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= ' so to speak. Middle class officials got smaller brass jobs and

© “70 or 80 per cent of our tanks broke down before they ,. saw the enémy.” Others charged that English storage - facilities were crowded with American planes, which had "as they would have been in Berlin. :

‘"to- the enemy, or Nazi tools destroying public confidence,

: would have been in Washington.

_ evils, "rather than masters.

today.

SPARTAN STUFF : ERE’S real sacrifice.

. officers, were equipped not only with large, glistening brass

~ plain iron models.

'undaunted—one and all, they meet the blow.

_ PUBLICITY FOR “JOHN DOE” : (CONGRESSMAN COLE .of Maryland told the Housg the

easy by the practice of ndt making public the reasons for

: (QRGANIZED labor has a specially protected status under

But workers must have the right to act as groups—as . unions—to seek better wages, shorter hours, safer working

) building costs, to boost food prices, to prevent use of im- -. proved materials and more efficient methods, to compel the

; Ammune if they do such things in conspiracy with employers. “But recent decisions of the court interpret the intent of . Congress to be that immunity shall apply to all restraints .-of trade by unions ‘alone.

‘men to ‘believe. that they have a special license to engage in their anti-sotia that bad situation by restating its own intent in language Es that labor bosses and courts cannot misunderstand.

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BRITISH OFFICIALS CAN TAKE IT N some ways the British system is more democratic than Seuss dle “<x Perhaps this explains in part the ability of British officials to take criticism which the average Washington official could not stand—they are accustomed to it, they have to face and answer attacks on the floor of Parliament. Britain has just been listening to a terrible indictment of jts Government. For two days Parliament heard its soldier members reveal gross inefficiency and neglect in the matter of supplies, resulting in military defeats and the slaughter of brave but helpless troops. . One soldier, just returned from the front, charged that in the battle for the capital of Crete “we barely were in a position to put more than two aircraft into the air for a continuous patrol during daylight hours.” And in Greece

not been even uncrated. 4 Now the men making these charges were not shot,

They were not called traitors revealing military secrets or liars—they were not even given the run-around, as they On the contrary, their expose was accepted as not only proper but patriotic. The Government officials admitted the truth of most of the charges, and then explained what steps had been taken and would be taken to correct the Their attitude was that of servants of the public,

We could do with a lot of that attitude in Washington

To save metal, top-ranking officials of the Government are cutting down on the size

of their spittoons. Before the crisis, it seems, the big shots, like Cabinet

models, but also with brass pans to go underneath, thereby reducing the exigencies of the aim. As a matter of fact, it is stated, importance in Government service was rated by the size of the spittoon one drew ‘from the 50,000- issued each year. A cuspidorean protocol,

no pans, while the lower one-third struggled along with Comes the war, the great leveler. Now, high, middle

‘and low will be treated equally—with simple steel gobboons. Is officialdom downhearted? By no means. Erect and

other day that favoritism has been at work in the Selective Service system. He indicated that this was made deferment. We are happy to note that one day later the House adopted, without debate, an amendment by Mr. Cole requir‘ing all draft boards to make public not only the names of deferred registrants but the reason for the deferment.

TIME FOR ACTION

the Federal anti-trust laws, for a thoroughly good reason. : : : Strikes, boycotts, picket lines affect interstate commerce. Labor often gains its demands by restraining trade.

conditions. ‘And so Congress, on the sound principle that “the labor ‘of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce,” has guaranteed this right. , : But the men who control certain unions have abused® .the right. They have restrained trade in order to increase

hiring of useless and unnecessary labor, to help certain employers drive competing employers ‘out of business, to enforce.systems of graft and extortion and to injure rival unions,» <&0lic L : Em. : : * = = We do not believe Congress ever intended union leaders to be immune to anti-trust prosecution when they do such

