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Journal, agree tha inflation is already here and that more is on the way. : By saying that inflation is already here, they mean “simply that enormous Government spending for armaments

has greatly increased the purchasing power of many people, . that the supply of goods these people want to buy has not

~ increased in proportion, and that as a Sonieguente prices

have risen. x But vastly greater Government | spbmding is ahead.

And 50, these experts warn, prices will rise higher ‘unless.

there is prompt action along three general lines: 1. To reduce the people’s purchasing power by heavier taxation and larger savings-investment in defense bonds. 2. To establish direct control of prices (including fam - prices)’ and wages. 3. To cut non-defense- spending | » #8,

S to No. 1: The atest tax boost; stiff as it seems, has

hardly made an impression on the purchasing power . that Government spending has added to many pocketbooks, while the defense-bond campaign has been disappointing. As to No. 2: The House vote yesterday leaves before Congress only a fake price-control bill, which exempts wages and salaries and would actually encourage great advances in farm prices and the cost of living. As to No. 3: Almost all Government non-defense activities are continuing on the scale to -which they have become accustomed, although there is hope that Senator. Byrd's economy committee may get | some action in that

field soon. i 2 s ” 2 2 »

: “(CONGRESS is shirking its duty to fight inflation because it is taking orders from organized groups which, thus “far, are profiting by inflation—or think they are. : Labor resists any restraint on its “right” to force wages higher and higher. Agriculture insists on specially favored treatment. vo» Millions of people are feeling the pind of inflation, : sthrough the rising cost of living. Their purchasing power ‘has not been increased. But they -are unorganized, so “Congress has little fear of them. ‘Nobody, of course, really profits by inflation. Already, ‘every taxpayer is being hurt. We believe the Wall Street ~ .Journal is conservative in its estimate that prices and wage

“increases since August, 1939, have added five billion dollars’|

" "to .the cost of the defense program “without yielding a : single additional plane or bullet.” “And of course everybody will be hurt by the crash “that will inevitably follow an inflationary spree—the farm‘ers and union members who are now being “protected” by a timid Congress suffering worst of all.

THE PACIFIC CRISIS

Y stating the American policy in a formal document,

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‘down out of the air to a definite basis. * . According to the State Department, its proposals rest

on the principles repeatedly enunciated by our Govern-

ment. These include non-aggression, + non-interference, _treaty observance and peaceful settlement of disputes. If the recent statements of the Japanese premier and - foreign minister are accepted, there appears no chance of

‘ a compromise; they have reiterated Japan’s determination

s--to continue her aggressive policy, even if it means war. But the fact that they have sought peace negotiations “speaks louder than their threats. However strangely they _go about it, they seem to be looking for a way out of this ‘crisis. A We cannot believe they will be foolish enough. to start a war in which all the odds would be against them—not : less giitlen, instead of the Mikado, is Soiring Japanese

: FRANCES BLOOD RUNS AWAY JF IGHTY per cent of the industrial workers of France are ~ in the zone occupied by the Germans, and almost 75 per cent of the agricultural Syroduction of the country is also in that zone. : The Germaris chose well when they enforced their armistice terms on a prostrate country. Result: Four times as. much material is being sent from France to Germany is being brought back from Germany into France. Thus

he | manpower, the skill, the raw materials, the products:

the good land of France are being pumped into Germany

‘the purpose -of strengthenihg that country so. it ‘can’

hold France ‘in even closer subjecjion in the future. The longer the occupation goes: on, the weaker France will become. And that; =] is: part of the Geman plan.

ERE YOUR TAX F you. are a single m Federal income tax

MONEY GOES

(two infantry pmpanies). ake you if you § knew Jour tax would be spent, instead, v Tor. ; 3 ; he.

Secretary Hull has brought the Japanese negotiations

Ln gmonce. SPELVIN, > Cwatt hope. you have observed that those _ paltry: fakers of ‘United States + Congress ‘are fixing to double- : cross you and sell you out again. As sure as you are born, Spelvin, | - those political parasites who built up the union system: ‘are " * to slip 'that «hive between your , Bive it 'a twist and break it off.

