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Fair Enough . By Westbrook Pegler

Mrs. R. Calls People In to Get the Lowdown but When an Old-Time Leg Man Tries It It's Just No Go

EW YORK, June 21.—In a recent essay my col- | league Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wrote that, desiring to know something about the ‘situation of the Navajos, she asked Mr, John Collier, of the Office of Indian Affairs, to come in late in the afternoon and 3 give her a tell. That was. a method /I had never thought of, having been fetched up in the old-fashioned newspaper practice whereby the reporter, when he wants to know, puts on his hat and goes over to the place where the guy is and hangs around until the fellow finds a little wedge of time be-

tween his regular appointments. |:

But never me to reject new

ideas, whatever their source, just |

because they are new ideas, and, although I have shaken off not a ‘few of Mrs. Roosevelt's ideas, I ‘thought this one

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Turkey Hash!

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1941

BLT WHEN DO WE GET THOSE ENGLISH MUEFINS

‘funds for years.

Gen. Johnson Says—

He Applauds the Closing of Nazi

Consulates But Thinks the British Go to Par in Telling Us What to Do

ASHINGTON, June 21.—Applause.for the President’s action in closing the German consulates and freezing Axis funds seems to be universal,” It should be. The Germans have been freezing' our General Motor's German subsidiary makes automobiles, but the American parent company can’t touch the proceeds. A top-side official of one of our greatest corporations told me recently of the tribute paid regularly under contract for royalties for the use of German-owned patents. It was astonishing and even more astonishing were the German orders as. to how, to whom and where it was, to be paid. The very obvious effort was to put the money where it could be used for Nazi pugposes with

possessed charm, simplicity, directness and the probabilities of a handsome payoff in the way of results. Well, there were a lot of things concerning which I wanted various authorities to tell me something, and the first was the Communist thing in the New York subway situation. So I got on the phone to the office of our noted Mayor and told the girl who I was and said, “I wisk: you would ask the Mayor to Jrov in late this afternoon and explain some things me. ” There was a small squawk of alarm or astonishment—I wouldn't know which—accompanied by a sort of thump as of a falling body, and I heard a man’s voice say: “Zwotsa matter, Nelly? Did someone insult you on the phone? Leave me talk to the

‘THE ROBIN MOOR MESSAGE id

E welcome the President’s assurances to Congress that # = . full reparation for the losses and damages suffered by O he got on the phone, and I said, “No.” Americans in the sinking of the freighter Robin Moor will be demanded of Germany. Certainly this country is united in its horror of the barbarous act. That popular feeling is all the deeper because it has not paraded itself in hysteria. In stating the case against the submarine commander, who knowingly sunk an American ship on the high seas, far from combat zones, without adequate provision for the safety of crew and passengers, Mr. Roosevelt said: “The sinking of this American ship by a German subLE marine fldgrantly violated the right of United States vessels freely to navigate the seas subject only to a belligerent .right accepted under international law. This belligerent - right, as known to the German government, does not include “the right deliberately to sink a merchant vessel, leaving the passengers and crew to the mercies of the elements. On the contrary the belligerent is required to place the passengers and crew in places of safety.”

out fear of internment or sequestration. The President’s. action restricting outright Nazi propaganda agencies was equally justified much as we have to fear executive control of vehicles of free speech and expression. 1 suppose that every column ist is on the regular mailing list of these German “news” agencies. Anyway my mail gets something nearly every day. It goes into the wastebasket of the outer office—not because I don’t want to hear all sides and keep all possible feelers out for material, but because, by experience, I have learned that it is so inaccurate as to be dangerous to use. The closing of the consulates is not a breach of diplomatic relations because they do not have diplomatic status. It is harsher in form, but no more effective than the way in which the Nazis seem to have quarantined not only our consulates, but also ? y I said: our embassies from German news and dependable I didn’t insult the lady; I just told her to tell ; . nN Spe Ec factual information. Buen fo op in late this afternoon to give me a Pp \ RD An ell abou e Communist thing in the subway, and X EEE cs : r N » she lets out a vip, and here's you talking about people | and Commerse. Departments abot what has “ ” “ - been going on in Germany through all these danger« han ED id ou ought to know petaer ous years is proof enough that our representatives working American wage earner like that, and what have beet as effectually sewed up as @ caterpillar in i ihe matier yin yo, ney, you Srazy screwhall? Enthusiastic as has been the public reaction to afternoon? Nol oc D In ater e these recent moves, there are a good many informed 0, ne won't drop in, and don’t be calling people who wonder why there has not been equal up ony Te ith Jou wild ideas or I will get Louie vigor in opposing other foreign influences in this Ion Jou Yitha val i country. The Government itself. the C. I. O. unions and the host of employees in defense industries are

