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“I never heard of anything like that,” he said. kind of responsibility would a pro tem judge have? It is an ‘avenue where many abuses can creep in. your: ‘traffic record in Indianapolis, evidently abuses
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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1941
NO, IT’S NOT A JOKE
JUDGE PERRY A. FREY of Cleveland, in Indianapolis to "address the C. of C.’s Safety Committee, stared in amazement at the person who mentioned our pro tem judge
Judge Frey thought he was being kidded. : “What
And from
The. last phrase we consider a masterpiece of under-
The municipal court issue has been put before the public repeatedly by the press, by safety committees, by lawyers, by victims of the system. But the public at large remains apathetic and indifferent. | And until the public stirs itself the situation won't be
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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—F dont know what should be done about this, but it is a fact that tke weight ‘of editorial . opinion and the bulk of our domestic news originate in New York and Washington. News flows from East to West and from the Far West to _East in smaller volume, but the Midwest and Northwest and "South are relatively unimportant newsfields. Perhaps these blank areas produce no more news than we publish, but that seems a lame explanation, for they are full of American people and these sections are always sending to Washington, along with their quota of mountebanks and clowns, a fair number of substantial men. It is a misfortune that the national -capital is irrevocably planted on the Eastern seaboard and cer-
as a new nation, we would not select Washington. As a site, Indianapolis or Peoria would be much more logical, and, in the matter of climate, neither would be any worse than Washington.
Fumes Stronger in the East
THE COSMIC COLUMNISTS, of whom I happen, somehow, to be one, all live and work in New York or Washington and cannot escape Easternization because the influences around us are such that detachment is impossible. Most of us take little refresher trips, but only as tourists living out of our baggage and restless to sleep in our own beds, and those of us who came from elsewhere originally cannot recapture familiarity with old interests between trains or planes. In the Middle West some people insist that we of
Washington, cannot take a correct view of the peril of war because we consider ourselves to be right under the guns and visualize bombardment in Bridgeport and Bayonne, I doubt that this is the feeling of many Easterners, but there is no doubt that the fumes of propaganda from Europe are stronger hereabouts and that our sympathies and antipathies are sharper, whether with good reason or without. Anyway, people hereabouts are more aware of the war and.some peril to this country. Possibly our position is advantageous and we are right, while the more calm Americans of other sections are victims of their geographical remoteness.
tainly if we had it to do over again now, “starting
the East Coast, and particularly of New York and .
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—“T say to Douglas, ‘If you don’t keep still, you are going to be brought to Washington some day and be com= pelled to reveal what you have be- , hind those (insurance) policies.’ ” “If you don't ki still!” Thus nator Nye recen threatened wis Wi, Douglas, head of the great Mutual Life Insurance Co. Why? “The newest fear” said the Senator, “has been started by Lewis Douglas . . . he has declared that if Hitler should win the war, an insurance policy would hot be worth the paper it is written upon.” It is possible not to agree with the opiniofs of either of these gentlemen, In the present hysteria both of them gare hopping pretty high. Certainly the argument about insurance on both sides is likely to cause unwarranted fear and eyen panic among ma: people whose only security is insurance for which th have saved and sacrificed for many years, Put aside for a moment. It is this “If you don’t kee
still” business threatened by an influential Senator %
that should give'the public the greatest concern,
It's Un-American Coercion
THERE ARE MORE KINDS of censorship and gag-rules than/ one to choke-off freedom of expres sion and debate in these terrible times. We can’t af« ford to permit any kind of gags or censorship at all. The Senator is a member of a Senate sub-commit« tee which, without any direct authority from the Sene ate, is seeking censor motion pictures by conduct= ing an “investigation” of it. These fishing expeditions are unpleasant to any victim—innocent or guilty, To threaten one of them without good cause and with “if you don’t keep still” may not be technical blackmail, but it is certainly a distinctly un-American type of coercion. As to the insurance companies and what “they have behind: those policies,” they have been recently investigated by a great-joint-executive-Senate-House committee—TNEC. They came away with a clean bill of health. Does the Senator mi now to imply that their investments behind our policies ate not good? If he does not mean that, what does he mean? And, if he meang that, how is he in any sweeter odor in this Joxider of destroying confidence in ine surance than Mr. Douglas? * Douglas says that if Hite ler wins the war they won't be good. Senator Nye
“MR. HULL
WHEN the Secretary of State with dnaracierictic mod- ' “esty declined the honor of a big official blowout on his
seems to imply that they may not be good anyway. It is pretty scurvy business on both sides.
