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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941

FINLAND IS STILL FINLAND hl JREVEMEER brave little Finland, the heroic defender of

democracy against aggression? Now the United States is threatening reprisals. and

Britain is threatening war. ‘It would seem that either Finland or the United States desires to betray a democratic friendship. But that is not true. It is just another case—a very tragic one—of war making strange bedfellows, Finland is fighting with Nazi Germany. against Communist Russia, because in the past Russia has been the enemy of her freedom. The United States and Britain are aiding Communist Russia against the Nazis, because: Germany has been the chief threat to their independence. Secretary of State Hull says the difficulties of a separate Finnish-Russian peace cannot alter the fact that continued Finnish fighting in association” with Germany can mean only one of two things: Either the Helsinka Government is no longer a free agent of the Finnish people, or this policy:is Finland's free choice with the full knowledge that ‘4t threatens the independence of ‘all anti-Nazi countries. Our guess is that the Helsinki Government cannot pos- . gibly be a:free agent with Nazi troops on Finnish soil. § Secretary Hull and Prime Minister Churchill give Finland excellent advice, but fail to explain how to carry it | out. Are Britain and the United States prepared to help | Finland put the Nazis out? . We fear that our Finnish friends will lose either way, whether Germany wins or Russia. Therefore our sympathy | for them is greater than ever, even though we think they | are gambling on the longest. chance.

FRENCH HIT BOTTOM TE SHADES of Marshal Foch, Lafayette, Zola and even “* Louis Napoleon must be shrouded in even blacker garb . today. The heroes who rushed around in taxicabs to save Paris at the first battle of the Marne must feel their ride was in vain. Read this news item: . . “Somewhere in Poland in-a camp over which flew the German flag, the swastika, and the French tri-color, French volunteers, clad in German uniforms, took the oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler as supreme head of the German armies and made ready to join the Germans on the fighting front. The French commander of the volunteers said their force was a symbol of the unity of Europe.” ; . Seems to be a new low in degradation even’ for the . Vichy French.

“QUITE APPALLING NEWS” USY Mrs. Roosevelt must have found time, somehow, to. ‘study the White House grocery bills. Her-“My Day” column yesterday revealed the “quite appalling news” that the average housewife must now spend 14 per cent more meney for her family’ s food than she did a year ago—that in some cities the increase of food costs is over 19 per cent. It was no news to most housewives. Let’s not argue here about how much of the | increase is due to artificial boosting of farm. commodity prices by . Roosevelt’s husband’s administration. The cost of hi ng is jumping. That's a sign of inflation, The important question is: What shall be done about it3 : The Administration asked for a price-control bill which: would have done nothing effective about it. It proposed to| regulate a few selected commodity prices, but to ignore such price-making: costs as wages and salaries, and not y to regulate farm prices. : 3 The House Banking Committee studied that measure for three months, ¢, the cost of living meanwhile continuing to

Then a majority of the committee came forth with a |

of their own—an even worse bill—which still would do

mb to record peaks.

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VEN the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Wickard, belicves

“| the committee’s bill would hurt, rather than help, the.

farmers. Permitting farm prices to go. to “unreasonable heights” would interfere with control of other prices and with the attempt to prevent inflation, he believes. And, : “agriculture stands to lose a lot of good will if people get the idea that farmers are insisting on too much.” ¢ A young Tennessee Congressman, Albert ore, | is leading a fight for real control of prices. We have asked him to tell why, and his article is on Page 11. We hope you'll Yead it, especially if you're a wage-earner, or the wife of a Wage-earner, to whom the rising cost of living already means hardships. / ‘Unless some such real control as Mr. Gore proposes is adopted, the cost of living will continue to climb and there be inflation as bad as, or worse than, that of the last —and, after that, another terrible depression. Wage- |,

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‘abolish dual and triple job-holding a