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‘and I hope you will paste this in your hat and check me when it is done, they won’t do anything about the rackets and the racketeers, the extortion and he. persecution of such as you. ve received the President's order to pass

: some oT of arbitration and cooling-off scheme, but,

whatever form this law takes, it will affect only war industries and it will be: passed .only because the President is more interested in fighting Hitler's dictatorship abroad than in saving Americans from the atrocities committed on his own Subjecs at home.

| They'll Do It His Way :

" "'YOU CAN PASTE that in your hat, George, and check me on it, because it will contain a backstairs clause, probably in the cunning and treacherous megative language so common to the New Deal laws

| whereby ‘the unioneers won’t have to obey, although -

American businessmen and the little American stogkholder and the worker will. .. “George, this is about the nastiest treachery in the “entire record of this assembly of boss-fearing twotimers who were elected to ‘serve as an independent legislative arm of the national government of a once great republic but now are so utterly prideless that ‘they don’t even pretend to conduct their own duties on their own responsibility, Instead, they send over to the White House to ask the boss what he wants them to do and he'tells them and they do it his way. If you think they are going to pass any law which

billion dollars a year off your wages to give you an accounting of your money, you are just out your mind or living back in the past when we had men in Congress.

They'll View’ With Alarm IF YOU THINK THEY are going to relieve you of

for a lot of low-lived gangsters or protect your rights as a human being and an American citizen from the - Hitleresque sluggers of the goon squads; you are kidding yourself. If you think they are gbing to do anything to stop these birds from extorting . good eating money from Americans who want to work on President Roosevelt's war jobs, you are nuts. But you are certainly too smart to think they would do any of these things or that they would require unioneers to be American citizens or not to be traitors in the service of Joseph Stalin, whom the President’s messenger. Harry Hopkins, wrote about in tones of hero-worship last month. You know they will talk and view with alarm and introduce bills harmlessly, but you certainly must know by now that when the President gives the orders they will’ roll over and sit up and yap ‘like

| any kitchen -mutt in return for a little sliver .of pat-

ronage thrown to them from the people’s own table. "The Ki-Yi Club" ; NO GEORGE, THEY aren’t fixing to do anything real. It just happens that the President needs some

law now to help him put this country wholely into the fight against Hitler's dictatorship - without im-

times erratic goons, But this law will pertain only to the “emergency” and “defense” and while your kid is off in the North Atlantic being torpedoed or freezing in the Arctic or putting in Lis time in the Army at home at $21 a month, you may still have to pay from $40 to $500 to some mob, plus dues and assessments, too, for the right to work and you will have to quit work and go on relief if the union-crook says so, because that is the new American way enacted for you by the members of the Ki-Yi. Club in the Dog House on Kennel Hill in Washington, D. C.Check me and tell me if I am wrong. ~ Your Truly, WESTBROOK PEGLER.

Editor’s Note: The views expressed by colummists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times. :

Churchill's Fate

By Thos. M Johnson

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Upon the outcome of the British offensivé in North’ Africa depend events that are momentous in ways clear only to a relative few .in Wash_.ington. Behind the obvious military objectives of the British Libya move, some well-informed observers here see a “political objective: The Churchill - government hopes to draw , German troops to Africa from Russia not only to. save ‘Russia but, by saving Russia, to save the Churchill government. : ‘The | Churchill regime has been under a hot fire which will become a veritable barrage if Russia falls. In that event the government would. be blamed for not having “opened a western front,” notwithstanding ‘information here that British military strength is not yet sufficient to attempt a continental invasion. Another attack on Churchill’s position might be a charge that, to silence clamor, British and American spokesmen had collusively given out over-splimistic ‘reports of Russia's chances.

English Left Wing Bolder

THE FINAL EXPLOSION might come from English left-wingers. and emboldened hy the Russian alliance that some Conservatives have’ revived fears of some sort of revolution. This would be more than the usual Parliamentary change in government. It might aim

war measures, even taking her out of the war. . ‘Such a peace surely could leave the United States right behind the famous ball with the unpopular number. We could be the one remaining enemy of a

and :we would be about half ready to dispute any - effort he might make to extend it, especially to South America. These things are being. pointed out to our government by\ the British—in the - hope, some - way, of further bolstering Churchill’s prestige by an im- . mediate American declaration of war. But, say the realists, these possibilities are “true: anyWaY.

