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TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1941

“HOME TO ROOST” HE President yesterday dealt with a condition, not a 7 theory. It is one of those situations where logic is so clear that we do not even have to look in the back of the To spend all the personal sacrifice, time, money and general ‘economic disruption that have been spent to build an Army, then to dismantle that Army just when it is getting organized—that doesn’t make sense. So we think Congress should answer yes to the President’s request, take such action as will meet “the letter of the law,” and extend the length of the selectees’ service. That, however, will not erase the pusillanimous position in which the makers of the draft act now find themselves. Nor will it absolve them from the political consequences. The mathematics should have been clear in the beginning—that a one-year schedule meant, as the President now points out, a two-thirds disintegration at the end of that year. : But the act was passed ahead of a general election—on Sept. 16, 1940. - So those who were then running for reelection did not point out the fine type. Instead they stressed the limited length of the induction as specified in one part of the law; and ignored the section of the law which is now about to be invoked. They soothed and deceived the draftees and their parents. “I'll Be Back in a Year, Mother Dear,” one of those wartime songs that bloom and fade in face of facts, symbolized that campaign of 1940. How to get out of “the tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” is something those Congressional campaigners will have to worry about, come November, 1942. : But that doesn’t change the now unanswerable fact that the need today is for such action as will prevent the disintegration of our Army. Out of all this it is to be hoped that the nation may get one big dividend; that the truth, not the halftruth, may in the future be told to the people who, in a democracy, are supposed to know what is going on and to make their votes the final decision.

ANY OLD ALUMINUM? D IGHT now this country needs more aluminum than it has ever produced; more, indeed, than even those in the industry thought would ever be required. That is why Indianapolis, along with hundreds of other cities, is engaging in a drive to collect all the old aluminum pots, pans, kettles and the like it can find. When the national campaign is over, it is expected that enough scrap aluminum will have been collected to build the equivalent of 2000 modern bombing planes. It is, therefore, no inconsiderable effort and deserves the full co-operation of all citizens who can help. That does not mean, however, that housewives should sacrifice any new or usable utensils in the present campaign. The Government does not want that, for these articles would then have to be replaced. It asks only for the worn and battered articles that can no longer be used. So do your bit, if you are able, but do it sensibly. Who knows but what that old pot some .day may wind up in a bomber heading directly for Berchtesgaden?

' BOLIVIA REJECTS THE SWASTIKA

QR relations with Bolivia in recent years have not al-

. ‘ways been happy. In consequence, the week-end news ‘from that country—the news that the German Minister had

~ been given his walking papers after discovery of a revolu-

tionary plot—is especially pleasing. In 1938 a young man named German Busch became president of Bolivia. He kicked the constitution out the door, and it looked as if the country were going totalitarian, Nazi style. He even made a deal with Germany to help exploit the oil fields. Incidentally, Busch’s father was a German, his brother-in-law a Japanese, and his minister of petroleum was the son of an Italian. A week before the European war started, Busch died of a mysterious pistol shot, supposedly self-inflicted, although there were ugly whispers. The war put the kibosh on the oil deal with Germany. And when a new President

was elected—Gen. Enrique Penaranda de Castillo—he prom-

ised to rule by the book instead of by ukase. Under President Penaranda the Nazi press in Bolivia has continued to peddle the usual anti-American stuff;

- German and Italian firms have continued to prosper as

agents for made-in-U. S. A. goods, tithing their profits to the Bund; Axis influences in the Army and elsewhere ‘have continued active. But it looks as if they have lost out. For one thing, Bolivia is increasingly dependent on us economically. Her former markets in Europe ‘are closed to her, while this country on the contrary is speeding up its purchases of Bolivian tin and other minerals. A few weeks ago Bolivia kicked out the German-oper-‘ated air line, Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, and let Pan AmericanGrace take over. That was a victory for American diplomacy. And now comes the bum’s-rush departure of the Nazi

. *_ minister. That is another victory, and a big one, in the fight to keep the Trojan Horse from getting a hoofhold in + Latin America.

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WAR CASUALTIES IN THE U. S.

