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Give Light and the People Will Find Their own Way

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1941

CASEY JONES HAD NOTHING ON US ALL abo-o-0-ard for the gravy train! We're going to ball that jack into the never-never land, where candy grows on bushes and there’s pie in the sky for all hands. “If we aren't derailed, that is. Congress has already authorized 64 billion dollars for defense, and new Presidential requests for 5 or 6 billion at a crack are scarcely page-one news any more. “The farm lobby has kicked its old goal of “parity” into the boneyard, and raised its sights to loftier levels. The labor lobby turns purple with indignation at suggestions that wages be limited along with prices. ‘Congressional logrollers have put through a pork barrel highway bill, and are pressing for a colossal rivers-and-harbors grab that includes the Florida ship canal and practically every other high-priced project ever dreamed up by vote-minded legislators. © New Deal officials resign from office and make a cleaning, peddling their influence to contract-seekers. 2 8 = ® » = VJILLIONS upon millions are wasted in hurry-up Government building ' projects. ~ Ae "And now, comes the veterans’ lobby again, with two pension bills the eventual cost of which has been estimated at 10 billion dollirs—nearly all of it to go to veterans, and dependents of veterans, who could claim no serviceconnected disabilities., The House already has passed these bills. Now a Senate committee is holding hearings. Aid for England, aid for Russia, aid for China, aid for the farmers, for labor, for the veterans of past wars, for the aged and the blind, aid for big business and little busi- _ ness, aid for everybody except the multitude of unorganized _ and inarticulate citizens who are left in the middle. And where is it all going to end? Let there be no doubt about that. If this gimme-gimme business, this roughshod race of pressure groups for multibillion special favors, is not curbed—and there is precious little indication that Congress has the guts to curb it— then this gravy train “of ours is not going to make that curve ahead.

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ALUMINUM ‘AF TERMATH T is four months since piles of scrap aluminum mush- ~~ roomed on. ery village green as a result of the drive for needed metal. In that time something has been learned about this means of getting together such scrap metal. It is not the best way. Now at least, after four months, 95 per cent of this scrap is either in the hands of smelters; or on the way to them. But there was an insufferable delay in handling the material, which lay for weeks and months untouched; simply because smelters were swamped, unable to receive and sort the material. It is now clear that scrap metal collected through regular dealers, sorted and shipped by |them in orderly fashion, reaches its destination more effectively. Ft | The. scrap aluminum contributed by the American people will be used for defense purposes, all right, but the’ method of collection was not the most effective. The experience has been as valuable as the metal itself.

“PRACTICAL PAN-AMERIC ANISM” - ; EVEN ‘more important than the obvious strategic advan- ’ tage of the new United States defense base in Dutch Guiana is the growing Pan-American solidarity which it represents. And for that President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull deserve high praise. Noon "Despite loose talk to the contrary, our responsible defense authorities say there is mot much danger of a Hitler invading army in Pr getting by our Navy and bombing forces, properly base rs The real danger, rather, has been that strategically placed South American countries would produce native Nazi regimes co-operating with Hitler to prevent democratic hemisphere defense. Such has been the purpose of the large fifth-column movement in Latin America. ~ Washington’s problem has been to persuade Latin ~ America that the days of dollar diplmoacy and marine intervention are done, that the good neighbor policy is genuine, that Monroe Doctrine paternalism has passed into a Pan- * Americanism of joint responsibility. % ® ” 2 #8 8 UT joint responsibility is modified by the unfortunate 7 fact that Latin American countries lack the military power, wealth, and production facilities to share defense obligations equally with the United States. Thus by default the United States must establish hemisphere bases at the triple risk of offending Latin American

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pride, of encouraging others to drift while we do their de-

ense job, and of feeding Nazi propaganda to the effect that ~ this is an imperialist plot. ; ; "The significance of the Dutch Guiana base is that

blessing of Argentina.

not have been possible a few months ago.

statement that this is “Roosevelt's first ainst South America” would have spread us; while now it turns Latin Americans trying to insult them. =

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sations is an affitmation of practical Pan-Americanism.” On the same day Fo i presenting the new

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outside of Indiana, 65 |

~ | thoughts of hbolsheviks; ‘how the word it is

RE .-— . . ' only that things are “good being established in co-operation with Brazil and with the’

