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FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1941

PIG IN A POKE

AST week Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones announced that if Russia wanted to borrow money to buy war materials she could do so merely by signing a promissory note. And this week Navy Secretary Frank Knox wistfully expressed the wish that Joe Stalin could be induced to permit American military observers to go up to the front lines. In ordinary lender-borrower relations, that slight routine check on a credit risk wouldn't be considered too much of an imposition. :

ECONOMY, AGAIN HREE great obstacles to reduction of the Government's non-defense spending are these: 1. The fact that the spending committees of Congress work entirely independently of, and almost invariably at CroSS-purposes to, the taxing committees of Congress. 9. The fact that any real economy would require close co-operation, which does not now exist, between Congress and the executive branch of the Government, 8. The fact that practically every Government, department, bureau and agency has hooked into the nationaldefense program in some way and insists that any reduction in its appropriation would be a blow to that program. Yesterday the Senate Finance Committee, which is working on the new and enormously increased tax bill, took two steps which offer real hope of overcoming these obstacles. It adopted an amendment, by Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, creating a new 14-man committee to investigate non-essential Federal expenditures and recommend reductions and eliminations. Three members each would be from the taxing committees of Congress (Finance in the Senate, tions and eliminations. Three members each would be from the spending (Appropriations) committees of House and Senate, and two members—the Treasury Secretary and Budget Director—from the executive branch of the Gov-

ernment. It adopted a resolution, also by Senator Byrd, which would call on the Budget Director to submit for consideration three detailed revised budgets for the current fiscal year—showing what cuts would be necessary to save a billion dollars, or a billion and a half, or two billions—and to provide complete data on all items classified or considered as non-defense. Congress should approve both the proposed amendment and the proposed resolution. For, as Senator Byrd says: “It is little short of outrageous to impose the burden of this tax bill upon the citizens of this country without at least a sincere attempt to reduce Federal expenditures outside of essentially emergency items.”

THE END OF A DREAM

T is officially announced from Moscow that the great Dnieper River Dam has been destroyed by the Russians. 2

® 8 » OX Friday night, Nov. 24, 1938, in the grand dining reom of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York a dinner was given in honor of Maxim Litvinoff, then Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs. Col. Hugh L. Cooper, famous American engineer, was the toastmaster. Dnieperstroy had been built under his direction. The construction had marked a rare era in Russia's relationship with the outside world. She, the most suspicious of nations—suspicious within and without—had actually trusted expert advice from abroad. The five-year dream was unfolding: To make Russia a great industrial nation. Dnieperstroy was the key. A feeling of mutual friendliness had developed between Russia and the United States. Recognition had been effected a few days before the Waldorf dinner, which was attended by the bigwigs of finance, industry and politics. A strange scene—starched shirts gleaming against a flaming background which was the Red Flag of Russia. The evening's oratory which followed the soup-to-nuts dealt with recognition and Dnieperstroy. Such language as this: “A final liquidation of one of the most tragic consequences of the World War. . .. A vital link in comity among the nations of the earth. . .. For understanding and peace in the solution of the problems of the Far East.” = » ” # BUT the era was short lived. Russia soon began to draw back into her shell of distrust. Then came the purges, The popular Ambassador Troynosky was withdrawn from Washington, and Litvinoff faded from the picture, The concept of a Russia struggling to build something better than a capitalistic system gone sick had been growing. It was quickly shattered. -Just another dictatorship, ruthJess and bloody had been born, Finally came the deal with Hitler and the invasion of Finland. America was disillusioned, except for those who for reasons best known to themselves clung stubbornly to the party line. What might have been had that era of good will continued is of course only a matter for speculation. One thing is certain, however—the results could only have been better, not worse, than they are on this second anniversary of the start of World War IL # » # # = THE first born of the first Five-Year Plan has been put to death. The symbol of a nation’s ambition has been blown up. Dnieperstroy is now “one with Nineveh and Tyre.” The one big thing proved is that Russia means it now, as she has through the centuries, when she says “scorched af ”»

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Defends Officers in Habinyak Case And Charges Congressman With Reckless and Easy Blowing Off