“Lewis Valentine, our valued and efficient police T h e H O O S 1 c Tr F O Tr u m well known to be infiltered with people who, if they

commissioner,” ke said. "That's who. And he hung b il ‘ are not outright Communist cells, are at least still I wholly disagree with what you say, but w i cis, DUDE. defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. Nor is this all. With all the sympathy we have for England, it is piling it on pretty thick for official British and Canadian representatives to be trailing up and down this country, lecturing us on what we ought to do and attacking Americans who in this serious debate express opinions in favor of all-Amer-jcan, rather than all-British interests, I saw the following phenomenon: in the World our own oppressed people. So I| war and I am told on the very best authority that guess I'm just bewildered. it is being repeated now—representatives of the Brit- : ish beneficiaries of our lease-lend generosity saying have a chance. Letters must AGAINST ENDIVE TROOPS to our defense authorities: “We demand this or we be signed.) demand that.” TO FIGHT IN EUROPE Row 8 By A. 8. M,, Indianapolis HUS far, praise-be, the answer of our people has Not an American boy should be Ty been, indignantly, “demand and be damned” sent to a European battlefield. Our| but in the present attempt of some Americans to bill of rights gives to every Ameri-| repeal the Dealaration of Independence and bum's can boy: “life, liberty and the pursuit | rush us back into the British Empire under the of happiness.” Show me a word in| slogan “Union Now With Britain,” there is some the Constitution that indorses| question of how long this American independence Congress or any other authority to| will be tolerated by .our Ariglophiles—headed, as in

dustrial establishments will likewise join in Daylight Sav- - ing Time. We appeal also for co-operation from those who may ‘not agree with the Mayor’s proclamation. There is little doubt that an overwhelming portion of Indianapolis wants - Daylight Time and it is the duty of every citizen to co-oper-ate in the interest of eliminating confusion. .. Please set your clock ahead one hour tonight.

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‘But that gave me an idea, because there are several things I wanted the police Commissioner to tell me about. So I called headquarters and said to the sergeant-cop on the phone: “This is Pegler. Will you please ask the Commissioner to drop in late this afternoon because I want him to tel! me about some matters?” The seargeant-cop stalled me with some doubletalk that I couldn't quite untangle, and between gabbles I heard him say to some other cop, “Trace this one, because it sounds like some nut, and it may

The, accuracy of that statement cannot be challenged | pe armless, but he sure is leaping, because he wants the Commissioner to drop in late this afternoon and

honestly. - It is not only international law. It expresses fie OX Ee 2 ' si: n. | te m some things, and maybe we better pick him the humane conscience of the world, the minimum of de- | yang put him under glass for a while--Just to sce.” . cency required for the protection of innocent lives. eo» ‘i ; To set small lifeboats adrift for two or three weeks HEN he turned to me shd said I should wait

- in midocean, their occupants to be rescued only by accident, right there and the Commissioner would be violates 1 d : right over, and pretty soon in comes a man from Vio Bles aw an Conscience. the screwball detail to see what goes on, and -he 8 8 = : 2 = =

but maybe I'm not. I haven't any sympathy for Britain in view of her past history and the way she reneged on paying her World War debts, but I do have sympathy for

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OFFERING-A SUGGESTION ON THE JUVENILE COURT By Harrison White, 1135 Broadway I wish to make a suggestion in the capacity of @ taxpayer .that should in my estimation allay the quandary of the County Commissioners over the plight of the Juvenile Court quarters. I believe the Juvenile Court should be kept in the County Court House. The Bar Association has a law library which uses the space of more than one-fourth of one of the floors of the Court House; this library is a private library and is not open to the public’ nor to any attorney who is not a member of the In other words it

before and I will say it again, and again, and again: Your boys are not going to, be sent into any foreign wars.” After hearing the recent fireside chat, one wonders whether we are living in a democracy, or under a dictatorship.

feels of my head, and I have a time convincing him that I am not away from myself at all but just try-

Two questions have been raised in pubic discussions: ‘Whether there is conclusive proof that the submarine was _German, and whether the the ship was. car ng con-

trabrands

As to the first question, the submarine commander was too cowardly to fly his flag. But the survivors are agreed, “according to the State Department, that the commander

was a German.

