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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1941

LET US GIVE THANKS a "HANKSGIVING DAY is an exclusively American institution. And that is just as well, this year. .For many other nations have more to mourn than to give thanks for. Even this fortunate country of ours finds its observance ‘of the day clouded by ugly domestic strife, by a deepening participation in one war and grave danger of involvement in another, by a plague of human and material problems incubated in the defense effort, by debts and taxes already

. formidable and soon to be staggering.

And yet— ~ Nol hostile bombers deave our skies, nor tans our countryside. No little men swollen with power can tell us what to ‘read or hear or say or pray for. To laugh, to dance, to sing, to eat, are still American. For those things, at the least, let us give thanks. And et us pray that next Thanksgiving we can do the same,

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BRITA N’S BIG OPPORTUNITY : RCHILL says Britain will declare war on Japan within an hour if we fight. But hasn’t he got the cart

‘before the horse? ; If we fight it will be to defend the British Empire even

more than ourselves, because Britain’s Far Eastern in-

terests are vastly larger than our own, Including the Philip‘pines. | Likewise, Churchill's “Statelnent that Britain can pro‘vide a powerful naval force in the Pacific is based on ‘American aid. It is because this country has been using its crowded shipways to repair British vessels and, as the ‘Prime Minister says, “owing to the effective help we are getting from the Untied States in the Atlantic.” But the question is not whether Britain is willing and ‘able to help us defen the predominantly British status quo in the Far East. The question is not whether Britani ‘is ready to sacrifice men, but monopolies. If Britain is willing to let a little international equality into her control of essential raw materials, maybe a fair Japan has long argued ‘that all she wants in the South Pacific is an equal opportunity for the raw ‘materials and trade without which she ‘cannot exist. If Japan is honest about that—and the only way to

find out is to call her bluff—then there is no excuse for

fighting a war which only Hitler wants, which would divert ‘Britain and. the United) States, and’ ‘which would: be fatal Shits If this British concession led to Asiatic peace, thus

; berating the mighty British and American forces held in : ‘the Pacific, it would be a staggering blow to Hitler.

For Britain's sake—as well as for that of the United States, which would have to carry the brunt of any Pacific ‘war—we hope this will not be another British case of “too little and too late.”

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THE SOURCE OF A RUMOR JN URGING that rumors be questioned always, and never believed unless investigation shows that they have some ‘foundation in fact, we believe we have stood on solid ‘ground. In: times like these, rumors not only start. among ‘thoughtless people who spread them just to hear them‘selves talk, but they are consciously launched by people ‘with bad motives. The source is usually never determined at all. But here is one exception. There have been frequent stories of a ‘Russian aviation base on Big Diomede Island, just ‘across 8 narrow strait of water from Alaska and in a position to ‘threaten it. The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, the well-known ‘Alaskan “Glacier Priest,” now says there is nothing to such rumors. And he adds that they came originally from four fishermen who had run out of refreshment and were reduced to drinki rubbing alcohol, vanilla extract, ether “and water.’ / Which is’ a ‘more trustworthy source than may be elaimed for some rumors.

UYING A TOWN ON SHARES Jove stexess are buying, not individual homes for themselves, but equity shares in the whole community of Audubon Park, N, J. It’s a new plan devised; chiefly .by Col. Lawrence Westbrook of the Federal Works Administration, sponsored ‘by the Federal Government, and ready for application to ht other. similar projects. The buyer makes monthly yments of from $24 to $36 a month, and this money goes

toward buying the house he lives in, but into a’ general

and for amortization of a $1,500,000 mortgage on the ole community. . When the mortgage is paid up, each older will own not a house; of ‘his own, but paid-up ownerhip shares in the a How this new plan ‘will work, time will tell. It could snceivably revolutionize real estate practice. It is one of e new ways of doing things which are going to be tried ut in Increasing, Humes in coming years, for better or 'orse.

; MAKES THE CLOTHES | ; AYOR LAGUARDIA of New York has been criticised by the Custom Cutters’ Club on the ground that he

’t measure up sartorially with their idea of what the |®

ll-dressed statesman should wear. Fiorello has lots of

vements to his credit, but we don’t think his best| |

end would argue for his dress, which is negligent sorfe-

, to the point of sloppiness, In advancing Grover |’ eo their ideal of how a public official should dress,

MARK FERREE

"air Enough By Westbrook Pegler

a very few trust. He gave the unioticers plenty prove their arrogant stupidity, their bility and their criminal character, away with larceny, mob rule and persec IE a a ane bound fo come some time.