EW YORK, Aug. 29.—At Ft. Bragg, in North |

Carolina, Pvt. John Habinyak, a draftee, was sentenced to 10 years and nine months in the Leavenworth disciplinary barracks for willful disobedience of

lawful military commands and his case has been promptly taken up by Congressman Stephen M.:Young, a Democrat from Cleveland, who ventures the opinion that the lieutenant first concerned in the case probably would not be worth his salt in civil life. The sentence was subsequently reduced. This soldier spat on the floor in the mess hall and refused to clean it up, he spat on and littered the floor near his bunk, he refused to clean his mess kit and he finally refused to work as a fi member of the guard house gang. He is, by all accounts, a dirty and disobedient soldier who would demoralize any command and set an example which would result in filth, disease and the total loss of discipline, He had his trial at which no denial was made and by his attitude he left the officers who tried him no choice but to do their duty or flinch. They acted for the good of the other soldiers of the same command who would have had to live in the disgusting conditions created by this individual or clean up after him. For that they are insulted by a member of the legislative body which enacted the laws which they faithfully enforced. »

RMY officers have absolutely no defense against the insults of Congressmen who elect to build political prestige for themselves by sounding off under the protection of their special privilege at random and at will.- By all published accounts in this case, the lieutenant, Leo J, Kraus, was very patient with the recruit and tried to convince a newcomer that he must obey orders and show decent consideration for the other men with whom he was living, Although the men in the bunks on both sides of Pvt. Habinyak were reasonably clean, they would, nevertheless, have to live amid the mess created by a dirty and sullen sulker or take on the extra duty of cleaning up after him. Men in barracks or in tents have an individual responsibility to one another in the matter of cleanliness and, far from defending a filthy mutineer, the Congressman should have taken the part of the other men who doubtless prefer to take their meals in reasonable cleanliness and to live in quarters appreciably more sanitary than the New York subway. Unfortunately for Congressman Young's position in this case, the officers are only enforcing laws which were handed to them by the body of which he is a member and the sentence is one that was prescribed by Congress, not by the Army. ” = ” HE contention that an individual should be permitted to act like some dirty animal violates the rights of all the soldiers who have to live with him and Congress made no mistake in holding that the officers should be not only empowered, but required to enforce sanitation and inflict punishment for filth and defiant disobedience. A better and older method of dealing with Habinyak would have been to tell some decent soldier to punch hell out of him and repeat the treatment every time he spat in the mess hall or the barracks. But there has been so much meddling with discipline that officers court interference whenever they get tough. Thus, if a sergeant does take a poke at some smelly individual for refusing to bathe or otherwise creating a disgusting nuisance, the officers can be sure that some Congressman will raise a holler about brutality. It is unjust and contemptible conduct by a Congressman to toss off for publication the casual opinion that a young officer probably isn't worth his salt in civil life just because the young man has had the courage to do a difficult duty obviously in the interest of the enlisted soldiers of the outfit.

What About Dakar?

By Ludwell Denny

ASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Nazi occupation of Dakar, which President Roosevelt calls a threat to this hemisphere, is more likely as a result of Anglo-

Russian invasion of Iran. For the Iran route to Russia is to be fed by American supplies via the South Atlantic sea lane and central African airway dominated by Dakar. As the need for an all-weather supply route induces the Allies to seize Iranian territory and communications, Hitler's strategy is to cut the long lifeline on which Russian resistance increasingly will depend. Though he doubtless will try to do this at several points, including Egypt and Iran, the West African coast is the most vulnerable part of the line. This Hitler move, however, is not expected until there is a lull on the Russian front —either because of heavy Soviet reverses or the mud and snow of winter. Then he is apt to concentrate on the Middle East and Africa, according to military guesses here. In that event the American-African supply route may hold the fate not only of Russia but also of the British forces in Africa and the Middle East. The alternative and safer. South Pacific-Indian QceanPersian Gulf route will not be adequate alone, especially for aircraft.

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2 ” = UST what President Roosevelt will do about Dakar, oJ which has become so much more important than when he first warned Hitler to keep hands off, is not clear. But there is no present indication that he will succumb to the pressure of the Pepper group to occupy Dakar first. Unlike the Iceland move, that would require bloedy fighting to take and mere to hold—all far away from any American supply base. The British navy from Bathurst and Freetown would be the more likely force. . Churchill has net ordered the seizure of Dakar partly because of the earlier failure of the British and Free French, and partly because of the AngleAmerican effort te split Vichy away from Hitler. But it is mainly fear that Hitler will get the French fleet. Meanwhile, Dakar has been reinforced, and the hope in London and Washington ef winning ever Petain or even Weygand is disappearing fast. Knowing better than anyone else the difficulty of taking Dakar, Gen. de Gaulle, Free French chief, vesterday told an American correspondent that he had offered the United States a long-term lease on three ports. Secretary of State Hull commented that he never had heard of this offer of Duala in the Cameroons, Porth Gentil in Gabon and Pointe Noire in French Equatorial Africa. Of course Washington can not deal with de Gaulle as long as it recognizes Vichy, But if Petain turns over Dakar to the Nazis whenever Hitler is ready, as expected, things may happen fast. :

Editor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily these of The Indianapolis Times.

