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WE HIT HITLER HARD - THE new U. S. . the worst blow Hitler has suffered in this hemisphere, and the largest gain for Pan-American defense. Its political significance exceeds even the mutual economic ‘benefits, for. | _ Argentina has been the chief anti-Yankee influence: in Latin America. To obtain the first trade agreement with Argentina in nearly a century, and despite Nazi propaganda and penetration, is almost a miracle of statesmanship. President ' Roosevelt, Secretary Hull and the Argentine officials deserve the highest public appreciation. Of ‘course there are the inevitable protests from some high-tariff, farm-lobby members of Congress, who have not yet learned that trade is a two-way proposition and that a nation must buy if it would sell. : In the necessary give and ‘take the United States won concessions or binders against customs increases on 127 tariff products, representing almost one-third of: American ‘sales; Argentina on 84 items, or about ‘three-fourths of her sales here. The tremendous increase in trade—last year we bought $83,000,000 and sold $107,000,000—will be limited wirtually only by the wartime shipping shortage. : . 8 . 8 8 N the words of Secretary Hull: “Close co-operation between Argentina and the United States is especially important when the very existence of . the nations of this hemisphere may depend upon presenting a united front to the forces of aggression.” This agreement will do more good than all the good neighbor speeches, cultural hoopla, loans and promises that ‘the U. S. Navy and Army will protect Argentina. She is proud and independent nation, who fears a Yankee protectorate more than a Nazi invasion and wants neither. She will not become Hitler's slave unless we starve her into his market. If we enable her to prosper through “mutual trade, she will be strong enough to defend her own: independence and help us protect the hemisphere against

Bggression.

WHERE YOUR TAX MONEY. GOES

UY a thousand-dollar automobile and you pay a Federal excise tax of $70, which is enough for the Government to buy more than 2000 rounds of 30-caliber ammunition, or "about enough to pay two weeks’ salary to the secretary of some press agent in a bureau which has nothing to do with:

defense,

MALICIOUS, DANGEROUS, UNSCIENTIFIC?

A MERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR leaders in na- ; tional convention: assembled go officially on record as being out to “get! 7» Assistant Attorney General Thurman ‘Arnold. They resolve to go over Mr. Arnold’s head, to Mr. Arnold’s boss, Attorney General Bidile, and Mr. Biddle’ s boss, President Roosevelt. _ Mr. Arnold's policies toward labor are described in the A F. of L. resolution as “malicious, dangerous and unscientific.” . Now what are these Arnold policies ? ~ They were first set forth by Mr. Arnold in November, 939. They are aimed to prevent five union practices hich Mr. Arnold declares to be unreasonable restraints n interstate commerce—as follows: Restraints designed to prevent the use of cheaper maerials, improved: equipment or more efficient . methods. ‘Restraints designed to compel the hiring of useless and nnecessary labor. ‘Restraints designed to enforce systems -of graft and.

Restraints designed to enforce illegally fixed ' prices. Restraints (jurisdictional strikes). designed to destroy

established system of collective bargaining. . We leave it to all who read this whether in this Arnold gram there is anything malicious, dangerous or un- -

: am are not adding: mightily to their Sirealy of public resentritent.

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‘passengers on their insurance. Lt. Jean Joseph Dewez, the an.

milifary pilot, has passed the limit and has

mainstay of the recent heroic campaign in Ethiopia, Dewez has winged more hours than younger jungle pilots have. miles. The bush people call him Ndeke Lipumbu, meaning beautiful bird. :

Why Wouldn't He Worry?

