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Give Light ond the Peoples Will Find Their Own Way THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941

EXCUSE OUR WEATHER, PLEASE! “WE doubt if Indianapolis ever can boast again of being * 'V the largest inland city in the United States without

>a navigable stream. Certainly not to those courageous

“Shriners who came slogging down Meridian Street in water “up around their shoe tops. : “Of course we were disappointed that the full parade ‘could not be held, for the thousands who came out missed *Wwhat would undoubtedly have been one of the finest spec~tacles in a decade. But we were no more disappointed than “the Shriners who came from all parts of the nation, many =just to participate in the parade. : : . Hats off, though, to a great gang of fellows! We hope they had as much fun during their five-day stay as the

rest of us had watching them.

<CONFUSION CONFOUNDED "AAR. CHURCHILL'S speech in Commons, when considered ©" in connection with various statements made on this side of the water, tends fo multiply confusion rather than ‘diminish it. i, &. The Prime Minister's size-up of the situation was a ~ <far cry from the declaration of his information chief in this “country, Sir Gerald Campbell, that the British situation was “very serious.” = : ~. We have been told that Britain is inferior to Germany %in the air. Mr. Churchill says, regarding the home front: “ “We rely on a strong superiority of air power, and on much greater air power, both actually and relatively, than was “proved sufficient last autumn.” Denying that Britain is sshort of planes to send to the Middle East, he says: “It is _ “not a question of aircraft, but solely of transportation in the ‘sense of the time it takes to transfer it.” It has been asserted in this country that Nazi bombing : has decreased British war production. But Mr. Churchill says: “Our production is very far from being beaten down

Si -by the disorganization from the air attack. -It is increasing

© ‘at a very high rate . ., the output (of guns and heavy tanks) for the month of May, a four-week month, was the highest yet reached and more than double the monthly rate . for the last quarter of 1940.” > Reports were circulated here recently that American

supplies for Britain were being sunk in increasing quantities

[as much as 40 per cent. Mr. Churchill says: “The Battle «of the Atlantic is also being well maintained . . . May was 7in fact the best month we have had for some time upon ~ the Atlantic.” - * This is all very confusing. : .~ Perhaps the facts are neither as dark as some British ‘and American officials would have us believe, nor so bright “as the Churchill-Roosevelt counter statements, but rather “in between the two, as indicated by American newspaper «correspondents. : ¥ Whatever the precise truth, the net effect of conflicting

official reports is to confuse the American public at a time |

when it has need of facts on which to base its thinking.

THE ADMIRAL CHANGES HIS MIND YATES STIRLING JR. is a retired Rear Admiral of the U. S. Navy, who writes occasional commentaries on strategical matters. He is a Navy man, through and through. And so it

was not particularly surprising last September to read in

pne of Admiral Stirling’s articles an attack on the inde-pendent-air-force idea. : But that, was last September. Since then many things have happened, including of late the conquest of Crete by air power unassisted—a conquest in which the British Navy now admits it lost four cruisers, six destroyers and 15,000 men. : While he insists that the naval air arm should be ~ #maintained intact and under naval command,” he now ‘concedes and champions the right of air power to cut the pther apron strings that bind it to the older services. He Bays, in an article this week: “Our air corps has earned the right to come into its own, divorced from any top dressing. The air corps under a unified setup would be controlled by men who are thoroughly expert in their art. They would know what they need in the way of fighting instruments, and would have sole responsibility for their use. They would short-circuit

all contacts between design and the civilian experts in.

production. . - : “Those who would control our air force would also fight with it. What could be more logical ?”

- HISTORY LESSON “(CYPRUS is reported to be the next Mediterranean island where British sea power and German air power will . fight for possession. ‘The word Cyprus is akin to the word copper. Since the Bronze Age of Man, Cyprus has provided copper to the Mediterranean world. Its ore deposits are ~ running low now, but on this island is located the oldest, * continuously-worked copper mine in the world—operated, incidentally, by an American corporation. : Most of the present inhabitants of the island are Greeks and Turks. In its 3000-odd years of known history Cyprus has been under the political dominion of the Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Greeks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, English, Knights Templars, French, Genoese, if Venetians and Turks. Briefly, after the Arabs were driven out, Cyprus was ndependent. That ended in 1191, when England’s Richard I upied the island because the Cypriotes had maltreated Crusaders. The latest British occupation started with

he World War in 1914 when the British took the island

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler California Unioneers Get Drubbing

As Legislature Outlaws Hot Cargo

Device and Secondary ' Picketing.