There is no reason to doubt their word.

On the question of contraband the President is silent —wisely, we think. There cannot be any general agree‘ment during war on the definition of contraband; naturally belligerents in all-out war try to make contraband cover virtually everything, while non-belligerents in all-out war

try to keep the list as short as possible.

The issue is not

over contraband, however, because in any event—except - attempted escape—the submarine commander was required by international law to provide full safety for the victims. Will there be more Robin Moor cases? The President, in asserting that the United States will not yield to such Nazi domination, says: : ‘ “We must take it that notice has now been served upon

us that no American ship or cargo on any of the Seven Seas | ~ can consider itself immune from acts of piracy.” If that is Hitler’s deliberate policy, it is insane.

will tell.

Time

THE NEW PERSONNEL DIRECTOR

HE State Personnel Board seems to have done an excellent job in obtaining as new State Personnel Director a man obviously expert in the handling of merit systems. ' The new director, W. Leonard Johnson, installed the merit system for both the states of Arkansas and Michigan and is at present the personnel director for Kansas City, :Mo., after having installed that city’s merit system following the Pendergast machine’s collapse. : Mr. Johnson has an extraordinarily fine record and we ‘have every reason to hope that he will do as well in Indiana. We congratulate him—and the ‘Personnel Board which

chose him,

FORD GOES UNION HENRY FORD was hever one to do things by halves. He resisted union efforts to organize his plants with such vehemence that he became a national symbol of opposition

-to organized labor.

And now, with dramatic suddenness,

‘he has gone whole hog in the other direction.

A’ union-shop agreement with the United Automobile

Workers (C. I. 0.) covering all 130,000 production and maintenance workers in Ford plants throughout the country

‘thing there if it works and why don’t I try it on

ing out a new process of reporting. However, he finally goes away saying I certainly have got some-

Governor Lehman? So I said, “I was just going to,” and so I did. 3K - Well, ‘at the Governor's office they didn’t believe me at all and wouldn't even give him my message, although I told them over and over I had several matters I wanted him to tell me about and I didn’t think it very courteous or co-operative of them » brush me off that way. Finally I said: “Now, look, pals. Mrs. R. is a columnist and so am _ I, and that is the way she does and they come on time and pour it our for her, and I guess maybe you don’t believe in democracy, after all, if that is the way you feel about it.” So that was how far I got with that, and tomorrow it is back to the old-fashioned way, with me doing my own leg-work and very sad over the fact that my admired colleague obviously has something that I haven't got.

Bar Association. uses public property for private use.

Every court has a separate law

library .of its own, and there is no reason in law or logic why the commissioners should not : utilize this space for the purpose for which the Court House was built. Association has a Bar Association Building the Bar Association might utilize for their library.

The Bar

2 x = RECALLS LINDBERGH'S

DESIRE FOR PRIVACY" By C. R. C., Indianapolis

I recent weeks your forum colujin has and still is cluttered with’ the pros and cons on Lindbergh. This space could be used up on more timely subjects, if Lindbergh would have carried out

Business By John T. Flynn We Can't Go All Out for Britain

{his wish, which I am quoting from a news dispatch dated Aug. 12, 1936. from Copenhagen, Sweden: “Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, friends said tonight, hopes to be able to return home within six months. It was explained that the Colonel, who left America last December because he wished to escape the spotlight

Unless Everyone Makes Sacrifices

EW YORK, June 21.—If the objective of our present national policy is to go all-out, as we now say, for building war implements and providing supplies .of food, clothing anc! munitions for Britain, we might as well face the facts honestly. We have not done so yet. hints at control, such as observing gasless Sundays, reducing the use of cream and enactinga small tax bill, have produced grave irritations. Strikers do not like having their strikes stopped. Employers do not like having their plants seized. We want to go all-out without going all-out or even a little bit out. The first fact we have to face is that Government control involves certain inescapable laws. The Government control in view here has one object. That is to shift as quickly. as possible a peace-time economy to a war-time economy. Now you cannot do this under a voluntary arrange=-. ment. To persuade individuals to turn from their established ways of doing things and to disrupt their patiently and expensively built up trades in. order to engage in new, untried and strictly temporary en-

