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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1941

THE POT BOILS IN THE PACIFIC APAN’S supposed intention to have a go at Singapore and the Dutch East Indies whenever Hitler drops the hat on the other side of the world is running into. compli-

~ cations.

In Washington, for Instance: 1.Secretary Hull confers with the agents of these powers that stand athwart the southward path of Japanese imperialism—the British Ambassador and the Dutch and Australian Ministers. "2. President Roosevelt calls for, and the House authorizes, appropriations to strengthen Guam and Samoa; and e President orders foreign ships, planes and persons SF arred from a number of our Pacific outposts. 8. Undersecretary Welles turns a very cold shoulder to Japanese talk of peaceful intentions, and to Japanese suggestions that we confine our “warlike preparations” to

. our own hemisphere.

And in Singapore, the keystone of the strategic arch that impedes Japanese ambitions, there arrives a great convoy bearing a fully equipped Australian expedition to reinforce the already formidable defenses of Malaya. ~The news from Singapore is particularly painful to Tokvo, which has the crust to intimate that Great Britain

is trying to pick a fight in the Orient.

(When Japan makes

an aggressive move, it is in the interest of ‘common prosperity for greater east Asia”; when:anybody else makes a defensive move, it’s a sign.of warlike;intentions.) All in all, developments of the last few days seem to fit into a picture of increasing solidarity in the Orient ‘among American, English, Australian and Dutch statesmen

and strategists.

We hope that these continuing demon-

strations of solidarity will suffice to dissuade Japanese hotheads from an irretraceable step.

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CITY-COUNTY PLANNING : PROMPT and favorable legislative action is being sought at the State House for the bill to. ¢stablish a metropolitan plan commission in Marion County. The measure is the outgrowth of continuing studies Yevlving about our growing suburban problem. The metropolitan commission would toke the place of the county plan commission and would include in its membership the City Plan Commission in addition to officials and citizens: representing those districts outside the cor-

porate limits.

There is considerable need right now for such a new streamlined board—and the need will grow as our defense industries move ahead. In all directions, housing developments are shooting up on the outskirts and City-County co-operation in the interests of public safety and sanitation is not only desirable but necessary. The metropolitan plan commission bill deserves the support of all Marion County. The Legislature should give

this one the clear track.

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KNUDSEN, LABOR AND CONGRESS

Youc can’t make a man a criminal because he is strik-

ing,’

* said William S. Knudsen to a Congressional com-

mittee yesterday.

Correct.

Congress will make a sad mistake if it tries

to do that. As this top leader in industry and defense says, ‘cooling-off periods” and mediation are desirable for preventing strikes, but it will be best if they can be provided, by agreements between employees and employers. There should be no attempt to make a strike in a defense industry a criminal offense. Mr. Knudsen seems to believe, and so do we, that most labor disputes can be settled without seriously impeding the defense program, given only a keener realization on both’ sides that the country’s safety depends upon avoiding stop‘pages of work. Perhaps improvement of the Governmen.’s facilities for voluntary mediation is also needed.” But advocates of laws to deprive labor of the righ’ to strike would * do well to drop that idea, which is contrary to the Constitution and to common justice.’

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HERE are other labor subjects, vital to defense and do every-day life, which do urgently need attention by

Congress.

One is the aitudition created by a Supreme Court majority which has held that unions can’t be punished under the Anti-Trust Laws for restraining trade by fighting with

other unions.

Congress should repeal this court-made law hi

of special immunity for unions. When labor goes beyond. the legitimate objectives] of

_ organization, and acts. for the purpose of restraining: trade,

raising prices or preventing use of cheaper materials, we believe that Anti-Trust Laws should apply. They shquld apply whether unions act alone, as in jurisdictional strikes, or in combination with employer and business organizations. For if labor can be prosecuted only when it conspires with employers, which is what some authorities interpret the Supreme Court decision to mean, a huge loophole has been opened through which guilty employers also car.

escape.

The price-raising, trade-restraining conspiracies

can take a new and unpunishable form—the form, not of agreements between unions and employers, but of “demands” by labor to which employers need only accede in order to get the same results at the expense of the public.

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~ THEN there«is the matter of high fees which A. F. of 1. unions have been extorting from thousands of men seeking temporary work on defense projects. . The Justice Department has received many complaints of this abuse, but it seems to be untouchable by present law. Many Congressmen want to go after it with a new law prohibiting the closed shop on any defense job. We hope a better way

~ can be found.