Churchill Safe—lIf

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Libya. If the British succeed there, Churchill stays. They may succeed too—thanks in unsuspected degree to India and South Africa. - India’s industries are now supplying her considerable.

South African industry is going faster than exs

“pected, her manpower much ‘with an income. of $8000, your:

will be $1031. You’ should be happy pay it, for if you have tat: much income you are a ery, -

1 So. They Say—

uarter-ton, reconnaissance car, or buy Hin hate’ for i . But how happy would

Promising 50,000 men, she. i nearly that tn.

well-advertised Australians. ‘because more dissipiined.

t ‘is for America ! defend culture, smashed a] fury of : ta,

of,

u poor, dumb dots. 1!

\ ing a lot of noise about anti-strike | ‘legislation Just now, George, but I.am warning you,

would compel the men who have been skimming one |

.|not know?

pairing the dictatorship of his own faithful but some- |

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They have been so strengthened. toward making permanent Britain's many Socialistic |

Hitler dominating a realm greater than Napoleon’s— |

' HENCE OUR not-generally-suspected interest: n|f

Both are playing a bigger part than was expected. “4 force-in Africa with almost ‘all but tanks and planes. |

Libya, with enough more in’ Ethiopia and at home | : to total over 100,000. desert fighters superior to. the |

a new order of things ‘the word Dr. Juan J. Rew 4 | Ser Minister ation. i 2 /

[the duty of buying ocean yachts and racing stables | i

: WASHINGTON, Nov, RE Much of the following. ‘work & not mine, It is ‘a very liberal paraphrase of ‘a letter from one, of our younger officials ‘working on the defense program. From what I ‘have séen of his thinking and expression, ‘they are about as able as I know in both their simplicity and their logic—to an extent that I wish much of it were .ny ow=a. I wonder if anything can be done about the publicity being put ont: by the O. E. M., which influences so directly ‘the line followed by many newspapers. I have before

‘me a considerable amount of this stuff which is used

liberally as handouts. The following paragraph ap-

| pears among it:

- “The one’ greéat question confronting the people of the United States today is how rapidly we want

| to get this job done. If we want to tighten our belts,

go all out for military production, it is virtually cere tain we can halt aggression in a comparatively short time. We have productive capacity unmatched in the world. It is up to the American: le whether or no we use all of it for defense production. If we do, we can return to normal living’ far sooner than if we demand our customary luxuries. »

- | Three Kinds of Means Ta

ARE THREE separate absurdities in ‘the

£ Yoregoing paragraph. It is not virtually certain that

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

‘GESTAPO IN THE U. S. . . . WE HAVE IT IN LEGION’

By Earl G. “laupt, 2541 N. Delaware Sf.

? i * Gestapo |in the U. 8S. A.? You did ! ; Well, we have it in the form of the American Legion. It has shown itself very strongly in the last week concerning Theodore Dreiser's talk at Caleb Mills Hall.

“They did everything they could do to discredit this speech even to a threat lof bringing 10 speakers here to offest it by speaking on the glories of | America. Does it take that mani? Well, I guess it would after healing the truth about the present Russia which has been with-| 50 held from (the people of this country all this time. ove The Legion was very vociferous papers against this talk ‘the, crowd was. larger of same, One of their number was outside taking a count of the attendance. I suppose there were some in the audience also but there was| no -disturbance of any kind as Fad been expected. " Well, trith will come out and as now .the UJ, S. Government thinks Russia is 1 right, one billion dollars worth| a lot abou her besides that she has freedom of religion far greater than under efor

and I gu

. Also I expect Russia will pay back that billion long before England pays back her first war debts,

. = ‘AN PROVE rm I TRY?

Zoberts, St.

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‘IF MII” ‘NAZI, 7

By G. T. | 6137 N. M:| .