EW YORK, June 13—When the California legislature adopts a measure limiting in any way the privileges of organizations calling themselves labor

unions, that’s news. So, when the same body not only |

enacts a law but turns the car around and runs over the carcass to prove that the first performance was no accident, that may be accepted as evidence that there is still a strong sentiment for free government, as distin guished from the rule of predatory and irresponsible’ mob leaders, in the one state which, more than any other, has suffered from their

arrogance. : That happened last week. in Sacramento when the lower house, - by a two-thirds majority, over= rode Governor Olson’s veto of a bill to outlaw the device of the hot cargo and secondary . picketing. The Senate already had rebuked the Governor, who is of the New DealFelix Frankfurter school, by a vote of 34 to 5, and the bill is now a law of California. Although Governor Olson based his veto on a representation that the law would. violate both the state and Federal Constitution, his stated reasons may be divided by his record and affiliations, He is one of those who have indicated a belief that unions have special rights to persecute the American citizens by ingenious tricks of harassment which have - reached perfection in his own state and have placed the privilege of the unioneer above the. welfare of: the people. » » 8 IS packed Supreme Court some time ago made a decision consistent with his policies which might have been dictated by Frankfurter himself. It held that American citizens had no right to refuse to join a union and that the union had a right to picket, as unfair to labor, an employer who merely refused to compel his employees to join or to fire them for refusal so to do. : Governor Olson has known for years that the California C. I. O. was a Communistic organization, and I would not say he knew this if I did not know what was in his mind. I do know what was in his mind on this subject, and yet, knowing this—this chief of an American state sought and found reasons to reject a measure which the Legislature had passed in the interests of American government and internal peace. . The hot cargo device was dusted off recently by the San Francisco-Oakland unit of the Newspaper Guild. During negotiations between the Guild and the United Press, when the dispute. apparently reached a deadlock, the San Francisco-Oakland Guild adopted a resolution threatening to refuse to handle United Press news as hot cargo. This was apparently a violation of the employment. contract of the San Francisco-Oakland Guild and the employers, but more important, it was a declaration that nonunion news could not be published.

® » » IF was not the first time in Guild history, however, that the organization had attempted to intimidate the free press. By secondary picketing, or boycott, of

advertised goods it had frequently attempted to’

destroy or seriously damage publishing companies through intimidation of their advertisers. It had also placed picket lines around stores which refused to stop advertising in struck papers, thus resorting to the very weapon, financial pressure of the advertiser, which it had often deplored as a vice of American journalism. The United Press case, however, directly affected the presentation of news to the public, and it may be regretted that the negotiations finally. did bring agreement, for a showdown probably would have given a clear understanding of the influence behind the Guild and of its regard for freedom of the press. California is not lost to the racketeer and Communist conspirator, although there have been times when the fight seemed almost hopeless. The people themselves defeated the Ham ’'n’ Eggs dictatorship

‘plan proposed by adventurers, some of whom had

criminal. records, although the Communistic C. I. O. gave it enthusiastic support. And now, with this act of the Legislature, hope

rises that the public government will eventually re-

capture the functions and duties of government in California and reverse the whole trend toward Govivi by racketeers and the comrades of Joseph

