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HATEVER America’s vole { in the world to come, it will id be played by a united people. Those short-sellers of 8 democracy i in Germany, Italy, Japan and elsewhere who may ve ‘be inclined to think otherwise had better take to heart the “statements which Republican spokesmen have made since ,. the lend-lease decision. : They are men who fought hard against this measure. _* But believing in the democratic process they promptly ac“cepted the verdict of the majority. x Senator Vandenberg has pointed out that the Senate’s _s-division on the Lend-Lease Bill was a disagreement on methods, rather than on objective—that 90 of the 95 Sena"tors went on record for aid to Britain. And House Repubi Hean Leader Martin, expressing a hope that the President 2 will use his enormous powers wisely, has called upon Congress to act quickly in making the new program effective. : Others who so recently and vigorously opposed the > President’s ideas are speaking in like tone. America is in ° step for those policies which the President has repeatedly ~“enunciated—full aid to Britain and the preservation of our

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AS SPRING APPROACHES

EWS are on the threshold of tremendous events. All over the world there is a quickened pace, a heightened ten- * sion, a grim expectancy. i Germany steps up her air attacks on Britain, and her-U-boat attacks on British shipping. Matsuoka packs for a ~ hurried dash to Moscow and Berlin—with a military retinue. Yugoslavia prepares to kiss the hated Nazi boot. + Russia fidgets and fumes—and cuts little ice.

v Greece, with superlative insolence in the face of Hit~ler’s armies on her Bulgarian frontier, gives Mussolini | Britain’s Air Minister | ‘boasts that the R. A. F. outclasses the Luftwaffe, and that | | plenty of trained pilofs are ready for the American planes |

another going-over around Tepelini,

“that he is sure will arrive in formidable numbers and in ample time. Gen. Wayvell’s Imperial Army of the Nile “masks its movements—which might be in the directioif of | «Turkey or Greece. Italy’s East African Empire shrivels under Britain pressure from all sides. The defense of Singapore is bol- # stered. New British battleships join the fleet. Britain. ; je relecs the Hoover plan for feeding Hitler-conquered peoples At Vichy, Darlan threatens to turn his naval guns against British blockaders challenging French foodships. : : Germany woos the Arabs, and shows a blitzkrieg movie *. to the stubborn Turks. The British Minister to Bulgaria, , arriving in Istanbul, is greeted at his hotel by exploding " bombs. ; Congress completes passage of the Lend-Lease Bill ~The President signed it posthaste, and calls for seven « billion dollars as a starter in munitioning our friends across + the seas. Army and Navy bombers, and perhaps warships, 3 © may be dispatched to England at once. Our Army passes the million-man mark. Cantonmenis rise from the mud. Airplane and tank and powder plants Bere over recent cornfields. Caribbean and Alaskan bases | gO forward. The world we live in is a sorry place, vast segments of “it drenched in misery and hunger and bloodshed. But you can hardly call it dull.

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FOR A SEPARATE AIR FORCE

T has long been known that many important officers of the flying services, particularly of the Ariny Air Corps, ig 2 favor divorcing airpower from the Army and Navy and givi ing it independent, unified status wherein the practitioners fof air war could work out their destiny without hindrance # | from groundling traditionalists. I ‘But while Major Al Williams and Major Alexander De 5 i Seversky and other top-ranking airmen not actively con- “ nected with the services have crusaded for this objective, i active Army and Navy air officers have had little or nothing ito say in public. They have known that men at the top were : opposed to it. That reluctance to talk has finally begun to break down. i“ A new book, “Winged Warfare” (Harper), has just been { produced by Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air # Corps, and Col. Ira C. Eaker, Commander of the 20th § Fighter Group of the GHQ Air Force. In their concluding : : chapter, Major General Arnold and Colonel Eaker have this ‘to say: X “Many feel that eventually the defensive air component of the nation will be given a status co-ordinate and comi mensurate with that of the Army and Navy. “When that time will come, if it does come, is not yet "It came in some of the other nations of the world 2 when the pressure of war was upon them. We shall be for- : tunate if our time for that reorganization comes in the ; relative calm of peace or at worst, in the preparatory and : not in the fighting stage.” : While they emphasize that there Should be no pluriging pell-mell into separation of the air arms from the older & : services, but rather a gradual revolution, nevertheless they make it plain despite their cautious language that they consider a separate air force the eventual goal. It seems to us that the country is indebted to these ~~ Stwo veteran officers for having the courage to speak up, in “the face of widespread hostility in high places.