' DEWEZ IS A SMALL, shy, Thurheresque man in his middle thirties, whose pockets.are always filled with orders, memoranda, maps, Ethiopa thalers, Sudanese pounds, Egyptian pilasters and countless letters. What pocket space remains is occupied’ by small, green lemons with which he bulges all over, Dewez is the kind of man who is always trying to do favors and never asks any. Nevertheless, he has been getting restless lately. He walks around the in the brown shorts of the Congolese Force Publique, with his sun helmet pulled down over his eyes, concealing the misgivings upon his face. Hardly anybody could blame Dewez for getting

‘worried. He is flying the oldest transport plane in

Africa. It was assembled in 1929. It is a Fokker, J0-passenger monoplane of the type the Dutch Aire. Far East discarded five years ago for American Douglases, which themselves are outmoded today. The Bakker is the grandpa of today’s trans-

But Dewez still goes groaning impartially “across the broad, brown Congo, the great equatorial forests, the the mountains of the moon, the glassy Sudanese the rolling Kenya uplands and far up es forbidding - highland.

It's a Three-Ring Circus!

"WHENEVER PROTESTS OF senile rage come from the three 240-h.p. Gnome-Rhone engines— which may be above the uninhabitable Nilotie Swamps, or, over Ituri Forest where pigmies hunt in the shadows. of 200-foot trees—Dewez wheedles, humors and nurses the motors along until the next patchpocket airdrome comes in sight. To bring Dewez’s three-horse buggy into the field is a task suitable only for a man with five arms.’ Be-

sides manipulating the stick, the enormous: wheel=:

brake and three separate motor controls, Dewez must somehow manage to wind, organ grinder fashion, the hand lever leveling off the tail elevator. The lever is cunningly tucked away behind him and two feet

- above his head.

Try using full wrist action back up there yourself

and imagine how pleasant must be an ice cream

freezer in motion, operated overhead and backwards, when the cabin temperature is 100 degrees and the tropical trees are rushing upward into your face. Dewez literally cranks his ship into the field,

A Strange Mechanic, Indeed

YOUR CORRESPONDENT got acquainted with Dewez's hack through riding it from :the Belgian field headquarters in Northeastern Congo to Ethiopia and return. Dewez is pleased with his ability to keep his- relic pushing 115 miles an hour, and small wonder. He has neither a co-pilot nor a parachute. At the other set of controls, carefully avoiding touching them, sits Lulengo, the totally black son of cannibals from Matadi -in the lower reaches of the Congo, whi is Dewez's mechanic. If the thin crack in the cowling above Dewez’s windshield, now admitting light, should open under air pressure—as surely it would if Dewez put the Fokker into a steep dive—and something loose should hit Dewez between the eyes, Lulengo would simply |. fold his hands and await the inevitable. Dewez usually addresses Lulengo in Lingala, which is the lingua franca among Congo tribes. And Lulengo calls Dewez “master.” ‘Dewez retains Lulengo because, unlike white mechanics, he always confesses frankly when he \loesn’t know what is wrong.

(Copyriglit, 1641. by The Indianapalis yTimes and the Chicago Daily News, In

Pre-Fabrication By Thomas L. Stokes

/ WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.— The A. F. of L. is resisting prefabricated houses because they disturb the setup of its craft unions. Yet nearly one-terith of the 100,000 housing units for defense work= + ers already completed, under construction or in the preconstruction stage in the Federal Government’s program are- prefabricated —065¢4 units, to be precise. And, while the anti-prefabri-cation policy is espoused by the of L. building-trades department, thousands of

Me P. of L. members have 'worked and are working

A A. on these of them are being built by A. F. of L. These facts, supplied by the Federal Works: Agency, bear upon the current controversy over’ defense housing, partly involving prefabrication, partly

-a conflict between A. F. of L. and C. 1. O. caused by

the former's attempt to freeze out the fledgling C. I. O. United Construction Workers’ organizing committee, and the C. I. O. attempt-io get. hold dn the building-trades field. This controversy broke into the ‘open recently over the now=-celebrated Currier. case. No decision"

Hillman, OPM co-director, to appear tomorrow. Saving: $117,000,000 MR. HILLMAN comes into the picture because of

Government prefabricated homes, for most | unions.

