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NEW YORK, June 24.—I know some of us have been badly scared © by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's re- _ cent observation that people really ought to take an economic outtook beyond the limited and rath. er objective of personal gain, because it just happens that when my dream girl and yours lets fly with one of those little whimsies of hers, very often it

By Westbrook Pegler

A v p states, 75 cents a month; turns up as law or some decree , Serpe ing Newsps- others, $1 monthly. having the force of law. h ice. and Audit Bureau . But I am reassured and I hope you will fake a E : tions LEY little courage, too, from some data which I have obA of Circuls > RI 8551 tained from one of my labor-baiting, union-hating n le Will Find Their Own W spies in the Teamsters’ union regarding the economic b ive Light ant She Peng i. outlook of the Tobin family, father and the boys, who 2 would seem, off-hand, to be money-lovers of the most a sordid kind in Mrs. Roosevelt's book, but really our vy “YOUR BOY WAS KILLED” own sort of folks at heart. I think they are on the THE military actions in France and Italy and Saipan and | #9 °f us economic Tovdlisie 3 elsewhere are a projection of the will and the energy | ‘Narrow About the Tobins' s s of the American people. All the man-hours of production, MY LABOR-BAITING union-hater is not altogether [° t all that we have mined from the earth and taken from the | opposed to the profit motive himself but is nirrow } forests and harvested from the fields, all that we have | about the Tobins. He thinks they get too much for + built and created, are brought together at given places and | what they do and is that much more prejudiced be- } times for the purpose of destroying our enemies. That is See hin siitie somes ke bas to Sb Sova 48 imax of all our efforts. truck and stand o e old lady with a line abOUL | ames EE y. thed solidarity and altruistic sacrifice; and the ever-loving,

In addition to the material resources thrown into this struggle, we have offered one other treasure—the most

precious of all.

That is the lives of our men.

The torn

beaches, the broken machinery, and the “sad little personal belongings scattered on these bitter sands” that Ernie Pyle

has described, bear mute witness to our willingness to spend

our treasure in a cause we believe is just.

But we sent those boys into battle with more than |

equipment and implements: Each of them went there with the love and the high hopes, with the courage and determination, of some American family. And for each of those whose “toes were turned up in a straight line as on parade,” the war department sent to some American family that

terse message of death. That is what it all added up to—

all the work and all the machinery and all the man-hours and all the production—for many American families.

A LETTER to the editor of a suburban paper in Westchester county, New York, ells of a woman chatting with her neighbor in the front yard. A Western Union boy ap-

peared and handed her a telegram. Before she could opén

it, he blurted out: “Your son was killed!”

WE HAVE accomplished miracles of production; our military leaders have accomplished miracles of organization and- training; our strategists have planned well, and deBut in one thing—in the stunning climax of this war for many American families—

livered blows that have hurt.

there is something wanting.

No one can blame Western Union, and certainly not the messenger, who either was thoughtless or had an idea he might be helping to prepare that mother for the shock. And neither is there any way to make news of this sort easier to receive, or grief easier to bear, by soft words or

oblique approach.

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in her turn, has to stand off the grocer and the butcher and the gin-monger who are governed entirely by the profit motive and have infected her with the same

selfish spirit. On the other hand, come strike or no, old Father Dan Tobin, continues to draw his $700 a week, plus gravy, for the preservation, the health and vigor of his indispensable self and wife in the form of an unlimited allowance for travel, maintenance, attendants and any little luxuries his home-spun heart desires. My spy thinks this constitutes one of those economic inequalities which President Roosevelt and his gracious lady oppose so heartily in principle, and as to others, although not in personal practice, nor in application to their own bairns and cousing and uncles, nor to Harry Hopkins and his'n.