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fue Bridgeville, Pa., plant of the Universal-Cyclops Steel 8 Corp. was strike-bound over the wage-increase demands 3 db Good Will local of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin & Workers union. Defense authorities at Washington sent 4 word that a carload of specialty steel from this plant was : needed immediately for airplane propellers. ~ Good Will local union lived up to its name. It not only ad to let the steel be shipped ath 30 of its % Dichets volip-

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

State Governments Losing Power And May Be Replaced in Time by Unions Representing All Workers

EW YORK, March 12.—It is natural to wonder what motive the national Administration may have in helping the unions get stronger. My idea is that with the decline of the several states as subunits, thanks to the apathy:and civic weariness of the people and the recklessness of politicians, it is intended to promote the unions to a position of established and recognized authority in the nation. - We are going through an evolution and the states are decaying rapidly. Their decline is outwardly apparent, but the invisible decay is more serious. For eight years they have been preying on one another through their Senators and Representatives, and their Governors have been busting into Washington to hack off living hunks of the flesh of the whole nation to throw to fnalr ravenous constituents back home as political ai These public men boast proudly, if thoughtlessly, of the amounts which they have been able to wangle out of the national Treasury, and the people have never paused to reflect the “guv’ment” is, after all, "only the whole body. of all the states. The states have defaulted their responsibilities and the Federal Government has eagerly assumed them, and each such default has reduced by just that much the independent power of the state and enhanced by that much the central power of the national Government.

# » » HE states have even abdicated their exclusive local duty to punish embezzlers, and the Department of Justice has turned the Federal courts into police courts to deal with such trash under the reve-

nue act, the postal laws, the Sherman Act and an old

act covering conspiracies to steal elections. Now the present powers of unions, though great, is petty compared: with the power which they would possess if the big organizations would settle their feud and consolidate. This they eventually will do, and Federal laws or policies will be adopted bringing ‘them under Federal control. They will co-operate with the Government, but industry will obey. With 20 million workers, a feasible figure, enrolled in the unions, these organizations would rank before the states in national influence. We will not have in Congress “the gentleman from the teachers’ union” or “the gentleman from the carpenters” instead of “the gentleman from Illinois” or “Alabama.” They will not wear their union badges but they will represent union organizations, nevertheless, and eventually everyone who works will belong to some union. The union elections will acquire

first-class political importance when the candidates for the public elections are selected in the unions, subject, of course, to union politics.

” 2 on T MAY have been noticed that President Roosevelt has given the unions great encouragement and ignored their sins, while industry and many of the rank and file wailed piteously in their misery, but it will be noticed also that when the President, with his fine sense of things, decided that the unions should be pressed into line his suggestion conveyed no hint of antagonism. They will be induced and persuaded to co-operate with the national Government in return for favors already received and other assistance yet to come, and the co-operation will presently harden into established custom and compulsion, Possibly they will be forced to yield to some degree of supervision over their internal affairs, such as finances, elections and trials. That would not embarrass the bosses unduly, because, after all, the poli-

ticians of the cities and states have enjoyed great’

freedom while beholden to the national Government. This evolution will be pretty painful on the middle class and the employers, but their case seems hopeless, anyway. They lack unity of interests and purposes. They are handicapped by petty principles and ideals. They are not aggressive, and they feel whipped, and, anyway, the Government is on the way to become the banker and mortgage holder to whom all business will have to appeal for business money and thus for approval of its operations. Never having seen the place toward which we are progressing I can't describe the streets, but it is easy, if impolite, to point the direction in which it lies.

