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Give Light and the People Will Pind Their own Way

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941

THE PRESIDENTS MOTHER

band in mourning for Abr: i Linceln. see her son.inaugurated three United States. Her long life, which spanned and influenced so much of American history, was filled with activity and eager interest. It must have been one of rare satisfaction. " “Gravious Lady” was the title of the authorized biography of Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, published in 1935. ‘The words were happily chosen and most accurately descriptive. She was a personage and a personality in her own good right, and though she became that unusual and con‘spicuous figure, the mother of a President, she remained always herself—gallant, dignified and serene. It has been debated whether in the President the Delano characteristics, which she transmitted, do not predominate even over the Roosevelt traits. Certainly her influence on his development and his career was immeasurably great, and from his youth she stood in place of father as well as mother to him. They were closer for many more | years than it is the happy privilege of most mothers and sons to Pe, and the loss he has suffered is very great.

Today, from the high and the humble in every part of

pathy flows toward the heavily burdened man who sorrows at Hyde Park.

SCHICKLGRUBER SAID IT

“Berlin freely admitted that Reich troops were on the defensive.”—News dispatch.

“MARK FERRER "Business Mabsget

WHICH makes us wonder whether perhaps Mr. Schicklgruber, the author, may not even at this moment be re-reading this, from Mein Kampf: . “The size of a people’s living area includes an > essential factor for the determination of. its outward © security. The greater the amount of room a people has at its disposal, the greater is also its natural pro- _ tection; because military victories over nations crowded in small territories have always been reached more quickly and more easily, especially more effectively and “more completely, than in the cases of States which are _ territorially greater in size. The size of the State {¢ « territory, therefore, gives a certain protection against ~ the frivolous attacks, as success may be gained only after long and severe fighting and, therefore, the risk of an impertinent surprise attack, except for quite un- .. usual reasons, will appear too great.”

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PUBLIC EMPLOYEES \ND UNIONS

GOOD job has been done by the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers—the organization of city at-

" war in the United States for

Fair Enough Jig Westbrook Pegler

Further Than He Does Hitler and He'll Just Keep an fue on Them

“question at me, right sudden, “What about Russia, then?” I. would have to’'go into a huddle with myself to unscramble the issue, but I think I sould Selivet. neverthelss. Of course that is a dumb, lumpy way of stating the question, but that is the way pepole do state it except that usually - they start it off with the word “yah.” Like this: “Yah what about Russia, then?” . Well, I think Adolf Hitler has

from the hour that he attacked | Stalin, because he certainly took the heat off our friends, the British, by so doing and some of the * heat off us, too, and recruited an

: - “ingly smart player for our teams, meaning Ivan, the faceless man from MOSCOW. Politically, I trust Ivan no further than I trust Hitler, but this is war, not politics, and the Russians certainly can’t be accused of engaging. in monkey business this time just to deceive us.” They. wouldn't

and I subscribe to the hope that : ‘to. “have been expressed by that British official, and seems to have raised’ so much hell among the British Communists and unioneers, that the Russians and the

+ Nazis will chew one another to tatters.

+ ® 8 T= future politics we just have. to leave to the future, but I insist that we ought to rgmingd ourselves every day that the Russians are no friends

team. They can’t quit our team now and thus for. once we hold the upper nd of them. If they throw us down they throw hemalves right into the sausages grinder and if the nuts and nobody can anticipate and plan against acts of a crazy country. } But meantime, at home, I think we ought to keep after the Communists and the fellow-travelers who lack the courage of their political convictions and. show them up as Martin Dies has been doing persistently all this time and throw them out of Gove ernment jobs and ride them out of private employ-

his own country and in lands around the globe, deepest sym- |. os "too. and out of dbniinant positions in the

unions. This brings me to the subject of Communists and fellow-travelers in the Government and the unions. I know the President has taken occasion a couple of times to denounce communism, but the Nazis and Fascists have never had anything like the numerical fepresentation and influence in our Government and the social and, for lack of | a more correct word, intellectual life of Washington that the Communists have had. | s 8 = O question about it, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Ickes certainly have a high tolerance for Communists and fellow-travelers and I am very sorry. -After Hitler attacked Stalin and Winston Churchill hopped on to the air with his quick salute and welcome to the Russians, in which he specifically rejected communism, our President