‘But unless labor leaders promptly do far- more than they have done to bring such fees within reason, they will ‘have themselves to blame if Snti-cloged-shep legislation is

For Eriough

By Westbrook Pegler

EW YORE, Feb. 20.—Slowly but irresistibly since

he called hiz plitical flossfy last summer the realization las been dawning on me that I am at least two decades, and possibly three decades, behind the times in my concept of the Middle

‘town almost everywhere in the - United States. My mained that of an unpaved main street, a town hall where wandering entertainers fired up the stove three or four times a winter to sing illustrated songs, a local weekly paper, an educational system which expired half-way through high school, a fixed population composed almost ‘entirely of native Americans and a two-party

and used the word “social” only as a noun, meaning an ice cream or strawberry party on the lawn of the M. E. Church. (In the basement in case of rain.) The Hoosier remains a distinct breed, to be sure, and Willkie remains a Hoosier, but the scene has changed since he turned his back on Indiana, and anyone who still thinks of Hoosiery in terms of simple and honest: pai shrewd rusticity is living in the past. f J » "

DOUBT that Willkie himself has really made that mistake, and suspect that his emphasis on open= faced, ‘boyish political homeliness in the late campaign was something which the actors used to call hokumi or hoke and now call corn. That was the last stand of the great American hick—may he rest in peace!--and Willkie was not a hick but a slicker. And the Hoosiers to whom he addressed this appeal at the homecoming show were slickers who had put themselves into costume and a mood, as in some other local ‘Araerican festivals the people dress up in fur caps and fringe to recall for a day the civilization of the little brown jug. A wise ‘and honest Hoosier journalist of my acquaintance who covered the show and favored Willkie in’ the campaign told me in October that his fellow Hoosiers had corned it up so extravagantly that, far from arousing nostalgia in him, they had cured "him of his ¢ld longing. His Indiana was dead and buried on the banks of the Wabash, and these people were frisking about in a very depressing burlesque. Willie's own Indiana has become an industrial state with an industrial population which ig urban even in the country. The factories and works have spread out beyond the old city lines, which used to be the | demarcation between soft comfort and hardy misery, sophistication and chew-tobacco innocence, ‘way up into Michigan and over Ohio and Illinois. i ” ” ” HERE is no need to cite statistics to show the extent of the change in this respect. But obviously the reason why the cracker-barrel philosopher is ‘no more—not that he every really was—is that he would be argued out of breath in an hour and would reniain thereafter an affected and ignorant bore. I

tually did business as cracker-barrel philosophers were really smart humorists who worked in dialect. By imputing te a whole area of population their carefully exaggerated, professional version of the local language and thought they gave all these people a chance to think of themselves as salty wits of the keenest intelligence. Even after they have been gone to the cities for years some grownup, one gallus Hoosiers still conjure themselves as cracker-barrel philosophers when they get a little tight at reunions. But the effect is pretty sad, because it is so far out of date. It occurs to me that the syndicated cosmic columnist of our journalism might be regarded as the successor. to ‘the cracker-barrel philosopher, for I often find repested, as original thought, both in speech and in letters to the editor, ideas, including errors, which I have seen before in print. My conclusion is that if Willkie had acknowledged the change in his native section and, all through his campaign, had emphasized the fact that the great American hick has been laid away in his celluloid Sunday collar and Sunday suit, he would have relieved himself of an awkward pose and the campaign of an artificial quality which confused many people. He said mostly, and especially on the subject of war, just what President Roosevelt was saying, but the President spoke in Harvardese and Willkie in rube dialect.

Business

By John T. Flynn :

War Apparently Near Final Phase, U. S. Must Prepare to Meet Shock

N "EW YORK, Feb. 20—The approach of spring brings one serious matter to the attention of the people of this country. No man knows what the future holds, but there is plenty of ground for beWf id that the war in Europe nears its final phase. In spite of all the optimism expressed in cert; Government circles, the fact stands out that the Washington Government is (1) talking about salvaging the British fleet from the final disaster and (2) making plans for Great public works when the war is over. The war may come to an end swiftly and if that happens this country will face an epochal decision. Before the war started the country was i1unning on a sea of Government deficits for peacetime projects. Since

‘the war got well under way, it has been running on

gn ocean of Government deficits for war purposes.

In short, this country has got to come presently to a decision whether it is going to throw its economic

or commit itself to a system of operating on perpetual Government deficits, or make the necessary sacrifices to get back to a state where the economic system is functioning on its own power. If it decides on the latter, it has .got to make an entirely different program for itself from that which it has been following.