Business By John T. Flynn

Economists Studying Problem of Huge Reserves of Insurance Firms

EW YORK, March 12.—As the insurance busi« ness is now more or less on the pan as a result of the SEC report, there is a phase of this business that has excited the interest of some economists, if

no one else, It has to do with the reserves of insurance companies. The SEC estimates that in another 10 years the accumulated reserves of insurance companies will amount to around 40 billion dollars. Insurance companies have become repositories of men’s savings. So have savings banks. And between them incredibly vast sums are thus routed into these savings pools. Because these savings belong to the people, the Government has made laws to safeguard them. Therefore various regulations have been made to prevent savings piled up in insurance companies and savings hanks—particularly in insurance companies—from being put into industrial or other adventures that involve too much risk. This, of course, is as it should be. I can conceive of nothing worse than the investment of life insurance funds in common stocks, for instance. This was urged back in the gambling Twenties and fortunately resisted by some of the big insurance executives. Had it been adopted probably half the insurance companies would have been ruined in the crash, » " » B’" while it is important to safeguard insurance and other fiduciary savings, there is another aspect of the question which is most grave—so grave that it may well be one of the things at the bottom of the 10-year paralysis of private long-term investment. That aspect is as follows. The more popular savings tend to flow into fiduciary funds that cannot be put into risk investments, the less there will be available for risk investment. And the less there is available for risk investment, the more new industrial and commercial adventures will tend to fall off. Now almost all savings are flowing into insurance companies, savings banks, investment trusts and government bonds. And this almost amounts to a guarantee that the available sources of risk capital are drying up. This is more serious in the case of insurance companies, for there can be no compreémise with Je principle of safety there. But have we not gone too far in the creation of insurance reserves; in making insurance companies depositories of cash withdrawable savings as well as of insurance? Is there not some way of dealing with this serious problem? For it is the disappearance of risk capital which has crippled the capitalist system and will destroy it unless this kind of energy returns.

So They Say—

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RECALLS OLD GRIEVANCES AGAINST BRITAIN By Shely Franklin, New Castle, Ind. Attention C. E. Faucette. Your letter of March 8 attacked Clarence F. Lafferty’s letter on stating the facts. I wish to call your attention to the history of the good old U. S. A. The British burned our National Capitol. They supported the Confederacy, upholding the principles the Northern army fought for and won. Surely you cannot deny the facts that Abraham Lincoln was a great man and he brought about the unity that is needed at this time. As to the propaganda, I would advise you to analyze the propaganda you have been reading and if you don’t want to hear the facts, please ignore the | Hoosier Forum. n » on DEPLORES CONDITIONS IN SOUTHEAST SECTION By Jane Siscoe, 2011 8. State St. What a beautiful city we have, ha! ha! Don't say too much about it for we people on the southeast side of that beautiful city you talk about will laugh ourselves to death about it. Why don’t you city officials visit this part of the city sometimes, come south on State St. and see for yourselves what's doing acress the Belt railroad between Naomi and LeGrande. Be sure and look east as you cross the railroad, you will get one of the grandest views of that beautiful city. On one side of us, we have a junk yard and foundry, on the other we have dumps; not a public or paid dumping grounds, just voluntary dumps. Anyone can dump there including the city trucks, dirt trucks and trash men who haul from the beautiful part of our city to our part which is the receiving end of all trash and refuse and garbage. We also have a canning company which dumps chicken entrails and feathers and tomato refuse there too. Now if this doesn’t breed rats and fever and all kinds of sickness, tell us different. We all have our children and families which we like to keep healthy the same as others. The

trash men are getting so bold as to dump their trash right in our back'

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doors. Also we have a grand street (S. State St.); about five minutes! after the men grade it, it is full | of holes, so what's the use to pay men to fix it.

We people all have signed pel

tions time after time to have S. State St. paved and sidewalks put in, but what good does it do. course, we all pay our taxes promptly | but that doesn’t mean anything. We like beautiful homes and surroundings the same as anyone else. Why should we brag about our city as the most beautiful city when we have to put up with this? Be sure to take a trip and see for yourselves. Let's have some co-operation with vou city and health officials and see something done about the conditions we speak of. » » ” REBUKES MOTORISTS WHO WON'T DIM LIGHTS By N. Gillum, R. R. 1, Box 221 I think it's about time the State and city police and Sheriff started a drive on drivers that won't dim their lights. A while back two boys were hit walking on High School Road. The driver said he didn’t see the boys because he was blinded by bright lights. About a week later a bus hit a safety zone on Washington St., killing a woman and injuring others. That driver said he was blinded by bright lights. The first week of this month (March) a boy and girl were killed on English Ave, because the driver said he was blinded by bright lights. I drive from 1200 to 1400 miles a week and find that about one out of five will dim their lights. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights are the worst. You would think that anyone with enough intelligence to make enough money to ‘buy a car would have enough in-

