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APAN’S OPPORTUNITY

AFTER 10 days of almost continuous conferences, the Tokyo Government is still trying to decide what to do

‘about the war between its two shotgun “friends.” It has an,

‘Axis partnership with Hitler and a nonaggression pact with ‘Stalin. The new war, whichever way it goes, will affect Japan's fate. So the Tokyo Govefnment is certainly wise in taking time out to look at its hole card. : Premier Prince Konoye this week in an American press interview said “Japan is very anxious to maintain friendly relations with the United States.” We believe the Prince means what he says, and that he knows starting a war near Alaska or near the Philippines is not the way to maintain friendly relations. : : : Prince Konoye knows that Japan's Axis treaty has strained American relations; that Hitler betrayed the anticomintern pact with Japan by making the 1939 Stalin deal; that Nazi partnership is a kiss of death; that Mussolini is now only an imprisoned puppet, and that Stalin the doublecrosser is double-crossed. Is Japan next? Admitting that Japan has its grievances against Britain and the United States, wouldn't Japan fare better with ~ them than with a victorious Hitler? And if Hitler loses his long-shot gamble of licking the world, will not Japan go down with him? Hitler wants Japan to start a Pacific war, which would help him but wreck Japan. The United States wants peace in the Pacific. Isn’t it more to Japan's own interest to work ‘with the United States for peace? Isn’t that Japan's great opportunity—now, before it is too late?

. SENATOR GEORGE

a war threat emergency the most important official, ~~ other than the President, is the chairman of the Senate ~ Foreign Relations Committee. For our Constitution gives - to Congress, and particularly the Senate, co-ordinate power - with the President over foreign commitments. Only Con- _ gress has power to declare war. : : ~The nation is fortunate in having as that ranking member of Congress in foreign affairs, Senator George of Georgia. He rates that leadership not only by seniority, - but by a sober patriotism, by ability and by character. ” # ” This record, as well as the deep sincerity of his defense of the American constitutional method, explains the profound impression made by his Senate speech last Saturday. In the midst of war declarations by unelected Cabinet officers, and consequent widespread public fear that the Presi‘dent will start a shooting war without consulting Congress, Senator George reaffirmed his calm faith. He said: “I recognize the necessity for all-out total preparation as strongly as anyone can, and I think a little more strongly, perhaps, than some of our friends. Because to my mind “all-out total preparation never can be made by the American people, with the resolution which has characterized them in all their great undertakings, unless and until they feel that they themselves are a part of the great decision ~ which brings on that effort. ly ; “So when I was thinking of total defense I was thinking primarily of the strong spirit of unity, which will not exist if our people are possessed with the fear that great ‘decisions and commitments may be made without any opportunity on their part to participate in making such decisions. : “I have tried to make it perfectly clear that in my humble opinion, but without anything to base it upon save my own conclusion and deduction, the President of the United States himself has fully recognized what is in my mind, and that he did not want to arouse the fear of the American people that he would make great decisions without their having an opportunity to pass upon the questions involved.” : Or again: : : : “I profoundly hope this country will not become an active participant in the present war, or any other war. I ave not yet accepted the fatalistic doctrine that our actual ‘military or naval participation is inevitable.” ” o 2 Remember that the speaker is head of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the representative of : Congress whom the President consults on these questions, ‘and the old a close friend of Secretary of State Hull.

N ! UIDANCE in framing the present war policy of the "United States will be found in Luke, 15: “ .. Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?” “Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and 8 not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him. “Saying, This man began to build, and was not able finish. “Or what king, going to make war on another king, eth not down first and consulteth whether he be able vith 10,000 to meet him that cometh against him with 0,000 92 . Before we fight, face the facts.

HAT’S DIFFERENT.

