Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1941 — Page 9

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1941

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

AFTON, Minn, Aug. 23.—When I wrote that column a couple of months ago from Albuquerque about building my picket fence, I little realized that it was striking at the very root of the average American’s suppressed desire. From the letters and conversations following that column, I've come to the conclusion that nine out of 10 people in this country would rather build a fence than be President. Perhaps we've got a powerful force for good there, if we just knew how to apply it. At any rate, lots of people have sent in their own fence-building experiences. One of the most touching comes from Muncie, Ind. where a correspondent named E. Pierce De Miller (how did anybody named E. Pierce De Miller ever get into Indiana?) and his boss, Bill Craig, built themselves a fence. Let Mr. De Miller tell it: “There are several differences in the way vou and I worked. In my case I was the assistant, and instead of looking longingly into the eves of a sweet young helo! had to withstand the dark glares the other when anything went wrong. Do remember g aring at Shirley or not? “The only thing that saved a complete nervous collapse on my Jonri was the fact that many giares went by unseer For, you see, we built our fence between 9:30 tl midnight, by flashlight. Instead of orange juice we had lemonade, made more bitter by the fact that the fence wouldn't stay up and we couldn't keep the chiggers down.

How Not Build a Fence

the fence wouldn't stay up. You jov of digging postholes and merely two-by-four- on top of the ground while e-by-six to it from the previous post. upposed to have a diagonal brace from the back to the ground. These were for the purpose holding the fence up. The braces seemed to work all right one way, but we had difficulty keeping the fence from falling the other way. “Well, at 12:30 Eh thin night we finished the fence, and Bill Craig started over tc the stable to get

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Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Thomas Law Kemp, general manager of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, a man of many hobbies and a lover of Brown County. He seldom spells out his first name; signs it “Thos.” and never forgets the period. Tom Kemp, at 36, is a vigorous six-footer with a hearty and a deep, resenant voice. He weighs abcut 185, stands erectlv. His gray hair is. streaked with black, and his forehead is rather high. Occasionally he emphasizes his remarks by pounding the desk with his fist. Punciual himself, he same habit in others. Extremely patient, hell listen courteously to a long-winded narration, even though he knows more about the subject than the narrator. It's a bv-word around the utility that “the Boss wants things done right, sometimes even yesterday.” He likes black and white, and as a result he deluge of reports on his desk every these, he can tell at 10 a. m,, right 1yv, what it cost to run the utility

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likes the

Mr. Kemp

right away, and things down In gets a veritable morning. From down the per ies. So accustomed is he to doing things according to St nelions that he runs his personal affairs, and even his hobbies, that way. The chances are that he could produce his canceled checks for the last 20 vears, and he has stacks of albums filed with clippings on various subjects Interested Astronomy SYHEN HE BECOMES interested in a subject, he’s satisfied merely to ask someone who knows about Instead. he gets the best books he can find and 1dies the subject imself. Right now he’s doing quite a bit of reading on astronomy. For years he's been interested in old glassware and has become an expert on the subject with quite a respectable collection of We -ard Ho. Several pieces in his collection dupl e those in he Henry Ford collection. Also interested in antique furniture, he has a Hepplewhite sideboard tha: compares well with museum is apartment he has a spun glass antique e of a clump of flowers. He's i N( xd has gone to the trouble of moving it one apartment to another several times. It was such a problem that he built a container especially it. Tom Kemp knows the gas and coke business from stem to stern. Among coke manufacturers he’s con-

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The FDR Message By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The President's brief message to Congress on the Roosevelt-Churchill declaration, which his leaders had suggested as an answer to criticism, has increased the opposition. This is indicated by statements of Senators LaFollette, Taft, Bennett Clark and Hiram Johnson, Acting Minority Leader Michener of the House, Rep. Woodrum and others. Apparently there sentment at the charge that any major opposiis a compromise with Nazism. Others are uneasy over 1 failure to state that there were no military commitments, or to reaffirm his campaign pledges against fighting abroad. In Washington, as in London, was generally assumed from 1s sea conference was not held eight points as to carry on