2 ” 2 T must make up its mind that if it wishes to follow the plan of perpetual deficits it must get ready to give up slowly, and one by one, the great bulk of its republican safeguards of liberty. That the Government in Washington is planning, however, to continue on a program of ever bigger deficits is apparent from the announcement that it is already hunting around for the projects on which to spend those deficits. My own view is that we must face with courage the proposition that the only way to get out of our present rut is to take swiftly and sharply the drastic step that is necessary. It will mean a crisis. But we are going to have a crisis anyhow and the longer we postpone it the worse it will be. That drastic step is to abandon definitely and ruthlessly the whole program of Government-created purchasing power, make the necessary currency adjustments to meet the situation, create swiftly the necessary inflation or deflation to make those adjustments, withdraw every form of support from industrial and transportation corporations and other forms of business until there has been a general cleaning up of the situation, recast the tax laws, and do everything possible to revive private investment instead of public borrowing. This wil Imake times difficult for a year or two, but after that the depression will come to an end. The present way is to prolong the depression forever.

They are not necessarily those

newspaper are their own. of The Indianapolis Times.

So They Say—

I GUESS I'M about the only one I know in favor of : war.—Senator . Carter ‘Glass, Virginia.

I ALWAYS like to have. my. wife look over them. ~Charles A, Lindbergh, on his recent speeches,

He's Convinced Now That Willkie Was a Slicker Who Fell Into the Error of Posing as a Hoosier Hick [3%

Wendell Willkie started to expound that which

West, and probably of the small"

mental picture has re-|

political eniality which never heard of social gains |- {#

say he never really was because the few men who ac- |}

When the war ends is it going to run on? More |Rys | deficits? And deficits for what?

system utterly and finally into the ashcan of history,

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this

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‘THURSDAY, FEB. pig Can. Johnson

: Military Experts faving Been Badly

Outguessed It's Foolish to Insist British May Not Need Manpower

ASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—This has certainly been a tough war for the military “experts’—both columnist kibitzer or radio amateur variety and the ready professionals. The amateurs have been bad

enough, but the biggest boners of all have been pulled by those who from training, education and profession should. really have been expert. I mean. . the great general staffs of all the countries, including our own, and not excepting Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan. The English and French bet their national existence on the experting of their soldiers and sailors that they could hold Hitler on the Maginot Line and outmaneuver him north of that. They pushed Poland into the storm and | then tossed her to the wolves and left all the small nations of Europe (that had been advised by their own military experts to rely on Allied strength) to be conquered in a few weeks. . The English experts bet they could out-fox Hitler on the Norwegian coast. They were wrong about that, too. Then Hitler's military high priests told him he could clean up the British Isles in 1940, but he is still at the Channel ports.

USSOLINI’S mighty military men told him that Greece and North Africa were pushovers, and see what happened to him. Japan expected a tea party in China. She got it but it was spiked with arsenic. Russia was advised by her professionals that she could swallow Finland' at a gulp. That didn’t happen and since Joe Stalin is more direct in his methods, he liquidated his experts and got some new ones. I don't know if they are any better. We have real experts, too. They muffed the whole program of getting us ready to defend ourselves, and now they are busily engaged in experting us into a war for which we are no better prepared relatively than we were when it started. The sciences of both tactics and armament have shifted too fast for the experts. There are too many imponderables in modern war. The basic principles of war never change, but military genius consists

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The Hoosier Forum

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

A WORD OF CHEER FOR WILLKIE AND DEWEY By Claude Braddick, Kokomo

Irresponsible persons who tossed eggs at Mr. Willkie during the campaign were classified unanimously as “hoodlums.” But dog-gonnit, you can’t call the editor of the Chicago Tribune a hoodlum! And lately he has widened his barrage to include the popular Mr. Thomas E. Dewey! Tech, tch! What is the world coming to! Following the 1938 Congressional elections the Tribune published a front-page cartoon which depicted the imposing New Deal templé collapsed in utter ruin, with Roosevelt and his motley coterie groaning feebly beneath it. I noted, though, that while the New Deal temple was falling with resounding crashes in! Chicago Tribune cartoons, it continued to flourish in real existence like the green bay tree. So may it be with Wendell Willkie and Mr. Dewey!