Invite Hitler and Stalin!’
Now, Take Wyoming, for Instance I DON'T KNOW, BUT I do believe there is a field
HIS Cleveland case is not unique. on production and transportation—restrictions having nothing to do with wages or hours or working conditions— prevail in many cities.’ The Justice Department’s anti-trust division estimates that they cost American consumers over a billion dollars a year. Three months ago bills designed to stop this robbery were introduced in Congress by Rep Monroney of Oklahoma - and Rep. Walter of Pennsylvania. but either would subject unions to anti-trust prosecution: for restraining trade to achieve purposes which obviously are not legitimate objectives of labor organizations, " These bills, against the principle of which there can be no valid argument, were referred to the Judiciary Committee of the House. Rep. Hatton Sumners of Texas. He and his committee can . do a great service to the American people—and to the cause of honest labor—by holding prompt public hearings on these bills and reporting one of them out for Befion by Congress.
70th birthday, the correspondents turned his daily press conference into a family party—cake, candles and all. Not ‘every public hero is popular with the associates who have to work with him, and official stuffed-shirts can’t fool the newsmen who cover them. : humble as Mr. Hull ‘can be pardoned the satisfaction he receives from the deep respect and affection of those who know him best. There is no higher tribute. lis less than great can survive the spotlight of 38 years of public service with such regard. Typical of Cordell Hull's mind and heart was his brief response yesterday at the impromptu party. He said that from his long experience in the inner councils of Government the most important lesson he had learned was that statesmen and peoples must recognize the grave responsibility of meeting those requirements which liberty imposes on those who enjoy it.
So even a man as
No man whose character
PROTECTED PIR! ACY.
CASH: tribute of $3.52 is levied by the A. F. of L. Tesinsters Union on every truckload of food or other merchandise coming into Cleveland. A This fee is often collected by violence or threats of violence. It is demanded for the “privilege” of unloadjng a truck or having it unloaded by a union( member. Dood to represent payment for four hours of work, but is required even if the job takes only a few minutes. union official defends it as a fine imposed by Ohio teamsters on truck drivers who bring in produce grown by nonunion agricultural workers in Michigan, Indiana and other
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; But of course the so-called fine is paid by the people of Cleveland. It is added to shipping costs and so to their cost of living. Since it is plainly a restraint on the free flow of interstate commerce, the Safety Director of Cleveland, who dug up the facts about this piratical practice, asked the Federal Government to move against it under the anti-trust laws. He finds, however, that the Federal Government is powerless to protéct the people of Cleveland. The U. S. Supreme Court has held, in effect, that the anti-trust laws can’t touch holdup men who prey on interstate trade under the cloak of unionism.
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They differ in details,
The chairman of ‘this committee is
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for a good cosmic columnist or editorial writer based on, say, St. Louis or New Orleans or St. Paul. Chicago.is pretty well represented by Frank Knox, who can give out editorially from the interventionist side both as Secretary of the Navy, speaking for the Administration, and in The Chicago Daily News, and by R. R. McCormick, of The Chicago Tribune, in his weekly lesson on the air and in print. But, how come the editorial opinion of The New York Herald-Tribune or Times is deemed to be quotable on some momentous issue and not the opinion of The Idaho Statesman or.the—I was going to suggest some paper in Wyoming, but I can't even remember tke name of one. It could be that none, or few, of the papers out yonder have anyone who can do a good column or editorial. I read dozens of local papers when I take my hulk on tour and I find they are pretty dull locally and heavily stocked with Eastern canned goods, such as this. Pacific Coast news, particularly union stuff, bucks the trend from the East to West in pretty good volume nowadays, but there are no daily writers there whose interpretation or opinion breaks through our service. ‘I'am ignoring the Hollywood trash: of course, and discussing informative comment on events. I just don’t see why New York or Washington opinion is more important or better than opinion in Sioux Falls, but I can’t imagine a New York paper running a daily column under a Sioux Falls date line.