EMEMBER how Communists in the United States were howling recently that even the mildest suggestions for venting strikes in defense industries were a plot by pitalistic warmongers to conscript and enslave labor? Well, labor conscription for defense purposes has been women in its jurisdiction. And, naturally, the partygymnasts in this country will consider that a perfectly * step. © Forced labor is o. k. by them—when it’s Ru

ed by the Leningrad Soviet on all able-bodied men |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

He Thinks If Would Be a Good Idea * To Restrict the Holding of Public Office to Natural-Born Citizens.

EW YORK, July 3.—There seems to be/ no coun-

pitable as this one to the kickouts, renegades, mal--contents and spies of other powers. We know, “of course, that the disaster of France was due in no €mall part to her indisc te hospitality which encouraged abuse of asylum and enabled the creation within her political body of poisonous growths which sapped her life. srl There were always those among the native French who, in the name of democracy, would insist _that alien devotees of this or that ~ ism or faction in other nations must be allowed to enter and, in the course of time, take a full part in the affairs of France—not necessarily as grateful adopted children of the family but often as critical and obstreperous intruders. One serious trouble was-that many of these immigrant refugees continued to carry on in France the activities for which they or their kind, whether imperial Russians or Italians or German Communists, had become hunted men at home. They wiped their shoes on the flag to which they owed their escape from death, mocking the hospitality of a people who risked and, finally, lost their freedom for the sake of a tradition. 8 8 IY the United States the period of probation for immigrants ‘ desiring to become citizens is five years, with certain classes of exceptions, the most important of which is that permitting the alien spouse of an American citizen to become naturalized in three years or less. But obviously the mere oath of citizenship has not always been proof of Americanization. The renunciation of foreign ties is insincere or, anyway, incomplete in the thousands of ostensible Americans who, nevertheless, continue in this land to regard themselves as partial Italians, Poles, French or Germans and, in organized ranks, masquerading as cultural groups, to fight at a distance old battles of the homeland. : It goes without saying that many such naturalized citizens use the privilege of American citizenship: as a shield behind which they serve enemies of this country. As to whether naturalized British do this here I do not know, but it seems to me that not many of them adopt American citizenship. They have other means of serving king and country among us, the most potent being an appeal to the pathetic snobbery of Americans who swoon in the presence of a broad “A” and the trashy little titles which the crown turns out by the batch to reward politicians, party contributors, lawyers and the like. I may be unconstitutional, and believe I am, in suggesting that a native American citizen should rank before a naturalized immigrant. This is our country; we know and make its ways, which, therefore, are our ways, and the privilege of holding public office I would reserve for native citizens. .

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“RUE, that would create a B class of citizenship, but I see no objection to that in view of our experience and especially in view of the doubtful quality of much of the immigration, which has swept in here, much of it under pretext, since the scourge began abroad. These immigrants are. lucky to be where they are and not where they were, and to deny them the privilege of political leadership would inflict no very serious hardship. True, in this way we might deny ourselves some very fine leadership, but I believe we would protect ourselves against much more of a kind of leadership which was largely responsible for the hell on earth in Europe. The answer to any such proposal instinctively will be that the founding fathers were themselves malcontents from Europe, but the time, the nature of the United States and the character of the immigration are different today. Those malcontents came here to escape oppression in Europe and to found a new home for themselves by working, and they were willing to forget Europe. The newer malcontents are no more content with our ways than they were with those of the lands from which they fled, and are very critical of a country whose native population would be very well pleased to solve their own problems in their own way and vote issues in the election instead of old world nationalistic hatreds.

