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SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1841

DISAPPOINTING HOSE who expected President Roosevelt to crack down severely on labor for its part in the defense-industry strikes will be disappointed by what he said yesterday. We have never believed that Mr. Roosevelt would, or should, single out labor for denunciation and ignore the faults of management. But we must confess our own disappointment that the President seemed so nonchalant about the strike situation as a whole. Only the Allis-Chalmers tie-up appeared to concern him greatly, and on that he is not yet ready to do anything more than the existing mediation machinery is trying to do. The Ford walkout was only in its third day, so he didn’t consider it a critically serious problem as yet. He had some reports of Communist activity in the Allis-Chal-mers case, but that should not be held against labor alone, since charges of Communist activity also apply to a great many other individuals in this country. We hope Mr. Roosevelt does not want the country to believe that, in his opinion, a strike must continue for more than 10 weeks—as the Allis-Chalmers strike has done «and must handicap the defense work of 30 other plants and Government projects—as the Allis-Chalmers strike is doing—before he considers it serious. We hope he does not want the country to believe that because Communists are working to undermine American institutions in many other places, their subversive efforts within the labor movement should be tolerated. For the country does not believe these things, and will not. And though the country is willing and eager to see Mr. Roosevelt attempt to promote management-labor peace by other than drastic methods, it will not promote peace and it will not serve the cause of labor to pretend that this problem is really nothing to worry about.

C’EST LA GUERRE ATIONAL defense is beginning to bear down on the little things of life. Because Mr. Wrigley has patriotically offered to turn over to the Government half a million pounds of aluminum, his chewing gun will soon be wrapped in paper instead of “tin foil.” This seems pretty ominous. But then a nation that is inured to radio comics without humor, glamour girls without beauty, and soldiers without cannon, ought to be able to take it.

A FAMILIAR SOUND, AS OF 1917 HE gratuitous jibe in the semi-official British handbook, “Janes All the World's Aircraft”’—to the effect that “The United States has decided to support the war financially ‘to the last Englishman’ ”—is representative of the private thinking of a good many Britons. Most of them have the good sense and good taste not to rush their feelings into print, and the gaucherie in “Janes” is being repudiated and stricken out. To some Englishmen, nevertheless, the war in which they are engaged is our war, too. This newspaper does not consider that the war is “our war.” It does think that the defeat of England would present us with grave dangers, and that such measures as we can take short of war—to avert that defeat should be taken, as they are being taken. If there are those in England who think we are doing too little, that's their privilege. But when you consider lease-lend, the 50 destroyers, the planes and guns we threw into the breach after Dunkirk, the joint Canadian-American defense planning, the American warships now in Australian waters, the seizures of Axis merchantmen, the current Anglo-American talks at Manila; when you think of the draft, and the appropriations, and the taxes—well, it seems to us that this country is responding to Mr. Churchill's exhortation and promise: “Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.”

THE WAR GROWS GRIMMER IDDEN away in an inconspicious story, many days after the event itself, was the official announcement that the recent German raids on the Merseyside near Glasgow took a toll in two nights of 1000 dead, 1300 wounded. Bear in mind that these were nearly all civilian men, women and children. Fifteen hundred lives were lost in the Titanic disaster, and for 29 years it has been remembered with horror. Twelve hundred went down with the Lusitania, and a world shuddered. Yet neither was worse than these two nights of bombing. Some idea of the blind destruction that is coming with spring may be had from the Merseyside raids. The worst wars of barbarous Genghis Khan never slaughtered the innocent and unarmed more blindly than this—nay, not so blindly, for the morals of that time were simply “kill them that breed enemies.” Today such people die, not by will, but simply because as the bombers reach blindly downward toward unseen objectives, striking without aim, these unoffending people just happened to be in the way.

HELP FIGHT CANCER PRIL has been set aside as Cancer Control Month by Act of Congress and Presidential Proclamation and the Woman's Field Army of the American Society for the Control of Cancer is conducting a special educational and enlistment campaign throughout the nation. In Indiana the goal is 30,000 enlistments. Dr. Frank E. Adair, chairman of the American Society

for the Control of Cancer, reports that in the last 15 years

there has been nearly a 30 per cent increase in cures of breast cancer. Factors given credit for the increase include: A large number of approved cancer clinics throughout the country. Improved methods of diagnasis and surgical techniques. And, most importantly, prosecution of an educational campaign on the importance of early diagnosis when cancer is suspected, plus prompt treatment when the suspicion is found to be justified. We commend this campaign to all Hoosiers.

