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JRESIDENT ROOSEVELT says there will be no change in American policy as a result of the sinking of the 'U. S. S. Reuben James on convoy duty in the combat zone off Iceland. 3 That is the weakness of the Administration policy of undeclared war. You ofder the Navy to convoy, to hunt “down Nazi submarines, to “shoot on sight,” and then when "one of your ships is sunk in battle there is nothing to do "about it. You can’t even make a diplomatic protest. In forwar at least you do not expect men to fight with one “hand and both feet tied. br ea It seems unfair to the men who risk and give their lives. . To suppose that Nazi submarines will not fight when ‘they are pursued by destroyers—as was the case with the _ U.S. S. Greer and U. 8. S. Kearny, according to the official ~ yeports—is futile. That is war, even though it has not been declared by Congress. While the loss of naval ships under such combat orders can surprise nobody, the deliberate sinking of unarmed American merchantmen far from the war zones is proof of Nazi barbarism. : What to do about it? - That is what Congress is now debating, after defaulting for many months to control of foreign policy by executive decree. Congress has the only constitutional authority in this decision. Its decision should be as open and clear as the present twilight policy is conflicting and con-

fused. : We do not believe this nation can wisely precipitate kan Atlantic war, while threatened with Pacific war. ~ But if the decision, constitutionally arrived at, is to : © “wage naval war on Hitler, then the United States should fight with everything it has. Then not one American naval

plane, not one ship, not one anti-aircraft gun, not one tor-

. pedo or round of ammunition, should go to others until our "own Navy has enough to fight victoriously.

UNITY (LIMITED) | JT'WENTY THOUSAND A. F. of L. and C. [. O. unionists met together in New York and united in a demand for: «= Outright repeal of the Neutrality Act. Establishment of a western war front in Europe to relieve the pressure on Russia. Establishment of “a mighty world anti-Hitler fortress .of the British-Russian-American trade unions.” = Wonderful, isn’t it? : They can agree that America must risk war to stop «Hitler. They can agree that workers in America will unite ‘with workers in England and Russia to stop Hitler. ] But they can’t make their own union leaders stop

NOW THE RUSSIAN GOLD, TOO EFORE the latest phase of World War II, there was considerable concern in the United States ahout the fact ‘that all the world’s gold was drifting to this country. This i8 still going on with a new twist, because Russia was one of the few countries which still had gold in quantity. Now Russia is turning over its gold to the United States in exchange for desperately needed war supplies, and the tendency for the United States to get it all continues with-) out interruption. . ) - Renewed assurances come from Germany that one of hat country’s aims is to abolish entirely the gold basis. his is always placed on a high moral plane, with mouthings . about ‘‘delivering the world from the domination of gold.” but its sincerity is about on a par with other Nazi declarations, since they have never failed to loot each conquered

country of all the gold in sight. There never was enough in"

sight, however, so having no gold, the Nazis are against it. ~ + Nevertheless, it. must not be forgotten that wherever Nazi bayonets dominate; there the Nazi mark also dominates. It simply means the Germans may acquire any assets ‘those countries at their own price, since the relationship ¢ between their currencies and the paper mark of Germany are set by fiat and maintained by the bayonet. This strongly suggests that the United States must do nething more with its gold than sit on it. We suggest hat one thing to do is to distribute part of the gold obviously not needed for any conceivable. monetary use among friendly countries whose trade we wish to increase and link with our own. or : ; Instead of loans and credits when we wish to buy mani ganese, tin or chromium or build a‘ Pan-American road, is not worthwhile to consider the possible effect of swapping ‘hard gold which is in excess of our own needs, for comodities which we do need? : : ~ This would enable friendly countries to adjust their encies to that of the United States, and help to create a ‘dollar” area of the world which could stand against the phony mark area.” Then, when the bayonets no longer

port the mark, there will be something stable in the

. world to take its place, )

ERE YOUR TAX MONEY GOES JHEN you pay your $102 income tax next year—you

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to think of it as applying on an airplane or a battleship. But, on the other hand, it may go, along with the taxes nine more like you, to pay for printing Senate Docu- ; No. 91, sponsored by Senator Hatch and entitled, 7 Mexico, Land of Enchantment.” te The document has 51 pages, and guessing its cost per

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At this point you may say that I am a fine one to be objecting to intemperate language but the answer is that I am not a public official and moreover probably have been affected by the tone of Mr. Roosevelt’s speeches and our mayor's, being very young and impressionable. :

‘Silly Editorial Confusion’ :

BUT, WHAT THE HELL, men—and you can blame that little vulgarity on our rulers because I never did swear, drink or smoke before 1832—if you are anti-New Deal as to the national administration you can’t consistently support a half-size F. D. R. for an office which, in domestic importance, is second only to the Presidency, itself. I see where my paper, The World-Telegram, which opposed Roosevelt politically in 1940, and Captain Patterson’s Daily News, which has been anti-Roosevelt on the war issue and hot as fire in that opposition, too, are both in La Guardia’s corner in this campaign and I think that is about the sillest display of editorial confusion that I have ever seen. Because La

Guardia is Roosevelt without any reservations that I have been able to discover and the little one is subject to the same objections, pound for pound, that are held against Mr. Big. La Guardia is no less pro-war than President Roosevelt but-I am one who is inclined to string along with, but a little behind both of them on that issue and therefore probably don’t make very good sense if you regard the war as the one and only issue. But I don’t regard the war as the one and only. I am afraid and convinced that war has been spelled out for the U. 8. A. by past events and Adolf Hitier and, such being my belief, want to know that this sacrifice will not be made for the purpose of creating here by our own efforts or political folly, the very condition that the enemy is trying to inflict on us.