Side Glances=—By Galbraith

telligence to drive it properly. The

| highways are full of cars driving

with one headlight or no tail- light. There are many accidents that could be blamed on bright lights, but the one that causes the accident is seldom involved init. One

| trouble with most drivers, they don’t

know the laws. About all they do know is how to start the car and | shift gears. + A little more courtesy and consideration for the other fellow | would not only help the other fel{low but the driver himself.

on ” EJ FEARS BUSINESSMEN EXIST IN ‘DREAM WORLD’ iBy W. Scott Taylor, 3652 Salem St. The services of Mr. Willkie in helping Uncle Sam out of his strait- | jacket so he could defend himself, | should be duly acknowledged, even by tho%e who had more confidence in the President than in Mr. Willkie. Mr. Willkie’s next big job is to help businessmen to escape from their dream world. Mr. Willkie will find the dream world accurately described in the speech of Governor Green of Illinois before the Columbia Club. “Let us convince ourselves that there is no farm bloc, no great industrial combine, and no labor group.” In other words—no com-

bine, no appetite—hence the bloc and the group have nothing to fear. “Let us convince ourselves” that there is no Hitler: “that the real battle front of freedom is not in the nation’s capital, but in the states, counties, cities and villages.” Naturally, when there is no great industrial combine operating nationally, there is no need for a naticnal government with sufficient power to control it. “Let us halt the menace from the central seat of power.” In other words, let the private interest dominate the public interest. Let the part become greater than the whole, “despite the threat of war or the crisis of actual conflict.” “All Americans are ready for any sacrifices” provided “we do not destroy their courage by excessive taxation.” In these statements put together in their logical sequence, Mr. Willkie should recognize the dream-world of Great Britain's businessmen. Fearing the wrong things—the loss of their profits more than they feared for their country—they re-armed Germany as a bulwark against communism, killed two birds with one stone—increased their personal fortunes, while getting protection at the expense of the German taxpayer. » » »

CORRECTION

The Hoosier Forum on Monday carried a letter written by Mrs. R. G. Levan of East Chicago referring to. a letter written by Mrs. Alex Vonnegut. The Forum has not published any letters written by Mrs. Alex Vonnegut. Mrs. Levan intended her letter as an answer to one written by Mrs. Edna G. Vonnegut, 5324 N. Delaware St. which appeared in the Forum on March 4.

MY FRIEND, THE BEGGAR!

By F. P. MYERS I had two and he had none So I gave him a dime,

- |Muttering, that’s the last time;

But lo! Soon. came another To replace its bright brother, Then three dimes made merry in my heart And the one I gave had the liveliest part.

DAILY THOUGHT

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.— Numbers 14:12.

