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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941

THEY'RE IN THE ARMY NOW

ELL, it’s beginning to look like an Army. ‘We refer to that incident in. Memphis where a detachment of sol-

diers yoo-hooed some girls in shorts while slogging past the |

country. club, and then; to compound it, razzed a lieutenant general who, disguised in mufti, undertook to.shush them. The general then made his identity known in traditional military style. He gave men and officers a dressing

. down in language it had taken him 40 years in the Army |

to learn, and it is to’ be hoped that his junior officers. took copious notes, as such knowledge is priceless. Just to spice up the dressing, the general then ordered a 15-mile hike by all hands in the detachment. : And as they marched those weary miles the men sang a little ditty which contained pointed references to the quality of the general's golf game, said ditty set to the 5 tune of a famous bawdy song about a certain Mademoiselle. That squared the account, in Army style. It’s a yarn for the book. An epic of Army anecdote that will be told and retold over the years, and like the ~ “first man over the wall” in the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, the number of men involved in this incident will increase with the years and with the telling, until the detachment will more nearly resemble a division than a mere battalion.

It might be that Gen. Lear has performed what amounts to a public service. He has changed the character He has created an “old soldier” tradition in an Army which up to now seems to be distinguished chiefly for hostesses, me- *- chanical potato-peelers, few Salutes and general circum-

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There are a lot of things which go to make up an Army, and not the least of them is the tradition built up from personal and intimate anecdote. That also is’ one of the priceless things about baseball. Dugout “jockeys” make _ effective use of such anecdote, and baseball anecdote, like Army anecdote, becomes in time part of the folklore of

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. the nation. For instance, the story about Hughey J ennings,

who when manager of the Detroit Tigers took his team to Cornell University for an exhibition game, Cornell being Hughey’ 8 alma mater. When the game was over, Hughey ran stark naked from the dressing room to the indoor

swimming pool hard by, shouting over his: shoulder, “last

“one in’s a rotten egg.” Hughey then made a sweeping - swan dive into the pool—in which there was no water. For years the “jockeys” rode him with the chant, “How deep was the water, Hughey ?”

Gen. Lear’s men will probably engage in many a skull-

. and-knuckle battle when some one yells “Yoo-hoo,” but

secretly they will feel that throughout the Army this incident represents a sort of accolade. When they yoo-hooed . they did what soldiers everywhere do when they see gals to yoo-hoo at, and Gen. Lear dished out what soldiers usually get when they are caught being themselves, Truly, they “are in the Army now.

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. STORY OF A MIND BET

Bo in 1929, on Oct. 28, three men made a mind bet. That was the day the two John D. Rockefellers, Senior and Junior, came into the market to buy “good, sound,

common stocks,”

The first full fury of the storm which had swept Wall

: > Street apparently was subsiding, and the Rockefellers were - exerting their powerful weight in an effort to still the wind

that remained. “Let's pretend we're buying, too,” agreed the three ‘mind-betters who had gathered in a New York office to discuss the situation. So five of the best common stocks were mentally purchased—1000 shares of each—U. 8. Steel, A. T. & T,, General Electric, Standard Oil ‘of New Jersey, New York Central, the mind bet. would be prepared from time to time through the years to come. Here's the latest: Total cost: for each purchaser—$918, 750. _ Sale price as of the first day of July, 1941—§393, 250. Loss for each mind bettor—$525,500. Percentage of loss—57. ' Moral—(this bging Written by one of the three) : “Thank: God it was a mind bet. Conclusion; Even Rockefellers don’t always win. - P. S. While'it’s usually called a profit system, the captalistic society i in, Which we live is actually a profit-and-loss

EDUCATIONAL HOUSE-CLEANING PHE National Education Association, largest organization of teachers in this country, is moving to clean American education’ s hopise of subversive influences. . A commission of 60 educators, appointed by authority f the N. E. A. convention at Boston, will undertake to expose teachers “whose attitude. is found to be inimical to the

best interests of the United States.” It will also investite charges of disloyalty that may be brought against teachers’ colleges, textbooks and teachers’ organizations. A resolution adopted by the convention declares that, Neither freedom of speech nor academic freedom should e used as. a cloak for activities or teachings subversive to ‘principles and ideals of the United States.” We agree oT pletely. Yet the Communists in particular are adept at g that cloak. So we're glad to see the teaching profession accept reJonsibility for slinjinating its disloyal members, and we

nly should be better equipped to do it than anyone nd if it is not’ done by them it will be undertaken by as a result of public clamor, with greater possibility

