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WE : urge 4 whterned, fleaning everybody in. this coun- * Ut. 16 dust off that velume of the encyclopedia which ‘eontains the Ks, and réad up on the Know Nothings and ‘the Ku-Kiux Klan. And then, that we all ask ourselves— id6 we want to make that same ghastly mistake again? It can be repeated, easily. Unless we set ourselves and fuatd against it-applying constant vigilance—we will once Moré be running thé high and dangerous fever which ac- ' dompanies an orgy of racial intolerance. Such 4n orgy, on the social side, can be rivaled only by inflation, 4 comparable delirium, on the economic side. “The two happéning together could combine to blow up this doutitry of ours—and at 4 time when more than ever we ded utity of purpose at home to ward off peril from abroad.

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: Kxow NOTHINGS and Ku Kluxérs thrive only in times ~ & of strain. Théy aré the by-products of war and trouble. ‘They finally come to full flower in séérécy and haté. They “flourish on issues which dre riot éven visible in days of éAlM-=racial isdues, religious issues, native-versus-alien * iddties. . They rifi their courses like wildfire and then die down 48 suddenly, with an afterglow of shame for all concerned. _ Thesfirst Ku Klux was the harvest of the Civil War era. . That béifig somewhat ancient history to us today, we can béit visualize the dangers by recdlling what happened in our own generation—the blind fury of the Klan in the early Twenties; the nightshirts and the masks, the flaming crosses and the Kléaglés, the Simmonsés and the E. Y. Clarkes, thé Hiram Evangés and the D. C. Stephénsons, the “tarrings and the featherings at night, the politicians cowerifi§ before the dragons by day, the bribery and corruption, All in thé name of “puré Americanism,” thé “fatherhood of God. and brotherhood of man.”

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HAT awful thing is close t6 us oneé more. In the last féw ddys it has béén draggéd ott by two who, whether they filly redlizé or n6t, have béén playing with dynamite Charles A. Lindbérgn and Gérald P. Nye. . "Others have joined in, and still thers, opposed, have takén up the fight. It follows that all that rémdaing necesary is to huil this TNT back 4nd forth for a short while «and we wil have thé explosion. AWe sondémn Lindbergh and Nye for dragging out this "racial issue, and—we repeat—urgé that ll the rest of us réfresh our mémories as to what such an issu meéans when it redlly becomes hot. Lét’s all get out the sand and thé shovels and smother thié incendiary before it bursts fully into flame,

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GIVE ‘EM THE TOOLS THE fiew Lend-Lease figure is $5,985,000,000. Among the astronomical appropriations to whith we aré beeoming ,acéustomed, it looks like a bargain figuré-—“marked down from six billion.” Yet it is still quite & lot of money. It is more, for instance, than thé newest and heaviest of all tax bills will raisé in the next two fiséal years. However, if we weéré in Congress we would vote for it. We didn’t like the original Lend-Lease idea. We suggested it would be far better to get something tangible for our monéey—Britain’s Western Hemisphere possessions, for in_Mtancs. But our substitite proposal was turned down.

The Lend-Lease policy was formally approved: by Confréss. It thereby became national policy. As 4 nation, we pledged ourselves to furnish the tools. Britain's part of the contract was to “finish the job” We must make good ‘on our part.

Orice you take chips in a poker game and start hiking |.

the ante, yoil can’t afford to get caught bluffing. In his We must all stand behind the President.

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SOME SOLDIERS LOSE VOTE THE UNITED STATES opératés on the theody of a eiti261 army. Evér dince the Minute Mén dropped their scythes in the fields and rushed off to Concord with their long rifles, and came home eight years later to resume

civilian life, we have assumed fist otir soldiers are still primarily citizéns.