OBODY doubts any longer that the United States is tre- = * mendously affected by the war in Europe. It has begun to touch every phase of daily life. . But would you think it was actually causing traffic ‘deaths? State police of West Virginia say it is. People feel ‘uncertain and insecure, they think, and thus they grow careless and reckless. : It seems far-fetched, but there might be something to it, at that. It is surely true that the long months of uncertainty wear some people’s nerves thin. Trying to pass that sar ahead on a rising curve, however, will do Hitler no harm atever,

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Lindbergh Never Has Denounced the Nazis, but Neither Has Mr. Ickes Said Anything Nasty About Communists.

EW YORK, July 22.—It is never too late to rough up the frugal Mr. Ickes so I would like to inquire whether anyone has any old butcherspaper magazines, old newspapers, letters or phonograph records lying around in which the prince of privilege ever attacked as such, any Communist or fellow-traveler, or even attacked Josef Stalin, himself, as heartily as he has damned Charles Lindbergh for his association with those who think a victory for Adolf Hitler would rub no fuzz off our peach. Not to be arch or coy about this, I am driving at the fact that Mr, Ickes, for years has been at least as chummy with the Muscovites in the United States as he says Lindbergh Las been with the Nazis among us and, to my brilliant mind, considerably more so. In this connection you have to remember that by Mr. Ickes’ own formulas it isn’t enough merely to dislike Nazis. To suit him, you have to hate them out loud for he said, very accusingly, of Lindbergh, in his latest denunciation last week, “No one has ever heard Lindbergh utter a word of horror at or even aversion to, the bloody career that the Nazis are following.” 4 a 8 S far as my recollection goes you may place a check there. I have never heard or read any such word from Lindbergh and it seems to me that any man with so much to say on the sort of world that he would like to bequeath his children would at least have tweaked the subject of Hitler's atroeities or given it the back of his hand if he really felt any aversion or horror. So I share with Ickes a feeling, based more on things that Lindbergh so conspicuously hasn’t said rather than on the things he has said, that he doesn't take this butchery and satanism very much to heart. * Mr. Ickes is’ very good at peeling Hitler and everything he has said about him goes for me but I have followed his associations and utterances rather attentively for a long time and I am positive that he has never viewed with equal loathing the bloody career of the Communist regime in Russia’ and other countries. In this respect he, himself has never met tke test which he has prescribed for Lindbergh as to the Nazis. ! Moreover, he has associated openly with Communists and fellow-travelers and justified such association on the ground that he couldn't tell by the cut

of their jibs or their smell that they were Commu-,

nists or fellow-travelers, Mr. Ickes can spot a Nazi sympathizer miles away and around the corner with the naked eye and a nose whick knows but a Communist is no Communist to him unless he wears his membership card in his hat-band like an old-time fire-engine chaser and he recognizes no such animal as a fellow-traveler at all. It is true that Mr. Ickes has formally repudiated Communism. But it is also true that, exercising the same right that Lindbergh stands on, to choose: his own poison, he believes that Hitlerism is the greatest threat whereas Lindbergh thinks communism is a little the worse. As one who regards these vices as six of one and half-a-dozen of the other, I may say, not that #t matters, that I think Hitlerism is the more immediate menace just now but that there is no choice because they are alike.

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UT if Lindbergh as a private citizen goes to a meeting which . he has reason to know will be packed with Nazis and their lower-case Quislings he is no mere guilty, and I should say a little less guilty, of the very thing that Ickes complains of, than Ickes is when he lends his official presence to certain meetings. . : Ickes knew the company he was keeping just as Lindbergh knows the company he keeps today bub it will be useless to seek evidence that he ever exerted himself to drive out of the Government bureaus in Washington the Muscovites and travelers who infest the place. He has never made that his business, a rare and significant oversight on the part of a man who has taken in vastly more territory than his job requires him to. r : I am confident that if Mr, Ickes were to discover a Nazi or a Quisling anywhere in the Federal Government he would drive the fiend out by hand but observe that of the Communists and fellow-travelers he demands the most elaborate proof of anti-Amer-ican political principles.

Business By John T. Flynn

With Business 18%, Above 1929 Five Millions Still Lack Jobs in U. S.

