Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1941 — Page 8
of ! Price. th: Marion Coun. 2 ty, 8 cents a delivfa a hd bat) 7 amie 8 week, i Mail su iE mates in Indiana, outside of nips, ne cents & month.
: i - ste s 51 owe Lions end the. People. wa re Their Om Woy STOR, Nov 8 1041
] i ) BS oven. a bright side to the. new income thx 50 thankful you. won't tibe taxed on ‘what you think you're’
worth.
American green on ee Yin De zones to er ports, with naval Somveys, will “extend the. undeclared
i ‘not criticize the Roosevelt Far Eastern policy. dent and Secretary of State deserve the highest or “the skit and patience by. which: ‘they have
I preservation. of Pacific peace depended uly on the esis of Washington, there would be no crisis. today. That
: Berlin. The danger inreases because Hitler has an in- _ creasing interest ‘in causing an American-Japanese war, ~ which would divert most if not all of the Ametican aid now ifig to Britain and Russia. Nobody knows the terms of the offer, if any, which the “Japanese envoy is now flying to Washington. . ‘In view of Tokyo's unwillingness in recent negotiations to give up her "active Axis: parmership and continued: aggression in China and. elsewhere, W ashington is naturally skeptical as to “the possibility of any acceptable truce offer from Tokyo. ~ But itis our belief that the President would welcome "almost any truce terms, short of selling out the Chinese and Russians, to preserve Pacific peace now, Certainly that is the obligation he assumed to some degree when he insisted on: “extending ‘undeclared naval warfare in the
i grocer is the man who has to pass most of ased cost of living on to you. And he doesn’t
June; 1989; the prices rocsived by farmers have creased more than 58 per ce . “The increase wasn’t because of short crops, for there Bave been and are big surpluses of most crops. It 'was chiefly beeause of ‘Government policies. But, in justice to the farmers, the increase so far has been: necessary to achieve approximate parity—that equal ~ relationship between the. prices paid by farmers for all the ¥ things they buy and the prices they get for all the things they sell, which has so long been pictured as an ideal goal: While fhe prices received by farmers were climbing 56 per cent, the wholesale prices of food went up more than 82 per cent, But the retail prices of food advanced less
= 19: per cent.
bes achieved. ‘ Deas the if ‘Prices to the farmers now con ne to isso. must wholesal prices, and so must
rmit and encoytage: he per prices to climb a pre deal ‘higher. - The Administration proposed a bill h' would have let them go to 110-per cent of parity (beef cattle are already above that), which was bad enough. The committee: proposes to let them go to whichever. is ‘highest: 110 per cent of parity, or the prevailing market price ast Oct. 1, ‘or the average price in the 1919-1929 period. ~~ ‘Here are official Government figures showing what that would do. to the farm. prices of various food products:
100 lbs, AarenseEd unease net ananen nas $10.08 RR ea 5
Seldedstansnsranirsnns
RE pL vesnsans aps ‘you're already. feeling the higher cost of living 3 haven't seen anything yet, -If the combecomes law, farm prices will go up, wholesale
go up, and ‘retail food prices will ‘go up. | will demand more ‘wage increases, and wage |
ease the prices. paid by farmers for the “Then parity will go-up. Then farm prices more, and so on, around the vicious spiral
tbls your grocer if ha happens. Blame s who. are afraid to pass
atives know now that you demand protection Jest of ying befor? I¥2 too late, :
| The Hugh Gibson: Diary
| sistance. of retiring Belgian troops,
| away were shot. {-the church and 50 of
| trying to Slvage sunken ships from
ns real price-control + blame ‘yourself—unless ‘you let your Senators
Iy cruel fares bay when §
| conduct of
Today, again, when 100 pr ;
‘at random out of a pen, a
for the ax, and shot in der of a German officer,
. ‘But, in the presence ; thought naturally occurs that th
very reason -that they are Jopever Lising such bosses as the Kaiser and the Pu
BUT THE ATTITUDE and conduct of
man people by in these recurring tainly the terms imposed were not harsh by
comparison yith the actions of their soldiers By »
Germany was riding high. That conduct was not repeated at their expense by the victorious armies of the Allies, for thers is in the record of the limited occupation nothing comparable to scenes described by Hugh Gibson, who was the secretary of the American legation in Belgium in
whether they serve one master or another the German military men retain certain tics ang ideas that are inherent.