- made a similar distinction, but that was the last we

heard of it. Since then our Government has been more emphatically anti-Nazi than ever before, but our anti-communism is no more than just a stipulation in the record. You may be absolutely certain that our Kremlinites are crawling into the Administration in ever-greater numbers. I see no excuse for gratitude to the Communists who were knifing our country up to the hour of Hitler's war on Russia but thin dropped their opposition to American defense land their clamor. of capitalist imperialism and sfgrted yelling up the sia’s sake. We had ecked and confirmed

their number before, but we ¢

our 'Bundists and other Nazis, as enemies, if they are aliens, and as traitors if they are citizens, and treat them just as we treat he Nazis.

Editor’s Note: The views expres: ed by columnists in this newspaper are their own, They ire not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

‘Politically, He Trusts the Russians. No nt

! YORK, Sept. 8.—If anyone should snap the |

been our best friend in this war

enormously tough and surpris-

sacrifice all those men and all that territory and | military material just to ‘delude the fool Americans |

of anyone, even though they happen to be on our | :

do that they are just |.

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I NOV SENG PEFENDED AN INVADING ARMY OF CAPTURED RUSSIANS.

AND TE RUSSIANS MUST HAVE ‘CAPTURED

. If All the Claims Have: Been Correct

ERAN MACHIN

THAT ALL T IE RUSSIAN, TANKS ‘PLANES, ETC. MUST NOW

SO 0 MANY GERMANS AND

MAN SIDE. AND VICE VERSA.

BY GERMAN PRI

my own

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PRISONERS AGAINST

‘The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but:awill: defend to the death your right to say ¥.~Voltaire:

INFURIATED BY STAND

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OF LESTER GAYLOR BY Robert L. Kirby, 2822 N. Capitol Ave.

Why don't you change the name| of the Forum to the bundist column? Since it has become tae column of those who can call our beloved President a liar, etc. Gentlemen, I protest Lester Gaylor as being an unworthy citizen.

troversies

be signed.)

to express their views in these columns, religious conexcluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. ‘Letters must

throats; others cry that England is a greedy, grasping empire, deserving of nothing from us; others shout that we are all-powerful unto -ourselves. They are all ‘cdlled isolationists. The isolationists prevailed in France, and throwing allies to the winds, she surrounded herself

And if you think I am alone in this you are wrong. It was unworthy citizens like Gay-

knew and loved.

noteworthy service for the FBI |pe fair, Pat. I letter is not read -and contents

fense and aid noted. :

fense. 2 2 =

MR. MADDOX ANSWERS in the fire.

vasion, io fact things were so desTe some poor old women lor who destroyed the France we po believe Te they hear, were listening for the invaders every However your column is doing a|day and were badly worried. Now avor all necessary Don’t think, Mr. Gaylor, that your|measures for sfirong national deor England's de-

But we are getting too many irons Don't try to brand me

with steel and concrete. The isolationists prevailed in Austrid, in Poland, in Holland and Belgium. And the isolationists' prevailed in Britain as she: watched her potential allies| drop one by one into the lap of the Nazis. Full yourselves out of the past, isolationists! Quit fighting the wars of yesterday aad look in front of

it then, and I think we Nasi, to regard them, like |

One Way Out

torneys—in compiling an exhaustive report on the power of cities to enter into contracts with labor unions represent-

ing their employees and on the right of city employees to strike to enforce collective bargaining agreements. | report ‘has special significance in Indiana~and Indianapolis | at. this time, The unanimous finding of 385 city attorneys, representing cities throughout the United States, backed by a large number of opinions by state attorenys general and municipal law departments as well as by court decisions, is: That no city has ever signed a labor union contract similar to the agreements between private industry and {labor unions. That no city (except in a very limited way in the State

By Thomas L. Stok

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ASHINGTON, Sept. 8-+-Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D., Wyo.) ers a solution for the present distressing problem of depression in the midst of prosperity, with factories shutting down and people thrown out of work because there aren't enough strategic raw materials for both national defense and full civilian production. Tap the vast undeveloped mineral resources of the country, largely in the West, says the man who as head of the Temporary National Economic Committee explored the business and industrial mechanism of the country. The country, Senator O’Ma-

PAT HOGAN'S LETTER By Edward F. Maddox, 959 W. 28th St.

