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FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1841

THE GLORY THAT 18 GREECE

H°WY the Battle of Greece will come out, wé don’t know. But we do know that a little land has grown great again. Win or lose, her sacrifice kindles néw courage, her hérdism raises new hope for all who love liberty évérywhere. Perhaps this ig poor Balm for thé wounded, whose homes are sacked, whose families gtumblé among the shell holes of the dead. But maybe not. It wag their grim choice. Delibérately, they chose suffering as better than willing surrender to the conqueror. And thereby théy still find honor. Such a people cannot be insénsitiveé to the world's regard. It must help them to know that the prayers of multitudes in the enslaved lands, as in the democracies, are with them. Glorious ig the word for Greece,

THE PRESIDENT ON FREE SPEECH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is often and voeally critical of the way newspapers are operated. For that matter, who isn’t? But the President is keenly appreciative of the part which the institution of the free press plays in our democratic way of life. In a letter to newspaper editors in national convention, giving once more his reassurance that those who disagree with what is being done are free to criticize, the President said: “Free speech is in undisputed postession of publishers and editors, of reporters and of Washington correspondents; still in possession of magazines, of motioh pictures and of | radio; still in possession of all the means of intelligence, | éomment and criticism. So far as I am concerned, it will remain there, for that is where it belongs . . . “It is important that it should remain there, for suppression of opinion and censorship of news are among the | mortal weapons that dictatorships direct against their own peoples and against the world.”

NO CHOICE BUT TO TAX GQECRETARY Morgenthau hag talked with Congressional leaders about a new tax bill to raise 314 billion dollars additional revenue next vear. That would boogt total Federal revenues to above 12 hilliong, but even so the Government would have to borrow six billions more to get enough to pay all the bills, That doesn’t seem to us ag much as thie generation ought to pay, in view of the amount we are spending. Six billiong a vear ig more than we ought to add te the debt burden of taxpavers in yveart to come, for they will have problems of their own to solve, defenses of their own to maintain, and maybe their own wars to fight. Yet 815 billions is a lot of money to get in additional taxes. It will pinch hard. It will add about one-third to the Federal tax load. Details of the new levies have not been disclosed, but it is indicated that all present taxes on sales as well as incomes will be hiked and new ones added. We would like to see the whole amount raised by taxes on incomes and inheritances, broadening the base and stiffenihg the graduated rates, It is an interesting coincidence that the 315 billions of | additional revenue now sought is justabout the average annual deficit of the eight vears of the Roosevelt Administration. If, back in 1933, in the “first hundred days” of the New Deal, Congress had had the courage to pass a tax bill of the caliber of the one now contemplated, our country would not now be in its present fick financial condition. Then the national debt wag around 22 billions; now it is mbout 48 billions. Then there was a choice of whether to tax or not to tax, and Congress and the Administration

those the easy way. Now there is no choice, * » s . *

TAXES FOR DEFENSE

E are printing below two tax tables. Table No. 1, compiled from figures furnithed Senator | Vandenberg by John L. Qullivan, the Assistant Secretary of | the Treasury, compares the individual income taxes paid hy single persons in the United States with similar taxes paid | by single persons in Great Britain. Here ig Table No. 1: Net Income Taxes Taxes Before in in Great Exemptions U.S, A. Britain $§ 1,500 $ 24 $ 248 3,000 84 TT 8,000 449 2,690 20,000 2.668 9.715 50,000 14,709 32,890 100,000 44 268 76,565 Table No. 2, compiled from the same gources, compares | individual income taxes paid by married couples with two | children in the U. 8. with similar taxes paid by married | couples with two children in Canada. Here it Table No. 2: Net Income Before Exemptions $ 1,500 3,000 8,000 20,000 50,000 18,741 20,998 100,000 42 948 50,860 It just takes a glance to understand how much greater je the individual income tax burden in Canada and Great Britain. And it is a good thing to remember that taxpayers in those countries also bear heavy burdens in the sales taxes their governments have levied upon them. This nation is spending billions for national defense,

Taxes in Canada 8 14 95 1,128 5,082

Taxes in U.S A $ 0 0 246 2,143

‘and these are expenditures everyone ig anxious and willing |

to have made. But this nation is not yet collecting enough in taxes

to pay the preparedness bill. We believe that the country is months ahead of Congress on taxes, just as it was on national defense. And to we hope that among those who read and ponder these tables are our representatives in the House and Sen. ate: Senators VanNuys and Willis and Reps. Ludlow and

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What of Turkey?

