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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1941

Ls THEY FUNNY? ACK in the days of long skirts, tin lizzies and nickel odeons, the best chestnut on the circuit was about the old hick who was always proving by common horse sense that a flying machine couldn’t fly. And the older it got the funnier it got, because we who had onee believed with the farmer that flying was impossible could then laugh at such ignorance. - Somehow we are verinded of that by the current headlines of thousands of German invading troops landing in Crete from gliders. Remember how our military experts, and even many of our ‘aviators, used to laugh at those funny Heinies who wasted their time playing with toys called gliders? That wasn’t so long ago—only yesterday. In this machine-age any fool knows that a motorless *-plane is not practical. That is why our Army today is nqt - burdened with useless toys. We leave such stuff to thé Yummy man with the trick mustache.

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WHY FOOD GOES UP ANY people are complaining about the increasing cost of food and blaming it on shipments to England under the Lend-Lease Law, We think that is inaccurate and unfair to the British. ; : Food prices in this country are being raised by deliberate action of our own Government. This is partly because of desire to encourage more production of certain foodstuffs, largely because of yielding by Congress to the organized farmers’ demands for higher prices to keep pace with the successful demands of organized labor for higher wages. The 85 Per Cent of Parity-Loan Bill which Congress has passed will, if it becomes law, mean an eventual * 10 per cent increase in the cost of domestic foods. England wants only about 3 per cent of our food supply—only about 5 per cent of our butter, cheese and evaporated milk. England's requirements and our military requirements are less than one-twentieth of our total food production. And the British, seeking to avoid creating - American resentment, have refrained from bidding . for consumer goods of which we are short at present. Think what you please about policies that increase your cost of living—but don’t blame England for them. They are our own policies.

TOO MANY OFFICIAL VOICES QECRETARY OF STATE HULL, in denying that the United States plans to attack the French island of Martinique in the Caribbean, says this is German-inspired propaganda to create confusion. . ‘We can understand and sympathize with the Secretary in his embarrassment, but as a matter of fact this story about American seizure of French bases in this hemisphere and Africa was not started by the Nazis but by Interventionist Senators who pose as Roosevelt spokesmen. ~ This newspaper has long advocated the peaceful acquisition by the United States of all foreign bases in the Caribbean, and has repeatedly warned that delay increases the danger of our invplvement in foreign wars. : But whether that; peaceful policy is wise or unwise, or whether the military*%eizure plan is good or bad, the loud and lpose statements. of policy by alleged Roosevelt spokesmen is becoming an exceedingly serious matter. So serious,

indeed, that the Secretary of State confuses it with Nazi # :

~~ ‘propaganda. - Obviously there can be no question of ‘the: sincerity and patriotism of most of the Interventionists who are try- | ing to force the President’s hand—that is legitimate propa- \ ganda by private citizens. But it is neither legitimate nor : \ patriotic for Administration officials and Senators to peddle © \ their personal propaganda as Presidential spokesmen. they cannot speak as individuals they should not speak at : all—though some would ‘sooner sacrifice their life than their gab. . Would it not be well for Cabinet officers ‘to get on with their own unfinished jobs, and leave the statement of Administration foreign policy to the - Secretary of State and

the President ?

WHY ASK FOR IT? HAVING asked Congress to continue the President's power to further devalue the gold content .of the dollar, Secretary ‘of the Treasury Morgenthau added that “obviously the Administration_hés no present. intent Fhaisoever” of using this power. Then, in the name of common sense, why ask for it to be continued? Last January the Federal Reserve System made a special report to-Congress—a report ‘about which far too little is being done-—urging certain steps to forestall the threat of inflation’ as a result of the defense program. Among other things, it said: : “In view of the completely lgtgid nfernatiohal situation during the past year, the power further to devalue the dollar in ‘terms: of gold is no longer’ necessary or desirable and should be allowed to lapse.” ~~ Under this power, the President could say that an ounce of gold is worth not $20.67, as it was before 1934, and not $35, as it has been by his decree since 1934, but $41.34. ‘That would increase the “value” of the Government’s huge hoard of gold by more than four billion dollars, and so enable the Treasury to issue that much extra turrency. Since this country just now has no more need for currency inflation than a drowning man has for a drink of water, it is easy to understand why Mr. Morgenthau disclaims any “present intent of using the power. / : But fear of inflation can be almost as menacing to fiscal soundness as inflation itself. The very existence. of ‘this inflationary power contributes to fear. Allowing the ‘power te lapse on June 30, as it will unless Congress extends it, will help to allay fear. And if this Administration just E would show itself willing to relinquish an emergency |

and his. picked -panders,

1 to this.