So They Say—

TO ALTER OUR course now is to acknowledge that we, a nation of more than 130,000,000, with riches beyond comparison, with skills undreamed of elsewhere, are content to accept a Nazi-dictated werld.—

Milo J. Warner, Legion.

national commander, American

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WHEN I PUT a new dress on I feel as if the band was playing.—Naney Mellon, New York restaurant cashier known for her varied wardrobe. * * »

ALL CAN count on my spirit of erganization, my impartiality, my spirit of justice, and my affection.— Admira] Darlan, Vice Premier of France. ¥ LJ *

THE REAL problems of war never arise until after the war is oyer.—National Resources Planning Board

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The Hoosier Forum

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

JEERS AT ‘VV CAMPAIGN AS MOSCOW INVENTION By Lester Gaylor, 4534 Sangster Ave. Throughout our country we are hearing a great deal of ballyhoo about the “V” victory campaign against Germany, No one has told our people who sponsors it and where it originated. In 1929, beiore Hitler and Roose-

velt, the magazine “Godless,” athist publication in Moscow, published a cartoon showing a monstrous “V” crushing Jehovah, God and Allah. Inside the “V” was the “hammer and sickle,” trademark of the Moscow murderers. The ‘V’ program has as its purpose the destruction of all religion. The hammer and sickle represents the farmer and laborer that the Reds hope to organize to overthrow ours and every government, and to destroy Christianity. It represents world-wide revolution by communistic forces. America is lapping up this “V” propaganda as a hungry cat does her milk. Many newspaper columnists are predicting a new peace between Hitler and Stalin and are warning about acceptance of war news from that sector. But Britain continues to play politics with these gangsters and Roosevelt continues his ninth year of petling “the Red serpent.” Any nation friendly to the Soviet has the Roosevelt blessing. These things are done by Roosevelt and his coat-tail holders without the consent of the peeple. But what business is it of the people anyway? They are too dumb to understand! These acts of “legalized sabotage” are brought home to Indianapelis people when they read ‘in their newspapers that a group of Reds from Russia are going to visit the Allison aviation plant.

» ” un TAKES VIOLENT ISSUE WITH CONCLUSIONS OF MADD 2X By Joseph A, Dickey, Anderson

This man Maddox, who, nearly every day, expresses his fear and dissatisfaction in your column, says that “whoever says the ‘eight points’ do not commit us to active participation in the war is deceived,” 1, for one, do not believe’ that the eight points so commit us. I do not know Maddox but I have heen reading his letters and, drawing my conclusion from the drivel therein, it

was not as capable of understanding the eight peints. The President assured us last

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fall that our boys would not be sent to fight in the European War. He also said, after his meeting with Churchill that we were no nearer war than before. And we have not been in the war. I admit that we have been just short of it, but that is what we have promised. I helieve that the overwhelming majority of the people of this country would believe the President rather than Maddox. . . . As I say, I have been reading Maddox's letters. The time was wasted but it proved for me that it is entirely possible to write millions of words without stating a single opinion that is capable of being maintained. He seems to have the habit of saying something and attempting to prove it with absurd and puerile argument. Always his argument is more difficult to understand than the thing he is trying to prove. A man said, “I saw a grindstone floating down stream.” The other man said, stones don’t float.” The first man replied, “Yes, but this one had en iron handle.” That kind of argument always makes me think of Maddox.

® = = PETTINGIL CHARGES AX BEING PUT ON FREEDOM

By Samuel B. Pettingill, former Indiana Congressman, Washington, D.

