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"BEYOND LIFE FAY the flowers gently on the sod, prop the wreath care1

; inst the monument. The dead will not hear, Be : bed. They had their hour;

nor see, nor smell, nor be distur

“brief it was. They were cut down in their youth and in

3 “their strength. : 5 of These men we honor today died for us. They died

Hoseniie, with what vision was granted to them at the time, “it seemed the only way to preserve something more pre-

cious than life. — Did you ever t "say anything like ist 4 you would get only a deprecatory 5 ye Biect, perhaps even an obscenity-decked denial. Men who

i a’ ing democracy, or of ‘become soldiers don’t talk about saving devotion to freedom. Don't let that fool you. The devotion is there, too deep for expression sometimes, too latent for thought, but it is there. | > We De do nothing more for them. They do not see our ministrations nor smell the fresh Plossmps What we 0 i i i ly for ourselves. “do today in honoring them is really p It is a rededication of ourselves to the end that we shall

not, in any evil day, prove less than they.

alk to soldiers? You wouldn’t hear them If the subject were brought up, shrug, a swift change of

WE LOSE A ROOM | GQOMEWHERE back along the last 15 years, the average ican house has lost a room. fein data from 83 principal cities, the Mortgage Bankers’ Association finds that the usual new house being built today has five rooms, whereas 15 years ago it had six. Smaller families is the answer that instantly springs "to mind, but there may be another reason. For one thing, "it has become unfashionable to have more house. than is actually needed. The “parlor,” locked up and unused except for funerals and big parties, is out of favor. If we can get built the thousands of new homes the country needs, nobody will worry much over the fact that

they may be of five rooms instead of six.

APPENDIX OPERATION FROM time to time we have pointed out the waste of public money by Senators and Representatives. who print in the appendix of The Congressional Record vast quantities of material having nothing to do with business before Con-

gress. Now we are

ing some of his mo

glad to note at least a gesture toward savney. Senator Hayden of Arizona, chairman of the joint committee on printing, announces new regulations designed to reduce the volume of stuff—speeches never delivered in Congress, newspaper and magazine articles, and other matter “not germane to the proceedings ~_ Printed in The Record at a cost, according to the Senator, - of $45 a page. : ot BR IE of House or Senate may still put in as much as two pages of such irrelevant material —that it, $90 - worth—by obtaining the unanimous consent of his fellows. Such consent is seldom, if ever, refused. © But any member who proposes an insertion of more than two pages must first get a cost estimate from the public printer, and must announce that cost when he asks for “leave to print.” In other words, if a Congressman wants to print more than a $90 item, he must reveal how much of the taxpayers’ money he is wasting. : We hope for results. The cost of printing The Record, as Senator Hayden points out, has increased greatly. It avas $981,000 in the 1933-34 session of Congress, $1,429,000 in 1935-36, $1,547,000 in 1937-38, and $1,795,000 in 1939-40. And a large part of this increase, the Senator says, has been due to overstuffing the appendix. Insertions running to 10 pages and upward have been not uncommon, especially during political campaigns. Here is one extravagance for which Congress is solely responsible, and which can be cured with leadership by the President or the Secretary of the Treasury. If Congressfen really mean what they say about wanting to reduce non-defense spending, they ought to give that swollen appendix much more drastic treatment than Dr. Hayden's

committee prescribes.

KNOW YOUR ONIONS PEAKING of economy in non-defense spending—of _—.2 spending on monuments and such—let us consider the

~ up-to-now too humble onion. Proposed by Rep. Fred Gilchrist (R. Towa) is a $15,000

appropriation for a stronger breed of onion. Says Mr. Gil-.

christ’s H. R. 2951—“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for . . . the breeding, acclimatization, adaptation, and selection of a disease and insect resistant or immune breed - of onions, and the sum of $15,000.” : We won't stop to debate whether there is actually any oney in the Treasury, but will proceed to the question of the onion. If the onion is in truth a defense mechanism, then surely H. R. 2951 should be hurried through. We are inclined to take up for the onion. As an agency of offense, military as well as social, the full possibilities “of the onion have been long overlooked. In peace-time and in war, 'tis true, it has broken up many a dinner party by ‘its potency. But its full effectiveness has never been explored. Its ultimate strength has been given too little attention by our great government. While experiments in tear gas and tanks and planes have been exploited, the onion has been neglected and ignored. Double or quadruple its fumes and many a conqueror might fall back without firing a shot. © © What is a measly $15,000 in such a crisis? The onion, it seems, may be the solution. We weep and mop our eyes that it hadn’t been thought of earlier. But, since Rep. Gilchrist has at long last all s in back 0 8 %

