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A PAPER IS SIGNED IN MOSCOW

HE Russian-Japanese “neutrality” pact would be of momentous significance if either contracting party could

be sure that the other would adhere to the letter and spirit | of the document for the full five-year period, come what may.

But the records of Moscow and Tokyo indicate that they

will stand hitched just as long as it is in their mutual inter-

est to do so—and no longer.

Conditions were such, as of Easter Sunday, 1941, that the two governments thought such a treaty would work to | Russia, fearing Germany might try to | overrun the Ukraine, wanted assurance that if she went to |

mutual advantage.

war in that quarter Japan would not knife her in the back.

Japan, apprehensive of trouble with the United States, | they signed a

wanted similar assurance from Russia. So

piece of paper. But if the solemn pledge of an aggressor-minded naDoesn’t she

tion means anything, why is Russia worried? have another piece of paper, with Ilitler's signature, promising that Russia? If

Stalin had faith in that promise, would he now have so many

Germany will not aggress against divisions of the Soviet army guarding the Ukraine? Would he have made those recent overtures toward Turkey and Jugoslavia? ing Germany in the invasion of Jugoslavia? n o ” » xn J

And Japan's dilemma—her fear that the United States

might block her intended further expansion in the Orient— | arises largely from the fact that she herself not long since, | when she thought she could get away with it, tore up an- |

the

other piece of paper —the five-power pact guaranteeing territorial integrity of China.

News dispatches from Berlin report Nazi

jubilant over the Russo-Nipponese agreement—thinking it |

1e United States so busy In short our material aid

{ But if Hitler trusts such

means that Japan will keep ti the Pacific that we will have to cu to Britain, Greece and Jugoslavia,

documents, why, at a time when he is engaged in the ter- |

rific campaign of the Balkans, does he keep so many able-

bodied soldiers lined up along his eastern frontier making |

sure that Russia won't forget her promises to him? It would be a mistake, we think, for the United States feel serene about that document signed yesterday in Moscow. After all, it may be aimed at us. Yet we can't believe that the Japanese or the Russians are serene about it either. We think, that the that if their armies ever 20 into battle and are knocked out

to

in Europe, Japan will not wait five years to move on Vladi- |

vostock. And that the Japanese know that if their troops

are routed in China and their fleet sunk in the Pacific, Rus- | . y . \ . . | sia won't wait five years to start throwing her weight |

around in Manchuria.

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If it is cynical to say such things of old world treaties,

then Japan, Russia, Germany and Italy have given us cause to be cvnical,

spected.

and keep our powder dry.

THE C. OF C. SAFETY COMMITTEE

ODAY marks the formal launching of the Commerce's new Safety Committee, which a chapter of the National Safety Council. This is ance which can help all of us. The National Safety Council knows the answers fic and industrial safety. and experience.

Chamber of

to traf-

We wish the C. of C.'s Safety Committee a long and |

useful life.

THE DRAFT IN THE FUTURE

S things stand today, we may as well look forward to the | draft, to selective military service as a permanent part |

of the civil obligations of all male citizens.

Therefore, it is worth while to look at the draft as we | have seen it work out thus far, and consider how it will |

probably be modified in the future. First, it

that as enough trained reserves go back into civilian life to |

make a backlog of safety, the age limits will probably be

dropped. After all, the time for a young man to do his mili-

tary service is when he is young, before he has gotten a fair |

start on his civilian career and his family life.

These things are for the future, since today the im- | perative need is for a trained reserve, but it seems likely that it is the direction the future military service laws will

take.

SWASTIKA ECLIPSED IN MEXICO

WO things have happened within a week in Mexico |

which may be very illuminating: first, the Diario de la Guerra, a newspaper in German which expounded the Axis side of the war, has been “temporarily suspended,” ond, the Colegio Aleman, most important German Mexico, has closed its classes. Both were prolific sources of German propaganda in Mexico. from the Mexican government.

agencies in Mexico has reduced the ability of the local German community to support such activities,

the hands of Germans in Mexico until recently came from American firms for whose products they had become agents. The U. S. Government has recently been discouraging this practice, and it is more than possible that the pinch has

Price in Marion Coun- | ty, 3 cents a copy; deliv- | ered by carrier, 12 cents |

outside of Indiana, 63 |

Or would he have rebuked Hungary for join- |

officials

Russians know, for instance, |

Anyway we hope that for the time being | our own Government officials will use their fountain pens | only for signing treaties with countries in the Western | Hemisphere, where the name on the dotted line is still re-

In our dealings with the old world, let's guard our own | national interests, trust only in our own military power— |

is to become | an alli- | §

We can benefit fiom its knowledge |

is now clear |

and, sec- | school in

In neither case was there any apparent pressure | What is more likely is that | withdrawal of their business by U., S, firms from German |

It takes money | to run newspapers and schools, and much of the money in |

Refugees

By Thomas L. Stokes

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES A Job tor the Ground Crew!

