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LOOK OUT, TURKEY!. | ARIOUS experts are saculaling about ‘whether the
Nazis plan to take Turkey. Our opinion is that they do. | |
: Our opinion is founded on the fact that Hitler has sent another message assuring the Turkish president, Ismet funn, of his continued friendship and good intentions.
WE ARE DOING HITLER'S JOB FOR HIM v AMERICAN boys may soon be called on to ¢ die so that } ~American goods can reach England, “We canriot allow our goods to be sunk,” Secretary of : the, Navy Frank Knox told the nation a few weeks ago. ; “Having gone thus far,” he said, “we can only go on. :/ Hitler- cannot allow our war stpplies and food to reach : England—he will be defeated if they do. We cannot allow . our goods to be sunk in the Atlantic—we shall be beaten
{if they are.” - But they are being sunk,’ steadily and in vast and. i. growing quantities—not in the Atlantic, but within our own borders. . Whole fleets of them are being sunk, not by p
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emergency. They are not going to the British; neither are
La - they going to the boys who are training in our Army camps or in our Navy. would die without a chance for lack of the weapons that have been irpeiost on American soil.
2 THE tine: is hele to face 4 this strike situation squarely—
and to tell England and our own people the truth. - If . present conditions are allowed to continue, then that froth § is _ that we cannot give England: the aid we have promised nor . can we properly equip the boys ‘we have drafted, because © strikes won't permit it. Whether these strikes are due to . union leaders or employers is beside the point. ? ~~ Figures compiled by Edward F, McGrady, labor con-
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~ 1,700,000 man-days have been lost this year through strikes ~_ in plants producing for the Army." These man-days would - have produced 40,000 Garand rifles, 1000 completely-armed . _ light tanks, 200 Curtiss-Wright pursuit planes, 100 training . planes, 3000 50-caliber machine guns, 500 75-millimeter gun carriages and 30,000 anti-aircraft shells, The April coal strike reduced steel production by an estimated 370,000 tons of ingots—enough to build 12 battleships or 8000 medium tanks, yr If Britain falls, whether or mot we enter the war, Hitler will dominate Europe, Asia and Africa—and perhaps South = ~ America. The slave labor of three quarters of the globe ~ will be turned to the task of beating American industry and Tabor. ” ® ® Hitler “Succeeds in his dream of world empire, what will happen to American labor unions then? If you have any doubt, ask the labor leaders of France—who indulged 5 in the luxury of strikes when their country was trying to
i arm. Ask the workers of England, who are toiling seven . days a week, 10 and 12 hours a day, to make Weapons that |
weren't made when there was time. : 5 ‘Union men and their sons—thousands upon thoussnds of them-—are in the camps today, training for war. Ask them if they have enough rifles, enough machine guns, tanks, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, enough ammunition to practice shooting—enough of anything? ~~ Infantrymen are still drilling without the new Garand rifle; most of them have weapous declared obsolete. Our World War 75's are being fired in artillery practice —if there is enough ammunition on hand for practice. Our camps: ‘have few anti-aircraft guns and virtually no medium heavy tanks, We haven't enough planes: even to train
an air r. force of the size we have been talking 3 ahoui—let
ion sbroad while this goes on at home?
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\ SENATOR or Representative privileged to sy what- |
_ ever he’ pleases about himself in the biographical sec3 of The Congressional Directory. Some fill most of a ye with detailed records of their achievements and honors, Jers are modestly content with a line or two. entative from the. Seventh District of Texas, however, strikes a unique and homely note in the new issue of the tory with this:
“NAT PATTON, Democrat, of. "Crockett, Tex., elected
he T4th and succeeding Congresses: since last biography
and Mrs. Patton have become grandparents—James on LeGory, son of oldest daughter, Mrs. Bessie Louise , and husband, Mr. Joe Gus LeGory, born at Crockett,
July 12, 1940; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, ‘W. Leclory of Crockett, Tex.”
C LE OF THE JUDICIARY 1 is the privilege and duty of the judiciary to demonstrate the capacity of democratic government to have le’s. law administered without ‘an evil eye and unequal hand’... - “In this sphere of judicial activity, we are not crusaders
4s we are zealous in upholding the majesty of the law
are keenly intent upon the hearing and deciding of consies between man and man, and between government citizens, according to the law and not with any ulterior vor purpose. Democracy cannot escapé its pressure , Each interest has its imperious demands, These compete i in the market place, in the forums of public pn, in popular elections, and our legislative halls, but no place in the halls of judicial administration.” — address b u gh
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If war should come many of those boys
“it Jooks like I dig up a wonderful thought a
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Hitting on a Way to Ease. the War | Debt by Charging Admission to
~ Funeral of ‘Dirtiest Individual’ in U.S.