Business By John T. Flynn

We Must Keep Prices Down in Order To Beat Germans in Post-War Trade

EW YORK, June 12.—Any man who says we have nothing to be concerned about in a post-war world—particularly if Germany wins—is whistling in’ the dark. .No sane man has ever said that. Certainly, however, there is nothing the United States has so little to fear as the fate of its foreign trade. But as reasonable men we must take the measures dictated by wisdom and experience to protect ourselves in foreign markets. Bernard Baruch makes one suggestion which this writer has frequently pressed, and it is heartening to see it getting the weight of Mr. Baruch’s widely-known voice. When the war ends, all the countries of the world—including Germany, if she is successful— will go out in the markets of the world to sell their goods. When they do, price will be an important element in getting buyers. We shall have to undersell our rivals—including Germany. That being so, as Mr. Baruch points out, maintaining a low price structure will then be an absclutely essential device for protecting and expanding our foreign sales. At this moment we are making a pretty good job of rushing into a war with our eyes closed and our heads hot. And one of the reasons for this is to “save our foreign trade from the totalitarian aggressors.” But at the same time we are following a national financial policy which will paralyze us in the -world’s markets as a competitor when the war ends. 4 » » 8 E are following a policy which is as sure to raise prices out of all reason as the sun is sure to continue to rise. Would it not be a strange tragicomedy if we went into a war to save our foreign trade and, when the war ended, saw it evaporate because in fighting the war we had crippled ourselves by moving to a much higher price level so that we could sell nothing abroad? Of course rising price levels are something which might well spread to Germany as well as other countries. But Germany, being a dictatorship, can take measures to protect itself against price disturbances which are extremely difficult for us, a: democracy. In Germany the Fuehrer can seize any plant or mine or shop he wishes. No one will dare protest.

In America our President tries to rush through a bill-

giving him the same power, but a rising storm. of protest greets him. And even if he gets that power he will not dare exercise it too ruthlessly. In Germany prices can be controlled and the Fuehrer doesn’t have to worry about what the labor politicians or the farm politicians think. It is the labor and farm and other politicians who make price control so difficult here. : : The way to hold our foreign trade, to make ourselves invincible when the war. is over, is to stay out of the war, while Germany, in winning her military victories, hammers herself to pieces economically.

| THERE HAS BEEN no surrender of the Dutch | government and there has been no armistice.—Dr. |. | Alexander Louden, Netherlands minister to the United

States.

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“THERE IS a growing sentiment for the preservas. president,

tion of free enterprise—F. D. Houston, American Bankers’ Association, :

A Word to the Wise!

DON'T FORGET WHAT HAPPENED TO

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ROWING HIS TAWEIGHT,

® | ; The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

PUZZLED BY HOOSIER OPPOSITION TO SEAWAY By W. W. Chalmers, 127 E. 44th St.

I am submitting to you a copy of my statement for the hearings in

Lawrence Seaway. I have noticed in the news and editorial columns of a local paper that the Indiana delegation in Congress is a unit against this measure. I can’t believe it. I introduced the first Gres?

in Congress 20 years ago and have always had the support for this

gation in the Senate and House. Other Indiana statesmen such as ex-Governor Goodrich have been favorable. If the present Indiana representatives are opposed to the measure, they do not understand the interests of their great state nor the wishes of their constituents.

» 2 » TERMS DEMOCRACY OF BRITAIN A JOKE By Jasper Douglas, 127 E. New York St. Notwithstanding that four-fifths of the people of the U. S. are emphatically opposed to going to war and giving our best and noblest boys

to die for the salvation of the British Empire, the warmongers are continuing to use press, radio and motion pictures to stir up a hysteria of fear and to drag us into a war that is no concern of ours. They want war for other men’s sons to fight it, and find a way to get their own boys deferred. Senator (Cotton Ed) Smith was one of the most rabid shouters for war, but when his own son was called for the draft at $21 a month, the Senator claimed that he could not be spared frem his job at $3900 a year as secretary of a. group of which his dad was chairman. Repeating the formula of 1917, this is" a. war for the freedom of the seas and for democracy. We must save British democracy. What a ghastly joke! It dis true that in England the Labor Party may, elect members of Parliament, but ‘there

Washington on the Great Lakes-St.|’

