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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1941

STALIN SCOLDS BULGARIA

ig y HITLER is said to have informed President Ismet Inonu

of Turkey that he has no designs on Turkey or the Dardanelles.

The Fuehrer’s record of defaulted guarantees being

what it is, and Inonu being the reverse of naive, it is not likely that Turkey’s defensive measures will now be relaxed.

And if Ankara is skeptical of these German assurances,

b s0 is Moscow. Skeptical and jittery.

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Stalin has been squirming ever since German officers mufti started drifting into Bulgaria—the vanguard of the uniformed armies now billeted all over that country. And well he might squirm. His partner in the fateful pact of August, 1939, has now rolled his juggernaut to within jumping-off distance for a grab at the Dardanelles, a circumstance that must have Lenin and a long line of Czars spinning in their tombs. : If the Russian remonstrance was really aimed not at Bulgaria, but over her head at Berlin, it made no dent. “Authorized sources” .in Berlin retorted that, while Russia’s attitude was understandable, “Germany can in no way tolerate any restrictions on measures it deems necessary to take to defeat Britain.” "In other words, Hitler is glad to use Russia when she is useful; at other times, let Russia button her lip in the presence of her betters. If Joe Stalin is riding a tiger and can’t dismount, it’s his own fault. The plain fact is that the too-clever Machiavelli in the Kremlin helped to set in motion forces that he cannot hope to control—unless he does another right-about-face and throws in with England and Turkey and Greece. Which is something to think about. :

TEXTBOOKS AND CHILDREN

FROM the viewpoint of parents and children, we think, it’s all to the good to have the widest possible discussion of the social-science textbooks that are used in elementary and high schools. Parents know: 1. That some textbook writers and some teachers believe, and want to teach children to believe, that other systems—especially that of Russia—are better than free enterprise and democracy. “. 2. That, at the other extreme, some people would have children taught that nothing has been, is or can be wrong with the American system.

1, _...- ..Both extremes are dangerous. In the past the second

has had more influence than the first. That is a fact which most parents of the present generation regret. They learned in school much about the merits of the system under which they were being prepared to live, but little about its defects. If they had been taught, not less about the merits, but more about the defects, they might have been better able to protect the system from the shocks it has suffered in the last 12 years. And they want their children to be more wisely prepared for the future.

Such parents will welcome the current controversy

: _over a report by Dr. Ralph West Robey of Columbia Uni-

“versity. The National Association of Manufacturers re-

E tained: Dr. Robey and his staff to analyze 563 high-school

textbooks in economics, sociology, civics and history. In the report, which both he and the N. A. M. insist represents ‘only his own opinions, Dr. Robey says that while few of these books could be classed as actually subversive, a substantial number tend to create discontent with American

|. democracy and the working of private enterprise.

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Other educators and textbook publishers see this report

..*as a threat of censorship and a menace to intellectual free-

dom, and a committee of social scientists will analyze Dr.

~ Robey’s analyses and publish its findings. * the public may expect to hear much more on this subject, and all who really believe in democracy should welcome that.

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t For out of democratic discussion may come results that will save the children from either of the two dangerous

and undemocratic extremes-—from those who would teach

them nothing but the faults of the American system and from those who would teach them nothing but its virtues. What most parents want and have a right to ask, we believe, is that the children shall be equipped to defend that system as they can do only if they are taught the truth—that it is the best system yet devised, but that in it there will always be great need for improvement.

SETTLE THIS QUESTION NOW

THE War Department has picked a glaring example for its first historic intervention in a jurisdictional labor dispute. ; At Wright Field, O., a $5,900,000 program essential to expansion of the Army Air Corps is tied up. A New York company which employs C. I. O. union labor has a binding contract to install electrical equipment in one building of this big defense project. Last month more than 400 members of A. F. of L. building trades unions struck because four C. I. O. union

electricians were working on the New York company’s part of the job. So the War Department told the New York

company to halt its operations, and the A. F. of L. members ~ returned to work. Since then the War Department has been trying vainly to make peace between the contending parties. Yesterday, losing hope for success of that effort, * it ordered the company to put the four C. I. O. electricians ~ back on the job. And the 400 A. F. of L. men promptly struck again in protest against the War Department’s order. As always in such disputes, the Wright Field controversy has nothing to do with wages, hours, working conditions or whether union labor shall be employed. It’s just a case of one branch of union labor saying that the

Government can’t permit a contractor to employ members

of the other branch of union labor. The Government ought mak _it clear right now labor’s battles with labor must ot be fught at the expense of National defense. ~~

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

A Tribute to the Unsung Heroes | and Heroines Who Slave for Years in Thankless Sacrifice for Others.