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

LAUDS SCHOLARSHIP GIVEN TECH BY AMERICAN U. By Raymond H. Stone, Indiangpolis’ There was presented to the Arsenal Technical High School recently a scholarship. It is the’ first one to be presented by the American University of Washington, D. C,, to a school in Indiana. The light that burned in the minds of those who framed the ordinance of the Old Northwest Territory finds its expression in the buildings - of the campus of this school in the capital of our nation, The sons and daughters of those who founded this university will now have access tb the spiritual treasures of the nation {Susy this scholarship. w ~ ‘® ‘LAW OF COMPENSATION NEVER FAILS’ By Mary ¥. Wright, 120 Miley Ave. Your Hoosier Forum, it looks to me, is for knockers to get in their two cents’ worth. There was a time when mankind helped one another with their work for nothing. Now it is labor against labor, capital against capital, labor against capital, and capital against labor, and war against war, We reap what we sow and wust sow ta reap. This outrage has gone to its own destruction.” Unless we awaken to truth, and think truth, we will go on to destruction, for the law of compensation never fails, : « x = : CITES POST TO PROVE BRITISH NOT ON UP-AND-By 8. E., Indianapolis. Here's a verified item from the Saturday - Evening Post which just about clinches what was said some time ago about stripping the United States of aircraft for the commercial benefit of the British Empire: “Three of the latest clippers produced for Pan-American Airways, expropriated by - Washington and turned over to the British with the

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are operating in the Montreal-Lon-don . ferry service, supposedly restricted to military or ‘official passtogers and. diiemstio mail. ‘But

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these -plines are carrying private passengers at $600 one way, the money being turned over to the British Spitfire fund, and ordinary air mail is reaching the United: States stamped ‘Per North Atlantic Alr Service’ In both instances, the British are faking business away from. Pan-American, who originally ordered and paid for the clippers and needs them badly. Pan-Amer-ican’s mail load is down 10 per cent, its passenger business off. These charges are made by Senator Mead of New York, a New Dealer.” That's a pretty kettle of fish, isn’t it? Any American who thinks that British big business is putting its all into this war, without concern for, its domestic or foreign markets, is day-dreaming and due for u headache after the smoke clears away:

» 8 t 4 A REPUBLICAN’S VIEW OF MR. BRADFORD'S MOVES By H. J. Hill, 2085 N. Meridian St, - Republican County Chairman Bradford's grandiose plans for the 1942 election campaign strike a very citric note in the ears of Republicans. who have been following the political trend and past events. Evidently, we are guileless and gullible childrén, lacking intelligexce, despite the fact that we have attained our majorities and the laws presume that we are sufficiently aged to exercise the right of suffrage and participate in the affairs of qur government. The proposed plan aS a political bedtime story for Bradford’s Republican children. ‘From his statement as published in the daily press, one gathers that Mr, Bradford has been a sort of a super leader;’ but the facts fail.to bear that assumption out, unless one forgets the 1940 election campaign. ‘We. are reminded | that the Marion

Side Glances By Galbraith _ 4

‘|County Republican Committee

Treasurer's report shows expenditures of over $108,000 during 1940 election campaign, which is by far the largest campaign fund in the political history of Marion County. And there were unquestionably, other countless thousands spent to elect the Republican ticket in this county and yet the Republican candidate for Governor received only a comparatively .small plurality over his Democratic ‘opponent. There would be no justification for the present Democratic Governor, if the vast sums of money used in Marion County -had been properly and. judiciously : expended. Super leader? ‘How about losing] the election for county treasurer by approximately 200 votes and electing the prosecutor by a few more than 100 votes?

sleep by this bedtime story, Mr. Bradford. Next time, try “Little Red Riding Hood” on your Repub- . ® = IMPEACH PRESIDENT AND CONVERT INOLATIONIS1S By Rits, Indianapolis Great ‘men have been quoted again and again by our peace. seeking interventionist, short of war. All ‘except ‘the Prince of Peace. Peace must be sought after and pursued.

nation, not wedded to Hitler. And not wedded to England, I hope. Let us seek peace’ by a different light other than the flames of crush

for peace instead of for war. - Noth-

“Seek and you shall find.” “My Peace I give you, my Peace I leave you.” “Peace on earth to men of

will, not war-mougers. ir vert our interventionists. Lastly, let

all else. iE Happy the man, whose wish and Care A few paternal acres bound, own

Content to breathe a native air] : ground.