'He Just Ain't the Butch Type'

I WANT TO SEE a mayor in New York and, presently, a President in Washington, who will not only repudiate Communism but run Communists and party liners ragged just as La Guardia and the President now harass Nazis, Bundists and those whom they call Quislings or Appeasers. The attempts to change La Guardia’s name from Little Flower to Butch has failed and the reason is that he just ain’t the Butch type. He is a needler and ‘a good showman-and don’t let anyone tell you he doesn’t like his picture in the papers because his vanity eats it up. - The reason why he seems to be a Butch is that he fights tom-cat style and would just as soon chew your nose off or scratch out your eyes, in the sense of repartee, of course, whereas his opponents have been mostly old style, standup, Tom Figg political fighters. But, like Harold Ickes, he will tin-can it if you give him the laces across the mush in the clinches and tromp on his toes and bull him around and he ‘has got by with his rough stuff because most of his opponents have too much dignity and respect for the office and public opinion or too little guttersnipe in them. iis CB a A reporter stopped him one day when Guardia, | in that pip-squeak voice of his, yelled, “I going to” tell your boss on you.” The reporter simulated La Guardia’s voice with a high falsetto and screamed back, “Yes, and I am going to tell my mama on ou.” Did that fry him!

New Books By Stephen Ellis

LONG AGO O. HENRY discovered and put delightfully on paper the essential explosive humor of the Ldtin-American mili offi-

cer, and the endless, bustling revolutions they promoted and fought. . Now comes T. R. wi “Young Man of Caracas,” in which he tells what he saw first hand of the military in his boyhood in Venezuela, and of the boisterous Latin temperament, and you wonder why he didn’t use this material in all his years of fiction writing. Instead, Mr. Ybarra wrote most of his fiction about New York characters, and Broadway, and he appeared to be a confirmed Bostonian in his personal point of view. : Only now, after all these years, Mr. Ybarra comes through with an autobiographical book about kis early days in Venezuela—a beautifully written record of those stormy days when his father, a general, alternated between commanding little ragged armies and running to Boston for dear life and exile when the enemy was in power.

What a Family!

MR. YBARRA'S FATHER-GENERAL had quite a flair for the grand manner both in Boston and Venezuela, but he never understood nor was he happy there. ‘The author onee wrote that his father was suffering from a chill in Boston because a window in the house next door had been left open. i You get a wonderful picture of the violent Ybarra clan and you get just as charming a portrait of the lady {rom New England who became the General's tolerant and amused wife. She came down from New England when her father, a judge, was made minister to Venezuela and imme-

As she grew up from childhood, the young general became greatly enamoured of her and set up a courtship that was at least part siege. The dictator at the time forbade the marriage. Young General Ybarra indignantly smuggled his flancee out of the country, married her, and then devoted a good part of the rest of his life to hating and harassing this dictator, whether he was in or out of power. : * * ‘This book is highly anecdotal and has a nice insight into the Latin temperament which in itself, these days, is useful to have if goes on in the world. ;

‘YOUNG MAN OF CARACAS, by T. B.

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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.

THE GERMAN INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES By R. C. L. a No German soldiers have planted

there has been a gehuine invasion of America. It has taken the form of an invasion of the perfectly good American language. It is evident every day in newspapers and ‘magazines and in public speeches. There stand the Germans: “panzer,” luftwaffe,” blitzkrieg.” There is not a bit of sense in it, “Panzer” is no whit better than “tank” or “armored car.” “Luftwaffe” does not mean more than “air arm” or “air force.” “Blitzkrieg” conveys no more than “lightThere is no more excuse for it than for French names of food on American restaurant menus. ” » # DEMANDS ‘NO STRIKES AND NO LOCKOUTS’ By B. CO. We. have seen in America—in a time of national emergency—a labor leader refusing a plea of the President to refrain from a strike that would cripple defense production. With bright lights in his office, John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, strode before assembled reporters in Washington and’ announced a sorry chapter in union labor’s story. For 'a second time he refused to heed the President. . The issue was simple. The sole question was whether the great steel companies, operating so-called captive mines, would grant Lewis’ organization a closed shop. Captive mines are those operated solely to produce coal for the steel companies that own them. According to Lewis’ own statement, practically all the men working in those mined belong to his union. To that extent he already had a closed shop. But he insisted upon a written agreement to that effect. To get it Lewis was ready to jeopardize the nation’s defense program. He called a strike as he had threatened. It is time to say to this man that he is hitting not only at a President he dislikes, but at the whole American people. He and other labor