‘things. ' The Supreme Court has held that they are not

'. These decisions have encouraged “labor’s hidden holdup

al:practices. It’s up to Congress to remedy

'So, again we call attention to the Monroney and Walter |

These measures clearly define the legitimate objects of ynions—collective bargaining, wages, hours, working condiand the like. Thus they would strengthen the guar~that. labor shall not be punished for seeking these

ce fixing, competition-Killing, graft, extortion, etc.—and provide that unions, union officials and members shall be

subject to the ahti-trust laws if they restrain trade to gain |

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler “Opposition Stirred by His Plea of An America for Americans Only

'Convinces Him the Idea Is Sound

EW YORK, July 15.—Probably nothing will come of the proposal, but it was worth while to suggest the other day that .the people of this country close the books to further members for an indefinite time, because the very idea has aroused such angry dissent that I now perceive something which I never realized be- . fore. x

fully, too, that any American who would entertain such.a thought is obviously no American himself, and this contention plainly shows that we have made a sort of public links of our place which was organized in the first place as a private outfit. 3 This isn’t our country at all, but just anybody’s’ and everybody's A country, and it is outrageous and un-American to think of closing the rolls to new members or limiting the privileges of the new ones until we can police up the premises, assimilate those who now gather in alien clusters around the place and weed out those who either do not understand ‘the game and our rules or refuse to play our way. By custom we have encouraged this belief so long that probably most of us now actually do have some vague idea thgt some fundamental writ of ours in-

ship all applicants who could stammer through a certain rigmarole and present witnesses, themselves not necessarily reliable, as to their character.

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S to the sincerity of ‘the naturalization process 1 was impressed by the proceedings in the case of a criminal named Mike Carrozzo, why had acquired control of about 25 local unions of the Common Laborers’ International. Mike was turned back twice by quiet warnings when he applied for citizenship but finally got by, nevertheless, on his third attempt, and died a citizen owing the American people a quarter of a million dollars in income taxes on money grafted from the poor whitewings, garbage men and their like. This evi man never should have beet admitted to citizenship, but he finally got by notwithstanding the knowledge of Government officials that he was a crook. If such a man could get by in such ‘circumstances, then it. would mean to follow the naturalization and American citizenship, conferring every right except the right to become President, ard to be had for the asking. : - But mere ignorance and criminality are not the only undesirable traits to be sought in applicants for American citizenship. In a large batch of Nazis picked up recently for spying on- this nation’s defense for Adolf Hitler, all of them presumably quite bright and without criminal records, a considerable number were naturalized citizens.

BZ I am edified by the indignant rejection of the very idea that the native American is un-Ameri-can in suggesting something that has been summed up derisively as “America for Americans?” If America is not for Americans whose country is this? Certainly the native American, with few exceptions, grows up knowing and believing in his country. He has he fee) of Smgtica 5nd; confidentially, he grows of hear o ut; for the a born. Y'% mals Mines Disssant If citizenship were restricted to the native citizen, then, in time we should at least be able to conduct an American country by and for Americans only, The guest status of the alien would be established, and there would be no possibility of his interfering in American politics. If public office were restricted to native Americans we undoubtedly would continue to elect some very bad public officers, but they would be American bad men, anyway, and our mistakes and falliives would be our own. = to the foreign born who have the United States there seems to be ne ay For recognizing fully the devotion to the U. S. A. and the sacrifices made in war by Americans who were bord abroad the fact remains that the American forces always have been mainly composed of native Americans. They never have been, as might be in-

