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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1941
AMERICAN MIRACLE
HE was born in bitter poverty and the legitimacy of his’
birth was long questioned. He had almost no formal schooling and was a day laborer most of his young manhood. - He was so ugly and awkward that all his life this fact - get him apart. He suffered acutely from melancholia and for awhile
some people actually thought he was insane. He wrote some of the trashiest doggerel ever com-
mitted by any man.
He was often unkempt and Sweaty and- his clothing never fitted him. ’ “He married a woman he did not love and his home was often a hell. : : His domestic relations were the scandal of his neighHis wife was so jealous that she screamed and made a scene when she found him with another woman, even in company. His children were spoiled and brattish. He told dirty stories and bored his associates with long pointless anecdotes. A New York social leader asked the newspapers to ‘deny that she had EVER received his wife. He was hated and despised by a large minority of his countrymen. He was condescended to, scolded and railed at by its intelligentsia. He was murdered by a man n who pelieved that the deed was a service to the country. # 8 8 ; The news of his death caused such world-wide sorrow as has never been matched in man’s history, and within a few years he was generally acknowledged to have been the greatest man, the finest human being ever born of the Anglo-Saxon strain. And so he was. : o
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His name was Abraham Lincoln.
WILLKIE ON LEND-LEASE
ENDELL WILLKIE made a stronger statement for the Lend-Lease Bill—or rather for a modified version of it—than any Administration witness has presented. And he spoke with more candor, in that he met headon a question which Administration witnesses have consistently ducked, namely how much of the prospective aid-to-Britain is to be drawn from existing Army and Navy equipment. Administration spokesmen have sought to minimize that part of the program. They have shrugged aside inquirles about it. Their emphasis Lass been on the future products of the assembly lines. To provide what. he called “effective aid,” Mr. Willkie said. we must promptly transfer to Britain more destroyers, more bombers that @are already ‘on hand, more merchant vessels. Britain’s need, he said, is immediate and desperate. He disclaimed any pretension to expertness on how much of this equipment we could prudently spare. And he may thereby have sidestepped an argument with the considerable number of naval, aviation and shipping au- ~ thorities who have said that we can’t spare more destroyers, that our bombers on hand are too few, that we have already parted with more cargo ships than our own requirements warrant. Mr. Willkie suggested that we start turning over to Britain “five or 10 destroyers a month.” These, he said, can be replaced by the “15 to 20 new destroyers” to be built monthly in 1942. An hour or so after he said that, Navy Department officials reported that their building program called for completion of only 15 destroyers |in the whole of 1941, and only 45 in 1942. But, as Mr. Willkie said, he was not giving expert testimony. : # 88 i 8 8 VW HETHER you agree with him or not, you must admit that Mr. Willkie stated his case boldly. He believes that if Britain fails the United States must inevitably get into war; that if Britain “prevails,” we can avoid war; therefore we must provide “effective aid.” Thus a new phrase enters the controversy in which phrases have played
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_ a big part. Our fever can be charted by them. When the
fighting started over there, it was popular to say “it’s not our war.” Then came, “all aid to thg Allies, short of war,” a sort of two-way promise which both Mr. Willkie and Mr. Roosevelt embraced last fall. The “short of 'war” portion
~ has been soft-pedaled since.’
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: Under severe cross-examination yesterday Mr. Willkie said he wag still for “short of war,” but he declined to draw a line of demarcation. .~ One proposal which Mr. Willkie made should contribute som to the national .unity he earnestly seeks—his suggesgon s t Congress itself specify the nations which are to e supplied from our arsenal, naming the British Commonwealth, Greece and China. If other nations are attacked
. whose security we think vital to our own defense, he said,
Congress will be sitting and can act. ‘We hope the Administration will accept this proposal,
© and not insist that the President have blanket power to
munition any country, anywhere, any time.
LEARNING BY DOING
HIS is Boy Scout Week and some 6000 Indianapolis boys are participating actively in the observance of the 31st anniversary the founding of Scouting in the United States. - The Boy Scouts Rive a distinguished record of service in the United States. The new Indianapolis Scout: Execu- . tive, Homer Gratz, is a firm believer in the philosophy of . “learning by doing.” He sees in that philosophy the real defense of democracy. There is rom for splendid growth of the Scout movein this city. We hope that the growth eventually
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New Pooks
By Stephen Ellis
"Vanderbilt Legend’ Able Biography; Hindus Scores With Realistic Novel; Mysteries Continue in High ‘Favor.