Shall we tax free speech? That question is indirectly pre-

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the form in which it passed the House of Representatives. Radio broadcasters are subject to income tax like every other business. But not content with taxing their net income on an equality with all other business, the House proposes to levy a special tax on their earnings from advertising. It is a gross income tax superimposed upon a net income tax. {The Federal Government imposes

{no such tax on apy other business nor has it yet proposed to do so. If, however, the receipts from

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radio advertising can be separately taxed, then why not tax receipts from newspaper advertising, and in fact all other revenues necessary to keep newspapers afloat. “The power to tax is the power to destroy.” Once establish this precedent and then the threat of an increased tax could be held over broadcasters and newspapers to bend them to support or at least not attack the party in power, Radio stations now give a large part of their time to the free discussion of important public questions upon which the people are divided. Their facilities are used for this purpose. These facilities are supported by advertising revenue.

Due to their annual renewable license, radio stations are already timid of Federal power. Subject them to the threat of further loss of income and we will have gone far toward destroying freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The hostility of the Federal Government toward all forms of advertising is well known. In addition, we had the experience with the NRA code in 1933. If that had been agreed to, the Federal Government would have had unlimited

power over the newspapers of the|i§ country; the power to tell what ad-|§ vertising might be carried, or who|j the number of|%

might advertise; pages that could be printed, or the days a week that advertising could be published. This was when one of the “four freedoms” was under attack here at home. The American Newspaper Publishers Association refused to surrender the freedom of the press to Government bureaucrats in 1933. Another battle awaits them. This tax on free speech should be destroyed before it destroys free speech. 2 ” ” FARMERS WANT ONLY FAIR

PRICE, SAYS STEINMEIER

By Albert L. Steinmeier, Chairman Marion County Soil Conservation Association.

I read your editorial a few days ago about the President vetoing the crop bill freezing wheat and cotton for two years, and of Congress yield-

ing to the farm lobby. I am sure that the AAA and leading farm organizations, along with Secretary Wickard, were not in favor of this bill. If there was a strong lobby, it was the “protest group” which has been protesting the 49-cent penalty on excess wheat, and if this bill had passed, they would be allowed to feed their excess wheat. The majority of the farmers want only a fair price for their crops, and certainly want ne excess profits during this war emergency. When wheat was 35 eents a bushel and hogs 3 cents a pound, and we were having farm ortgage foreclosures by the thousands, some of these men who are now protesting marketing quotas said the Government should “do something about it.” Now that the Government has done something about it, where is any co-operation on their part?

DARK LONELINESS

By MAUDE C. WADDELL Under the stars silvered light Under the moon’s splendor bright Under the clouds soft and white Under the rain pelting the night— My soldier son, Are you all right

Sometimes the shadowed wings of fear Whisper cold words I try not hear. But, Oh the time is long without you near! My hours have lost your smiles of cheer, I pray to God to keep you safe, my dear,

DAILY THOUGHT

For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest deest the same things.—Romans 2:1. r——

GIVE every’ man thy ear, but few thy veice; take each man's een-

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FRIDAY, AUG. 20, 1941

Gen. Johnson Says—

100-Billion-Dollar Federal Debt Simply Means Repudiation in the End— Terrible Prospect for the Little Man.

ASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—We are soon to have a new Lease-Lend Bill of an undisclosed amoung estimated at from five to eight billion dollars to add to the old one of eight billions, of which we haven't yet begin to spend any considerable fraction. Add to these a tremendous naval, marine and military expenditure, not all yet appropriated for, but easily 25 billions. On top of this add whatever it is that Jesse Jones is going to do for Russia. He is mot going to “lease-lend” them equipment— only “lend” them—not equipment —but money. What's the difference? His authority to do this is apparently practically unlimited and, if that were not so, the suave shrewd Jesse could escape, or lif! whatever limit there may be. : To what does all this add up? If anyone did care, it wouldn't do any good. The figures approach infinity so closely that the finite mind can't comprehend them. But it is usually said that 50 billions of new spending is an underestimate and 100 billions of Federal debt a certainty—perhaps much more. ® » ” THINK few will argue that this hundred billion or more of Federal debt, added to collossal publis debts of states, cities and counties can ever be repaid, If so much is ever incurred it is bound to be repudiated, not by a forthright refusal to pay, but devices the governments have to do such things—devaluation of the currency, permitting the value of government bonds to decline appalling and making this interest bearing paper redeemable at par in non-interest-heare ing paper currency and so torth. It is a gloomy, terrible prospect for the savings, the wages, the salaries and social-security and other pensions and the insurance policies of the poor— gloomy, but not exaggerated. That, however, isn’t half the picture of the pinch Dollars are merely poker-chips for some-

transportation—“enough to keep out hunger, thirst and cold.” f the Government begins, by such spending, to take so large a proportion of all these things it is becoming clearer daily that there is not going to be’ left for our civil population enough of some of them for daily living. ”