A half-dozén state legislatures modified their statutes pvr g soldier Voting this yedr, thé Council of State erfiments réports. But there are still seven states which entirely lack any legal provision for the votes of their soldiers. i AS all regulations of the uffrage are state regulations, any ‘soldiers who feel deprived of their rights must look to their State capitols rathér than to Washington. Surely if military service bécomeés a more or less permanent institution, it will be necessary to survey carefully these regia. tions, lest | in gaining-an army we lose citizens. -

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precnaLY what lay behind Apa more sobér second thought in allowing American Supply ships to go through to Vladivostok without molestation, we may not: know, The decision seems to have been made before the Presidént announced his “shoot first” orders. : The Russian air-borne mission to the United States 7 have had something to do with it. In 1937 a singleof Russian plane flew nonstop from Moscow to the od ‘States, and now, four years later, regilar air traffic

. Alaska and Siberia would be extremely easy to set |

In fact, any one of three or four perfectly feasible plane

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

whipped up a batch of i fof pla over thé. *Y : = ad he calls = and criticism | lous’ timé and I I have felt some bother,

, Ray Clapper, say that too,

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Bat When 1 get 16 thinking shout this -dangerotis , this invisible empire of; {rrésponss whieh Presidént Roosevelt has sét up in our try, and I find that I am more afraid of that Fv as and Stalif. T know thé. President is 0 oifiicin and I have been told by one of his e important appointees that it is absolutely impossiblé for a leader to make open: a, at 2. mistake, lest he lose the confidence. of the coun and cdtise worsé harm théreby than by hig orgind]

Error. But this man d, and 1é 18 one of the Pre t's trus-Detiéving, id. ne mén, that the political to get results is to keep ering ‘with facts, hv | drousing an organized ition or comipélling thé Président, Himself, Lvéntuslly to pretend that this danger is a néw develop int to take the responsibility and crédit 4 téform.

New Dealers ade Too

thinks exactly a8 I do about the chardcter of the leadérship our unions and sees éye-to-éyé with mé the dangér of uncontrolled surprise you to léarn that & lot of New Deéslers privately Yrola the samé views. * : j& of thé wiser and more practical and patriotic tinionéérs also wish someone would také some of their powér away froth them, becduse they realize that power unaccompanied by responsibility 1s dangerous to dll concernéd. But they won't say - publicly, because they simply lack the courdgé and citizenship to face the inevitable storm of epithets and lies from the union fakers and thé Communists in the New Deal. Now there is another subject that scdres me someétimes, Communists in thé Néw Deal. When I accuse the New Deal of harboring Communists 4nd permitting these evil traitors to hdrrass Americans and undermine our form of Govérhment I am afraid I am alienating some of our people from our él leadership. But, damn it, it is true dnd it 18 wrong and it shouldn’t be.

Just Keep on Plugging Away

SO THE ONLY WAY to get results is to criticize and prove up, thus forcing the Admifiistration to take action, or arousing an organizéd opposition which will toss the nt out and institute

reforms.

shake the people's confidence in théir government at a time when every heart and mind should bé united against foreign perils. 1 know quite a few young Ameéricans who aré under arms or will be under arms &66xt and facing a war and I just can’t see myself at their age making such sacrifices to the énd that, éven if our sidé wins, we then settle down to a life under a lot of American brown shirt gangs not much different from Hitler's and cetrainly no more desirable “Just because we call them pickets or goons.

Sacrifices, Yes<=But For What?

FOR THAT MATTER, all of us are going to mike great sacrifices and I, tor one, ani resigned to a belief that in the end I will have lost évery material thing that I havé worked for and acquired henéstly:

.sinecé 1 was 15 yéars. old. My: neighbors and you and

your neighbors face this sacrifice and whéther wé

know that the reward will be something béttér than Hitlerism or communism, bétween which there is no choice, in our own country. So, in clouting away at the. brown shirts of the unions and the Communists both in uniéhs and in

the Government, I may be impairing the people’s

faith in treir President, but all he has to do to shut me up is to give Congress permission to curtail thé power of the brown shirts and throw ott the Communists. The brown shirts—ruled, in many cases that I have proved, by common underworld criminals— and the Communists are my principal obsession. 1 have no enthusiasm to sacrifice for the privilege of béing ruled by thém and I am suré most real American families feel the same way. .