New Books By Stephen Ellis

YOU'VE HEARD OF H. R. Kaickerbocker. You :hould have. He's the chap who's been doing top-flight foreign correspondence - for 18 years. He's known them all

plan scommendations |} = h at are: cribbed: Ey EYE debates and from the | | 3

are not original, from m

obvious, » reason

I have so seldom bo eer vo pro= |

pose remedies has [been that the very evils themncilve es instinctively suggest cures, First of all, I suggest that the open be ‘established by law, preferably by the Wagner Act. I put this one first bece use it is the: most controversial of all.

shop principles

The open-shopper has been attacke a savagely for |'

years and by some citizens of considerable standing, too, but he is, after all, only a defender of a fundamental human and constitutional right! of ‘the Ameri-

.can citizen. The open-shopper merely says the Amerihimself |

can citizen should not be compelled tg place under the government and regulation of| private groups

or to pay tribute to any private group for the right |

to work. "This principle is not abrogated in so many words by the Wagner act, but it pointedly is not recognized

‘and the intention of the act to ignore it was admitted

by Senator Wagner during the debates which preceded adoption. He stubbornly refused to permit any amendment which would ‘have penalized a union for coercing and intimidating a citizen to mak him join, while:-demanding that an employer be exposed to punishment, for equal and simple coe on and intimidation.

fis Mrs. R. a Labor-Baiter? Se

Mrs. Roosevelt | thtness of ve :

MRS. FRANCES PERKINS and open-shop principle, but ly in a quick whisper, as though they were fa au Nevertheless, they are on a and is on the other side of the question will ci baiters or union busters for this, althou h others who

have said the same thing, but louder and more frank- |

ly, have been so described. Next, inasmuch as the unions of the country now collect, one way and another, about one billion dol-

lars a year from the workers and except in a few rare } intelligible accounting, a (law should be-|-

cases, give no enacted compelling all unions to submit | affairs to public supervision. I know estimated the annual take at one-half ia billion, but my figure is closer in reality. One of the wisest union men in the country told me that he and several other professionals, discussing this’ estimate of mine one day, decided that I was almost a billion short, but I will stick to a round billion -and point out that this much money constitutes a great temptation and that no harm and only

eir financial

-good could come of such a reform.

I would also limit by law the salaries of union officials, local -as well as international, and would d duplicated expense accounts. These unions operate under special favor from the community as a whole and the whole public thus has a right to provide that they shall not be exploited into private concessions.

He Wants Honest Elections, Too

Hh HOPE I HEAR NO objection, because anyone who objects would be arguing that there should be no ceiling on.the profits of the unioneer, although ceilings have been established in other fields and the internal revenue even limits the salaries that may legally be paid to corporation officials and employees. I would insist on honest elections in unions. At present we insist on elections in some. circumstances, but never on honest elections, and we all know, by experience in our public voting, that there is a great difference between an honest election and one in which one side or the other stuffs the ballot boxes. I would provide prison sentences for men who steal an election in a vote to select a bargaining agent and similar . punishment for crooks who. steal elections to union. office in the locals and internationals, And, of course, something would have to be done to prevent false strikes, so I would require a. supervised vote on every strike issue and destroy the Jover of the union official to extort money from employers by threatening to call out the men. These proposals leave us still wanting some smaller but quite important reforms, but they would do for a start and they would harm nobody but the individual dictators and crooks and Communists and would bene-

fit the whole country and particularly the rank and

file. : {

—Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, Stalin, ete, not alone as a reporter, but as ‘a confidant. If anybody knows Gernlany, it’s Knick. He’s been On a Tare tour and ‘out of it has come one of the most unusual and striking books of the year—“Is Tomorrow. Hitler's?” Knick has set down some .200 - questions most frequently asked and answers then, in chatty, informal style. Have you ever: met Hitler? Is he personally brave? Is Hitlor the real-boss of Germa What would happen if Hitler were killed? Can Churchill be trusted? What are Britain's war aims? . ‘Why did France fall? What makes Lindbergh the way he is? : ‘What is America’s answer? : And on and on and on. Mr. Knickerbocker dodges nothing. He stands up in this book, takes it like a man—and gives them back that way.

