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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1041

BRADFORD, CLAUER, McNULTY & CO. HERE is a dubious odor about the plans of Republicans to name two ward leaders to membership on the Marion County Liquor Board, The first suspicious circumstance is, of course, the fact that ward leaders are desired, or, in other words, gentlemen who owe allegiance to the men who appointed them rather than to the public. The second suspicious circumstance is the report that James L. Bradford, the Marion County Republican leader, has teamed up with William E. Clauer, long active in Democratic circles, in approving the appointments. What a pretty picture these two make snuggling up in each other's arms! And the third suspicious eircumstance is the fact that,

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property was suddenly transferred to both ward leaders to enable them to meet the requirements that board members | be home-owners. How was that accomplished? Why a public-spirited citizen, one Thomas McNulty, persuaded his family to help out in the emergency. Certainly such generosity deserves a bit of scrutiny. The net of all this maneuvering is that people are gagging. It is not only shabby politics; it is downright stupid politics. The sooner those guiding the destinies of the Re- | publican Party yank these gentlemen out of this setup the | sooner they will be relieved of a liability that is bound to cost | them plenty in public prestige.

TIME TO GO BACK TO WORK! O the attention of the National Defense Mediation | Board. John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers, | the Northern Bituminous coal mine owners and the South- | ern mine owners: Officials of the Ofice of Production Management said vesterday that steel operations next week will be seduced to approximately 85 per cent of normal capacity if the soft | coal strike continues. By the following week, they said, operations will be cut to 60 per cent.

NO CONVOYING \ TE are glad the President has repeated once more that thig Government has no intention of convoying war | cargoes. By a big majority the country opposes convoying, as polls show. For that, as the President himself has stated with such deadly accuracy, means shooting—which is war Along with his denial of the convoy reports, the President announces an extension of the naval “patrol” system | for protection of the hemisphere (including Greenland), which has been in operation 20 months. already it has operated more than 1000 miles from shore, and henceforth it is supposed to be used wherever needed in the seven seas. He explains that this is not a convoy, which is an escort for resistance of attack, but a reconnaissance. Certainly the President has the right under law to use | the Navy for reconnaissance, and report to him as Commander, anywhere outside of combat zones. 3ut whether such use is wise or practicable is a matter of judgment. The public can have no intelligent judgment on this until it is given many more facts regarding the plan. Obviously our Navy is not large enough to patrol the Seven Seas. Obviously also the chief concern is with the | Atlantic, which would require most of our Navy for complete patrol. That would involve transfer of much, if not most. of the fleet from the Pacific. This would seem unwise, We doubt that the President has any such intention.

IT COULD BE SAVED AVING expressed the opinion that Congress will not | save the billion dollars which Secretary Morgenthau suggests cutting from non-defense expenditures, we hasten to add: At least this billion should be saved, and could be saved, and would be saved— | If President Roosevelt would insist that it must be | saved. Congress won't do it of its own volition, because in most Congressmen's districts the voters who draw money from the Treasury outnumber the voters who realize that | they pay taxes into the Treasury. Congress won't do it | at the suggestion of Mr. Morgenthau. But Congress would listen, and even the voters who would be affected would listen, if the President would speak out for drastic, specific non-defense economies with all the | force he put into a similar demand eight years ago, when he said: “The very stability of our government itself is concerned and when that is concerned the benefits of some must be subordinated to the needs of all.” The stability of our government is vastly more concerned now. If the Government is to maintain ability to provide the defenses which are indispensable and the services and benefits to citizens which are essential, it cannot go on spending more and more for benefits and activities that are nonessential, So Secretary Morgenthau says. So most Congressmen, in their hearts, know. It is the truth. But the people who have profited by spending, and to whom even the new tax program will mean no visible added burden—will they believe it? Not so long as appropriation logrolling and pressuregroup raids on the Treasury go unrebuked. Not when the White House keeps silence while the Senate adds $450,000,000 for a farm-parity handout. Not if the heads of Government agencies are permitted to plead national defense as an excuse for not reducing or for increasing ordinary expenditures. Not if St. Lawrence waterway, Florida ship canal and Passamaquoddy projects are going to be revived in the name of defense. Not unless the President-—the one man who represents all the people, and in whose judgment a great majority of the people have shown unique confidence—proves by words and sctiens that he believes it and intends, in thie as in other fields, to exercise the responsibility of leadership. ~

| what we have done.

| have made

| all-out aid to Britain, there were cheers. | stated that

| the workers | do they blame the Administration. Thev don't really

Busine ‘By John T. Flynn

i | arms production. | appeals. The employer will not go into any serious

| gram in the steel industry. | should have the increase is a matter on which I do | not attempt to pass.

