and later Governor of New Jersey, who as Ciovernor appointed Hague's undistinguished professionally callow son to the highest court in 3 state at $9000 a year for the expressed reason that he knew it would make the Justice’s daddy happy. "ay is & rich labor leader and power in the A. F. of L. He is also clgsely allied with the so-called corrimon laborers’ union, or shakedown, which collects, foughly, $1,000,000 a Ee in per capita fees from its locils, but never hol conventions or elections. FJ 2 .

FY himself, Sneito tall won his last election to X' international office in the operating. engineers" om, on a ballot which was a direct steal from Adolf Hitler's. "he ballot read as follows: “In order to vote for a candidate make & cross in the square before the name of your choice.” There then followed in a descending row the list of candidates, one for each office, so that the members had a choice of one all the way down to and including the board of trustees, a triumvirate for which only thrée men were named on the ballot. : The ‘Trades and Labor Assembly of Akron, the central body of A. F. of L. unions there, was distressed hy insinuations from the C. I. O. regarding the dynamiting of the Akron C. I. O. building jobs. ‘The nature of the insinuations should be obvious in view of the union affiliations of the men arrested and the

the central body would "not have known anything about any” such enterprise and would have rejected such activity as archaic, if not on higher grounds. Mr. Bechtel has made quite an issue of veracity and. accuracy in his challenging article in his union paper, and it is therefore desired to present the facts as far as they are known to date and to plead guilty of a geographical error. I am indebted to this able journalist for his, perhaps, indiscreet criticism and trust that this correction will make him feel just fine.

Business By John T. Flynn

Pressing Problems Ignored ‘Unless Linked Somehow to! Defense Plans

| NEE YORK, Feb. Sd story comes out of Wash- \

ington which has a kind of dreamy note, like a fairy tale out of another age. It is about a hearing beiore the Secufities and Exchange, ion—about

plead guilty to official negligence He refused to go back on | multiple trading on the stock exchan

* his friends.

wh prher utility Sormpaies should be permitted to

hire bankers to get money for them or should get their money from the best bidders. That doesn’t sound very important now, because the dispute is just a murmur in a country full of loud noises about war. This is one of those subjects

that bankers and financial re-!'

formers have heen arguing about for years. But Washi and ‘New York are full of subjects like that, and when we hear them now the discussion seems to sound like ty. ‘babble of a high school debating SOC

All "sorts of subjects like this crop up here and there in the news—the old warfare between the chain stores and the wholesalers, the great question about ges, the powers of the Reserve Board, the gold-purchase policy, the silver-purchase policy. But no one pays much atteh-

| tion to- them; most readers hurry past the headlines

. to the latest war news. Of course there are other questions infinitely more important than these which do not even get into headlines any more. The only problems or movements that get anywhere are those that can be hooked up by one scheme or another with national defense. 3 f J » 2 3

YEW YORK City, which has been living very

. heavily on Federal beneficerice, cannot build any ‘more schools because it cannot afford to pay any

|mbre teachers—is having difficulty paying those al-

regdy on the rolls. But New. York needs the money and so it wants $65,000,000 for some roads and a good many millions more for other such things—essential to national defense, of course. The advocates of public health reforms have come to life with various plans:based agen the proposition 4hat a sound and healthy nation is essential to national defense. No one seems interested in such problems as the collapse of private investment; the plight of the railroads, the jam in the:building industry, the growth of ‘monopelies and monopoly . practices, the utility h¢lding company abuses, the defects in our banking system, the defects in the old-age insurance and unemployment insurance systems and the Wnemployment insurance rates and Se These, and a dozen other fundamental gubjects were at the bottom of the depression and will be on hand to increase the intensity of the conditions that will follow the war orgy. These problems interest no one, and will interest ho tne While & Wiggers and better and more glamorous subject like the war uses up ou: attention.

So They Say— IF WE HAVE faith and are willing to have a | little sweat for a year so, then we ight save a little William 8S.

-blovd later on.—

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Calls’ Labor Editor's Attention to |

NEV YORK, Feb. 6.—These dispatches have been having a little Slices) snarl with James Flor-

man who, police say, was engaged ‘in planting the

Is brother) ‘Horace Tilford Floyd, also a member"

mar who was killed. of course, it is probable that

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THURSDAY; FEB, 5 1941

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Ga Johnson

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- Thos Diraching Our Defense Effort

Should Sever All Connection With’ ‘Their Old Jobs in Industry or Labor

FASHINGTON, eb. 6—This a touches a ' ~ delicdte: dnd dangerous aii t is not inIf wouldn't be written at all if there were no neceistly to prevent .

3 | the snplogion of an exling fine of SYRAmije tat

might have very harmfill effects on our defensive efforts. It is written on the basis of an intense

In 1917 this country was Uiterly inexperienced and unprepared in the mobilization of industry. It called in leading industrialists to

Contracts in unheard-of volume weré about to be dumped in the lap of American industry. The

amy nor the Navy were sufficienty experienced or informed to do

this Xind of job wih the required efficiency and speed.