Battle Yell

By Ludwell Denny

‘Down With the Germans’ Is the Serbian Cry Now as It Has Been for Years Among These Fierce Fighters

(Third in a Series)

WW sanron April 5.—“Down with the Germans!” Again the old cry of defiance rings through the Jugoslav mountains, echoing generations of hatred for the oppressor. This Serb battle yell was the curtain-raiser of the first World War. And eventually, in 1918, it sounded as the crack of doom to the Kaiser's troops, fleeing before the toughest fighters in all Europe—the towering men of the Jugoslav mountains. Always these wild, free tribesmen are in the way of Berlin's Drang Nach Osten — Germany's ever - failing and ever - repeating drive toward the East. It is Germany’s bad luck that this path to empire happens to be inhabited by the fiercest feudists for free2 dom in that hemisphere, just as it was the curse of other Balkan conquerors for 1500 years. These mountains are more than the trail to Eastern riches; they hold in themselves the prize of empire. Their military and commercial minerals, their foodstuffs, are coveted by Hitler, as by the Kaiser before him, and by other Germans and Austrians long before that, The 1878 Congress of Berlin, which prepared the way for that earlier Axis, the Triple Alliance of Germany and Austro-Hungary and Italy, also turned the Teutons toward Balkan conquest. :

¥ 2 » A GERMAN Prince was put over Bulgaria. Some German Prince was substituted—father of the King

years later, when he was driven out, another Boris who last month invited in the Hitler army,

Meanwhile, Austria had even a better setup in | Serbia, which she controlled economically and politi- |

cally through her stooge. the hated King Milan Obrenovich, To keep the Slavs divided, Austria pushed Milan into a war with Bulgaria, which was blocked by military sabotage of Serbian patriots, Finally Serbian revolt forced the Austrian tool from the throne. But Milan's son, Alexander, also was a despot taking orders from Vienna. The Serbs stood this until 1903. Then they broke into the royal bedroom one night, shot and slashed the King and Queen to death and dumped the remains out the palace window. Since that blood-spattered night the Serbs have hated any German influence in their country all the more. The Belgrade Parliament in 1903 promptly elected as King the democratic anti-German grandson of the fighting liberator, Black George, Peter Karageorgevich already had fought with the French against the Germans. : When Austria formally annexed Bosnia-Herzego-Vina, thereby tearing up a treaty, and Germany pushed her Drang Nach Osten, the Serbians knew that it was a fight to the death—the life of the German Empire or the life of independent, Serbia. And though the German military alliance was mightv, and tiny Serbia was weak, from the mountains came the war cry of the clansmen: “Down with the Germans!”

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A> that is what happened. After a schoolboy from the hills had murdered the Hapsburg heir and his wife, precipitating the World War, Serbia was gutted with conflict worse than any other country in Europe. But the same democratic King Peter and his mountain fighters, who made the slow and bloody retreat before larger German hordes, finally reformed and helped defeat the Kaiser's might. Out of that victory came freedom for the South Slavs from foreign rule, and unification of the Serbs rons and Slovenes into the new nation of Jugolavia, But the fight was not finished. King Alexander son and successor of Peter I, was assassinated while on an anti-Axis mission to France. Axis control of the Balkans grew. One by one Hitler picked off her neighbors, and finally penetrated Jugoslavia herself. Then history repeated, When the Belgrade Government handed over its freedom to Germany, once again the people kicked out the Prince in power. NEXT: The Serb Soldier

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Business By John T. Flynn

Many Mistakenly Believe TNEC Report Was Inspired by New Deal

Ny YORK, April 5.-—The Temporary National Economic Committee has made its final report and recommendations. And the most extraordinary mistake has been made by most, if not all, commentators, about the meaning of those recommendations. They are generally looked upon as inspired by the New Deal. Nothing could be farther from the truth. They are, on most counts, a defeat for the New Deal in that now historic investigation. The TNEC began with a demand by Senator O'Mahoney for a study of monopoly. Immediately the New Deal economists and brain trusters went to work to block it. Not succeeding in this, they did manage to change completely and twist its character. " They knocked the word *“monopoly’ out of it. Instead of making it a senatorial investigation, they succeeded in packing it—or attempting to pack it—with representatives of various New Deal departments. Leon Henderson, a New Deal stalwart, was made secretary. Immediately there sprang up a feud between those who wanted to investigate monopoly and the New Dealers who didn't. This may seem strange to those who persist in misunderstanding the nature of the New Deal. That extraordinary movement is not against monopoly. It is in favor of it. It is against monopoly by individual organizations. But it favors monopoly by combinations of producers organized in units-—codes, or trade organizations, or guilds of employers—under the supervision of the Government. un n ”

