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SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1941

“A PERMANENT SYSTEM OF

GENERAL SECURITY”

F there is a good deal of skepticism about the eight points, it is only natural. We saw them in an earlier incarnation —the 14 points. And we saw how the spiritual exaltation with which the world reacted to Woodrow Wilsons design for peace was succeeded by frustration, by a reversion of international politics and economics to tie anarchic doctrine of every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. Today there is, inevitably, a feeling of this-is-where-we-came-in: An instinctive assumption that this is just fine talk again and that, by the nature of humans and natoins, it can produce nothing. But is this necessarily so? Woodrow Wilson's plan was never tried out. The old world politicians sabotaged it, and his own country repudiated it. Who can say today that if the League of Nations had been given a fair trial—that is, with the full participation of the United States, and a more farsighted statesmanship in Europe—it would have failed? At least we know that, in the absence of such a fair trial, the world made a mess of its affairs. : When this war is over, the monstrous failure of the last peace should be lesson enough to warrant creation of a real League of Nations, with all hands participating and no kibitzers. The Roosevelt-Churchill statements indicates some such objective, in its reference to the eventual “establishment of a wider and permanent system of general security.” Of course all that must wait on a victory that is well bevond the horizon. But thereafter, unless a permanent Anglo-American condominium over the whole globe is to | be contemplated, some form of international and even supernational government will have to be created—if the world is not to be content with periodic blood-lettings of progressively suicidal magnitude.

THE FUND'S NEW CHAIRMAN

EAR after vear the Community Fund has drawn its general chairman from among the most active and public spirited men in Indianapolis. This year, in its choice of a man to direct the 22d annual campaign, the Community Fund maintains its high standard in the selection of Stanley W. Shipnes, manager of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Indianapolis store. We congratulate the Community Fund on its choice and Mr. Shipnes on his willingness to assume the responsibility of this highly important community enterprise.

STRIKES—AND SACRIFICE

AMERICA'S mighty defense effort is already invading | the homes and altering the habits of our people. Where- | as, up to recently, there had been only talk of sacrifice, the sacrificing has now become actual. That fact seems to be sinking into the consciousness of everybody except a few union leaders, who eontinue their strikes and turmoil. Boys who had expected soon to be coming home from the Army are held for another 18 months. Many factories, unable to buy materials, must close. Rationing of gasoline is hanging over the Eastern states—with its consequent hardship on transportation, not for pleasure, but for getting to the day's work. Housewives encounter shortages and rising prices. The greatest tax bill in history is going through Congress. But while production for defense is the big objective of all this, what is happening at the source of production? Defense strikes continue and have been mounting. * = 2 2 » 2 Most of the recent defense strikes have not been about wages, hours and working conditions, issues that really involve the welfare of the rank and file. Aside from those strikes which seek double pay for week-end overtime, most of them do not affect the pay envelope. Some of the strikes have been in violation of signed agreements. Some have been jurisdictional. Some have been due to conflicts between labor politicians of the A. F. of L. and C. I. O., or between those organizations and independent unions. These ave not strikes that come from the mass of labor. These are strikes from the top; strikes to augment the power of labor politicians. They deprive our troops of weapons and of shelter. They are directed against the people of the United States. How long will our government, which tells the soldiers to stay in and pitch—and sacrifice—continue to be tender toward these fair-haired political favorites?

NEW WEAPONS

is most encouraging to see the Army come out with two new weapons which suggest that it has really been studying the needs of modern warfare. First, a new carbine, a semi-automatic light rifle weighing only five pounds, and only three feet long. All infantry officers below the rank of major, all non-commissioned officers, and many special troops, engineers, machine gunners, and the like, will carry it. This is a businesslike means of increasing by almost 50 per cent the number of rifles in an infantry regiment, replacing the defensive, 50-yard pistol with an offensive-defensive 300-yard light carbine. Second, a new half-trac truck mounting a 75-mm. field gun is already coming off the assembly lines. Such a weapon in the hands of France might have stopped the German tank blitz which broke through the French army. Criticism based on pictures showing U. S. field pieces being pulled backward into position is here answered. This gun could. ver t-blank with the truck in motion.

