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- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1941

MIGHTY SLOW ON THE UPTAKE GOMETIMES we wonder whether our Army and Navy

are preparing, as France prepared, to fight the instead of the next one.

last war \

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The matter of gliders is in point. Both the Army and Navy. have pooh-poohed bills for a national glider training “program, although they must have been aware long before

Crete that Germany soaring craft.

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had put much emphasis on motorless

Now, under fire before a House subcommittee, Comm. ~C. T. Durgan of the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics concedes that the invasion of Crete ‘woke everybody up” to the military potentialities of gliders. He says the Navy “wouid not oppose” a glider program. Rep. Maas of Minnesota, the top Republican on the House Naval Affairs Committee, remarked that the Navy's previous disinterest in gliders “was based on an inexcusable

lack of information.” >

Ncw we hear a s

tory that several of the British cruis-

ers sunk in the Battle of Crete were struck by man-carry-ing torpedoes—torpedoes guided toward their target by a crew of one, who must jump off at the last minute and seek

to swim to safety.

‘Will this device too, if confirmed, be shrugged off by the Navy as beneath its notice? Getting back to gliders, it was in these sailplanes that Germany, deniel airplanes by the Treaty of Versailles, " trained her young men against the day when fighting planes

were to be had. And

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or infantry officers.

it was aviators—men like Goering and

Udet—who sparked that program. It was not naval officers,

* We should give our airmen a chance to run their own show, as is done in Germany and England. And the way to do it is to establish an independent air force, with no mariners nor cavalrymen in the driver’s seat .

~~ WOLF, WOLF?

HE hardy perennial, or rather monthly, report of

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pending German-Russian war is heard again. This time Hitler is said to have concentrated 145 divisions along the Red frontier from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and Stalin is supposed to have rushed most of his Far Eastern army ' to the Bessarabian defense line.

To which Americans are inclined to say: We've heard that wolf cry before.

Oh yeah?

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But the moral of the wolf story was that the overadvertised beast finally attacked.

Me navicerts for cargoes

So the British Government has stopped issuance of

to Finland, and made other prepara-

tions. Of course, there is some wishful thinking in London—the British have been hoping for a Berlin-Moscow break ever since the surprise Stalin-Hitler pact of August,

1939.

Finland, which might be forced into the battle line in such a war, has closed her frontiers and clamped down a censorship. Many Nazi troops are traveling through Finland. In Sweden the diplomats think the chance of such

' a war is 50-50 br better.

It is now admitted, after earlier

official denials, that critical Berlin-Moscow negotiations are going on while the troops concentrate.

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; | It ‘was clear from the beginning that the pact between the “Nazi murderers” and the “Red scum”—to use the names which one used to call the other—was a marriage of

convenience. Both profited by territorial spoils. But it has |

been an uneasy relationship, with each sabotaging the other. After all, Stalin knows that Hitler, a la Mein Kampf,

eventually intends to

grab the Ukraine and destroy Russia.

And Hitler knows that Stalin hopes to pick the bones of ~ Germany and Britain after they have bled each other

helpless.

Nevertheless, some of the sanest observers of the mys-

tery which is Moscow are guessing that this Nazi-Red war |

‘will be postponed again. They reason that Russia is not

ready to fight, that grain and Baku oil,

Stalin will give Hitler more Ukraine and that Hitler will not take on a

second war when he can satisfy his immediate needs in

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Russia without fighting. =~ = Then why all the fireworks?

Maybe it is just

the same show of strength by which

Hitler has frightened others into accepting his demands— the old war of nerves. s Or maybe it is a repetition of that elaborate build-up for a war in the Ukraine a little over a year ggo, by which Hitler disguised his preparation for the blitz in the West.

Maybe this time the purpose is to obsciire plans for all-out :

attack on England.

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Or maybe the two tricksters will outsmart themselves and the German-Russian war actually will start.” aly

PROFIT HOPES

NOT HIGH

| N° DOUBT there are some who are getting rich off this defense program. Indeed, extraordinary profits have

already been revealed in certain cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts: for Army cantonments. If the Government doesn’t get the} excess defense profits back by taxation, it will be the fault: Treasury and the committees of 'Con-

of the experts of the

gress who are drafting tax legislation.

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But this much at least can be noted—that hopes of big profits are dwindling in the’ so-called high finance circles. A good index of Wall Street’s expectations of profits

can be found in the ratio of dividends to prices of common

stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. 5 At the end of August, 1939, when the Government's big spending program was just getting under way, dividend-

paying stocks ch the

Exchange were quoted at prices aver-

aging nearly 20 times their average annual dividends. At the end of May this year—21 months later, during which

me the defense budget has been multiplied—the average

yuoted price of the ‘stocks had declined to 14 times their

dends.

