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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941

“BUT DON'T CALL ME BROTHER”

RESIDENT ROOSEVELT advises that we all read Article 124 of the Soviet Constitution. It says: “In order to insure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U S. R. is separated from the state, and ‘the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of anti-religious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.” : Yes, the Soviet Constitution tells the Russian people they are free to worship. But it isn’t healthy to get caught in the act. If they are churchgoers they can’t become Com‘munist Party members—and can’t get any of the responsible or lucrative jobs, or enjoy any of the privileges and perquisites of the Communist elect. "The Russian people are fighting to save their necks— which is a sufficient reason. The Communist regime never

has been and never will be interested in any of the four

freedoms. ; : "A majority of Americans support our Government's policy of providing material war aid to Russia because we want to help beat Hitler and make our necks more secure —which is a sufficient reason. : Let’s not pretend that there is anything sweet-smelling about the commies. Give them guns, tanks, planes—but keep on saying: : “Don’t call me brother.”

EXPANDING SOCIAL SECURITY

THE scope and nature of the President’s plan for enlarging the social security program will not.be known until his message goes to Congress, sometime soon, Pending that, however, it is apparent that the Administration has three principal objectives in mind: 1, Vastly increasing the number of participants in both old-age and unemployment insurance. 2. Draining off excess purchasing power. 3. Giving the Government an added source of noninflationary credit to help finance defense. The first objective—the admission of such groups as domestics and farm hands to- the protections of social security—is eminently desirable, if it can be shown that the task of administration would not be too complex and costly. * : As to the second, admittedly the rising national income combined with a shrinkage of things available for purchase is forcing up prices and pointing toward inflation. To pipe

~ off a part of that national income would be counter-infla-

tionary. ; ® 8 8 * 2 8 # ©O to the third point, it is difficult to express an opinion in advance of the President's message. If the increased social security “take” is to come entirely from the added participants, at existing rates, then there is nothing to quarrel about. But if it is proposed that these rates be jacked up, out of proportion to what is necessary to maintain normal reserve accounts, that will be something else again. ' That will be, in effect, a proposal for a special new tax on payrolls and pay envelopes—Ilevied for defense purposes but in

the name of social security. A straight defense tax, unre-

lated to the social security setup, would be far preferable. Or, a system of compulsory savings could be applied. This; like a defense tax, would curb purchasing power and give the Government a new supply of non-inflationary credit, but without subjecting social security to an illogical and

disingenuous distortion. >,

WHERE YOUR TAX MONEY GOES

you are married and have an income of $1600," your Federal income tax next March 15 will be about $5. That’s enough to buy one steel helmet for one enlisted marine. And if you could be sure your $5 would be used for that purpose, you might get some satisfaction in knowing that you were contributing something to defense. ~ But your Government sometimes spends money for items that have nothing to do with defense. For instance, quoting at random from the Procurement Division’s General Schedule of Supplies: “Smoking stands . . . Specifications No. 348; light bronze, dark bronze, ebony and mahogany . .. full-rocking, type I; estimated shipping weight, 17 pounds: (a) delivered to departments Washington, D. C. «ww. price $6.90 each.” : Your $5 would not be enough to pay for a smoking - stand, “full-rocking, type 1.” But further down the list is another smoking stand, weighing 8 pounds, classified as “semi-rocking, type II,” which the Government purchases for $4.05. So, after all maybe your tax payment will be enough to buy a gadget for a bureaucrat’s office—with a little left over. But if you have to do without a pair of shoes to pay that tax, you might wish that said bureaucrat would

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=a: no Fue THE “AMERICAN DIVISION” PROBABLY few Americans realize how many of their fellow citizens have been slipping over the border to

Canada to enlist for service against Hitler. One hears now and then from Europe about how Spaniards and French-

men are volunteering to serve the German Fuehrer, but

little is being: said about American volunteers except in England. . . . hs : Yet a recent Canadian dispatch estimates at 8000 the number of American citizens in the Canadian army, while 10 per cent of the Royal Canadian Air Force crews are believed to be Americans. Together they would probably be equivalent to a full division. i These men are on their own. No conceivable pressure

has been put on them except that which came from’ within |

- themselves. They are a living testimony that freedom also

[4 Enough ;