JFOREIGN MINISTER ARANHA of Brazil, fresh from a "Buenos Aires conference with Argentina and Chili, said: “The defense of Dutch Guiana by the two American gainst whatever danger from outside the conti-

By Westbrook Pegler: ‘NEW YORK, : Nov. 28—The following letter from an -American woman isa fair example of the desperate protests which I have been receiving for several years from victims of certain unions: ’ . «Our family,” says this woman, “ijs' caught in a web of-union in-

trigue. ‘I doubt whether even you

are aware.of the horrible deeds : a: that. take place. : : : ji “My husband ahd I ewn a small ‘grocery. It was opened in 1935'as a boulevard stand where we sold ice cream and candy to children and pop to truck drivers. Later we added a'few groceries and last year we mortgaged our home ;to start a modern meat department.

“This accomplishment was attained through hard |

work, long hours and little or no home life. My two boys helped after scheol and when the oldest won a

scholarship for college he gave that up, hoping to |.

continue as a busines owner some day. “In 1937, when the employees of the Blank Manufacturing Co., nearby, voted to affiliate with C. I. Oi, some of the employees who were our, main support as regular customers influenced us to hang up a C. I. O. card as a good-will gesture.’ We hung it up even though we lad no outside employees and my son paid $1.50 per month dues for years.” :

Then the Picketing Started

“IN TIME WE hired one employee, then another |

who joined the C. I. O.” continues the letter. “The ax fell when we opened the butcher shop under the C. I. O. banner.: The A. F. of L. Union picketed us, demanding that we fire our butcher and hire an A. F. of L. man. After terrific pleading with the C. I. O., I got permission to place an A. F. of L. card in the meat shop. Then the A. F. of L. Union refused to take off their pickets unless the whole store’ went A. F. of L. The C. I O. refused, so for four months the two unions made our; place a: battle~ ground. . “Qur family went through hell. Being in an isolated spot where only vehicle traffic passes, the pickets could commit every kind of dastardly act of torment. They threw two stench bombs, shattering the windows strewing glass and mayonnaise all over, One bomb missed my husband by a hair. In fact, some of the class cut him. They intimidated and boycotted us day and night. They frightened jobbers into tak= ing their merchandise off our shelves. ‘We had to travel hundreds of miles daily to get supplies. ‘Meal, 60 miles round trip. Milk, 20 miles, etc. - Business fell from $150 a day to $16. We lost hundreds of dollars’ worth of tables, cheese, etc.

‘Cops Said Their Hands Tied"

“THEY WOULD picket on: horseback, lead dogs, carry radios,” the letter goes on. “They threw carpet tacks and roofing nails on our place and in the public roads. They threw two rocks through our living-

.room window, endangering the life of my husband’s

elderly mother. They spread human excrement in our driveway so we would step in it, They terrorized personal friends, following them for miles. “They sandbagged one friend and while one man held ‘him another kicked him in the face, breaking his jaw. Several people could have identified the thugs. But would they? We traced the car to the central labor headquarters. It was registered in the organization’s' name. The cops said their hands were tied. “It got so nobody would deliver anything suchas laundry to our home. The boycott persecuted our family in their pursuit of private citizens. Finally our pleas struck a note in our appeal that our employees were C. I. O., and that we had a closed shop, C.I. O. Then the court issued the relief that where a closed shop exists another union cannot molest the employees, so, we have an injunction against pickets, but that does not prevent the boycott through union periodicals or spreading nails on our premises to give us endless trouble. The C. I. O. will not give relief. They say any help given would be aiding an employer.” . ©

'What Is-to Become of Us?'

“WITH YEARS of work already lost and heavy debts, what is to become of an American family who finds itself in the predicament of being between two unions? How did this country ever get into such a mess? All principles of right are forgotten. «When unions are given the right to picket or boycott for any reason other than actual labor dispute by the employees involved, this country’s assertions of freedom for all and the right to pursue one’s happiness becomes, the biggest mockery of the ages.” This American mother owes these vicious persecutions to President Roosevelt, who includes the right to commit such atrocities among “labor’s gains,” and to the Congress of the United States which has lacked the patriotic manhood to protect innocent citizens.

