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captures on land and water, to raise and support armies . + « to provide and maintain a navy, to make rules for the Government and regulation of the land and naval forces.” —Constitution of the United States.

The President’s proposal for modification or repeal of

the Neutrality Law raises two issues. One is the preservation of Constitutional government by returning to Congress ~ the responsibility for decisions involving peace or war. We

are for that 100 per cent.

The other is whether Congress should give the go sign for further intervention. We hope Congress will prevent

the further

intervention at least until the United States

is adequately armed to fight Hitler and our Pacific defenses

are secure—unless this hemisphere should be attacked

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BUT regardless of whether Congress agrees or disagrees

¥ with the non-intervention hope of a large number of

* "Americans, it is far better for Congress to decide than to permit acts of war ‘by executive order.- In Congress is reposed not only the authority but the responsibility. If President Roosevelt, or any other President at any time, though he be the fount of all wisdom and patriotism, should put this nation into war without Congressional consent, this . would not be a democracy.

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Loss of faith by Americans themselves in the sanctity | of our Constitutional processes would be the result. If by

official by-passing, short-circuiting and subterfuge that faith should be destroyed we would have lost our democracy as France lost hers—with or without a Hitler to take over the corpse. For ours is a system of equal and co-ordinate powers—executive, legislative and judicial—running back to all the people. That systentis our foundation, seemingly go firm in the times of calm, but only really under the test in times of storm. \ : Only so long as our democracy is strong and functioning

as intended can we be united, despite the differences of the

; moment on any given question. United, we can arm and if necessary we can fight and fight victoriously. : President Roosevelt by announcing he will ask Congress to reconsider the Neutrality Law follows, in this matter, the Constitutional way. And the decision of Congress is binding on all of us,

VOLUNTARY WAGE CONTROL IF Congress will give him authority to fix the prices of about 100 basic commodities, Leon Henderson says, wages _ can be held in line by other methods. The other methods would include collective bargaining, conciliation and mediation, plus a “next step” about which Mr. Henderson seems most hopeful—namely, a system of

voluntary agreements between workers and employers to

hold off excessive wage increases. Well, see what has just happened to a voluntary agreement between the Seafarers International Union (A. F. of

L.) and certain ship owners.

It provided for arbitration

of controversies and specified that “there shall be no strikes, lockouts or stoppage of work during the life of this agreement.” Yet when a controversy arose the union refused to arbitrate, refused to wait for an attempt at settlement by the U. S. Maritime Commission, and struck. The dispute was apparently adjourned yesterday when the union workers voted to return to their ships. Yet for 11 days the strike tied up ships which, as

President Roosevelt pointed out, are essential in the service of American defense. If unions will not live up to agree-

ments for the sake of national safety, can they be depended

upon tp live up to agreements for the sake of maintaining

stability in the price-wage structure?

Unfortunately for labor and for the country, there is too much evidence that voluntary agreements don’t prevent unions from using short-cut methods to enforce their demands. Mr. Henderson's hopes do not, in our opinion, answer Bernard M. Baruch’s contention that a law which undertakes to control prices, but not to control wages and other costs which go inte prices, cannot work fairly and

effectively.

MR. NYE'S NEW LOGIC

: COUSTOMED as we are to eccentricities and inconsist- ~ *™ encies on the part of public men, we are nonetheless flab-

bergasted by Senator Nye.

Some days ago Mr. Nye made certain remarks about the movie industry which appeared to us, and to others, to be a calculated attempt to incite anti-Semitic feeling ‘against Hollywood. Along with Col. Lindbergh, who made a blanket indictment of the Jews as warmongers, he was quickly showered with criticism. Among those who denounced the invidious references to the Jews was Wendell |

Willkie.

Now comes Mr. Nye, neither bloody nor bowed, but full of pioussindignation. It is Mr. Willkie, he says, who is guilty

of raising the racial issue!

Here is something new in dialectics. Under the Nye formula, not he who utters a slander but he who challenges the slanderer is the culprit. It is a conception that has the merit of originality, but it could hardly be said to make

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Court * opinions are dull’ and- diffieylt reading matter, but these days "same of them droll away some of the very liberties for which it is proposed that this nation go to war against Hitler and, for that reason, should be pondered out. There have been shocking decisions from the United States Supreme Court in union cases, the

‘effect of which few Americans |.

will realize until ‘they discover,

through some attempt to exercise some obvious rights | as free cifizens, that they are not 2s. free as. they

think they are and used to he.