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Mrs. Spelvin Receives a Letter From Her College Son Which Reflects Grim Uneasiness of Nation's Youth

EW YORK, May 30.—The son of George Spelvin, American—not the one they call Dummy, who is a cheap and shiftless little cynic with a mind and spirit fed on scandal and swing, but the other one, who is a freshman at college—has written a letter to his mother as follows: “I received a very bedraggled letter from you yesterday. Have you taken to chewing your letters before you mail them or am I to blame this maceration on the post office? “I have selected my room for next year and made out my schedule of courses. Our room is’ very nice, but there is much doubt that I shall ever occupy this room. The latest news is that all of us who have become 21 since the last draft by July 1 will be registered. “There is considerable talk of war here. It is, in fact, the principal topic of conversation at table now, as never before. The question now is when rather than whether. So there is considerable hother in my mind. Of those who are taking the military science course only the best will be accepted into the advanced course, beginning junior year. I have only been doing D work in this course, so this obviously lets me out. For this reason I have decided not to take the course next year, as the elementary course by itself is worth nothing as far as the draft or any preferment in the Army itself goes. ” EJ ” “y DO FEEL that I ought to get ahead of the game somehow, although at the moment I have no particular plans in mind. Some are taking up flying, but this I have rejected, because I don’t think my stomach would stand it, and planes have never interested me. Someone mentioned the Plattsburg course in the summer, but I know nothing about this. I have nothing definite in mind, you understand. I am just musing. “As far as the summer job goes, I am not going to let it stand in the way of this thing. Few of us feel that we will get through more than next year, if- that. New draft legislation and things coming up make it look as if our sophomore year will be our last, and, although I try to make plans as if I were going to stay four years, personally I don’t think so. ‘The whole thing is that I am really terribly confused. '-I don’t know what to think and, because there's no surety of any kind of future, I can’t plan. I am utterly unable te make up my mind, and, all in all, it is a most unpleasant affair. I feel that I ought to spend my summer in something that would be really profitable, not in the way of experience for a future job or anything like that but rather something that will get me ahead in the Army, when I g0. ” 8 ” Qriaton NYE was up here the other day preach- \ ing the cause of peace. It was strange how angry his ‘speech made me. The ostrich over .again. He spent his time denouncing the New Deal and declaring that this was not our war and that we would be fools to make again the mistakes of 1917, as if the situation were exactly the same. “I realize that this is a very chaotic sort of letter, but I am sort of chaotic myself these days. Really I don’t want any part of this beastly business. I want four years more of college. I want to read good books and get a good liberal education. I want to learn to appreciate the fine things in life. I am just beginning to realize what a storehouse there is in the past. It is as if I had just caught a glimpse through the keyhole of a great world. I am suddenly -consumed with a great passion to learn. There are literally scores of courses I want to take. I want to study music, drama, art (from a comprehensive rather than a productive view), philosophy, other Janginges, psycology (spelled better than that, I rust). “I want to write. I want to read, travel, do things. Dammit, I want to live. It must be the spring. “I cannot imagine what has produced this very glum letter from one who was supposed to cheer you up. It may be the reaction to the war news in the papers and to many individual worries of my friends.” Having read the letter, Mrs. Spelvin, American, went off to a corner and worried, but her other son, Dummy, said he was practically set. He is fixing to join a band touring the camps to cheer up the soldiers and get indispensable.

Business By John T. Flynn

Past Borrowings Make It Difficult For U. S. to Sell Bonds to Public

EW YORK, May 30.—The Government faces the problem which has faced every governmeilt during this war, and which in the end leads to funny financing. It is having difficulty selling its bonds to the public. This does not mean that the credit of the U. S. Government is impaired. The reasons are quite different. The greater the fear of inflation, the more difficult it always is to sell fixed obligations like bonds and mortgages, and a Government bond is not different from others on this score. : The Government is now, of course, reaping the wind on the policies it has sowed for eight years. It has been wallowing in deficits, which it has been handling by borrowing money from the banks. This has produced two unfortunate effects. One has been to lay the ground. work for inflation by bank borrowing. The other has been to build up a heavy Government debt. More borrowing on top of all this becomes progressively difficult. Now it is necessary to raise huge sums for national defense. Past borrowing makes taxes difficult because already an immense sum has to be raised by taxes to pay, first, the increasing costs of Government and, second, the mounting interest, on the borrowings of the last decade. Also the borrowings which must now be made must be piled on those already completed. Finally, since the borrowings were made through bank credit, which lays the foundation for inflation, it becomes increasingly dangerous to do more borrowing at the banks and yet almost impossible to escape it, since it becomes increasingly difficult to place loans with private persons. » ; » 8 8