NE OF THE TOP/ biographies of the next few months is apt to be “The Vanderbilt Legend: The Story of the Vanderbilt Family, 1794-1940" by Wayne Andrews (Harcourt-Brace; $3.50). It is long, but excellently done. , . . Another outstanding book
Order in Sea Power,” by Harold and Margaret Sprout (Princeton University Press; $3.75). Objective, thorough and competent, this book vanced study of changing Ameriren naval needs .in a changing werld. . . . And mention of-a changing world brings up “To . Sing With the Angels,” Maurice Hindus’ newest (Doubleday, Doran; $2.75). You can rest assured that you will hear a good | geal about this one from your nr. Hindus friends. It has a driving, realistic pewer that bowls vou over. For all we know, “To Sing With the Angels” may very well be a masterpiece of fiction. ” ” ” NDIANAPOLIS is just as acutely mystery storyconscious as any other town and for that reason we give you first a story destined to be one of the year’s outstanding who-done-its—“The Man With No Face,” by Margaret Armstrong (Random House; $2). Miss Armstrong, the author of such outstanding biographies as “Trelawney” and “Fanny Kemble,” writes a mystery story with unusual skill and it is all the more gripping because it has no pot-boiler detectives. The tipoff to the story is that the murderer is so utterly commonplace (and uses such amazingly commonplace names) that nobody can even start to describe him. ; Put it down. as A-1 in the thriller line. = 2 2 F YOU LIKE frank talking about our public figures, you'll cotton to “Yankee Reporter,” the ‘personal reminiscences of Pulitzer prize-winning S. Burton Heath (formerly cf the Scripps-Howard World-Tele-gram). His book (Wilfred Funk; $3) rings in President Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Tom Dewey, Fiorello La Guardia, Al Smith and, oh, a score of others. Mr. Heath's bodk is crammed full of intimate stories of his experiences with these headline names and while he treats Willkie kindly Mr. Roosevelt,
Dewey and La Guardia come in for some searing words.
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HE AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS have chosen Perry Burgess’ “Who Walk Alone” (Holt) as their idea of the best book of 1840. We told you about it when it was published, the story of the great leper colony at Culion. . . We've just heard of the bombing of ong of London's greatest book collections, the 3,000,000-volirne collection of old and rare books at Simpkin, Marshall & Co. . ‘Emil Ludwig has gone down into Mexico to finish up some research for a biography of Leon Trotsky. . . . The Picasso exhibit which just closed in Cincinnati and has moved over to Detroit is drawing tremendous crowds. One of the most comprehensive works on Picasso we've seen is “Picasso” by Jean Cassou and translated by Mary Chamot (Hyperion Press; $4). Picasso is made completely understandable and the book is profusely and admirably illustrated. We recommend it to the art colony here.
Business By. John T. Flynn
~ Defense Outlays Small Compared To Sums Needed if We Go to War
é EW YORK, Feb. 12.—The appropriations for war purposes a.ready made are a little disconcerting in business circles to businessmen. And yet it must be obvious that, vast as these outlays are, they are small compared with what they will be if we take the plunge into war. Of course there will be no effort to pay for these expenditures out of taxes, but the effort to force heavy taxes will be inevjtable. Those who are whooping it up for the war spirit may be interested in a little table taken from the ‘testimony of Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau before the Senate Committee. It gives a comparison between the national income tax in Britain and the Federal income tax in the United States. Here ig the table: Income British Tax $ 1,500 ~ $ 43 2,500 311 © 5,000 1,196 10,000 3,451 20,00 9,426 50,00) 32,401 13,741 100,002 76.278 42,048 These are the kinds of subjects of course about which there is very little relish. The President would dismiss them as having to do with the “silly old dollar sign.” These taxes will destroy Britain whether she wins the war or not. It must be remembered that, heavy as these taxes are, they are paying only a part of the cost of the war. Only 40 per cent of the British war expenditures come from taxes; 60 per cent from borrowing. s s ” HIS is only one phase of those hardheaded facts about war which seem lost to sight. There has been a kind of childish, simple-minded abandonment to the glamorous elements of war. Once more we are hearing about the great world-wide federal state which we will establish when the war is over, bringing peace and abundance to the world, and a lot of other nonsensical dream stuff. But we shall certainly have to get around to the problem of war taxes very quickly. In the last war we paid about one-third of the cost in taxes and twothirds through borrowing. But so far we are paying practically all. of the costs through borrowing. The announced aim of the Government is to balance what is called the budget for ordinary Government expenses, leaving all of the war preparation budget to he taken care of by borrowing. But this will nos do. The very necessity of protecting the country from swift and destructive inflation will force taxes. And once again we seem to be on the point of repeating what we did in the last war—paying not only our bills, but the war bills of other countries, with borrowed money. It was that which sent our war costs up at least 35 per cent.