Fair Enough pr nm

By Westbrook Pegler

Contending Recent Events Justify His Efforts to Expose Certain Communists in Newspaper Guild

YORK, June 18.—Some readers of these dispatches may think I have exaggerated the importance of the American Newspaper Guild and the influence in it of the Communists and party-liners who seek to dictate its national policies and domi- : nate its affairs. This is a relatively small union, and I am consscious also of the fact that I have had a personal interest in the case,

years, in the role of “innocent.” It is the one union of which I am able to! speak ‘from the experience one who has sat in eetings®@ad seen them in action. I know who the Communists are, * and I waited a long time before 1 became convinced that they were : actually enemies of the freedoms A which are inherent in Americanism. I may have seemed impetuous, although I waited years to quit the Guild and fight the Communists in it. Other newspapermen kept quiet for. the sake of unity, and many of them even continued to deny that communism was an issue, even after communism had become the only important issue, in last year’s national convention. If I was impetuous I neverthe-

shown and as will be shown more emphatically in the impending convention in Detroit, where again the American element will try to break the power of the Communistic key officers and their clever and indefatigable cells of conspirators.

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T= Communists nave been sneaking up on our journalism, the stage and the movies through organizations of writers and actors. Anyone who denounces them as Communists. knows in advance that he will be vilified as a red-baiter, a disrupter, a stooge and a traitor to the cause of labor. The rebe against the Muscovites must learn to take it and keep piling into them. But if nobody had fought them they would now dictate all our news and class-angle all our movie entertainment so as to argue the futility of trying to make Americanism work. How does one identify a Communist, anyway?’ Well, how does the United States Government identify a Communist? ‘In the case of Harry Bridges the Government had held two long, expensive and highly legalistic hearings, and the decision is not yet, although he has been placed in the company of the Communists, and his California C. I. O. is constantly sympathetic with every policy of the Stalin Government. The common man in a labor union can’t do that. He hasn't the money or, the facilities, so he must proceed by conviction, as the Government itself finally will have to do in the casé of Bridges. In the case of the Guild there have been many positive indications, a number of which have been cited here from time to time. I was particularly impressed: by the manipulation of political

condemnation of communism. I was impressed also, more than most others, by the fact that in California

1 the Guild did not repudiate the C, I. O.’s indorsement

of the Ham ’'n’ Eggs referendum, which would have revoked the whole state Constitution and the entire Constitution of the United States as well. :

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\RESENTED in the guise of an old-age pension : scheme, which is one ‘thing that it was not, this long and devious document would have wiped out the whole American economic system and would have placed an upstart political adventurer in command of the state, above the Governor and responsible to nobody and with the power to name his own successor in case of impeachment. The Communists supported this proposal because it gave promise of actual civil war in California. ] . Last week during the North American aviation strike one of the leaders of the mob, or picket, line was Philip M. Connelly, president of the California

C. I. O. Industrial Council and an international vice president of the guild. Last week, also, the New York guild, by a snap vote of a small minority adopted a resolution upholding the picket-line and denouncing the use of soldiers to disperse. the mob. So I may exaggerate the importance of the guild as a union, but I submit that, as a part of the whole Communist effort, the guild Is no more to be ignored.

Business By John T. Flynn

National Debt Soon May. Take 4 Billions Yearly Just for Interest

EW YORK, June 18.—Little by little the country is being let in on the secret of what we are up against. Perhaps it is not guite proper to say it is begin “let in” because that implies the Government has known the facts all along and is only dribbling them out to the people. Whereas the truth is the Government itself has refused to face the facts and is only little by little facing them. We began with some very fear- . some demands for weapons for “national defense” and some pretty hefty appropriations to produce them. But week by week these demands were expanded. For instance, or. one occasion the Navy demanded a lot of new warships. The very day the hill for these ships was introduced at the’ request of the Mavy it was referred to the committee and the committee decided to increase that demand and before the bill got out of committee—in a few days—the increased demand of the committee was doubled. © > But that was a small matter compared with what we have had in the last few days. By dint of adding on the billions each week we have finally gotten the program of what is called national defense up to 42 billion dollars. Men of -substance have been looking fearfully at each other and asking where this is coming from and how and what this chunk cut out of ‘the system was going-to-do to it. But now comes Donald Nelson, of the OPM, and informs the people that this 42 billions ‘is a pitifully inadequate contribution to ¢efense or whatever we are doing. He says that if we want to get anywhere. we ‘must: double that—we must make it at least 84 billions. I suggested in this column some months ago that we would certainly get around to making it a hundred billion. - So now Mr, Nelson has got it up pretty close to that point. > 8 » ia