EW YORK, March 5.—There is much vague talk of sacrifice just now by which to indicate to the soldiers of the new army in their camps that the civilian will endure such trials as he is put to. Yet, on every side in most communities, obscure heroes live ‘whose whole lives have been denial, = sacrifice and work for others without recognition, and often without the faintest show of gratitude from those whose thanks are due. They are not a group, a type or a class. ‘They are all little people, each as individual as his individual problem, but they are known to all of us and are pretty effectively put out of mind because their devotion shames us, and the occasions to touch them on the hand with so little as a message on their birthdays and at

Christmag are neglected. Most of those whom I

know have been women who seem to have a special sense of responsibility, but there have been some men. The sallow girl in the office who dresses so plainly and lacks that quality known as personality is un-

hers may be equal at least to that of the man of instant bravery who risks his life to save another. 8 8 = FEov girlhood she will have known nothing but uninterrupted responsibility, worry, work and self-denial. | She is not married and probably never will marry, because, after all, she is rising 30 now and has no way| with men, and, anyway, what man wants to take on an invalid father-in-law to live in a little apartment for God only knows how many years until at last his grip on life relaxes and he slips away? Or, if her [father is not an invalid he could be a drunkard or just a shiftless old fool leaning his dead weight | on the scrawny shoulders of a girl. As I say. the circumstances are alike in no two cases, although the spirit of such martyrs is generally similar, and individuals are known to all of us. What about brothers and sisters? Are there no brothers and! sisters to help, and isn’t the responsibility theirs as well? Well, yes, there is a brother, but it seems that he pulled out and got married when -he was only 20 and has lived in various places trying to get along, but has children now, and, after all, it wouldn’t be right to send money home which he needs for his own family. And sisters, then? Yes, two sisters, bitt| they, too, are married and live in another part of town, and, being away, have developed a pleasant detachment, although they could afford a few dollars now and again. And so, such poor, noble drabs are elected by circumsteénces and character to slave the precious years away when opportunities for happiness and fulfillment could be found, with rarely so much as an hour's joy and with no goal of security or ease beyond the horizon. . :

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OME, at evening, is not a happy circle, but merely "a scene of other duties and, in the morning, before work. there is doing-around the little place and always there is a ghastly dread of accident, serious illness of the consolidation of several departments into one, with consequent loss of the job and the pay. | We have had novels which have generally paraphrased such lives, but heroism of this kind is not conspicuous, and, indeed, is not regarded as heroism at all. We reserve that word for sudden acts of spectacular bravery which are the envy of us all Nobody ever envies the heroism and sacrifice of those whose courage and devotion to others persists evenly and without complaint or any thought of flinching or self-pity year after bleak and hopeless year. I dare say. that everyone of mature experience has known more than one person—woman or man— who has voluntarily assumed burdens in life which, in justice, should have been distributed among several. And it appears to me that, for no reason that IL can suggest, this nobility of soul, in woman at least, is more offen discovered in those who are not by the standards of the eye and fashion -beautiful or even charming. It seems to reside exclusively in girls whom God has denied even the. weapon of a pretty face with which to confront the world.

Business By John T. Flynn

Uncertain Future and High Taxes Account for Wall Street Dullness.

BW YORK, March 5.—Foreign observers express surprise at one thing they find here. Production and business activity are. soaring—at the high points for the decade. But the stock market is down. The more ‘business activity rises, the more the stock market sinks. The phenomenon is not so strange. First of all; the index of production and of business activity records a present condition. Prices on the stock exchange represent an estimate of both the present and the future. Business activity is at a record point now, but the end of the war could bring that to a speedy descent. Generally speaking, men buy stocks for one of two reasons, or ; for both—to invest or to speculate; tO get a sound, continuous revenue return or to make & profit on the rise in the price.