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Oct. 2—The recommendation that Harry Bridges be deported may momentarily cheer the.American people of the West Coast, who have suffered under the rule of this anti-American conspirator, but the United States Government, with its: national socialist tendencies and its communistic sympathies, will never deport the man except for unforeE seen political reasons. eT This is a strictly political case in which the law will be served or frustrated according to the convenience of the New Deal which is now coming to be .called a new order by some of its bolder advocates. The first process, by which it was ostensibly undertaken to prove that Bridges was a Communist, was such a cynical farce that it deceived nobody and defeated its own purpose, but the same cynicism still prevails and a mere recommendation that Bridges be deported is not final. It may be remembered that back in the Presidential campaign of 1940 within a week before the people went to the polls, Robert Jackson, then Attorney General of the United States and since then elevated to the Supreme Court, issud a political order of deportation against the wife of Earl Browder, the chief of the Muscovite conspiracy in the.U. S. A. Browder had been sent to prison for obtaining a passport under an alias and his wife, for good legal reasons, was found to be deportable.

'We Became Almost Respectable’

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT from the Department of Justice, which has taken over the immigration business from the Department of Labor, was part of an attempt by the Administration to disown temporarily its Communist friends whose activities and influence in the Government had become embarrassing. | . Earlier in the campaign the Democratic National Committee had attempted to dump the Communists on Wendell Willkie which was a comic idea because the same press agents were grinding out copy to the effect that Willkie was a Wall Street tool. The Communists were off -President Roosevelt for the time being because he was pro-British and pro-American in the war and Moscow was then a partner of Adolf Hitler. The Communists actually had no entry running in that election, although, naturally they liked the Roosevelt Administration for its old hospitality and its general sympathy. Before he entered prison Browder said bitterly and truthfully “When these gentlemen could use’ us we became almost respectable.” But he should have added a note of appreciation, for the Communists also had used the New Deal to promote their conSpiracy within the Government of the American people.

Well! Well! Welll

THE TIMING OF JACKSON'S deportation order ‘was spectacular. It came just before one of the President's biggest speeches at the windup of the campaign in Brooklyn, and, inasmuch as it was slightly brutal to an individual of no particular importance in the Communist treachery, it suggested that perhaps the New Deal or new order actually had tired of the Communists and meant to break with them. That was almost a year ago. And where is Mrs. Browder now? In Russia? . No, comrades, Mrs. Browder isn’t in Russia. Mrs. Browder is still around somewhere, probably in Yonkers, where they lived before Earl was Jailed. That. deportation order was just a political writ issued with no particular intent other than the political by an Administration which did not hesitate to use the Department of Justice for campaign purposes. Jackson knew the order couldn’t be enforced then because this country was not on the proper terms with Russia and Stalin would not accept the deportee. Since then, however, Russia has been howling” for help from the United States as a. victim of foul aggression in a war for the four freedoms. we- wanted to ask Russia, as a favor, now to accept Mrs. Browder back as a deportee, Stalin could hardly

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~~ The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

‘SKEPTICAL DRAFTEE’ IRKED BY COLLEAGUES LETTER By “Skeptical Draftee, Ft. Knox” I wasn’t much surprised by the

letter from the Fort Harrison Draftee, entitled “A Draftee Puts In His Side of It.” Being another draftee myself places me in the position of an inside observer of this conscripted army and it would be a queer one indeed who didn’t keep his eyes and ears open to study the thought processes of the great variety of boys who go to make up 1f | Uncle Sam’s new army.