New Books

‘By Stephen Ellis

E' ALREADY has been generatéd considerable conversation about George Stewart's “Storm.” It merits all of it. “Storm” is one of 1941’s outstanding pieces of fiction; a work of ‘really tremendous scope; and one of high artistry. The book is exactly what the title says: It is the biography of a storm, Maria, by name; a storm born far out in the Pacific, gain Mr, Stewart ing size with each passing day, ney pouring itself down upon rain-hungry Caliornia. . And amid the life story of Maria, Mr. Stewart weaves the stories of countless other persons, of the junior meteorologist who watched anxiously over the fledgling storm, of his chief, of the load dispatcher, of the railroad’s general manager, of the airport crew, of Rick, the linéman, of Max Arnim and Jen Strong1iff, of a dozen others. Thy Mr. Stewart’s touch in this book can be told in one word: Perspective. He has backed off and told— almost from Olympian heights—the story of a storm and of the people it touched. Read it and you'll agree with me that it is one of 1941’s very best.

'Language in Action’

MR. STEWART'S book has been chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club as its December selection -

along with S. I. Hayakawa’s “Language In Action.” |

Mr. Hayakawa is a Canadian-born Japanese who is an American university professor. And you can. say

in a breath that he is making a tremendous contri- |

busion to clear thinking, clear speaking and, even more important in this day and age, clear writing.

He demonstrates pungently and quickly how many How the word “planning” immediately conjures up‘

mean a dozen different things; how Americans decide ”» or “had.” : 7 . . If you read what Mr. Hayakawa has to say—and follow—you will be helping kick bombast, buncombe,. and mealy-mouthed political trickery and ‘salesmen

back into their proper places.

STORM, by George R. Stewart. 340 pages. Random House,

New York. $2.50. : a "LANGUAGE IN ACTION, by S. I. Hayakawa. 338 pages.

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So They Say—

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"where is only one way to end these shortages:

| ‘these: painful readjustments, and that is to end

States. agreements to his | ux

emergency itself. And it can be.

rational

perishable merchandise, meats, vege--

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tors Noté: The views expressed by columnists in this | §

final, complete triumph for free peoples and ? ; i : a ~J, A, Browning, assistant to Donald Nel- || {iY

~ I 2 SR . ‘The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

MANAGEMENT IS RUTHLESS AND INEFFICIENT! - By C. 0. T., East Chicago

Management, in American business, is a ruthless and inefficient social dictatorship. For statistics you can check with Dunn and Bradstreet on the number of new businesses in the U. S. A. which fail to continue in business for one year (about 10 per cent of them or less). That is the record of inefficiency. .The record of ruthless undemocratic dictatorship is found in this fact. . : The workers in a big industry do not have any say-so in its operation. THe foreman, superintendents and managers run it but do not own it, neither does the president own it but runs it for the stockholders; so there is an example of middle class dictatorship. Who do they run it for? The people of America? No,

the inefficient expense of everybody in the long run, hence our booms and depressions.

s “PEOPLE OF SMALL MEANS ARE SIMPLY PAWNS” By Arthur S. Mellinger, 3500 W. 30th St.

elections.

Land of opportunity, my eye!

for.

a material thing. called profit; af

Six years ago a friend of mine who operates a- lumber 'yard made plans for modest homes for $1400. Of course, they did not ‘have .a basement; neither have millions of other homes in towns and country; which have reared millions of boys and girls to useful men and women. The point I want to make is the set-up, as it exists today, doesn’t want people of small means to own anything. They are for pawns so the master manipulator can control

If you have a lot or a piece of ground, try borrowing say $1000 to: build something you could eventually pay There are so many folks who cannot afford a $3000 to $5000 home. I never could afford a home that cost §3000 to $5000. But I desired to own one. I paid for the ground; kept building according to what I could pay for. So we now have a

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‘home we can call our own. Five of the six children. are earning their own way, so I can look forward to a few years when I won't have to struggle so hard. ; There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for these men who now occupy key positions in our economic life: who adhere to policies that ignore the heritage that our forefathers guaranteed us in wrestling a home for their posterity out of the wilderness. The spirit of America is a thing that is alive. It cannot be quenched. So, wise guys behind mahogany desks, you had better watch your step.