YORK. May 16. You can’t tell but that this idea could be the means of financing a great part of the war effort,’ It popped up in an idle con-
versation when one guy said he would gladly pay $5 |
right now for a ticket to the funeral—when as and
if held—of the dirtiest individualhistory of the United.
in the States, and another ohe “Why, you chiseler!. : paid as much as $25 in your time
said,
-to ‘see punk fights 'in the Garden, * but when it comes to an occasion,
of national purification and re-
Joicing, the like of whica the | country has never . known, you
want to come in on practically a pass.”
in my life since I hate to tell you when, still. I think
I would be willing to save; beg or borrow as much
as $100 for a ticket to this gladsome occasion and, if necessary,.go out and get it with a gun. I think any American jury would acquit me on patriotic grounds, considering the, motive.” “That much might get you e bleacher seat in double Z out by the flagpole,” “Ringside would be around a thousands bucks, and I don’t know but that the demand would be so great that you could raffle off ringside seats and get a lot more. The public de; would be something fabulous, and, after all, the littie guys would feel pretty sore if they didn’t have some chance of sitting down front,” 5 8 : 8S first one, then another guy recalled the unclean influence on American morals of the dirtiest individual in the United States, the. nasty rumors about the intimate life of married people; the'degradation of
love, the low gossip piped out ‘of flashy dives run by
criminals, the indiscriminate lies and the sudden access of passionate patriotism in a gutter ignoramus who carried two guns and a bodyguard for fear of a slap in the face, the funeral project glowed brighter and brighter as a ‘national service of thanksgiving and reform, attended by possibilities of a great advantage to the Tredsury. “There must: be 50,000 decent newspapermen who would pay at least a couple of months’ salary to celebrate the cleansing of the profession,” one guy said, “and every respectable woman would want to be there to realize that henceforth she could have a baby in
| decent privacy: And how about the hundreds of
thousands of people who would rejoice in the fact that they could now go to a hotel or a restaurant without feeling that some bellhop was spying through a~ keyhole -or -frisking their private papers for information to sell about théir private life or that some
waiter was running straight to the gents’ room to |
report their personal conversation? Or that some slimy sneak of a press agent for the hotel or night club was telephoning dirty whispers abaut them for publication in return for a mention of the place? I tell you this would be a colossal funeral. It would be a national celebration.”
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E could take it on the road,” another guy said. “After all, they took Lincoln and Harding on
the road, but that was mourning. This would be" a national fete. People, would feel that the country’ had been relieved of something shameful to the American character and a source of spiritual, moral
and cultural pollution ich had degraded them insidiously. Chicago should be good for a Wweek’s play twice a day in Soldier Field, and you have a big, clean American population on the Pacific Coast that would book the attraction splid for months.
. the decent Americans would go for it.” “But,” said angther guy, “it might net happen.
for years.” “That would be afl the better, ” the first guy said. “It would give more tigre for the buildup. People would buy tickets and leave them to their heirs, but the Government would get the money now for war financing, and no obligation to pay it back. But I would not want to take a chance on the Yankee Stadium for the premiere. That holds only 80,000, and your overflow would tear down the joint. You would have to get some airport where you could handle around 500,000 head. I will bet plenty of decent American Pginese firms would bid their heads off for he radio Tr S ” “Well,” said the guy. who had the origi al idea, d then
it -gets so big I can’t get within half a mile of it.