For people in the higher income brackets there is no inducement to buy stocks. I know of a wealthy investor who owned large amounts of stocks. He found that, when he got a 4 per cent dividend, the Federal and State income taxes were such that his actual return was about 1% per cent. So he unloaded gradually most of his shares and bought public tax-exempt bonds. People like this are more or lest definitely out of the market. Even for people of moderate income, the corporation share loses its lure as an investment because of the high corporation taxes due to the runaway de-fense-of-Britain-and-Asia program. There are certainly some excellent stock investments lying around if it were not for the well-founded feeling that taxes will cut returns too low and that the corporation may be forced off on a detour in defense production to the ruin of ite normal business. :

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T2 the speculator the situation is full of perils he cannot evaluate. Hanging over the speculator’s market now is the fear of an early end of the war, either. by a knockout or a peace arrangement that would send the whole market sooner or later into a severe collapse. From every point of view, then, the market, despite the high war production record, is more or less completely reflecting what it sees ahead. The fear of inflation after the war might well send a number of buyers into the market to pick up good equities. As a matter of fact, this influence is present. Were it not for these buyers, it is doubtful if the market could hold even its present level. Alfogether the complete uncertainty about everything is ‘a natural depressive force in the market— complete uncertainty about everything except one thing—taxes. And tax boosts are inevitable. In May, 1939, when the war clouds began to gather and speculators smelled the approach of nice war pickings, the market stood at around 88, It rose until Séptember when war was declared to 112—a 24point, gain. All of that gain has been shaken out. Now it is around 82—a descent of 30 points from the top and six points below the spot at which it started.

So They Say—

MY JUDGMENT is that if Britain collapses tomorrow we would be in a war in a month.—Wendell Willkie, former G. O. P. Presidential candidate. * » *

THE BIGGEST families live in the poorest shelters in| America.—Jonathan Daniels, in “The Nation.”

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HE COULDN'T adjust himself to freedom, Free-

dom. just living in a free country, made him a cap- |

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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.

TELLS OF SHAW’'S FILM PLEA FOR U. S. MANPOWER By J. A. Keyes. 641 Ft. Wayne Ave. An article in a recent issue of Variety should be read by those who think that this country will not be called upon to send men to fight in the present conflict. It tells of an eight-minute film made in England in which George Bernard Shaw makes a direct appeal for American manpower. Said to bear the approval of British officials it has not been released in America

as yet. However, we may be seeing it on the screen before long.

” t 4 ” LAUDING THE DEBATE ON THE LEND-LEASE BILL By Voice In The Crowd, Indianapolis There are two sides to the question of whether or not the LeaseLend Bill should pass, and both sides of it are American. It is truly American that there should be opposition to the bill in Congress and that whatever is done should be done after every point of

the measure has been aired on the floor of the Senate and ripped apart to see what the thing is made of anyway. If the bill passes it is going to take several generations to pay its cost and a few weeks or a few months is not too much time to decide the course. For eight years now we have rightfully complained about a rubber stamp Congress. Now when we see a few men like Wheeler or other. opponents of a bill, which we do not know to be good or bad for us, we call them un-American, as per Mr. Conway's charge in the Forum of Feb. 28. When we have men in Washington like “Wheeler, Nye & Co.” don’t cuss ’em out as un-American, cheer them for their Americanism, because they are the best we have in stock. There is a fire in the woodpile and if “Wheeler, Nye & Co.” can find out what. it is they - deserve the thanks of the American people. There seem to be quite a few things that the American people should know. We could move faster and more intelligently if we did know. The American people are not afraid of war, they are not

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do want to know where they are walking, however, and they have every right to know. It is silly to tell them that the Lease-Lend Bill will keep us out of war, when (although we are not honest enough {o admit it) we are plumb in the middle of it now. We are foolish to go to war with blinders on, and the best way to get the real inside story is to let them fight it out on Capitol Hill. The diplomats of Europe have known for 20 years. that this war was coming, the “Democracies” did not prepare. You cannot save the American way of life in Europe, because they have never had it, but you can lose the American way of life in America. It is well to Stop, Look and Listen. = . EJ EJ EJ A BOO FOR CRITICS OF ARMY SALUTE By Howard Haywood Bates, 2250 Park Ave. Of late there has been a wave of letters, articles and items in our magazines and papers on the subject of the exchange of salutes in the Army. The people who criticize know absolutely nothing about the Army. If they did, they would not take the attitude they do. The writer served as an enlisted soldier during the war in France, and seven years as an enlisted man, and 13 years as an officer in the National Guard. . . . Saluting in the military service is no more of a burden than to say “good morning” as you walk into your shop or place of work. . . . Saluating is simply a courteous greeting between persons engaged in the military service, and connotes nothing servile or humbling. The salute is not given to an officer as an individual, but to him as a