; ei ” a = ‘PLAN TO BE ADOPTED WILL BE A COMPROMISE’

By Claude Braddick, Kokomo 4 W. H. Edwards’ proposal to control the tides of inflation by a “compulsory savings law” in which a “reasonable” percentage of workers’ wages would be held in trust by the Governnient and released after the'emergency to bolster buying power and thus ameliorate the consequent depression has one grand point ih its favor: It would work—at least to 3 degree. In po-litico-economics, liowever, -& proposal must have other points in its favor than mere practicality. In the first place, control of inflation is only one, and perhaps the lesser motive, behind. the present agitation for drastic payroll taxes. Mr. Morgenthau is actuated by the equally laudable, though less popular motive, or holding in check the preposterous, runaway Federal debt.

Side Glances=By Galbraith

In short: The Government needs the money.

And where, in these times, would Congress find the “responsible agency” with which to deposit this huge sum? Would it not require another “responsible agency” to wateh that one, and so on ad infinitum? According to the best information available to a “plain, homespun citizen,” the plan most likely to be adopted by Congress (next year) will be a compromise between that of Mr. Morgenthau and Mr. Edwards, with the compulsory .savings-anti-inflation features stressed as a talking point. : : ® » ”

‘WHY UPROAR ABOUT RAID ON a CHURCH?

By Mrs. Chas. O. Jersey St.

Would like to answer J. L. M. in regard to a raid on a bingo game at a church. Why all the uproar about a raid on a church? If it is gambeling, other places have been raided. I say, let us be fair about this. If a church should be allowed to play bingo, why not let other organizations play. There are a great many would like to play and for charity, too, not for personal gain. Let us say what!is right for one to do the other parties should be entitled to that same right as long as it is not for personal gain. Let us be fair

about. bingo. 5

Connor, 652 S. New

“IS BASEBALL RACKET TOO BIG TO HANDLE?”

By A. J. M., 2233 Park Ave. ; 1 wonder whether this letter wil be published since its concerns gambling. PE Mr. Morrissey has just given out orders to clean up gambling in the city. I wonder why he has never tried. to clean up the baseball racket here. Is this business too big to handle for him? He Why should ‘a printer who i a legitimate business not be able to buy Kraft paper and

‘Ithese baseball moguls have car-

loads of this paper stored in their plants, all of which is used for baseball tickets? Is this a legal business; if not why don’t our big shots do something about it? il

70 SLEEP .

|O soft _embalmer of the still midmb

night! | ; : Shutting with careful fingers and benign .°:. . | oC oe, Our gloom-pleased eyes, embower’d

~ from -the light, Enh Bnshaded in forgetfulness divine;

g eyes, : fait the amen, ere thy poppy

| 1 ‘throws ; : | Then save me, or the passed day| Upon my pillow, breeding ‘many Swamy: 1. (CN

ing like a

And seal the hushed casket of my

0 sootirest Sleep! if so it please thee, | ‘a 0se, i L § "| 1n midst of this thine hymn, my

.of Japan, mostly in the

burn, an actor, is married to Virginia

Gen. Johnson

|Says—

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28-e There have been a good many rumors and reports and, recently; a widely syndicated gossip column © to the effect that leaders of the America First Committee have been planning or preparing the or=ga, tion of a' new or anti-war third party. I hesitate to believe this, because, while my name is still on the letterheads of that coramittee, I have disavowed the doctrines and statements of several of its spokesmen, and no longer receive any communications from it, nor am I considered in its councils. My reasons for this have been sufficiently stated. But I have never heard of any purpose within that committee to start a new political party. In fact, I have always understood that its objects were entirely non-partisan, * Any other course would be almost lunatic. If we do not go to outright war, there would be no reason for an anti-war party because the decision for none

ion in the two old parties. war, an anti-war party could not be tolerated because of the necessity for national unity in war.