N the other hand, the group around the Federal Trade Commission favored the strict enforcement of the anti-trust laws, not because of any objection of monopoly practices as immoral but because of the conviction that monopoly practices, whether by individuals alone or under Government supervision, tend to foul the mechanisms of the capitalist system. The New Dealers couple the planned economy with Government spending as their scheme for making our society work. The TNEC report hits at both these fundamental New Deal schemes. It says there are traces of fascism in our system and points to the New Deal pet—the Bituminous Coal Commission—as an instance. It says the nation could not survive on a program of Government spending. This is why the two stanch New Dealers on the TNEC—Henderson and Lubin—took a crack at the report. Perhaps the writer of this piece may be pardoned for observing that, save in a few minor details, the report follows the series of principles and conclusions and recommendations made to that body in his testimony. And nothing could be farther from New Deal philosophy than this. ,

So They Say—

NATIONS, like individuals, can exist only in freedom and security if they are prepared to co-operate for mutual economic welfare and, if need be, for mutual defense.—Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the U. S.

THE PRESENT struggle involves not only our destiny as a world power but our ultimate position as a maritime and commercial nation—Raymond H. Geist, State Department commercial expert. * - *

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v COMPLACENCY is Public Enemy No. 1.—Undersecretary of War RobertgP, Patterson.

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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.

LAUDS WHITAKER'S FIRST ARTICLE ON ITALY By Dr. Chas. R. Sowder, 2146 College Ave.

I want to congratulate The Times on the article “Inside Italy” by John T. Whitaker. If the articles succeeding this one of April 3d are as fine as this they ought to be read by every American citizen. It is articles like these that wake up our own people and help them to realize the kind of a country we have, and should keep.

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CLAIMS CONFUSION EXISTS IN THERAPY FIELD vy L. L. Castetter, editor of The Beacon Magazine. 214 W. Ohio St. This is written for your Hoosier Forum, to help clarify for your readers a situation that exists in the field of therapy.

healing in Indiana that few people understand, and that no one seems able to solve because of the confusion and contention which prevails. The average citizen is aware that a battle exists between the medical powers and drugless practitioners. Every session of the Legislature gets an appeal from members of the drugless profession to pass laws for their relief. Members of the medical profession try to make it appear that the law provides for licensing drugless practitioners. There is confusion in the minds of the people and they {do not know the facts and how to protect their rights. | It may be said that all State statutes are supposed to be for the best interests of the public welfare. Laws are not supposed to be passed for class groups nor selfish interets. One of the fundamental rights of citizens is that of maintaining health and getting well by the doc{tor of their choice. When this right (is denied, dictatorship or oppression | exists. This is not only the drug- | less physician’s battle but it is a battle for human rights that every citizen owes allegiance to defend. In 1927 a bill was passed to license drugless practitioners then in practice in Indiana, and a chiropractor was appointed as a member of the | Medical Board of Registration and Examination, and provision supposedly made to examine and license those desiring to enter the field in the future, if they were graduates of recognized schools. As the Board does not recognize any chiropractic college, no chiropractic licenses have been granted by examination in 13 years, and as the established and licensed chiropractors retire, pass on, or move out their numbers keep

A situation exists in the field of |

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dwindling. People who desire chiropractic services are often deprived! of the method they wish, or have to| go to an unlicensed practitioner who| is branded by the medics as a quack, | charlatan, as unscrupulous and unfit | to treat ailments. The naturopaths fare about the same as the chiropractors, and both use many of the modalities and methods which are not covered by definition in the law, and often | claimed by the opposition to be fraudulent. All of this causes con[fusion for the public until they see that back of it all is the power of selfish interests and dictatorship. In the meantime the sick continue to suffer and are often denied their in-| herent rights. Let it be hoped that | by another session of the Legisla-| ture the spirit of co-operation may prevail.