Why should a sensible American citizen, like Pat Hogan. be “alarmed” to read the truth once in a while? I haye merely been stating facts and exposing some of the deceitful propaganda being dished out to us. Pat, the truth is we" are both home-grown Americans, so don’t be alarmed. If you will leok through

you will find that I have consistently ‘asked that all alien isms be outlawed in this country. Does that alarm you? Of course not. Also I have always, and still advocate strong national defense. I was one of the first to suggest, in the Hoosier Forum, the building of a powerful mechanized army, a powerful modern air fleet, a twoocean navy and also the establishing of strategic outposts such as Iceland—all for the purpose of defense,

with isolationist heat nor try to herd me with mavericks. I am just!Y a plain American citizen, like yourself, who is all out for defense and all out against schemes to make cannon fodder of our boys in a mad crusade of “destruction.” There you are, Pat. Make the most of it.

2 8 a OUR QUARREL IS WITH

are enslaved by a state whose own nationals enjoy less freedom than the natives of India under the

British Empire, rope’s affair, that it is not our quar-

Jone who takes away liberty, who

you. The free men of a continent

You say it iS Eurel. I say our quarrel is with anyimposes slavery upon mankind,

SLAVERY, INSISTS ADAIR By Robin Adair, Indianapolis

The Times for the last several years,|

Mr. Clay seems determincd to put the responsibility for the American war declaration upon the shoulders of Wilson and Congress, a declaration, he says, made against the wishes of the people. He states that many who were opposed to war voted for Hughes. Did they, Mr. Clay, in the face of ‘Hughes’ campaign slogan, “Re-elect Wilson and continue to lick the Kaiser’s boots”? With such slogans Hughes narrowly

By H M. 8.

notoriety given it‘in his column. I would like to ask the writer if he attended the Living Magazine Cover

wherever it may be. Otherwise, our own Ireedom- becomes empty and meaningless.” . -

5 8 2 » ONE MORE OPINION ON THE sung RECT OF BINGO disnapolis I do not know. who writes the “Inside Indianapolis” column in your paper but whoever it is should

be real proud of the closing of “Bingo” at the State Fair through

and I mean defensc. But listen, Pat, I know, and you know that there is a great propa-

missed winning

the election. There is no doubt that the large vote

Show, where the girls, the barker spieled, wore only a hair ribbon and a smile. And I cannot help wonder-

honey said today, is inclined to get panicky and officials begin to move suddenly and in all directions, as, for example, in the hysteria over the so-called Eastern gasoline “shortage.” Some time ago he pointed to the idle railroad tank cars, now about to be used, and urged they be put into service, offering an amendment to the oil pipe-line bill for this purpose. “It was clear to me that it would be cheaper to use the tank cars, even at a higher rate per barrel of oil, than to build a huge pipe-line at great expense. We Save up. to panic and said there was no remedy. or “Now we are giving away to panic in regard -to small business and we say there is no remedy for it. That just isn’t true.”

of Washington) has a right to sign such a contract. That city employees have no right to strike to enforce | such contracts. rR That such contracts would be unlawful delegation of public power to unions, private organizations over which there is no public control; would deprive cities of control of their own employees; would, if they contain “closed-shop” provisions, be an unconstitutional discrimination between . citizens, because citizens not members of the union would . be deprived of equal opportunity to get public jobs; would substitute the test of union membership for the tests of ability, education, efficiency; would nullify civil service provisions; would be contrary to the declared public policy of the Federal, State and municipal governments. 2 2 2 # ” t J NOV. t to many citizens all this may seem so obvious as to oe require no elaborate report. It is merely a fuller decaration of the sound principle well stated by President Roosevelt on Aug. 16, 1937, in a letter to the National Federation of Federal Employees, congratulating it on its policy of no strikes against the Government: . _ “All Government employees should realize that the cess of collective bargaining, as usually understood, canbe transplanted into the public service. . . . Militant tac‘have no place in the functions of any organization of vernnient employees. . . . A strike of public employees anifests nothing less than an intent on their part to vent or obstruct the operations of government until their nands are satisfied. Such action . . . i$ unthinkable and tolerable.” - ' Still, this is an excellent time for the principle to be stated and thoroughly documented in the NIMLO. report. or, as the organization's director, Charles S. Rhyne, points the recent transportation strike in Detroit and the gtened strike in New York City’s transit system “have | ed public attention on public-employee unions and seems to be. nation-wide activity in this field on the and State as well as the local level. N inne

