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i AND ARGENTINE PROTEST f TRAINED diplomatic relations with Chile and Argenbi tina have vesulted from the’ public criticism of them by Acting Secretary of State Welles. President Rios of

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and the Santiago and Buenos Aires governments have ptested Welles’ statement that . . . “It is true that the remaining two republics of the 21 still refrained from carrying out the unanimous recdons of the Inter-American conference of Rio de Janeiro, in which they themselves joined, that all of the Americas sever all relations with the axis, and are still permitting their territory to be utilized by the officials hd the subversive: agents of the axis as a base for hostile against their neighbors.” : vig specified that, “as a result of the reports on allied ship movements sent by these agents,” many ships have been sunk and lives lost. He concluded with the belief that those two republics would not long continue to permit their American ‘neighbors “to be stabbed inh the back by : ries operating” in their territory.

We sae’ the regret that most Americans must feel over this pift, when hemisphere unity is so gravely ‘needed. And, under normal circumstances, as might question the apparently provocative method employed by the acting secretary of state. . But, on the basis of Mr. Welles’ long record as an fective builder of the good neighbor policy, the following is self-evident: He would not make these charges unless he had the facts, for he is an official whose patience and fairness equal his intelligence, The evidence in at least one case has been published by the Chilean press. He would not risk a bréak with those two countries unless he and Secretary Hull and President Roosevelt had good reason to believe that gentler methods had failed, and.

h The United States has no right to force on those in“dependent governments a war policy against the axis, even though a majority of the Argentine and Chilean peoples oppose the axis. But it is the right of the United States to ask the Santiago and Buenos Aires governments to live Lup to their own pledges, and to prevent the use of their territory for axis purposes.

We .hope Argentina and Chile, the. their sake no less

“than that of their fellow Americans, will honor their prom- |

dse—which their 19 neighbor republics ‘accepted in 700d JHaith.

HE DIED ONE TAX BILL TOO SOON ‘VWILBUR GLENN VOLIVA, cult leader who helped build

Zion, Ill, died at 72 still professing that the world is flat.

“SCRAP THE RED TAPE FIRST : AMERICA'S ‘prospects for an adequate supply of iron and steel serap are being dimmiéd once more by the bureaucratic overlapping and incompetence which have made 2 failure of the salvage campaign for the last year

i * Tuability to sctap red tape is making it impossible to scrap the other things upon which America’s war indusries depend for sufficient steel to meet their needs. The steel industry was cheeréd when War Materials, Itic. was set up, through RFC financing, as an agency to locate and finance the recovery of scrap metal from projecis where the cost of demolition, preparation and transportation would increase the market price above OPA ceilings. : Undér dirggtion of\an energetic Pittsburgh industrial: ist, John M. Hopwood-—an executive who knows how to get things done but is an innocent when it comes to politics #nd red tape—War Materials, Inc., started with & rush. It quiekdy located hendreds of projects throughout the coun- , involving hundreds of thousands of tens of serap—but Hil these projects are tied up today beeause of & bureaucratic ;- and Mr. Hopwood, frustrated and discouraged, is fing. about resigning, as the famous eivic planner, ‘Moses, already has dome in New York, where he

Atmed to do the job of collecting a huge quota of in- | slone in désiting a showdown. Every nation in the |

trial scrap. : a ay 2 8 =» ROUGHOUT the coutitty hundreds of thousands of patrivtic citizens have been ransacking homes and

NEW YORK, Oct. M.~Call me | I have attended as a | } of our national pelts | §

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ical Mp conventions, starting with the one in Chi

Cago in 1912, which nominated My. Taft | §

over T. R., and including the one in Philadelphia in 1940, which

iden of carrying After the shellacking that

“HELL, NO,” Enox said. “I am cured. I am just going to run my newspaper and try to make some money. Whom de yoy IN She: Republicans Will nominate?”