Heresy, That's What It Was

THERE HAVE BEEN other breaks, but they weren't, as inviting as this one, and Mr, Roosevelt's

igan, Byrd, Brewster and O'Daniel have raised the

devil and that Smith really worked hard under handi-.

caps and against political hazards, for he was one of the effective, persistént' pioneers who recognized the faults of union practice and of the Labor Act and board and started scrapping when to say § word against any union was like sneering at the Christian religion. It was heresy, it was blasphemy to criticize any union or any of the inflated unioneers and most members of both houses of Congress were afraid to utter a peep. Some of those who kept still, however, were just shrewd and acted on a premonition that Mr. Big

would do something like this and grab the political

credit for their work.

The Guild Helped Out

THE REPUBLICANS laid off, as you may have noticed, because they. realized that if any reform legislation went through Congress, the New Deal would go before the country and take all the bows. Or, if the legisigtion failed in a test, the Administration would be representatives of the people had rejected these attempts to deliver labor with an upper-case L back into the hands of the corporate exploiters. It was a long time before the newspapers began to venture a few mutters editorially and I think they would ‘have been even slower to react, but for the outrageous demands of the Newspaper Guild under its former Communist leadership and: the fantastic yarns that were told about some of the controversies between publishers and the union. | The / Guild probably is as much responsible as

‘any other element on the union side for the reform

which fis now on the way, because the Commies with their utter cynicism and their savage persecution of dissenters in the craft made the publishers personally aware of the iniquities of the whole situation.

Do You Know of a Good Outrage? '

AND NOW THE UNIONEERS have no other friend in the country to whom they can turn. Mr. Roosevelt was their pal and, with his encouragement, they kicked the public around so ruthlessly that any=thing the President. may do will receive the glad indorsement of the ‘overwhelming majority of the people. - And, of course, the Republicans can’t very well

vote against any reforms that he may suggest either

openly or through any of his dummies in Congress. They will have to go along or content themselves with ‘mere haggling over details and phraseology, be-

cause this is a great popular movement and the re-

form is just what they have been demanding in an abstract way. Well, it certainly has been a wonderful row these last five or six years, but I am afraid it is almost over now, barring a few prosecutions of individual thieves and miscellaneous ‘other crooks, which will be mere police stuff. Me, I ain’t sore at anybody. I ain't even sole at our beloved President for calling his own signal on the 1-yard line. But I have got to get me a new specialty. Does anybody know of a\good outrage that needs to be denounced. fearlessly? !

New Books By Stephen Ellis

MANY GREAT WRITERS , have come up from the sea. And still they come. Jacland Marmur, sailor, adventurer and shortstory writer, can now be added to the list of greats in the sea story division of Americana. J His latest novel, “The Sea and the Shore,” qualifies kim, eminently. True to the tumgdition of writers of the sea, Mr. Marmur has drawn a sharp’ line of division between the two elements: the sea and shore. They are two worlds whose separate orbits cross briefly only to part again. . Men who sail in ships partake.of the peace, the order and the silence of vastness which surrounds them. Charlie Bradburn has the qualities of his

. environment: quietness and hardness, calm and sud-

den storm. Galeta Koven loved Charlie and married him, but she left him because the life currents that swirled about her had not been charted as the sea currents that Charlie knew so well and lived by. She warited to chart the eddies and currents of ker life for herself. She didn’t want to become simply a sallor’s wife. She wanted to become a. person. ;

Power and Beauty

IT WAS DIFFICULT for Charlie to understand that. He had come home to the tiny flat in Brooklyn after a long voyage. Already, he was second officer. It wasn’t a question of money.

The urge for self-expression in Caleta baffled :

him: He followed the sea where everything added up. If you set your course and followed ments, you IVAHADY arrived at a safe

a position to say that the elected |

The Hoosier Foram

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend i to the death Yous: ight to say it —Voltaire.

‘LEGION MEMBERS THINK RUSSIA 'HAS NO ROLE’ By Amused, Indianapolis. ~ Concerning Mr. Theodore Dreiser’s lecture on “The Role of Russia in the Present World Crisis,” it

members think Russia has no role.

papers gives one the impression she has a most important role, But perhaps this role is unmentiomable, like legs and feminine undergarments in the 1890s. Tsk, tsk, such modesty and from lads who were singing about the “Mademoiselle from gay Paree” but 23 years ago. 8 88 ‘WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO CHARLES THE GREAT?

