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THE HARD WAY TO PEACE

F THERE IS anythin of this eventful year, it “that happy national malad : There are many who believe that the w : von and that the peace can be perpetuated by adopting a tions in favor of international co-opera-tion. That is wishful thinking, on a dangerous s e widely prevalent, but they are "not shared by those who know and face the facts. was brought home by Ralph Heinze manager of the United Press, who a audiences at the Press Club and Kiwanis Club t In close touch for years with the cross-currents of European politics and diplomacy, fall of France and the sad days o Germany during crucial days of the war an this country only three and one-half months ago. } obably - knows conditions in Ger-|danger to an unarmed community, and this conten- ||” tuation as well as any

g Americans need in the r is a good stiff antidote against y—wishful thinking. ar is already

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f Vichy, was interned il| cia) justice in the copper mines which seems to have d returned to

‘this background, he pr many and the general European si man in America. His words carry authority, and he sees no basis for easy optimism. Victory will be hard to win, * and the peace even harder to insure.

CONCEDES that Germany has lost the war—Hitler lost it with his costly gamble at Stalingrad. But he warns that it must be won over the German army; the home front is secure to Hitler for the balance of this year, and well into next. Such a victory of arms means bitter fighting, and unconditional surrender. Hitler has forfeited his power to make offensive war, Mr. Heinzen says, but he still has some 280 combat divisions for defensive warfare, and those divisions must’ be conquered in the field. The most serious problem facing the united nations, however, is what to do to guard against a third world war. Partition of Germany will not-do it, nor will occupdtion, Mr. Heinzen believes, and he documents his case well. The 11,000,000 German youths, thoroughly indoctrinated in naziism, jingoism, and nationalism, will be the leaders of the nation in the years to come—and they will be awaitoF ing the opportunity to strike for revenge, 20 or 25 years ‘from now, unless they are made powerless to do so.

A THE ONLY WAY to prevent that, in the opinion of this highly qualified observer, is to withhold from the reich the economic means for making war. Germany must import steel and iron ore, for example, and all shipments of such commodities, even from the present neutral countries, must be strictly limited to legitimate peace-time uses. To force and enforce such a policy will require international unity, a strong hand and eternal vigilance. To follow this course we dare not disarm nor demobilize. It

But if it will prevent another war, and certainly it comes closer to being an effective and practical policy for peace than any other plan yet put forward, it will be well worth the effort. The world cannot afford another trip to Armageddon—nor to Munich.

THE SENATE REMOVES A “VERBOTEN”

“QOLDIERS, who have been privileged to risk their lives ** but discouraged from coming into contact with ideas, will soon have the official blinders removed. The senate, recognizing the silliness of that part of the soldier vote -act under which the army has felt compelled to put certain books and other publications on a blacklist, quickly passed an amendment. The house may be expected to go along. Thereafter, “nothing herein shall prevent the army and navy” from making available to members of the armed forces any book, magazine, newspaper, film or broadcast “as generally presented to the public in the United States.” As to government-financed or government-sponsored publications, films and broadcasts, no such item is required to be withheld from the troops unless, when ‘considered in its entirety,” it contains political propaganda “obviously” designed to affect election results or “obviously calculated to create bias for or against a particular candidate.”

PATTON’S COMEBACK

"THESE must be great days for Lt. Gen, George S. Patton Jr. For many months he had been sweating out the official and public reprimands that resulted from the slapping in Sicily. And his standing didn’t improve when, in England, he blurted out that America and England (and maybe Russia) would rule the post-war world. Now, at the head of the American 3d army in France, "Patton seems to be vindicating the decision of Gen. Eisen‘hower that this was too good a combat leader to sack: The “awift thrusts of the 3d army, throwing the Germans oft =alance and encircling lage numbers of them, are characceristic of Patton's aggressiveness, A great victory should entitle Patton to the nation's forgiveness for past breaches of conduct. The senate recognized this fact Tuesday by approving his long-delayed promotion to the permanent rank of major general.

PUSS IN BUCKS E ARE NOT surprised that Buster, the Brookline cat | are also mothers should adopt the honorary title who is heir apparent to a $100,000 legacy, has de- | of “W and M” to stand for “Wife and Mother.” To veloped nerves and dyspepsia in addition to fame and fortune. He's undoubtedly worrying about taxes.

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"He now suspects that every human that strokes him, T Th P Sr LL Sp + ~ offers him a saucer of milk or a sprig of catnip may be a oO : e %, oint: Lima : BOOKKEEPING 1S easy—unless the people you

Cats may look at the wealthy, as well as kings. Bus- borrow from have good memories.

Fair Enough ~~ By Westbrook Pegler |

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Daring the last two or three years it has been bruited about Washington that Felix Frankfurter has lost much of his old power in the New Deal. If this be true, the fact remains that many of his old pupils from Harvard, men indoctrinated by Frankfurter during their impressionable years, are still planted in government positions in which they can impart to their judgments and interpretations the Frankfurter twist, which, in the minds of some, seem to give the law a meaning contrary to the intent of congress. It is a fact worth noting, too, that the Communists have a way of “going underground” as they put it, when they feel that they have made themselves too conspicuous, The entire Communist party of the United States did this a few months.ago when it disbanded and assumed the harmless guise of an educational society. A year before, the international Communist party or revolutionary movement, always directed from Moscow, went underground by means of a complicated and deliberately confused document which appeared to announce its dissolution but actually announced no such thing. However, the world reading the document carelessly, believed it had dissolved itself. Frankfurter’s apparent retirement from politics and dnfofmal but effective government administration may be a similar stratagem.