Caught in Crossfire of Extremes |

On Immigrant Question, State

Department Adopts Middle Course |

(Fourth of a Series)

ASHINGTON, April 14 —The State Department has a delicate and sometimes difficult task in handling the numerous problems connected with the movement of European refugees to the United States. It is constantly under pressure from two extremes here at home. On one hand are those who would clamp down the bars against all immigration. On the other are those who would open the doors wide and admit with a broad and generous gesture. For obvious reasons, involving both domestic and foreign policy, the department has chosen a middle course. Consequently it is exposed to criticism from each side. Likewise, pressures are operating from outside the United States, as was discovered several months ago in Hitler's scheme to unload many thousands of refugees on the rest of the world. This scheme, judging from numerous reports received here from various parts of Europe, seemed to have several objectives—to reduce the number of people to feed: to purge Germany and conquered countries of Jews and other minorities; to create a fear psychology in European countries not yet under the Nazi heel, and to make a financial profit by charging heavily for the privilege of leaving the country,

HE charge T to Berlin start the outward journey was reto be $1500. One grandiose scheme involved by friends and relatives in this country to getting refugees out of Germany, and contracts with shipping companies to bring them to the Unit ~-{from which the Nazis would have fited handsomely. e State Department got wind of the Hitler purPosi I'he wholesale movement was checked, though sealed trains moved away from Ger-

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a number of many, In dealing with refugees, this Government operates under restrictions in its immigration laws with their definite quotas, and in the lack of shipping facilities. Furthermore, the fifth-column danger necessitates con=watchfulness. two wavs, the United States has sought to be as possible in taking care of European

stant In as helpful refugees President Roosevelt appointed a special committee to expedite the rescue of persons who were in particular danger abroad because of their opposition to Naziism. Thus far the committee has recommended 2274 cases of this sort to the State Department,

HE Justice 1 and Naturalization devised another means of lief f thousands of refugees who came into the ited States as temporary visitors. They were permitted, under an interpretation of he immigration laws and through an agreement with Canada, to apply for a “pre-examination” from the

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Department's Bureau of Immigration

bureau and, if approved, were allowed to go to Canada | permanent immigration visa from American |

and get a consuls there In the last fiscal year, 30.426 visas were issued for temporary visitors, of whom it is estimated the greater part were refugees. These were aside from the numbers regularly admitted under quota as permanent immigrants, of whom there were 56,735 from Europe in the same fiscal year This plan was devised by the Justice Department not the State Department, it iS made clear by Department officials, though the State Departcollaborated if not exactly approving this prove

A few months ago, however, the State Department

ana State

stopped the practice of admitting refugees as tempo- |

visitors. Now a regular immigrant visa is re= However, those already in the country under visitor permits may get a ‘“pre-examina-tion”: and be admitted as permanent immigrants if passed by the Immigration Bureau. NEXT—Government officials concerned over discharge of aliens by industrial plants,

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temporary

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

Business By John T. Flynn

Borrowing to Finance a War Will Most Expensive End

EW YORK, April 14 —There are people who get much annoved when one mentions that word “taxes” in connection with the war. They sa Here is the world on fire and this man is worrving about taxing people too much.” Now I am not worrving about the taxpayer at all. If we are going to have a war-—a war with or without war— and are going to spend billions, I am in favor of taxes—taxes to the hilt. I am for soaking the rich and the poor, including myself, for that is the only way a war can be paid for with safety. I call attention to the taxes and the appalling burden they will involve, not to shed tears for the rich and the poor who will have nothing left, but because I am conthese vast expenditures will do to

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cerned over what our society, our economic system. There are two ways to pay for a war, One is by taxing to the limit and paving for the whole thing in cash. The other is by borrowing the money or a large part of it and putting it on the cuff. The second way--the borrowing way—is far the most expensive way. If you pay for the war that way, the cost will be at least twice and maybe three or more times as much, and the losses from inflation afterward will be perhaps total.