Fair | Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Despite Conviction. .as a Pander ‘And Indictment on U. S. Tax Charge Bioff Is Renamed to Labor Post

TEW YORK, May 23.—'Mid war's alarms. there may be light entertainment in the news that William Green’s gangster friend, George Browne, a ‘member of the executive council of the HE Federation of Labor, has ‘reappointed Willie . Bioff, the old Chicago brothel keeper, as his ambassador plenipotentiary in Hollywood. * Brother Bioff bears the title of M. H, or master of the hatlots, conferred on him by the Appellate Court of the sfate of Illinois, and is at present under indictment for evading his Federal income tax on $100,000, ‘which he either extorted or agcepted :as a bribe from Joe Schenck, the: movie magnate, himself under. conviction for charging off his social expenditures as business expenses.. The trial of the distinguished Chicago M. H. on this Federal charge was to have started in Los Angeles recently, but has | been postponed until ‘September, and meantime the criminal, who admittedly used his official power as union bargaining agent to obtain money from She employers’ bargaining agent, will render pa service in facilitating the preparation of films o : high moral tone for the training. of the soldiers of the new army. ” » 8 LL respectable citizens In the anions of the A. P, of L. and particularly the camergmen, stagehands and projectionists, doubtless will rejoice at this compliment of one of their leaders. And, naturally, the CHicago underworid of vice and other crime will interpret the move as affirmative recognition of their group, for brother Bioff, M. H., is an old racketeer of the historic Capone mob, and “brother Browne himself has been a gangman for. many years. In fact, Brother Browne, of the.executive council of the A. F. of L. and one of brother Will ‘Green's intimates, only recently intervened to compel the members of a small local unicn of projectionmen in East St. Louis to readmit to membership another of his criminal friends, Clyde A. Weston, who is under sentence of the Federal Court to serve five years in prison and pay a $10,000 fine for racketéering at the expense of another local in St. Louis proper. Brother Weston and another criminal, named Johr P. Nick, were convicted together after a long and dangerous fight upon.them by a few respectable rank and file workers of the St. Louis union, in the course of which brother GCireen threw his support to the underworld. Brother Nick was an old hand in the Browne union, having risen to the office of first international : vice president before he finally. was nailed, with Weston, for ‘using the union to extort money in various ways. 2 " f J Ta T might be of interest, also, that the Browne-

another of Browne's plenipotentiaries, has a distinguished friend in the United States Congress. This is William T. Schulte, a Democratic statesman from. the criminal-underworld Chicago suburb of Hammond,

“Ind.,. . who. has been a member of the union for 30

years. .and whose residence there, naturally, has thrown him into association with gangster Browne gunmen and free-style thieves. The eminent Hoasier. statesman is thoroughly acquainted with the affairs of the union and its dominant characters, as he openly declared when, at the convention of hoodlum’s old home week, of June, 1936, in Kansas City, he eulogized his comrade, Rensster: Browne. “This old ship of ours was rocking; we were bound we knew not where,” the Congressman told the assembled gorillas and working stiffs, referring to the depression and the opportune demise, by gunfire, of brother Browne's predecessor, Tommy Maloy, who had been knocked off in Chicago. “It was a gark hour. In Louisville (where Browne succeeded: Maloy) the man did not seek the job. The job sought the man. And only through his guiding spirit. Oh, there may be some who would find’ fault—some people will find fault with Santa Claus—but I want to tell you—and President Green will verify this statement—no other organization has weathered the storm as we have weathered it under the leadership of that great man.” (Loud and continued applause.) " Brother Green then indorsed the remarks of Rep.

second to none in the A. PF. of L. and assuring the assemblage that he had gained “renewed strength and courage to go forth and battle for you | and the working men and women of the nation.” This essay is only to keep you up to date.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Hull Economic Plan Sounds Well But Faces Difficulties—Always Has, EW YORK, May 23.—Secretary Hull has an-

nounced the principles. which will guide the policies of the world when the new peace is made.