"Would Stifle Individual Ambition’

MY LABOR-BAITER is a bit of a bigot, as you can see, who would stifle individual ambition and reduce the exceptional Tobins of the human race to the economic level of an arbitrary average, in which case there would be no incentive for the world’s

- The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

Tobins to succeed in life, and where do you suppose the Teamsters’ union would be then? What he reports to me, more in envy, I dare say, than in answer to the prompting of high ideals, is that Frank Tobin gets $10,000 a year from the teamsters for running their statistical bureau, a job which may be worth the money and may have been given to Frank because he was absolutely the best statistician in the whole United States to be had for the price, and any more loud, lewd notes from them gritty-handed teameos in the back rows and they will be waited upon by the entertainment committee and how would you bums like somebody to part your hair with a wagon-spoke or a body-stake? The chairman will proceed with the business of the meeting. As 1 was saying when those muggs pursed their lips and started blowing kisses at the worthy international president, and the princes of the Royal House of Tobin, you wouldn't bar a good man from a good job at $10,000 a year because he happened to be the worthy international president's own son, would you, or deprive the union of the services of the abso-

But it does seem that we might find some way to clothe this breaking of news with the dignity it warrants.

IT'S A GOOD IDEA, ANYWAY (CHAIRMAN GEORGE of the Senate Finance Committee says that income tax rates must be lowered after the war, because at their present level they would crush all business activity. This is true beyond dispute. The question is—how? . Let’s outline the problem as it will exist when the time comes to lower income tax rates.

lutely best man to be had in the U.S... . would you? Because, if so, you are persecuting a man because his father happened to be a certain person, and if you are a true-believing liberal you will not let coincidence poison your judgment because otherwise there go your freedoms and the Atlantic Charter and labor's gains and Tehran, and what are our brave boys fighting for anyway?

'Another Statisticating Ball of Fire'

NEXT THERE comes Fred Tobin, director of the Teamsters’ legislative bureau, also at $10,000 a year, and next there was, although he ain't there any more, Joey Tobin, another statisticating ball of fire who used to help out ten-grand Frank sweeping up odds and ends of millions and percents and decimal points around the shop. Some tactless party let a group pic-

“DO NOT RESPECT MOTORISTS’ RIGHTS”

By J. F. 8,, Indianapolis

What R. E. B. wrote about the Indianapolis Railway Company drivers is mild to things I hear said about them. It is a matter of common knowledge that they do not respect traffic lights or motorists’ rights. On a West Indianapolis car

. . . Saturday, June 17, on the west

over six feet tall narrowly missed a motorist who couldn't quite get out of his way as he turned the trolley bus left into him at Alabama and Massachusetts ave. Although the operator was clearly in the wrong, he shouted curses at the startled motorist, regardless of his women and children passengers. Then on Alabama just above Market st, he swung the bus hard toward a car driven by a woman. He leaped out, cursing her, returned, still cursing her and women drivers in general, and boasting of what he would have done to him had it been a man driver. Some old man ventured the inane remark, “Well, they let them vote,” whereupon this bus driver turned to him, cursed him, and told him to shut his moygth or he would throw him off the car. The amazed old man said no more. I realize that there is a manpower shortage, but surely the railway company does not have to hire all

trip, one of these operators who was| *

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money. ample

furnish jobs.

men are headed for.

over it.

about the industrialists making Should they fail to have reserves to conduct their business after the war there will be no jobs. The government cannot It takes money and, to get money, the government will have to sell more bonds to get more money to put on another WPA, and don't think that is now not what Otherwise, it would not be necessary to make such lavish commitments for the returning soldiers. If you are afraid to buy bonds you had better get

Roosevelt, since his first day in

neighbor—which puzzles me how anyone, no matter how simple, can twist language around to mean anything, come election. My neighbors are busy from morn till night and we seldom see each other except when someone's car fails to go.

been broken by the tragedy of war and some who we saw grow up have paid the supreme sacrifice. Fathers of some who are crying their hearts out to be at the battlefront near their sons, carry on when they are

are in prison camps and you are wrong if you even think we have time to talk about the weather, although you have a right to your opinions. May I remind you who do not like what I write, many others do, and my name is plainly written at the top, so do not read. May I advise those who are worrying about their Bill of Rights and their constitution, they are safe; we have made it so by sending our sons to fight for you. Some are like the tumble bug which scratches things to pieces and starts rolling backward or “anti” instead of forward, which reminds me of the anti-New Dealers. Our neighbors remember 12 years ago when the whole countryside was in darkness, our President made it possible for rural electrification, which they will long remember, and, like others, we think he has been the savior of our country. God bless

in sional Record the fine tribute to Mr. La Follette

There are few homes that haven't):

physically unable. Some we hear? i

The national debt by then will be not less han $300,000,000,000. Interest on that would be at least $7,500, 000,000 a year, and amortization, at the low figure of 1 per cent, another $3,000,000,000. Debt service, then $10,-

500,000,000 a year for a starter.