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the cause of union labor. They are putting in jeopardy the gains they have won. They are estranging their friends and giving valuable arguments to their enemies who have never believed in concessions to organized labor. They do not realize how weary the average American is of the almost daily headlines; “Strike in Coal Mines” , 5, . “Strike in- Airplane Factory” , , , “Strike in Shipyards.” In a time when he is being asked to pay the heaviest taxes in the country’s history;*when he sees boys taken from their jobs to make good soldiers, the average American is bec sick of what he sees in the field industry. It is a picture that reminds him too much of what went on in-a France’ that now lies prostrate under Hitler’s heel. What this nation would like to see and what it is going to demand and what it is going to get is: No strikes and no lockouts that affect defense during America’s national emergency. 8 8 8 = ANOTHER COMPLAINT ON OUR HALLOWEEN RULING By Mrs, Iva Burms, Indianapolis I think it is time that the Indianapo. e quit fighting the war across the waters and turn their attention to the coming generation at home. There is an old adage, “Keep your own doorstep clean and there will be no need of reformers.” What are we going to do with our children is now the great issue. It t our most honorable Po-

leaders like him are endangering

Children now cannot enjoy their

Side Glances=By Galbraith

bicycles until they are 18; they aré then ready for a car. Their Fourth of July was’ taken away because they might get burnt. Or was it to save the powder for them to use in future warfare? They might get more serious burns there. Now it is Halloween. The Circle festivities are closed. The one thing that has marked Indianapolis as a friendly city. Children must be off the streets by 9 o'clock. Boys and girls have waited a year for the one night of nights that they could act like grownups and stay up and out late. I am sure that the Halloween damage with the other things that the children might do, does not exceed what the Shriners and American - made us put up with. But there is another adage, “It all depends on whose bull is getting gored.” This must be the one that our law enforcing body lives up to. Or does. it give them a thrill to chase the children? It is almost like Cop and Robber. ! Really, I think Mr. Morrissey

stork; have every child born 21 and above all a good Democrat. # # 8 5 ‘NOBODY CAN SAY WORLD WASN'T WARNED’ By An Ald-te-Engiander It is a weary story now, repeated over and over again, of the way in which the Nazis have stri , like devouring locusts, every country into which they have come. As one conquest succeeds another, the same story is told in all its sickening detail, : Potatoes dug, cooked and canned in the field by mobile apparatus, and shipped off to Germany. Houses stripped bare, even the door handles, window fastenings and bathroom fixtures taken. Private vegetable gardens enumerated and confiscated even before the vegetables were ripe. Everything usable, everything movable, stripped and sent away to Germany. : ' And all meticulously paid for—at one-eighth of the price, in funny money which is of no value at all. Nobody can say the rest of the world wasn’t warned.

THE BLIND BOY

O say what is that thing call'd

Light, Which I must ne'er enjoy;

What are the blessings of the sight, + © tell your poor blind ' boy! You talk of wondrous things: you You say the sun shines bright;

|X feel him warm, but how can he

Or make it day or night? My day or night fnyself T make Whene'er I sleep or play; And could I ‘ever Keep awake With me ‘twere always day.

|| With heavy sighs I often hear | Aloss I neer can know.

Then. let not what I cannot have

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policy, I do not question. ws What About Transportation?

RUSSIA CANNOT STAND without vas of tanks; artillery and planes, Her losses

dle East. The only thing that can p is a very heavy flow of the very dispensable to our creation of an sembling an effective expeditionary for As to Russia, I can see how, after @ fort, we might manufacture the kind of she needs, but for the life of me I can't’ can deliver it on the battle lines. The ti routes are longer and more precarious ever even attempted for a major action, There: are only three—-through the through the Persian Gulf, through di first will soon be ice-bound, and even if ‘it the long line of rail transportation from battle-front could be quite easily severed: Vladivostok is at the mercy of Jay then the line is too long and the trans slow to force through the. vast tonn Much the same is true of the Persian

There Can't Be One

THE SITUATION IS MORE hopef the British iri-the forthcoming Libyan ¢i much more hopeful in aiding in the def British Isles with this heavy equipment. ‘But to do or try to do all and, time to build up a great new.A. E, F., is cleal the picture. That doesn’t mean that we may soon sending abroad special detachments one to Iceland, It doesn’t mean .that the may not so change that, say in a year fr may not be called upon for: a. new force. 5 lp nl But it still seems to me that, difficul military forecast in' this most unpredic wars, the controlling facts in this case @ that it is safe to say that any new overse ture such. as our Herculean effort in -1917 is clear out of the picture. & I am not talking here about the p of this war-minded Administration, but its limitations. There won't be an A. B next. year because, in the nature of th can’t be one. Editor's Note: The views expressed newspaper are their own. They are

by not of The Indianapolis Times. r

A Woman's, Viewp By Mrs. Walter Ferguson:

But that girl had brains-and ahead to the end of the war eme think, doing some long-time planning for Having good eyes and ears, she knew conditions in Washington for hordes of workers afe almost unbearable, that it cg live there than. it would in her own state : unless a miracle happened and she got all the br she couldn't hope to be anything more im than an unnoticed cog in an enormous m

Her Kind Far Too Few