Some of these industrialists were ‘called upon for

EB assistance, They gave it gladly and’ } gCieituey but

seme of them, in complete innocence of purpose, over-

| looked an utter necessity. They advised in the plac~

The Hoosier Forum

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

RESENTS THE HIRING OF OUTSIDE HELP By Mrs. G. BE Brobeck, Ridgeville, Ind. . I am a reader of The Times and never miss the Forum. I was very much interested in the letter in Friday's paper by John E. Haley, but let me tell you, John, that Indianapolis is not alone. Right here in this little town it is just the same way. We have a stone quarry here, the only industry of any size, and they have fired almost all of the men from town and hired men from over in Ohio; men who had worked for them 32 years were fired. I do not wonder there are so many Iobberies and murders when young men who are willing to work and need. it as you do are turned down. It is a shame and something should be done about it. I believe the men living in any town should be first. Keep your chin up, John, and try for a job on some of the Government work. There are lots of jobs if you know where to look and can leave home. 1 hope something is going to happen to make these companies beg their ‘old hands to return to wor

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DEFENDS TESTIMONY OF COL. LINDBERGH By Mrs. C. H. Sleet In answer to the Rev. John P. Martin's article in the Forum of Jan. 28. Don’t you think you as a reverend should not express such

poisonous hatred ° Col. Charles A. Lindbergh? In my estimation he is a real American, one who is not afraid to tell the truth. his views on this war situation and what is best for our country. His testimony was the other side of the story told in unemotional, conversational, authoritative tones. And if we Americans have so lost our emotional balance that we cannot take the other side of the story, then I say we're lost already. Col. Lindbergh is honorable, truthful, has character and has not lost his temper. He hates no one, he hates not Chancelor Hitler because he knows him. You express hatred for someone you do not know. You have never been fortunate to meet either Hitler nor Lindbergh. Why don’t you learn the truth and forget hate. Your job is to love your enemies. If we had more men like Lindbergh we wouldn't need a defense.

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Side Glances —By Galbraith

(Times readers are invited fo 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.)

TAGS CURIOUS AS FIFTH COLUMNIST By Warren Henricks If and when the United States

declares war on Germany and the F. B. 1.-Dies’ Committee, etc., ferret out the un-American activities of spies and fifth columnists, all they will have to do is to read the Hoosier Forum every day to get their men. Such as this is called Curious. I. wonder if Curious—since he speaks in dollars and cents—had a home bought and paid for through years of hard work saw someone breaking windows or getting ready to set fire to it, would consider himself low and mean if he tried

How could anyone who calls himself an American and says we as a nation like or even have any warm feeling in our hearts for such a person as Hitler? Why he doesn’t even want to help South Ameriea for fear Hitler won't get a foothcld on this hemispheres. If people like Curious would just leave off the IOUS when signing: their letters or better yet to keep still at lgnet while livinig in the good old U. S. A. they might not get caught.

WONDERS IF G. O. P. IS ON THE WAY OUT By Sideline Sittin’ Lil 2 It looks like the Republican Party is about to write finis after its name. It is just possible that Mr. Roosevelt, with his present disbursement set-up, has done just this. But if the Republicans repudiate Mr. Willkie, who has just treated us to the handsomest bit of good sportsmanship on record, they will lay their party away in moth balls! Unless of course, Eleanor isn't muzzled, but maybe she is-just trying to condition us for things tp come. I wonder!

SPEAKING A GOOD WORD FOR GOVERNOR SCHRICKER By Marvin D. Myers, Hillisburg, Ind.

The voters of the State of,Indiana are to realize how fortunate they are to have elected Henry Schricker as their Governor for the next four years.” Hi§ experience in governmental affairs and his record of worthwhile accomplishment in office is in’direct eontrast to the record of the present Republican Legislature, which after three full weeks in' session has failed to mention many of the important matters which demand attention at this legislative session. _

Most of the Republicans’ time has been taken up in lambasting the Democrats with furious partisan’ oratory which .is indicative of neither statesmanship nor good government, not even considering that it is forced onto the taxpayers at their own expense. The public is getting wise to the fact that Senator Jenner & Co. are more interested in political plums and Governor-building political machines than fulfilling their obligations to the people of Indiana. In the meantime, Governor Schricker is gaining the confidence and support of the rank and file of thinking Republicans throughout the state who are aware that they can trust

-fhim to eliminate some undesirable

parts of our present governmental machinery and to those parts which constitute good govern‘ment in a safe, honest manner. 2 ” » RECALLS CHURCHILL'S CRITICISM OF U. 8S. By Chas. Norris Prime Minister Churchill spoke recently of “co-operation between the British Empire and the United States” as essential to the welfare and future safety of the world. Lord Halifax, the new British Ambassador to Washington, spoke

; jof Britain’s depending “increasing-

ly on the massive industrial strength of the United States, the fren which it is impossible to over-esti-mate.” Here’s what Churchill (the same Shue said after the World ar: “America’s entrance into the war was disastrous not only for your country but for the Allies as well, because had you stayed at home and minded your own business we would have made peace with the central powers in the spring of 1917, and then there would have been no collapse in Russia, followed by com-

not at present be enthroned in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war and minded her own business none of these isms would be sweeping the continent and break-: ing ' down parliamentary government.” This comes from a people we are asked to give all aid.