EW YORK, July 22.—Among the many billions N now being spent to bring various kinds of freedoms, including freedom from want, to various parts of the world, Congress might find a few thousand dollars to discover the reason why, with things boom- - ing as they are, there are still 5,000,000 pechle unemployed in the United States. This is no idle suggestion. The index of business activity in this country is at a level never before attained. If we put the high point of 1929 at 100, then today business activity would be represented by the index number 118. In other words business is 18 per cent higher now than it was at the height of the great boom of the Twenties. In spite of that there are still 5,000,000 people out of work, according to Corrington Gill of WPA. But this by no means tells the whole story. Today there are 1,400,000 men in the Army. To this would have to be added the enormous increase in the naval forces. With this large number of men drawn away from the ranks of privately employed labor, with the immense employment of the Government (not including WPA), with the tremendous spurt in munition manufacture and the boom thus communicated to the non-war industries, there is something which sorely needs study in the 5,000,000 people still unemployed. What sort of men are these? How many of them aré employable? What is the reason or group of reasons that account for the unemployment of - these men and women? Are the reasons local? Are we to see a permanent army of unemployed people? And what would be the condition if the more than a million men in the Army were seeking jobs?

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o, HE most important and interesting fact to determine is whether or not this immense army of idle persons in a time of great. boom is due to changes and adjustments which have been made in our industrial and business system since the depression began. It is this writer's guess that the chief reason will be found in this force. And as a further guess I would think the cause should be searched for in two influences—one, of

course, the influence of technology, and the other the

influence of organization. The latter may be as important as the former. As a final suggestion the study ought to determine what part of these people are unemployed because of disabilities, age, etc., and to what extent modern techniques have increased the number of employables. Five million people out of work is not to be sheezed at. It is probably more than the number out of work in England, Germany, Italy and Russia, in which; countries we are now industriously laboring to bring freedom from want,

So They Say— .

ALTHOUGH I spent only a short time in the United States, I was impressed by the enormous‘quantities of war material now being produced.—Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. * * * I'M ON A SPECIAL diplomatic mission to Wushd I'm hoping—and hoping—and hoping.—

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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DEPLORES STIR OVER “YOO-HOO” INCIDENT By Stanley D. Harrison, 5412 Terrace Ave. The nation is going through a period that requires every Congressman to be on his toes. They have hundreds of problems to solve and what do they do. They get into a sweat on account of a few soldiers taking a 15-mile hike. The Boy Scouts walk that far for fun. If they can't walk 15 miles, how can they meet an army that

‘| fights blitz fashion 50 miles per day?

Besides the boys enjoyed the hike and I bet they are ready to yoo hoo again. They wouldn't be American soldiers if they didn’t, and Gen. Lear wouldn't be a general if he didn't punish them again.

a 8 8 SPEAKING HER MIND ON GEN. LEAR By Rita H. Suter, 2410 Carrollton Avenue

As one of the millions of young American women, who perhaps know. the actions of young men as well as their own mothers, let me say that I think Gen. Ben Lear is just exactly what certain prominent political figures have called him, a “sourpuss” and a “grouchy, golfing old general.” Whenever a few young men get together, whether they be soldiers or civilians, they are going to cut up and have a good time. One reason our American boys make the finest soldiers in the world is because of their carefree, fun-loving nature and the natural ability for looking on the bright side of any situation. And anyway, how were the boys to know that the elderly gentleman on the golf course wasn't some playful banker who had taken the day off to go golfing with a few of his fair young friends. If our young men are willing to learn the art of soldiering to protect our Government, I think the Government, in turn, should be willing to protect them from grouchy, stuffed-shirt ‘old’ men who put themselves up as a pattern of the ideal American, which certainly they are not. Congress should see to it that the officers in our Army are not a bunch of ill-tempered, hot-headed old fogies who take advantag® of their rank; but instead, men who understand and ap-

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preciate the gay, light-hearted spirit of young Americans, and who will do all they can to preserve this

“Spirit of American Youth.” td ” # RAPS LABOR UNIONS AS ENEMY OF. LIBERTY By Harrison White, 1135 Broadway