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Because interest thus centered on possible mili-tary-naval agreements, the British public—as reported by American correspondents—was much disappointed that there was no announcement of more U. S. intervention. While the British and some Americans were critical because the agreement did go far enough, Isolationists in Congress were critical because it went too far toward an implied military commitment. Thus the President is somewhat in the position of being damned because he does and because he does not. Perhaps that explains in part the curtness of his message. His Congressional leaders, sensitive to the growing friction between the President and Congress on

My Day

PENSACCLA, Fla, Friday.—I enjoyed my time in Pensacola. One is certainly conscious of the activity of the training program going on and all that it entails, but nothing can mar the charm of the Southern atmosphere. Even if you are busy, you feel Jess busy in the South than yeu do in the North. I am just about to leave on the return flight to New York City, for tomorrow I must be at Hyde Park to welcome the Duke of Kent and some other guests. The President reached Hyde Park yesterday, so he was there to welcome my daughter-in-law, Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, and her two children. They will be with us, I hope, for a long visit. I have not seen the children for some time and I am looking forward very much to having them at Hyde Park. The pony has had very little exercise of late and I hope they will ride him every day, except when he will be away at the Dutchess County Fair. There is always a horse show during the fair and I imagine

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By Ernie Pyle

his horse. He couldn't wait till next morning. He wanted to surprise the horse that night. “Just then he saw a nail that stuck out and hit it a rap with a stick of wood and the whole fence fell down. It started with the post he hit and sort of fell in ripples and waves. “We finally got it up again, and then retired with a sort of resigned victory and without daring to risk showing it to the horse. In fact, we haven't risked it yet. “If vou want to learn how not to build a fence, come up to Muncie. You'll find us drinking lemonade and watching ours sway in the wind. Our hands are blistered, not from building it, but from picking the blame thing up.”

Just Like Sheep

The other day a friend and I were driving from Afton to Stillwater, and about halfway we came upon

intersection. We could see state highway patrolmen at the intersection, directing cars around. My friend wanted me to pull out and go around the line of cars, but I said no, I didn’t want to get bawled out by a cop. So we pulled up behind the car ahead, and shut off the motor. We sat there about 15 minutes and nothing happened and we got more and more impatient. The line kept piling up behind us until it was nearly half a mile long. Finally I said I was going to see what it was all about, so I got out and walked to the head of the line, where the policemen were. “What's the matter?” I asked of a highway patrolman. “Nothing's the matter,” he said. “Well what's this holdup for?” I said “Oh, this is just the annual picnic of Brown & Bigelow employees over in Wisconsin,” he said. “You mean we can go right on past then?” “Why, sure,” he said. “Any time. Come ahead.” So I went back, kicking myself all the way, and pulled out of line and went around. And when we looked back. do you know what—about two-thirds of the cars in the line were pulling out too. Only a few of them were in the picnic. The rest were just plain, docile American sheep, like me.

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sidered an authority on the art of blending coal for coke. He was only 21 when he started in the business with a Duluth (Minn.) coke oven firm. A few years later he superintendented the construction of a batterv of coke ovens for the old Citizens Gas Co. here, and was hired by the plant as its superintendent. He remained here from 1209 until 1913, and a short time later moved to Terre Haute to manage the gas utility there. He came back here in 1935 to run the local utility.