‘It was ‘agreed that a recapituation of

By Westbrook Pegler

of *its arrogant belief that it exists for itself rather that for the people and.that the maintenance of a clubby politeness or noklesse oblige is;more important “than the preservation of freedom. The Senate is not a private’ ‘and portant - public". body; ‘the ‘people. and not merely to flat‘ter one ‘another, , © *» “This refers to.a. recent debate, - covering five ge -of fine Jui in the Con Record, in which John H..Overton of Louisi-. ana, whose Bo was obtained by "an “outrageously ‘fraudulent primary in 1932, arose to defend : himself ‘by the use. of such language as may be published enly in the libel-proof

port of a special committee of the te findings that “a vicious and abhorrent political practice” had been resorted to by the historic band of rogues who stole the nomination’ for him, Senator Overton fell back on the defense that he personally did not participate in the frauds. Although he is acknowledged by a number of his colleagues to be a'shrewd politician and a highly intelligent man, he nevertheless insisted that he had no ‘guilty knowledge of the terrorism, extortion and other crookedness employed to his benefit. Fa a HE very compliment paid him by his oillesahies in their rush to testify to his remarkable ability, argue that he was far too intelligent to have remained ignorant of the frauds. Only an innocent fool could have remained unaware of the crookedness practiced by the Long gang in that primary, and I will never contend that Overton is either innocent or a fool. + Several of Senator Overton’s colleagues rushed to comfort him. Charlie McNary gave him an “exemplary character,” but tipped his mitt as to his concept of the duty of Senators when he said that none of his colleagues

with whom he has served.” Walter George of Georgia, who, as Chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, investigated the corruption, recalled that, in the end the committee found nothing affecting the:“high character and fitness” of Overton, although, -again, it must be recalled that the special committee did find fraud. George even included Senator Allen. J. Ellender, also of Louisiana, and an aggressive participant in all the political atrocities of the Long dictatorship, in his glittering indorsement of Overton. Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah, who ‘served on the specidl. committee and signed the report of fraud, having heard Overton’s chaste discussion of “garbage,” “filth” and “chronic putrefaction,” warned. the American press not to overstep the bounds of propriety, and added his testimony to the character of both Overton and Ellender.

ENATOR CLARK of Missouri, who has a Special interest in Louisiana politics too subtle for explanation in a passing reference, assisted in the praiseful ceremonies. And Senator Tom Conhally of Texas, the chairman of the special committee which condemned the fraud but vindicated the beneficiary, also indorsed both Touisiana statesmen. But Senator Connally also said: “There was no

- testimony, not even-a hint, that Senator Overton per-

somally had participated in any fraud or in any political chicanery of wrongdoing of any Character whatsoever.” “That statement is untrue, for on Pages 6 and 7 of the Connally committee’s report to the Senate it is solemnly charged that the device of the dummy candidate, dénounced by the committee as “vicious” and “abhorrent,” was employed “with the knowledge, consent and approval of the candidate, Mr. Overton.” " Certainly “knowledge, consent and approval” would, in my opinion, constitute “participation” in the fraud which Senator Connally found, but even if Overton be held to be an utter imbecile, and thus ignorant of the practices, he still had no right to a seat obtained by a fraudulent election. And it is admitted that he was the beneficiary of the fraud. All this arose from a proposal that the statue .of Huey Long should be removed from the Senate, where it mocks the citizenship of the people, the freedom of the ballot from which all other freedoms flow and the honor and courage of the Senate itself,

Business By John T. Flynn

Dictators Only Thing i in Common Between Communism and Fascism

TEW YORK, July 10.—Several letters ask me to outline the difference between communism and fascism. Recently I said that the German-Russian war was a struggle betweem these two systems.

ence between them—Hitler and Stalin are both blood-stained dic- . tators, Germany and Russia both totalitarian countries. ‘That is more or less true. No one can tell with accuracy which .has shed the most blood. But there are great differences, just the same, in spite of the fact that both .are dictatorships. The chief difference between fascism and. communism is economic, and there the difference is vast. In Russian communism the state owns everything—all the factories, all the farms, all the stores, all the utilities. Those who run them are merely the employees of the state. Everybody, in fact, is a state employee. Under fascism, factories, stores, farms belong to private individuals and private corporations. Those who work, work for private employers, not for the" state. In Russia there is no such thing as private profit. In fascism, private profit is recognized. Under fascism, to be sure, the government regulates business and taxes it to the limit. In Russia the state owns the business. In Germany private individuals own the business and the government regulates it. Communism is-state socialism under a dice tatorship. Fascism is an attempt to prolong the system of private ownership and private profit.