U. S. Aviation !
By Maj. Al Williams
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WE ARE AT A turning era in the world’s history. The entire world is in revolt, not so much against ideologies as against a world-wide system of rackets that have been in the making for a few hundred years. You can’t upset deeply entrenched convictions as to how things must be done without a struggle. All wars have been “all-out” total struggles. Have you ever read of a war wherein the hostile nations refused to destroy anything belonging to the enemy that they could reach? Certainly not. The catch in that ohservation is “that they could reach.” Other wars lacked the machinery to reach all of an enemy—his towns, his factories, his homes. This war, principally with its winged machinery, reaches any hostile possession within flight range. In other wars, the land and sea forces progressed laboriously. The ‘winged machinery of this European war strikes in minutes. And with this wider and far faster reach, the concept, stra and tactics of war must be revolutionized, as has happened in the last 238 months. That's not time enough for the facts and their significance to become solidified in military and naval minds and in public consciousness. When that ‘solidification is accomplished, we shall begin to visualize modern warfare realistically.
Down With 'Ersatz Nobility
FREQUENTLY WE HAVE criticized the apparent discriminations against free and open enlistment by young Americans in the country’s air defense. There still is too much of this “two years of college” stuff and nonsense about getting young America into the air. Government-paid air training, open to all hands, with no restrictions except physical capacity and ability to pass standardized mental examinations—that’s real America, and all the rest smacks of ersatz nobility distinctions, class castes and such rot.
This Takes Care of Another
ANENT THE RUMORS and complaints aginst unauthorized wisecracks by scattered Government officials to the effect that “the Government would just as soon have the private pilots stay out of the air.” I have just received a leiter from Robert H. Hinckley, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, thanking me for bringing the matter to public attention and vigorously disclaiming any such attitude on the part of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. His policy, Mr. Hinckley says, is exactly opposite—pointing with pride to the fact that the Civil Pilot Training Program (Government sponsored) is turning out 1000 pilot graduates a month. Congratulations to Mr. Hinckley for a candid, understandable statement and disavowment of any such discriminatory and fatal restriction.
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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
‘ASTONISHED’ WE PRINTED WHITE'S LETTER By R. L., Indianapolis. I am astonished that any metropolitan newspaper would publish such awful guff as appeared in the Hoosier Forum under the signature of Harrison White. , ... * ” » 2 ANOTHER PROTEST ANENT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS By An Objector, Noblesville. Please allow me to double endorse Mrs. F. 8. Evans’ clock letter of last evening and add a codicil. That's what is added to a last will and testament, isn’t it?’ But what infuriates me most is the attitude the stuffed shirt aggregation takes concerning the situation in regards to the welfare of the majority of the public. By turning the clock up an hour they figure the stupid working population will never realize they are losing the best hour’s rest they can get on a hot night. If not why not just go to work an hour earlier? Why the confusion? What else could be the answer? And to whom is it an advantage, and for what purpose? For those principally who are neither physically nor mentally tired, to enjoy their favorite recreation. No thought has been given tote trying to rest in {lly ventilated rooms, and tortured by mosquitoes until the wee morning hours. Or to the mother who must arouse sleeping children at 4 o'clock in order to arrange for their care while she goes “sprightly” on her way to win the bread. Oh no, why should we, the stuffed shirt aggregation, consider such matters? We have so much fun in that extra hour. What is the big idea of the dumb public complaining? We thought that clock trick a remarkable feat of super-colossal
illusion. ” ”
Ed DEFENDS CONDUCT OF WEST SIDE BOYS By Arthur 8S. Mellinger, 3500 W. 30th St. There have been some letters in the papers about the conduct of West Side ‘boys. I lived four years on Tibbs Ave., and will say I never had anything stolen’ or property damaged by them. The house I