‘There must be no extreme nationalism, no national

discriminations in international trade, and raw ma- ; terials must be available to all nations.

agree with -these high objectives. If T were fo say that when this war is over we will banish seifishress, crimes of violence and unruly ambition, and cancer; no man could possibly object. But:-all men ' would know such a program would" not make sense. ' Take.:Mr. Hull’s third. proposal —that raw materials shall be open to all nations. Submit that to a little scrutiny and see what you have. It happens that the greatest and most essential. raw materials are most abundant in a few countries— the United States, Russia ang the British Empire. Generally speaking, except in time of war, these countries which have these’ raw materials are eager to sell them to their neighbors. Our steel, wheat, hogs, copper and cotton men sit up nights trying to find ways to sell more of their products abroad. Producers in every other country with raw material§ do the same. Yet, in spite of our eagerness to sell, many countries have to get along on a starvation diet of essential materials. Why is this? The answer is simple. ‘When the Argentine buys raw materials from us, we export them. But she cannot buy such raw materials unless she can pay for them with either gold or goods—raw materials of her own. She hasn't the gold, so she must sell to us in order to buy from us:

T # at this point that thiis ‘beautiful dream ‘oréaks down. “We havé built a huge tariff wall around our country to keep out the goods of other countries which compete with our products. Therefore, while in theory Argentina can help herself to our raw materials, in practice she cannot. She cannot buy from us because we will not .buy enough from her, and what is true of us is true of almost every other country in the world.

terials of every country available to every other country, what he ig really talking about is throwing down our tariff walls and getting other countries to throw down theirs. I do not know how he will succeed with the others, but he is certainly going to have a nice war on his hands when he tries it here. He has made some modest, feeble little reciprocity treaties which make tiny holes in our tariff walls, and yet he has had the most furious opposition even wa Treaty opening rom some new peace a 0 huge gaping doors in ‘hoses ‘walls? y

So They Sdy-

IN WARS OF the past, battles were fought over forts and towns and cities for control ,of & nation. Now battles are fought over nations for control of

the WOEld—-Seoretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard,, WE ALWAYS :

Bioff-Weston-Nick group, which is further adorned- . by the person Nick Dean, the Chicago stickup man, as:

Schulte, saying that brother Browne’s group stood [-

| U. 8. FOREIGN POLICY

Of - course no man will dis-

‘be 1iised in planes.

Now, when Mr. Hull talks about making raw ma- |

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FRIDAY, MAY. Bd 1s

The Hoosier 1 wholly disagree with what you -say, but will defend to the death yourright to say it. =Volitive:

| VIEWS HOGAN oi AS

ANOTHER. BLOW AT HITLER By. John J.: Gorman, 59'S. Tremont St. A great wave of depression appeared to engulf the whole German

Adolph Hitler. This news from America ‘coming closely after ‘the defection of Rudolph Hess will probe ~ ably constitute another major set-

may entail an immediate change in plans. When Hitler was informed he appeared to be stunned but later gave the following statement: “This American internationalist has been for some weeks berating Lindbergh and Senator Wheeler. “It is refreshing to note that he is capable of producing new thunder. “Herr Hogan should redlize that nothing he mfay say or think will affect the ultimate outcome. Our path lies straight ahead. Our destiny

face the future with the ‘utmost calm and with serene confidence. We will continue to confound our enemies and go forward to victory.”

® x = BRANDED A FAILURE By R. G. L., East Chicago, Ind.

To a reader of history some 20

‘| years hence it will probably seem

very strange that while we of today are congratulating ourselves on the Administration's foreign policy and the work of our State Department, almost every other nation in the world. today outside the British Empire is (or purports to be) convinced of the failure of American diplomacy. And makes no bones abou’ saying the “American foreign

tions at war or in bad relations.” We're mad at Russia, we forgive her; then slap down a moral embargo, then lift it only to clamp down ‘again. Off again, on again Flanagan, there. We slap Japan’s wrisii by failing to renew trade treaties, yet continue to supply her with “nor.-aviation” gasoline which can : We incite the Balkans - to fight for their liberty when they, have nothing to - fight with. Relations with South America are fine so long as they don’t ask for evidence™of our good faith in the way of trade ‘advantages. Then we give the Latins: plenty: of evidence the gringoes are going to

nation when it became known that} Pat Hogan had disagreed with

back for high Nazi officialdom and

is before us. We will not falter. We |

policy must be to keep all other na-|.

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continve. “ play the role of Colossus of the North. 2% In short we've managed to endanger good. relations with all other countries, not-only the Axis belligerents. And now we're on the point of breaking off ‘with the French because.they haye made an agreement or. something ‘with the Nazis. By the’ same token ‘we ought to break off with Turkey, for the Turks have made-a pact with Russia and we've broken off (very nearly) with Russia. And . Brazil—they’re favorable to the Nazis, _runs American comment. Maybe this is the wisest and rightest course to‘ take. But since our righteousness leaves us so wonder, in’ reading foreign opinion, wonder, in reading foreign opinion whether American diplomacy hasn’t

| been a failure as charged, Ambassador Dodd's diary doesn’t help dispel “|the uneasy feeling there’s something

very wrong in the State Department, either. - "How can we help getting suspicions like that when our government renders all information on our international business a deep dark secret and the little information that filters through comes from the British government? ® » = : SKILLED WORKER PUZZLED BY FAILURE TO GET JOB By Paul Senior, 901 Charles St. The papers and the radio are full of the talk of the need for skilled men for defense WOPK. | .Ten years I worked at the old Marmon plant, three years at Duesenberg, several more years at various other shops. A few more years I had shops of my own. Machine shops, assembly work, experimental work and in turn various “white collar” jobs with the leading firms of the city. I have been registered at the Indiana Employment Bureau for

five years—but never so much as a

hint of a job from. them: Am I to believe. that one must. “know somebody” or-is there some secret