For some years we're going to maintain a big army and navy as insurance against world war IIL . Also we shall spend very heavily to rehabilitate victims of this war. The cost of all this cannot be foretold intelligently now, but $4,500,000,000 a year, for a time at least, seems a reason-

able guess. » ” ” ” o

ture of father and the boys get into circulation last fall, however, with the salary of each and the old man's estimated expenses marked beneath their figures, and immediately there was heat around headquarters and about that time Joe went over to Brother Matt Woll of the Engravers’ union to help run something called a Labor League for Human Rights. My spy doesn't know his salary in the human rights business, but the progress of the Tobins is ever upward in the economic scale so we may hope that he improved his condition with the change. Brother Ed Tobin also works with Matt Woll in ' the union insurance business, so altogether, not even counting two nieces of Mrs, Dan Tobin who get modest salaries around teamsters’ headquarters, we may take heart, be of good cheer and rest confident

WE HAVE learned how easy it is to spend $6,000,000,000 a year for non-military government. We shall find it mighty hard to cut back those administrative costs. But let's assume that we do, as far as $5,000,000,000 a year.

that here is one close and affectionate little family group who are not defending labor's gains for the mere joy of doing good, and may be relied on to uphold the motive of profit and personal gain inside the lines of the New Deal. As you pass out, those who care to do so may drop

Let's ignore the probability of substantial relief and

that these United States are insolvent, must be financed out of current income. That is as much as this country ever raised up to the current fiscal year, For this year federal receipts from all sources are expected to reach $41,000,000,000. That is on a national income estimated in the vicinity of $150,000,000,000. But the greatest peacetime national income in history, or 1929, amounted only to $80,000,000,000. The current $150,000,000,000 a year rate of national income is grossly excessive by any peacetime standard. It is based upon huge government war spending plus recirculation of the vast sums thus distributed. Inevitably it will drop like a plummet when war production is cut off. To raise $20,000,000,000 a year, minimum, out of the national income that will remain after the war, is going to call for tax rates little lower than those now in effect.

11 DAYS OF DEATH AND INJURY AMERICAN forces, fighting their way into Fortress Europe, suffered 15,883 casualties in the first 11 days. Of these, 3283 were killed and 12,600 wounded. They gave their lives and suffered pain because they were on a necessary mission of liberation. Compare their sacrifice with the useless slaughter and injury resulting from carelessness in traffic. This nation’s traffic casualties in 1941—the last peace‘time year—averaged 44,904 each 11 days. Of these, 1205 were killed and 43,699 injured. artime restrictions reduced last year's traffic toll even so, the casualties each 11 days aver-

02 were killed and 24,110 injured. cannot be avoided. Most traffic

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donations in the box to buy a mansion at Southam ‘ . . i ) p-made-work expenses, and stop at this point with a $20,- |

000,000,000 a year budget which, unless we want to concede |

ton for the worthy international president as a testi monial of appreciation and esteem for the summer months when the weather and the roaches may make it inconvenient for him and his loved ones to occupy the royal winter place in Miami Beach. Meeting adjourned,

We The People

By Ruth Millett

ne i “MANY SOLDIERS made a d & G. I. line for Roman brothels.” Wd So reported a magazine in a cozy little behind-the-scenes account of American soldiers in Rome. Is it necessary to paint such pictures for American women, mothers, wives, and sweethearts who are waiting, working, and praying for their men’s return? Isn't the morale of American women important enough to make such reporting vicious, as well as

in bad taste? Everything possible is being done for the morale of fighting men. It is fully recognized that their morale would” hit rock bottom if they were made to doubt the loyalty of their women back home.

Kick in the Teeth for Morality

are waiting to marry.”