Italy « on n ‘The Spot’

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 Thére is increasing talk héré of an Allied invasion 6f It&ly this winter to deprive Hitler of oné of | I his unwilling vassais. Should Germany insist upon part of thé Italian fleet being sent into the Black Sea from thé Medi- _ terranean, Italy's péril would be great. . Her entire southern COAst would -bé wide opén to Bombardmeént=—and possibly invasion—as would Sicily and Sérdinid. Reports

longer practicable for Britain's Meditérranéan fleet, 1t§ narrow channél is seldom free of the hulks of sunken ships. Even were it othérwiseé, the hundrédmile ditch’ Between Port Said and Suez would bé & death-trap for the fleet under the fire of Stukas. 'A& matters stand, the Italian havy has Peen dans gerously’ weakened sinkings. - If its strength further reduced, thé Btitish may be expected to take advantage. of the ‘opportunity thus presented,

Swarming With Nazis

AWARE OF THIS, Premier Mussolini is said to be dead set against any such Axis move, 1f he nas his

But I1 Duce may not have his way. Weéll-posted Americans recently returned from Italy aré unanimous

Mussolini is merély Hitler's proconsul ther In the past yéar Italy has ery Nazis—Nazi officers; Nasi soldiers : Nazi Dalitiesl organisers and the N ig sian éverybody 18 fed up with them. Mussolitil, it is said, tetains his populatity at home, where he i§ regarded somewhat as a vietim of oir

viously, However, his fallibility has 10st him prestige. -Sholld her fleet, or any considerable part of 1 move into the Black Sea, therefore, it would proba iy al for an all-6ut blow against Italy.

navy remained in thé Meditérrans

or.ofi the mainland—and bomb and Vembard the rificipal ports and cities, Estab the Axis on the ‘con a b up néw vistas for the Allies,

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power. and it may.

But such criticism and proof inéscapably must |

make it cheerfully or grudgingly we have a right to

have reached Washington that the Sues Oanal i$ fi6-

way, not a ship will pass the Darasnélles—even if | Turkey weré to throw the famous straits wide open. |

that Italy is now just another Nagi polars and that | rwarined ish

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

LIKENS WILLKIE'S CRY TO THAT OF NAZIS By L. L. Pation; Crawfordéville Mf. Willkie has brosdcast to the nation at large that if the 10 per cent minority who want to outs shout the 90 per cent majority and “storm-troop” us inte war with “blitekrieg” propaganda, cannot succeed—then detnocracy does not deseéfvé to survive. Wasn't that the shiout of thé Nd#i minority in Germany? And wasn't it the shout of the Bolshevik minority in Russia? Mf. Willkié has disclosed how des- | pérate our war group has become. on your guard Americans! 8's » DEFENDING MEITZLER AND HIS POINT OF VIEW By Veles In the Crowd, Indisnapolis Now Mr. Taylor you can do better than yours of the 15th. It doesn’t mean anything and it does not settle anything to:“blow up” and ac-

pen” or bringing your ¥. B. I. suggestion into your létter. No dotibt thé P. B. 1. looks over thé reader's columns and it would not be hard for them to gét Meitzler’s point of view, What Mr. Meitzler is worried apout and writes about is some-

| thing that also worries the F. B. I.

and the Roosevelt administration and is of interest to évery Amerjean citizen who wants to see our basie rights préserved. It Has Always been and should always rémain to be an American’s right t6 work and to provide for hifisélf and his dependents withSut b iMbte otf allegiance to anyone ésirés to work as an independent. This right is 2 least &qual fo 4 man’s right to join & union or 4 church 6f his choice, Fhish rights the courts réadily up-

Afiyonie who reads knows that the “right to work” has suffered considerable abusé in the past few years and not only Méitzler but many good American citizéns are worried about it, and one of the worriéd ones is Mr. Roosevelt. The right to work is being challéngéd by some unions and it will be ey bad for the union move-

cuse Meéitaler of having & “péison i

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ment if thé rights of independent labor are lost, If their rights ate lost M1 of our rights can be lost al80, the right to organize, the right to assemble, free speech, freedom to worship as we choose, ete., could easily follow and in that order. It has happened elsewhere, The issue may be settled at Kearny. So far as union leaders are concértied, there aré some very good