In his

| Whose herds with milk, whose flelds

Whose. 8% supply him with

‘attire; : s Whose trees in summer ¥ield him i

In winter fire.

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5 heath of peace of mind, = bot Quiet by day.|

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‘have been equally disastro

‘forces or access to that area to make such good.

Republicans’ will not be lulled 46]

We are a free and: independent :

Hitlerism. Let us work and spend|

ing can be accomplished by. war| I that cannot be accomplished by peace. ; Let us follow the Prince of Peace. » Do We Have Moral, Opinions?

Good will” Let us be men of good | de

us send D. A. Sommer after Hitler's: scalp. He seems to ‘want’ it above]

WASHINGTON, Oct, 16.—It 1s _; natural that the Russians should demand that Britain make some ‘kind of attack on Hitler from: thewest, or south to take off his pres . sure. on their desperate . It is even na -both Britain and this

suftered more grievous Dee hr a Vi woun: a in this conflict. any d

The curse of this war has been strong nations’. inducting weak ones to sacrifice ‘their existence byt

: promises that they could not fwifill.

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All the. Dangers on One Side WITH THE LOOT in arms and muntions ofc er I ee tr ers hands and With & (erie “edge” in superiority and equipped it is doubtful whether any half-baked ‘sortie by England in the west would cause the Nazi boss even tow pause in his eastward assault. But a failure by England in any such abortive attempt with a consequent 10ss in men, ships and: Bian cau could ‘do much to weaken the whole...

is something of the same principle in either ‘Britain or ourselves promising Russia whats ever she requires. We haven't got the stuff and, ., even if we had it, how are we going to deliver it? _ The transportation problems of distance and ine) adequacy of ships and rolling stock are enough to make any important performance simply impossible, There are only three routes, through the White Sea, Vladivostok and the Persian Gulf. They are thousands” of miles long and inadequately served with rail trans. port. The first two are liable to interruption by ice” and all three liable to interruption by military action, &

Let's Not Kid Anybody - 3g

* “NOT ONLY HITLER, but everybody else, was, amazed by the amount of military equipment the? Russians had been able to store through all these years, but their own admission, they have lost thousands .upon thousands of guns, tanks and planes, —many times more of guns and tanks than we shally have for months to come. Their loss of railways and rolling stock seems tow disastrous. Even ios reine were not convertible by the Nazis to strengthen their. own armament—which ‘much of ‘it: is~the sheer~ weight of ‘metal for scrap, steel, iron: and aluminum must be a greater quantity than we can hope to re<.’ place, even in part, through these long, satiow dangerous and inadequate lines of supply. ‘ Another idea~—that we should guarantee Russia's 5

‘southern borders in Asia so that she could move her

ay onions Trom ere to Ber eastern front equally a an 0 SO appear to the Russians. First of all. ‘We have not sufficient land “’' 8 guaranty

Let us and the British help the Russians all ‘we ” can while they are engaging Hitler—with money," diplomatic, economic or military pressure: elsewhere. wherever it will do any good. But Tet us riot, as has” been so ate Sone 4 in nls oar, ad either them or ~ ves any imprac e ideas or any promises thi he sheer physical reasons, ealttioh possibly be

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A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

many parents share my oy | agree with me on this point.”

AND I KEPT ON wonderirig, thinking how strange Xs nan, wily Shavisiiha so. weak and so sally, we believe ‘ourselves capable of %$

hig in which its parents elev ed: as proof’

¢an we give that we are morally equi vost A