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er ahd convey of munitio ns to the ‘Allies.

ible issue. . Regardless of al J

branch: of the Government has eT) made constitutionally. This quences —is a great gain for

istration and a Congressional m jortty have ‘authorized a limited form of undeclared av ng that it will reduce rather mited war.

ional decision has been made, | 0 00s “

for that desired.

LL, CAN WE? is profoundly disturbing] that a domestic issué—the = Government's labor policy--played so large a part in the louse e's consideration of an cy. Yet it is true that the two issues are linked. Labor. has power to prevent. production of the weapons witht which the Government cannot carry out the foreign licies already adopted. Labor has been using that power. and is threatening to use it on a greater scale. The House debated yesterday under the imminent ows of a strike~to close the coal mines upon which

| $200" for his initiation fee.

ll-important issue of foreign

: ' | employees and’ preening Some, private ‘agencies’ | -have. ‘indulged An ‘réprehensible practices. This. bill

agencies and soalle 1 afi ct as

En oy lady Trl recognize such 5 chee prac-

rupt ane the common man that has come to light in our time en Mrs. Roosevelt convince her--self that union : s have been extorting millions of dollars. from needy and d |; them natives, as the price of jobs on war pro s |

Evidence Is Not Lacking

IT 1s NOT THAT evidence of them has been lacking or obscure. The evidence was presented in: dramatie: [Style to Mrs. Roosevelt personally one day appeared before a Congressional inquiry Into & robbery an and was told of the testimony of a 2 witness, a woman, mother of a destitute Dr eTious amily, who said her husband, an electrician, ‘had been barred from a fine job bécause he lacked’

Mrs. Roosevelt brushed that instance off with the. remark’ that she thought it must have been an exceptional case. But it wasn’t exceptional; it was typical, as she could have learned by reading a few pages of the record of this and other investigations and some of the many letters of protest which must have ‘come to her, as .they have come to me, from desperate . and angry victims of such robbery. - Elsewhere ' Mrs. . Roosevelt often has inveighed ‘Tacial discrimination in employment. Par-

} against i “ticularly. on- Government works in connection with “the. war effort, and I have agreed with her as, I

suppose, most: other Americans do.. But though she condemns disérimination on account of race she has certainly condoned and, in my interpretation, ‘has indorsed the cruelest and most arbitrary and aricious discrimination against thousands of in- | dividual’ workers, regardless of race or religion, who happened not to ‘bejone g to Jnions or lacked the money or. had. tao much © spirit to join under compulsion.

the nation’s steel mills depend, a strike to: paralyze the “Nobody Can’ Be. That Naive' |

ation’ s long-distance telephone lines. Every Congressman whose duty it was to vote on | nding armed American ships into the war zones of the world should have wanted to know: % Can we arm the ships? Can we fuel them with coal? we move their cargoes rail to the ports? Can we move telephone messages from Washington to the navy yards? Can America back up our men B we vote to send | Shem inte danger of death? | | en ® 8 =» ’ ELL, can we? Those questions remain unanswered. | Congress is still Goi bh to be answered by the | esident. And all the answer the President gave yestery was a promise that, if he fails to avert the coal strike, - e Government will see that Of course. The Government certainly can do no less remain a Government. But the Government needs o much more, and every member of Congress knows it. # Whether or not the coal strike is averted, there must legislation "to prevent unnecessary stoppages of producWithout that—with only desperate efforts to stave off strikes by makeshift methods while more strikes continue to develop on every hand—to run the risk of war’ is to assume the deadly risk of defeat. It is not the duty of Congress, though it has become the craven custom, to ask the President’s permission to legislate. It is the duty of Congress to legislate,

Bon

HEARD ON THE STREET CORNERS [From The Nacogdoches (Texas) Daily Sentinel] ‘ere several of us listening to the President's speech and’ Ww “all: “indorsed everything he said, even i it meant war, and we got to discussing his reference to the coal strike, and one said he didn’t think the Government had the Bower to make the miners work, and a mother said: “It looks to me like it it has. the power to take my boy and put him in the Army at $21 a month, ‘make him lose his job, that it ‘ought to have: tHe power to make a man Seal ie n a Say to fumnish fuel for defense manufac-

: is president of the Ameriong College of id if the Nazis dominated the world after

, the fmosphere necessary for the growth.

of science and the - spread of education would not exist.

ing of his own’/sphere, he added that German surgery | roads passed dling ; ‘grain shipments without car shortages which some

ince Hitler came to power had been practically ‘sterile, What he said of surgery is true of all the arts and scios. Thé- ‘Nazi ‘bonfires of books they did not like were ighly symbolical of the Hitler “New Order.” Professors talk: the kind of fake science that Nazi racial rubbish ands. “Their art ‘must be the kind that a one-time inrt house painter ean: appreciate.