A Duty to Discuss These Things

IN THIS INTERMEDIATE period, it is a right, as well as a duty, to discuss head-long action in the direction of involvement of our country unthriftily and unwisely in military operations beyond the scope of our national interests. Even if war approaches much closer or- actually engulfs us, it would be a dangerous state of affairs if blundering and improper military and naval operations were not subject to criticism here as they are in England. Along these lines there is a sufficient scope for the activities of the America First Committee and for independent commentators. A distinction should be ° made between the two, however. Independent pers sonal analyses on the writer's own responsibility are a proper function of a newspaperman in a free press, even in time of war. The organization of popular groups swayed by oratory ‘and emotional appeal stands on a slightly different footing, especially in time of war. } Because I did not recognize this difference soon enough, I thoughtlessly allowed my name ns used in connection with America First. Because I recognize it now, I am taking my present position, That is a consideration, however, which applies with equal force to organized groups to get us into war as well as to organized groups to keep us out of

-| war and, in my opinion, the former have been even

less discreet and objective than the ldtter.

Room Enough in Old Parties

APART FROM THESE later remarks, the organiza= tion of either a war party or a peace or a. consistent with the true principles’of our form of government. There is room enough within the old parties for the people to register their determination, Regardless of recent apparent developments to the contrary, I still do not believe that any Administration can force this country into outright war without the approval of Congress, and the Congress cannot be persuaded or compelled to give that approval in the absence of the approval of most of our citizens! It is true that we are in a period of hysteria and emotionalism that has resulted in some of the mést fantastic action ever taken by a nation—especially in the appropriation of more money than we can ever repay, with scarcely a considered thought to its mo effective use. ; : But between this and a deliberate decision to en. gage us in a_commitment to bloody military conquest on land, in Europe or Asia or both, is a step so far that, in my opinion, even hysteria and emotion will

not p= us.

Xp He A Woman's Viewpoint |} By Mrs. Walter Ferguson LC

~~ I BELIEVE ‘ALL YOUNG pe0e ple should be told, “the facts of life.” But certain “nature in the raw” movies now being shown by

several theater circuits can hard ‘ly be classed as educational, no matter how loudly the promoters ballyhoo them as such, For example, pictures of actual childbirth and of patients eaten by venereal diseases seldom .proe ~ mote either health or chastity, They are definitely on the sensational side and they serve only one purpose—to make money for their exhibitors who prey upon the natural and nasty curiosity of human nature, Perhaps because I am a product of the old school, it has seemed to me for a long time that ignorance is a splendid safeguard for innocence. I am aware that the idea went out with the bustle, but so did many other valuable ideas which: could be resurrected with profit. : s

One Leads to the Other ea

TODAY WE CAN HARDLY wait to instruct our children in the ways of vice—we call it safeguarding them. Long before their minds are orientated to life we acquaint “them with its shadier sides. If they weren’t by nature tures of sunshine, they would be polluted in’ mind, heart and body before they began to live. General preoccupation with sex causes innumerable psychological problems quite as knotty as those which: afflicted the. little innocents of Louisa Alcott’s day. : : It seems to me, also, that hundreds of women wil} be frightened away from motherhood by these dee tailed filmed presentations of the child-bearing processes. : - The knowledge of evil—and regardless of the bee haviorists, sex is still associated with evil in the public consciousness—can blight the mind as effeg tively as the practice of evil, and one often Teads arouses unwholesome curiosity, /

directly to the otLer. Anything that smears love with smut and creales sex obsessions, must be harmful to youth and to society; and thas, friends, is precisely what this type of movie does.

Questions and Answers

Q—Can benzine be used: instead of turpentine a8 & thinner for paint? LR fin A—Yes, but it is likely to leave the dried oil paint more porous and less binding than when spirits of turpentine are used., = Q—Is William Boyd, who is now appearing in the “Hopalong Cassidy” film series, the same actor who starred in “The Volga Boatman,” under Oecil B. De Mille, about 15 years ago? A ad A—Yes. : motel ’ ! Q—Does Japan produce any fuel oil? Yori A—There are oil fields along the coast of the Sea ictive wells are found in the province of roduction, which had been increasing annually fell ‘off last year to 2639 barrels. So gener

'@-How old is the Duke of Kent who recent visited the United States? What is his full nan arince George Edward Alexander Edmund,

ia Maggard,

., He is a Hey-

banking holiday declared J It'in March, 1933? ~~ ¢ H, Woodin, who took off Rn

belligerency would be a registration of majority opine’ i If we do go to outright Buh