By Ludwell Denny

Balkan Peace Now Shattered by Hitler Was the Result of Patient Work by Mustafa and Inonu.

(Third in a Séreis)

ASHINGTON, April 18—The Nazi armies gathéring on the Turkish frontier—ready to uncé on thé Golden Horn and Straits, according to ime Minister Churchill—are more like “the Terrible Turk” of old than are the modern Kemalists, waiting to defend themselves. Hitler has taken over and adopted most of the terror tactics of the Ottoman Empire, which thé néw Turkey overthrew. While Nazi Germany lives on conquest, Kemalist Turkey more than almost any other modern nation has lived by refusing to seize the rightful territory of others or to subjugate neighboring peoples. The Balkan-Near East peace, which Hitler has now gestroyed, was the fruit chiefly of Turkish policy. But that policy has not been ohne of fear and weakness, rather of strength— at least so far. For, while the new Turkey has not followed thé imperialistic and ferréristic technique of its forefathérs, it has inherited their relentless fighting qualities. Thé Gerinans, who led Turks to defeat in thé First World War, are well aware of that. = = =

O are the British. After that war, when the Turks were severed, bleeding and exhausted, the British backed a Greek invasion against them. But the ragged and bare-footed Turks arose and punished the Greeks. Théy also drove out the mighty British. Of course Mustafa Kemal, who wds overthfowing the Sultan and Caliphate at the same timé hé was kicking out the Greeks and British, is now déad. But still living and leading Turkey is his greatest general, Ismet Inohu—named “Inonu” by Kemal for that decisive battle. Kémal and Ismet together hated the German usurpers until that danger was past; togéthér they hated the British threat to Turkish freedom which followed: and together they hated the Nazi menace, which arose after they had defeated Britain and won her as an ally. So, when Churchill counts on Ismet and Kemalist Turkey to fight any Nazi invasion, the Briton is merely gambling on a record of 100 per cent pérformance in the past. But when the Turks fight it will bé as & people's army defending the homeland, rather than as their barbaric janizary forerunners now copied by Hitler, * & 4

ITLER'S fifth column technique, though ag old as warfare itself, was highly developed by the Ottoman dictators and their janizaries. It was based on the familiar principle of “divide and rule.” The vietim peeple were first weakened by bribery ance trickery. The most effective janizary weapon, as that of their Nazi imitators, was terror—which paralyzed the Most of their battles were won, and most of their conquests maintained, by this device. Nevertheless, like Hitler's shock troops, in military conibat they fought brilliantly, The tactics were basically the same—quick thrust, rapid encirclement, spedd and ever more speed. Hitler's use of planes and Panzer divisions is like the Janizary cavalry in action. But the distinguishing characteristic which perpetuated the janizaries, Hitler cannot copy. They were an international army, the strongest and cleverest that could be picked from any race, nation, party, or religion. Neither blood, nor bribery, nor favoritism, could make a man a janizary in the days before the decline of that system; nothing but individual prowess, But the Nazi elite is based on the exact opposite theory of superior race and a party of favorites. So history may vet show that the Nazi, who borrowed the terror tactics of the Ottoman janizaries, missed the intér-racial selective strength by which they survived so long. NEXT—The Strategic Straits,

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

Business By John T. Flynn Building Industry Booming Again

After 13 Years of the Doldrums. |

| becomes necessary we will convoy | our ships. Why not? | war, It is only a plain fool who does | not know it.

EW YORK, April 18.—The lame duck of the American business world seems to be back on its legs again and quacking gaily. This is the building industry. For 13 years the building industry has been limping around. It is the biggest part of that famous “heavy goods” industry we have heard so much about these last dozen years. It was the collapse of this industry, more than anything else, which brought on the depression. What caused it to collapse Is another and a long story. But it is climbing back—over a dubious road, it is true—but none the less back to the good life. Here is a simple figure that makes this clear at a glance, In March of last year total construction contracts were 178 million dollars. In March of this year they were 452 million dollars. That is almost a 200 per cent increase. The explanation is not so rosy as the fact itself. This immense expansion is due, not to private enterprise, but to Government enterprise. Here is the force behind it. Out of the immense provision already made Jor defense, £43250000000 has been ear= marked for construction—for factories, shops, ware houses, homes for workers, ete, which have to be built before defense materials can be created. That is a huge sum of money. Aad it does not include the private money going into construction. The corporate construction rise in the last vear has been 140 per cent. But this, too, is due chiefiy to

| Government business placed with those companies.