# 8 =n is idle, for example,” he says, “to talk ‘of a short-

- deposits .of untouched iron ore. Since pioneer days the people of Wyoming have known of Iron Mountain which, within 50 miles of the state capitol, is an actual tower of iron remaining undeveloped—ten millions of tons of it, * “In Utah there are great deposits of alunite, araw material out of which aluminum can be made. There are\hundreds of square miles of coal and petroleum stores in the West, as well as quantities of magnesite, antimony, lead, -gopper and many other essential minerals. “If we were developing these sources the great or- - ganizations concentrating on defense Sellend Ly could be, adequately supplied and there would be no need for smaller industries producing civilian goods to suspend. “Unless we take hold of this problem in a rational and calm manner, dealing with facts as they are, we shall not only invite disaster for small business, employees of small business and many communities that

complete domination of industry either by big business or big government,”

So They Soy— :

WHEN HOUSES ARE. B cluded, I do not ask if the

JLLD G OUR LEGS AGAIN. 00, MUCH ATTENTION 0 given to

age of steel, so long as the West has enormous |

depend upon small business, but we shall invite the | ot

ganda drive afoot to suddenly change our program of national defense and aid to England to a policy of foreign aggression for the invasion of Europe, and maybe Asia, by American armies for the “final destruction” of other nations. ,That is quite a horse of another ‘color, Pat. Not long ago, we were being harangued with dire /forebodings,

England, South America and even of the United States. And we Were

about the impending invasion, of}

sive stand against Germany.

ating under certain conditions.

warned that the British fleet was our first line of defense against in-

Side Glances=By Galbraith

polled by the Republican Party, the war party in that election, influenced profoundly the swing of Wilson and Congress to a more aggres-

No, my faith in the American form of Government cannot be shaken by the distortion of history on the part of those who would prove that form incapable of oper-

Clay, Maddox and the rest are of a common weal. Each buries his head in the sand, some crying budly that the people don’t want war, that they are being sold down the river

_|of Bingo. If “Inside Indianapolis”

|| while, let him bring to public at-

| who operated the Bingo game but

| clean Bingo.

ing its effect ‘on a great number who saw it. To my mind, a game of bingo, played openly for merchandise is all right and I would like to- know why it is banned in Marion County. But perhaps I do know, for I have a neighbor who has repeatedly asked me to attend bingo parties with her since I came here two years ago. One day she told me she won $75 the evening before, then $29 and so on. I asked her how much it cost to win the $75 and she replied about $3. I do not believe. in playing for money and I have played the same game at Riverside many times, only they call it another name instead

wants to accomplish'something worth

tention some of these Bingo gambling places. And I do not think the: fault lies with the gentleman

with the’ one who sold him the privilege of running it. It all brings] _ to mind an article in the paper not long since about a policeman who was stationed at a church where a Bingo party” was. ‘supposed ‘to be held. And he reported, “No- attempt. was made to play while he| was there.” ‘Would a burglar rob a store with a ‘cop Enough said. But I do like to play]

SEPTEMBER RADIO

IGen. Johnson

Says—

Henderson May Be Unduly Cocky, _ Opinionated ‘and New Dealist, But! He Knows His Stuff—And Is Loyal

ASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—~This piece is about Leoni Henderson. The subject should be of general interest, because, as price administrator, in an effort to direct control to prevent some of the more horrible aspects of nfayen, he has one of the heaviest re= A sponsibilities to protect every home in this nation that ever rested on American shoulders. As a principal member of SPAB, or the 1941 War Industries Board, he has a prime place in gearing up military production to a point of national security without ruining our basic business structure. The piece is written before reads ‘ing the promised disclosures ofl Chairman Dies of the House Come A mittee investigating “isms,” which Mr. Dies has said will expose Mr, Henderson ‘as “unfit” for his job because of his past and present associations and associates At first I thought I ought to waiteto hear this blast, and then it occurred to me that I have had iences with “Iieon the Hen” extending over many years. He isn’t predictable. I don’t know all that he has done. I don’t agree with him on many things. But I have seen both him and his associates at close range for a very long time, He served in my general staff organization of Army purchase and storage in 1918. I brought him inte NRA in an important position and served with him closely there and in an important civilian ‘assignment later, » ” 8 E may be opinionated, unduly cocky and extremely | New Dealish, but if there is anything the matter with his loyalty, patriotism and I will add, essential sountiness, I ought to know it. without waiting for "Mr. Dies’ blast and, furthermore, I ought to say what I think before that. I can’t and don’t know all his associates and asso= clations, but I do know that among the foremost of them, especially men like Johnny Hamm, are some of the ablest and best people I had in NRA, or that I saw in my Government service. I hold no particular brief for Leon Henderson— nor any particular brief against him. In fact I razzed him so much when he became pontifical on Senator O’Mahoney’s monopoly committee that he called up one of my editors and. threatened to beat me up or worse. But that was just an example of Mr, Henderson's occasional tangential skyrocketeering, He has a very low boiling point. Just the same, for his particular new job of watche ing over prices, I don’t know any man better fitted: by study and experience with the whole parade cf modern industry and economic trends. He saw it all pass.in review in the war, in NRA and again with Senator O'Mahoney. When that job was over, among many of these “industrial czar” jobs offers, with a whacking salary, that came to me and were declined, I wanted to suggest him for one. His answer was] “No Sir. In this uncharted sea of governmental sta= tistical services, there must be some way to get a conspectus of the whole picture. . I'm going to try . .get; it, even if I starve in the process. It is our greatest need. » That is what he has worked at for at least eight years. If he isn’t good he ought to be. ; : 2 8 8 » INALLY, I can’t agree with the angle of attacking, ‘on a side-issue, a man who has just been ape pointed to a position of such great responsibility—at least until he has had a chance to do his stuff. Leon, like Harry Hopkins, has been too cocky with Congress. | Wholly unnecessarily, he tried to horse wrangle Senator Tom Connally of Texas and that isn’t a healthful pastise. There isn’t a more co-operative legislator, if you go’ to. him with your troubles. There is no mustang

- harder to ride if you rowell him in the short ribs and

slap him with your hat. Mr. Henderson has some faults, and, as I believe, some very wrong theories about price control. This" column reserves the right to discuss them, but at this stage I must confess that I don’t know many (if any)

better choices for this job. :

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OYS and girls going back to high school and college this year depart in a soberer mood. ‘One can almost see the new attitude toward education sprouting—only ‘it isn’t new. It’s as old as the dawn of intelligence, which took form under the. fain§ uneasy s irring of a desire for knowled Having taken public hoo! for granted, today’s pupil now realizes it is something more. .In. -ordinary | times thousands r their way. through the semesters; they picked snap courses and thought of a dee gree as a collection of credity. = earned by serving time in classe: rooms. But these are not ordinary: times and, in the space of a sume. mer, education takes on a new meaning. It inspires respect. 80 has bes. come a right under democracy, something to be valued and cherished. Once more the teacher ig a symbol and going to school a privilege. - ~ If you catch a typical student in a serious moment, you will find him absorbed with metaphysical quese tions. Something is the matter with his world. His father and mother went to high school and college, too, but are they educated? Sometimes, if you have his confidence, he will put the question directly. » What kind of education is it that prompted men to distort and misuse scientific inventions and truths? How can learning have been diverted -to such evil purposes? What is the good of schools: if nothing better comes out of them than doctrines of acquisitive ness and aggression? Why is man committing racial, economic and spiritual - suicide? In seeking reasonable answers to these questions modern boys and girls fling out a new challenge to - their teachers, their parents and themselves. Whether they go to school or to training camp, the sound of body and mind are in quest of knowledge of some Sort. They are the pioneers-of a new era, and" they know it. May God give them the 'strength and wisdom to realize their Sesponsibilities “and their dreams. : 4

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