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T= first way—by taxes—will keep the cost of the war down. And it will be, in the end, far less

likely to subject us to an economic, and perhaps polit- | But it will be more severe on us while |

overturn more uncomfortable, It will mean that must sacrifice. And that is the reason, perhaps it will not be done. But, unfortunately, even the tax method is how fraught with grave dangers because of the times and the strange winds that are blowing through the world, And nothing could prove that more clearly than the tax plan offered in England. The English people are proceeding much more intelligently than we are, in that they are trying to keep the Government from borrowing at the banks. I do not think they will succeed in the end. But at least they see the peril and act with what wisdom 1s possible to avoid it. And, in their effort to avoid bor= rowing at the banks, they resort to enforced loans, conscripticn of savings—everybody’s savings. The danger in this to the English capitalists lies in the fact that this is a recognition and adoption of a proposal which, however it originated, is supported chiefly by those who have decided that the present system is doomed and who think this system is its immediate successor, It is, in fact, much akin to the system which Germany uses with somewhat different techniques—the conscription of private savings. When private savings are taken by a Government under enforced loans to be invested by the Government in its own projects—whether war or other types of projects—the capitalists’ system is at an end. Is this the beginning of the end of that system in the country where it reached its highest development and popularity?

1cal it lasts.

all why

So They Say—

WITH THE world in flames, this is no time to engage in the nonsense of talking about candidates. —Wendell Willkie, who was one in 1940. THIS IS NO TIME to ask for quotations on the defense of the United States —William 8. Knudsen,

for instance, for getting from Poland |

who will have so little left |

way of life, our laws and our whole |

MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1941

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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.

ANONYMOUS WRITERS HELP CAUSE, SAYS OGLE By Kenneth Ogle, Chairman of Indiana

Committee for National Defense, Indianapolis,

The writer complained by 'phone today of ananymous letters run in the Forum Committee. On second thought the complaint is withdrawn. | Our argument has been that 'opposition emanates in part from pure cowardice. Anonymous letter signers such as R. G. L., we believe help make our case. As far as I am concerned let them continue. Thanks for your courtesy.

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URGING RATIONAL APPROACH TO PROBLEM OF HITLER By G. R. Audubon | I recently questioned the moral ethics of Kenneth L. Ogle, man of the Indiana Committee for National Defense, and others who are prominent in the movement to effect a more aggressive role by the U. 8. in the present European concould mean another

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| flict, which A.B F I received a letter day from a gentleman who, for some reason, declined to sign his name. In it, Mr. A. BE. FP. Veteran land a former Guardsman advises me of Mr. Ogle's participation and heroic deportment in the first {World War. He also assures me {that if, and God forbid, a second (A. BE. F. is an inevitable forthcom[ing reality, Mr, Ogle and others {like-minded will gladly do their bit IF the Army will accept them Moreover he tells me that Mr, Ogle was unable “to keep on in the National Guard because of physical disabilities received in combat.” The {writer also says that he himself and scores of others like him have been turned down as unfit for Army | service in the present crisis. I do not know of a more perfect example of the very incongruity {which prompted me to write the {first time than that which is so [apparent in this anonymous letter, The incongruity consists of men, usually in their 50s or more, and (generally physically unfit or dis{abled for active war duty them{selves, thumping heartily on war drums, demanding that others who {are physically fit, be sent to Tim{buctoo, Afghanistan, Iraq or any

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other place war happens to be in| progress, to have their heads shot

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true Americanism in the

Side Glances=By Galbraith

(but rarely do vou find sincerity that | will match with Mr, Purl. It is the spirit of men and women of such | sincerity that has made America a land that we can love. { troversies exc v | He labors and does not complain. | He does not complain because his sons will work also. Although he| | believes in his union, he realizes that | | some false leadership has crept into | unionism and he insists it be corrected. He knows that some management can stand for correction also. He does not believe in overthrowing our time tested traditions, he only wants them corrected. He believes in free enterprise and does not want to see it fail. He knows if the Government takes over industry and those who labor therein, we will have paralleleq Hitler's Socialistic State. | Mr. Purl has written something of which all Americans can be proud. Such sincerity just cannot be overlooked, and all that America! needs is more of it in the hearts of her people,

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be signed.)