Gibson reminded the German officer who was conducting the party that The Hague convertion forbade collective penalties for the lawless acts of individuals.
'It Will Teach Them to Respect’
“HE DISMISSED THAT to his own satisfaction’ » Mr. Gibson wrote, “by remarking that ‘all Belgians are dogs and would do these things (sniping) unless they are taught ‘what will’ happen to them,” an attitude which has now been openly adoptsd toward the Poles by the Nasi invaders.
work; the burden of what he had to say was some. thing like this: ‘We shall make this place a desert. For generations people will come to see what we have done and it will teach them to respect Germany and think twice before they resist her.” “When the German Government realized the horror. and loa with which the civilized world learned: of the fate of Louvain, the orders were cane celed and the story sent out that the German forces had tried to prevent the destruction. Never has a government lied more | When we arrived the destruction was being carried out in an orderly way that showed careful preparation. It was only when he learned how civilization regarded his crimes that the Kaiser's heart began to bleed.”
Andenne, Seilles and Dinant . . .
“IN ANDENNE AND SEILLES,” Mr. Gibson wrote, “the Germans killed habitants who remain there was a reigh of terror during which the Germans rendered themselves guiliy of every sort of atrocity and barbarity. It seems to be generally believed that the massacre was due to reProvocation the Germ: duct hie aves ne an conduct was of sa J In Dinant, he wrote, § savages lage and shoot. They
drove the and set fire to ‘the houses, people
to the streets The congregation was ‘taken from
civilians who could be square. The women the other side the the first kneeling. dead and wounded
rounded up were driven into the were lined up on one side, On men were lined up in two rows, Then two volleys were fired. The were left ther until the Gerem, when practically sale executions, This wes: ed ne > Syl Whole 6 rmans do ot. - yadict the essential facts” = Seeta to oon ese are samples of Mr. Gibson's diary, whole ‘of which strongly urges the conclusion that Ihe
Treaty of Versailles Was remar res > kable for its civilized
= Capi Stuff
By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. Officers. in Washin, ashington are debating whether to buy new fall civilian suits. What they're holding back on is the belief ney nay be ordered to wear unifo
, With possible restrictions on copper and brass for zip- . bers, steel boning, BODES, 5, ayes and hose supporters. . ar Depart- ; ment | now has the large; number De and 0m ar ‘each have about 25,000 civilian employees = Wash. ington, the Treasury's 21,000 being second. , . . Some consideration js being given to plastic coins to conServe copper and mickel.-, , . U.S. ‘taxes now average S16 ind pep Sapie. Great Britain’s average is pposed higher, a year that’s any consolation. » per apis #
What Billions Come To
Ir You WANT to visualize a $100 billion defense program, compare it with America’s entire rallrpad system, which is valued at only $26.5 billion. . , . The Coast Guard will let its most powerful cutter on the Great Lakes be frozen in at Sault Ste. Marie so it will be there to break the ice for the iron ore fieet next Spring. . . . A bus line in Dakar runs on peanut ofl, Japan is reported so hard up for scrap iron she is
territorial waters. 15 Men to Every 10 Women
& million pounds of meat, a ‘million vegetables and a million loaves of bread eve . . . Soviet embassy runs a Russian school i ington for- children of staff members. . ne Deparment,
Wash Soap sales,
a oSongrosman, Robert Chi
apt Gfts in So savin 19, nt of { } women of America: wore Eo
NEW YORK, Nov, ' 880 es ‘ has been said of the deliberate
the G nan . armies is all that: the victims have to judge the Ger- 8
tragedies and : on the Germans after 1018
1914. Mr. Gibson kept a diary which was published | § in book form later which strongly suggests that | %
Visiting Louvain after the sack and slaughter, Mr. |
“With a hard glint he told us the purpose of his
about 300. According to the in-
“The Germans set out to pil--Those who fried to run: the men were shot. All the
—Army :
‘the bottom of her:
1 wholly
“The Hoosier. Forum
disagree with what you say,
defend to the death your, right to say Si.» Voligire,
but wil
F. D. R. ‘SOLD WORKERS INTO BONDAGE’ By A. J. Schneider, 504 West Drive, Woodruff Place Benedict Arnold attempted to betray his country and left a blot on the history of this country which every school child takes note of,
| President Roosevelt sold himself] into bondage for a half a million
dollars, and just the other day came very close to outdoing Benedict
Amendment to the Constitution.
his master, did he succeed in compromising the Issue for a few days,
slavery - or enforcing the “Congfitus|’ tion, as he gave oath to do, is still before him. Will he have the backbone to defy his master? Personally, |, I doubt it.