foned from this argument, a foreign legion of the

Business By John T. Flynn ~~ =

We'll Soon Be 50 Billions in the Red and the End Is Not in Sight

NE YORK, July 15.—We are on the eve of a high honor as a nation. We are about to take our place among the real debt-ridden nations of the world. In a very short time we will have the distinction of having a national debt of 50 billion dollars. It is now'well over 49 billion, That is something more than seven billion above last year. But that is not all. There are outstanding debts of government subsidiaries like the RFC and others, amounting to six and a half billion dollars—so that our real national debt is 55% billions. And it is just starting on its journey. Turning back to a paper a year old to look at some trade figures, I found on the first page a large headline — “Economy Bloc Mobilizes for Drive.” The drive apparently resulted in the extinction of the economy bloc. Behind all this are two schools of thought. One is the conservative, who has gone lcco and who says tha! in a war effort sound finance must not be allowed to get in the way of defense. Thg other is a more sinister school which says that debt doesn’t matter. And yet unsound fiscal policies can actually get in the way of defense because as unsound fiscal policies do their work on the economic system the price of everything rises. The cost of defense, therefore, gets out of hand and, after a while, becomes so unwieldly that it still further impairs the national economy. "Adding to the burdens of the people, it makes he wa effort increasingly unpopular. :

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in mind that the war cannot possibly last forever. Even the Thirty Years War came to an end. And this one will not last 30 years. The nation must turn back, when the war is over, to its everyday affairs. It is not conceivable that the war will be fought for any other purpose than to save certain great principles of government which we are devoted to. What possible support can there be for a plan to fight a war to save those principles only to see them swept away by the chaos and disorder of peace? If history teaches one lesson it is that the social and economic condition of a nation after a war disintegrates in direct proportion to the unsoundness of the fiscal policies of the war itself. . The group which advocates the permanent support of the nation by permanent government g— by whatever name it calls itself— is advocating one of

ples of econgmics. One of these days this nation is going to wake up to discover that 75 per cent of the Fascist principles are being imitated and urged in this country by the groups that are loudest in denouncing fascism now.

So They Say—

. IT WILL BE EASY for the next generation to find ‘many glaring errors of judgment which we have com-

mitted and are committing, but to those who have the | Al benefit of hindsight I can only charity objects. They also define objects that should be illegiti- | "om Lr Bath, OFM;

~ mate for labor, just as they are for everyone. else—illegal

recommend ; : o = IT IS A WARNING that the United States may use the high seas of the world only with Nazi con-

sent. . . . We are not yielding and we donot propose to yield. —President Roosevelt on the Robin Moor case. : * * ¥

e Japanese -and

such objects. Thus they would give the public, including

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AMERICA STILL YOUNG; NEEDS PIONEER SPIRIT By W. A.%P., Indianapolis I can subscribe to hundreds of Mr. Pegler’s ideas, but the Class A and Class B citizenship proposition

is apt to bring about in thi® country a condition similar to the one that prevails in Nazi Germany with its master-race complex. Mr. Pegler would not like to see this happen here.Ours still is a young countty and needs pioneer spirit. Not by rule of thumb can a pioneer be determined. How badly the rule of thumb has worked out during the last year or

fense industry, There the possession of citizenship papers was all you needed to get in. The individual character of the person was not considered. Among the immigrants of late there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, who could make better citizens on the very first day in this country than the Bundists, Fascists and Communists could ever make after 20 or 50 years of living in the United States. : The duration of their residence is not the crucial point. The United States, on the contrary, should eagerly avail itself of all the good services these people have to offer and are more than willing to render. Zs ” os ”

CLAIMS ICELAND MOVE FORESHADOWS CONVOYS By L. R. W., Indianapolis

I am somewhat discouraged that you have not taken « stronger editorial stand against the latest step of the President toward a war to which the American people are so wholeheartedly opposed. If the occupation of an island off the coast of Europe, 2800 miles as the crow flies from New York, is essential to the defense of the United States, then every officer under whom I served in the Navy is totally incompetent, as ale most military men of my acquaintance. The occupation of the island itself, which it seems to me is certain to bring on the shooting, is not so bad from my viewpoint as the fact

so we have seen especially in the de-|”

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that the President of the United States deliberately deceived the people of this country as to his reasons for taking this action. It is simply a ‘dodge for convoying, and as the Pfesident said, “Convoys mean shooting and shooting means war.” The people should know the tricks by which they are being led to war, and I wish you would let them know. ” ” ” IMPORTANCE OF BALTIC CAMPAIGN TO RUSSIA By M. G. L., Indianapolis It is urgent that Winston Church-

ill should forget about Libya and

Syria for a while and get back into Norway in a hurry for there is not much time to lose. Since the German feint at the Russian center has developed ‘into a furious major battle it becomes increasingly clear that the Russian staff has appreciated the maneuver at its full value and is doing its best to frustrate the carefully laid plans by a costly and bloody stub-