This court has granted to unions, purporting to | be voluntary associations of free men, rights which |

nullify the fundamental rights of other Americans. The court even holds that a union may exercise its coercive powers to ‘the detriment of the rights of

citizens in seeking a wrongful end

Order Employer to Join Union

A PERTINENT CASE was decided by the Supreme Court of the State of Washington 4 few weeks ago in which it was held that Mrs. Maggie O'Neil, a widow

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who has several adult children, and owns and oper- |

ates as a family enterprise two apartment houses in Seattle, must-either join the Building Service Employees’ Union, hire employees who do belong to the union, or submit to obviously false and harmful statements that she is unfair tp grganized labor. Mrs. O'Neil had refused to join this organization, which acquired a certain fame under the leadership of George Scalise, and was picketed, She asked for an injunction, which was denied, and carried her case to the Supreme Court of that State, which upheld the union, 5 to 4, with three opinions. : The affirmative opinion, which upheld the union, rejected Mrs. O’'Neil’s claim that the pickets necessarily intimidated her tenants. So aloof were the four learned men, who subscribed to this opinion, from the notorious realities of the dictatorship of Dave Beck, who rules Seattle as union boss, that they dismissed this claim as a mere conclusion of Mrs. O'Neil. But they then went on to say’ that even if this picketing did coerce Mrs. O'Neil that would not constitute “unlawful compulsion.”

Union 'Sole Judge' of Fairness

THESE JUDGES WENT to the United States Supreme Court for their authority to hold that a union has a right to convey “to the public and to persons especially interested, information that a certain business has been declared unfair.” The fact that the person was not unfair would not be considered. The union is to be the sole judge as to that. The right of this union to coerce Mrs. O'Neil by false representations that she was unfair to an organization with which she had no relations was recognized as an exercise of freedom of speech. Another judge delivered a single-handed assent in which he declared he had not arrived at this result by “any kind of intellectual process.” ally, agreed with the dissenting judges, but felt 8 compulsion to accept the guidance of the United States Supreme Court. “Therefore,” wrote this judge, “I can see no escape from the disagreeable duty of voting to affirm the judgment of the lower court.”

The Minority Expresses Itself

THE MINORITY RIPPED af the majority opinjon, recalling that in a previous case the same court had upheld a union’s rule which forbade an employer to perform any work in connection with his own business. Now, said the minority, the majority would go “a step farther” and grant & union the right to compel an employer to join its ranks. “Employing the logic used in the majority opin ion,” said the minority, “it follows that a labor union has a right to picket anyone, man or woman, who as proprietor performs any labor in connection with his own affairs unless such person abides by a rule directed against self-help. No longer would a man be allowed to mpw his own lawn or his wife to cook

the meals or wash the dishes. All that would have to

be done by someone else.” : : “If this state of affairs is the logical outcome of ‘freedom of speech,” wrote Judge Steinert for the minority, “I would rather have the United States Supreme Court so interpret the Constitution than to have a part in thus declaring the law. If that is to be the law, then I think we should have less speech and more freedom. I dissent.”

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SPOTS GOEBBELS’ MANNER IN NYE'S APPROACH By Ex-Gopher, Indianapolis

Years ago in Minnesota there was a surly lad with unruly blonde hair. He was always at odds with the

{other children. His chief character-

istic was a fixed habit of blaming his own bad-tempered deeds on others. In a speech in New York Gerald Nye with queer, twisted logic, copying Herr Goebbels’ best truthreversing manner, said that Wendell Willkie had dragged “into this war controversy that cheap, wholly un-American issue called antiSemitism,” and “there is not a shred of anti-Semitism in the mind and heart of Charles A. Lindbergh.” Well, well, true to form! How the pattern of the boy persists in the man! Fame and age only add echoes to the voice.