‘|onés and some very bad ones. There are some that aré éxperieficed and

well balanced and some new oties who are. not expériencéd that are niet doing their unions any good. And then dgain Westbrook Pegler as poifited out some crooked ones, arently without a single libel i: t or succéssful contradiction, He|. has greatly helped the rank and file by helping to put a few crooked leaders out of circulation. 8 8 8 TERMS HATERS OF FDR TRAITORS IN EFFECT By Hatvey N. Miller, Columbus It is particularly gratifying to nioté that thé Indiana Division of the C. I. O. ¢ame out unequivocably for all-out aid to Britain, and the American defense program—which dré oné and the same thing—although, many of our Congréssmen have this to learn, and will, later on; do some fancy sidé-stepping and tight-about-face backif ing up! The America-First (if hot Hitler last-and-all-the-timeé) will als6 bé looking for some greénér pasturés, and Will 806n become very patriotic, Raguasine vociférotis Americans! those who are prone to harpoor thé Administration—who were elected by a majority of the Amer-

i6an voters, anid are charged with

thé duty and the heéavy responsivility of handling our affairs for us —8hould first look into a mirror and sée what looks out at them! Then, they shotild ask the funny=face they are béholdifig, just what it has ever amounted to, and if they ever expect to become president of this

gréat country of outs! Then they

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i Side Siesausty Galbraith

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should tell that man in the mirror, that Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the President of the United States of America—and is therefore more than they can ever hope to be! This formula, faithfully followed up, will tdke the conceit and ego-

|tism out of the smart-alecs, who

are cavorting around over the ‘cotintry, stirring up little stinks—dnd claiming to be saving America! Obstructing the will of the people is undemocratic and un-American; regardless of what fancy coghomen he may adopt—and nothing has ever been built. by “constructive criticism” hashed up by the hand of destruction, or, cooked by the flame of hatred! Anyone who hates the President of the United States can scarcely measure up to thé standard of American citizenship—and probably loves some foreign dictator—since, surely, no man hates all the time! No, I did not support Roosevelt in the last two presidential elections —if you want to know.

® 8 = THE LAST WORD BEFORE FREE SPEECH GOES ‘PLUNK’

By G. T. Fleiiing-Roberts, 6187 N. Meri-

Bers freedom of speech goes ifito the ash tan with the rest; may I gét in my two cétits worth? We, thé -people, are prize saps. We'd fight and die for our capitalistic democracy, currently known as

“The American Way of Life,” and yet we Fepediadly elect an Administration which by its acts deliberately has gone about the destruction of capitalism and free enterprise. We repeatedly elect to the Board of Directors of the United States, Ine, men who couldn’ keep a hot dawg out of the red. We know darned well we can’t survive under & Nazi economic system, yet we shut our eyes to the fact that deficit spending and borrowing as practiced by our Administration is the basis of thé Nazi économie system. We hold an éléction, pair off into two political camps, the respective leaders ‘of which both swear not to lead us intb war. Wha both these leaders ‘ repudiate their promises after election, wé spetid a lot of time calling the leader of the German people a liar, We know that Chita, Greece, Russia, Turkey dnd a large part of our South American neighbors haye totalitarian governments, but we think we should bankiupt ourselves 0 see that they are defended

totalita e ought to lick Japan, because sor just about thé one country that doesn’t ask us for monéy, has fievet doné us any harm, and has been one of otir best ctistomers. We don’t want to go to war and

Lindbergh practices néutraity by refusing to take sides either Germany orf Great ne somebody . ought to shiit that guy up. He’s a Nazi! We all hate “wah,” even Papa

|Roosevelt. But if Papa says we got 3 - So: why we got to shoot. Be-

Papa knows what's best for Hels proved that by the way

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Ther NT 10 complaint 0. about = “Rér burdé; taxes for tefénse. “Péar fou equally on various income: Classes

because of the healthy. {Princinte :

. -of “ability to pay: but ‘they bear wi

rot, but it: has operated with

common sénge and remarkable Cnpastial .. ‘That also 1s Shaugh for the American insistence oft fair

play. _ Most af the’ taxes bear on income and, 0 ‘4 mfioré than the defense effort "has nibs They to not take property or life-sav--ve | people of their means of eathing a

8. Cotiscription demands the sternest; saetitioe: thab a

man may be called upon. to make in the service of | his: countty—the devotion of his life during his - gérvice and the possible fisk of his déath, But this is - an ineseapablé obligation of every citizén, a universal

obligation without which the life of this or any other nation would not be possible. That also seems to be either understood or instinctively felt and accépted by most of our people.