“well,” I said, “I don’t knew much abot the guy, |

but I have read a couple of speeches of his that

sound very progressive and candid, and I think this |}

Willkie might get a lot of votes.” “Willkie!” Knox yelled. “Why, he's a Democrat!”

and I slunk out of there feeling that I had shown |

a lot of ignorance trying to be smart when I coyid

have muttered a little double-talk about Dewey and

Taft and left a fairly good impression. During the Philadelphia convention I met Willkie for the only time that I have ever spoken te the man and then only for a quick howdy im 3 hotel

room. I played a little poker with Landon and seme |§ others one night and take silly pride in reporting that; |

although he is supposed to he pretty ‘good and I &m 4 notorious sucker, I clipped him good: on ‘one pot, and at no time during the evening was anything said by

any of those present, Who surely should Dave known :

if anything was going on. “I Felt It in My Bones”

I KNEW THE DEWEY people real well and had a [| ~

lot of talks with them and I put in one evening with Forrest Davis, who was furning the crank for Taft;

and I tell you there wasn't a Whisper of anything |

peculiar.

One day Bob Allen had a story about Tom Lamont’s having come to town, which was full of mys-

terious insinuation, but, after all, even though he |

was a banker, Lamont -had as much right as anyone else to attend the show. I remember that I thought that if a reporter had information about s deal he ought to lay it on the line. Allen laid nothing on the line, Usually at conventions I pay no attention to the cheering because they nigh onto tore down the house for T: R. in 1912, but old Elihu Root would just grin a little and get on with the job. That was my first training and I tried to obey*my knowing in Philadelphia but, naive or not, I really did believe that this time they were on the loose and cheering the people's choice. I mean delegates, too. I felt in my bones ‘that they were going to nominate Willkie, :

"Are They That Dumb?"

BUT, SINCE THEN, what? Well, Ickes called him ™“Wall Street's barefoot | boy” and the New Deal smear papers cdlled him a mysterious reactionary picked by “the interests.” More récently the Republicans have been disowning him ds F. D. R's political twin, which he certainly has turned out to be, and now the Chicago Tribune callé him a Democratic fifth columnist who “bamboozléd an ill-advised Republican convention and stole the party’? nomination.” Well, as I say, Knox had him down as a Démocrat, sd the Tribune may beé right and all that Ickes talk may have been mere sound effect. But you hate to Believe that the opposition in our two-party system is fo dumb that a totdl stranger, and #n imposter at that, ¢ crash the gate and steal fhe nomindgtion as 4 gift. You wouldn't wart fo trust thé country to such 4 party in wdr or peace. Some foreigner might nove in and stedl the country for them. . 86 1 prefer to thik théy went for him because they likéd his front and could seé him polling a lot of votes, but without knowing him well enough It is the old question of short engagements,

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Intrigue in Chile By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Oct.’ 14.—Behind Sumné¥ Welles’ speech and the consequent postponement of the Washington visit of President Rios of Chile is a situation far graver than Mr. Welles’ comparatively mild eriticism indicated. It can be revealed—now that the protests of Chile gnd Afgentind have blown off the lid—that espionage originating , in those countries has. resulted beyond question in the sinking of ships and the loss of lives in the Caribbésn; the Atlantic and thé Pacific. It can also be stated that the United States is not

westérti hemisphere, except: Argentina and Chile, hds

| either declared war against the axis or broken off élations

# . Almost without exéeption these Have let it be known that they are awdre of the subversive activity in Argenting and Chile and would like it to b¢

8 for metal articles no longer of service. Thousands of | stopped.

| workers havé tussled and sweated over this junk 4 fiéans s of providing Weapons for our soldiers.

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‘Sore time ago Guban police arrested § Mn Ngmed F

Luning in Havana. He confessed he Aad been opérats ing a secret radio station in Cuba, sendinte sid Laer: tro Bs, in Boson in Sees EE.

, abandéned railroad and strestear lines, unused there, the

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The Hoosic: Forum

I wholly ‘disagree with what you say, but will défend to the death your right to say it ~Voltaire.