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Fair Enough - By Westbrook Pegler There Is, It Seems, Among Gentle Folk, a “Certain Way to Hurl a Blackberry Pie—or Squirt a Siphon

EW YORK, Aug. 16.—It is all very well to pretend to abhor distinctions, but there are certain

| types of people whose conduct and manners, say what

you will, tend to give a neighborhood a certain name, once they get in. Vulgar, noisy, arrogant, horribly ill - mannered and offensively rich. You know the type. Now, up in Westchester County, in the region of long ridges, leafy valleys, hidden lakes and Long Island Sound shoreline, north of New York, we have been, thank goodness, generally free of this menace, barring a few little alarms. We all realize what might happen to property values if persons of this sort ever should gain a foothold in any number and the - country clubs, yacht clubs and = beach clubs have been very careful, you may be sure. And one of our strongest bulwarks against undesirables has been the fine social stock of our exclusive suburbs, peopled mainly by very well-to-do brokers, lawyers, industrialists and the like. You can ajways be sure that they will resolutely and effectively oppose any invasion by the wrong kind. Fortunately, I say, Westchester County has seemed to attract just the right sort and I know of no more telling way of depicting the restrained but merry fun and jovial good manners of people who bear extreme wealth with exteme grace than to quote for you something from our society column. This little article, written by Miss Patricia Coffin, was carried Wednesday evening and in citing from it I have the additional purpose of shaming the crass and blatant types who do not know how to bghave and always tend to give a resort or neighborhood a bad name. = = =

“@QOCIETY goes slapstick,” is the heading over Miss Coffin’'s memorandum to the lower orders on an evening of merrymaking by their betters. Then she 1elates as follows: “The pie-tossing party which disrupted the routine merrymaking of John Perona’s Westchester Bath Club in the wee hours the other a. m., started with a little innocent roll-throwing at Mr. Perona’s weekly outdoor barbecue dinner, which was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Bradiey Dresser, Mr. and Mrs, Putnam Humphrey, Mary Jane Walsh, Woolworth Donahue, Clementine Ballin, Arturo Ramos, Macoco and orchestra leader Ernie Holst. Rain early in the evening drove the party into the club, where Mr. Ramos, ex-hus-band of Millicent Rogers Balcom, bet Put Humphrey $20 that he could not pyramid three tables and a chair and surmount the pile. “Put did, whereupon Ramos doused him with selzer water. Woolie Donahue got a siphon and joined the fray. As a waiter passed bearing a blackberry pie "(it is rumored that he was bribed to do so by a spectator), Mrs. Dresser, the former Marion Snowden, seized the confection and hurled it into Ramos’ face.

" STENSIBLY, she came to the club to sell tickets for the hospital relief futurity race at Belmont Park on the last day of the fall meet, Oct. 4, Her husband won $12,000 on the race last year. After Mr, Ramos had distributed the remains of the pie over his friends’ evening clothes, they wound up slipping shaved ice down each other’s backs. “ ‘Good clean fun. said host Perona.” It hardly needs to be said that the Westchester Bath Club is regarded as a very desirable adjunct to the social life of our county and of Greenwich, Conn, close by, from which cpmmunity it draws not a little of its clientele, because the guests, though rich and hearty, are never vulgar but unfailingly refined, never ill-mannered or noisy, and present at all times the urimistakable signs of that good breeding to which some never can aspire. Of course, others sometimes do try to imitate their betters when they go out to rejoice by night, but they only succeed in being iilbred, coarse and offensive. There is an elegant way and there is a low and vulgar way to squirt a siphon or throw a blackberry pie or smear pie over the evening clothes of a company of merrymakers. Westchester County and Greenwich are fortunate, indeed, in the high quaiity of their fun-loving mischief-makers, although at Coney Island or in Bridgeport, the same aristocrats performing the same pranks might be tossed out of a clam-joint or log-cabin as wholly undesirable,