Commutes From Brown County

BETTER THAN anything else, he enjoys fooling around in Brown County. He has a cabin a couple of miles north of Nashville and lives there all summer, commuting to the office daily. As soon as he gets back there in the evening, he gets into old clothes and starts puttering around, digging weeds, altering the landscape or admiring his flowers. When he first got the place, he wanted his friends to be able to find it easily so he put a sign "The Log Cabin,” out in front. It wasn’t long until he had to take that down. Too many strangers kept dropping in {or food or lodging. Acide from Brown County, relaxation are reading and bridge. He reads a lot on varied subjects, particularly likes biographies. He plays an intensely serious game of bridge; studies it 2s a mathematical problem. He enjoys a little poker, occasionally, too Movies don't intrigue him. He listens to music and newcasts on the radio. enjoys a baseball game now and then, and doesn’t care much for golf— probably because his game's not so hot. He likes to fish in Ontario, hunts deer in Michigan and pheasants in South Dakota. He has a vast number of hunting coats. A dog fancier, he has several pointers down in Brown County—wouldn't give setters kennel room.

Hates Red Tape

MR. KEMP ENJOYS a pipe and has quite a collection of them. In clothing he’s conservative and neat. A better listener than talker, he holds his| opinions until they're asked for, speeches. he can be induced to say about backs off the platform. Probably his two pet tape, particularly the latter. say, for President Roosevelt, to give it to a White House secretary. cn talking personally to the President And the chances are he'd keep on until he did.

his favorite forms of

20 words, and then|

peeves are waste and red] If he had a message, he wouldn't be content He'd insist]

foreign policy, hoped that the mere fact of his send-

British Don't Grumble About Defense Work; Everybody Pitches In for Common Good

Mutual Tolerance Rules Management and

Labor; Both Sides Realize if War Effort Fails, Everything Is Lost.

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

GLASGOW, Scotland, Aug. 23

(By Wireless) —Whereas there is

much grumbling about labor in American defense work, I have not

encountered any of it here.

Those industrialists with whom I have

spoken say their men are working hard, and I find among the manage-

ment a disposition to sympathize with the wartime burdens under which the men are working. There is some apprehension—and it exists in the Government as well as in 1ndustry—over cer-

tain signs of a general drive for

higher wages. It

is feared that such a general rise would throw the delicate price structure out of balance.

But that is a broad, general question. close-up relationships there seems to

day-to-day,

In the

be much less feeling than we have in the United

States

as between

labor and management. Here

there is more of the sense that both sides are pitch=

ing in for a common purpose, full well that if the war

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everything will be lost. Both the boss and the men know it.

the sense that both effort fails

Here they are working

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EVIDENTLY THAT makes for more mutual tolerance. Cne industrialist told me that the law prohibiting strikes has to be overlooked

in minor troubles that come up from time to time

inflamed over a walk out, they could theoretically be taken in hand by the law. But this industrialist said sucn procedure would be foolish and only make matters worse. He thought it was better to allow the men to work off steam and take three or four days out. Then came back in a much better*frame of mind. They have all too few holidays now, and a few davs out gives them a break. That is the attitude of one manager who thinks Ernest Bevin made a mistake in trying to introduce reforms during the war instead of waiting until afterward. He does not iike the guaranteed wage, or the fact that men cannot be discharged. He regards the right to discharge as a necessary weapon for discipline. But he recognizes that this step was probably a necessary compensation to the men for the essentialwork order, which forbids them to strike. In other plants, managing direc-

men become grievance and

TRACK PROJECT

PLEA RENEWED

Council Faces Demand for

Elevation Funds in New Budget.

The City Council today was faced

| with renewed demands from South Side civic organizations to sol aside funds in the proposed new budget for track elevation projects.

The requests were made at a

Council budget session last night by South Side Civic League and South Side Businessmen's Club.

Arthur Paetz, president of the

{ League, cited the $300,000 the City and hates making| wi)] receive next year in gas tax At parties held by the utility employees, | funds. and demanded that $50,000 annually separation | took the matter under

be set aside for a gradeprogram. The Council advisement. Council,

Meanwhile the County

1 after five days of budget trimming sessions, total 1942 tax cents above the current levy.

agreed tentatively upon a rate of 46 cents, 3

County Councilmen sliced $131,407

from the general fund and departmental

and cut Welfare

budget requests $306,470 off the County

| Sudget for next year. The cuts were i among the most sweeping in budget

ing a report to the co-ordinate branch of Govern- | Pruning sessions in many years.