U. 8. Tax $
75 440 2,143
So They Say—
I DON'T SEE how the United States and a victorious CGrérinan can exist peaceably side by side for any lengt: of time.—Bertrand Russell, British expacifist, / *® + “ THERE IS AN irresistible and unstoppable impulse to recovery in. our economic order.—Dr. Neil Carotiaers, l.ehigh Universtiy. *
EVENTUALLY WE may have to fight to defend our civilization. The future in that respect is unknown and unknowable.~—Joseph P. Kennedy, U. 8. Ambassador to London,
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DRINKING by the elite is aped, craved, and enlarged as it zigzags through the lower brackets of
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swarm into the low dives and dens, thence shunted
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of the moment is “Toward a New
is the result of ad--
the social. order, gathering millions on the way that. on to courts and Shewa o out into society as divorcees, cripples, orphans and in.
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ENJOYS ARTICLES BY ERNIE PYLE _ By Another Vagabond .
I enjoy Mr. Pyle’s light banter of English wit and comments on conditions as he sees them. There is nothing lie has sent back to this country that supports the theory that he has been coached by anyone. I think The Times very fortunate in having’ one so honest and truthful to write for them. Let’s don’t consign or be instrumental in throwing Mr. Pyle’s article in the garbage pail. Better to be peaceable, pull hard for democracy in the only way Americans should pull, with faith, hope, charity and love for one another.
v8 Bm TAKING A SLAM AT STRIKE AND PICKET BILL
By Wm. M. Taylor, Morgantown, Ind.
‘The voters of Indiana elected their chosen Representatives to improve their Government with constructive legislation. At this time, the voters find only the time utilized in quibbling over party patronage and power. Such quibblings have been heawine ana reaiure column news. What is the matter with the press (including you) that such vicious anti-American skullduggery as bill 162 has not been exposed? We read in the press about the fifth columnist and: the saboteus, but I have yet to read of any who would be so low and degraded -as to. be in the same brain twisted category as any one who would support such a bill as 162, defined as the Strike and Picketing Regulation Act. We have been’ taught' that the Constitution of the United States is a guarantee to all the world that whomsoever lives under the Stars and Stripes possess the right of free speech. Lo, and behold, bill 162 would assess a fine of $1000 and six months fmprisonment upon a worker for even uttering a gurgle in relerence to any single employee grievance with an employer. Of course it would be all right to tell customers that such employer was a great man and they should spend their money there. I majntain that when a worker receives his “pittance” in return for his labors, such “pittance” becomes the property of the worker. It therefore becomes his right to “dribble” such “pittance” out where he can receive the most for his money. If such worker even hints
Side Glances— By Galbraith
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that he does not wish to patronize any individual or company because he believes they are unfair to labor, he automaticlly becomes classed in the’ same catagory as a criminal, as interpreted in bill 162. . . Fellow citizens, I, as a taxpayer and factory worker call upon you to get on your toes, and do your part in defeating such legislation as this. It is our aim to build and improve our Government. We want no dictators. We cannot wait until tomorrow, it may be, too late: ” » 2 CONTENDS OUR OWN DEFENSES NEGLECTED By John R. Surber, M. D. Aid to Britain is and should be considered secondary to the defense of the United States. Probably the one thing the Empire fears most fs that we will properly organize for defense. The Administration already” has the power to provide for our defense; it is not doing it. Ford is a good example—he can produce, but contracts are being withheld. Now before thé Congress is H. R. No. 1776 which, if passed in its present form, will provide escape of 3ll further responsibility. for acts which will involve us in a world war. The defense record may lead to emergency, but it does not justify passage of this bill. No doubt, the Dies Committee reports, which are suppressed, will show who are responsible for keeping the majority disorganized—setting labor ‘against labor, labor Spang business and the employer; riving the latter in despera-|;, tion to accept certain fundamental changes in our form of govern‘ment. We will fail as a great power if we do not actively organize this hemisphere for defense—this will require a dynamic dollar diplomacy now so sadly lacking. Such policy would be a threat to British Imperial interests in this hemisphere, but it would justify the belief in democracy, and provide the
basis for a necessary youth movement. It is true defense and good business—a realistic foreign policy.