Of course there are lots of soldiers

refuse. him

But you may notice that we aren’t asking

How come I know so much about the present status of Mrs. Browder, says you? Well, the last time I was in Washington, I anticipated a decision against Bridges, so I thought I would just look it up to see what happens. And, sure enough, I found out that Mrs. B. is out on bond snd shat there isn’t the slightest intention to send er home.

who find army life to their liking. Some welcome the new found relief from domestic difficulties af home and relish the opportunity to “get away from it all” for a while and live in a militarized WPA camp where the grub is free and plenty greasy upon ocasions. Still others who find the army to their liking belong to that group of individuals who never held down an interesting

Finns in Middle

By William Philip Simms

‘terize the, action against their

London note to Helsingfors stated in categorical terms

or worthwhile job in their lives and never hope or expect to. They are generally lazy, shiftless, and ne’er-do-well, and since the army offers the maximum amount of security for the least amount of work, these fellows don’t think $21 a month is so bad after all. On the other side - of the fence are those individuals WASHINGTON; Oct. 2.—Grave | Who wai» making pretty good money concern was expressed in Finnish | before Uncle Sam's long arm Sicles hete woday Jest Le Unite reached out and nabbed us, and some paralle ¢ action Britis mati rest: | oti re, Te” 187 Ourselves open war agains an : ; : she drops out of the Pang anes by men of the Ft. Harrison draftee’s the Soviet Union. variety, we feel by golly that the “Ultimatum” was the word used | $100 a month and more cut in pay by Finnish spokesmen to charac- |that we took when we came in the army would buy plenty of fancy country as announced by the Brit- groceries if we could just get the ish Foreign Office Saturday. The |p... out of here. Then too, the army

is often an asylum for some who are

* present or the future.

that “it is impossible to separate the war which Finland is waging against Russia from the general Euro-

Majesty's Government are bound to consider Finland to be a. member of.the Axis.”

Accordingly, Finland is told to make terms with Russia and abandon such terrain as she may be occupying outside her old boundaries. If she doesn’t, London warns, “Britain will be forced to treat Finland

This, the plainly perturbed Finns declare, constitutes an unveiled threat of war against Finland — a threat to sell her out to Russia unless she quits fighting in self-defense. :

Worried About U. S. Position . :

=\ IN HER “ULTIMATUM,” the Finns declare, Britain failed to say anything about returning either Hanko or the islands in the gulf to Finland. Nor did she offer even to resume trade, without which the food position of the little républic would go from bad to worse. She would simply cut herself loose, to sink or swim. Britain offers no'guarantees, either for the

But, bad as Finland's relations with Britain may be, the possibility of complications with the United States is causing even greater anxiety. The chief rea~ son for this is the fact that thus far in the war Washington has almost always taken its cue from London. Few Finns in Washington seem able to believe that the United States will lightly reverse its friendly attitude towards their country. Finland, these point out, is the same tiny democracy it was when the Soviet Union attacked her in 1939—the same country which President Roosevelt said had 98 per cent of American sympathy in 1940. The one change in her. status since that time, they say, is that, against her will, she has been caught up in the storm that is now devastating Europe. . This, ‘they say, should not turn America against her—even if the ill wind that is blowing does, by a' freak accident, toss her a modicum of good.

Editor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this aewspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times. , a

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- CHRISTIANITY is the only universal left in the world.—Dr. J. Harry Theological Seminary. .

* If we believe we have seen agitation by enemies of our form of government, by the Fascists and Communists, let me say that we haven't seen anything yet.—Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr, Massachusetts.

Cotton, president, Presbyterian |

unhappy fugitives from so-called

pean war.” So long, therefore, “as Finland, in alliance |shot-gun marriages, although this with Germany, is carrying on an aggressive war [doesn’t necessarily apply to the against and on the territory of an ally of Britain, His |draftee. I just point out these instances for the purpose of looking behind the printed word of friends like the Pt. Harrison draftee, who says that he’s rarin’ to be shipped across the water, cattle-boat fashion,

as an open enemy”—both now and at the peace table, {and get a crack at Hitler. . , and

he also says he is only one of thou-

(Times readers are invited to ’ express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your ‘letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

sands. Well, F't. Harrison, for every one of you there’s 100,000 of us on the other side of the fence who think you either nuts or else you're a genuine, blown ~in - the - bottle phony, since no one is holding you back from : joining the. Canadian volunteer army which is being shipped across every week. Perhaps if you see your company commander, he’ll arrange it for you to go fight for some other country, say England. 2 wn =» ‘ONE THING TO CALL HITLER LIAR, 3000 MILES AWAY’ By Mrs. Pearl Janis, Martinsville. To me, it's a sorry sight when preachers of the lxeavenly message— “Peace on earth, good will t¢ men” —join the political hue and cry for world markets and dollar profits, even if it does cause bloodshed. And these able-bodied propagandists for interference in the affairs of foreign nations, and the forcing of “our freedoms” on them, present