ment would heal the hurt pride of that ‘neglected” body. But that is not the effect of such a sweeping statement from the President as this: “It (the eight-point declaration) that it is difficult to oppose in any major particular | withcat automatically admitting a willingness to| accept compromise with Naziism: or ‘o agree to a| world peace which would give to Naziisin domination | over large numbers of conquered nations.” Those who. find fault with one or more of ely eight points would like to be given credit for an| honest difference of opinion, rather than suffer such |¥ Presidential accusations. The Two Extra Points Mr. Roosevelt himself, after the criticism of their | mission from the joint declaration, used his message | to add two more important points, as follows: “Itt is perhaps unnecessary for me to point out that the declaration of principles includes of necessity the world need for freedom of religion and freedom | of information.” The President's harsh words about those who oppose the eight points “in any major particular” might have been aimed at those who he thinks are taking an unfair advantage of him for partisan purposes. But that group is small. There is a large group—apparently the majority in |!

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County (did the “closest job of budget cut-

‘Close Job of Cutting’

Budget requests as submitted to he county body a week ago would

have required a tax rate of 511: cents, an increase of 8 cents over

he current levy. Tax experts who worked with the Council said Councilmen

ing that has been done in several] ears.’

The general fund requests total-|

ing $1,646,820 were cut to $1.515413 and in addition to this reduction, about $40,000 will be added fo the | County's payment of its shares of 1942 elec-

revenues by the City's

ion expenses.

If half a dozen

This cuts 2's cents oif the County

general fund levy and the Welfare | Department cuts will other 5115

remove an- | 2'> cents from the original | -cent rate. County Councilmen said they will]

meet again next week to fix the rate, expected to be close to 46-cent estimate tentatively agreed

the

pon yesterday.

Congress—which wants to support the President but is deeply and genuinely alarmed by British demands for an A. E. F. The War Department recently drafted a bill to permit use of draftees and guardsmen abroad: and Roosevelt Congressional aids such as Senator Pepper continue to urge American occupation of the Azores, Canaries, Cape Verdes and Dakar. Therefore a large, and otherwise friendly, group fears that Roosevelt silence means desire for an A. E. F. He probably does not. but the fear is real.

By Eleanor Roosevel:

1—The Yukon Territory

4—Which State in the U,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

is part of| Canada: true or false? |

2—How many letters does the reg-

ular Latin alphabet contain? |

3—Another name for a funeral di-|

rector is m--t-c--n. S. contains the largest deposits of} anthracite coal in the world? |

| 5—Besides the two Adamses and)

we shall enter the pony and one other horse, if one] of our little neighbors is willing to ride them. Today, I had better take up something which has come to me from Lexington, Ky. I am asked to explain how I happened to be one of the sponsors for “Finland. Incorporated.” The answer is very simple. After the Finnish-Russian war, a great many of us wanted to help Finland in any way that we could, and this was an organization which was started to be of assistance in any way that seemed possible. At present, the Finns are fighting with the Germans against Russia. I doubt if they had any choice, but, of course, “Finland, Incorporated” can do little or nothing for them. For the time being I have resigned from the organization. I have also been supporting a Finnish orphan. I have written to find out whether there is any assurance that the money contributed now actually feeds that child. I would not want to make any child suffer if I could help at the present time, but if the money is not accomplishing its object, I shall put it into a fund to await the day when peace] comes. With our small contribution each of us can! help the bulding processes which will have to go on| in so many parts of the world.

1—True. 2—Twenty-two. 3—Mortician. 4—Pennsylvania. 5—Harrison. 6—False.

the two Roosevelts, two other] Presidents of the U. 8S. had the same surname; what was it?

6—The Statue of Liberty is carved,

from granite; true or false? Answers

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tors pointed proudly to hundreds of busy workmen, and remarked about their industriousness. Here it seems to be a part of the management’'s pride toc have good labor relations. Unions are taken for granted. There seems to be ng disposition to point to labor as a scapegoat when production is not what it should be.