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‘Too Feeble—"

By William Philip Simms

That's What Democracies Are Now Saying About American Aid as They Are About British Help to Greece

ASHINGTON, April 26-—Behind British eriticism of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's

| conduct of the war and Australia’s irritation over | events in Greece, there is increasing—and not ale

ways flattering—ctmment abroad concerning Ameri ca's role in the conflict, Assume ing that the British were right in supporting Greece, the London Daily Mail is quoted as saying, “Our effort . . . was too feeble and too late.” It did not add that is exactly what many British and Europeans generally are now saying privately of the attitude of the United States. “You know,” a British official remarked to an American in England recently, “you didn't come in the last time until the coffee was a bit cold.” His inference, of course, was that we shall do the same in this war— if we come in at all A few months ago Mr. Churchill told Americans in a radio talk that Britain did not need our manpower now and would not need it in the future. Today travelers returning from England are well nigh unanimous in saying that the British want us in the war as quickly as we can get there,

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UT more than all else, they add, the British are secretly disappointed over the small number of planes, tanks, ships, guns and other equipment delivered to date by this country. Our promises, the franker commentators are saving. are bigger than our performance This does not mean the British are ungrateful for Jovernment spokesmen from King George, Mr. Churchili and Ambassador Halifax down to the humblest man in London's bomoshelters their appreciation a matter of record. But there is a vast and growing disillusionment over what we have not done. And along with this disillusionment there is also anxiety. When President Roosevelt first promised When he America would make herself the arsenal of democracy, Britons were tremendously bucked up.

| True, the Lend-Lease Bill took longer to get through

Congress than a people fighting for their existence liked, but that was democracy's way and when the bill at last became law, many felt: “Well. now it won't be long!" Figuratively they began to scan the OF for convoys arriving with the much-needed ald.

President Roosevelt, it was recalled, had said that

| time was of the essence and that every day counted | Thus when passage of Lend-Lease was followed, not

by a speed-up but by a slowdown—by much talk about “bottlenecks” and by strike after strike—there was something more than disappointment. = RITICS abroad, as far as I can gather, do not blame anyone in particular. They don't blame They don't blame the employers

Know where the trouble lies. But they do know that the only way to win a war is to out-shoot the other fellow and that blueprints don't shecot. Reports reaching Washington state that the Nazis are turning out more planes in captured factories

in the invaded countries than are now being pro- | duced in America

This in addition to the 3200 or so made in Germany every month The Greeks, according to an Athens dispatch, are

| “bitter” over the non-.arrival of promised aid from | the United States

The Germans are said to Le using the Jugoslavs, Greeks and others as “horrible

| examples” of what happens to little nations that dee | pend on the democracies for help.

\ Information from the Far East indicates a similar feeling of disappointment on the part of the Chinese.

Billion dollar appropriations. rumors of the world's | fastest fighting pisnes and the world's biggest and | most powerful bombers and what not, these people

are privately saving, don't win wars. What counts is a steady flow of weapons that shoot. America came out of the World War the most unpopular country in the world, oldsters are again recalling. But the atuse then heaped upon us will seem like high praise, they add, compared with what will

| happen this time unless all signs fail.

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

Fixing Steel Prices Salutary Move But General Application Is Needed.