Business By John T. Fiynn

Now is the Time for U. S. to Give A Thought to Post-War Problems

Nu YORK, Aug. 16.—There is plenty of interest in Mr, Hitler's blue print for Europe and the world when this war is over. But what about our own blueprint for America when the war is over? For one day it will end. And we shall have to face the realities then. No band, no parades, no patriotic songs. Just plain, grim reality will face us. Now to meet this day Vice President Wallace is head of a committee to make our blueprints. Maybe they should be called vedprints, for the color that will confront us everywhere will be red. The chief features in that sketch will be (1) the vast debt created; (2) the demobilization of the war industries—millions turned out to grass; (3) the general unemployment—not less than 15,000,000; (4) the inescapable taxation, and (5), last and hot least, a whole pack of gentlemen with the simplest of all schemes to set us right, bearing different names and waving different banners, but all heading up to this: Tax and tax, borrow and borrow, spend and spend. § we are to assume that there will still be in existence a capitalist system, then what will there be in the blueprints for (1) reviving private investment in industry; (2) putting the farmer on his feet without having the Government pay him not to produce; (3) rescuing industry from the gigantic and paralyzing weight of a huge public debt. Ld =

ITH millions out of work, with business drained of its profit, what will the Government do to support the unemployed, to keep the farmer quiet, to pay the public debt? It will not be able to add to the taxes then. It will not be able to borrow further without inviting the deluge. So what will it do? I have read nearly all that has been written by the New Deal economists, and I cannot recall any solution offereq for this save to tax more, borrow more and spend more. : Now, of course, all this is sordid enough. But it so happens that all this is intimately tied up with certain great social assets comprehended in the word “democracy.” A nation tortured by debt, steeped in poverty, crowded with unemployed and wracked by business losses does not have a very strong hold upon its democracy. The first major nation in Europe to lose its democracy was not Germany, crushed by the Versailles Treaty, but Italy, which was on the winning end of that treaty. It was the poorest nation and one most harried by national debt. In the 60 years of its life before the ending of the World War it had probably not had 10 years without a governmental deficit. Mussolini's greatest ally was the poverty and despair of the Italian people. What have we in our blueprints to deal with all this? We cannog control the lives of the people of Germany, France, Russia, Britain, after the war. They will manage or mismanage that job. We can control our own. Is anybody interested in that little job?

So They Say—

THE MORALE is lower (in Italy) than I have ever seen in any country before—John Whitaker, American correspondent just returned from Eurcpe.

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AMERICAN EDUCATION must prepare men for freedom, equip them to create and maintain freedom, so ground them in a sense of value that they see in free men the ultimate good.—Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Boston area, Methodist Church.

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HE instinct of liberty—that lives always d and strong —Marshai Petain of France,

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

FADIMAN PUZZLED BY PEGLER'S ATTACK By Clifton Fadiman, New York City In a recent issue of The Times there appeared an attack on me by Westbrook Pegler which I do not understand. Mr. Pegler’s column based itself on a statement of left-

| wing opinion which I made in 1932,

almost 10 years ago. The statement was in answer to a questionnaire asking: “Why Did You Veer to the Left?” When it appeared in the New Masses, it was

{Came to Communism.” : {never otherwise written a line for

under the false caption: “How I (I have

the New Masses.) My answer was a statement of left-wing opinion such as was com-

mon to millions during the height of the depression, In fact, the sentiment behind it later became incorporated into the measures of the New Deal. (I voted for Roosevelt in 1932, 1936 and 1940) I have never been a Communist, am not one, and will never be one. My whole journalistic carrer shows my opposition to extremes of left and right. Just why Mr. Pegler should suddenly try to pin a red label on me for an opinion expressed about a decade ago, I cannot imagine. Whatever the reason, it seems unfair. = = » . DOUBTS U. S. WILL ENTER WAR BY OCTOBER By J. W. P.. Indianapolis October is considered and predicted bv many to be the month for the United States to enter the war. Whether it will be against Germany or Japan, or the Axis powers, together, time conditions will tell. Extending the time of the soldiers in the Army camps is believed to be a wise move because of the growing tension surrounding this country. Germany is making slow progress in Russia; on the northern and the central fronts very little; and on the southern front some progress. This progress, though, is proving costly to Germany, losing men and materials. If the German, regime should get to Moscow and attack some other country, possibly Great Britain, this could not be started before early next year. Whereas, if Great Britain is taken, the United

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States would be threatened imme- | diately. | Today the main problem is “What {does Japan intend to do?” She has |occupied the French Indo-China ,area, putting her in a position to jattack Thailand, or the Burma |Road, China's lifeline, and the | Philippines or Singapore, Great | Britain's stronghold in the east. { Japan, with a population of some 60,000,000 persons, could not be considered a distant threat to the independence of the Western Hemisphere as the Germans, but she could cause a great deal of trouble in one ocean, the Pacific, where she is frying to expand her empire. A German-Japan collaboration is possible. Perhaps next year an agreement {of these totalitarian powers could be made. October doesn't seem to ‘be the month as present conditions | exist.