" ” 8 : 1 ATTACKS ‘WHAT-DO-WE-GET’ SCHOOL OF THOUGHT By Robin Adair, Indianapolis One of the chief worries of Mr. Clay and some others who insist on living in the past and refighting

finished wars is that they fail to see anything that we, the United States, got out of the World War. In the first place, there is little hope for world peace and brother-

- {hood when the primary concern of

THE ARMY HAD to make 200 tons of maps befare it could fight the mock warfaré maneuvers in Louisiana. . . » The President has appointed an advisory committee on musie, functioning through the Rockefeller office and the State Department, to promete cultural relations with the American republics. . . . Federal Security esti~mates 9900 plants werking on de1 fense orders will hire 272,000 new : workers hefore Jan. 1, half of them going into aircraft factories. . . . So many radioequipped planes are now flying around that Civil Aeronautics Authority has h to request private pilots to hold their chatter to a minimum, . , , Philadelphia WPA is making a national inventory of trucks, buses ang trailers, for the Army. . . , Largest U, S. Army hospital is at Fitzsimmons, near Denver, Colo., with 2250 beds. . . . Farm labor, as of Sept. 1, was estimated by Department of Agriculture at 11,017,000, lowest September figure in the 16 years that statistics have been compiled.

Fly Over German Lines

THE ABC POWERS ARE Argentina, Brazil and Chile. . . . But the ABCD powers are America, Britain,

China and Dutch East Indies, . . . Treasury's procurement division, which does most of the Government’s non-military and non-agricultural buying, is issuing a new handbaek for businessmen, “Doing Business With the Proeurement Division.” The book will tell how to get in on the competitive bidding for thousands of items from rubber bands to locomotives. . + . Trips of Government officials between Lenden and Moscow are flawn in American bombers, right over the German lines, at 30,000 feet, well above the range of the best German pursuit ships and interceptors. . . . A Bible class has been orpanized in the Department of Agriculture to meet after werk two days a week. , . . Midshipmen at Annapolis are learning to sing songs in Spanish so they oan serenade the natives while en cruises belew the Rie Grande. . , . “Bottleneck,” says U. 8, Maritime Commission Chair-

man Admiral Land, “is a term that should not be |

used except after 6 p. m, Baruch Puts It on Line

BERNARD M. BARUCH, testifying on price control matters before the House Committee on Banking and -Currency, proved to be just as salty and 2erpery as he was when he served as chairman of the War Industries Board back in 1917-19. Here are a few of his epigrams, , . . “Defense work of today is the work of tomorrow.” .. ., “No man ever understands anything till he suffers with it.” . , . “I wouldn't have Brother Henderson's job (referring to Leon Henderson, today’s price administrator). If I had it, I'd go jump off the end of a wharf with a couple of anchors tied to me.” . .. © wie Tinh urt everybody wise than anything they can ine.” . . . “You ple who have the ears of farmers and workers should tell them to limit their purchases and get out of debt.”

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So They Say—

It is a magnificent time of challenge and a wonderful thing to be alive today and faithful to the place that belongs to us.—Robert Erskine Ely, director-

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a . nation aver a war or treaty is “what can we get out of it.” It was this attitude, on the part of shortsighted, partisan Congressmen, that repudiated the League of Nations and relegated to failure the greatest step toward world peace in histery. Woodrow Wilson lived far eneugh ahead of his time te see that the best interests of any nation are served in subordinating that nation’s interests to those of the cammunity of nations. However, the “what can we get out of it” schoel of nationalists and isolationists .erushed his hopes as it. is attempting to destray those of Franklin Roosevelt. What did we get out of the World War? We were able to see the map of Europe remade with the fairest national divisions in history. We were able to see aggression aqutlawed and a concert of nations established, the finest in all time. We were able to see democracy extended further than ever before. But, I hear you say, what of all these things today? Democracies

tion on their life must be removed.

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have fallen, the League of Nations has failed, the map of Europe has been redrawn by aggression. Sadly enough, that is all quite true. Yet those things are what American boys died for. They were not deceived, because every one of the things they fought for came to pass immediately following the war. The blame for their later failure does not rest on Mr. Wilson any more than on those boys who died; the blame rests instead on that group of isolationists who repudigted the World Court and League of Nations, erected sky-high tariff barriers and who at every turn frustrated attempts at world co-operation and understanding. They are responsible for the world of headaches we have today. And we are in for many more headaches until we are able

into the misery and suffering of other nations; until we are willing to offer them a cup of cold water without first inquiring, “what will we get out of it.” + a =n 8 ‘BRING THE BOYS BACK HOME, HE PLEADS By Jack Hayes, 37386 N. Meridian st., Apt. 8