” n ” FINDS ENCOURAGEMENT IN LINDBERGH'S TESTIMONY By R. G. L. The editorial on Lindbergh's testimony at the House hearings on the Lend-Lease Bill was fair and good tempered—for which I am thankful. I have heard him reviled, his patriotism questioned and his character maligned by those who are strongly urging passage of the bill as is. This sort of talk is almost a personal hurt because I feel he is one of the clearest thinkers we have. You do not agree with his state-
ment that it makes no difference to us who wins, or whatever his words
* *|were. I think you give that an in-
terpretation he did- not mean. I gathered he feels we'll lose in any event economically—Britain has already lost too much to make her victory of much value to us. But the big thimg that 1 got out of his testimony is that we can preserve our.-way of life here no matter what happens in Europe or Asia it we are determined to do it. And the way to do it is to make ourselves strong and keep out of war. And the way to keep out of war at the moment is not to ‘give our official spokesman the tools for maneuvering us into war at his whim. It is too late to say we shall not aid Britain even if we didn’t want to. If we had opposed aid we should have done so two years ago-—and there wouldn’t have been this bloodshed today. We're committed to the policy now. But if we'd done clearer thinking two years ago, when repeal of the embargo was considered, we'd have realized that quarrels and wars batten on sympathy and aid. Now this war will last as long as we furnish the material from here on. And very likely we'll be helping Germany through Russia now that we've lifted the “moral emburgo.” We've been helping Japan as well as China. Cynical foreign observers are not going to be very much impressed with Uncle Sam's “humanitarianism.” . . .
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a FEARS CONGRESSMEN
STRANGERS TO BOOKS§ By Daniel Francis Clancy. Logansport, Ind.
Representative Lyle Boren, young Congressmap from Oklahoma, frequently reads three books in one night. That must be more than most Congressmen read all their lives. - How do I feel about conscription? Well, I've never liked drafts . . . not since that time the party leaders drafted a ‘candidate who whipped me out of the nomination for State Representative. I suppose that the young fellows in Britain feel that the restrictions on lipstick, rouge and
‘mascara are bad—but, they prob-
ably shrug their shoulders and reflect that there's the blackout, -anyway.
TENACIOUS eas
By ANNA E. YOUNG The oie who smiles when you are
Enjors the quaint small things you Who & 2 ars with you your happiness And thinks of you—not one whit less When storm tossed billows ride so
gh From out a world where troubles lie Who strives .to calm the waves of
care By giving Faith and breathing . prayer.
DAILY THOUGHT
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them; I {testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.—Deuteronomy 8:19.
YET, IF HE WOULD, man cannot
|tive all to this world. If not re-
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WEDNESDAY, FEB, 12, 1041,
IG Johnson Says—
Draft Offers Further
ASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—This is Boy Scout purpose is to call attention to the national value how to do enough. time, but t
rior class of these kids who are: going into the Army merely con-
crop of ‘boys for many years. The draft is a dragnet cross-
1917-1918 output was remarkably good. The A. E. PF. drew univer="
sonishment from all Allied and enemy observers,
here. ” 2 o
O HASTY conclusions should be drawn about -
That is largely the result of deliberate policy. About
close contact with the draft of the last war can
the improvement.
regard this as inconclusive. But the same thing is
is in intelligence, appearance and most of all in cleanoutlook.
a constantly increasing population in schools and
objective handling of the news. ” Ed ”
the Boy Scout activity, where kids absorb a cult of"
by being preached to or lectured, not all by punish
think the CCC camps are, and as+I.am very sure
the selective service army is. Things taught to kids stick, and what is being
clusively to the good and very wide in its application.
die, “survival of the fittest” and “devil take the hind-
They certainly are more pleasing to the eye, ear and mind—I might add nose—than those who were so toughened. Anyway, it- is a fine, beautiful and brave generation that is coming along and to the extent that the Boy Scout organization contributed, which is great, it
is a national asset of first magnitude. !
with them. I'm crazy about today’s young people.” Mrs. Arthur Ferris of New York, Smith College graduate and parent, is reported to have said wy, I second the motion. The most irritating trait’ of the modern adult is his silly” on sistence upon the rightness of his
every youngstér who disagrees is out to destroy the country.