2 x ® CLAIMS NAZIS ONLY COPYING ENGLAND By F. E. M., Indianapolis Are you in favor of the United [States losing a million lives and having several million more of our boys maimed in order to keep Englland’s status quo, so she can con[tinue as in the past one thousand |vears, plundering, robbing and killling men, women and children all {over the world to take anything she [wants or covets instead of acquiring it by peaceful means? England now says she is for freedom and justice to all nations and peoples everywhere, but she is not letting loose of any she holds by conquest. Is she not grabbing right now?* Did she not get over a million square miles out of the World War and has she not gotten over a million square miles already in this war? What has the United States ever done to stop England in her dirty

Side Glances=By Galbraith

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bad locking if she'd take those glasses off!"

work? Why hasn't the United States done something? If the United States made England comply to all this, this writer feels all other nations would comply, as they would all see and conclude that at long last the United States is on the level. England has been at this rotten business the longest. Even Germany has taken a leaf out of England's book.

= EJ » FLAYS HOOSIERS WHO OPPOSED ARMY EXTENSION By A Hoosier Mother, Indianapolis Wake up, Indiana. This nation is committing suicide right now. That

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Indiana delegation in Congress is a | disgrace to this State. Only Rep.| Larrabee has brains enough to know | what this problem is, and he is the| only one of our delegation who has the courage of his convictions. Wake up everybody. Don’t let Hitler's agents soften us any more. Forget about “Business as usual,” “Politics as usual,” “Silk stockings | as usual” and realize that we must | make those men in Congress act like | responsible members of a democracy. | There are enough people in this| country who understand the truth |

to save us in time, but the time is now. Six weeks ago we settled back and thought Russia would have us. Maybe she will, but it is too slender | a hope to rely on. Every isolationist speech, every fool move of Congress is used to win further diplomatic victories. do you suppose the squeeze is being put on France for right now? It is for possession of Africa. Wake up, everybody who knows | any history or geography, telephone | everyone you know, get them to!

to live” now. I am the mother of two, one a

don’t care how efficient the Germans may be in organizing their kind of life. I don’t want it for me and thine, ”8 » ” FAVORS AMENDING AMERICA’S SLOGAN By H. N. K.. Indianapolis The slogan, My Country, Right or Wrong, is a false slogan for a democracy. If my country is wrong,

my duty to make it right. The slogan should be My Country Stands by What Is Right. Wrong makes nations fall.

= 2 SEES UNCLE SAM FACING A DILEMMA By C. M. B.. Indianapolis. Uncle Sam is faced with the problem whether to cut off his nose

and please Winston or leave it on and please Adolf. It's hard, Uncle, but you can’t put it back if you cut it off.

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FATE

By HARRY G. BURNS I met a stranger On the road. He was walking, So was I. I said: “Hello,” He said: “Hello,” As ‘we passed Eaéh other by.

Fate somehow has Decreed it That with some In life we've met, Who were strangers Only yesterday, That tomorrow We must forget.

DAILY THOUGHT

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. — Psalms 30:5.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 16, 1941" Gen. Johnson Says—

Balanced Farm-Industrial Setup In Small Communities Imperilled By Centralization of Arms Effort,

ATERLOO, Iowa, Aug. 15.—There is a great temptation, in making one of these explora= tory swings-round-the-circle, for a columnist to sit right down after a one-night stand and, on the basis of a few conversations, write all about what is going on -in this or that neck of the woods, what the people are thinkeing about and what are the prose pects for prosperity. It is a little bit different in the case of the present writer and Waterloo, Iowa, where this is written. I lived and worked on the edge of this state for a good many years,

had a business that d pended largely on its custom ne

I come from the same corn-fed - breed that inhabits these parts, In spite of all that, I don't feel like shooting too quick in interpreting Iowa opinion on this bewildering situation. It seems to be too much bewildered itself—and so am I. But I do want to comment on something I know about. Like a half a dozen other smaller cities about which I have written, in pursuit of my favorite thesis, Waterloo approaches what I think is an ideal or goal for American social and economic development. I mean that it is an industrial center at the heart of a very rich agricultural district that gives what our people so badly need to weather both the ups and downs of our stormy economic sea—a kind of balance between farming and manufacturing industries.