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Patriotism Granted

EVEN THE DIFFICULTY in getting coal miners to return to that industry, while it is a serious handicap, is generally recognized as the natural result of the underpay and the hard working conditions in that industry. No one very much blames the men for drifting into the better-paid munitions work. One managing director told me of an instance where workmen were begging to be transferred to direct munitions work. There is a Strong sense that everyone here

“MEIN

: -h Mi REESE

Mein Kampf is the accepted bible of German National Socialism, the frenzied outpouring of wild political philosophy having for its goal the domination of an entire world by the Nazi “race.” The Times today publishes the last installment of Francis Hackett's powerful expose of Hitler's fanatic purposes. ONE OF THE MOST feverishly frequent words in Mein Kampf is the word “coward.” It is the popularly governed nation that Hitler perpetually taunts with cowardice, calculating on the natural reluctance of the sane to adopt war as an institution. He knew that in France, in Britain and in the United States there was so overwhelming a revolt against the slaughter of the last war that not for years |§ could the people even read war books. Hitler's policy for Germany Le required war as an institution J It presupposed, however, that the French mother, the British mother and the Ameri- Mr. Hackett can mother could be depended on to give the warlike Germans a walkover. This victory on war terms, secured by collaboration with these mothers, would be glorious in theory and cheap in fact. His supreme art is that of making an opponent defeat himself and, being a master of mass phychology, he can tell what help he is likely to receive from Senators who weep tears over the draftees, men who object conscientiously to war as such. Only by whipping up the German will to war, on the one hand, and sapping democratic will to war, on the other, can Hitler hope to ride to triumph. Hence his double tactics, his assurance to the democracies that

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These men are not working for the boss . . . they are working to save their country and their own freedom from what happened in

France!

their interests are not in common,

is in the same boat and that everyone must win the war. Those not working directly on war materials are slightly uncomfortable. They want to have their hands on shell cases, fuses, gun mounts, or something else that may be going into action as soon as it leaves the factory.

The matter of patriotism is taken for granted. Nobody needs to say very much about it. A young bomber pilot comes back from a flight of eight hours that carried him over Germany, lands his plane, gets on his bicycle and pedals three or four miles to the house where his family lives a safe distance from the airfield. It is all that matter-of-fact.

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Everybody Helps

THE MEN IN the plants are doing their stuff, and others in the community feel a responsibil= ity to look out for them. Everywhere canteens for hot lunches are going in, because the whole community recognizes that while others may have to go on short rations, the men doing hard phys-

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By FRANCIS HACKETT

his salting of the old wounds, his strumming on the perfectionist theme and the utter diabolic horror of modern warfare, while giving his own people, by Mein Kampf and by word of mouth, the good news that the Germans, the master race, are dealing with babblers, pacifists, internationalists and weaklings. What does he care about an America “armed to the teeth,” if he can put the cork of timidity between its teeth? un n 8

The Basic Issue

IF WOMEN REJECT WAR as an institution, if they have used vast influence in favor of peace, it is not because they are cowards. It is because the issues in Europe seem insane and unintelligible. The Senators, therefore, who cater to this sentiment of peace without honestly examining and revealing the inner springs of Hitler's action are political culprits. If the choice were between “peace” and “war,” not 1 per cent of the women of the United States would argue for an aggressive military policy. But what is the choice, if one ponders Mein Kampf? It is between a Hitler world and a non-Hitler world. A power such as he wields has its lever in the will to war that he has fostered. It has its fulcrum in the democracies’ will to peace—illustrated to perfection by Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Rumania, Bulgaria—guarantees to Hitler that, with suitanle help from Japan, he can break down the existing order and bring in those conceptions and vindicative life about which Mein Kampf is so outspoken. Mein Kampf frankly what it will mean to be conquered by the Germans. Bad as’ it was for Italy to be under Austria’s heel, bad as it was for Finland to be stifled by Russia, or India to be shackled by England, we must go back to the conquest of Mexico or similar exploits to grasp what Hitler's Nazis have in mind.