These figures were compiled by ‘Engineering News, It is a safe forecast that these figures will expand in the future and that before the summer is over we will see in full swing the greatest construction pro-

| gram since the gaudy days of 1928.

LL this will not- be without its effect in many | First of all, construction costs | In March of |

other directions. will rise. They have already done so. last year construction costs were represented by an index figure of 114. anh index figure of 121, really got under way. These rising costs will very soon begin to affect the private building market and slow up certain necessary housing. But in other places where the housing shortage is acute it will stimulate building and we may soon see so heavy a drain on skilled labor and on building materials that the Government may consider the question of priorities which will operate heavily against almost all forms of private construction. Already there has been a heavy increase in private home construction with FHA funds. The sums that went into housing last month were more than twice the amount in the same month last year. Much of this is due to the effort to produce homes for workers in booming defense centers, Another effect will be the rice in rents, They have not yet showh any very great advance as a whole. But I beleive the advance is inevitable. And this, in turn, will tend to stimulate private building while at the same time building costs will discourage it. Thus the poor old building industry emerges to Jdife once again in a world of turmoil and problems,

And the rise has not yet

So They Say—

NATIONS must renounce the claim to be the final judge in their controversies with other nations. — | James T. Shotwell, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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THEY are the same old Germans except that there is more hy isy than in the last war— Camille Gutt, minister-in-exile,

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LAUDS ERNIE'S TRIBUTE TO HIS MOTHER By Milton T. Jay, M. D., Portland, Ind.

I have just read with the greatest interest Ernie Pyle’'s wonderful tribute to his mother, who died while he was in England sending us fine articles on the war conditions in that torh country. His articles have always been of the deepest interest to me and this loving tribute to a mother who was no doubt one of God's noble women | is one of the most beautiful things I have read in the literature of the | present day or in days past, for that matter. I shall treasure this tribute and read it to my friends and tell them of the man who could write such wonderful things to a mother who | was devoted to the interests of her family and friends. . . . Character survives, goodness lives, love is immortal, {

” ” » CLAIMS ONLY FOOLS THINK WE'RE NOT AT WAR By DP. WM Answering your editorial, “Anoth- |

| paragraph, wherein you ask:

er Straw,” particularly the last “Or is |

he going to use the Navy to escort

| them?”

The answer, sir, is yes, when it| We are in the

We have been in the | war Since the first shot was fired, | Now, let me ask you a question.| Just when are our newspaper editors going to scare up enough brains to] grease a gimlet, wipe out the hypoc- | rigy, take positive American action, | instead of negative un-American ac- | tion, to lead and prepare the minds of the weak and unthinking for the inevitable? We are not going to see Great! Britain defeated. You will give your blood and I will give mine to that! end if need be, whether we like it] or not. And we will save our soul.

4 #& OFFERS A SUGGESTION ON ‘ENDING’ WARS By R. U' M.

We common people must get together and put an end to wars, once and for all. For wars are

Today they are represented by |

criminal; they are the backwash of barbarism; they are everything { inhuman, There is still hope for | mankind if all of us put our shoulders to the whee] and stop wars forever. We can do it. How? We could make all the | countries in the world meet in {some big hall and have them all sign an anti-war pledge. The dif-

devil would speciously preach the gospel. Andrew Jackson and our forefathers fought to instigate and establish the greatest democracy of all. Let us do all we can to retain it, gf 4 8 HE'D PUT WARMONGERS ADRIFT IN ROWBOAT By M. P, S.

This Second World War being fought in Europe does not involve democracy in any way. This titanic