- Once the German theater taught the world, Today it | There was a time Montana.

ily holds up thé mirror to Nazi en German literature, even in translations, loaded the 0 leshelves.

at legacy to the world, it they are d

coal is mined to make steel. |

, | Wildlife Service has been

THE UNSPEAKABLE RACKET known as the hod--carriers’ union, which only recently, and then under 1 the goad of publicity, held its first convention in 30 -years—and a fake convention at that—has robbed countless families of eating dollars. as the price of Jobs on war plants. Infested with racketeers of the most vicious stripe, giivng no coherent account of its vast loot extorted from the unskilled, strong-back types, this union smells of nepotism - in~its higher official ranks: and, in its locals around the country, has turned men out of their jobs after they had paid for them through the initiation fee and taken

-on other suckers by the same process, but Mrs. Roose

velt wouldn't know ‘about that. . Nor, apparently, has Mrs. Roosevelt heard of the enormous graft ‘gathered by the carpenters’ locals and, indirectly by the international, through a similar . process. There are many bills in Congress which ‘would compel such rackets “to fille with the Secretary of Labor. information about their ownership,” and many of them ‘are literally owned by the boss unioneers in

control, and about “their income,” but Mrs. Roosevelt,

appears to be unaware of these proposals: or of the extortions and’ other abuses which have made them’ necessary. A: word from Mrs. Roosevelt would help, and a word from the President would practically compel the passage of laws which would stop such “reprehensible practices” and “protect the good” unions and “make it difficult for the others to feather

their nests at the expense of employer and employee,”

but Mrs. Roosevelt is silent on that point. I said at the start that I often wonder whether Mrs. Roosévelt is naive or crafty. That was just a way of speaking. Mrs. Roosevelt gets about; she. knows the facts and nobody can be that naive,

Capital Chatter

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—-The 83,000 U. S. beauty parlors did 231

million dollars: worth of business. in 1939, according to a special | F . Typewriter pro-.

census report. . - duction is scheduled for an all-’ time high this year. press agents are insisting that the military situation in Russia now isn’t nearly as bad as 23 years .~.ago when the Germans held all the Baltic states, all the Ukraine, all the Caucasus oil fields and the Czarist armies held the Urals and the valleys of the Don and Volga. . . . Gambling concessions and the national lottery have been abolished by fhe new regime in Panama. . . . Thirty per cent of U. S. commercial tonnage moves on the country’s 30,000-mile system’ of navigable rivers, canals and channels. .ieis New Maritime Commission vessels’ have built-in gun emplacements. . . . Sweden is making a coffee substitute from, sugar beets. . . . To show.how the Army is splitting up its orders to spread the work, contracts for two million pairs of shoelaces were recently i to nine manufacturers. The cost was $40,000.

It's a Merry-Go-Round

ENOUGH KING CRABS have been discovered in" Alaskan waters to support an industry. - Fish and ‘them and found speciments up to 23 pounds. . . . California quicksilver industry is booming at the rate of 5000 a year at $125 a flask. . Bureau of Reclamation has completed 81 water storage reservoirs in the West. .

regular fall peak, han

alarmists yelled about last summer. . . . Domestic

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"American citizens, }

* | that is’ made ‘up. purely

| this

ow that high taxes that the tax per pack ‘alone 4 one-third. to el s than would otherwise pay. ,Or if ‘he dri dutomobile’ he doh the percentage of of Federal, State and ‘taxes. He will find that without these taxes his p

== that doesn’ y » prises: should se

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| would be from half to

a Mr, Roosevelt's oe lal

‘NOBODY WAS ‘EVER MORE eloquent in mal point clear than Mr. Roosevelt in his speech ad Pittsburgh in 1932. There’ he showed how’ nearly all taxes reached the housewives® ‘market: basket 4 nd

“Taxes are. paid In the west of every manv What thess, people are frying to say; and’

| it precisely back<end-forward, is that Higher

will make, not lower, but higher prices. They ‘want higher prices because they say the common’ due to a defense boom, will soon have much money io spend arg it is hoped to take it away from them in high taxes so that there will be ‘more material

B } available. for Government.