EW YORK, April 26—The one most salutary step taken thus far for price control is the freezing of the steel price. I do not mean that price control can ever be attained that way. It will be attained, if at all, when the whole price structure is dealt with. Piecemeal price tinkering will get nowhere. But this particular act has hit the perilous spiral at one very important point. When employers know that they can raise prices, using a wage increase as an excuse to raise prices, there will be no reasonable resistance to wage increases. The wage increase will be granted almost as a matter of course. The Army and Navy will urge it to get on with the business of The Government will second their

resistance, perhaps involving a labor war, when he knows that the wage increase will promptly be recouped by an increase in the price of the product. There seems to be no doubt that this was the proWhether the employees

That it was not unreasonable would seem probable from the fact that one large steel producer voluntarily announced a wage increase equal to that demanded from the other steel] companies. But there was plenty of gossip, to say the least, that the stage was all set to grant the wage increase and then boost the price of steel. The freezing of

| the price has frustrated that.

AD this price boost gone through there is no

doubt that the same strategy would have been | | used in other industries by labor and by employers. |

The fact that the price rise was stopped will now dis-

cousage that repetition in other fields of this steel |

wage-price boost plan.

When these labor costs go up and are then quickly | followed by price rises, the inevitable next stage in |

the process is for labor to grow restive under the condition which follows. For labor will soon see that the wage increase it got was illusory. The price increases will very quickly rob it of whatever advantage the new wage scale offers. Then

will come another demand for new wage levels and |

new compensatory price increases. When this is done on the piecemeal basis, nothing in the world can halt the inevitable spiral. course, it is not easy to take the course of wisdom. Labor will quarrel with it; industries wil] protest; communities will join their voices. But the political authority must be bold and fearless in a time like this. Toc much playing for popularity wil] be fatal.

No price-fixing Government is ever going to be | In the early days of the Administration the | price fixers were vigorously trying to fix prices up- | ward. That was a very ingratiating policy. Fixing | downward, or “freezing” prices, is something else |

popular,

again. But no other course will protect us,

So They Say—

THE REAL guidance of freedom of the press is

the press itself. President Walter D. Fuller of the

National Association of Manufacturers. - * = THE ONLY description I ask is to be known as an Englishman. The only work I ask is to serve England. —Noel Coward, British playright,

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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but avll

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

HOPES LINDBERGH SOON

WILL FIND HIS SOUL to express (By Mrs. C. K. Perkins, Indianapolis | Quite possibly the most charitable thing we, as a family, can say of {Col. Charles H. Lindbergh at this moment is that, quite obviously, unlike Jugoslavia, he has “not vet] found his soul,” so to speak (to quote | words from Winston Churchill), God speed the day he does for the sake of all concerned, as well as {his own! | Let us only hope that in his present state of thought and attitude he takes no part as an officer in our Army—or any branch of it!

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folks adopt this attitude. Keep cheerful, try to be happy, things might be worse. There is still good in the world. Everyone and every{thing has not gone to the ‘“bow- | wows.” [it is still worth trying.

i 5 » ” | om A youngster came to my door. He : t ) : LAUDS MRS. FERGUSON'S {was selling some small article. His

COLUMN ON CHILDREN |sentiments to me were “that the

By Mary R. White, 851 N. Sherman Dr, world would be a much better place I wish to sav that a woman's | if every one was kind.” Now he was Viewpoint, April 22d, by Mrs. (not a depressed sort of chap, in fact Walter Ferguson, was to my way of a pleasant sort. He was not much thinking, exactly right. past 15. But he had learned someAnd I seem to be “someone” who thing fine. . ces has “opinions” that suffer from lack | There is something to be said in of expression. I want to “voice” my favor of the adult outlook in life. opinion on the young folks. I have They too had their high goal. Peroften heard older folks say: Young haps they never attained it. They folks do not know—having had no too had much ambition, left unexperience. But now, I think the|satisfied. But can't there be found youngsters are pretty wise. And|a substitute, something a little dif|that they see things with a much |ferent—but still something good. 'clearer vision than you think. |Why get that disgruntled feeling? They, it is true, find not much Life is still “worth living.” It is all difference between people. They pay we have—and it is really worthnot too much attention to rank, but while, treat all alike as just “humane” and| Just seeing a fine bunch of let it go at that. They are rather |voungsters gives me the same feelprone to speak as they think. If|ing that a cooling breeze might. {they like you—you know it, if not It blows away the cobwebs. I feel {they probably will never seem to more able to cope with my probknow that you exist. What is really lems. For these youngsters (wrong with that? They are honest “hope” personified. And to ‘listen and “above board” in what they in" on the hopeful outlook these think. They have no ax to grind. youngsters have. Then if you feel If they want something of you, they | happy and feel like smiling, smile. |ask you, with no preliminaries, and your smile may cause another to |that’s the end of it. {smile, and before you know it there Look at the way they can make | wij) pe “miles of smiles.” Be hopefriends—and hold them too. We all fu] with the young. You can't lose. ‘know the friends made during|The “young folks’ are the “hope” (childhood have been the best We of the world. “God Bless Them.” (have ever known. Youngsters are kind too. Sometimes when I see a| We ¥ | youngster with a perpetual grouch. | TERMS LINDBERGH A |1 wonder in his upbringing just Who | POOR PSYCHOLOGIST was responsible for that grouch. I] think the older folks would have a BY Claude Braddick, Kokomo (great reward in satisfaction, if they | Col. Lindbergh may or may not be would accept the young viewpoint.|a military expert, but he is beyond | Youngsters are nearly always happy [all question a poor psychologist. |and cheerful. Why can’t the older | That has been increasingly evident