" | born resistance where it could retire

in order. So far, the Russians have been able to .prevent a German blizthrust into the Baltic states and Finland—a maneuver that would separate _.Sweden’s commercial relations from Russia and force her by economic pressure into the Axis camp. And as the Bofors works of Sweden mean as much to FPussia as the American munition industry means to Britain, the prevention of this objective at all costs can be easily understood. If Germany manages to drive a wedge between Sweden and Russia she can sit 1his fall and winter in a comfortable stalemate preparing for another spring campaign. It is, therefore, imperative that

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Russia and England make contact in Norway to prevent Sweden from falling a prey to Hitler and save themselves the trouble that the Swedish army could make them under Hitler. For Sweden has the best small army of all the mushroom nations in Europe. » » »

CONGRESS ONLY HAS POWER TO DECLARE WAR By F. J. D., Indianapolis Some in Congress do not appear to know that, it is not a function of a Commander-in-Chief, except in a military despotism, to. engage in - foreign: military enterprise withBut the authorization of the national legislature. The declaration of war or the making of war without a declaration is a political function reserved to the people or delegated to their legislators. If the President of the United States were to take belligerent action against another country without consulting Congress he would Lave rendered himself liable to impeachment.

peace and in war is one thing; the right to declare war or to commit an act of war is a wholly different thing. Either this is true or a President of the United States is a military autocrat who may, when the

tion into a catastrophic war. Seemingly, large numbers of people in this democracy regard the President as being just that when they implore him and not Congress to intervene against Germany and when Senators and Representatives profess to be afraid that he will do sO. ; » ” "

CLAIMS KNOX VOICED ROOSEVELT IDEAS. By F. P., Indianapolis

In view of the Iceland adventure it is no longer possible to doubt that Secretary of the Navy Knox spoke with full Presidential approval "vhen he said that “the time to use the Navy to clear the Atlantic of the German menace is now.” What, then, can we expect in train of Gen. Marshall's yet more recent demand that Congress remove all impediments to a European, African or Asian A.E.F. at the. discretion of the President? The American people do not want

Administration no longer tries to deny the overwhelming public opposition to involvement. Still we move closer to all-out participation. “They (the people) don’t understand.”

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CHURCHGOER PUZZLED BY HELP FOR RUSSIA By T. A. B., Indianapolis

I contribute to the support of my church, Must pari of my taxes now go to Soviet Russia, whose aim is to destroy the church? I'm bewil-

dered. Churchill says, “yes.”

SUPPLICATION By ANNA E. YOUNG

God grant you possess Soldier Laddie Desires of the purest of gold May you ever be safe in the knowl-

edge That God is the Master of ‘old,

May you ever he watchful of pitfalls he dangers which lurk every- - where May you learn—and benefit by— The un answer to prayer.

God blast you and watch o'er you ‘daily | As you strive—in your duty—as man My prayer is you have ample Faith God grant it—as. only God can! DAILY THOUGHT

The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye, and believe the gospel.— Mark 1:15. 7

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Dealing With Some of the Woes of A Newspaper Columnist Especially In These Exciting, Dangerous Days

ASHINGTON, July 15.—“A policeman’s lot is not a happy one” and--judging from fan mail, neither is a columnist’s in these bewildering, days. Apparently one great mass of citizenry, in two vio lently opposing camps themselves, expects a commen« I tator, who tries to remain independent, to be all one thing or all the other. : In the case in mind, one side wants you to crack and condemn every interventionist argument, whether you think it is good or not, and to applaud and support every non-interventionist argue . ment, whether you think it is: bad * or not. The other side thinks you are “carrying water on both shoul- ' ders” if you don't apply the same

i : case. People who “carry water on both shoulders” usually do so for some kind 6f majority popular favor or political reward. It seems to me that a columnist has no business seeking either. On the other hand, but tending to the sanie conclusion, I submit that it is no more the business of an independent commentator to marry himself to any single group opinion or pressure to the extént of not criticizing what seem to ‘be its errors or failing to point out what seem to be the good arguments on the other side, -»