BY Luther McShane, +430. Massachusetts

What has happened to Lindbergh (Charles the Great) ? He made a lot of predictions about Russia and England and said some unsavory

weigh him. in .the balance with Hitler and we find them equal as to

Great has taken a runout powder. Won’t some of the "American Firsters tell us something sweet about their great “fadeout artist’?

® =» = ‘PEOPLE LOOKING FOR THINGS TO GRIPE ABOUT’

By A, F. R., Columbus It seems to me a lot of people read the paper so they can find something to gripe about. If I don’t like things Pegler writes I skip ‘it, and read something I do like. Why not work the crossword puzzle? It will take your mind off unpleasant things. I read the headlines in the Forum and when they sound like they are interesting I read the whole thing, something: like this for instance, “I for one am. ready to shoulder a gun,” or “Let's talk less and do more.” Now when you read letters like that they don’t leave your mind in a whirl, but when you see headlines’ like this, “My, My, Mrs. Roosevelt catches on fast,” or “It’s fellows like me that are stuck”

seems some local American Legion}

Odd how the first page of all news-|:

like a ‘poison gas, and we need gas

things about the Jews. Now we can|

talking. It looks like Charles the

.| vent strikes at this time. The pub-{

or again, “Stuff Pegler writes should |

mn imes readers are invited to express thsir views in. ‘these columns, religious. controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so ali can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

. J * 2 x be framed,” I'tell myself now there's something will raise my blood pressure, and I leave it to the ones who like to gripe, When you get your mind in a snarl, it's worse than a snarl in your hair. Hate and antagonism will never win any war, hatred is

s right here in our U.S, It seems to me “Tsk less and do more” ‘would be a good policy, pull and pull together i5 won't be nearly so hard pulling. ® ” LA ‘MINERS JUSTIFIED IN ASKING CLOSED SHOP By Pro-John Lewis Every day we sez ‘headlines about strikes against government, editorials charging that a labor leader wants to be dictator and columns about great wrongs that laber is doing to their government. All of this about labor but nothing about the conditions that force labor to] strike, ' Unions don’t call strikes except as a last recourse. -. Never is it asked why corporations don’t do everything possible to pre-

lic would get the impression. these corporations were doing everything they could to prevent strikes, which is not true in most cases. . In the captive mine dispute, sure1y the miners are justified in asking for a union shop. It is admitted that they have 95 per cent of the employes in their union. Would it be gight when all the citizens in our country receive the protection and benefits of this country for 5 per cent of them not to pay their taxes to. support our government? I believe the same should apply to those 5 per cent in the captive coal. mines who receive all the benefits that the United Mine Workers of America have ad for the miners, John L. L is not trying to}

Side Glances—By: Galbraith = :

be a dictator ‘but is following ‘the wishes of the miners and the policy set up by them.

is striking against their government;

which is something our $1 a year men should not forget.... : * 2 2 8 : “BOOGIE-WOOGIE RUINING PERFECTLY GOOD MUSIC By a Music Lover No kidding, there ought to be a

law- against it. I mean this sacri~

ligious' treatment the symphonies and concertos are receiving at the hands of the swing kings.” Tschaikowsky, for one, must be quite dizzy by now from turning .over in his ‘grave; ‘and ‘I. for another am just

musicians.

certainly .am. not intolerant of it. However, to hear sections of symphonies being played by each and every band, good and bad, accord-

respective inimitable leaders, is too much for my sensitive ears, and I can only yell “Help!” Tell me, is there no way tc take legal action in this cause? T» me, it is nothing short of a miracle that music lovers have kept quiet this long, and I sincerely hope that this plea ‘starts a riot or something. , .. Wont someone. please start a “prevention of cruelty to good music by Boogie-Woogie enthusiasts”? i 2 » 4S JOHNNIE BULL TAKING UNCLE ‘SAM FOR RIDE?” ; By an Isolationist The American proposals under Lend-Lease aid to England concessions were submitted to Great Britain sometime in September but to date have not been accepted. Could it‘be Johnnie Bull is taking Uncle Sammy for a ride and

nieces along fo the tune of billions of dollars?

the answer to.that one. Or. perhaps the backers of our administration’s foreign policy?