‘A Masterful Job—

SERIOUSLY, THIS book is more than simply the ‘answers to a lot of pertinent questions. It ‘is’ arranged in such form that you get the picture of, Germany, Russia, England, France, all In their proper order. '

You get a completely rounded picture o Hider

Hitler the orator, the servant, the | master, th tyrant, the pleader, the ‘military genius, Hitler the/ man. Ditto Stalin, Mussolini, Churchill. Then Knick turns’ his talents to Lindbergh. He

takes that gentleman apart piece hd piece and never | | quite the same |

puts him back together again in

Knickerbocker is a ‘masterful journalist. ang this sh masterful %00k.

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Is T Knickerbocker. pages, Noi oe York. aw,

word by John. 'Gunth

So They Say— declaration of war would restore Nihiam J. Behjeftelin; chairman, .

grace for President, is back in the ring and pitching | Re or Forsiag

Forgotten are old rages. Dropped are “the harsh | he said last year ‘when he bolted 1 his party a and made

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The Hoosier Forum “I wholly disagree with what you soy, but will = . defend to the death your righ to say it—"Voltaire.

1 DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT IT, WAS TO VOTE’

I was very much impressed with Laura Beatty's article in the Forum. I am a mother of a girl and boy and didn’t realize what an important part I had played in life till I read Laura’s script. I was father and mother both for eight years, but enjoyed it so much that nothing else mattered. In fact I enjoyed it so much I didn’t even feel like a father. But I was so young when my children were home I didn't even realize what it was to vote and now of course I am not going to start it when : feel like I fojelem, 1

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e = a STRIKES ‘MATTER OF GREAT SATISFACTION’ TO HITLER By M. B. “I * hope eres of - Congress “view with alarm”... . and anger . + « the prevalence of strikes in this country and, particularly, those affecting and often seriously crippling the national defense program. To give point to this, Senator

figures supplied him by the Secretary of Labor. These. showed the following astounding number of man-days lost recently by reason of strikes—April: 7,006,228; May: 2,180,315; June: 458,765; July: 1,200,039; August: 825,000.

It is true not all this precious Lime and labor was lost in defense industries, ‘but a considerable and damaging part was. The days the locust ‘hath eaten can never be re-

{called and only with great difficulty

retrieved.

Each day lost must have been a matter of great satisfaction to Hit-

his honorary Aryan friends, the Japanese. 8s = 2 y 4 ‘HE WHO GENERALIZES IS AS A BLIND MAN By R. W. C. : ‘Not. Nazi Germany, but Soviet Russia is the surprise of surprises

. lin this war, People are waking up

By Catherine Shirk Beatty, Indianapolis.|-

ler, his faithful Fido, Mussolini, and,

“Tomer readers are , invited to express their views in these columns, religious con~froversies excluded. Make: your ‘letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

to the fact that they were misinformed anc. misled about Russia. Each vocal prewar visitor to Russia saw the great experiment through his own ideological glasses: As the pros were often self-con-Jo Reds or gin or Iliometeaye

tdi a Ch i was Dp! wsented not only of a land where people were regimented, persecuted and purged, but also of a state whose army, when the fiest came, would: be a headless mob, whose, weapons would prove to be inferior, and whose war industries would be so sloppy that a collapse worse than that of France would be the natural and expected consequence when the country was assailed ‘by the Germans. . Since the ‘war between and Russia. a number of clearheaded, hard-boiled, straight-think-ing anti :businesimeh Amerieéa and Britain have gone to Moscow on “various | ‘missions, ‘They

it. They made a careful, ‘factual, realistic study of Russia’s army, the “|Russian will to go on. with the war,

|and the Russian factories. that make

her war material, : Upon their return to this country and Britain many of them have talked. They all agree that Russia} will (fight on to the end. They all

ciency they ‘saw in the factories, The moral :s thus once more driven home—it is imsafe and unwise

or nation, for he who takes prejudice as a guide and mentor is as a blind man being led by the blind. i Se » & ‘CONVENTIONS, YES-—-BUT HALLOWEEN, NO!