At the time Mussolini took over Italy, the Island of Sicily was con-

: trolled by an organization called

“the black hand” and every one who had any business there lived in constant fear and had to pay tribute to anarchy. Mussolini gave that organization 30 days to leave Sicily and it filtered into this country over the border from Mexico and Canada, through Detroit. Soon after we read of machinegun killings on the streets of Chicago for the first time; and then we read exposes by Westbrook Pegler, of tribute being paid to gangsters and anarchy in labor unions. So, today every man in America who works in industrial organizations must pay tribute to anarchy or lose his job. They tell us the right to strike and the right to collective bargaining is democracy, but our forefathers told us and common sense tells us, “the right to liberty is an individual right and that right is inalienable; that personal liberty is Americanism and it can not be alienated or extended from the sphere of the indi- | vidual”; so the right to personal liberty of the many alienated to a collective bargainer, that it might become so powerful as to become a menace to his nation or so as to effect the personal liberty of one individual, is un-American and

wrong. Giving personal liberty status to organizations has brought us into this awful mess. It is because of organizations: who would sell out our liberties by doing their bidding for their support. The natural tendency of organization works a hardship on everyone who does not belong to

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that organization, unless it be wholly charitable and non-political such as the Red Cross or the wholly fraternal and non-political, such as the Masonic order, or other organizations whose purpose is not to be furthered through politics.

If personal liberty or Americanism is' a failure, as we are told hs the New Deal, and if we must give up our liberties as we are asked to by the New Deal, and if we must consent to socialism through regimentation as the New Deal purports, then we have one of two choices to make, all other doors being cleo; we must accept national sociali nation socialism which is communiz. to be attained through world revolution. The Administration at Washington at the present time is attempt‘ing to make that choice for you, through subterfuge of democracy and in this war; this is the objective of the New Deal and it might not succeed if these thousands of draftees shculd get out of control of the Chief Executive. It would be a happy isolation to pull out of this awful mess and go back to America again, following the admonitions of Washington and Jefferson to remain free men.

2 ” ~ PROTESTS EXTENDING TERM OF DRAFTED SON By Bill Dininger, 1116 Richland St. I have read quite a lot in the

time the boys are serving through the draft. Now when my boy registered about a year ago he was led to believe that he was going for a year and was safe to stay in America. made a contract with that boy. Let them keep it. This boy of mine said this to me before he left: “Dad, if they do not keep their agreement with me what does this Government expect from me in the future?” And I want te say this, that our family has been 100 per cent American first last and always. Christian people went through other wars but are sick of rotten, lying politicians and capitalists.

“" ” ” DENIES WHEELER BARED ICELAND OCCUPATION By F. W. 3:58 N. Meridian St. Mr. C. Masteller errs in stating that Senator Wheeler, when he ad-

dressed the U. S. Senate on the dispatch. of American troops to

| | Iceland, endangered the lives of this

expedition by disclosing its existence to the Nazis. Actually Senator Wheeler exposed nothing that was not public knowledge. The Iceland Parliament had already voted to permit American occupation, and Wheeler got his news of troop movement from American mothers who wrote him asking what was meant by the routine notice sent them by the

of their boys would be Iceland.

JULY FANTASY By MARY P. DENNY

Through mirage of the bright sun-

light I see the shining beauty of July. A path of light where wild birds fly . Beaming in light through all the day . \ A fantasy of the far country way. Daisies and sunflowers and pansies All shining beneath the skies. Jewels of diamond and amethyst Ashine within the morning mist. A gloria of the ‘hours of day A fantasy of color in the way. The day a gleam in sunshine ray. A song of summer in the air The joy of July everywhere.

DAILY THOUGHT

All that a man hath, will he give for his life—~—Job 2:4.