The first feeble |. °

and. publicity, was as determined as

ever to live his own private life. He

made up his mind, friends here|S asserted, that he will not return to the United States until guaranteed respect of his wish to live quietly

I ‘hope this will end the “Lindbergh subject.” See REJECTS F. D. RS CAMPAIGN PLEDGE By G. F. C., Indianapolis Readers of The Times whose memories reach back to Oct. 30, 1940, may recall a promise made by a man seeking to corral re-elec-tion to a high public office. “While I am talking to you, fathers and mothers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this

Side Glances - - By Saloraith

.We have compulsory military service and we are undeniably drifting toward cempulsory. labor; service, the ‘Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitutiop notwithstanding. ‘One wonders who is running the affairs, of this country —the inhabitants thereof, F. D. R. or the Cliveden Set. The un-American spectacle of Lord Halifax: sitting in on conferences(of high officials of the U. S. government seeking fo influence their actions ' regardless of the wishes of the American people, is

highly repugnant to Americans. n

” n URGING BETTER BREAK FOR OUR INDIANS By E. 8S. M., Indianapolis I hope the Great White Father in Washington had time to read Mrs. Roosevelt's article, “My Day,” appearing June 12, 1941. It is a surprise to me that the Navajo Indian delegation found Mrs. Roosevelt at

home. And while the President is busy making appropriations to help every other democracy on this earth— spreading the four freedoms to the four corners of the earth, maybe he can find it In his generous heart to appropriate a few more than 10 acres of land in this wealthiest land on earth to these poor Indians, vic: tims of the greatest aggression in history. So far, what Hitler has taken in Europe is small potatoes compared to what the white man took from the red man here. The Indians in the United States are certainly an oppressed minority It is the duty of our Government to provide for them first, before we try to help those across the seas. We should clean out our own house before trying to clean out Europe's. I was born here in the United States of America; I revere my country. I think J am an American,

terprises will require compulsion. We might just as | |

well recognize that. 2 ” 2

pce dre hundreds of thousands of people who make a living selling gas, meals, rooms, services of all sorts to Sunday motorists. There are vast .armies of men and women who ‘make a living at all sorts of amusement resorts whose business depends entirely on the Sunday traffic. Having cut out the . Sunday traffic, you have succeeded in putting an| immense army of people out of business. The Sunday motorist having been deprived of his Sunday trip proceeds to spend his money some other way. He spends it in town .or in his neighborhood stores. He uses it to buy things he has been wanting

.|war without really trying to win

“| hope for a rather early end to this

> {| totally impossible.

‘And, with Britain still standing,

send our boys to an aggressive war field—but only on defense. Europe. has' been butchering one another for centuries.. Why should America sacrifice her sons for any foreign country. President Roosevelt called America a “good neighbor,” now he calls America an arsenal. Not one American boy for any aggressive battlefield. but all our boys as well as girls for home defense. . 8 9» HOLDS BIG ARMAMENTS

WON'T PREVENT WAR By H. J. M., Indianapolis

Many Americans are inclined to believe that the way to prevent war is to make yourself stronger than the nation that means to bring war to you, While that may be true under our present circumstances yet it has never been shown that one nation is willing to cower before an enemy which may have a few more guns and a. few more soldiers in uniform than it has for itself. It seems to me, long as one nation seeks to lead in armament all the nations will seek to Jead. The real cause of war is not the, supply or lack of armament but racial’ or commercial jealousies. It is to be remembered that secretly each nation believes itself superior to every other nation. Whether we

we will, it is always very evident. And so it is very doubtful whether great armaments, because of this sense of. national superiorit ever prevent war.

would not prevent it. ” = »

URGING U. S. ENTRY WHILE BRITAIN STANDS By B. S., Indianapolis One of the most remarkable things about this total war of the totalitarians against us democracies is our totally wishful way of waging war. Why try to win a

it? Why try to win a total war by half way measures, such as our “short of war” aid to Britain?

termination to destroy Naziism at any cost (even war) as Naziism fis total in its determination to destroy freedom at any cost, then to

war would not be to hope -for the In any case, it. is never too late lite to fight in a total fashion. we have a God-given day of grace to unite our total “war effort to

Britain’s for strength and victory, to prove the right of freedom, in-

call it national pride or anything |

will | §

A little superiority in the way of | } armament might decide the war but| 3

If we were as total in our de-|’

to fight for freedom .and never too.