However, free workers stim have oourts in which to defend their rights—even though’ ‘workers do not have the finances to conduct & Supreme Court test. It remains, therefore, for the free workers to band themselves together, to obtain a Supreme Court test on this issue of Tree or slave labor. .... | * ~o n 8 HOW CAN LINDBERGH BE i LOOKED ON AS CITIZEN?
{By B. A, Indianapolis
The American public made of Lindbergh a guiding star, a hero, as we usually. do when anyone: per»
‘|forms a feat of daring and courage,
that may lead to the advancement of science of the comfort of fiiture
make a lot of mistakes in our hero worship, as has been proven in this case.).
eae ne
an extended sojourn in Europe, He
and the disregard of the Americans for the laws of the nation, He de-
home and selected England, giving as cause, the belief that the English people were the most God fearing,
lived about three years in England and on a French Island in’ the EngHishy Ohaimgl. In the fall of 1938, ac-
‘Arnold by selling all free workers into bondage contrary to the Pifth
But the choice of selling us into
.|out. He has called to the lowest in- : |stincts in the lowest beings. . . ..
generations. (And we, the public,
Lindbergh and his family left the] ANOTHER VOICES PROTEST United States ori Dec. 22, 1935 for|ON HALLOWEEN BAN
gave as cause, dislike of publicity,
(Times readers are invited to express their views: in these columns, religious controversies ‘exclided. Make your letters short, so all can “have a chance. Letters must be signed.) ;
cording to authentic reports, Lindbergh let it be known that his.intention was to. move to Germany. The news brought instant reaction from friends and relatives in Ameri
Only by groveling at the feet of ca, who cabled him not to make so
tactless a move. He gaye up the idea, however, he spent much time in Germany. | “oie * Then It April, 1930; Lindbergh re. ‘turned ‘tb the United States. There could be but one of two things causing his return. Take your
“hehoice,
There was some respect felt for Lindbergh until he made his Des Moines speech, when he Stirred around in ‘a cesspool of racial and religious intolerance and hatred in the United States—a thing that no patriotic man or woman would méntion, a ‘thing that only comes from some dirty dungeon or hide-
How can he ‘be looked upon as a
| citizen of the United States? Gone
five years, and, from his lips, living in a home, the comfort and beauty of which was beyond description, and before he could again have had the right of franchise, start. with his public denunciations ‘of the acts of our governmenf. If" he doesn’t like’ it, why doesn’t he return to his French Island? You guess! Or he had better go to Germany. . .. ® = @
N. Maer ape A. Kins, #48 Hlinels
In reply to Marjorie R. Wylie: Conventions, yes—but Halloween,
nounced the U. S. as a place for a/no. I agree with her’in every re-
spect. It's the greatest Injustice that could ever have been done, by depriving all of our great masses of
law abiding people in the world. He| children that dooked forward to this}
wonderful event (Halloween on the} Circle),
“The ‘one tat wis back or this]
Side Glances=By. Galbraith
The ‘Army now YS i pounds: of of Mesh | ry day. Fos of Conan, ste $5.3 ber cout 1 = pS it Lt pk | a
{have they any children, were they
| Circle, as. it has always been my custora to gather all the youngsters
{cities fear the labor vote, and con{sressmen from the country-fear the farmer vote. Senators fear both!