BELIEVE ‘that life is worth liv-

ing, and your belief will help. crethe fact.—William James,

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Gen. Johnson

Says The Army Ought to Have Its Own

Lobby So That Certain Palpable Injustices Could Be Eliminated

YY =miNgTon. July 22.—There is danger of a decline in the morale of regular Army officers —politics and discrimination, They are getting a de structive dose of both, They can’t fight back. Mostly, they have no political backing. They are taught not : to complain. These twin disabilities leave them helpless against the work of pressure groups that do play high-power politics to obtain undue favors, the effect of which is to discriminate against regular soldiers. : Among the strongest, most ex< pert and _ effective lobbies in Washington is the Reserve Officers Association. It represents strong bodies of voters in every State and Congressional district. What they go after they usually get. What they are after now is apparent from the fact the whole top-side staff set-up in Washington is being crammed with Reserve colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors whose military education and experience is next to nil. Their distinction, rank and advantage flows from the fact that they have held high Reserve commissions on an inactive basis for a fewer or greater number of years—mostly fewer, When they are called to the Army for active duty, they draw the pay of their grade and rank with regulars, not from the day they were called to duty but from a day, mostly long before this emergency, when they received their Reserve commissions and get rela« tive credit, as of military service, for those years in civil life. . 8 ” o

OW all this is not to decry the Reserve. I was in it myself for 15 years. It is certainly not to criticize their being called to these jobs and en joying the pay and rank of their grades. We couldn't otherwise build the Army. I am only talking about the effect of the manner in which this is done to impair the Army and prejudice regular officers of many years of service, As a first example: To fill the’ great need for trained officers in staff and command posts, regulars also were given the same kind of temporary come missions in advanced grades that these Reserve offi cers hold. But they don't get the pay of these grades and they rank only from the day they were given it. To be more specific, a regular captain of 13 years hard service—or 17 if we count service as a cadet— a graduate of most of the service schools, and rated “superior” through all his service, was made a temporary major a few months ago. More recently, a civilian, his junior in age, who received a Reserve commission three years ago, was called to active duty in the same department. The civilian temporary major has had no active service and his military education was derived from a correspondence course. But he ranks the regular temporary major by three years, which in these days is a lot, and he receives the full pay and allowances of his grade—about $80 a month more than the regu lar (captain) temporary major.

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HE process here described has even graver cone sequences. By filling advanced posts with too many untrained Reservists, it is cutting off the fue ture hopes of professional soldiers and threatening us with an amateur Army. In the Navy a regular officer advanced to a teme porary grade receives the pay of that grade just as do the holders of temporary grades from the ‘Naval Reserve and he is not superseded in rank. But not the Army. In this political scramble for rank and advantage he seems to be the one-legged man at the pants-kicking contest. Why? Because it has no Congressional lobby, Well it ought to have one—the best in the world. The morale and efficiency of the Army are the ree sponsibility of the Secretary of War and the General Staff. They ought to be in there fighting, not for special favors but for simple justice to professional soldiers. The Navy does. The Army is more suscep tible to political threat. : If politics is permitted to creep back into the se lection and promotion of officers it will be for the first time since Woodrow Wilson kicked politics out, and it could prove to be a national disaster.

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

D° you remember when the vogue for Child Study | classes began? The fad soon spread like wilde fire. Young mothers met to learn how to manage their infants. In fact they met so often and studied 50 hard that it looked for a time as if they considered the rule more important than the kids, who were plainly neglected. . Something similar is happening now in our voluntary national defense efforts. A new organization orgy is upon us. If women don't watch out they'll be so involved in the mechanics of their patriotia clubs that they will overlook the thing they started out to save and defend. “Make haste slowly” is a good slogan; its advice has never been more necessary or pertinent. So if you feel moved by the urge to plunge in and get busy at something—and who doesn't?—how about “making a retreat” as they say ia 2 Oech, Heating that cne takes time out to spiritual calm and vision and to f Flare ih the future, Sem defi e herd instinct is universal, and herds animals mill around a lot, kick up too much : pon often get entirely off their charted course. Already one meets women who are so busy “giving themselves” that their dispositions are a wreck and their nerves at breaking point. They aren't physically or Jrentally fit to accomplish anything. 'S nonsense for a mother to work so the Red Cross or the Ambulance Corps, at Sa uy rangs = in son Readuunripis, that she is in a huft a state o austion when sh : oa e meets the family Even in this crisis our homework first. There will still be plenty of time left over to do other jobs, and if there isn't, then let someone else without domestic duties attend to them. To do one thing well, even though it be small and unspectacular, is really to serve Uncle Sam better than if a dozen things are half done.

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