with many boys and girls—Junior Leaguers, Y. domestic workers, college and high school students, salespeople, rich and poor, white and colored, and with few exceptions I find them
ous thinking. . Indeed it seems to me that no former generation has showed more intelligent interest in national and world affairs, The, pity is that we have among us so many hard-headed grownups who, instead of mingling with groping adolescents, ‘view everything they do and say- with alarm, “Radicals Communists!” is the cry, and everyone over 30 scurries in the opposite direction, An infant with ideals seems to be more terrifying than an army, with banners.
disease. In fact, many citizens who make a point of helping’ + young criminals will blench with horror if asked to enter the same room where a few fledgling liberals are gathered.
and discuss the things that bother them? . When staid, respectable Americans shut the doors™y of the! is worse
These children are asking for bread, and we give them: - stones—the stones of our indifference, silence, ill will and wrath. The behavior 2! many so-called d_ patriots ‘on: thig< question is unbelievable, and, I think gerous if we hope to influence Young America towards’ permanent Semgeracy.
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Q—Are aliens who have not declared their inten~
under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940? A—No.
power as a four-cycle engine of the same size? A—A two-cycle engine having the same bore and stroke, and running at the same speed as a in cycle engine, in theory should develop nearly twice the power of the four-cycle engine. Actually, however,
engines of the same dimensions and speed as of equal power. Q—What is an axiom? A—A statement that is evident without proof. Q—How much is the Federal tax on cigarets? A—For the small cigarets, $3.25 per thousand; and for large ones, $7.80 per thousand. | Q—Has either the Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth ever passed under Brooklyn Bridge? A—No. Q—Which state showed the largest gain in Population in 1940 over 1930? f which in
A—California, pulation of whi by Matos trom, i to 6,907,387. The in large of re
Paying Tribute to the Boy Scouts; Evidence - Of Its Great Boon to Our Youth
‘Week. I don’t know all that you are supposed. . to do in the succession of institutional “weeks” and - “days” that have come upon us but, insofar as the.
of the Boy Scouts, I don’t know.
It is not disloyal to my own or younger EgRerations up to this :- e unquestioned. supe-
firms my random observations of - continued improvement in our ’
section of the whole country. The °
sal expressions of admiring as-
Of course, as these 1941 boys are, it was cream skimmed off our very top, whereas the wearing of ; war had forced those other nations to take run-of-the-mill humanity. Just the same, the boys going into _, uniform constitute a good sample of what we have
the present percentage of physical, rejection. -
25 per cent of them are for imperfect teeth. In 1917 ° and 1918 when the draft was “for the duration,” * most of such cases were accepted and corrected by ° dental work. This time, when boys are just taken for one year’s training, the Government, I think wisely, * preferred to avoid this loss of time and money. To condense this past of the argument, no one who had '’
look at this product without becoming convinced of : If you didn’t see it in all directions, you might - obvious at West Point and the colleges. It is appar- | ent at the CCC camps and wherever you get a good look at young men in the mass. The improvement - liness, tolerance and high or even idealistic. mental | Of course, many influences have been at work— colleges, a phenomenal improvement in communica-...
tion by air and moving pictures, a more robust debating forum in the press, and there is also a more .
pu OF THIS put together, however, cannot ob- -: scure the tremendous unobtrusive influence of :
mental, moral and physical decency—not so muck ment, but by being gently led and convinced by ex- - ample an enjoyable practice in their own groups. I ° think that is one of the greatest of all the great:’ things that are going on in this country, just as I
the formation of these hundreds of thousands in ;
taught to these boys and young men is almost ex- °
Maybe these new crops of young humanity aren’ being sufficiently toughened on the old root hog or
most” formulas, but maybe even that is.to the good.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
‘WISH older people wouldn't find so much fault
opinions and his certainty that
It has been my privilege to talk =
WwW. C. A! members; -
doing an\amazing amotmt of seri-
Adolescents troubled by honest doubt;
are treated as if they suffered from a Joathesome od
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. Yet how will we teach our brand of patriotism to. X these youngsters if we haven't the courage to face their questions nor the patience to sit down with them al an
omes, their halls, their churches, and what = lose their ears, to the insistent queries = raised by young radicals, we should not be surprised 17 find enemy alien influences at work among them...
,/ highly danas
tion to become U. 8. citizens, liable for military service
Q-—Does a two-cycle gasoline engine have as much -
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builders of marine engines, who build both types, rate .