AF course, if we do we shall borrow it all. We now owe 47 billions. If we add this 84 billions to that we will owe 131 billion dollars. Of course, if we go on no one helieves we .shall stop at this insignificant figure. But suppose we get trapped in“a spasm of economy and keep it down to 131 billions. n one day the war will end. And we will owe $3,930,000,000 a year forever in interest on this vast sum. ! : In other words, without spending anything

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out spending anything for farmers and laborers and unemployed, we will have to find. in taxes—because you: cannot borrow to pay interest—nearly four billibns each year just to pay the cost of the debt. ~ . Of course, it is probably a bit silly to be- talking about what will happen to us when we come to our senses. But, nevertheless, we will come to our senses. And we will have to face these bills which we are contracting and have not the slightest idea of paying now. ;

So They Say— I BECAME interested in China primarily because

makes me blue.—Wendell Willkie, 1940 G. O. P. presidential candidate. oy

IT IS SIGNIFICANT that Karl Max fidn't think |

much of people.~Charles P. Taft,

THE INDIANAPOLIS

‘having been a member for some [-

strength in national conventions so as to defeat any |

keeping up our immense military establishment, with- |

1 see the rim of freedom in the world shrinking. It | }

| Bundle for Berlin!

less was right, as events of the last 10 days have}.

\SN'T GOING T0 LIKE THIS A LITTLE BIT!

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

DOUBTS AMERICA IS PREPARED FOR WAR By A. K., Indianapolis

R. E. V. in Saturday’s Forum presents a pretty convicing argument for aid to Britain but spoils it all by stating that our military and political. leaders have shown by recent speech and actions that we are prepared for war. : Who is better qualified to judge this question than the Secretary 'of War who said only recently that on the sea we are strong but on land and in the air we are weak? . Right ‘here in the Indianapolis Columbia Club a retiring Army officer said a few weeks ago in reference to a Southern Army camp: “The boys are training well and will be well trained: but they ‘still need plenty of equipment.” . Now R. E. V,, don’t you think our armed forces ought to he given every possible advantage before being required to fight? When so loyal a New Deal writer as Raymond Clapper becomes alarmed about the slowness of defense production we ought to be convinced that we are a long way from ready. I have yet to hear of any reliable authority stating that this country is prepared for war. Why even the OPM officials make no attempt to convey such an impression. If there is anyone who is “familiar with all the pieces of this puzzle” as R. E. V. claims some are, I am sure that President Roosevelt and official Washington would like to have a talk with the party.

#88 COMMUNISTS CODDLED TOO LONG, IS CLAIM By Edward F. Maddox, 959 W. 28th St.

. « » Those who have coddled and pampered Communists and fought for “full civil liberties,” for the enemies within our gates, have lived to see their “chickens” come home to roost in a time of national danger. There is just one reason for the present danger from Communists and other fifth column elements— they have beén aided, abetted, encouraged and protected in their infiltration into labor unions and in our Government. They have been given aid and comfort! The Dies Committee, which has so courageously exposed subversive activities, has been repeatdly attacked by high officials and accused of “sordid pro-

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| cedure” because it published a list of members, or contributors, to the Communistic American League for peace and democracy. There is, and has been plenty of plain evidence, since 1933, that we were embarking on a SocialisticCommunistic program.and the radical left-wingers led by Rex Tugwel and his fellow-travelers have dominated and controlled both our foreign and domestic policies. Beginning with the recognition of Communistic Russia, there has been a consistent strengthening of the Communist movement in this country and it has been impossible to deport, or curb Communists, regardless of their activities. , . . We can't prevent sabotage in our defense production. We can’t curb Corhmunism, we can’t convict and punish subsersive agents if the anion, the Government, the courts and the press is packed with their friends. . .. Tt Mo

CLAIMS AMERICANS

DISLIKE MEDDLING By Jasper Douglas, 127 E. New. York St. Every effort is being made by a few grizzled war mongers to work

up hysteria tc lead us into Europe's war. They would sell out our country, send thousands of our best boys to be slaughtered for the preservation of the British Empire, so that they may be able to pile up

have. 3 : I place little confidence in "he figures given by the Gallup poll Gallup, himself, says ths vote is taken from a “carefull; selected” group. Selected means choosing those desired and rejecting those not wanted. How easy it is to stop people on the street or anywhere and have them cast a vote and if it is not on the side that’ is desired declare the voter not one of the “carefully selecied.” Qur country has never had a war

Side Glances = By Galbraith

"Poor. Martha—she's been bravely fighting for years to modernize

more millions than they already |

since our fathers won our independ-

ence that was entered by the will of a majority of its citizens. There has always been a force behind it that was for the profits of a few regardless of the will of the people.