Business By John T. Flynn

Henderson's Price Control Drive Blows Up for Lack of Authority

EW YORK, July 3.—The price-control campaign N of Leon Henderson has now pretty plainly Blown up. This writer predicted that it would blow up, and it has done so even sooner than I thought. It has been carried on with talk—big talk and no power behind it. Where does responsibility rest for this? It seems perfectly obvious. There is not the slightest doubt that no real power has been given to Mr, Henderson to do anything about price control. When I say he has no power, I - mean that in two ways. First, there is a question of how much actual legal power he has to really do anything. But even if he had the legal power, he would have to have political clearance from his superior, the President, before he -could “act effectively. Price-fixing is one of the disagreeable features of war. There are a lot of pleasant things about war. One of them is the excitement. War is just about the greatest show there is on earth. Then there is the prosperity. There are the high wages, the wide employment, the brisk trade in the stores. But it has its disagreeable side, too. There are the taxes, the debt, the ruthless exercise of power producing all sorts of.uncomfortable effects. There is the. force that must be used to stop strikes. There is the power that must be turned on to compel reluctant businessmen to comply with Government plans. Putting on these pressures, using these powers, makes politicians unpopular and there has been no evidence so far of any of our politicians doing any of the unpopular jobs connected with war. The President, most of all, has shrunk from these.

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UT even if the President were willing, there is the question of legal power. If price control is to be used—and it should be used—the power to use it should be obtained from Congress at once. It should have been done a year ago. \ But we must not kid ourselves about it. No possible defense can be made for price-fixing by Government in‘our system of economics. But it is inescapable when the Government deliberately disturbs all the other normal processes of economic life by war economics. But we must be frank with ourselves and see clearly what it will imply. It will mean the biggest bureau that Washington has ever seen. It will spread out over the town, across the Potomac into Virginia and up into Maryland for'space to house the army of experts and clerks that will be required. .

engine. You can’t fix the price of an automobile

they come from many different places and involve many However, price-fixing is something that must go with war and we might just as well understand it now. .

So They Say— ~ IBERO-AMERICA suffers from a kind of orphanage after the collapse. of France, Italy and Spain.— Fernando de los Rios, former Spanish Ambassador to

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There are about 2400 parts in an automobile | engine without fixing the price of all those parts,and |

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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.

ACCUSES NEWLYWEDS OF BEING SLACKERS By Class 1-A, Indianapolis Witness those slackers who get married to avoid the draft, and then go tearing around the Circle after the wedding, blowing their horns, bragging about it! There is a. city

ordinance against undue noise, anyway. It should be rigidly enforced on those “defenders of their country” who should really be hiding in their holes, ashamed to show their faces! 2 = =

RESENTS CRITICISM OF AMERICAN ‘BUSINESS. : By Voice In the Crowd, Indianapolis

It is a resonsibility to express views in the Forum, and before doing so a person should have at least a vague idea of the opposite side. Mr. W. Scott Taylor's attack on American business, meaning no doubt American industry, is unjust, uncalled for and wrong in its entirety. It is not true that American industry has Held back for profits, because American industry knows better than any other group, and from experience, that war has no profit. All that American industry hopes for is to amortize the capital that it expends for surplus plant and be able to pay its taxes. It is already apparent that many plants will not be able to accomplish such a feat, but they still go on. : For two years American industry has -been building and equipping plants with a speed that could not have been increased. The building trades have worked overtime building plant space and. the machine tool industry has done, and is still doing a job of which every redblooded American can be proud. No more machine tools could have been built in the allotted time and machine tool deliveries for extended defense effort run well into 1842. Several hundred thousand unskilled men have had to be trained into semi-skilled and highly skilled craftsmen, and the training still goes on. You don’t pull that stuff out of a New Dealer's hat. What has been done in industry in the time allotted has been well done and with surprising rapidity, and under the leadership of real men being lashed at by New Dealers and certain sections of public opinion at every step. Our program started after the re-

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‘peal of -the “Arms Embargo” clause of the Neutrality Act—not so long ago. It started with French and British orders that were much delayed because Britain could not give up her “buy British” slogan. After the war started it became apparent that many theories of war plane design were inadequate, planes had to be armed heavier and armored, and carry greater power plants. That meant delay but it did not delay the plant facilities program. The danger of delay is now while the “Battle of Washington” is being fought. If you want to know what the Battle of Washington is, you ‘might read up on the report of the Military Affairs. Congressional Committee and learn how the New Dealers under Harold Ickes are sabotaging the defense program. Eight or nine agencies all headed by New Dealers, are down there with the power to veto the priorities and actions of each other. If the results that such an arrangement will get is what the American people want, don’t blame it on “American business.” What the defense program needs now is one head who understands men and material and routing, and that head to bé vested with the power to kick politics out of the lot until the job is done. The selection of that man is up to Mr. Roosevelt. “He would not, however, be a New Dealer and that is why we have the Battle of Washington that must be won if we are to win the Battle of the Atlantic.