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moved into had been wrecked by vandals. I always went about my business and treated all those folks around me as human beings. This was reported to me by one of my children: A certain teacher in a certain school called the scholars “West Side trash” to their faces in the schoolroom. I am asking fairminded folks, are the boys to blame when the teacher in the school room, of all places, calls them trash. I do not tell or write idle gossip. Here is the reason many boys over thetcity are going from bad to worse, those people who are over them look down on them. I here invoke the Master's words: “They that desire to be a master must first be a servant of all.” I moved for economic reasons, and not because I thought I lived among trash. Some of my sincerest friends are ones with whom I became acquainted during my stay on Tibbs Ave. A teacher is not fit to be in the schoolrooma who thinks she is so superior to those unfortunate boys and girls who live in certain sections of the city and who are branded because of where they live, and not what they are. : J » 2 ‘REFORMS HERE TO STAY, SAYS MR. BRADDICK
By Claude Braddick, Kokomo Prior to the last Presidential election there was a veritable flood of alarming propaganda to the effect that the American workingman was being led unwittingly into “socialism,” and t the future was black, now that the poor (of which unfortunately there are so many) had learned they could “confiscate the property of others, merely by making X’s on ballots.” Now this propaganda was backed by organization and money, and few who could think at all escaped being impressed by it. To those however who have the facility of thinking things out for themselves, it was
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soon apparent that this dire picture was ‘much overdrawn and its conception utterly false. We see on every hand the American workman returning to his traditional conservatism.. And we know why this is so. It is because he is now at work. An American workman at work, at what he considers Jair wages, is as firm in support of capitalism as any banker, It is only when de‘prived of work, or the prospect of work, that he falters in that support. He has been the backbone of the Republican Party for decades on end, and no” Socialistic or Democratic oratory has ever been able to alienate aim. He has remained unfaltering through panics, depressions and other economic upheavals. It was only when the system failed entirely—with no explanation and no one seeming to know how to start it again—that he was forced to turn away. To paraphrase Wendell Willkie, the American workman never deserted capitalism; capitalism deserted him. When a boat sinks under you, you take to the water—not because you prefer swimming to boatriding, but because you have to. The American workman today wants only another boat! Capitalists must accept and charge to themselves the fact that many reforms and innovations recently enacted are here to stay. Others no doubt will be modified or discarded. But everything new is not necessarily “socialistic,” nor everything “socialistic” evil. Erudite propagandists to the contrary, if this country ever succumbs to socialistic revolution it will be because of the complete failure of capitalism to function, and not because of any “socialist” tendency in the masses of American’ people. = ‘ENTRY INTO WAR MEANS
END TO PROSPERITY’
The great question today is: Shall we sacrifice human lives again for foreign investments so as to maintain a high standard of living? The value of our lives, individually and collectively, depends on that answer. The ones who advocate intervention would have it appear that they do not realize that if we go in or not the result will be the same. For our entry will probably mean the nd of the war and therefore the end of our prosperity; a prosperity which ‘all deep down in their hearts know hinges on bloodshed and the destruction of the earth's people and perhaps our own. We all should know that no matter what is done we cannot go on as we are now. More than 51 billion dollars deficit on government books and taxes higher than British taxes prevail, We are still paying for the last war which we entered and won; paying our part and the combined
: :| shares of the other nations, allies
and foes, who refused to pay, excepting Finland who is now para-
| doxically on the wrong side.
Yes, we are paying for the last one which we entered and paying for this one while neutral, This ig
| perhaps the first time a government
By Mrs. Helen Mori Eck, 1935 W. 59th St.|
WHAT DOES MR. DOUGLAS mean by “if Hitler wins the war?”| If he means “If Hitler conquers and subdues America, insurance policies won't be good,” he is probably right. But, in spite of all the recent hysterical no e there is about as much danger of that as of a bill oe ball growing whiskers. But, if he means, what is more likely, some kind of a stalemate in Europe with both sides bled white and exhausted and new governments. taking over the: wreckage of the old, he is as bad as Senator Nye i dragging in this insurance scare to frighten innocent people toward his point of view. However that may be, this country can’t stand for any “You keep | still—or else” stuff, from legislative committees, private committees or executive action, As in this case, frequently the arguments which are sought to be choked are so full of holes that forthright debate will do more to kill them—and do it more quickly—than any kind of evasion of the guaranty in the Bill of Rights of freedom of speech and expression. Taken in connection without other obvious trends toward dictatorship, when we give that up, we might as well invite in both Hitler and Stalin. We shall be faithful copies of] their, system.