I'll probably be behind a stanchion in the next coun-
ty, but I will be tere. That is one that the U. §. Marines can’t keep me away from, if I live.” :
Business By John T. Flynn : | Explaining the Keynes ‘Theory of Financing Through "Forced Loans." EW YORK, May 16—The presence of John
Maynard Keynes in this country is, of course, clearly to instruct our Government on how to finance
the war. Mr. Keynes’ eminence in the field of eco-
nomics js in the domain of money economics. His two-volume book on the Theory of Money produced a considerable -splash some 10 or 12 years ago. In it Mr. Keynes enunciated some theories about money income —as distinguished from money-— which ‘were in the main sound. The! sound part, of course, was made up of Syme already pretty well-established” p money income which, strange to say, few economists seemed to understand then and not too many have acquainted themselves with since. It' was ‘when Mr. Keynes
came to “prigeing devices for controlling the crea-
tion of money income through bank-interest rates that he pulled into some hot water and provoked violent disagreement among those few economists who understand the subject. Mr. Keynes is here to expound to Mr. Morgenthau the principles of revenue production used now in the
been devised by Mr. Keynes. His theory is, briefly, this: He asserts, which is true, that the war must be paid for either by taxes or by brorrowing—or both; that if we use borrowing to
get Government funds we must borrow from the peo-
ple direct or from the banks; that the more we borrow from the banks the more we will inflate; that the ony way to prevent this is to tax. But he recognizes the difficulty of raising by taxes enough to pay the war bills. He therefore proposes a combination of the two which will work as follows: \ a 8 proposes that fhe taxes be raised; then that. a
BE : H part of this tax be counted as a tax and a part
as a loan by the Government. In England that part
of the tax which exceeds the tax rate of last: year is
treated as a loan,
It would be 8 forced loan. ‘It would bring the | - Government mo
directly’ out. of the” spending power of the people. The Government would create
income by spending on the defense program; this in-'
come would turn up as purchasing power in the hands
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WARNS OF DECEPTION
THROUGH FALSE SLOGANS
By Ross Marquis, 1419 Gale St.
Why must Americans be fooled again’ by meaningless slogans? Once it was “Save the world for Democracy” and now it is “Defend Democracy.” Norway, Denmark,
Czechoslovakia, Austria, France,
Greece and least of all England—|-
none of these are or ever were Democracies. , This is: not an idealistic war. It is a war of trade, and a war to save a decadent capitalistic system. If we want to fight that war, then let’s be-honest about it, but don’t let us-be deceived by false slogans. Hh 1s j STANDS BY HIS LJNS IN SEEKING HIGHER WAGES By William Taylor, Morgantown, Ind. Many thanks, Mr. Meitzler of Attica, for your analysis of me, 8s being a corner soap box orator. However, I am on a different corner from you. While you bellyache about pittance, that is dribbled out to the WPA workers and the OldAge Assistance pensioners and the, laboring people, I am yelling at the top of my voice that these “Humans” are not receiving enough money at the present time, and I am not ashamed of voicing my protests. “Mr. Ford did pay $5 per day 20 years ago and is still paying that same $5 today to many of his work-
}ers. There are very few workers (f
any) who have 20-year .records in his plants. The production pace cof juts plant. kills the workers before 20 years. I worked for him 2% years on the trim line and they had
Ino relief man. You did your werk
at a killing pace all day and if you took time out for the lavatory you got out prompily by the firing method. I can secure sworn affidavits to that effect. Mr. Weir granted a 10 per cent raise because other steel plants were forced to meet the C. I O. de-] mayrids. This is evident proof that he knew his men were underpaid. You: think he is a grand fellow, how about the union men that were killed by his company assassins in the steel strike of 1937? Let us examine some facts, General Motors net profit in 1940 was $970: per employee. Standard Oil of New Jersey net profit in 1240 was $2200 per employee. Net profit of du Pont Corp. in 1940 was $2100 per employee.” Mr. Ford had an orginal investment of ohly $10,000. Since
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1903 he has made ovr a billion dollars or over $160,001) for every single dollar of his oricinal investment. Hank and his s n Edsel 2 are
sole owners, : Social security recor 5 show the wages the workers rece ve and corporation published - ' propaganda can’t erase the truth. : ¢ * ss 8 HE: HAS NO FAITH IN HITLER'S PROMISES By Pat Hogan, Columbus, J id. The convoy debate si suld compel thinking people to fac: facts.. The isolationists. prate about Washington’s advice on foreig: entanglements—as though we ca 1 live by the standards of 150 years ago. Others say we have two oceans Ohioa, you recall, was safe behind i. wal Senator Wheeler and his = say ‘they will work with Roosevelt if he will keep his campaign promises to keep out-of war. Mother ; don’t want their sons to go to foreign wars,
stopped there it will be here to crush their homes and sons, or if they are not crushed; live forever as serfs. Hitler has said he 2as no desighs on America, and being an honest -man, the Lindl erghers believe him. Hitler alo said at Munich he had no ambi ions beyond the Sudeten issue, ani forthwith turned his fiends loose to crush Europe. His Mein Kam 5 has been carried out according 0 the blue print. Gomes now a scientis; to explain that Hitler is a mist:ke~that is that the mental qualities "which blended to produce him should not be allowed to propaga: This, we understand, but the sci ntist is evidently wrong. Hitler is a hybrid, undoubtedly a cross bet veen a ‘cane nibal and a hyena, and [ believe the mother ‘hyena quickly perceived her mistake and ‘dropped it on Frau "Hitler's doorstep. Now ‘nobody but a ‘ool will sit serenely at his window and see a raging fire approaching to:burn his
house over his head 21d make no attempt to fight it because he has
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|Side Glances— By Galbraith
new British tax bill and which are supposed to have’
little realizing that if the war is not |
“| his views.