off or their bellies disemboweled by who tough

seasoned opponents apprised how

more haven't been we really are. The thing which straightened men (and not a few women), know that they have already been turned down as unfit, are so anxious | younger generation get | themselves maimed and deranged on far-away battlefields. I do not question the courage, valor and patriotism this “go-to-war” bunch, but I, and others likeminded do and will continue to question the morality and ethics of such a practice, | The only logical conclusion T can draw from such a puzzling set of circumstances is that Mr. Ogle and the others feel called upon to give vocal and external evidences of willingness to serve if able and, through some mysterious cerebral hocuspocus and legerdemain, this impulse 1s transmuted into fervid emotional pleas for immediate entrance into the nearest convenient blood bath a sort of martial “let George do it,” as it were, So, in closing, let us resolve to take a more rational approach to this problem of beating Hitler; one that is based on arming ourselves to the teeth and then choosing the | time and locale of the fight ourselves, which privilege we most certainly don’t possess at the moment in view of our pitiful state of unpreparedness. I believe that, after all, this method of doing things is the secret underlying all of Hitler's Who wished to return to wok.” successes to date, militarily speak-! At Richmond, where the pickets ing. (used clubs, bricks and red hot pok{ers on laborers going to their jobs and the police who tried to protect | . ; : them, Cliffor Kerr resident. of IN FORUM LETTER It, pres. ; ; Richmond C. I. O. local, said, “They By Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis lare not going to get away with this I hope that every Times reader brutal and undemocratic attack on vy As . ” read Marten Purl of Coal City in ‘he Forres o ahd Somes Robb, regional C. I. O. director, commentForum Apri] 10th. : 9 wi : the pril ing on the arrest of 82 rioters, said, Often now do you read signs of “This brutal assault was one of the Forum, most vicious attacks ever made con {any group of workers in the state of Indiana.” Comes then the United Carpen[ters and Joiners of America. “The

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QUESTIONS RIGHTS CLAIMED BY UNION LABOR By James R. Meitzler, Attica, Ind. Are the rights and liberties of union labor superior to those of the | common man? At Gary 25000 strikers mass- | picketed the Carnegie-Illinois Steel | works. Frank Grider, S. W. O. c.| |district director, said, “A purely | routine matter to increase membership and bar workers who could not show paid-up union cards.” | At Milwaukee, 3000 pickets, after smashing windows, tearing down | fences, overturning cars and trucks, claimed they were assaulted by the 'police who tried to protect lives and | | property. At Dearborn mass pickets blocked | all roads with cars 15 deep, used (stones, clubs and crowbars. Thirty | were injured. Rolin McGroty, A. F. | of L. shop organizer, asked the Governor for 5000 troops “to preveat {bloodshed between strikers and men

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APPLAUDS SINCERITY

| rights of organized labor are the very foundation stones of freedom in America and the most essential parts of its security.” | What freedom? Freedom to levy (tribute on the wages of workers. Liberty to intimidate, to coerce, to assault. Security in the right to riot, to block traffic, to destroy property, to maim, to kill. By speech and action union labor claims these rights,

EASTER ECHOES By DANIEL B. STRALEY

The hill slope raised its stony brow, A joyful brooklet danced, A squirrel pricked its stubby ears, A sunbeam smiling glanced, And in mid-air a zephyr paused, A stooping tree paused, too, As a field of golden daffodils Their upturned trumpets blew.

They stood upon the seamless green A frost had lightly trod, And on their trumpets to the world Proclaimed the risen God. In unison they blew the strain, Then blew with one accord again, So long, so clear, so mutely clear, It must have caught angelic ear.

DAILY THOUGHT

And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness 40 years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the

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"Why do they call that team the Yankees? | distinctly heard sev-

sight of the Lord, was consumed.— Numbers 32:13.

BEWARE the fury of a patient

Gen. Johnson Says—

The Real Mystery of This War Is How Nazis Have Been Able to Mask So Many of Their Military Secrets

rcaco, April 14.--The outcome of the war in southeastern Europe has been as shocking in unpredicted results as was the war in Poland and western Europe. Facts are still too uncertain to: pre=dict a final result, more than to say that the oute look seems very dark. The reason why those of our “experts” who went out on. a limb were nearly all proved so woefully wrong about Greek, Jugosalvia and British resistance was that they did not have enough facts. Nobody had enough facts even our General Staff. When the history of this war iz written an outstanding puzzle will be how the governments of all other countries could have been and still remain so ignorant about the ore ganization, equipment, plans, startegy and tactics of the German Army. With some slight professional military background and a reasone able access to at least part of much military informa= tion as there is, it has not seemed safe in this space to predict about this southeastern Nazi thrust. Such has not been the case in some other quarters, un u n