1 as much as the men in the foxholes need it.

AND YET the feelings of American women are run over rough shod. Of course they aren't told, “This is your son, your husband, or the man you i

They don’t need to be told that. The generalized | |; § picture is enough to make them doubt, when they || ss need to feel secure, They need the feeling of security | | ~

What possible good ¢an come of sending such reports to the folks back home? Isn't it essentially _as vicious as writing 2 man overseas that many of the

them to driving busses. [J » EJ “IS THIS PATRIOTISM?” By W. B. Paul, 3551 Washington blvd. Why should it be necessary for taxpayers to spend millions of dollars to induce us to buy bonds? This synthetic prosperity we have now depends on the sale of bonds. If the people do not buy bonds, there will be no planes, tanks or guns manufactured. That would mean there would be no jobs. to buy bonds, there will be no taxes, as business would stop. If the peo-

If we fail

the most obnoxious types and put

office, has never had an idea that cost less than a billion dollars. He is now completely dominated by the C. I. O. and Browder; the latter he let out of prison. Regardless of the fact that billions of our money is being given away, wasted and dissipated, we must still buy bonds because part of our money will help our fighting men. Remember, we are buying bonds to save our own necks and jobs. As to the postwar situation, forget it. That has already been settled between Stalin and Churchill. They are in charge. All we do is to furnish men, money

TILL NOVEMBER”

our President; may he live forever. “LET'S JUST WAIT

By Mrs. Willlam Shipp, 1520 Roosevelt ave. May I hope that you will print this article? It is my reply to the article by Ben Stevens, June 20. Yes, Mr. Stevens, it is too, too bad there are so very many who feel just the same as “Shipps, Haggertys, Smiths, E. E's and what not,” for we are willing to loan our boys to

ple would buy bonds with the money

and equipment.

in one week.

bonds. Is this patriotism?

live on what remains.

they spend for luxuries, the present bond issue would be over-subscribed

MADE IT 80”

a goat,

Roosevelt wants to discard the name “New Deal” I suggest that he take over and adopt the old “Do Nothing” title that would certainly be appropriate Not us, we must have for the New Deal at this time.

Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, | Bob Burns and scores of others who |« sing, dance, tell jokes and relate the | WE HAVE indescribable miseries endured by| our soldiers to induce us to buy By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, R. R. 6, Box 404 Well, I'll be a black crow and pick We should first buy bonds and her eyes out one by one, if it isn't

Do not crab a hoe, a senator, it's a

fight for not only all true Americans but for gripers such as yourself and Voice in the Crowd. As far as “enemies among us’ are concerned, they are the ones who prate about our national debt—when each and every true American knows full well this huge debt is made that all may

enjoy liberty and freedom, that if we do not win this war by having a national debt—well, I think those who write about dictatorship to The Forum would then know the differ-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

ence between freedom and dictatorship. One writer to The Forum says,

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, NC. T. MW. REG. U. o.

PAT. OPP.

“Mrs. McGuire sounds like a gestapo agent.” Isn't it wonderful that all true Americans do have the right to vote in November? The Shipps, the Haggertys, E. E's and McGuires—oh, well, just let's wait till November and see how many more free Americans feel the same way as the rest of we free “Irish” do—"Yes, I have a wee bit of Irish

our national debt keep griping I do my Irish up, I “shure” do! And I'm proud that I have the right to vote for one of the greatest leaders

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America has ever known! * = =» “WHOSE BABY

WOULD HE BE?” By M. Williams, Morgantown

in me veins,” and when gripers of

There has been quite a deal of

whom the lovely-looking Rep. Clare Boothe Luce fraternizes. For Mrs. Luce is a playwright and enjoys immensely all’ battles of wits, much as she disdains half-wits, as shown in the caustic twists of dialogue in the hit plays she has written.