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almost from the day he was catapulted to fame through: his spectacular “lone-eagle” flight. Of the many sound and convineing grounds upon which he might {base his appeal for non-intervention in the current war, he chooses to | stress the one which is least appealing to American mentality, namely—that Hitler is invincible, and hence the rest of us might as |well lie down and let him have his way! | England's cause is far less hopeless than Lindbergh's as long as he uses this tactic. Americans will never believe that 200,000,000 Anglo- | Saxon and English-speaking peoples

must submit permanently to the |domination of 80,000,000 Germans. | I would advise Lindbergh to lay down his arms and quit, for there is ‘abundant evidence that his influlence upon the American people is |directly opposite to that he intends. {The groups he has succeeded in |gathering around him consist for {the most part of pro-Nazis, anti|Semites, England-haters and the |like, who would be only too willing, lin case Hitler's defeat impended, to have America intervene in his favor.

» n THINKS NYE LOSES HIS WAY IN WASHINGTON By M. L.. Indianapolis Senator Nye of North Dakota reminds me of those folk who pre-

to welcome the event. When it did [not materialize they climbed down,

predicted a new date and got ready again. To date they still are doing it. goes along, ignoring these dates. Senator Nye goes along just as regularly predicting the doom of the British Empire and setting new (though vaguer) dates for it whenever it seems necessary. When Senator Nye gets up to go to work in Washington he loses his way. Instead of going to the Senate he ought to go to the Smithsonian Institute and there rest comfortably with the first airplane, the horse and buggy models, and all the appurtenances of a now forgotten day.

” ” » CALLS TORY DESCENDANTS TODAY'S 5TH COLUMNISTS By A. J. L., Terre Haute Our danger does not lie in Communist or Fascist propaganda—at least, not just yet. The real and immediate danger lies in that Fifth {Column which consists of the des\cendants of 1776 British Tories that never yet have failed to try to place the interests of the land of their beloved forefathers ahead of those of our country.

GOLDEN MISTAKES By ELEEZA HADIAN

Let me believe In honesty, Integrity.

Let me believe In kindness, And human goodness.

Let me believe In loyalty, Love, purity.

Let me believe In uprightness, Steadfastness.

Let me believe In truth, beauty, Sincerity!

Though mistaken, I stumble now and then Yet, heart and feet Will fight defeat On holy ground.

DAILY THOUGHT

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up.—James 4:10.

»» ONE MAY be humble out of pride. taigne,

dicted the end of the world on cer- | &8 tain days and went to mountain tops | §

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Says—

British Not to Be Censured for Defeat in Greece but Experience Should Prove a Lesson for America