Side Glances ns By Galbraith

way of getting one. 5 of hese jobs I

so badly need and could fill so eficiéntly? It. seems to mg this is a public service that might interest many. othgr “outsiders” like myself.

= x @ DEFENDING . 85% FARM PARITY BILL

By Edmond C. Foust, Editor, The Hoosier Farmer So the contributor to this column signing the ‘letters M. L. L. thinks that 85 per cent loans on farm commodities is ‘too much for farm people, or, in other words, according ‘to the statement made, it is a crime ‘for farm folk to have returns on their labor partially equal to that of other groups of American ‘citizens. This seems such a short-sighted attitude to take when less than a decade ago, farmers fed the nation at much less than the cost. of production, to say nothing ahout a profit. : Had there béen no| cheap food during the depression, there might have been serious trouble, but farmers continued to produce, for it was their job. Is there any reason why farmers should not share prices equal to other groups instead of “but 85 per cent? And on the other hand, there is no reason why food should advance 10 to 20 per cent on the strength of the farm loans passed by Congress. For the past year, farmers’ have received but 42 per cent of the consumers’ dollar instead of better than 60 per cent, his part during the first World ‘War. Something has gone with a third of the farm: income during the last 20 years. When it takes 60 cents to distribute 40 cents” worth ' of farm commodities, there needs to be some investigation in places other than the farm fields of America.

necks in our national defense today, for American: -farmers are resdy. for war or any other emergency likely to arise. ‘There is food for everyone who is willing to pay a decent

other fellow’s income. A little more tolerance is needed if unity is to prevail when unity is sorely needed. Sr gp # » 8 SEEKING MORE DATA ON . THE: HESS ‘SOLUTION’

By Jim Flagstone, Plainfield, Ind, Mr. Braddick. . ‘Dear: €hum: ‘Your reply to our 8. O.:S.'on the Hess flight was after

‘a fashion: clever: enough but let me

remind you: if 1 dare that you did not answer our. question. : You say. that Hess went to ‘England to find out What is holding them up and all the time I ‘have been under the im on that he went to Scotland. | It's a wonder they wouldn't tell a fellow. At least we w th agree that he did not go: td komo and we have seen A0thing ‘of him here in

. 50 the: exp Aime—O wise man of “Howard County—please finish .iyour - explanation and tell us|: what is holding. them up and let me

+ ‘|further remind you that we refuse {te accept your decision until we

hear from some of the other experts

1° |on angles,

1 think I will study trigonometry.

THE REDEEMER By MARY WARD So sweetly He came To His mother’s place And ‘blest was His name

Then Calvary's hill Knew His step one. day, _ Like dew in A; Or Aid Spray— The Savior {here to fulfill Life and Love always.

: DAILY THOUGHT

And the Lord shall deliver me every evil work, and will

gs me unte his heavenly : om. Timothy 4:18.

Had every industry followed the] § lead of farmers in the field of pro-| § duction there would be no bottle-| §

price’ based on but 85 per cent of the | &

[Gen Johnson.

SWiisourt Democrals Aboron Fight ‘For Governorship But It's Tragic Such a Thing Could Happen i in U.S.

ST ‘Lous, Mo., May 23.—Out’ here in Mtssourt

a political curiosity which has Just come to a fruitless end is worth writing home about. Missourt has had none but dn acting holdover Democratic Governor, Stark, since the last elections: half ‘a year ago. She has had no: Governor ‘because a high-minded Republican, Forrest C. Donnell was re ported by the State Election Board to have won in a close race with a New Dealer, Lawrence McDaniel, by a majority of 3613 votes.