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PASTOR EXPLAINS HIS CRITICISM OF F. D. R. By The Rev. Daniel H. Carrick In answer to my critics, I wish to say that I have my own rights as an American citizen, and as a

minister I am obligated to do my duty in placing the truth before my people and “those who have ears to hear.” Those who know me best know that “bigotry” is not in my makeup, but I do admit that I am utterly intolerant toward trickery against the American people. I wish to say the Roosevelts are Communists, and they are the spiders who are carefully. weaving the web of communism through the American govern-

political life, and we the citizens are the “flies” being caught in the web that is spun in wickedness and malice to catch and enslave us forever. Proof that the Roosevelts are Communists is seen in the fact that New Dealism is communism and Roosevelt himself is personal found-

perfectly with the Stalin Deal in sia. Mrs, Roosevelt had the “babies” of the Youth Congress sitting on her lap and was well loved by every Communist in the U. 8S. A, but now she is deserting her “chil-

ment out into every department of

er of the New Deal which compares!

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dren” that she created and is an absconding mother because she does not dare to own them. We dare not go to war to please Roosevelt, because if we do, five million Communists in America will start a revolution while our soldiers are across the waters, and there will be no one at home to defend the nation within. Now this is what it means if we continue to support the communistic New Deal. The Communists are well armed, but the nation is not well armed. And this is what it means to pass the Lend-Lease Bill which is designed by the spiders to catch the “flies.”

® = 8 CHAMPIONS CAUSE OF DRUGLESS DOCTORS

By Mrs. F. M. Oliver I wonder if “Inquisitive” ever realy had any experence with a drugless physician, and I wonder who is the “quack” when a medical man turns a patient down by saying there is nothing medicine can do for him and a drugless man cures the patient in a course of three months treatment. We sholuld all be very careful what we say for or against anything that we know absolutely nothing about. When a man or woman says they were cured by a drugless method, of an ailment that medicel profession has given up as hopeless, that patient isent goofy or insane he or she are telling the absolute truth and I think it is an awful thing when a group of people can take away the rite for that drugless man or men to practice and there oy take away the lile of that patient and many many inore. The so called regular plysicians have always been as slow as “sevenyear itch” in taking up new things that has been invented or founded| for their benefit unless its a new

-drug and they will try that out on

Side Glances=—By Galbraith

1941 BY NEA INC. T. M.

U. 8. PAT,

"How many, tickets will it take to have you call me by my first

anyone who happens to come along. . . . . Why can’t every body think fair? Ninty-five percent of the patients that drugless physicians treat are patients that medical men have given up as hopeless or advised hospital and ‘surgery. Those people should have the rite and privilege to investigate other methods of

| treatments, and the drugless phy-

sician shodld have the rite and privilege to treat those people. If he is a quack he will soon run himself out, a lot of fuss and bother would not be necessary. ,. ie OPPOSES AID, TERMS BRITAIN OUR ENEMY By A Would Be Paul Revere While they are not saying much the American people are getting tired of being bombarded with proBritish propaganda day and night through the press, the radio, by fake polls and other means. At present all manner of pressure is being brought to bear on our Representatives in Congress to browbeat them into betraying their country, but the plain people are watching. They may be inarticulate, but they have good memories. The most bare-faced falsehoods are proclaimed as gospel truth, such as that “the British are fight-

and the world knows that the British have ever been our enemies, and still are. Only they have ever been our aggressors.

ever had to fight to defend ourselves. atrocities on our people. If our Congress allows this country to be drawn into an alliance with Britain, we will never again have peace or plenty or freedom. Our business men, our farmers and our wage earners will be taxed into perpetual poverty. The greedy British ravagers of the world, with their foreign financial barons (now in our midst) will scourge our country and its people without mercy....

2 8 8 A REBUKE FOR : MRS. FERGUSON By A Reader

Mrs. Walter Ferguson’s column of Feb. 17 was a disgrace to The Times. My husband and I are both ashamed

Is Mrs, Ferguson trying to stir

Christian people should stand

entire

crack-pot springs from one of

them? We even have ¢rgck-pots writing newspaper columns. :

MEDITATION

By ANNA E. YOUNG In every heart is a sanctuary

| Where we treasure and store many

things

| Where ‘we go—in moments of silence And pause on the threshold—it

brings.

To us—conflicting emotions Of remembrance — maybe tinged with regret Yet we feel—in the pause a refreshing Communion of spirit—and’ yet

Do we live—every day with the utmost Command of our will—and obey The finer and best—instincts given To us—by our conscience today!

DAILY THOUGHT

So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it.—Chronicles 10:13.