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promised not to move; nor would any respectable man stand idly by and seé a drunken bully crush a dozen innocent people when he knows a well directed punch will stop the bully. We. know that the United States Navy can blow Hitler out of the water and get our aid to Britain, and if we haven’s common sense to act while we can we ought to live in slavery. ® » » SEES STATE CAPITALISM
EFFICIENT BUT ABHORRENT By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. It is plain that Mrs. Levan regards the State Capitalism of Germany and Russia as more efficient |-
I the free Capitalism of Britain and the United States. And no
is efficient, just as an ant colony is efficient. In neither is there any unemployment, or extremes of poverty and riches. But who wants to be an ant.’ ‘And why is it not inconsistent to say in one breath that a dominant Britain has so thwarted the aconomy ‘of Germany as to goad her to ruinous war, and in the next breath that a dominant Germany could not alter the economies of other nations, including our own, if she wanted to? Just as Mrs. Levan objects to the term, “isolationist,” so I object to the term, “interventionist.” I am willing to grant’ that sending our young men abroad to murder and be murdered by other ‘young men may well be a greater evil than even a Hitler victory. But how far ~ghort of that—should we go? How much are we justified in risking? Here is a task of evaluating and balancing one evil against another in a desperate both, We shall
at all, 2 = PRAISES: TONE OF MR. WHITE'S LETTER : By J. A. Keyes, 641 Ft. Wayne Ave, I do not entirely agree with Mr. John F. White but I think his letter in Monday's Forum was the best I have ever read in this department; * Entirely free of the supersmear that anti-isolationist letters s0 often contain; Mr. White ‘presented the facts as he sees them. What a pity there ecannnot ‘be more in the Forum of this type. = However I do not think it is smearing to write that since that Pan-American Oil Ce. asphalt deal exposure most of us should’ take the patriotic-outhursts of Senator Pepper with a few grains of salt.
8-8 ® POINTS OUT 'DISCONTENTED ARE FREE TO LEAVE a By Mrs. C. L. Ww. Connersville, ind. In answer to F. IL D.’s views in Wednesday's paper. It is too bad about Hitler. being provoked and Lindbergh not being able to express In’ the factory where I work, we-have a little card on our bulletin board saying, “If you are not in favor of our “of govern-
every gay. * If he. a on 80 much |
Says—
“general classes.
doubt she is right. State Capitalism |’
ttempt to avoid| ot be helped in|& that delicate task by pretending|i that one of the evils Is not an evil|3
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Gen. Johnson
A Word on Mr. Mason's Death: And Some Pointed Comment on
Another ‘Matter—His Commission. |
ASHINGTON, May 16. ~It was sad to learn of the sudden snuffing out of the life of J. W,
.T./Mason. He was ope of the few press military ex< | perts Yoo. never permitted his wishing to run away
his thinking. Without any apparent purpose either to get this country into war or keep it out, he wrote objectively from 'n rich experience on the earth-quaking . events through , which we are going. |. ‘He called“’'em as he saw ‘em, And didn’t insist, like Umpire (Laughlin, that he called ’em as they were and they were such be= cause he said so. This war is too | unpredictable to make prophecies about it, and the men who are : doing that need a mental going over. *1 am sorry that Mr. Mason is géne.
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This column was intended to be about a very
different matter. especially in the Senate, felt that Mr. Roosevelt's leadership was being threatened by & curious combination of Huey Long and Father Coughlin, I was urged to—and did—go on the air with a speech ene
When, leaders in the government,
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titted “The Pied Pipers.” It drew 60,000 letters twos
thirds favorable.