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ferent countries could say, “We do not want any more wars. They are cruel. It is not the right thing for brothers to fight against each oth- : : er.” Each country could take this|Struggle involves on one side the signed pledge home with them and | Axis powers—Germany, ruled by could show it to that country which |the National Socialist Party, and might say, “We want a war With ine other ruler known as Der

you.” Upon seeing this signed . pledge, the country that asked for | uehrer or Chancellor Hitler; Italy is the other Axis power,

war would realize the other country was not allowed to fight any more | Victor Emanuel V is only a conwars. Thus, the whole thing would | stitutiongl monarch. Benito Musautomatically end then and there. | solini is the real ruler as premier, Another good way to stop all wars| The party he heads is the Fascist. forever is to let all the countries get | He is dictator by virtue of his together somewhere, and then tell] march on Rome in 1922, them to fight a big war. They| On the other side, known as the could sav. “This is a war to end all| Allies at the start fo the war were wars.” This means they would be France, Great Britain and Poland. fighting against future wars. After | Now only Great Britain, Greece and this war was over all following wars | Jugoslavia remain on the Allied could be called “outlaw wars.” side. a Why is the same old cry used

today in order to promote and inURGES VIGILANCE IN

volve the United States in this GUARDING DEMOCRACY war by saying democracy is at By H. B. V.

stake? In 1917 millions gave their {lives for that cause in vain, hence To the point was the message of | 25 years later a revival of another our President on a founder and war for what? Men, women and realist of American democratic | children to be slaughtered. The principles, Andrew Jackson, | Promoters of hatred, bigotry and As one great democratic nation, |8réed of money grabbers on all we stand united in spite of partisan- | Sides should be set adrift in a ships which were displayed recently |'OWboat in the wide expanse of in the late Presidential campaign. | (ne sean. We should replace their Yet it is but a short time later that |i in this world with Christian two of the greatest political leaders, | [8ith, tolerance and humane feeleach of their respective parties ng. ff 5 » stand united on the platform of “peace and protection for the PEFINES FREEDOM AS Americas.” IPRACTICED IN U. S. Lest we forget, it is in these free 4 po ’ States of ours where opinions are so| ~~ freely expressed in the form of the| “ballot system” without the fear of cause some folks to forget that this prodding from troopers or any law is the land of the free. Strikers, for enforcer. : ‘ Yet we as Americans must be- instance, are free to interfere with come realists and awaken to the defense if they wish to. fact that our democratic privileges| Russian sympathizers in this country are free to organize po-

which by habitual force tend to grow on us are but rare and very : : precious ones indeed. y litical parties which oppose the very purpose of democracy in the land of the free.

We must constantly keep in mind | that the Americas are infested with | People are free to murder pedestrians provided they jay the price

undesirables who are agents of the Axis partners eager to undermine of ans auto car license, One is free to neglect to pay one's

us in a very positive form of propataxes provided one gets himself

ganda. They preach peace. Yes, they preach peace in the very way the elected to office. I beg vour pardon. T am not a grouch. I am just a free American who likes to see the truth printed

Side Glances=By Galbraith

once in a while, A Civil Liberties Union lawyer said during a court plea: “Freedom of thought and of speech is guaranteed to the alien as wel as to the citizen, and-—includes freedom for the thought that we hate.” I believe there is a way to eliminate all this loose stuff which seems to be running wild in America. But it will never be done until Americans want to do it and I have a feeling that they will not want to do it until some of our great cities are on a level with London.

UNDESTROYABLE GIFT

By ELEEZA HADIAN Her hands were made to translate Beauty for the canvas; \ Hands, created, to awaken soft melody From golden chords Of a harp! Her hands were fashioned To soothe the brow and ease the pain In man’s lonely, tortured heart!

But when I watch them wring the cloth And wipe a window pane, Restoring vision to crystal glass And to dim eyes, I know her hands Were kept to lend beauty, unexcelled Grace to each daily, humble task!

DAILY THOUGHT

Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shail never see death, —John 8:51,

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Gen. Johnson Says— The Drum Beaters, Annoyed by

People's Opposition to War, Launch Unfair Attack on Peace Leaders.