WHO'S WHO?

By WILLIAM H. CHITWOOD

The owl looks down for a bird's-eye view Of the sleeping town as the shadows’ close; “Who’s-who?” he asks, “Who'sWHO? Who's-WHO? : It isn’t me, and it CAN'T be you!” But nb one answers the whole night

Nobody knows the False from the

True; Hypocrisy goes where Virtue goes; So the owl hoots on, each night anew, his lofty perch, “Who's-WHO? 's-WHO?” | one gives him the slightest

ling of’

munism, no breakdown in Italy, fol-|-lowed by fascism, and naziism would

cts with companies which Shey had an interest or to which they had a 1 responsibility. Or they dealt with whole industries in some companies of which they had such an interest or responsibility. » » td NEVER heard of any resulting favoritism, “pecula« tion or privilege. I never even heard any charge of any such a thing. I am sure that these men leaned over backwards to be fair, and that their own interests frequently suffered rather than gained from their peculiar position. But fact and fault, recbgnized from time out of mind equity, remained. They were, to greater or less degree, dealing with themselves. The inevitable happened—an explosion of popular resentment racked the Wilson war Adminis-. tration to its foundations. As the record of the Senate Nye committee ‘Investigating the war later proved in detail, when B. M: Baruch, a man of great fortune, was called upon to direct our industrial war effort, he sold every stock: and share\of interest in any industry that could be sold. He invested the proceeds in Government bonds. There were a-few that could not be sold—such as an

‘The income from these he gave to the Red Cross. He never met, in) official discussion, a representa~ tive of either an industry or a company in which he had the remotest interest. His sole financial as well as spirityal interest was in the United States., It entailed a sacrifice of millions, but it proved to be

the council of ‘national defense.

interest in a platinum or tungsten mine in China.”

supply departments of neither the

one of the wisest things this man of great wisdom

ever did. He required of each of his industrial assistants a similar purging of private interest in companies or industries with which they dealt.

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HILE one or two industrialists of the present Defense Commission ‘have followed this example, many have not done so. Some of the new dollar-a-year crop even continue to receive their come pany salaries. This is true not only of industrial leaders, but also of labor leaders. Some not only cone tinue their union salaries, but actually remain at the heads of their unions. This division of interest is as indefensible in them as in the industrialists. Of all these men who are known to me, I am convinced, as I knew of the men of 1917, that these circumstances would never influence their judgment, except possibly. to the disadvantage of their own private interests. That is not enough. They still “dealing with themselves.” It is repeating Ya blunder of 1917. It is as certain as anything human can be that sooner. or later this situation, if it is not promptly cured, will result in a great explosion of popular opinion which may expand to the dimension of a national scandal. It will certainly underminé public confidence, A condition so dangerous simply cannot be permitted to continue." Senator MoKellar has p a bill to cover this case. In its present form it is faulty. But if this evil is not prohibited, as in 1918, by voluntary or executive action, it will and should be prohibited by law.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

birth rate, yet nearly every young wife I know is “expecting.” And the number of infants which the local Babies Milk Fund, a group with which I work, heirs to feed seems to multiply like grass- . hoppers in August.. '| There's simply no catching up,’ since, no matter how fast we trot, the output of babies always exceeds the milk supply. Yet we have the word of the Census and of Mrs. William Thayer ‘Brown, president of the New York State Federation of Birth Control, that the population is decreasing. The war scare is ven as the chief reason. Mrs, rown es that parents hesitatetob children into the world ‘at such a time, as well they may. It is encouraging to see a large number of leaders in this and other, movements putting emphasis, . upon the quality rather than the number of our babies. For here is a phase of national defense as important as A material wealth.

The era now adulation of physical bra bran, 5, sed when mi Se

was co-ordinated wi fast we had a typical likewise, gained tremendous - dietetics and health. gid cobnimel thle about safeguarding ios £ the right sort of fathers reform i? more. about Grade A milk- than. vb parents. : Satu Sr iit Sort a And by Grade A parents t do.not-mi 1 who stands six feet two in IC ks of the who measures a perfect ' .Some of our pet morons are matings. They are individuals" w! another’s orders but aren't equi orders themselves. The hdute racy now lies in the

inerease of 1 are too lazy to think and: foo idolent

I sometimes feel a little sick when I seehow we labor to build our physical defenses, and how little we do fo improve our intellectual and moral ramparts,

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