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‘So it was Mrs. Luce who inserted

Triumph for Decency in Indiana’

“IT 1S a triumph for decency in Indiana and fale warning to organization hacks, Republican or Demo= cratic, not to consider as private property a trust ase signed them by the voters. “Ku Kluxism was the issue in this controversy and apologists for Mr. Lyons referred to the ravishment of this state half a generation ago by this plague of intolerance and gangsterism as something which might be epitomized as ‘youthful indiscretion.’ “It was the same kind of ‘youthful indiscretion® which produced Hitler, led to the enslavement of nines tenths of the population of Europe and has brought our young men to the Norman beaches in a death struggle to keep it from enveloping the world. “We can forgive folly which is sincerely repented, and even forget it if given a chance; but we cannot, in times like these, indorse it, even by inference.

‘Definitely Cleansing Effect’

“MR. LA FOLLETTE'S courageous action will have a definitely cleansing effect upon Indiana politics in general. Immediate popular approval of his stand is fair warning to those who would use public power for petty, personal purposes. The incident reverses an evil trend and establishes La Follette as a leader in the new Republican party, now just emerging. “1¢ is said that old organization men whose

| policies he has crossed will attempt to get even by

working for his defeat in the election next November, The sincere friends of decency and good government should remember this and, by their votes, demonstrate that they appreciate his kind of public service."

Master Strategy By Thomas L. Stokes

CHICAGO, Ill, June 24.—The draft-Dewey-for-President scheme, finally unmasking itself here, is a8 clever, thorough and effective a political operation as that of Jim Farley in laying the groundwork for the nomination of 1932 of Franklin D. Roosevelt, up to now a sort of model. Mr. Farley's plan took months, S0 has this. Behind it all it is easy now to A see the cool masterminding of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, driving forward relent. lessly toward his purpose. This dissipates once and for all that pose, permissible in the strange rule book of American politics, of the gentleman from New York not being a candidate. It has boosted the stock of the young governor of New York among those here who admire finesse in politics—and who know how it pays dividends—and inspires the comfortable feeling among them that perhaps they have in Governor Dewey a political strategist with talents comparable to those of the man in the White House. Alf M. Landon, the 1936 candidate, didn’t have it, Nor did Wendell L. Willkie.

Dropping Neatly Into a Pattern

THE PIECES are all dropping neatly into a pate tern here under the management of the three men who have executed the plan under the governor's dirction—National Committeeman J. Russell Sprague, State Republican Chairman Ed Jaeckle, and Herbert Brownell Jr, who managed Governor Dewey's last

campaign for governor. Mr. Sprague put on a little show here for the benefit of the newspaper correspondents, just to demonstrate how it is all working out so nicely. It removed the last vestiges of doubt—if there were any —that the nomination plan will go through smoothly to its finale, apparently on the first ballot. The newspaper correspondents had been asking him, Mr. Sprague said, whom he had been seeing. He had a list in his hand. It contained the names of those who had come in to headquarters offering to help In the “draft” of Governor Dewey. He called the roll. It contained the names of leaders from 20 states and Alaska and Hawaii, ine cluding 10 national committeemen, one acting come mitteeman, one committeeman-elect, four national committeewomen, and several state chairmen and vice chairwomen,

Southern Delegations Represented

THIS ROLL CALL explained the presence of the men and women who were surging into the crowded room. Some of these exhibits pushed in and sat on the floor in a neat row, in front of Mr. Sprague and

the newspapermen. .. some who could not get in shouted “here” from adjacent rooms and the corridors to make sure they were counted in. It was a unique performance. All that was missing were the state banners and a band playing “The Sidewalks of New York™ or some other appropriate air, California was represented by its national commite teeman, and prominent, too, was the solemn-faced National Committeeman R. B. Creager of Texas, and several leaders from other southern states, signifying publicly that the southern delegations, often used so successfully in “stop” movements, had deserted Gove ernor John W. Bricker of Ohio, and Senator Taft and were ready to vote for Governor Dewey. Mr. Sprague explained honestly and frankly that the offers of these men and women to help in the Dewey “draft” did not mean that all the delegates in those states were for Governor Dewey, but all one had to do was to look at them to be satisfied that it is all over,

Highly Professional Political Skill

IT WAS a demonstration impressive of the political skill which has gone into the “draft” movement, highly professional in character, in contrast to amateurish caliber of the Bricker campaign whi carried the Ohioan all over the country as an avowed candidate and yet did not get him the prize. : ents saw Mr.

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