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HERE must be a limit somewhere—some balance of accounts between what we can afford to broads cast over the surface of the globe and what, as a minimum, we must keep at home. Who is striking that account? Who is making that balance? “HE It is also becoming clearer daily that is the reason why, at this relatively early stage, some civilian sup= plies are entirely cut off and other seriously threate ened. It was because, even on the modest program so far attained, nobody had computed and planned what these grandiose figures in dollars by the billions and production in miliions of tens meant when cons verted into materials. We talk of taxes as a burden. At least there is some pretense of equality of burdens in taxes—soms little regard for the capacity of the sources of them; But who regards what an unplanned material pros gram may do actually to wipe out the business of mils lions of small operators, the income of their ems ployees and to impose on every home burdens of wang and hardship in comparison with which the irritation of taxes would be but as a fly-bite to the sting of a cobra? 4

A ‘Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

NCE withih my memory Marshal Petain was a hero. Today he is a renegade, through no fault of his own but because in all history one man never won twq wars, and because during the years intervening between this and the last one France : was not able to rear young men with the qualities of leadership needed. Henri Philippe Petain is fa too old to have had the responsi bility ef guiding a natien’s army, ¢ Why was France left to the mercy of decrepitude and deterioration? Where were the young men who should have led the country te a higher destiny? They do not exist. They were never born. Those who would have been their fathers are asleep beneath the poppies. The highe estbred, the i most intelligent, the strongest, the truest, the stgunchest men of France were destroyed in the First gWorld War. After the devastation of 1917 only a fgagment of the valiant who had known and loved democracy remained. War's residue was there—the weaklings, the half-witted, the unimagin< ative, the poltroons were left to carry the tricolor through recohistruetion days, and they lacked what it takes. And so Face died. And so Belgium languished and surrendered. And so Germany, which had once been great dso, fell into the hands of thugs and maniacs. A§d so Russia dreamed the dream tha turned into gightmare. In this ispa lesson for us. Nowadays we hear the cry for machines, machines and more machines—and some are sh@rtsighted enough to tell us that lack of them killed France. I don't believe it. For man must be master and not slave of¢the weapons he forges. Nations do not live by steel and oil and aluminum, and there can never be vigtories for a country when all its brave young men Bre dead.

4 Questions and Answers

(The Indignapolis Times Service Bureau will answer any question of fect or information, not involving sxtensive ree search, Write vour guestions clearly. sign name and address, inclose a thfee-cent nostage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannet be given, Address The Times Washington Service Bureau 1013, Phirteenty St. Washington D. C.) Q—How Joan minnows be kept alive on a fishing trip? A—Do not crowd minnows in the container if they are to be kgpt alive. If the container is not aerated, the water %hould be dipped up and poured back about 12 ties at frequent intervals. If live minnows are to be transported on a very warm day, or on a long trip, agid ice to the water to lower the temperature to abqut 55 degrees. At this temperature, there is less neey for frequent aeration. For best results, the water the minnow pail should be nearly the same temperature as that of the stream in which the minnoys are to be used.

Q—Should the motor of an electric refrigerat” ® run when the control is set to “Defrost” position? A—It ig possible that the defrosting control on some refrigerators is designed. so that, when the temperatufe of the evaporator or cooling coil rises above 32 degrees F. (which would occur when all the frost on # has melted, the compressor would be started to prevent the evaporator temperature from rising much higher. However, the motor should nef run, with the control set in the defrosting pesition, as long as there is an appreciable amount of une melted frost on the evaporator.

Q—whit is the nationality of the Andrews Sisters? |

A—They are Americans by birth, Their meotheg « °

came to this country from Norway and their father was bornyin Greece.

Q—Give a formula for a geod cleanser and pelish for metal. : A—A mixture ef five parts of orthedichlore benzene and one part of precipitated chalk (ealeium

carbonate) has been recommended as a cleanser and |

polish for metals. Cooking utensils polished with

.this mixture should be dipped into beiling water before using.