HE national debt has increased by five billion

dollars in the last year. About two-fifths of this |

has been borrowed from the banks. The Government has been trying to sell its bonds directly to the public, but has not had much success. The problem is how to get the people to buy the Government bonds directly, without putting them into the banks or through the banks. There seem to be only four possible courses: ; : One is to put on a big ballyhoo campaign, with the bands playing, and to scare the people to death about Hitler coming here. Another is to attempt to sell the bonds through established investment channels. The third is to put on an enforced loan, on the English model, a la Mr. Keynes. The fourth is to raise the

moriey by taxes. The wise way, of course, is the last |

way—by taxes. But we cannot expect this Government to do so unpopular a thing.’ The plan for enforced loans is full of prospective danger, smart enough for the moment but full of headaches at the other end. Selling through bailyhoo methods would be from every aspect a tragedy.

If the Government is going to refuse to raise the |

funds by taxes, which I believe is certain, the least evil way left is to sell through investment channels. This will produce plenty of criticism, but the Government is up against realities created by itself,

So They Say—

IDEALISM IS never lost except when faith and morals are permitted to wither and decay. —James A. Farley, former Postmaster-General. . *

_WE BOTH ,SPOKE the languag

™ HONOR oF | AMERICANS who | FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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CLAIMS MAILMEN SHOWED POOR SPORTSMANSHIP By Charles L. Cotellier, 2202 Station St. The other day while watching & championship game between two Catholic grade schools, St. Cath-

erine and St. Francis de Sale, I saw one of the poorest examples of sportsmanship seen. These teams had but an inning and a half to play when in steps the U. S. meilmen, who said they had a permit or the diamonds at 5:30. They mace these boys get off of the diamonds. : Fifteen minutes more and the game would have been over but no, the mailmen couldn't give up 15 minutes of their permit. They had to have it right away. Their time on the diamonds was only two to three hours more of daylight. Sportsmanship is always taught to boys in all games of sports, These men sure didn’t show an example by not giving up 15 minutes of their permit so a championship game could be finished. I would like to have this printed to show what poor sportsmen some people can be. This game took place on May 27, 1941. ‘Thanks.

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| OPPOSES DAYLIGHT TIME

AS MENACE TO HEALTH By Charles J. Brown, 3139 St. Paul St.

When something turns up that is supposed to be detrimental to the public health and at the same time diverts a certain amount of money from the medical doctors into other channels such as the alleged quacks and charlatans, th: medical associations, the medical board that issues the licenses to physicians, and: all the medical societizs, etc., all become very much concerned over public health and they leave no stone unturned to eliminate the menace to the dear public. . Now contrast this attitude with the one taken by the same medical authorities when this questionable condition to the public health’ appears that doesn’t divert any money out of the medical channel. For example the Daylight Saving question. Ninety-nine per cent of the medical doctors will tell you that the greatest thing to retain good health and ,also regain it after it is lost is plenty or rest, sleep and relaxation. They will tell you that the greatest cause of ill health in this country today is the lack of rest and relaxation due to the hustle and bustle of our present day methods of living, and trying to cram too many hours of activity into each day. Fast time will increase this menace to health. It will deprive the working class of an hour of rest each morning during the hot summer months, but do you hear the medical societies protest-

that I have ever

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ing against it. No, and you won't, for regardless of what it does to the public health, it is: not diverting any money from the medical profession. There have been a few doctors protested and to them I give full credit, but it is the medical profession as a whole that I condemn for their indifference. : Of course all agree that everyone should have sufficient amount of sunlight, but who doesn’t get it. Those that don’t get it directly, get it indirectly, and during the hot summer months the direct rays of the sun are too severe for indoor workers, to be beneficial, until late afternoon or evening. The medical profession now warns people against undue exposure to the direct rays of the hot summer sun, as that is now believed to be one cause of cancer. Also, regularity of your eating and sleeping habits are stressed as very important by the physicians, but when fast time forces the people abruptly to change these habits by an hour twice a year we still hear no protest from the medical profession. To get rid of quacks and charlatans, if they are really proved to be, is commendable but can the physicians blame anyone but themselves for the public suspicion arising out of these acts in view of the lack of interest in the public health and well being, where there is no money involved such as in Daylight Saving? . » » » CONTENDS HITLER BOASTED OF HIS LIES By Robert Gnar, 38 W. 21st St.