“IS IT REALLY NECESSARY TO SEND CHRISTMAS CARDS?” By Mrs. M. J., New Castle

in mind, to ely in any possible way

which might prove helpful. Is it really necessary to send Christmas cards? We are trying to be economical with paper goods and it seems that this would be an excellent place to cut down. Our mailmen gre already overtaxed, and will| be more so as the Christmas season approaches because of the many ‘people who are mailing packages to soldiers. | ~ Also, think of all the defense stamps that could be bought with: the money you spend on cards and the postage. It is true that we all appreciate the sentiment, but I am sure that good citizens would be only too glad te co-operate if they

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“PLE STRING ALONG WITH PEGLER ON THIS UNFON—"

vy W. ¥. Smith, 66 N. 14th ave. Ren co : »

Replying to Mr. Avthur Smith's recent letter inv your pupey about! the ifinér Workings of the Carper ters’ snd Joinérs’ union. . . . Mr. S. admits he is not a Wiembey of the union, rievertiiéless We vouches for it. "This puts Him oN the seme level as this writer who is not & memier of the C. & J. gnion. Between the observations of ' himiself ow the | workings. of this uriow I think My. Pegler Higs the most sccurate facts. My obsérvations of this union were picked up from a relative who sctuslly belonged to the carpenters uniion for sbout 35 years. During Hhat tific we Reve watched the ad jvént of all Kinds of ldbox saving devices and substitute materials become popular in the building trades, | most of them spurred on by the ‘high hourly wedges of union trades mén including ' carpenters. sequently ' thé membership in the carpenters’ union has gone down consisteritly during the past generation, with the exception of thé unnaturs) demegnd of the war effort, where costs are not the deciding factor in the = building business) trades. . , . hts Ftaiive was #-pHIESUp Mess ber in: good standing contiriuously

Since we have one main purpose | to win the war, I have a suggestion |

'A peanut for the alleged benefits,

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(Times readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious controveries ‘excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have & chance. Letters must be signed)

for almost a generation; he had actually paid in enough money to the union in assessments to have laid by enought for a “decent funeral” (although we have never seen. an “indecent funeral”). But will he get a cent? No! Why?|

Because as every building tradesman |

Enows, the vicissitudes of the game make if virtually impossible for him to have kept up his dues during the panics and’ depressions. So the only ones who could collect on a benefit would perforce Be killed on the job, or through labor politics get into the offieialdom of the union itself.

old carpenters Home, etc. Now what sbout the so-called pro‘tection of & union carpenter? Again drawing on & relative’s actual exit, too, is largely & myth. Because the man who worked job for wo gid the wages ve éirnied more in money the high psid union: men. Be- & stewdily employed person od Petter credit at & cheaper

Ty to raise & large family on the ritérmittent employment of a union carpenter inn #n' average town. You go in debt to everybody during and if you are Jucky, get in the summer. There & lot of neighborhood whe went broke carrying trdesmen over & depression ) bad wi with little work orl ike. “protecting the hds one less than is claimed

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felled with a blow from behind by hile| You Ought to Read It, Powers

walking down. the street. And men who had been in the union who knew the assailant and the assailed

has sunk to & low level when men will not raise a hand in defense of an old former member of the union, then 65 and too old to get enough work to keep his dues paid up, by identifying his assailant although the old non-member had paid .in more dues into the treasury than the combined dues of this young group of hoodlums. So what is anyone offering for that kind of “brotherhood?” A prophet is said not to be without honor except in his own coun try. ‘This seems to be true of the local carpenters’ union in Indianapolis, the home office of the: Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners that Mr. Arthur Smith thinks of 50 highly. Why? . Pll string along with Pegler for his facts square with. too many men’s experience. . . . I think someone has been spoofing Mr. Smith for propaganda effect. ” ” s “WE OUGHT NOT TO SPREAD HITLER'S LIES” By Mrs. PF. BE, Indisfupotis I want to record my strong opposition te such press publicity as was given Adold Hitler's speech. Me claimed his troops will Heke! | Stalingrad. The answer, I know, is that he is news, but one reason for his’ being news is that the press treats it as such. : ‘Adolf Hitler and We ought not to our enemy’s predictions, many of which have proved as false as his racial theories: That story ought to

are enemies.