This is an early reminder to the Government of the United States

that draftees are to be sent home late this year. I fear that only through unceasing reminding of its promise will ‘the administration keep it. So many-ethers have been broken. : : It is ‘completely unfair ‘that American men should be deprived of their liberties so long. As’ well as pursuit of happiness in the form of loss of job and future security and unwanted departition from heme and family besides friends. There is no neecssity for the administration to continue this ruthless restriction of the inherent birthrights of Americans. The op-

Military experts have shown how

a good air force can keep any

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foreign power from our shores. The only excuse for keeping so huge a standing army is to prepare for war on foreign soil or to support a native tyrant. We want neither. Bring the boys back home.

8 8 8 WEST SIDE MOBS BLAMED TO JUVENILE COURT By J. F. §., Indianapolis.

I can tell Mr. J. L. Martin that it will do him no good to protest against the gangs of hoodlums who ream unmolested at any hour all over the West Side of town. It has been protested more than once, but correction is not in line with Judge Bradshaw's “molly-coddle” policy: in juvenile court, and all those unwashed savages know it. They are allowed to destroy and defile vacant property, trample flower beds and shrubbery, puncture automobile tires, break windows, dump garbage cans and curse the citizens when they protest. They will tell you to go ahead and call the police, that they will Just get out of it, which is true. We are taxed to maintain parks and playgrounds for them, they destroy these, too. These are not childish pranks, but vicious acts of gangsterism, fostered by the lack of any training at home. The parents are as trashy as their spawn and the nambypamby tactics of the juvenile court. So Mr. Martin, count your fishing license money lost, stay away from West Indianapolis, gang headquarters, read the figures on increase in juvenile crime in the: last two years, and you will realize you are one of many ignored taxpayers. 8 » 2 A PRO-LINDBERGH MAN SPEAKS HIS MIND By Harrison White, 230 E. Ohio St. Charles Lindbergh never sought glory, that is why most nations under the sun have glorified him; he speaks from the heart what he knows, and his critics speak what they think, Lindbergh said England is already defeated, and when one considers England declared war on Germany, and. now with her hands and feet tied, with millions of men under grms within twenty miles from the continent of Europe and don't even dare to try to land there to fight Germany, what do you think? ; . Lindbergh told England before she declared war that she was unprepared to fight Germany, and so England became unfriendly to Lindbergh: Suppese he had told them the opposite. It is my opinjon that it is impossible for England and the United States to help Soviet Russia. for us to send all that we have to Russia, there is not enough genious under Communism to even begin to use it against the ingenuity and Edividualism of the German soler. 2 Democratic Senator Byrd of Virginia has already said “This defense is a failure,” and I want to add to that, Franklin Roosevelt failed to govern this country when he permitted labor union strikes to coentinue in this defense emergency; 80 this New Deal War will be a

1 |failure. ‘Te be pushed inte this war

virtually bankrupt, it is my opinion Americanism is being sold down the river.

PAST AND PRESENT

I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; : I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now tis little joy To Jaow I'm farther off from

ven Than when I was a boy. - 3 —Thomas Hood (1798-1845).

DAILY THOUGHT ‘For the wages of sin is death:

but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.—

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\ WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.— There is a cloud on the horizon of some under-current diScussion in Washington, as yet perhaps “no higger than a man’s hand.” But it broke in the public prints recently in one of the philosophical discussions of Mr. Walter Lippe mann to some such effect as this; “Isn’t it time to reconsider whether we need a ‘mass’ army ma i and didn’t-we make a mistake in : the panic following the French collapse in assuming that we need to equip and train a large land force?” The general argument, as I understand it (not Mr, Lippmann’s alone) was that when we decided to rearm there was danger of the British Navy being wiped out and of Japan seriously threatening us in the Pacific. Therefore we plunged to conscription and the création of a modern army of 1,500,000 men to defend our shores and against any attack on this hemisphere. Now that these dangers have passed, isn't it time to whittle down our army plans?