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A Woman S Viwpef| By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
LETS KEEP THE record straight. More and more pres= sure is put upon those who oppose our entrance into a shooting | war. The word “traitor” is tossed | carelessly when it can become | dynamite. Our foreign policy, we are de reminded, has been irrevocabl | set. ithe arsenal for the democracies and to give all aid to Britain, : True. And most Americans are in accord with the program, although some are concerned right now with the shortness of mortal memories. For the popular and decisive argument in favor of the Lend-Lease Bill which seems to have set our course to war was that it would keep us out
of the shooting. | Its advocates were united on that point. Most of them went so far as to insist that it was the ONLY way we could stay put of the scrap with guns. So, in due time and by Congressional action backed by pub-
lic approval, it became the law.
Put All the Cards on Table!
AND NOW LOOK AT the darn thing!
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men. So a law which was planned [and passed, as the people were told, to keep the boys at.home, is the force which moves them into the fighting zones. This is neither the time nor the place to continue the original debate.| All that talk is water over the dam. But it seems clear that after such near-duplicity more patience (is due a public whose minds are not as easily shifted as weather vanes. Unity is imperative. The people must stand by their leaders. But, above all else, the leaders must be frank with their people. For this nation does not belong solely to the political, intellectual or Sabie groups. It belongs to all of us—to millions of diff ent sorts.of men and women who want to see it ee fended against every enemy and who are willing to work and pay and fight to that end In a democracy unity is not attained holding aces up a few sleeves. All the cards must iable.
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Q—Is it true that American planes sent to Britain must be altered there before they can be placed in actual service?
A—The British have set up in England a “foster”
company for each type American plane received which makes necessary changes and installs British
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We have decided to become °
Well, We'll Have Airports
IF WE GET NOTHING else out of Europe's war and our rearmament excitement, will have airports. They are springing up all over the counfry and should provide the basis of a Flying America if we have anything left to buy something to fly in.
equipment, or makes alteratiins to .meet constantly changing service requirements. Arrangements are be« ing made to make these ch in the United States, QName the pictures in the “Hardy Family” film series that have been prod = far. In them was “Mrs. Hardy" strick
LV you are a single person with an income of slightly more | has told its
than $2900, your Federal income tax will be $189. Wonder what the Government will do with your money ? It’s almost enough to buy a Thompson sub-machine gun, price $190. That would be something to help stop Hitler. But your Government also. buys other. items in .the same price. range. For instance, quoting again from the ‘Procurement Division’s Schedule of Supplies: “Motion picture projectors, 16-mm. . . . Specification No, 429; complete ‘with all necessary connecting cables, current-supply cables, projection lamp, tubes and extra exciter lamp .. . 1600foot take-up reel, set of spare spring belts, aperture cleaning ash, spare fuses, test reel for practice purposes, and sup- burden in ply of oil with can . . . Class A; positive gear drive; in one Shove that In Briain -Ur-8, Chamber 2 toe or iad Sate Harty. [ Ng case; each $187.81." oe. die : weil ] A ik ’ 1001 BY HEA SERVICE, - yi ; rattan ne prize at the fair we'd kee
pedple they were neutral
So They Say—
To insist that, democracy is ot to be:defended in terms of the status quo, to show that democracy is not a fact, but.a program, et is to challenge the spirit of America. « « » ==Arthur Upham Pope, urging a national morale program.
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vate Secretary” nd “Mrs. Hardy's” {lines ocourred in Jor Hardy w
Q—Is there a CIO union for railroad workers? . A—The CIO recently has begun workers who are not members of the Railroad Broth
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