Lakes-St. Lawrence Ship Canal Bill

measure of the entire Inidana dele-

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is nothing Parliament can do until it is approved by the House of Lords. It is the blooded aristocracy

that rules. Is that democracy? What democracy has India and other dominions controlled | by England? In every Colonial pos= session, the people are held down under the iron heel of Britain's ruling masters. The international bankers and munition makers who are at the helm in our own beloved country are expressing the hope that there will be an amalgamation of the two democracies (?) England and America into one English-speaking nation, and to fool the people they say “with the U. S. A. predominating.” Whoever believes for a moment that England would consent to any such an agreement? If there is to be any such amalgamation, England would be the boss and this country would be just another of the dominions ruled by England’s House of Lords. Charles Lindbergh is right. He is a true American and has the courage of his convictions. Europe did not meddle in our affairs, we meddled in theirs. The big shots, for the profits to be made out of a bloody war are bringing ruin upon our land. The President is their tool, leading the country into war. A bunch of profiteers who have bought their way into Congress are backing him, but you can bet your boots that not one of them who helps to get us into Europe’s war will ever be re-elected. They will be politically dead. : Looking back to: 1917, we can see how we were drawn into war by the crafty manipulations of international bankers and British propaganda, and we said “never again.” Ten years from now, as we look back upon the traitorous acts of those

Side Glances = By Galbraith

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we have elected as our representatives, the present day warmongers will stand in the same position as Benedict Arnold, who also sold out his country to Britain. Every true American should join the America First Committee and do all he can to stop our headlong rush

{into destruction.

: ® » » PRESSING THE CAMPAIGN FOR AIR DEPARTMENT 8y J. L. H., Indianapolis Please accept my congratulations in inaugurating your most worthy campaign for an Independent Department of Air. If you'll continue the crusade there'll be many who will join the fight—and we'll win. For 'the last two months I have been carrying on a personal cam-

paign to my Congressman and your editorials have now been forwarded to him to increase the proof that we're all interested in achieving air superiority over all potential enemies—regardless of the number of sacred white «cows, stuffed shirts and Army-Navy dead cats to be eliminated to reach our goal. : Keep up the fight! Don't let this campaign die! There are more

ber there are a lot of people like

always right! ” ” » A PLEA FOR SUPPORT OF THE PRESIDENT By P. H., Indianapolis The time has come when it is a question of whether you are an American or whether you .are not an American. The liking or disliking of what Roosevelt has done in the past, his policies, whether you voted for him or not (I didn’t), doesn’t enter into it now. He is our President and we, as Americans, are behing him. If my brother wears a foolish “sky-blue-pink” necktie and I don't like it, I have a perfect right (as a member of: the family, to fight

with him about it and tell him that he’s a fool to wear it. But when a serious situation arises threatening him (and us) I will fight for and with him. ? Roosevelt is our President. He is an American. We are Americans.

|Our. family squabbles, our differ-

ences of political opinions, our fights have all been family fights. It is high time that we laid aside our family squabbles and pull together as “one big family.” I think we are slow in opening our concentration camps to those who think otherwise.

FATHER'S DAY By ANNA E. YOUNG It is nice to talk of Mothers The best we ever had

But I'm glad they finally set a day For us to talk about our Dad.

For he is just as tender-hearted And has all the feeling, too;

Or make much of a to do.

‘| And that is why we love him,

Best Pal—we ever had;

blue, ; We can always—count on Dad!

DAILY THOUGHT

The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of: Hy Salvation be exalted.—Psalm 18:46. ;

THAT IN such righteousness to them by faith imputed they may

find justification toward God, and peace of conscience :

battles won by crusades such as this | pone than by the sacrifice of hun-|# dreds of thousands of men. Remem- | ;

me lending active support to your |; campaign—to fight for a truth is|g

Though he may not want us to tell it,

When skies are black—as well as|

Gen. Johnson Says—

Doubting the Emergency Can Be Used to Offset Draft Law on The Length or Place of Service.