We're Still Far Behind

AS FAR AS THIS column is concerned, it never did believe in any danger of the elimination of the British fleet nor any Japanese naval combination threatening our shores in the Pacific. Above all, it has constantly argued that the threat of any great modern overseas land expeditionary force to the shores of the Americas was ridiculously absurd—with one qualification, that we promptly train a reasonahle modern army sufficiently equipped to prevent a sudden incursion with such superior armored and armed equipment and training as to make mere numbers of bow-and-arrow troops of no avail. : : . The great rich and powerful empires of Mexico and Peru were taken by Cortez and Pizarro with a few platoons of Spaniards and the disparity between the equipment they used and the arrows, obsician axes and cotton armor of the Incas and Aztecs was scarcely greater than that between Hitler's panzer troops and our anciert equipment. At the beginning of our land armament effort, we were too far behind Nazi military developments to see them with a telescope. We are still nearly as far behind although progress is accelerating. :

“This Is No Time to Cut Down

GETTING INTO A “position in readiness” for whatever may happen is no slight task. It takes interminable training and education with modern arms and we not yet have the arms to do the training, Any kind of safe and decent establishment requires reserves of at least partially trained troops and we are only now and very slowly beginning to build up those reserves. 3 Furthermore, we don’t know in what direction our land forces must be used. Already by undertaking a tremendous expansion of far-flung outposts from the Philippines to Iceland we have imposed demands on our army that require multiplication of its mane power. It is a hell of a time to talk about cutting it down,

Let's Not Forget Home Front

ONE DOESN'T NEED to speculate very long or burn much midnight oil to discover what is behind this suggestion. It is a hope that greater and greater proportions of our increasing stream of military production may be diverted from our own land defenses and delivered to Britain and especially to Russia— on our own safety—come what may. : We ought not to do that. This is a world of excursions and alarms. Nations fight on one side today and on another tomorrow. Civilization abroad has degenerated into barbarism and banditry. wr Prudent aid in our own best interest is one thing. Stripping ourselves of a sufficient modern defense against anything that may happen is quite another thing, especially as we may be indirectly arming future potential enemies. Let's do the best we can on all fronts but let's not forget the home front. It is our first and greatest responsibility. ; :

- + Editor's Nofe: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own, They are mot mtecessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

A Woman's Viewpoint ‘By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A WASHINGTON READER who neglected to sign his name makes the day lurid with the following message: “1 think yeur article this evening is even more idiotic than usual. Will women never have the least appreciation of themselves and their own miseries and stop bemoaning war? 2s “So you think women seem. ineffectual in this struggle! What . about the tens of thousands who die bearing these whining young men who fuss even about going te camp? Many more wemen die in childbirth than men in war. Take any 10-year period and get the comparative figures.. Why don’t you, as a public woman, attack some of the problems of your ewn sex and stop sniffing around men’s problems. They can handle their own. : “Put up the idea that physical examination be required of girls before marriage so that these who are doomed to die of childbirth will knew beforehand, Life is sweet to all, even to women. = “Man must pass physical examingtions before bee ing accepted for war. Den’t try to wear pants. Fight for your own sex. It will give you a vast field, hardly touched, and keep you from chewing over and over the subjects, such as war, which are better left to men.” Ps

We Can't Divide Interests

MY EARS ARE hecomingly drooped, but as I. cogitate this advice there seems a large hitch in a . splendid program aqutlined for me by this friendly gentleman. From the standpoint of commen sense as well as common life experience, we cannot separate social problems according te sex. Childbirth and war offer apt examples. Women bear children—men. fight wars. Nevertheless, if men had not taken an interest long ago in the death rate from childbirth, many more millions of women and | children would have perished. Down the slow ages scientists and doctors, nearly all males, have worked assiduously to prevent such deaths. And they have made remarkable progress. Therefore, childbirth has been man’s business for a long time and in more ways than one, singe boys as well as girls are destroyed in the process. By the same reasoning, war is woman's business. We would be dolt and fools to think otherwise when it deals out mental torture, poverty, disease and death te all, Let's have done with the stupid notion that what affects one sex does not necessarily affect the other, We can't divide their interests, big or little, and 1 can't understand why we should wish to.

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Q—Is “worsen” a proper word? A-Yes; it means “to make worse.” 2 Q—When was the battle between the Graf Spee and several British ships off Montevideo harbor? A—The Graf Spee was attacked by the Exeter, Ajax and Achilles, Dec. 13, 1939. v5 : Q—How long after decapitation will a tortoise be The nervous system in ll reptiles ia Wow 40 "A nervous : 0