By Marjorie B. Wylie, Indianapolis Re the ! : situa

tion in our City. This City yearly|

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had no Red ax to grind. Far from

express their surprise at the effi-

to generalize rashly about any race

Side Glances—By Galbraith

takes around’ $50 from our family

of four children. Not only my children, but other f es, and everyone ‘who pays taxes. I feel if our City can afford to pay 16 officers (I counted them) to stand on the

. |Circle doing nothing (but keeping

children from having a good time) they at least could and are willing to work for their money by allowing the Circle to be blocked off and keep law and order while children and grownups have a good time. Our children should come first in our lives, so we should treat them im the right way and give them one night a year for fun, I think this year has been a punishment for | kids. Can't, som he; ‘done? : * "Conventions can tear this-City up. in a week. Don’t think parents don’t get their toes tramped on, at least when it is our tax money that keeps this City going. Taxes were higher this year. The City had more money than ‘they know what to do with,

few nights to get rid of the money. I know some of the officers don’t approve of this as they ‘also have children. Halloween night oh W. Washington St. in the pouring down rain, an old lady lay in the streef, hit by a car, waiting for the police, possibly 20 miinutes, maybe dying. Where were. the police? ‘Maybe on the Circle standing, or W. Michigan St. celebrating, or on a corner ‘in some

children were deprived of their Halloween custom this year. : ‘I think every parent should: stind together and demand, at least, the one night a year: our children ‘are entitled to, / ‘If children are treated with ‘more

et may be cut down instead of increased. 2 2 LEWIS ‘MENACE TO THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE By B. P. W., Shelbyville. ~The word in union circles around this town is that the Government is going to give John Lewis the closed shop in the fight. If they do, they are just driving the This man and men of his type are a menace to.the American way of life. It is about time the Gavern-

few.

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day . When that chur] Death my bones

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50 - they .double the police force a|

end of town on duty, to see that.

consideration the future crime rack-|

ment started looking after the in-| 3 |terests of all the people, not just a ;

ie Meshanies ows Wa that neither should we. | | 2h .Utsnay! or some other : have given plenty of re sapiute ol Gertian subi complete grap ey have announced. the d daring Nazi submarine commanders, nine

It s a Curious Situation

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oe ov derstood, but in the “rar on Eng, comfort to the enemy—a {oe 8 successiol ports of American Josses of 0: Some splendid ¢ less splendid ship graphs and Sitipall speett Ge -cumstance, more or less tr "given, or’'a indications of what these ships of ours are doing t any who ho Shallenge Rh to t g something the American people. The effect if not the purposs of willy Indetenitie Joly” of sence, Cl ‘mercar, a e create an’ armed ships are sailing su infested seas some such motto at their on one cheek and we will tu

pride or ; self respect’

-heads as “ fete the other” It pat

ous also that this absurdity:should be having its ac~

dive life while the Neutrality debate is active. in Can»

gb This column Dever espoused the Neutrality Actes anything more ent . for Surrender of’ traditional maritime rights. 1 t Jong o argued that: after the it had be~ come obsolete, but o the l Tend on and never did hold as his as a way: w get i Toe

‘Let's Have a Few Facts’

IP YOU HADN'T BEEN told anything in confie

dence, and didn’t feel bound not only by: that confi

dence but by the Administration’s own policy to publicity releases, and if, at the same time, you a pretty good idea of the efficiency and hard-hi qualities of the United States Navy, you would know from conjecture merely that our Navy has done plenty. to Mr. Hitler's submarines and will do plenty more, Washington is humming with stories of devastating American naval action for ® which it seems vo be possible to get no official confirmation. - Of course, Some: of them must be’ Stapgeraiad;, ut, aqualy, prob bly, many of them are true. Side The only JTeasonable explanatloc % [ ‘Jumbo is ce ly not the o Hitler's nerves. It. is that might drag Japan into her ant ue Tes with Hitler in case ahother Cl haven't we proof enough’ that,he h us? Let's have a few facts.

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of The Indianapolis Times.

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Le stove. The national pase: .+glon for: undulation has overs:

.#. reached itself at last. : 3 : Under the guise of modernity the American housewife has had: handed to her 'a medium-priced; Jauge whi 16 3 Honey io look

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