1917, by the House of Morgan, It is getting harder and harder to criticize the foreign policy of our Government and’ State Depart ment. The stakes are very high. Dependable facts, presumably in the knowledge of officials, but withe held from the public—even from the ablest of news hawks—are few. But from the rare hits. of dependable information I can glean, I can't escape a growing conviction that the President is a lot more averse to getting us into shooting-war than many of his critics believe. That may be 100 per cent wrong. Perhaps I believe it because I want to believe it. But, of one thing I am confident. No man was ever more thoughtful or jealous of his place in history, and there are few better poker players in America. Maybe we still have a chance for our white alley.

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

FTER doing educational work with women since 1909, the retiring president of Erie College, Dr, Vivian Small, says educated girls of today have wone derful theories about freedom but often fail to grasp the fact that freedom means: obligation and privilege means responsibility, The charge goes for the rést of us as well. If democracy could be established with fine words it would encircle the globe, and if gheoMes could set up freedom all mankind would enjoy liberty. However, the time for tall talk is past. Right now we, the people of the United States, are up against a real and desperate job; we've got to figure out how we can fight totalitarianism without going totalitarian ourselves, We realize, of course, that unification of all groups, obedience by all, 1s full regimentation and that it is needed in war effort. The most gigantic paradox in human history lies in the fact that no nation has ‘ever yet solved its unems= ployment problems except through war or prepara=tions for war. So at this time we are riding toward the crest of another prosperity wave. It is easy and profitable to go along with the crowd; there is something vastly exhilarating in the hum of factories and the martial parades. Nobody stops to think about the future, when the true test of our power will come. It must be met when the emergency or the war is over and we settl Sown to make our democracy work at home once

mor: : Tt is then that the point brought up by Dr. Small will take cn special significance. The common people have to plod and plug for democracy as well as to. fight and die for it, if they really expect to keep it, In their hands its ultimate fate always rests. : In the past the most dangerous foe to every democracy has been the demagog, His kind has wrecked and undermined every political structure built by the sweat and blood of free men. Therefore, in the present surge of patriotic fervor, it is to be hoped we will resolve to get rid of our own political renegades while we help rid the world of dictators.

foe

“t-wage rates at least equaling the highest in the industry— ‘the check-off system for collecting union dues—shop ‘stewards—elimination of the company’s famed “service de- : partment” which, under Harry Bennett, has been denounced ‘by labor as a ruthless organization for fighting unionzation all this and more. Even union labels on Ford cars, it is reported. What caused this sensational change? Far be is from us to attempt to read Henry Ford's mind. Maybe he decided, finally, that his labor policy was out of step with the times. Maybe that there was no other way of getting out ‘from under the numerous National Labor Relations Board cases against his company. Maybe just that he wanted to ‘give the country one more big surprise. Anyway, the C. I. 0. union has won from the Ford ‘Motor Co. more completé recognition than from any other ‘automobile manufacturer to date. That certainly entitles the union to claim a great victory. Also, it seems to us, t

stead of slavery, to inherit the earth—totally. :

A TREE

By DANIEL B. STRALEY Sturdy monarch, old and gray, Child of unremembered day, Leaning by a traveled way— °' |

Peerin g ever toward the sky, Deeper than mere human eye, Nodding at friends passing by-—

In your upward, pleading reach, In your rustling muted speech You a master sermon preach. DAILY THOUGHT

Knowledge puffeth up, , Charity edifieth.—I Corin

for a long time. This produces an accelerated demand for those articles, This demand gets in the way of certain other defense industries. It is then necessary to curtail the production of those things. The moment you curtail production you increase the pressure on prices. Prices of all sorts of things rise—the initial cause of the rise having been the turning over of the oil tankers, followed by the gasless Sundays, followed by the bankruptcy of the Sunday traffic trade, followed by the diversion of purchasing power into other channels. The end result of all this is this that, ‘when you begin to regulate at one point, you have to make up your mind to regulate at a score of other points. Yqu fast accept all-out effort for Britain as total regulation.

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