NNAPOLIS, Md.,, April 26.—The actual military catastrophe of Greece and the Balkans and the growing menace in the Mediterranean should be no occasion for blaming Winston Churchill, Gen. Wavell or any other English authority for their use of British troops to support the Serbs and the Greeks. There is still such a thing as national honor. After encouraging these small nations to resist overwhelming enemy armament, it, would have been a black betrayal not to come to their aid with everything in the British arsenal, even at the risk of what has hap. pened and what from the begine ning seemed inevitable to all well informed observers. It is a catastrophe, but it is not, of itself British defeat. It would not necessarily be Britsih defeat if the whole Mediter ranean area were blocked out by plugging up both ends at Gibraltar and Suez. It would be a terrible disaster to British arms and economy, but the “life line of the empire” has long been looped around the southern tip of Africa—ever since the Mediterranean route became unsafe for commerce. That adds 5000 * miles to the voyage and uses up a vast tonnage of -. precious cargo<carrying capacity, but it is not neces sarily defeat. dl » O, if blame for what has happened must he assessed, we must go far back of the decision to support Greece. A much graver error was the deci sion to encourage Poland to resist on a promise of British and French assistance when the latter two countries were not able to defend themselves, much less to defend Poland by so much as an ounce of military effort.

That decision turned Hitler's threat from East to West, made an ally for him out of Russia, which would otherwise have been an enemy, and thus dee stroved not only Poland but eventually nearly all the small nations of Europe which were unthriftily ene couraged to resist when they were utterly unprepared to do so. Over and over again through the last six years this column has repeated: “To send men equipped only with World War armament against modern armored, mechanized, motorized equipment is almost as futile, cruel and hopeless as to send naked bow and-arrow savages in canoes out to fight a modern battleship.” The old military axioms do not change. A nation such as Germany, in a central position, even if it does have to fight on two fronts, has a tremendous advantage from its interior lines, even against overwhelming seapower, over a nation which can only attack over long, circuitous and dangerous flanking routes—such as the English attempt to create a new front in the Balkans.

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NOTHER military principle, proved by ages of experience, is never to attempt a campaign with , inferior equipment on so wide a front or over so long a distance that it is doubtful whether you can support it. Another is always to measure your potential resources against the probable cost of your effort, Disregard of every one of these principles is responsible in part for the present unhappy outcome. This is not to cry over spilt milk. It is to suggest that there is a fateful lesson here for us. We are not concentrating on a strong military and naval position in readiness on our own incomparable interior lines. We seem to be spreading ourselves all over the face of the globe. We are not providing for our own defensive forces modern armored, mechanized, motorized equipment, and men trained to use it with sufficient speed. We are sending it abroad. We are not measuring ouy material resources against our assumed task. are undertaking to finance and equip wars everywhere, and that is too much for even the magnificent wealth, income and potential production of the United States. Aid to Britain in the battle of the Atlantic and the British Isles is excellent defensive strategy, but what business have we in eastern Europe, Asia Minor, China and Malaysia? There is such a thing as buttering our strength too thin.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE women of this country are harassed by exe perts who swarm over the place like a plague, of locusts. They tell us exactly what to do af every moment of the day or night—and how to do it! If you can hear and read, you are beset through papers, magazines, movies and radio by hordes of professionals in all fields giving advice about the most trifling details of your life. They tell you how to hang your curtains, wash the spinach, clean the kitchen drain, select a corset, wear a cape, slim down or fatten up; how to manage your husband, rear your children, write your club paper, treat your neigh= bors; how to garden, set the ta= ble, put on makeup, keep up with the Jones and deal with the servant problem, They instruct you in the behavior befitting a good daughter, sweetheart, wife, mother and mother-in-law. One might think they could stop there, but evie dently they have no respect for gray hairs, for now comes an announcement from New York City that classes for grandmothers are being set up so the old dears can learn how to deal with Junior and his Papa and Mama. Thus the feminine world is invaded from another quarter. For 50 years or more the experts have hammered us with advice on managing men—and the creatures are still completely out of hand. Then they turned their attention to the mothers-in-law of the land, bringing endless humiliation and suffering to hundreds of thousands of well-meaning souls who are now derided and maligned because the suspicion and animosit of a nation has been aroused against em, i Grandma, it seems, is to be the next victim, “Naturally,” says one higher-powered expert, “the woman who had brought several children into the world feels qualified to give a little advice.” Naturally, but experts v-ho are long on theory and think very little of er erience are going to stop that if possible. To the ), Grandma is merely a foolish ade dlepate muddling her way about. All right, but what about Grandpa? old nuisance, too?

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