Those re harsh words concerning the America Firsters in Mr. Clyde P. Miller's bit published Nov. 24th. Bui rather a hice job of -| smearing. at that. I am of relatives tinder the British flag. So naturally | I am not particularly eager for a Hitler. victory. But I am an American citizen, and further one of ut ten million or so mem-

bers of America First Commit-

hg is my sincere belief that the test dangers

Very likely we will learn;

to the

(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious conMake your letters short, so all can

to express views in

“troversies excluded.

have a chance. Letters must be signed.) :

American capitalistic democracy to which all of us owe the good material things of present day life, are as follows in order of their importance: First, New Dealism which destroys the Fifth Freedom—Freedom of Enterprise. Second, Com.{munism - which is making great conquests in America right now. Third, Hitlerism, which would achieve practically the same results as the other two dangers but is a more remote danger because it is not nearly so subtle. As far as my personal dislikes go —“hates,” Mr: Miller would no

doubt - call them—I detest that

cruel, strutting, murderous Mr. Hitler more than ahy other living person. Joe Stalin runs a close second. I do not hate Mr. Roosevelt, but distrust him instinctively on his past record.

I believe in an American "destiny. separate from that of the British Empire. I know: that the men of the British government are : constantly thinking of British first. I doubt very much if our admlinistrators are. thinking of America Pirst.

Because it represents a sane voice

_|of protest against. the administra-

tion foreign policy which is a deliberate attempt to hide bungling of domestic affairs and. perpetuate New Deal state socialism, I am a member of the America First Committee and proud of it. And if Mr. Clyde P. Miller can prove that I

jam a Nazi, he’s welcome to try. British blood and 1 have :

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‘RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENT HAS TO COME’ By Raymond H. Stone, 531 E. 56th St. The key to labor troubles is in the monetary ‘policy of the nation. So long as personal fiat of one

i

Side Glances—By Galbraith

man, supported by a statute pro-| viding $10,000 fine and 10 years in

prison for a citizen ‘to.own more |

than $100 in gold is the monetary policy of the nation, there can be no enduring Peace in labor. relations, Neither will price and wages con trol nor sale of government bonds

in largeg amounts with long - Ma-|-

turities be practical.

e resumption of specie payment will have to occur before wages, prices and bond sales can be dealt with effectively.

‘WE WILL ORGANIZE A GROUP OF CARRIE NATIONS'

By Mrs. Willard G. Gray, 302 N State St.

Just how much longer are we the people going to sit idly by while these . drunken drivers roam our highways, leaving the dead and wounded in their path? Everyone who voted for the repeal of our Eighteenth Amendment is equally as guilty as the drunken driver....

‘We had just as well license murderers for one who sells is an accessory before the fact when .they sell to drunken drivers who .go out

and commit murder while under]

the influence of liquor... ..

The courts are entirely too lenient with these offenders. . . . is caught with a .38 on his hip he receives a heavy fine and sentence. A man with his stomach full of liquor and a pint on his hip is a far. man /with the gun. So * If something is not done to stop t ever increasing menace, we

will organize. a group of “Carrie lL Nations” and get our hatchets and

go out and wreck these dens of iniquity which are wrecking so many homes and killing so many people. Len 8 ‘DOESN'T MIKE HAVE ANY TRAFFIC POLICE ANY MORE?”

By a Pedestrian, Indianapolis.

Rather than take my life in hand anymore, I am not going to try to

cross the corner of W. Washington

St. and Capitol Ave. (southeast corner of the Statehouse) anymore. Traffic is very heavy there around 5 o'clock, but if the automobile drivers would obey the traffic signal, it wouldn't be so bad. But they don’t, not by a long shot. Doesn’t ‘Mike Morrissey have any trafic policemen any more or is that corner “out of bounds” with

'him?

THE DEATH OF LINCOLN

Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare, | Gentle. and merciful and just! Who, in the fear of God, didst bear| The sword of power, a nation’s ~ trust! :

In SOIrrow by. thy bier we stand, Amid the awe that hushes all, And speak the anguish of a land : That shook with horror at thy fall.

Thy task is done; the bond are free: | We bear thee to an honored/grave, | Whose proudest monument shall be | The broken: fetters of the slave.

Pure was. thy life; its bloody close Hath ‘placed thee with the sons of light, Among. the noble’ host of those Who perished in : the cause of

Wm Cullen Bevan ( 1794-1878) |

ii and obedient, t the good of the land: use and rebel, ye ed “withythe sword.