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HIS distinction makes a tremendous difference in the economic conditions, reactions, and developments in the two countries. Which is the better or

portant fact to be noted: While fascism is an attempt to prolong the system of private ownership—capitalism, if you will—it will fail to do that, because, while business is owned by ‘private owners, it is subjected to su¢h enormous taxation and to such minute and crippling regulation that the expansion of business under such a system will gradually cease to continue. And; as private owners ;shrink ‘from expanding their plants and stores or from going into new ones, because of the regimentation and small profiis, the country will find the expansion to be necessary and the state will take over first one field of enterprise and then another in order

will spread gradually through-the whole system. Conceivably both these systems could be operated

~ by constitutional, civilized governments. But in prac-

tice both of them require dictators, and dictators are slwaya brutal. y

So They —

THIS WAR will settle the quality of your lives and

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exclusive society but a very imand the:

columns of the Record. Far from denying the re- |.

had been “more zealous of the rights of the Senators |

the worse is any man’s choice. But there is this im- |

to keep things moving, until finally state socialism :

your children’s lives.—Justice Frankfurter of the U. 8. | :

U.S. Senators Reflected No Glory | > : © On That August Assemblage in Their | Recent Debate on the Overton Case. Fs

YEW YORK, July 10-_The United States Sérate | 3 recently has given a shocking ‘demonstration -

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THE PRESIDENT, HE SAYS, SHOULD LET US KNOW TOO By R. W. Weber, Sadianapols I'm reconciled to doing anything that needs to he done to stop Hitler. But, for God's sake, can’t the President let us in on what he is planning. to do with our property, our. money and perhaps our lives? Why the secrecy? 8 2 = AGREES WITH VIEWS EXPRESSED BY HOOVER By 8. B, Indianapolis Herbert Hoover, our only living ex-President—may God biess him for many more years!—deserves the thanks of his countrymen for his contribution and most energetic work to keep us out of the European struggles. His recent address was most dispassionate, divorced from any abuse or hate for his fellowmen who differ

from him. All he asks for is that the Ameri-

‘can. people think for themselves.

He not only analyzes the fundamentals of the present world conflict; he also proposes a well-thought-out program of how to con-

duct’ ourselves in the midst of this

War. It is to be hoped that Congress will heed his warning not to abdicate any of its rightful prerogatives which the Constitution gives it. # ” » SUGGESTS MUFFLERS FOR MOTORCYCLES By Another Disgusted Taxpayer, IndianPp .

It is ¢ommon to say that there is ‘no real differ- [apolis

I certainly agree with “A Disgusted Taxpayer’s” article in the Forum of July Tth regarding the noise that the.motorcycles make in our city. All the yokels in the state that have one. of those “pests” seem to get their girl on behind them and come to Indianapolis every time the ‘American Flag is flown -and that is very often these days. A great deal has been said and done by our City Fathers regarding the “tooting” of automobile horns and other noises which are unnecessary and I am in perfect accord with that movement and they have accomplished a great deal jn eliminating a great deal of such offenses. But what have they done

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to stop the din of motorcycles?

Nothing. Sunday, the day of rest and wor-

ship seems to be the special day

that these gasoline pests pick out to come to our beautiful city to disturb early morning sleep and church services, to say nothing of awakening the babies and sick people, to say nothing of the tired businessman who is trying to get a few winks in on Sunday, the only day he has to do this. It seems possible to place mufflers on those noise makers just the same as on automobiles, and I can’t understand. why the City Council does not prohibit the using of motorcycles: that have no mufflers, Maybe I don’t know all there is to know about motorcycles, for I know very little but I am not mistaken when I say, they are the worst of all. motor-driven vehicles, when it comes to noise.