Mr. A. Hitler is the world’s greatest liar. He is proud of it. In fact, he wrote a book to prove it and made everyone he lied to read the book. And they still believe his lies. : On the otner hand, where Mr. F. Roosevelt comes from, the word lie is u fightn word. Mr. F. Roosevelt doesn’t even use it against his nefarious opponents. He contents himself oy asserting that some of “them” may have deliberately misrepresented the facts, and blushes to name the “some” of “them.” However he has done very well under such a handicap in keeping himself from being misunderstood. We have come to learn that break-

Side Glances — By Galbraith

ing all of one’s original promises is merely changing tactics to meet new developments. And recently we have seen a touching child-like naivity in that famous utterance nf policy: “Let's do it and say we didn’t.” But until recently these two great exponents of “things aren't always what they seem,” although they have not always seen eye to eye, have not entered the same arena. Each has been content to convince his own public (and doing very nicely, thank you). Now we are to witness the battle for the championship; the battle to establish pre-humously the posthumous fact of who got America into the war, And in my opinion Mr, A. Hitler has won the first round. 9 The round opened with F. D. R. feinting with Measures Short of War. These were gradually increased pro re nata. But here he deceived even himself, for in his effort to allay fears concerning milder measures, he labeled one of his best weapons (convoys) “Danger—this means shooting which means war.” Yesterday A. H. gleefully accepted this line and had his second, Admiral] "Raeder, draw it again, Anybody knows that the fellow who knocks off a chip or crosses a drawn line is the fellow who starts the fight. So Mr. F. Roosevelt is presented with a situation where he can’t “do it and say we didn’t.” When our convoys weigh anchor and the shooting starts, his only stock phrase which will suit the occasion will be, “We planneq it that way.”

a8 n . URGES SEIZURES TO KEEP WAR AT A DISTANCE

By Edward F. Maddox, 959 W. 28th St.

Confusion and lack of knowledge of our vital defense "needs has

get down to business. stated, calls for freedom of the seas

tegic outposts necessary for defending this hemisphere against attack. The continent of Africa is a vital key strategic position, which any

or bent on attacking the Western Hemisphere must control before it can successfully invade North or South America, or effectively menace our ocean commerce. Therefore hard-headed common sense shows that the Gibraltar, North Africa, Suez line of battle is the great strategic point before our own, as well as England's national security is menaced.

There, on that vital line is the place to halt aggression, to keep the war from our shores. . .. © A few wise moves now can stop world aggression in its tracks and

fense. Taking Portugal and its strategic islands into protective custody. Base strong naval ‘and air units there, in the Indian Ocean and at Singapore. Tell France that if they make one more move to aid aggressors we will move in and take control of any of their colonial possessions which we would consider a menace to our national security if occupied by the Axis forces. We must draw a line somewhere

words that to cross that line means war with these United States. That is acting in self defense. ...

BLESSINGS By MARY WARD

If one is hastening to get things done, When the morning has only now

begun, It is because fleeting is the day itself, And much is to be accomplished for the cottage shelf— Flax to be tended, and into linen pressed, That the curly heads may more smoothly rest. And bread and butter must be near at hand— Oh, the many blessings working in the land! Tw

DAILY THOUGHT

The last enemy that ‘shall be destroyed is death.—I Corinthians 15:26. i

caused too much delay in our na-|$ tional defense program. Now, let’s|i

National defense, as Mr. Roosevelt :

for our commerce and for the stra- |}

nation bent on world domination, |§

and tell aggressor nations in plain|

FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1041

| Gen. Johnson

Says

It's the Duty of All to Support F. D. R. in Defense Effort But This Should Not Preclude Free Debate.

W J ASHINGTON, May 30.—The day after the Presie dent’s forceful speech announcing his proclamation of an “unlimited emergency” I was asked by Town Hall of the Air” to participate in a radio debate with some very distinguished people including” Attorney General Robert Jackson the brilliant; young C. I. Fh ant-general, James Carey. Tee question was “The Citizen's Place In an Unlimited National Emerg-

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+ For several reasons I accept. Among those an that, judging from the panel of debaters, it seemed to be assumed that I would take a position in part, at least, opposed to a come plete regimentation of American ] asgals, acum, manpower, capital abor, at any sac olalitarian Sort Jp make this i a the defense o hemisphere “on, the land, the sea and the air 0% Over on) wider s somewhat saddening. Hav h education in the terrific a Si Pigs “nation in arms” and of “total war,” both by study | since boyhood and intense and responsible experience in actual war, I have for years been preaching the re< grettable necessity of this for us in any great emergency. This column has been insisting on our moving in this direction ever since Hitler started as Chancellor of the Reich. It has been trying to spell out in detail what is “the citizen's place” in it from a war-gained knowledge but without much attention from either “the citizen” or.the Government.