If a man| &

ore dangerous man than the]:

. cannot be given,

we can halt aggression, no matter what we do. It is impossible for the American people to use all their productive capacity for defense production. Some, and I would say a major part, must be retained for their bare subsistence, and not for their “customary luxuries.” No matter what we do, we cannot soon ree turn to normal living. Yet this issue between beating Hitler in a long war or in a short one is the basis of many speeches .and newspaper articles. To most military analysts, the issue raised seems false, misleading and danger= ous. We don't have a choice between a long vitorious

"war and a short victorious war, If we go all out as

rapidly as possible, we probably will beat Hitler in a war of indefinite -duration. If we wait until he has ‘knocked out Russia and exploited most of the resources of Eurasia, it isn’t clear that we will ever beat him completely. Insofar, as the long-short war reflects more than wishful thinking it seems to be ‘based ‘on a faulty study of the various means. We ought to distinguish three kinds of means: First, immediate means— soldiers, ships and munitions; Second, intermediate means—such as capital, plant, tools and transporta~ tion; Third, long-run means—population and natural

| resources.

| We Can't Scatter Our Means

WARS ARE WON MAINLY by the first means,

but they are created by the second and third means.

Furthermore, the first means are used to increase our own second: and third means and to decrease those of the enemy. Hitler has some edge in the first means, especially on land, but not enough to end the ‘war at once. The anti-Axis powers (including ourselves) have” a considerable edge in the second and especially the third means. Hitler's program seems to be to use his immediate superiority to turn. the balance of long-run means in his favor by conquering Russia and using the long-run means to increase his relative intepmediate and’ immediate means. / Our task is to convert our long-run and intermediate means while we have it, into superiority at the immediate level. On the face of it Hitler has a longer distance to go, but/he has a long head-start, and he is a fast worker. he reaches a state of superiority at all three levels, it is hard to see how he will be beaten at all. We can probably do it but if, into this study anybody can read a short war regardless of the tempo

of our effort and, excepting only, the bare possibility

of a sudden and -explosive internal Nazi collapse, he must have more facts than are available to the general

‘public.’

* We can never do the job at all if we scatter our immediate means over the whole face of the known earth as fast as they are created, and if we da not get a great deal more system, economy and efficiency into our effort. Appropriating uncounted billions cer tainly is not'the answer.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

_ SUGGESTIONS FOR lowering the draft age to include 18-year Olds grow more frequent. We are not surprised, since the war god has always preferred young and tender sustenance, and since Hitlerism Seems to color all: ‘our |

ding to Brig. Gen. Hers shey, Selective Service Oe more’ than 50 per cent of men examined for our Army thus far have been rejected because of ‘minor physical disabilities, while 150,000 were turned down because they had not reached the fourth grade educational level.

Following the customary patterns, we shall probe ably let the weaker members, both in brawn and brain, remain in civilian life and propagate theme selves, while we empty our colleges of the cream of our citizenship in order -to build an Army which may go abroad to die or stay at home to perish of dry rot. One ardent advocate of the lower age limit puts it this way: “These youngsters make the best soldiers, They have the stamina and. resilience that war demands. In terms of military e fe minimum age should have been 18 from the start.”

What About Justice?

TRUE AS THIS WAY | BF ib does. Sobiaangs the fact that these youngsters will make the finest civilians after the war is over, when society stands in need of capable men who can: solve the enormous problems which will’ confront us and the world. - If complete Hitlerization ‘of the United States is our goal, then we will put our babies under arms. If saving freedom and democracy is the objective, the act would be fatal. : Eighteen-year-olds are still at a malleable. age. What happens to them before 21 can easily shape their mature characters, and with it the entire pate tern of national thought, There is also a little matter of justice to be cone sidered. These youngsters are minors under our laws. They are not allowed to vote. Their induction into military service would carry implications of ‘regimentation which I would consider intolerable to , a a demperaiie people.

Questions and Answers

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- @-—What are the chief products’ of the Nethers i lands Indies? A—They supply 93 per cent of the world produce tion of quinine, 85 per cent of the kapok, i per ceng of the pepper, nearly 30 per ent of the copra, 14 per cent of the tea. Last year 2% per cent of the “world’s petroleum (about 58,000,000 barrels) was proe duced there. The islands are also an important sour of coffee, Sugar, tobacco, palm oil, cocoanut oll,

* fats

Q—In eather forecasts, ‘does “fair” etwas cate clear skies? A-T¢ means that there wil be no