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N ITS now many years of experience, this column has done that several times, either through the heat of advocacy or the emotion of loyalty. It did it only to discover how great a mistake it was and, with this mea culpa peccavi or confession of error, it long ago highly resolved to go and sin no more. For a merchant, “the customer is always right.” For a soldier, once the decision is made, “the come mander can do no wrong.” . For a legal advocate or a politician, “let the other side make the contrary case, we have a fight to win.” Even for the fixed editorial policy of a great paper, it is right to say “those arguments which are not with us are against us”"-—not in the news columns but on the editorial page. : This latter instance, however, gets so close to a border line that it is, I think, why columnists were born, or at least tolerated. They permit a driving force of editorial opinion in a single direction but do not fail to permit a full presentation of contrary opine ions within the same publication. Without unduly larding either the: columnists or their subscribing newspapers, this seems to be an almost complete vin dication of the spertsmanship, fairness and fundamental Americanism of our press.

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UT exactly because of all this, I think a columnist carries a responsibility peculiar to himself. He can't adopt the merchant's formula about the perennial rightness of the customer without becoming an intellectual heel. He can’t accept the centurion’s faith of the soldier in a single superior without. being a party to regimentation of opinion. He can't follow the justifiable position of the lawyer or the politician to present only one side of a case and leave the other to opponents without violating the very law of his own creation and existence. ’ : For the same reasons that, as I believe, he ought never to get himself tangled up with any political or ‘pressure groups, he should never associate himself with any other dogma. it Inconsistent? In the sense that he may help one group of opinion today and hurt it tomorrow, sure he will be inconsistent—just as inconsistent as an umpire in a baseball game, who gets blessed today and bopped tomorrow by the same team. As has been said here before, but will bear repeating, he will have done his job if he “calls ‘em as he sees 'em” and will have pre served, his proper humility and usefulness if he never gets the idea of some such personal infallability of one of the great deans of the umpire business: “Calls ‘em as I sees ‘em, hell! I calls 'em as they are.” :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE 1941-42 program book put out by the Nae tional Federation of Business and, Professional Women is one of the finest things of its kind I've ever seen. It is the answer to every club woman's prayer. Planning programs has always been a major task, and a great deal of our ore ganized effort has been a flop because we couldn't make that hurdle. There's been too much past concentration upon nebulous affairs. We riveted our attention on the abstract until we sounded rather like a bunch of 19th century high school graduates talking about goals and stars and Rubi cons. * For grown up women, we spent * too much time on geography—and i look at the world map now!—or : we rehearsed the old stuff we had studied in freshman English. Everybody knows we failed to tackle reality, and today we stand face to face with the results of our failure-sterility, ineptitude and inertia. { There was never a time when it seemed so necessary to give intelligent women in groups something constructive to do and to think about. I helieve most of them are dead tired of the custo which make them feel rather like little grown up in their grandmothers’ old clothes. For that’s what a good deal of our club work has amounted to—spoon feeding, making-believe we're socially minded, pretending we were occupiéd with large affairs when we were only employing big ges tures to impress each other. Now, at last, we know we must get down to busi ness. We've dreamed about a sensible constructive program for years, and here it is. The women who worked it out deserve praise, for they have put emphasis where it should be put—upon community néeds, upon self analysis, upon group co-operation and spiritual growth and the need for us to meet with sanity the issue,of democracy versus dictatore

Pp. } Used intelligently, this program book should open up vast avenues leading to néw intellectual perspectives. Hundreds of smaller groups could copy from it with benefit to themselves and their localities.

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