The Hoosier Forum l wholly disagree with what you say, but will - defend to the death your tight to say it.—Voltaire.

‘REPUBLICAN PARTY 18 COMMITTING SUICIDE’

By a Republican, Indianapolis . Hats off to you at ‘The Times for

for his outrageous isolationist viewpoint, For too many months our

have been energetically mis-repre-senting us. ® I dare say that if a vote were fo be taken today on Senator Willis, ‘He'd be catching the first train home for Angola. . , . The truth is that the Republican Party is committing suicide. . ¢ «

‘WHY SHOULD OUR SONS BE PAWNS IN EUROPE?

By Mrs. Freeman Davis, 1920: N. Meridian Perhaps some of your ancestors came to America to escape English tyranny in order to enjoy religious freedom? Is Fiorella LaGuardia, New York City’s: Fusionist mayor, working toward that end, in sending lout New Deal letters to the clergy of America, to be read. from the pulpit? We haven’t had an offer of annexation . of Canada from Great

“| Britain so why then, should Amer=

icans on Armistice Day, be requested to play “God Save the King?” “America” for Americans should be our only slogan. . .. ; : Why should our sons ‘become pawns in Europe’s, continual wars? ," Why are our sons up in Iceland in the: American Army, under a British: general? 3 Why should we American mothers sit complacent, when we were informed at the beginning previous World ‘War, that it was for the sole: | purpose. of making the world safe for democracy? Again we hear the same words spoken. No one or two nations should rule or dominate use of the oceans. . _ If the warmongers had not been so greedy for gold, no lives would have been lost on these privately owned ships carrying contraband

|cargoes, . contrary to international

law, and manned by American

putting the bee on Senator Willis|

Hoosier congressmen and- senators]

of the|ton..

imes readers are ig to. express their “views in "these columns, religious. con“troversies excluded, Make your letters short, so all ‘can "have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

crews. And they were attacked! Wonder why? ... . “Who has a better right to a voice in the ‘war referendum than we|’ American mothers of sons who incidentally . are paid the mere pittance of $21 per month (privates). From the sale of the ammunition which these young 80l- |

diers will shoot, raoney is now fill-

ing the coffers of the millionaires who seem to be’ the promoters of this ‘Get into the war game, with England.” One flake of sndw started a huge snowball! = ~ There are many mothers of sons! : mem ‘PEOPLE WANT ALL-OUT AID TO BRITAIN By A. D, C., Lebanon |

I ;agree 100 | Pir: cent with the ent, that! our: “Indians senators

land . representdtiiés “are misrepre-

senting ~the Stafe of Indiana in Congress. A The people of tis State want allout aid to Britain. They want indorsement of Mr, Roosevelt's poli-. cles, 4. + "Either we're going fo. gel. that indogsement or we'r? going to kick out a lot of fakers at the riext elec-

‘» » . : PAYROLL TAX JUST LIKE CIGARET LEVY’ ;

By Taxsd-te-Death, Indianapolis. ‘1 seé now that the Federal Ciovernment wants the right to 'dip into our pay envelopes every week to grab 15 or 20 per cen; without our ever seeing if. ‘ This is just like the: cigaret: tax. You get’ 80 used t0 forking over the|,

Commerce Weekly reports the electrical equipment | fF -

‘and industry producing at the ol oe high of 300 million dollars a month: electric power expansion,

d the | § at five _— the |

normal. rate, will rdise Sontag ‘capacity f 43. 065 million kilowatts b a

ra Br ed - monoler is aking 3

“Verboten” today ‘are men like Erich Re- pe 1d Zweig and the. grea brothers, Thomas and

So They Soya 0.

y to untie the shoelaces of these id Dey ye ;