We are a peaceable and peace loving people. We would resent and fight any nation that meddled in our affairs or tried to make us change our way of life or government, but there is positively no inclination among our people to meddle in the affairs of any other country, and much as we love democracy, it is none of our business what kind of government other countries may choose for themselves or have put upon them by their rulers. To say that America needs the help of any other country and would be unable to defend herself is a lie pure and simple, and an insult to every true American. To resist invasion, there would be millions of volunteers and -many would weep if told they were too old or unfit to fight; but to ask mothers and fathers to give: their sons for the defense of England with its ruling aristocracy and take them by force is to out-do Hitler. -A bill is now before Congress to compel a vote of the people on how far we should go in helping England by convoys or actual war and every American should write to his Congressman and Senator \irging him to fight and vote for that bill.

2 8 nu WHEN “DOUBLE TALK”

SEEMS JUSTIFIED By Voice in” the Crowd Your editorial “Confusion Compounded,” of the 12th, is indeed the truth, and it points out the value of using the middlé ground in our thinking. ‘ The double talk we hear is highly confusing, but: we must remember (that Churchill and Roosevelt cannot entirely avoid it. To maintain British morale, Churchill must

of events to the British people. On the other hand, in order to secure the greatest amount of American aid he must give the bleak side, less hopeful perhaps than that for home consumption, but with enough hope to tie us to the cause. For the same ends Mr. Roosevelt must let the British people know that we are in the war with them, and have the American people hope that we can remain out of foreign ‘'WAIS. Carrying water on both shoulders is an easy job for poiltical leaders in normal times, but in this day of short and long wave radio, and “unrumors,” and “usually dependable’ sources of information,” it must be a very confusing job indeed for them. This confusion must be all that stands between us ‘and greater unity, ahd it makes a fellow wonder who is the most confused—the

|shepherds or the flocks?

JUN E SHINES By MARY P. DENNY June shines in liquid light All a wonder in our sight.

By the hedge the roses shine In a glow of light divine.

4In the field the bright red clover

Shines through all the summer day. And the bright gold dandelion A delightful summer rover Joins the .pageant of color A bright glow beneath the skies Where all of wonder lies. Far away soft sweet violets bloom And beside the silent tomb Bloom white lilies in the light. June shines in sunbeam’s flight Reaching far unto the height.

DAILY THOUGHT

. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. —~Mathew 4:4. oH

} . » 5 NONE BUT GOD can satisfy the longings of an iromortal soul; that as the heart was for. Him, so

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1041 | Gen. Johnson

Says— Chief Red Bird Having Heap Big +, Fun With Those Indian Murals and Criticism Seems Amply Justified.

HICAGO, June 18.—~While I was at home in Oklahoma the other day, the Cheyennes at Watonga pulled something new in strikes, Indian uprisings, peaceful picketing and criticism in art. Their grievance was a pajfifed mural on the walls : of the tonga postoffice. They picketed the postoffice. They criti«. cized the picture. It represented a famous late nineteenth century chief, Roman Nose; Mrs. Nose and family with three mounted bucks and what apparently, in the back« ground, is a white ‘family, just passing through on -a migration. There, somebody is milking a cow —which just didn't happen in -those circumstances. Chief Red Bird who protested against the mural didn't mention

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er y that, but his complaint of the rest of the picture was sufficient and succinct. “He stink,” he said. I cordially concur. The mural is in the early Russian, middle Mexican, slightly Soviet, or late WPA beondoggling school of semi-poster mural art—a trifle Hopkinsian in concept and perhaps & little Ickesian in ‘execution. ‘Maybe I am prejudiced. As a kid, I worked in a much more important postoffice at Alva, about 50 miles from the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation, The only murals we had were a freckled fire insurance calendar and a large fly-specked lithograph, published By a beer company, of ‘“Custer’s Last Stand.” The ‘latter was also inaccurate at least as to Gen. Custer— shown looking like Goldie Locks when everybody knows he went into that fight with his “hair cut just as short as Mr. Zip-zip-zip's.” .