lan outrageous inconsistency in urg-

ing others to throw their lives into that European hell, while they and their sons and in-laws stay far from the recruiting stations. The Golden Rule forbids requiring of others that which we refuse to do ourselves. And it’s one thing to call Hitler a liar while 3000 miles intervene, and quite another angle if the name-caller would make honest effort to get near enough so Adolf could hear! 3 This craving for foreign quarrels like the hard worked foreign mission game, runs counter to the apostle Paul's admonition: “If any provideth not for his own—he is worse than an unbeliever!” Already the frightful spectre of unemployment rears its ugly head over our very own citizens because

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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1 ‘ofiaws of the 'Woll, vice.

(of this lifting of the President's

“land. that surrounded by the land-

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| their back.”

stand {What you are, root and all, and all in

quarantine against the warring disturbers of world peace. Let the “fighting parsons” practice what they preach—‘“join the Army” —or keep silent and thus avoid their astounding inconsistencies, y » » 8 ANOTHER LETTER FROM MR. HARRISON WHITE

By Harrison White, 1135 Broadway. The pass has been thrown and the American people are asking for a fair catch. It is “The American Foreign Policy.” The prerogatives of the Federal Government as far as foreign affairs are concerned are no other

than “The protection of American lives and American property abroad,

marks of our fathers,” “not to enter into foreign entanglements” and “the Monroe Doctrine” dealing with the Western - Hemisphere. Any other foreign policy must of need be a

would support such other foreign policy must need be an apostate. We are told we must take part in the hatreds of European nations by engaging in this war to protect democraty. We like to use that word only as synonymous to Americanism, although it is not mentioned in the Constitution of the United States nor the ‘Declaration of Independence; liberty and individual democracy united as far as our Constitution permits and no farther is Americanism; there can be no American democracy unless so united and the New Deal has dislocated this Americanism. , . ,

2 2 o ‘PAGE HITLER, MEITZLER'S REPLY TO UNION MAN

By James R. Meitzler, Attica I am sending this extract from a letter I received from an Indianapolis union member as illuminative of their attitude towards free labor. First telling me of my ignorance, then enumerating the benefits he has received from unions to which of course no one objects, he says “Employees wishing to organize take a vote and if 51 per cent or more votes in favor of a union the other per cent have no choice in the matter. In order to keep their jobs and their seniority the remaining per cent who did not vote for a union usually join. In case the employees want. it to be a closed shop and if it is, actually made a closed shop, then many times the few employees who were opposed to the union, are black-balled and cannot get in the union, consequently they are out of a job. Usually nothing

else they have a yellow streak up

And this in free America. Page Hitler. :

FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL Flower ir. the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my

hand, Little. lower—but if I could under-

all, I should know what God and man is. : —Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

DAILY THOUGHT

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.—Romans 14:13.

policy of apostasy and any one who|

Gen. Johnson Says—

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—Mr, Donald Nelson, the priorities pooh« bah, says it is too late to put a ceiling over all prices to stop inflation and so we must attack only a few—not including wages. Mr. Floyd Odlum, who ‘is charged with getting the litle fellow a break in farming out de- ‘

six months too late, a After jimmying around for two years with inadequate tax bills, Mr. Morgenthau in an off-hand moment suddenly proposes a 6% profits limitation tax on industry which would rpyin most of small employers not already ruined by the unplanned and headlong priori ties excess. | - The supposed gasoline shortage was sprung on us out of a clear sky and rather absurd and appare ently futile restrictions applied without warning. If all these moves were so late what explains the delay? The increasing difficulty of the situation Hae. been apparent for over a year. The means to atta? it had been suggested over and over again by veterans of our first World War effort. That precedent stood

| on the record so plainly that it had been adopted by

every other country in the war, including Germany.