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HOLD EVERYTHING

DoLLy DIMWIT

COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 3. PAT OF.

“Yes, you can have a date tonight—if you bring along another sailor for my girl frjend”

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ical labor must have fuel in their bodies. So the food restrictions are waived for real noonday meals

When the homes of Clyde shipworkers were demolished and the men moved their families 20 and 30 miles back into the country for safety, the Lord Provost of Glasgow saw to it that cheap bus.fares were established for the long rides to and from work.

Even so, it is hard, and everything drives ahead against time. The British Isles are enjoying a lull, but everybody knows it cannot last. They all know that the real test for England is yet to come, Bombs go out of the factories with big V's chalked on them. In fuse factories every worker knows that a defective fuse is a lost opportunity. Every tank, every gun barrel counts, and every ship plate that goes on the frame.

These men are not working for the boss. They are working to save their country and their own freedom from the thing that happened to France. Sensing this spirit, one begins to have some faint understanding of the miracle that thus far has saved England.

KAMPF ..... -americi

There are historic periods in which human nature seems to lose benignity, when its capacity for evil takes sovereignty over it, and when the gods to whom it sacrifices are no longer from on high but gods that ask for cruelty, for torture, for humiliation and the abasement of mankind. Do American mothers hear about this from the American Senators who do not admit there is an enemy? No, Mein Kampf and its human infidelities are not mentioned.

Yet the alternative to checking Hitler is to see him accrete power. His New Order has a rage and hatred in its heart that reflects itself in its operatic apparatus of power and terror. This is the excruciation that awaits France, Britain, the Scandinavian countries, the Balkans and Africa if enough Senators can persuade enough American mothers to ask for peace—peace at Hitler's price. And he would guarantee it. It is his specialty.

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Price of Submission

Almost in proportion to the anxiety that these Senators display for America and decayed democracy, they exhibit the acceptance of Hitler's presumptions. Where Oswald Mosley and Laval and Quisling, in their respective countries, have begun the work of subverting democracy, so in America this subversion is proceeding by means of the very people who urge us to stand aloof from “the turmoil abroad.” The great thing, they say, is to bow to the revolution as “inevitable.” But before you submit to the “inevitable,” have it spelled out to youu You find it in Mein Kampf. Once you have read the Gospel in Hitler's own words you cannot doubt what his real intentions are, what the danger to the United States is, and where, if democracy is of concern to you, you are forced to take your stand. Here is a rigid doctrine, an enemy that is outspoken, ruthless and defiant of civility, backed by a military machine that he has good reason to be proud of, and stripped for action without a social scruple or inhibition in the world. Mein Kampf is the trumpeting

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Hoosiers in Washington—

WILLKIE SAYS

SON TO FIGHT IF WAR COMES

He Will Be as Close to Front Line as Possible, Letter Writer Told.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—There is a gag going around in Adminis= tration circles here which is like this: Q. Who are the two patriots in Indiana politics? A. Rep. William H. Larrabee and Wendell L. Willkie! Somehow this seems to draw laughs from both Democrats and Republicans, for Rep. Larrabee was the only Hoosier in either House to vote for the draft extension and Mr. Willkie long has been oute standing in his advocacy of stope ping Hitler. Unlike the Roosevelt boys, who often are criticised for “playing soldier, sailor and marine” an® popping up with or for Papa everyplace, the G. O. P. presidential candidate's son, Phillip, merely is registered for the draft at Rushe having shortly turned 21.

Writes to Willkie

As a result of this registration, Joseph Lieb, a former Young Democrat leader from South Bend, now living here has sought to find out whether or not the prospect of a son being called to the colors has colored Mr. Willkie's viewpoint.

An enthusiastic writer of letters to the great and near-great, Mr. Lieb made public the following ex-' change: Letter to Mr. Willkie: “A certain member of Congress called my attention to a clipping of July 1, 1941, stating that your son had registered at Rushville, Indiana, for the draft.