Under the law it: then became

~ the duty of the Legislature, . through the Speaker of the Low- - er House, to certify’ the election whereupon the Governor-elect would resolution, the Legislature, still controlled by the old Pendergast

‘machine, refused to do. It said the Republicans had

used money in the election. This action shocked the retiring Democratic Gov ernor Stark, who is rising to national prominence so fast that if Mr. Roosevelt, who had “never sought renomination,” had not heen “drafted,” Governor Stark would have been one of the leading Demoe cratic possibilities. It also shocked a courageous and honest New Deal

‘erin the Legislature, who arose in his place and said, in effect, that what was being proposed was a liquida- :

tion of American democracy. He insisted that the terms of the election laws had been fulfilled, that there was no evidence before the Legislature of any corruption except partisan and unsupported oratorjcal statements of wishful politicians, As to them, he

] suggested that it was in his and their knowledge that, in the past, they.also had sanctioned the use of -

money and that men who come pieading equity, as amending formal law, must come with clean hands. 2 ® ”2

HE might have added that, whatever piddling pri

vate partisan money might have supported Republican candidates, it was a trickle compared with the flood of public money, used for partisan purposes, that has flowed into the state of Missouri and all other states in WPA, AAA, FYA, FHA, RFC, PWA, and a half-a-dozen other alphabetical Tigzzies for wastive Federal funds: Of course, the curious bed-fellowship of a corrupt political organization with the high “idedlism” of the fifth New Deal howled this courageous Democrat down and defeated overwhelmingly his proposal that the Legislature do its constitutional duty. The law was so plain that when the case was taken to the State Supreme Court it ordered the Legislature to act as the law required. That court is also dominated by Democrats—but they in turn were dominated by no political machine, either in or out of Missouri. This was countered by a legislative resolution for a recount of the ballots in precincts where corruption had been charged. This. was in support of a contest filed by the defeated candidate, Mr. McDaniel, It could have proceeded promptly, but the indications’ were that it would have more than confirmed the ‘report of the election hoard. Also, promptness was not what these obstruction= ists wanted. They wanted interminable delay in the installation—of the Governor-elect so a recount of the whole election was ordered. ®. 8 MEANWRLLE, the Legislature remained in sedsion for months at great public expense doing al« most nothing, and with. almost, nothing to do except to make a farce of the - processes of American dee mocracy. Then, as the ordered state-wide recount, proceeded, “it became increasingly clear that it was: most embarrassingly piling up the majority for Donnell as first reported and cutting into the reported vote of McDaniel, This self-sought exposure would never, never do, and so comes the pay-off. Mr. McDaniel hastily withdraws his contest petition. order of the Supreme Court: to full force and validity. The Legislature will belatedly do its duty and go home. Governor Donnell ‘will be installed, but isn’t the whole story a hell of a note? If that sort of thing can be done in a state, why can’t it be done in the nation? And if it can be done anywhere in a democracy, maybe Hitler is right. Of course, he isn’t right, for the bright side of this story-is that a few honest, courageous and patrie otic Democrats wouldn't let their 3 party get

away with it. A Woman's S Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson’

J\Y citizens these days confuse democracy with Gallup Polls. ‘And, since we must follow these polls, I'm glad’ the women have made one. - According. to a recent nation-wide survey by the: National Committee to Keep. thé United States:Out War, 94.9 per cent of Amstioan women are opposed to our involv ment in the present conflict and to ‘union withthe British ‘Empire; y 5:1 per. cent’yoted for active ticipation, and thrée-fourths of Plat. number wery' an frie Eastern seaboard states. a "This: is . enlighte for two reasons. First, it su sorts what I have long believed at. the move toward ‘war: originated and has gained greatest - ‘momentum. in those sections of our nation where foreign visitors aré most Bumercus and where the natives feel a closer: kinship. wi Europeans than with their own co trymen west of the Hudson. u" ving Second, it proves that the women of the United States do not want their nation plunged into another foreign conflict. And I defy any individual or any group to say that 94 per cent of America’s women are unpatriotic. They are not. They love their country and w 8 . be. willing to give their men to die ee lg, But they are not convinced that such fighting and

dying on the seas or on European soil would-be

‘effective. They are not sure those nable objectives can..bs gained at any sacrifice, however great. And, although their belief in freedom and democracy is sincere, they'd like to see them fully established here before Ye ae forth te:plant them in the four sorners of the Many of these, women were. sold: a bill of, goods 1917, and by the same idealists who are peddling a to them now and who used. the same slogans. One out’ of ‘every 10 men who went to fight abroad is buried there. The Mothers .of America regarded the ‘fact’ proudly at the time. Some even rejoiced in it, believing what they were told—that their own sacrifice, and the blood spilled, would make the world safe for democracy and end war forever. It did neither, and there’s no need for me to recite what it did do. It is enough to say that our women the Sl , bout a1 11 discl hae titud have oses their him who runs read. ye BE ‘Baitor's Note: The views expressed by abi in this ” mewspaper are their own. They sre not amscessarily these

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