» ” os . TAKING A DIG AT SOME OF OUR POLICEMEN By W. C., Indianapelis The police, whether in uniform or civilian clothes are supposed to set a standard of honesty and morals by which other people can profit. Children look to these men for protection, sometimes advice, but when men aren’t capable of handling their own lives, how can

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| by his fruit—Matthew 12:33.

| Indianapolis Times stated that a woman had been arrested and fined for holding a bingo party in her home because it was illegal, yet I have seen police, in uniform, go into a pool room, help themselves to cigars, tickets and never put down one red cent. I guess this is not illegal but just “protection.”

cigarets and baseball

PARTNERSHIP WITH RUSSIA OPPOSED By J. 8.,-Indianapolis. '

When anti-Christ meets anti-

Christ in battle, should any nation that claims to put its trust in God rush to support either camp of hell’s angels? and Stalin’s weight of arms do not justify such week-kneed action.

Big profit sugar-coating self-protection behind Joe

We are committed to aid Britain

and China. That's fine. But partnership with Russia for any purpose whatsoever is a question to be submitted to the American conscience before co-operation.

DOUBTS VALUE OF DAYLIGHT TIME By One of the Working Men, Indianapolis

Well, we have had one week of

Daylight Saving Time and I am wondering how much benefit anybody except the Chamber of Commerce and the rest of the playboys have enjoyed the change. So far I

have heard no favorable reports, but a lot of complaints.

It certainly has been of no bene-

fit to me, but it has been a hardship. I must get up an hour earlier to get to my work on time, then

ome home in the heat of the day,

then sit out in my backyard; cannot even enjoy the pleasure of my front porch because of the boiling sun. side of the street.) I have to sit out there for several hours until it

(I happen to live on the east

ools off enough so that I can ven-

ture to bed to try and get a few hours sleep.

With this extra hour of daylight

it is almost midnight before we can get any sleep, then be up at 5 o'clock or earlier. to be healthy we must get at least eight hours of sleep. How can we manage that with this present setup?

Doctors tell us

‘I can’t get out my car and drive

to work like the bunch that put this piece of nonsense over on us. A lot of us can’t afford the luxury of a car. We must stand on the

orner and wait for a streetcar or

I see how our Mayor was sO

pleased at the response he received when he signed the bill. He did not, hear the unfavorable criticism as I have heard it. I have talked to a great many people in the last week and have not heard one person speak in favor of it.

FAREWELL TO DAY By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING

When tractors’ constant whirr and

purring sound Cease for the day and evening curtains fall,

There : 5 a quietude, a rapture

ound— And calm of countryside is felt by all.

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For when the dusk has changed to

darker robes, And pinned her draperies with stars so fair;

The moonflowers burst from out

their pendent lobes, As ghostly white they blossom sweet and rare.

When summer night bids farewell to the day.

DAILY THOUGHT Either make the tree good, and

good; or else make the for the tree is known

ABHINGTON, July 3.~This column has ne been noted for undue partiality. for: Hert Hoover. Before his unfortunate Presidency: all his intimates whom I knew swore great guy. That included: contemporaries

Fd George Peek, my. Di . . and friend, began his long ahd ultimately successful fight for what we called. “eqs ity for agriculture.” \ dvi 5 All that is water over the dam. I have seen deal of Mr. Hoover in these.latter days. He compape a lot closer with the kindly philosopher and. good comrade my friends described to me in the pre-war years than with what I considered a reactionary and dogmatic sour-puss some time later. He is as wholesome, modest and considerate as any man with whom you. would like to. spend an evening settling the affairs of the world. Mr. Hoover made a carefully considered speech in Chicago recently. It boiled down to this—that, while we should help Britain and China with everything we have, neither moral, military nor economic judgment indicates that we should begin actual shooting war one moment before it is necessary. n ” ” :

ITH some of what Mr. Hoover said, this column cannot agree. With much of what he said, and certainly with its fundamental principle, it does agree. That isn’t the point of this piece. That point is the character of the protest that immediately

followed.