HE war has produced an amazing crop of military commentators and predicters. Claims of some of them to foreign sources and correspondents who are said to have provided them with enough inside dopa to foresee major military developments are a little strange, consiaering that it frequently goes heyond our Government's own military intelligence and has been almost as frequently proved by events to have been wrong, The most forthright and thus far has been Winston Churchill. About the reversal of the astonishingly brilliant British west« ward military advance in North Africa to an equally astonishing British retreat eastward, Mr, Churchill said that the British commanders didn't know and couldn't know of the quantity and power of German troops that had been ferried across from Italy to bail out Benito. If they didn't and couldn't know, being on the spot, how can we poor bewildered commenta= tors know--groping for conclusions so many thou sands of miles away? You are entitled to three guesses. The method is fairly reasonable. You have a large scale map. You have tables of more or less valus showing relative strengths in troops and, sketchily, probable equipment. You know from years of study a good deal about the space-time problem in troop movements, the effect of roads and various kinds of terrain. You study, with meticulous and painstaking care, every published: dispatch from the front n on on

OU have also a background of military knowledge of the uses and striking and defensive power of various types of military equipment. On this basis, you watch every new campaign and can perhaps guess about it considerably better than the average layman, That is the method of some of the best of our military Kkibitzers and they frankly say so. It is of great value. It not the method of some of our more extreme prophets who claim special dope. It is a pity. This is written at. the end of a quick journey clear across this continent and back again, Never was this great bewildered and apprehensive people more anxious for both news and informed advice about this great threat to their peace and all their precedents in social, economic, spiritual and political life. Never, in my time, have they been more avid for counsel and information. “Nature faking” aroused the ire. of Teddy Roosevelt and, through his protests, of our people. But attractive fake fables about the habits of dumb animals are not half as heartless as some of this military faking about the habits and outcome of war.

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Fditor's Note: The views expressed hy columnists in thin newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times, .

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

COLLEGE girl Marjorie Myers, has pitched an in« cendiary bomb into adult circles with this statement: “Marriage should not necessarily de= mand sexual {fidelity or constancy, but should be a kind of business arrangement.” How cocksure and how ignorant these children are! There's no sense in getting steamed up over their pontifica< tions, however, because Life .will change their minds for them all too soon. By the time she falls in love Marjorie, who has reached the advanced age of 19, will rearange her codes and probably, after she's been a wife a few years, will have become a stickler for Victorian marriage ethics. No matter how many diet fads she follows, eventually she’ll have to eat her words. We all do. And apt as she may be, the modern co-ed has not vet studied under Old Man Experience, the last and most able instructor, I'know a young woman expecting her first baby wlko solemnly vows she will not let herself become toc attached to the infant, because she considers parental infatuation a vain and foolish emotion harmful to everyone concernied. One can only smile inwardly when the young things hold forth in this fashion. And pity them a little, They are so innocent of sorrow, so unacquainted with grief; they know so very little about love that has ripened to maturity. What the co-eds do not realize is that when marriage codes do not demand sexual fidelity women may as well throw up the sponge and go back to their mental dark corners. Their imagination is 1undeveloped and so they have no way of knowing how passion will grip and rend them and how they will be mauled and mangled by their emotions. To one capable of love, the day always comes when the thought of marriage being a business arrangement flip-flops the heart and brings on panies of soul. However, to class Miss Myers’ statement with salacious literature seems gross exaggeration. It mors nearly resembles a criticism of the Einstein theory by a pert 5-year-old.

‘Questions and Answers

(The Indianapolis, Times Service Burean will answer any question of fact or information, not involving extensive ree search, Write your questions clearly, sign name and address, inclose a three-cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot be given. Address The Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. C.).

Q—Is X-ray used in aircraft inspection? A—It is utilized to reveal defects in metal parts which might otherwise escape visual inspection. Q—To which churches do President Roosevelt and Vice President Wallace belong? A—The President is a member of St. James! Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, N. Y., and attends St, Thomas’ Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C. Vice President Henry A. Wallace is a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Des Moines, Iowa, and attends St. James’ Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C. Q—If a working woman loses her job is she barred from unemployment. compensation benefits if hee husband is employed? A—No; the fact that a female workers is mare ried and her husband is working, in no way interfers with her right to draw unemployment compensation benefits, if she is otherwise qualified Q--Is vaccination against smallpox or typhoid ree quired of tourists in the Panama Canal Zone? A--Nn, Q—Where do the airship clippers stop en routq from Europe to the United States? A—In an order dated Jan. 25, 1941, the Civil Aero« nautics Board authorized Pan American Airways to route its westbound flights from Europe to the United States via the intermediate points of Boloma, Portuguese Guinea; Port of Spain, Trinidad, and San

eral of the playe.. speaking with southern accents!" nan.—Dryden. Juan, Puerto Rico, until May 1, 1041,

—-already been felt. Office of Production Management,