LET the punishment be equal offense.~Cicero.

with the

ing our battle,” while we know,

They are the only power we have] ;

They have committed many | §

of it—and one of us is a Catholic| and the other a Protestant.

up ill feeling at a time when dll]

shoulder to shoulder? Because some |. | “individual preacher” got on her| ‘toes she condemns. an church. . . . Why blame the churches | ‘| because every now. and. then some

‘ cannot bé given.

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genius has yet appeared—no, not even Mr. Hitler's bright young men, notwithstanding their unparalleled conquests. For example, Winston Churchill now tells us that this is just a war of machines—ships and land mechanical monsters—and that we shall never have to mobilize great masses of men to go to Europe. Immediately, Mr. Hopkins, Mr, Willkie and all our journalistic military “experts” echo that opinion and the principal American objection to getting us into this war is lulled to sleep.

DON'T know whether war is no longer a matter of mass man power or not—and neither does Mr, Churchill. I only know it always has been. He is clicking pretty well on military matters just now, but it is doubtful whether any leader ever made so many military mistakes in the course of one lifetime and survived them as a public character. It depends altogether on what direction this war

-takes whether it will develop into a war of massed

man power. There is no one on earth wise enough to predict those directions. Hitler certainly has both machines and mass men power, at least 250 divisions. If the war aims of England (which we do not and cannot control) are as Mr. Churchill has stated them, to reconquer Europe, it is just simply silly either to say that the job will not require mass man power or that we shall not be * called upon to furnish it. This country has been well war danced into sufficient hysteria to get into this war. In fact, it is already in it. be done about that, but ordinary honesty lays some obligation on the authors of that condition to tell our people the plain truth of what it means to them.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE term “underprivileged” is one of my pet :

peeves. . It flows so unctuously these days from the lips of so many people that I often think if it bobs ‘up another time I shall run amok and break |. up the meeting. Were forever talking about “underprivileged children,”] and the ‘“underprivileged class,” and so forth— which is caste at its worst. This is an ‘evasive word which has crept into the language when we weren't watching—a sly, stupid - term, ‘invented to save the feelings of the unfortunate and to make the fortunate feel virtuous. ‘What's the matter with the , good old Anglo-Saxon word “poor”? It has a noble lineage. It carries no scurrillous overtones. It is direct, honest and digni-

‘fied. ; You're poor—so what? It has never been a disgrace. Demosthenes was poor and so were Plato and Peter and Paul and Jesus of Nazareth, Columbus and Lincoln and Edison and Pasteur were poor. Countless millions of good and noble men have been poos, and plenty of them never had a chance to get . ahea They may have been born in a cruelly unjust society, or ‘leeced of property by war lords, or have | struggled util death with burdens too heavy to bear. But so long as they had ‘normal health and normal mentality they were not underprivileged. It seems to me this designation of a whole class of

"people gives a dishonest impression. It has a whipped

sound, bringing instantly to mind hordes of pallid creatures, without spirit, without even an expectancy of hope, people who will have to live on the charity of their neighbors for ever and ever. 2 Thus it indicts both the individual and society,

" by labeling the former as one who doesn’t really want =

to. help ‘himself and the latter as a blood-sucking monster. For a society which goes on tolerating what, : is known as an “underprivileged class” is monstrous in its every aspect. The fact that ours is working constantly fo right economic injustice should make

. the word doubly repulsive.

Poor folks can hold up their heads with the best of them, but it seems to me the “underprivileged” would feel licked before they started by the insinuations of that blanket word. 3

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Q—I am a British subject engaged to be married to an American born girl. Will she lose her citizen=-. ship if she marries me and, how long will it take me to become a naturalized U. 8. citizen? I came to _ this country four years ago, and was admitted under * the British quota? A—Your fiancee will not lose her citizenship when she marries you. After you are married you can apply immediately for final papers as the husband of an American citizen, The law provides that alien men, eligible for naturalization, may apply for “ final papérs without making a declaration of inten=-: tion, provided they married citizens, or their wives.’ became citizens, after 12 o'clock noon, Eastern Stand= - ard Time, May 24, 1934. It will take from three months to a year to obtain your final papers. Q—What is the coldest time of day? A-—Generally just about sunrise, because during ° the night there is more loss of heat by radiation than is gained. The earth is tonsiantly losing heat, but more is gained in the day than is lost. From:® sunrise until about 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at which time the peak is reached, there is a gradual © gain, and from that period until just before sunrise, .' there is $ continual loss of heat

Apparently there is nothing that can