Navy Secretary Frank Knox, the ex-Rough Rider

| came out like the bad man from Bitter Creek, rootin’,

tootin’, and shootin’ for all-out war tomorrow. O. K. Frank, everybody had your number, and if that is the way you feel about it—and it is—do your stuff and God bless you. You always were what the real cattle hands out West, in the old days, called a BiegelCooper (or mail-order) cowboy and you do and always have honéstly and conspicuously represented your point of view. But the reaction that gives me a pain in the neck is that of our amateur columnar strategists. Take this from fellow Pontifex, Walter Lippman, The danger that Stalin may lose Siberia to Hitler would put the latter on our Alaskan borders which ought to have the “full attention of all who not only wish to put America first but also know how to put America first”—presumably, Walter, “Fight?” It reminds me of a sales manager's pep conference when the big boss kept yelling “We've got to think” and the office boy got fired for muttering “With what?” Also Maj. George Fielding Eliot dismisses Mr. Hoover as an ignoramus in military craft and statecraft, and on somewhat similar grounds. 8 ” »

FF? be it from me to pass lightly the opinions of these respected friends of mine, The value of this very necessary debate would be distinctly impaired without the contributions of these two studious, hardworking and earnest commentators. But it is going pretty far to dismiss Mr. Hoover as an ignoramus. He is perfectly correct in mininrizing any Nazi threat to Alaska through Siberia. The lines of communication are too long and thin and the country, is too forbidding. It is war-mongering “booshwa’” and build-up. Let's not forget, in evaluating these charges of ignorance, that next to the President, Mr. Hoover, under heavy responsibility, has a greater experienc~ in these matters, especially in this area, than any American. Let's not forget another thing: The Pre: - dent isn’t joining in this clamor. He is properly er - couraging free debate. Buf in the field of action a « regardless of the gammerings of his endmen, his cor duct has been so discreet, well-balanced and fa seeing, that I'm strangely getting a sort of urge tbe a Franklin fan again. I can’t see much difference helween the President's policy and Mr. Hoover’: speech. ; :

A Woman's Viewpoint : . By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE middle-class housewife is on a spot. Unless her husband's wages go up, the old budget will have to be stretched again even though it’s now taut to the bursting point—this time to cover rising foud costs. Rich women will not be hurt; many will nce even be aware of the slow change. and the very poor ones, already half starved and perhaps lucky enough to get handouts from Government agencies or other charity, will accept the fact with resignation, as they have accepted other adjustments in their hard lives. But for millions of spruce, alert, inetlligent women who live in the middle income brackets, the new - placards on the grocery shelves spell worry and panic. A rising tide of questions greets ol ; a this ising cet of foodstuffs. The easant men who serve us explain mosh of their explanations are plausible. . ond Actually, most market rises can be attributed to defense activity. No doubt many boys in camp are Setting better ood han, they ves got at home, and we own that the figh men / even if civilians starve. bi ing aivays sat, We're not going to starve here, at least for a long time, with a carry-over of unsold wheat estimated at 400 million bushels, and the Government still asking a reduction of wheat acreage. Our productive capability is enormous—and the housewife knows it. That's why she asks so many questions. In central sections of the country, midsummer is upon us. It is the season when cows are fresh and Bens ste Prous. Yet dis year butter, milk and eggs, which us are at their ch . NOW, § I prin al hn, nee Bs AS upg at are the Government agencies doing about all He? That’s a question the housewife would like answered. i

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