ASHINGTON, April 18—The influences in this country, in and out of Government, who want to push us further toward involvement in shooting war as fast as possible and regardless of our readiness are finding increasing difficulties which will get worse as they go further. The reason for this is that so great a majority of the peoplé are uncon vinced or .in outright opposition and are becoming more vocal daily. As a result thé managers of the movement are rédoubling their efforts and just now the tactics aré to try to discredit any spokes= man of opposition to them. This takes the form of assertions that they are traitors, affiliated with the Nazis, wishful of German vice tory, appeasers and worse. ‘Thése choruses have reached the volume and repetition of a very chant of defamation. Many of the dccuseis are responsible through past apathy or official incompetence for the shocking lack and lag of Amer= ican rearmament while many of their intended vice tims have been and still remain leaders of opinion for an undefeatable American defense. Both sides are at least happily in wholesome agreement on this latter point, but the latter group holds that we should not plunge all unréady into unnecessary overséas war, but should build up a strong position in readiness and watch the progréss of this foreigh contest to see what future use of our great and growing strength would be better for our country. y 8h HIS opinion is being called cowardly, dishonor= able and treasonable. Facts and arguments are more persuasive than names. The name callers know this, but they are nearly out of telling arguments, The purpose of the epithets is not so much now to convince the country. It is to silence the men who argue on the other side. Chief among these epithets is a new one which recently has crept So consistently into every diatribe as to suggest some coneert of purpose. It is to accuse all those who are opposed tp immediate involvement of invoking racial and religious prejudice and of be= ing anti-Semites. This is the most ruthless, cruel and unfair of all such tactics. Since it is obviously intended to incite Jewish resentment against those who oppose immediate war, it is an obvious use of the very hateful practice it ascribes to others—to arouse racial and religious prejudice. Because, in no instance of the charge against any individual or group has the assertion been accompanied by relation of one single word, act or attitude to support the indictment, such tactics become even more despicable. On that basis,

the charge boils down to this “to be against imme diate war is, of itself, to be against the Jewish people.” That is a doctrine as dangerous as it is untrue and unfair, Among the people thus charged are some of our most liberal men—some who have been amordg thé foremost champions of religious tolerance and enémies of anti-Semitism in any form, ” " ”

NTI-SEMITISM in this country is a confession of a kind of caveman ignorance of American history and Sociology so dark and dense as to be incredible. Here is a race that gave us our religion, some of our finest instances of traditions of ideal home and family life, examples of unbounded philanthropy, charity and civic service, and more than its share of the greatest contributions and foremost figures in every one of the sciences, arts, professions, industries and trades—a peace-loving justice-loving people.

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Most of the careless charges that these people own or control any disproportionate share of the wealth or industry of this country or influence in its affairs have been proved over and over again to be untrue and groundless. How, even in ordinary times, any American could hold any prejudice against such a valuable strain in the American blood stream passes understanding. In this world agony, when their kith and kin overseas are being subjected to the most hideous mass persecution, torture and annihiliation ever suffered by any people in the history of the world, nobody with a spark of humanity could feel for them anything but sympathy and affection. To charge the particular men included in these war smears with any other feeling is plain poisoning.

‘A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OR women the art of shopping is a major art off life, and highly important, I believe, for character building. The good shopper is usually a person of reliability, tolerance, decisiveness and honor. And, since one of our major faults is vacillation, knowing how to buy includes the ability to make up your mind. It has always seemed to me that the girl of 16 whe could not select a wardrobe fitted to her needs lacked the sense or training to pick a suitable husband. Like=wise, the housewife who can’t decide between two articles of merchandise will never know what she wants from life, and will theréfore be perpetually discontented. Retail merchants tell’ us that thousands of dollars are lost each year in every Ameérican commu=nity because we indulge in the bad habit of returning purchases. This is tough on the merchant, of course, but because it argues a fatal defect in feminine character it is even tougher on the country, The person who lets herself feel dissatisfied with what she buys, when she gets it home, is almost sure to be dissatisfied with most of her other belongings, Sle won't like her job. She'll aiways wonder whethey she is being cheated by her employer or whether she should have chosen some other occupation. And, following the argument to its logical eenclue sion, when she marries she may feel exactly the same about her husband, Subconsciously, she'll want to return him and have the other fellow who proposed. Make up your mind and stick to your decision, J That's one of the best of all recipes for contentment, whether you are trading at the five-and<ten or choos. ing a career or a husband, 3 And that is why the woman who is a good shopped gets something more valuable than bargains,

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Q—Do the stars really have motion of their own, other than the apparent motion given them by the earth's movements? : A—The stars are in motion in space, but they are so far away from us that they appear to be fixed. If, however, there is anything in the universe that actually is fixed, and not in motion, astronomers have yet to discover it. All stars are actually moving at random in orbits that appear to be straight lines, and all constellations will gradually lose their present configurations, although thousands of years are required for such transitions. Q—How long is a moment? A—Formerly, in medieval reckoning, a moment was considered the 40th or 50th part of an hour; in rabbinical reckoning, 1/1080th of an hour; ‘later, second. Now it is defined as a very small. time, a too short to he taken inte account. QQ one of Thomas Jefferson's daughters

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