'Too Little and Too Late’

BUT. FOR SOME REASON our Government would have none of it. Various reasons were advanced. One was that this was a 1941 war and didn't need any 1918 advice. : a Another—and this has. been persistent and ime bedded in all the reasoning—was that this New Deal government was fully provided with talent and didn’t need or want any non-New Deal assistance or advice, It may be so, but it is a significant thing that all that old and rejected advice is gradually being re« luctantly accepted under the iron clutch and come pulsion of circumstances and—as usual—“too little and too late.” : wie Since this column has been conducting a modes$ crusade for the bearing of these errors on the little fellow and the consumer, its mail has never been so copious. The instances are enough to bring tears to the eyes of a granite gargoyle. Don't make any mistake about it. The elimination of small business through inability to get reasonable supplies is not something in the distant future. It is now going on.

A Tax On the Least Able

THE PINCH ON HOUSEWIVES through rising prices is nothing that they do not feel. Mr. Leon Henderson testified that the cost of feeding families has gone up 8% in the past few weeks and is going further unless it is stopped. For the average family that hasn’t enough income to save much, that is just

beginning. If it isn't stopped it is going to ris to, 20% or 30% and nobody knows how much higher, This is a great hidden tax. It is a tax on thog.

trend. Whom do you hit? The rich? They can stand it. You hit the poor. You hit them in the bread-basket—painfully. You hit the very classes upon which this Administration has relied for votes, Further more you do good to nobody. There is scarcely a military commentator from Julius Caesar through Napoleon, Hindenburg, Von Ludendorff on who doesn’t say that the morale of the civilian population in war is as important as the ] morale of the armies. xR The growing tide of resentment among masses o our people against the wretched mismanagement an: lack of planning may be in its first stages, but th evidences of it are unmistakeable. The high-widr and-handsome boys in the seats of the mighty wou do well to heed,

A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IN ONE DOMESTIC war wh. rages without ceasing—the mot}! and daughter-in-law conflic: most of the advice from the si lines js impertinent and: useless,

I often have a feeling that lot of us nad better mind our ov business. For, as in other war the non-belligerent is often mq bitter and far more ready tha! the fighters to think his judgmen infallible, i

: The minds of women in this country have been poisoned by the constant streams of propaganda about this subject until they are almost unequal to the task of being fair minded, either as daughter-in-laws or as mothers-in-law. They start out their relationship by suspecting and hating each other because for such a long time they have been told they are natural enemies.. > As in other wars, too, the real victims are not those who battle, but the innocent and helpless who happen to live in the war zone. On the domestic front, the man and the children in the family suffer most from the conflicts which rage between the wife and the husband’s mother.

Unworthy of Intelligent Women

ENOUGH CAN NEVER be said in sympathy for the man who has two jealous women contending for his attention and affection. He’s the bone in the dog fight—pulled and yanked and gnawed until his life becomes a martyrdom beside which that of any saint makes tame reading. Quick burning at the stake would be preferable to the daily torment this man endures. His sufferings are nagging and endless. If he is a decent fellow, filial loyalty is deep seated and instinctive, while love for his wife may be the one great passion of his life, So, unless the two women can manage to be friends, the worst pain is certain to be his. We women commit many crimes in the name of love but none is more heinous than the sufferings we deliberately inflict upon good husbands who happen to be fond of their mothers and upon good sons who adore their wives. Isn't it about time to declare a truce or, better still, to grow up in our emotions and cease these bickerings which are unworthy of intelligent women?

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Q—Is Paul V. McNutt a member of the Knights of Columbus? . A—No. Only Roman Catholics may belong to the Knights of Columbus. Mr. McNutt is a Methodist.

Q—How many peanuts are used annually in the United States to make peanut butter? A—Approximately 375,000,000 pounds, as they come from the farms and before being cleaned and / shelled. More peanuts are used for making peanut butter than for any other single purpose.

Q—When was the Federal income tax made ape plicable to the salary of the President of the United States? : in A—The Revenue Act of 1932, approved June 6, 1932, provided that the salary of the President of the Unit ed States should be subject to Federal income tax at ‘the ‘beginning of the next Presidential term.

, . Q—How many children have been born in |

White House? : A—Esther Cleveland, second daughter of Presic and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, was the only one. She born September 9, 1883. : ’ Q—How long can shotgun shells be kept with & deteriorating? : : : 4 A—Practically indefinitely, so long as they

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