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T offers off season employment to people of both great groups. It cushions severe slumps in either, It conserves something of our traditional ine stitutions of local self-government in politics and local independence in economics. People here are, by that much, removed from dependence on distant metropolitan and monopolistic or even international forces over which they have little control and for which they have less respone sibility. In the main, the relatively small industries in Waterloo are what are becoming a kind of obsession with me, little fellows in business because they, in turn, in my judgment, are the last bulwark against céntralization of both economic and political power In such great groupings that control of them can more easily be seized by aspiring emperors in both the political and economic field. Their preservation, which is the preservation of such strong local community centers as Waterloo, should be one of our chief concerns, if we are to preserve what we have cherished most in America, It was the chief concern of the framers of our form of Government. y The occasion for my visit here is the 50th anni® versary in the life of such an independent industry as the kind I have in mind, the Rath Packing Co. It settled here half a century ago in the center of the corn-hog country with the perfectly sound economic idea that bulk products should be processed as close to the point of production as possible.

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HIS is no advertising creed, but devotion to that idea. While it has built no top-flight world-wide or even nation-wide industrial unit, it has become a very important element of strength for the whole state of Iowa, and to Waterloo to a greater extent perhaps, but in the same direction as the other examples of little business of both manufacturer and distributor in this well-proportioned community. All the foregoing leads up to my point which I have been recently emphasizing. What is going to happen to these self-contained local communities if there is no check to the headlong rush to centralize the billions of defense orcers in great corporate empires and a few metropolitan centers and to the ill-considered applications of

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consequent unemployment and bankruptcy of small concerns because of their inability to get the materials and accessories with which to serve their people? With every passing development I am the more convinced that it is a question of pretty nearly first magnitude for the whole country.

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/ . . ; | A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |

RS. HOUSEWIFE, are you worried about the High Cost of Living? So am I. Let's use some

| of our energy then in figuring out ways to turn evil

into good. High taxes, hard times are unpleasant to face, but by keeping our chins up we can actually benefit from them. Look at the threatened gasoline ration in some parts of the country, for example, Maybe because of it we will recover the use of our legs, which would certainly promote health, efficiency and morale. People who can't navigate on their own under pinnings for a few blocks, and whose children demand to be driven wherever they go. are sel« dom in condition to fight on any front. To rediscover the joys of walking would be worth many sacrifices. With fewer automobiles the home would take on new glamour. Families could become acquainted with each other. Snooty children migiat appreciate the efforts of their parents and learn to create their own pleasures instead of wanting only those to be had for spot cash. Perhaps neighborliness would become fashionable. Books, home music, community orchestras, singing schools and church suppers would have a chance to stage a comeback. Also, the less money we have to spend the more temperate we will be. When both gin and gasoline become scarce and expensive, think of the restful sleep men and women can enjoy whose youngsters now scorch the highroads and guzzle intoxicants. We may even suppose that you will have to do vour own housework, Mrs. Rich. If it happens, don't’ cry. Aren't you badgered now with admonitions warning of overweight and lack of activity? = Well, there's nothing better for keeping trim, slim

al happy than domestic chores. The other millions whe are already used to such chores can give thanks d

the fact, and even feel new pride in their efficiency, When we all cut out expensive pastimes and habits, and get to work, is anyone sure we won't enjoy the experience?

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Q—Name the American surgeon who performed an eye operation some years ago on the late King Prae jadhipok of Siam (Thailand). A—The-operation was for the removal of a catae ract in the left eye and was performed at Orphir Hall, Westchester County, N. Y., May 10, 1931, by Dr, John M. Wheeler, noted opthalmologist. Dr, Wheeleg died Aug. :.2, 1938. Q—Is Mary Anderson, famous American actress of the 1870's and 1880's, living? 1 A—Miss Anderson died May 29, 1940, at her home in England. Since retirement, at the height of her success in 1889 at the age of 30, she had devoted her= self to music. Q—Are employees of the Tennessee Valley An thority under Civil Service? : A—They were not covered into the Civil Service by the Ramspeck Act, because the Act creating the T. V. A. specifically exempted them from such status. Q—When was the present “standard” arrangement of a typewriter first devised! A-In 1868,

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