WEE have been buried inside with just a

couple of paragraphs noting that Hitler boasted of his conquests in a speech to. his sadists because what he had to say was Fascist propaganda. You kindly obliged by print- ® 8» “FHERE IS NO REAL , "| MANPOWER SHORTAGE”

es| By D. D,, Tndiznspolis

Side Glances— By Gaba

There is no real manpower short-

felt because of the 40-hour work

week, If there were two 60-Hour

shifts instesd of thy present three 40-hour shifts we would have plénty of labor. A recent English survey of wak

| plat finds that ‘mdéd’s power tol

produce does not lessén until he works more than bad hours a week

regularly. The hove oo Gusdalosnal and he defenders of put in many

: {more thn 66 hours & week. nor do : [they ask thne.nd.ehait for ft.

refused to identify him. Manliness

‘dge in our country. The pinch is

wth!

ankly

By Norman E Isaacs

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tonnaire which hile tome sort of igh (or low) 1

political stupidity. . Instead -of trying to determine whether & candidate has the qualifications for the job he's after, questionnaire is loaded with all manner. labor<Bolitical questions, Bul elule we tafe suAing SER this onnaire, eb me remind you that this ou i posed to: candidates for county commission council, sheriff, and: so forth. Just keep thet mind as We akin over Hus list. .

A Mayoralty lssue, Teo!

QUESTION ONE is “Are you willing to. support the president in his recently stated policy of a western front on Europe against Hitler, and do everything possible to speed. it up? Deo you think & western: front should be opened. now?” Wonder how the county commissioners. will vote on that? Question 3: “Do. yow think that sepresentatives of labor should be placed on &ll governmental boards and agencies. from: the president's cabinet on down?” That's something for the sherif® to decide, now isn’t it? Question 4: “Do you think that labor-management committees should be established in sll’ war plants?” Well, wonder what the county recorder candidates have to say to that?

What Is Order $802 Anyway?

QUESTION 5: “What do you think of the Murray and Ruether plans for increasing production?” Question 6 includes: “To what extent will you fight for the rigid enforcement of executive order 88027” And I'm not kidding when I say that one candidate for city council asked me: “What the hell is order 88027" Question 13: “In order to wipe out the fifth column in this country, what can you. do before and after the elections to help bring about an investigation of Martin Dies, Westbrook Pegler, Hamilton: Fish, ‘Cotton Bd’ Smith, Charles Coughlin, Gerald L. K Smith, Senator Reynolds, Kaltenborn, The Chicago Tribune, The Patterson: newspapers; the Ku-Klux Klan, and other un-American elements obstructionable to the successful prosecution of the war effort?” Speak right up, boys. Don't be bashful

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QUESTION 14; “Will you demand that Attorney General Biddle reverse his decision on Harry Bridges?” - Now, this is @ great question for the county surveyor to answer, isn't it? How this particular question ever got by Powers Hapgood is beyond me. You would think that the C. 1. O. thought all our local candidates were grade-A statesmen. But there is another C. 1. 0. questionnaire directed to: legislative candidates: which. is as pertinent and canny as anything I've sgen. It sticks to the point and it drives for replies that mean something to labor. But this other one we've just shimmed over cer; tainly takes the calte. Whew! :

. NA . an . A Woman's Viewpoint By Mts. Walter Ferguson

a they would get no Pecause of the paps Shop 1:

ou undorstan Sic. Se, SUING 24 en ceiling on foods which go up @ notch every week are beyond me.”

On Caring for War Children

serve breakfast, dinner and supper. The auditoriums and classrooms would be adapted for sleeping quarters. When she had