Side Glanices— By Galbraith

6 or 7. cents a pack -ge that after a while you just fig re the price is 15 cents. Well, 10k ‘how wong that is.

of every gallon. i. Give these buzzerds Th Washington the chance to set their paws on our pay envelcpes and were saddled with the for the rest of} eternity. , . .. ‘What we're get ing all over again| is taxation wi aout Tepresenita tion, 3 oe 3 soko eey LABOR SITUA? {ON JUST Lee GREEN A 'PLE®

By a ' Union Man, ‘ndianapolis like thé right.t eat green apples. If you use g sen apples right, they're fine eati g.

they're awful o the digestion. Nobody ever sid you had to paus & law to keep greedy little tads from eating gr: 2n apples. body just takes t for granted that when the boy gr ‘ws up a little, he'll

away. That's the wa I look ‘at the labor situation. = = : ® 8 = % ‘CEASE PUBLI' HING PHOTOS OF HITLER A} D MUSSOLIND

By Mrs, M. H. Kr nedy, lafayette

Americans, I as this favor of ‘The Times and all American newspa-

ture. It seems ie has ‘had too: many pict: ‘es and they unnerve one ‘whe: you sit down to

‘|read. They are in insult to American intelligence. . ..’ ‘I hope never| oo ig to see Hitler's or Mussolini's picture} 45.5 Sgain und celal: a4ing thelr. defeat, .. But don’t

Ea Ce : & | WHY DQ JUDG 18 HAVE _ TO BE POLITIC ‘ANS? :

[By = a. B. Bison: aston A 5 I see by your paper where they judge. « «+ Sat the State, fans? es

|to be politicians’

Isn't that th very thing this

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Hom? es i

Whiles in the e ‘ly winter eve

leave

And gasoline; toc. Five cents out

The right to ; ike is a little bit

In ples, they're| swell. If you ise them wrongly,

Ev ory- we

just look at a § en apple and turn]

: “16ng ‘to set. down

As’a Thanksg ving offering to all]

pers: cease pub ishing Hitler's pie=}

lot for a new municipal -oourt] Why is it that your (and 0 ove Sent

Ye pass ami ti 1 gathering night | ; | Some homesteac that we. had iL

Years past; | an ses’ tts candies]

Well, some of the people are wobig: to have m money to spend, but a whole lot of them are going to have less. As has been shown in recent col and amply elsewhere, “priorities” -bankruptcies and distress threaten a serious Unless We are: careful we shall have our ‘again “half boom and halt bust.” nw :

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|All Monkey Business Anyway'

IF WE HAVE price control both Halves . will be benefitted. But if we: begin to jack up: prices by ‘more ‘and more fantastic taxes, while the “boom™ “half may be able to p them the “bust” half ‘can

Don’t forget also tha "Wen pros aus to ete. gerated taxes are just more burden to: be laid upon the backs of future generations because they multiply the cost of the defense effort. Such ine creates. in’ cost; have already added ded billions to: the _ burden. With the widely advertised Tistory" production which is to double our present. effort the total cost would run to 120 billi To put it flatly, that is more money than we can ever hope to’ pay.’ : We are going to run ‘into some funny mo | jusiness as sure as the sun rises—depreciation, ~ “pudiation or printing-press “hocus-pocus, 2 I know it is heresy, but with such’ a’ pros ahead it makes one wonder whether highef t | isn't exactly the wrong r wer and ‘we should start the monkey busin v. It is all’ going’ WOnkgy: ‘business any:

- only do a little more

: re koe One came % my F- door yes

face when ir He asked for work—as

them do. Any kind of work, bo said, so he could buy something to eat and-a night's’ lodging. Bub = wanted more, and now: that he has pone I ad I sensed ha! it was and gave ces it is more welcome han money, for I am convinced that the unfortunates want, above all else, a little of our attention and time. This man needed someone to talk to, His being responded to questions. The sum was and so we. sat on the stoop in its wi mi he telling his troubles. <The" story is Bore, And besides it ‘is as o : humanity and as trite 8s a nursery rhyn iewthe of misguided ambitions and hard luck’ f vision—the same woes hat, go 3 make 4p gd “mass miseries of mankind. §

Yooy Yearn for 2 a Word

THE DAYS [HAT WERE a