~ ” ® OPPOSES DEFENSE PLANTS IN CROWDED CITIES By W. H. Edwards, R. R. 2, Spencer, Ind. While talk of decentralization of industry still goes on, concentration and yet further concentration is the order of the day, with the National

Government helping that concentration by placing 95 per cent of its defense orders in industrial centers where congestion of population is already great and where communism and every other ism except Americanism is rife. No wonder Government, efforts to build up adequate national defense is being sabotaged by labor racketeers! The Government excuses its action in furthering the concentration of industry by saying that defense contracts must be let where there is a surplus of unemployed labor and where there are enough houses to accommodate the increased number of workers needed. Bosh! If the Government can find any part of the country where there isn't many, many unemployed, I for one, would like to know where it can find them, The real answer to the eontinued congestion of industry and people in a relatively few places is that Chambers of Commerce with unlimited

funds are able to put political pressure on Government agencies to

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Side Glances=By Galbraith

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"But | tell you Hitler is’ going to exhaust me through all these aid 4 parties before he ever gets the British!"

have more and still more industries allotted to their own city, where real estate and rental sharks can and do take all that the traffic will bear from the workers who are compelled to leave their own locality in order to make living. Any increase in the workers’ incomes are soon coveted by the real estate and rental crowd, with the result that labor unions keep asking for more and yet more wages to meet their increased cost of living— a vicious circle of rising prices that hits the general public hard and causes people to wonder if we had just as well surrender to Hitler without struggling further.

2 2 » A FURTHER WORD ON THE RIGHT TO STRIKE

By William M. Taylor, Box 109, Morgantown, Ind.

Maybe Mr. Voice in the Crowd believes I am wrong but I stand pat

SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1941

Gen. Johnson Says—

Opinion From Coast to Coast Is We Don't Want War, but There's Nothing We Can Do to Escape It

OS ANGELES, April 5—The gossip you get in a quick trip across the continent is no poli of public opinion but, when it all checks, with almost no variation, it is worth recording. Visits from newshawks at station stops, brief confabs between-trains with business, farm and labor acquaintances and the everlasting jabber of the composite company in Pullman cars-— they cover a pretty wide range of human strata, just as the territorial variety from Washington, D. C., to the Pacific Coast gives you at least a slight sample of the wide American diversity of sectional interest, It is by no means comprehensive but, as a quick cross-section, it is at least worth a column—especially when, as already remarked, it is all as uniform as a paper of pins. In the first place, it reveals a complete hewilderment on the single subject of intense and universal interest—war and our approach to it: “You are from Washington—what goes on?” When you say that you are equally bewildered as to actual facts and can only conjecture that we are already in or so far committed that there is small probability of turning back, you get a sort of hopeless assent and an almost universal reaction something like this: “We don’t want to go in. We have no business going in. It is unnecessary for us to go in. But we are on our way and there seems to be nothing we can do about it.” » ww w

T is a paradox—the strangest and most apathetic condition of public opinion that has occurred in my lifetime or, as I read history, that has ever oeccurred in this country. A large part of the hewilder= ment is due, I think, to the fact that the people were not frankly told about this trend in the 1940 election. What they were told by both candidates not only did not reveal it but it pretended an assurance to the precise contrary. Now one 19.0 candidate, Mr. Willkie, has told a Senate committee that his assurances were just “campaign oratory” and the other, Mr, Roosevelt, seems ta have forgotten all about his. Whether intentional] o= not, Mr. Willkie's present conduct as an all-out war man classes his campaign conduct in the category of the Trojan horse. Mr, Roosevelt's position seems to be much more enviable. However fair or accurate may be that appraisal, a good many people feel that they were pitched a curve and somehow euchered out of a chance to register an opinion in the last election on the awful issue of peace or war. A large part of the present bewilderment or apathy of many people seems to grow out of a kind of dazed incredulity that any such thing could have happened to them in this American democracy, » » ~

HEARD not one voice opposed to anything our national leadership wants to ask for American defense or “aid to Britain short of war.” That is what they were told was our policy and even the popular support of the Lease-Lend Bill was based on renewed assurance that it was a bill not to get us in but to “keep us out of war,” or “Keep war away from our shores.” Now the bitter truth is biting home that, in the form it passed, it was a bill to lay on us responsibil ity or at least a leading voice in the conduct of the war, a bill to entangle us in financial responsibility for the remaking of the world after the war (if any) and a measure the logical consequences of which could hardly avoid precipitating us into naval and aerial war in an effort to insure “delivery” of our aid to Britain through the German blockade, There can be no question of loyalty and unity when the storm breaks but this is an uncomfortable state of mind in which to start a war.