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person in whom the citizens of the nation have deposited a special trust. ... . Let us quite “babying” our men, and make soldiers out of them. We want an army, not a sewing circle. 8 2 = OPPOSING STRIKES IN DEFENSE PLANTS Mrs. W. F. Sosbey, RD5, Box 514 I agree that the Government should stop the strikes of workers in national deiense industries. They are making good wages. If they are not satisfied to do their part there, let them go into the Army at the high wages of $21 per month. My boys are giving up good jobs, one earning $150 per month to go into the Army, and there is nothing he can do about. The draftees are not allowed to strike, so why should the factories which are supplying the Nation with defense material do so,‘and get by with it?

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TAKING A SLAM AT PICKETING MEASURE By Clarence Lyons, 1423 Oliver Ave. To listen to the average citizen, politicians, or big shots of our state and nation talk, you will always discover somewhere in their remarks, the most utilized phrase of the English language today. “I believe in democracy; I am an American.” is From the average citizens (the workers) that statement is true.

However they are content to just

pass it by with that remark and do not expound their efforts and ener-

safeguard and guarantee a future democracy for themselves, their families, and the American people. By failing to do so they simply give | the go sign to those whose program and intention it is to secure larger profits by destroying in its present form and legally preventing a future development of militant labor organization. I refer here to the politicians and big shots who would deprive the workers and common - people by legislation, of every right to which they are democratically and legally entitled as citizens of a democracy. While all the time this group of labor baiters is shouting the loudest, “we believe in democracy,” and some are brazen enough to even shout, “we believe in Labor’s rights.” They don’t believe in anything only the “lion’s share of the profits” made possible by the productivity and sacrifice of American workers. If it is true that these people believe in labor's right . . . why do they propose legislation, such as tha “Strike and Picketing Regulation Act” designed to completely destroy labor without even consulting the workers? Well, I can only say that if these people continue their vicious attack on labor by the presentation of such legislation as Bill 162 that juct prior to the next election labor will declare an emergency. An emergency so vitally important to labor, that the Solticlans "will be wondering mon later how they were defeatéd so badly. . . .

OLD SHIP

BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

Oh let me sail the ocean wide And breast the heavy waves, And feel the salty spray of life That laps the mariners’ graves.

Don’t shelve me on a high dry dock To rust in ruinous trail; But give me courage and freedom sail and sail. and sail.

DAILY THOUGHT

And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.—Ezra 7:26. a

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Despite What iden and Hillman Say Things Are Going Badly on the Labor Front in Defense Plants.

ASHINGTON, March 5—Mr, Knudsen and Ms. '¥: "Hillman, the Janus-headed duality which Js. managing industrial mobilization, have testified that all is sweetness and light on the labor front, They hardly anyone else.in even remote! touch with the situation does: There is being circulated one estimate of 590,000 man-days lost on, defense contracts alone during: January and February. Unquess. tionably, sabotage is being used in, organizational efforts and attempts, to increase wages. Joa This is notably true in some. key steel plants in dispute wheres, the percentage of spoiled work is rising rapidly and unusually. Con= ducting and pouring off an open hearth “heat” of molten steel may look like a rhassive and rough-ands" ready operation. Actually it is one of extreme deli’ cacy in which it is easy without detection to spoil” not only the ingot but the furnace itself. This is gos: ing on. It is very costly and destructive. It creates’ delays throughout the whole production process. It

is inconceivable that the Government and public can § stand for that. The whole coal industry and much of