“This Congressman was wonder= ing whether you would continue to advocate our entrance into the European War, in face of your son's registration for the Army, or whether you would attempt to secure for him a Commission or a post behind the front line trenches. “TI asked him why he did not write to you and ask you this question, but he replied that you probably would not answer him or evade the question altogether. “So we decided that I write to you instead, and I hope that you can give us an answer.”

Son Will Do Duty

Mr. Willkie replied: “If you will have the member of, Congress, whoever he may be, write me a letter asking me the questions which you have put to me, I shall be delighted to answer them. He may be thinking in terms of his own mental processes instead of mine. “My son will do his duty if this country becomes involved in war,

.Jas I did my duty in the last war,

and he won't be in any safe posie tion. He will be as close to the battleline as possible. Neither he nor I know a philosophy such as that indicated in your letter.” Then Mr. Lieb wrote: “Thank you for your letter and with your permission I will show your letter to the Congressman. “Your statement, however, makes me want to ask you this question, As a young man of draft age, like your son, I am wondering if you think that the cause that you are advocating is worth the possible life of your son and perhaps mile lions of others. “You say that, Phillip, your son, will be as close to the front as possible if war comes. “I am wondering, and I think that the nation is wondering, if you are still advocating our ene trance into the European War?”

Larrabee Too Old

Reply from Mr. Willkie terminate ing the correspondence: “It is a little difficult for me to enter into prolonged corresponde-

| ence with you as I am exceedingly

busy. “I do not advocate our entrance into war. On the other hand, if Hitler strikes, as a result of our pursuing perfectly legitimate poli= cies, I certainly would, if I were directing the forces of the United States, strike back. As a matter of fact, I think that any man who is ' not willing to die for liberty is not worthy to live.” Mr. Willkie volunteered in the World War and rose in rank to bee come a Captain in the 325th F. A, in France. Having been born on a farm in Montgomery County, Feb. 21, 1870, Rep. Larrabee remained at his post as secretary of the Hancock County board of health, being a country doctor at New Palestine and beyond the service age in the World War,

of a creed. It is the manifesto of a conqueror who, by creating a cult of nationalism and a social organism behind it, has induced a frustrated people to give him his head, and, under the influence of his ideas, which are persuasive even with good Americans, proceed to stake their lives on a world domination for which the prospect, this time, is infinitely better than in the earlier war that so exasperates Hitler because it failed. Which is better, enslavement to war temporarily or to Hitler permanently? Democracy has to make its choice. What, in truth, is the New Order? It is that young aspiration, democracy. What threatens it is the crime against humankind which masquerades as new, the archaic ordeal by battle. If democracy cannot meet this threat, cannot meet it with greater will and determination than the Germans’, with truer singlemindedness, it may bend its neck in submission. Labor and capital both, read Mein Kampf! Your pride as men, your goodness as human beings, vour fortune as democrats are threatened.

TIE END 1941, by Francis Hackett; ributed ‘by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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‘Boehne Revolt Undeserved

Friends of Rep. John W. Boehna Jr., were surprised to read that a revolt is growing against his ree nomination by the Eighth District Democrats allegedly based on his failure to bring war industries to Evansville, Both labor and industrial leaders from Evansville have conferred with Rep. Boehne here and he has devoted his entire time to going with them to see all of the lead ing officials who might aid in this matter. Each delegation has left Washe ington giving Rep. Boehne complete assurance that they were convinced that he did all that was possible for them. So meager is the possibility of a Congressman influencing the Army, Navy and | OPM brass hats in industrial mat ters that there is a cynical simile going the rounds: “As unimportant as a Congresse man in a War Crisis!” Being one of the senior Northern Democrats, now serving his fifth term, Rep. Boehne is one of the ranking members of the powerful Ways and Means Committee of the House and also on the tax subse committee which drafts all the

levies for the Federal Government.