Fditor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own, They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,

on my statement. After negotia- | tions and mediations have failed and management still says no, the | strike remains the only weapon that labor has in its possession. If you could present a fool-proof plan that would be just and fair and would eliminate strikes, pray come forward with it. Not only I but all mankind would acclaim you a genius. You state that strikes are inexcusable. The statement is true. If labor receives a decent wage with decent, working conditions and honest, collective bargaining to right the wrongs it is dealt our industry should never have a strike, But when men like Ford are defying the workers and the Government, strikes are bound to occur. The personnel director of the Ford Co. was quoted in Time magazine as saying that if and when the union won an election, they will negotiate until hell freezes over and they won't give the workers anything. I suppose the workers should accept such treatment, or do I misunderstand you? Any business is comparable to a

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

E are armored for anything these days—except the appearance of strip-tease artists on unie versity lecture platforms. Yet the newspapers solemne ly inform us that Margie Hart, Manhattan burlesque queen and advocate of beauty unadorned, gave the students of Columbia University a rare treat not long ago when she appeared before them with all her clothes on. : Her lecture on “Sex Appeal’ was wildly applauded. And when she finished with the statement, “Look at me: I never went to college and here I am giving a lecture to a group of college students,” the crowd went wild and education slumped to a new low, Amazing—and, we might add, crazy. And yet not entirely out of line with a good many mad happenings in this mad world. Naturally parents living in the hinterland, many of whom have to scrape the cash register to send their sons to famous institutions of learning, will be interested to know from Miss Hart that Columbia students rate first in all-round sex appeal, with Yale, Harvard and Princeton running far behind. It's a tremendous boost for the New

stool with three legs. One leg represents investment, one management and one labor. Either one Is essential to the welfare of the] other. Cut off one leg and the| stool can not stand. Labor produces that which the other two have contributed in part and thereby have an equity vested by right of contractual relationship. Management must make a profit to weather slack times. If labor does not receive a just wage when employed, how can labor weather slack times? If labor as a whole received just wages to buy the necessities of life we would never have a depression. We are like corporations in this respect, our living expenses must be paid whether working or unemployed. Your remark, that labor working only with its hands, is an insult to intelligent people. Included in labor are tradesmen, draftsmen, engineers, investors and technological experts that are the very creators of the ideas and inventions that make possible mass production. Production on a scale that will enable the corporation to make huge profits through wise management. Even a delivery boy must have enough brains to learn to read and write. I believe you owe labor an apology.

THE PARTS WE PLAY

By RUTH KISSEL We are all marionettes on strings And the world is our one-night stand. The strings are pulled by the hand above, And we act at His command.

So if you think your part so great, No other could take your place, Remember another at His command Could act with equal grace.

You, too, are just a puppet With a part that God has planned.

DAILY THOUGHT

Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.—Mark 8:34.

TO TAKE up half on trust, and half to try, name it not faith but bungling bigotry.—Dryden.

York City university. Of course, at first glance, we thought it might be just a mad prank by a few callow freshmen which appealed to some reporter, but we read that Miss Hart was actually invited down to talk to the young men about Communism, and considering herself less well informed on that subject, she wisely switched to Sex, These odd aspects of American education often startle the conscientious taxpayer out of his doze. If born with a modicum of common sense, and lack ing the advantages of higher learning, he may be inclined to question certain school trends. However, it is always easy to put him back in his place by calling him names like “milksop” and “old fogy.” Doubtless in many quarters this story will pass as humorous. We think it’s just about as funny as the bathroom wit and the jokes about canine toilet fae cilities which are now so popular on stage and screen,

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Q—How many visitors come to Washington, B. C,, for the annual spectacle of the flowering cherry trees? A—Between 200,000 and 300,000. Q—Did Thomas Jefferson receive a large majority of the Electoral votes when he was first elected Presi. dent? A—The Electoral vote was 73 for Jefferson and 73 for Aaron Burr. This being a tie, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives where Jefferson received the vote of 10 States and Burr received the votes of four States. Consequently, Jef. ferson was elected President and Burr Vice President, Q—What is a Pollyanna? A—An irrepressible optimist, heroine of Eleanor H. Porter's book “Pollyanna,” who finds good in everything. Q—Where are the important oyster producing areas of the United States? A—Oysters are taken commercially in each of the States along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Massachusetts to Texas inclusive, and in the three Pacific Coast states. In Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, oysters are the most valuable fishery product taken by commercial fishermen. Q—Name the four old U. S. battleships on which the ranges of the guns are being increased. A—Yyoming, New York, Texas and Arkansas. Q—Who won the “Miss America” contest at Atlan. tic City-in 1940? A—Frances Burke of Philadelphia, 19 years old and +a brunet, who was entered as “Miss Philadelphia,”

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