the steel industry is threatened with strikes, ian # a =» yn

ANAGEMENT in some cases is far from co-operas. tive. The only method to deal with this yete made legally available to the President, or his twoheaded boy in OPM, is to commandeer the plant. That. means that Government takes it over and runs it as an arsenal is run, which in.turn means that labor in. that plant is working .for Government directly, The, right to sabotage and strike against the Government. is something else again for labor leaders to consider. . . Commandeering a plant means paying full value for it. It also means getting competent management. and staff. Neither of these results is easy to attain, That is something else again for Government to, consider. The threat to do that has been hinted. In ah: least two instances, the plant management has said: “All right, come and take us over,” but nothing has happened. - . i This won't do. The whole system of control fail§. if bluffs are made and not carried through. Jos All this is being shushed. It has been badly mans, aged from the beginning. It was generally undeksstood between President Wilson, A. F, of L, President Samuel Gompers, and industry, that the “status queante” as between labor and management should remain in defense industries. Thus, except as rising costs of living justified higher wages and the Government’s two labor boards decided, neither manages' ment nor labor was to use the defense crisis to take:

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Al the first defiance of this policy, which haps. pened to occur at the same time on the part 1 one labor union at one place and one group of manus, facturers at another, the Government moved: dest cisively and promptly. It decreed the discharge: of: the recalcitrant workers. It commandeered the res: calcitrant plant. That was that—for the duration. No: such policy is Woking now, leh rders emanating from both the Navy De ent’ and the Maritime Commission Sag ent a temporary suspension of wage negotiations do nédt seem to give consideration to the rising costs of living! which, in spite of the stale official ‘statistics, is rapidly: going on. No ceiling can be put over wages withoy

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‘ high time that something should be done if we want’

to avoid more labor troubles and something much worse, runaway war-time price inflation. All the sub-surface boiling and rumbling is be shushed by those whose responsibility it is. Th

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on the sidelines, it seems time to get not merely f and vocal but also vigorous and tough—to either si . management or labor, that seems to need toughness at the particular moment. This country is in no mood for pussyfootivg with anything so vital and it can, always stand the truth, agi

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A Woman's Viewpoin By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |

. OO “QTRANGELY enough, it was the amount of thd mother’s education which most directly related to the son’s scholastic success.” ‘There is one of the interesting - statements in the recent booklet, issued” by the Public Affairs Committee and entitled “What it takes to make good in college.” Samuel L. Hamilton, professor af education at New York University," . did the research and the writing.’ Plainly, then, here it is, boys!“ An educated mother produces a

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the professorial inquiries, the' Father’s Ph. D. doesn’t have much to do with it. . This knocks into a cocked hat a favorite masculine theory. Since, Adam’s day the average man has: kidded himself that it didn’t make much difference what sort of a: children as long as he was their’

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mother he gave his father. It was expected that the vastly superior male:brain and brawn would naturally descend upon the boys instead of the girls, who were long regarded as : mistakes of nature anyway. Sons gave the father" prestige in the eyes of the neighbors, and he took it: for granted that every boy would come into the world" wearing the paternal copyright. So a good many‘ otherwise sensible fellows got themselves married to flighty featherbrains, and then wondered how it: happened that their male children turned out to be~ featherbrains too. * And what a lot of sheer misery ensured when the first law of eugenics was ignored! - Men found theirdreams tumbling down; they suffered humiliation and heartache over the failure of children who were supposed to bring honor to the family name. Probe ably no other mortal mistake has resulted in so much” downright unhappiness. ‘ . And still the men won't learn. - Most of them are just as set as ever to bestow their affections and worldly goods upon the feebler-minded females, and especially when their feeble-mindedness shows signs of developing into the “Yes, Dear, how wonderful you * are!” stage. ? im A second, equally important tidbit from Profi: Hamilton is this: “Children of divorced parents fells much below those from unbroken homes.” ; of We're very busy these days but it might be profit== able to take time out and examine these two recent discoveries in the field of educational research. . iv rt] oid

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s Q—What is the speed of the Navy monoplane fighter (Vought-Sikorsky F4U)? i is A—The rated high speed is in excess of 400 miles: per hour. ng Q—How much of the national crop acreage was in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration pros grams in 1939? ¢ a0 A—Approximately 354 million acres, or 78 per cent of the cropland. TG Q—Is a spray gun a suitable means for applying paint to the exterior of a house? Tall: wing A—The Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Institute recoms mends that house paint be applied ‘with Sei} rather than a spray gun. They state that and consequently more durahle, paint films are; obs tainable with a brush. . SESE Q—What nationality was the mother of