ASHINGTON, June 12.—There is a real problens - about the fate of selective service men who were called for only one year’s training under a spe= cific legislative condition that they cannot be used outside the Western Hemisphere, except in possese sions of the Uniteq States, ine cluding the Philippine Islands. It has been frequently stated in the press that this condition does not apply now that the Pres« ident has declared an unlimited emergency. It isn’t as simple as that. One can barely conceive such an interpretation, but it could be had only by an outland« ish twisting of the Selective Serve ice Law. It is doubtful whether even if LR the law were tortured out of all recognition, it would authorize the use of a drafted man in the Eastern Hemisphere exe cept in the Philippines. . As to the other point—the authority to hold these men more than 12 months—the law permits the President to do that only after the Congress (not the President) shall have declared that the national ine terest is imperilled. The*President has declared an “unlimited emergency,” and he did it under authority of Congress, but it would be going pretty far to say that this fulfills the condition of the statute which requires that Congress shall have declared that the @ national interest is imperilled. » ” »

AS even greater twisting would have to be done to hold them through another provision of the Selective Service Law which puts these men into the enlisted reserve for 10 years, or until the age of 45. It is argued that, after they are in the enlisted reserve, the President could call them to active duty, But under another law governing the enlisted. re« serve, a reservist cannot be called for more than 15 days duty without his consent except in war or a war emergency declared by Congress and, in this case, the language is: There can’t be very much doubt that, at the time this law was enacted the intent at least, of Congress . was that the act meant what it seemed to mean, that these men were selected for training only and that their condition was not to *be changed by administrative fiat, but only by some further action by Con-

gress. : There would be some question, too, of propriety. or good faith or something in taking men under one representation of intention and then switching the ground rules after they are hooked. That is not to say it is like a contract. These men were taken as a matter of right, and this country has power, if it chooses, to draft any man for military service. But under all the old volunteer laws, men were always discharged at the end of their statutory terms of service, Sometimes this was done to the great peril of our armies, as in the Civil War, and even to a greater danger in Scott's Army before Mexico City, ” » »

ELECTIVE service was a “draft” law and not a “volunteer” law, but tens of thousands of these men who had good claims to deferment did not make them because they wanted to “volunteer” for one year of training, but not ior indefinite enlistment. Of course, the whole question will go out the window in a moment if war is declared, or if Congress makes a declaration of “emergency” or “peril”? Jue to the imminence of war. * Perhaps, for that reason, the subject isn’t worth a column, but there have been so many incomplete or careless statements about the precise status and obligation of these men, and so many thousands of them and their families have ‘so vital an interest, that it seemed worth checking up with the War Department. Since it is a matter of interpretation of three rather conflicting laws or parts of laws, expressed in somewhat varying language, and since there is no precedent and no actual case has yet arisen, this piece represents no official interpretation, opinion, or even advice. It does, however, state the law and the problems presented by this rather ticklish situation. Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times, :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

TL RIENDS enrich life for many reasons, but espee cially because they come in so many varieties. Did you ever sit down and make 8 list of yours? Try

it some time. ; \ It will be almost incredible what an assortment there is, if you have any capacity at all for making friends. And how. different they are, one from the other! Yet in a strange way .each calls forth from you a dife “ferent response. Each fills a different need of your nature, and each demands a sort of affection. Like the tendrils of some vine, heavy with foliage, the multitudinous exactions of your spirit reach out to seek their own particular sustenance, and the result is a rich and wonderful collection of friends. And the greater the variety the more valuable the collection. It seems a pity that we are inclined to confine our contacts to those people moving in our own social circles. And it wuld be foolish to evade the truth about social circles. We have them. There is a definite caste system here, which we may not acknowledge but which exists just the same, It is created by our own human nature. Our educetion, our worldly goods, our. interests, are responsible for it, and it's nothing to be ashamed of unless ar=rogance enters into it.

But the women who never make an effort to asso ciate with people who live in income brackets above or below the one they occupy are cheating themselves of a never-ending course of interest and happiness. They narrow their mental and spiritual worlds; they deprive themselves of experiences which are soul satisfying. / Lo If you never know the smell of poverty, you are not able to appreciate the fragrance of gardens where the wealthy stroll. If you never know the sorrows of the rich, you can never understand the coziness of the working man’s little home. If you never look into shallow minds, you may lose your capacity to plumb those which are deep. And if you are unaware of the sordid, you may not und how beautiful cleanliness and purity are. Friendship can be made as wide as the universe and as high as the sky. It can include e individual—red, white, yellow, black, rich, poor, bad. And, most wonderful thing of all, given us hearts big enough to hold every one

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