: 8 ‘ns » PROUD TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT’S POLICIES By Emily Pendegraft, 14 N. Hamilton Ave. After reading another of Mr. Carrick’s*article on the New Deal and so. forth, I would like to ask Mr. Carrick if he would please try to get better acquainted with we believers in the New Deal. We are proud that we have the

courage and self respect to stand by and help’ the President of the United States in these trying times. By so doing we let no hatred enter our minds, instead we pledge and koe, allegianve to our flag and for our 2 8:8 RAPS HOLC POLICY ON HOME PRICES By M. E, Indianapolis ‘The HOLC was supposed to have been organized to relieve distressed

home owners and Hereby to en-

Side Glances wn By Galbraith

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| properties. Prices on. the 175,000

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fathers were fighting for freedom

{to mention the warning of. .the : great Washington. That warning “

- lown business and keep out of all

But, though the sun peeps yondes: -|And now I pause snd ponder

courage home ownership, yet it is acting ‘no differently than private banks or other owners of small

pieces of property acquired hy the HOLC - through mass foreclosures

have been pegged up $500 to $1000 or more, per property. The prices are in excess of the real value of

Here we see a government agency using its monopolistic holdings of property to raise prices for small homes and make it more difficult for people to own their own homas. ” ” ” LINDBERGH ARGUMENT ON. BRITAIN SEEN SPIKED By C. L. C., Indianapolis Lindbergh’s main argument for our staying out of war has “been that England is beyond helping, being too close to defeat to save. Apparently Hitler does not share Mr. Lindbergh’s opinion of England’s helplessness, otherwise why does he have to eliminate the Russian army in his rear before daring to attack England—Russia, the largest country in the world and with the largest army in the world? Lindbergh has heen very silent since his main argument was so thoroughly spiked. He commented only that the situation required “profound thought.” ” » ® . SPEAKING A GOOD WORD FOR THE MOTORCYCLISTS By A. 8. H., Indianapolis Phooey on these people who com-

as we have now.

automobiles and possible gasoline rationing, it’s going to be necessary for lots of people to start thinking seriously about: motorcycles. What's more there's a lot. less accidents with them than ‘with automobiles. And if people don’t like noise, why don’t they move out in the country? ® # =» ; CITES WARNING GIVEN BY WASHINGTON By Hapry Clay, Brightwoed ~ President Roosevelt in his Fourth of July address frequently referred to 1776. Yes, those were the days which tried men’s souls. Our fore-

and democracy against Britain who had invaded this country and was determined that we should not have it. But it seems to me that Mr. Roosevelt failed" to mention one of the most important facts, He failed

was for us to stay here, mind our

foreign entanglements. Strange that Roosevelt never repeated thht warning. I wonder why.

MEDITATION

JAMES D. ROTH

Each night methinks so still, Just one’ less day to strive But tomorrow, at His will— - | Another to survive, ;

‘We're sang toward the brink. Just one less night fo think.

DAILY THOUGHT

Not that we are sufficient al ourselves to think anything as of

mobile can, this piece may not be altoge

jective. several days. By some kind of miracle only one

plan.about motorcycles. The truth |} is that pretty soon there’ll be three | ® times as many of them around town | &

What with the shortage of new

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en. Johnson Says—

Involved in an Accident, His Closs

Call Reminds Him of the General Apathy in Regard to Rules of Road

WASEINoTon: July 10.—Maybe, because I have

autoer ob=

bility, I waited

recently been in one of these shatte But to avoid this very possi

: the dccupants of our car was in- * jured—cracked rib. But the whole left ‘side. of that automobile was either ripped vay or crumpled, and it~ Si in the bushes about 50 feet — the wrong side of the road. Of course that ot fhe paint of this piece. Such ap tao frequently to be of the’ slight= est public interest unless somebody .. is killed or mangled. That is. the ‘point: of this piece, PO The Js pie and. faults that make the appalling casualty

on American automobile. roads are exactly the same

things that make 10 times as many such incidents as this to which nobody pays any attention because no-

body is killed. Most of those things are illegal and

all of them ought to be. "They ought . not to he,.as they are, merely what the lawyers call “malum prohibiten”—things not bad or criminal in themselves but, for convenience, propibited, py. law and. carrying no special igma and no p ent except. light fines.