After Father Coughlin had replied I got 40,000— ° two-thirds unfavorable. I think people are getting *
| tired of writing letters, but the action of the Presi- x
dent, against the recommendation of the War De« -
partment, in refusing to renew .my commission as a reserve brigadier general is drawing so much fan mail that: even with three competent and experienced Washington secretaries, en hope to answer all
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of them for weeks. I usually never devote my column 2
to discuss a personal matter but in this case it is necessary to assure the authors of those thousands of letters, telegrams and telephone calls that they will be answered indiyidually as soon as possible,
x HE irisponiiey is enough to bring tears ; the eyes of a bronze buddha. It falls in fo The first, and most pleasing, is from ex-soldiers, privates, corfporals, serge with whom, over many years, I have served. Many, of them are now prominent citizens of tleir communities. These: usually begin with a salutation only
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used in the old regular Army behind my back: “Dear
Toughie.”. I knew about it and loved it then and I love it now. All those roughnecks must know—or they
wouldn’t have written—that the affection behind the ° listed-man relationship was ear ~
old formal officer nestly reciprocate. » Another segment is from poor people whose wages were lifted or whose hours were shortened by NRA. I get this response wherever I go. It is very touching but completely undeserved.
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A third group of letter-writers is from a few of the .
220,000 breadwinners for almost a million people who were. assisted by the administration of WPA in New York City, and a fourth and smaller one, strange to say, are those who were helped in one way or another by de drives against infantile paralysis.
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HAT I have ineffectively tried to say to all these :
Reople is that the President’s action was well
‘rights and thoroughly justified. It doesn’t ° "a damn, A reserve commission is just an ° expression of willingness to serve and, if it be, that ° of a Brigadier General, a willingness to serve only . The President knows that
as a big-shot brass hat. I am willing to serve in any capacity, any time:
Lots of these letters assume this action was due to resentment of one of the President's Secretaries, * Steve Barley or Pa Watson for some razzing I gave These men have been |
- them—especially the lattes. .my friends for years and Watson since boyhood,
Neither would do me a dirty trick if his job. depended |
on if,
dirty dig I got was an editorial in the Seattle Times, The editorial said that, as a reserve officer, I have no
right to criticize Presidential policy. The writer would °
do well to'look up his law. It is a fact and has been’ especially recited in a War Department bulletin that,
In an almost universally favorable press, the only
unless called to active duty, a reserve officer has the ‘
same right of criticism and free Sheecis: as any other citizen.
As for the tinsel rank of a reserve officer, never " °
were words more apt than Bobby Rurns’ “The rank a’ that.”
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
LIFTON FADIMAN, whose name spells fale magic, says he is concerned over the s0ap vogue but much more so over certain types of hile dren’s programs now on the air. Mr. Fadiman believes that American parents should take a ‘definite * stand ‘against these programs which are Jikely to have an evil influence ‘upon = the character of future Amerjcans. ‘In view of our eonstafit agita~ tions ‘about what goes into our children’s stomachs, jt seems strange how little we worry pe : what goes into their heads. The fellow who palmed off tainted food for babies would be in dane ger of. lynching by irate adults, but we remain complacent while an Bvglariene of tainted 00 Piricie)
and mental sustenange is offered to adolescence. While there is real. cause for alarm, and while I agree with Mr. Fadiman that’ intelligent parents. -
ought to become more vociferous abaut the matter,
yet certain visible trends point to improvement, * All over the country Junior League/ groups are ‘writing and directing and broadcasting new types of air programs for children—some of which are excellent. The. American Association of University Women does * likewise in several: cities, and other feminine organizations are making plans for Similar
- Complaints are heard that children still prefer - the blood-and-thunder sort of entertainment—which cangot surprise us much. If their taste remained untrained in other lines, most of them would prefer and demand candy instead of milk, but no parent
would consider that an ultimatum for cutting milk
off the nursery diet It's time for us to wake up to one fact—children do not know: what is bad for them. Parents must
decide that issue, and conscientious ones realize that
what is instilled in youth, | adult’ behavior and thinking. Babies ought fo be spared the tel ane excite. ment, of some modern fare. Surely mothers and fathers ‘who are aware that such fare is dane aught Jo become You Go (he wc, ‘More-