YCertainly No Equality Here"

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BUT WHAT ARE WE going to say about an

- application too ruthless, unstudied and headlong of

some of the acknowledged and necessary principles of industrial mobilization for modern war—priorities without regard to establish civilian service, émployment, business, and property? ; The recent meeting and organization of “little” business men to protest against economic extérmine ation through failure to get supplies and inability them is an examplé of what is meant here, to get defense orders or to adopt their facilities to Unlike taxation or military service, there is certainly no equality of bearing of this burden and sacrifice, It is putely haphazard. ‘Recent announcements of SPAB (the 1941 War Industries Board) make it cléar hat what has been doné was without any comprehensive survey of either the total available supply or the irreducible needs all along the line and until very recently without much recogni. tion or any consideration of this aspect of the problem and also without any attempt by conservation or any othér proved World-Wér-I methods to parry or soften the blow. The only answer I have ever heard: to these criticisms is: “It’s the hazard of war. They happened to be in the wrong place when the bomb. fell,”

It Used to be a Good Argument

- THAT USED TO BE a pretty good argument bee fore the advent of modern war and the German concept of “the nation in arms” which means that ‘everybody, civilians and soldiers alike, is enlisted and in the line of fire. For example, it has long been: both British and American legal doctrine that if a battle happens to be fought on my farm to its practical destruction, that is just my hard luck and no compensation is coming. It wasn’t French doctrine in 1918. We paid compensation even for the damage due to shelling a forest

occupied by German troops. The French Giovernment

helped restore damaged factories in the occupied zone. If newspaper reporters are correct, thé British government is giving some aid to owners of. property destroyed by air raids. Two things ought to be done about this. First, the greatest possible effort should be made in applying necessary defense controls to do the least possible damage to the American business system. We're going to need it later. Our object is not only to fight and

win, but to survive any war. Second, if some péople °

must be forced into bankruptcy and destruction .of their means of living there should be some means by which all of us should share in the war—sacrifice by compensation to them and taxation on the rest of us.

fditor’s Note: The views éxpresséd by columnists in this

newspapér aie their own. They are fot necessatily those

of THe indiandpelis Times.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE HOSTESS AT Ft. Dix has spilled the beans — figuratively Speaking, of course. It Seems the ladies of a literary clitb at Bound Brook, N. J., wanted to help with national defense, so they’ collected a trick load of furniture donated by hein and their friends, and shipped it off to camp. The host= ess wis snippy about the gift and officials showed no gratitude for the generous gesture. This incident proves that wome én otight to think before they act, even when they're doing something for Uncle Sam. We are easily bee trayed by our good intentions because, moved by Etio. tion, we forget the rules of common Sense. At the moment women seem pathetic from whats ever angle you look at them: They Séé mén cata pulted into new experiences and néw occupations, Bandé play and drums sound, Old routinés ate wrecked; something portentous is astir; they long to bécomé a vital part of it. And sometinies their longing takes strange forms. We observe thém dashing out to tackle new and untried tasks. They desire to participate ih eévety war effort, although their ambition doés them eérédit, the results are often estionetie, ag the Camp episode proves. :

War Is a Man's Game

WRITING FROM ENGLAND, Raymon a. Clapper warns American women not to follow the Beiteh phate tern in their own defense positions. Over there, women are in the war; here, we are as yet only preparing for it: When we step too far from our ancient. role we may get in the way and So do more harm than

wete Selomly fiéutral, but when a| good.

One method of taking ail this on the chin is for us to realize that ours will always be a minor tary role. War is man’s game. It has ever heen; it will ever be. The best assistance we can offer is to do well those jobs which are suited to our dispositions and abilities. And make no mistake about it, such Jobs: are plentiful. The effective way to hinder défense is for: {ibe women of the United States, to leave theitrown work half done in order to hein the men do thelfs, If the time ever comes when doing. the men’s work = necéssary, we can be suré women will respond to the need. But at present 4 little more: “Home Business as Usual” is in order. The people who really get things done: age their tasks without fuss ne —.e ott bidding for personal of organization Duvlieyy,

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