. + They ought to be regarded, by both law and public

opinion, as what in the same four-dollar professional language, are called “malum in se”—evil, vicious and in themselves dangerous to society. ” on ”

HEN a man takes out on a crowded highway & mass of machinery weighing many hundreds and sometimes, with its load, thousands of pounds and hurtles it through the air at high speeds or without proper care, he is subjecting his fellow-men to the dangers of a terrific shattering force—the mass of the great thing he is piloting, multiplied not merely by its velocity, but by its velocity squared. His responsibility for any injury ought to be ab= solute with punishments as severe as. would be handed to a man turning a dangerous weapon, like a machine gun, loose in a crowd. But more than that, whether he injures anybody or not, his willful violation of the ‘rules that could make such traffic relatively safe should be a felony. Every driver knows what they are—careful regula« tion of speed in relation to the speed of other traffic and conditions’of light and weather; no passing on either a “vertical” or a “horizontal curve (hill or bend in the road) until sufficient room to pass is visible throughout and safe beyond question; meticulous care to stay on your side of the road whether passing, being passed, or just driving; signaling stops and

‘turns in ample time to warn others; keeping eyes and

alert attention constantly on the traffic and hands and feet constantly on the controls and last, but by no means least, dimming blazing lights at night for every passing car. : . 8.8.8 HE worst offenders in the ‘road hog” category are heavy trucks and busses. Their accident record is fine, Sure it' is. Their weight and mo mentum are ‘so great that it is safer to let them take as much as they want, than for any light car to take the slightest chance. Unlike Secretary Ickes, I don’t think their use of the road should be restricted. They serve too many of us in relation to other cars. But they certainly ought to be far more rigidly regulated than is the case today. The dent that set off this piece wasn’t to my, car. I was just a passenger. I don’t drive, It hap= pened at moderate speeds by both cars because a five or six-ton truck wouldn't dim its lights after several signals in a fog and: because its left wheels were well on the wrong side of the center line. It was hardly scratched. Everything seemed to be settled amicably. Our

| very efficient insurance system apparently attended

to that, as usual, smoothly—perhaps too smoothly, That may be part of the reason for our indifference anyway. I didn’t get really heated up until next day, when I began to think of at least three corpses if the speed of either car had been faster or the road hogging six inches greater. That made me realize that even that was not my real boiling point—not this particular accident, but the general gross neglect of rules of safety on our Highways. .

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE draft has brought stunning facts to publia attention. People interested in the preservation of human freedom would do well to study them, We have a hunch they'll be useful to future defense efforts. In brief, here they are: By herding American ‘ youth into training camps it has been discovered that far too many are underfed; vast numbers are mentally sick; hordes can neither read nor write, while only a few lack some physical ailment. Dr. Arno Town, examining ope thalmogist (eye doctor to us com= ‘mon. folks), warns that. eye and teeth defects rare the causes of most rejections of young mien for military sefvice. His report dis closes that 43 per cent throughout . the country are disqualified And says, “It is amazing how many fail to come up to minimum requirements and how many have had any kind of an examination.” Only one conclusion ‘is possible. The nationale defense movenient is jeopardized becaues we failed to build health during the years {when we ‘were. not thinking about war. What were we thinking about? ' Having a good time, mostly. Remember? We were busy Taking more money so we could buy more cars nd gin and Scotch and cigarets, And all the while the fundamental things which create the. desire for liberty within a nae tion were slowly crumbling. People who are half’ sick, half blind, half crazy with a toothache, suffering from rickets or bad digestions, usually don’t give a damn about freedom, and are in. no condition » repel its enemies on any, front, -:., However, let's not get too pessimistic. Education for health is a long and costly business, And 71, for one, always feel cheered up when I realize that’ the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, the cancer fighters, organizations to stamp out syphilis, hard of hearing societies and various other fine groups are doing business as usual. And this is one 2 business that must not be stopped on account. of A Maybe Old Devil Mars will do us a little along with all the harm he inflicts. Maybe he ‘make us health-conscious. ‘For certainly one way to strengthen democracy is to strengthen the minds and characters of those who believe in is LA i £ditor's Note: The views expressed by cofumnists nid newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily of The Indianapolis Times,

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