UT it was very vivid and showed soldiers scalped and being scalped and Indians—Cheyennes and Sioux principally—actually pursuing their tonsorial avocation ‘and generally raising hair and hell. Crude sure, but not so crude as the Watonga monstrosity, Sitting Bull's own pictorial autobiography is far more artistic than either, ’ "The whole tribe of Southern Cheyennes came fre quently to Alva, by invitation and permission. ' I used to wonder if that picture was part of the reason because they always came, singly or in little groups, to. lock at it-—over their ‘shoulders, out of the corner oF their eyes—‘‘surreptitously” is the - word. Why?

[Most of the older ones, including the squaws had

actually been there, That was only 18 to 20 years earlfer. and those Indians weren't talking among white people about the Little Big Horn massacre. I may be mistaken, through faulty memory, but IT think I.knew Roman Nose himself. Anyway I knew a ‘lot of Cheyemnes. They were the dudes of the whole Indian race so far as savage finery is. concerned and from personal observation, I can testify that the

Watonga mural is a pictorial libel.

"JHE indignation of R. Bird Esq. was high. The i ponies are bay or gray with necks absurdly arched like a Greek horse on a funeral urn. Indian ponies were mostly ewe-necked ‘and many of them pinto or “paint”—which means spotted. The Indige nant chief complained that Roman Nose’s hair is tied up with cheap grocery-store wrapping twine, instead of buckskin, his feathers on wrong, his breechclout too short and his general appearance and trappings those of the Pueblo-dwelling . foot-slogging, agricul« tural Navajo. To the pony Indians of the plains, nothing was lower except the California diggers. Finally Roman Nose was a husky giant, most Indians kids are wiry little brats and squaws are squaws. In this boondoggle, Roman Nose looks like an advanced case of ricketts, his children as th: +h they had been inflated with a tire-pump and 17's. Nose—an ethereal vision in snow-white buckskin. he appears as a dusky lady of the lake, “clothe: in white samite” or “bright alfaratta, there by the waters of the blue Juanita”—in others words boosl.wa. It was too much for Chief Red Bird. The press reports have him talking through a college-bred interpreter but still saying: “No good. He stink” and so forth. In my recent adoption by the Poncas, a long ‘‘da-tay-hah-beah-kah” oration by an ancien% chief, almost blind, was oratorically translated by a college Indian interpreter to a white audience. But when I replied in a few well chosen words of thanks and whispered to the interpreter: “Should that be translated to the Indians?” the old red bare belly shook with laughter and he replied for himself: “Hell no! Be yourself!” There is no question of Red Bird's justification; but if I know Indians, and I do a little, he is getting heap-big. publicity and having a helluva lot of fun.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

NOTHER set of initials to remember—U. 8. O, It looks enough like Uncle Sam's official signa are | to be its twin. In a way of speaking it ought 0 be. \ United Service Organization is the U. 8. A's number one humanitarian project. Under the direction of six major national groups, all of which have done splendid work in your come munity, it asks for co-operation and money so that men in the service will know civilians are re- - membering them. A former doughe boy, speaking out of his own exe peiience and heart puts it this way: ‘ “No matter how nice it is, Army life is not the natural life for an American boy, and our soldiers are just that—American boys. As soldiers they are being trained to defend our country, to fight and give their lives for our protection. Believe it or not, soldiers think about that sort of thing more frequently than you will ever know. “It's a sort of hopeless feeling. A guy in training needs morale, pep, friendship, fellowship, relaxatioa, God help you if you give—God forgive you if you don’t. That's the way I feel about it.” And that, probably, is the way we all feel. Hone estly, my own emotional reactions go even deeper. I am ashamed that the good men and women of the United States have waited for a war emergency to recognize the great need of young people for whole some recréational facilities, for that need has been so obvious eyerywhere. : In small towns where character-building groups do not function thousands of boys and girls drift into evil ways. They move, aimlessly at first, into honky< tonks, beer ‘joints, dance halls, and gambling dens, where a large percentage stick for the balance of their lives. 3 . : The churches and the Y's, or their equivalents, have pleaded with us for help before. They will do so again when this emergency has passed. But it seems we can get steamed up on such an important

.|issue only when boys face death and girls grief and

ps. 5 Democracy would be in a darned sight better shape, if, during the last 20 years, wé had spent half as much time, money and energy on American youth as we have invested in less valuable property.

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