fr se en
false ‘movement, may I ask, has or
ever young their self, or selves? , , . One of the greatest things in life is lrying 10 make all the little children happy, I myself missed Halloween on the
up- whose ‘mothers were. unable to take them to the Circle, and I myself derived the greatest pleasure from it with the youngsters. Being a great-grandmother at 48 years old; planning events for youngsters has kept ‘me young and happy. Let this recipe go out to the one, or ones, that made unhappiness for our. youngsters, by: depriving them). ‘fof thé Cifgle ‘on Halloween might, use it, apply it, ‘Nloney éan never) buy this, but it wir bring abundant happiness’ to them, if they just think, and. ge my ovis,
BY A MIGHTIER GROUP By T. W. 0, Indianapolis
& bluX at tackling the problem of avoiding - inflation. I use the word “Bluff” with full knowledge of the purport of ‘the word. It is justified
Washington and what is probably going to happen. unless the American people make Hiemelves more vocal. Jongress certainly zevoniaes the dangers of inflation,” but ‘seemingly lacks the courage to meet the problem in the'only way it ean be met. Nex: year is election year when all the répresentatives and onethird of the senators come up for re-election, Congressmen from the
blocs, That is why there is slim chance of any real anti-infiation action... . . 7 "The time is dow 10 minutes to 12 for pressure by a mightier group| than either the farm or labor| lobbies—the great mass of American people. For once inflation starts, lt will hit the farmer and the workingman as Jcigusly as any group.
SONNET ; Beoause tite’ ‘Few with signal virtue crowned,
human mind, : Sedder and. wearier than the rest aro found, Wish not thy Soul less wise or less refined.
evary day ~ Cheer and distract. the;pilgrim. wel not theirs;
.
NOW sr ve FOR ‘PRESSURE| |
"Congress is getting ready to. make!"
{by what has already happened in,
The height and puso off
war ourselves, would we ve vast it of war materials we so sorely need ourselves : the three almost absurdly routes to = sia, hi knowing more, of the military. situation an On our lives we wouldat—but w ing the strategy of this ‘War, a8 for his information ool have met Lord | pk ‘an care any more for his 4 Denver oe way than 1 would for Mr. Sarin that tT mu
‘Shall We Stop Thinkidg?” po LF
ONE ALMOST INCREDIBLE 3 aspect of Tinta hiro. consular reports to our republic is the obvious effort to ei ous} the » cordiality and gen esirability as an associate like Mr. Sin. In war, you can’t look at the plety of the from which help comes. You Teave a until’ “But that doesn’t mean that you: have to fool yourself. into 8 Sort of sloe-eyed intiocence in. the
meantime. is a of .the: blast,
4
This half-savage Georgian most cruel, treacherous ‘tyrants the world has ever produced. His the blood of more of his éwn coun puercus despot. ue idea of cove on the visit to M to the American people to have choos Qualities is nauseating and ‘the
but. you can be sure: that the ‘cool 61 such men as Stalin and Hitler don’t d 40 1t in a very different way.
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in this aewspaper are their own, Wty IS 800. Hest dutap of The Indianapolis Times. z j
A. Womrls Views By Mrs. Walter Jerguson :
tim DAWN po A new day for ‘the woman's ‘club Movement is - here. Since change is the first : law of life, groups as well as in
y dividuals must be ready to accept it. The o ation . content -
remain static ay -die. with club leaders or
sa rea what they say, one can s that most of them are aware of \ © the necessity, There is a- ripple Sv een wand, tks, wind eat, and clu women wil Do rnyl tn fess a & e slo feeling that basic efforts in every field are Sultering because they are centered in New York City or ~All sorts of decentralization are: A iy One heats rumbles of disapproval because x government “of, ; ‘by and for the people”. should be s0 far remov from the le. A few definite steps have already been taken to spread the defense efforts, and to mova. certain “in ustries into other sections, and I believe this must soon ‘be followed by feminine
Tail Wagging Dog Too Long - : MOST oF ot OUR TR Satiorhl group ips Have a
Paintained head ttered th i Wy Urtten mem p is sca over e potential strength depends po how
States, snd nr poi ta long they can a is the added POR ero: And there ‘ment beneficial ‘to- the whole group rather than to ‘ gertain leaders of it, as has sometimes ‘happened ; reo Se J ee wr pressing : problem. ' every traveling sentative’ must ey cemandous lsuoces br ort 0 bin as pth other branch offices ‘in e 0. or the central section would. help solve morale as weil th ught that: wide difierenoes of teeing a 0! exist in the various areas, ang mus have o sisi
lin the past.
To attain unity, group Tenders Te nt nd ly ta an ey sone ‘in the decentralization effort.’ The tail has
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