LETTY’S GLOBE When Letty had scarce pass'd her third glad year, :

1 And her young srtless words be-

|One day we ‘gafie te eh 8. col

- Of the. wide earth; that she might 5 mark’ and know,

~ She patted all the world; old empires peep'd \

{moron ter mut: mages her soft

hand | she leap'd,:

sorry day. ton is that it is the inten

I shall never believe that labor.

: mining is not just a craft. 1t is a way of life, Labor is a part of this government,

plain sick and tired of hearing clas- | ‘& sical music mutilated by so-called

‘Although - I am not one of those| who appreciate popular music, I|

ing to the arrangements of their] §

‘above ries,

kidding him and his nephews and]

Maybé our interventionists know |

‘Bue methinks Barnum was right. ;

Whe wie 6s wf fone. How| =

Gover | or nemonal defense. In this | sbpearance it seems O. K. to send ‘in pos Any: to “take over” and the mines and end end. the ead and tanks and artillery and Infantry marching underfoot, It a a first po : of the use of troops in civil disturbance that i do this unless : :

ey : ing. They never did have much. They have. very little now. They. they were promised what they ask for now by the A agreement. are not going 0 give up easily, or

The Danger i in the Situation ~~. WHAT THEN? Ade. thi to be’ sik downy Tt The in Washing=

would be a of. the Army—so far as the situation can be pio move in very- slowly, to omit the tanks a terrible man-killers and no at first at 3 wit vi

operating the ping order, preventing 1 forcible o tdi and preserving the peace. the rumor both these rumors may Be vie De that it is ttt ; the intention of the miners to resort to force, “but to rely on their belief Wat a per om to 90 péricent of the men belong to the U. M. W. A. to move in peaceably; and’ operate rls because A have the men on the job. | We should fervently pray ‘that both these rumors are true. - Widespread bloodshed over this issue would give more aid ‘and comfort to: Hitler than anything else imaginable, ) . Even if these are the very sensible plans, thé experienced lead

on the

{ danger is hot-headed and in

on both sides—especially on the Army

| the Army took over North American ‘Aviation. it used

the veteran 15th .regular infantry, just back from China with soldiers in the ranks who had done stiike duty. A veteran is slow to shoot. Give a halfs trained selectee a rifle and bullets to put in it, and he is pretty apt to think it is in his hands for just one purpose—to.shoot. YER Re a

It 's a Way of Life. »

ALSO, THERE HAS BEEN so much Aesentmén of ALR among selectees about men who w exempted and then struck, and so have neithen “worked nor fought,” that it may become one of those foolish, headless causes for popping off a gun: You dén’t have to pop off many in a situation seeth< ing with riot to spill the fat in the fire. "To make a long story short, it is absurd to ‘talk about moving Army’ officers and men in to “take over and operate” coal mines. It is absurd and silly for all .the reasons given here and a lot more besides. Coal

d seems to be handed down from father to son to sand extent that sometimes induces a mining family to live around a pit-mouth long after there % a ‘chance

1 to earn a living there.

all these principles in mind in settling. this acute and dangerous problem and not jump, quickly’ to gan‘clusions on either one side or thé. other,

Your miner is your ‘greatest in {dualist—ever more so than your farmer. I hope jhat'we can keep

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A Woman’ Ss Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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ONCE, IN AN OLD book, I | ‘came across these’ words about the Pilgrim Fathers: “And in Novem | ..ber of that unfruitful year, they |" gave thanks for their nubbins of © corn.” Maybe youre a city dweller and have never heard of nubbins. | They are those small, unde- . veloped ‘ears of maize that follow “n. poor ‘harvest, and yet keep the | people alive during lean years. | There are nubbins of existence, too. We seldom bother to give thanks for them, because they are so commonplace they go unnoticed, although if they were taken from us lifé would be

- stripped of. much. .of: ‘its comfort and Jo%. We talk,

instead, as we: raliout the ‘momentous events and ‘the’ spiritual 7 My persons]. list : would include Many precious items: the Jpemary. of lovelight in my Gf send eyes, the gtins: of two red-headed’ sons, a daughter’s soft cheek against: my own,.the gaiety of one little girl and ‘one baby boy* now in. the e loyalty of old" 10 possessions. of ‘this kind.

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Q—When ‘and for what essen id Charles A. Lindbergh and his family leave the plates to live in | England? When did he return?”, ‘A—He left the United States on Dec. 22, 1095. Dis. - a fear of another