THAT IS. THE b bitterest of all to wear’ the yoke

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1941

Gen. Johnson Says—

British Answer to Mr. Hoover on

Feeding the Conquered Peoples of Europe Seems Quite Inadequate

ASHINGTON, March 12—It just “ain't good enough.” The British reply to Herbert Hoover’s tentative plan to supply some food to starving civilians in the conquered countries—and to supply it under complete British control is inadequate. The British argument boils down to this: “Germans are responsible for their conquests. Let them do the feeding.” That's swell —from the British viewpoint—but the cold humanitarian fact remains that there isn't enough food in Europe. There is another consideration here and it isn't very pleasant. It is that one of the chief weapons of modern war is morale of the civilian population. The Germans reap our righteous 2 indignation for impairing it by bombings of non-military objects. But what do we think—what are we to say of the deliberate application of starvation to wholly innocent peoples—especially to the weak and to women. and children—as a possible weapon of war? It is a ghastly thought. # x = EMEMBER, this is no suggestion of aid to enemy populations but to people that Britain incited to war in her own interests when she was—as has been proved—unable to aid them. Mr. Hoover's proposal was not final. It was, by its own terms, an experiment. If it turned out to result in military aid to Hitler it was to be abandoned. It was to cost our people nothing, Couldn't it even be given a trial? It is a gross mistake even to mention race or creed in any of this argument. We have grown so hysterical that I have been well advised not to include even a dialect story in these dispatches. But, please may I say that Mr. Hoover is a Quaker, even as were all my mother's family. They don't believe in ferocity or blood-shedding. In Spain and almost everywhere else that humanity has suffered they have moved in with food and bandages. At the World War Armistice, Britain was unwilling to feed the conquered enemies. The war was over. Mr. Hoover's was the only great voice raised to favor some alleviation of “man’s inhumanity to man.” At his urging we appropriated and spent $100,000,000 to supply dietary deficiencies to the aged, the weak and the helpless in the conquered countries. ” ” EJ HIS column is not to urge any softness or any slackness in our conduct of this war. As a student, if not an adept, in the whole history of wars, it recognizes that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are as much a part of it as gunpowder and” bullets—conquest, starvation, death and pestilence. But it is impossible here to see how our people can support a blockade of conquered peoples, friends of ours, the effect of which will probably be to starve them into submission to our potential enemies. This British position goes just a little bit too far. It is all right for them to pay cash to Canada and their other associated nations for munitions they are to get free from us, to “conscript” Canadians for four months training with no obligation to serve overseas, while we take our men by conscription for a year with no limitation as to service, and many other smilar unequal burdens assumed so gratuitously by Uncle Sap. But when the ukase comes that we shall not even try to alleviate the sufferings of peoples who are as much part of our flesh and blood as the British— Belgians, French, Dutch and Danes—to see whether it can be done without impairing the British military position, my Quaker blood rebels and while I have never before stood on common ground with Herbert Hoover I do today. His opposition seems to me cruel and. inhuman if not positively obscene.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OTHERING a daughter becomes increasingly difficult as the old order passes, for modern girls must be armored against many perils of which their grandmothers never dreamed. Skill to combat the temptations of Eve and the art of living gallantly in a man’s world are only part of the 20th Century woman's task. A mother’s wisdom must provide knowledge of the social arts, domestic dexterity, wifely qualifications, aptitudes for parenthood and the hospitable graces, because these are the endowments considered necessary for the up-to-date housewife. All are accomplishiments we feel our daughters must possess if they are to be equipped for proper living. Yet now, as our horizons broaden and our visions pierce into fields afar, we understand that even these will not be enough to fashion the well-rounded woman of tomorrow. She must be aware also of her responsibilities as 8 citizen. And not only aware of them but willing to assume them. The future of America depends as much upon the intelligence of its women as upon the wisdom and courage of its men. Business success, security, family unity, iove, are to be gained or lost for the individual only if the United States can hold on to its dreams and improve its own social order. It is futile for us to prattle sweetly of our homes unless we are willing to sacrifice some time and attention to keeping them safe and beautiful. And this cannot be done by neglecting the world and its problems. We can't draw aside from political messes nor soothe our fears by shutting our eyes to what goes on in business and government. For it is through and by government and business that we live, and that our children will live after us. Therefore. the conscientious mother, whose small daughter now lisps nursery rhymes, begins to see that while the child may some day make a home she will also contribute to the shape of a civilization. As the fact takes form and grows clear, young mothers prepare themselves to tackie a new job—the job of training their girls in citizenship ‘techniques. Perhaps we shall soon see that our sons also could profit from more education along these lines. .

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Q—How many different styles of calendars are in use throughout the world? A—Seven—QGregorian, Julian, Jewish, Mohammedan, Coptic, Hindu and Persian. Q—Does oxygen burn? A—It is non-inflammable, but its combistion; with other elements or materials with evolution of heat and light is commonly known as "combustion. agd fe material combining thus with oxygen is said to be “inflammable”; examples are, burning of Wood, coal, gas, etc. Q—Is. Michael ever used as a feminine name? 'A—Michal, another farm of Michael, is the name of the daughter of King Saul in the Bible. It is occasionally used as a feminine name. The name mekny “like unto God.” Q—Please give a list of movie stars whose deaths occurred during 1940. A—Flora Finch, William Faversham, Mrs. Pat Campbell, Walter Connolly, E. E. Clive, Charley Chase, Ben Turpin, Granville Bates, Helene Chadwick, Marguerite Clark, Berton Churchill, Tom Mix, C. Gordon, Charles Richman, William V. Mong, Wilfred Lucas and Agnes Ayres. Q_What is the lowest temperature. stb recorded in the United States? A—Sixty-six dl below