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Y> it has been critical of this Administration, but principally of its failure to use vigorously what powers it has had in this direction and of its military and naval plans to dissipate the product of such an effort over too wide a world area instead of concene trating them to defend our splendid advantage of in terior lines. It has urged the donation of additional powers of American war-mobilization to the President wherever it appeared to be necessary to this end and it has supported a far more active use of existing powers than any we have seen. The “place of the citizen in an unlimited emerge ency” is the place of a soldier in an unlimited war, That place is to do anything his government asks him to do, to make any sacrifice, with his whole heart and without complaining. ‘It is to suppomt any decision made by. his elected leaders acting within the limits of their Constitutional war-powers and not to be too fussy about those limits. There is no power created or enlarged by the Presidential proclamation that has not been proved. by modern war-experience to be necessary. I doubt if there is any power added by calling it an ‘une limited” emergency that didn’t exist if you called it a “limited” emergency. That is a quibbling issue. I am and always have been for granting to any President; of the United States any power that he says he needs for the mobilization of American resources and their conversion from merely potential to actual weapons of war for the defense of America.

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o® resources for the uses of peace—men, money and materials—are very great. But, in times of danger, unless converied to the uses of war, they are no defense. They are the reverse of that. They are. a temptation to armed and piratical nations. On the other hand, if they are efficiently converted to war uses, mobilized and armed America can be the most formidable organ of destruction the world has ever seen. I didn’t just discover that either. I have been saying it for years. There remain, however, two points that must be reserved. Does the civilian regimentation, necessary to compact our defense, automatically transfer all the war powers of Congress, including that of declaring war, to the President? There is no such doctrine in the Constitution nor in any comment of scholar or statesman that I have ever seen. 5 Does the necessity for national unity preclude discussion and debate, even after war is declared, of the conduct of war or the wisdom of national war policy? It doesn't in England now, sorely beset as England is. It didn't in either England or America in the last World War. If it had, so far as England is concerned, Lloyd George would never have come in and the war would have been lost. through lack of modern armament, on the Western Front. If we fall for any such doctrine we are through. ;

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson = l

Ox country is calling upon its women to aid in national defense. There is nothing that will no% be asked of us if we go to war. Even during emer= gency preparations we note that many barriers in hazardous industries are coming down—barriers were : , set up, in the first place, by laws supposed to “protect women and minors,” even though such words sound like gibberish these days. Each of us will be expected “to give all and to sacrifice all” in order that our kind of government may survive. Anyone who fears American women will not respond wholeheartedly to the plea doesn’s | know women. : At the same time, women are asking something of their country, —an amendment to the Constitue » tion giving them equal rights with men throughout the United States and in every place subject to its jurisdiction. They've been asking this boon for some time, and so far have met with stern and steadfast refusal. ; The representatives who now cry for our help per= sistently reject the notion that women deserve full citizenship privileges. How they reconcile this atti tude with their fulminations about freedom is problem we can’t figure out. ; At the moment, our sex is employed in many armament industries. We work alongside men in every emergency; our sacrifices are as great as those of men, if not greater. Our contributions are equally

they are necessary for our own de- |-important to national welfare.

Very well, then. What sort of democracy is this we are being asked to defend by those gentlemen who occupy seats of power? Does it extend only to male citizens? Does freedom of worship belong to all, while freedom of work is denied to the feminine half of the population? There may be thousands of arguments against the passage of this amendment but they fall flat before the major issue: Those who pay taxes and sacrifice for democracy deserve the enjoyment of all its rights, This would seem to include women and Negroes.

Editor's Note: The views expressed bv columnists (n this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times. oe

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Q—What was the occasion for Theodore Roosevelt initiating the phrase: “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” and what does it mean? A—When advocating an increase in the navy, President Theodore Roosevelt declared that “we must speak softly and carry a big stick.” It was popularly, applied to the methods he used in controlling core porations and securing the nomination of Taft for President in 1908. Later it was used derisively to characterize the policy of the United States toward the Latin-American countries. a at {nani Q—When did the Republic of Haiti gain its ine | dependence from France? Lad Cg A 1677 to Jap. 1, a

A—It was a French colony from

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1804, when it proclaimed independence The prese: over ;