‘Contention Supported by Testimony

IN HIS REPLY to the late ex-President Thepdore Roosevelt's letter accusing him of writing a misleading report to President Wilson in the Bisbee deportation case, Frankfurter denied that the men deported from Bisbee, in 1917, were planning insurrection. He went into a discussion of organized opposition to so=

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

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crossed the country. This year he was on the Dewey train to St. Louis for the conference with the 26 Republican governors. - . Like reporters aboard the two trains, Mr. Halleck appreciated the contrast. 3 Willkie was the showman and individualist, Gove ernor Dewey is the organization man who only ape pears when fully prepared to “say the right thing" Under the able direction of his campaign manager, Herbert Brownell, the youthful presidential candi. Sis hasn't made a single slip to date, Mr. Halleck

Believes Indiana Is Safe for Dewey

“AT ST. LOUIS he won the favor of the governors by giving them the distinct feeling that they all are part of the great Republican team which will win the pennant this fall,” Mr. Halleck asserted. He left the Willkie comparison obviohs, since Mr. Willkie treated the organization as a sort of fifth wheel on his campaign trips. , Indiana is a cinch for Dewey, Mr, Halleck said, Nor does he take any stock in the talk that while the Republican presidential candidate is almost cere taih-to-emerge victorious, the Democratic state ticket

of one of the deputized citizens. In this test case, tried in 1920, Harry E. Wootton, a hardware dealer in Bisbee, was acquitted in 16 minutes by a jury from which employees of the railroads, copper companies and other big interests were barred. The case is celebrated for the charge to the jury by Judge Samuel L. Pattee, expounding “law of necessity.” The charge was kidnaping, The defense was imminent danger to the community. Pattee told the jury they could acquit Wootton if they believed there was a “real, threatened and actual danger of immediate destruction of life and property.” After the test case the other indictments were dropped and no person ever was punished by the federal government because it was found that no federal law had been violated.

‘Obstructing Nation's War Efforts’

FRANKFURTER IGNORED, or gave no weight to, powerful evidence that many strangers had sifted into Bisbee, that men and women had been threatened, and that the I. W. W.,, the predecessors of today's Communists, were violently obstructing this nation’s war effort in many western areas. The I. W. W. had seized upon this country’s intense preoccupation with the war against Germany as an opportunity to make a revolution here at home, There were many Germans, Austrians and other continentals among them and, in the Bisbee trouble, there were many Mexicans. The sheriff insisted that these Mexicans included former Villistas who, of course, were violently anti American. He said they had hidden their old mili. tary weapons in the mountains. “The apologists for anarchy are never concerned for justice,” T. R. wrote to Frankfurter. “They are solely concerned in seeing one kind of criminal escape justice precisely as certain big businessmen and corporation lawyers have in the past been concerned in seeing another kind of criminal escape justice.” He did not call Frankfurter an apologist for anarchy in so many words but he did say, flatly, “You are engaged in excusing men precisely like the Bolshevik who are murderers and encouragers of murder.”

'Laski Well Received in Washington’

A RECENT ISSUE of the Catholic Worker, a radical, but, of course, not communistic paper, the organ of the Catholic worker movement, discusses Frankfurter’'s friendship for Harold Laski, the English Communist whose writings attack religion and who, also, is well received in Washington, and is more influential there than any other Englishman except Churchill. Arthur Sheehan, the editor, who spent a long time in Boston, writes that in 1937 he went to a forum at Ford Hall, Boston, to hear Laski. Sheehan says David K. Niles, now one of President Roosevelt's confidential and anonymous advisers in the White House, was manager of these forums, And he reports that Frankfurter introduced Laski to the audience with the remark that the day he looked forward to in the year with the most joy was the day when Laski came to stay with him in his home in Massachusetts.

We The People By Ruth Millett

MAYBE IT 1S a mistake for married women to drop the Mrs. before their names or use their maiden names when they write, go intd politics, or become active in any kind of public affairs. Because more persons than you would believe still think that they can dismiss the opinions and attitudes of a woman simply by call= ing her an old maid. I know about this because I ) happen to write under my maiden name, and whenever I write a column that turns out to be controversial enough to make some folks hopping mad, I always get letters that harp on the “if you were a wife and mother” theme,

'If You Were a Mother Yourself'

IT SEEMS that a great many people are still old fashioned enough in their thinking to assume that no one but a married woman, sitting at home bringing up a family, has a right to any opinions on women in business, on marriage, or on children. So anything a person they assume to be single says. about such matters can be quickly and contemptuously dismissed with, “If vou were married” or “If you were a mother yourself” A strange thing about that kind of an attitude is that it isn’t typically masculine or feminine. Letters of that sort come as often from one sex as from the other. It~is just a handy, easy wav of discounting any= thing a woman says—if you don't happen to agree with it, and think she may be a Miss, rather than a Mrs. . Maybe instead of just using their married names when they speak out in public married women who

the people who still believe that no woman who isn't a wife and mother can possibly know what she is

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“PATROL SOUNDED NO WARNING” By J. A. Keyes, 418'z E. St. Clair st. The other night while walking east on St. Clair st. I witnessed a near-accident, and the incident made me indignant, to say the least. As I walked east toward New Jersey st, I observed a red light in the distance. At first I thought it was the traffic signal at Massachusetts ave. but I soon realized that it was moving toward me at a fair rate of speed. . Well, it turned out to be an In-

the corner just before the patrol did. . So what? Without slackening its speed or without sounding a warning of any kind, this patrol, driven presumably by one of the guardians of public safety of our fair city,-dashed across New Jersey st., which, dear Forum readers, is a stop street, checked almost daily by the cycle cops. The air was suddenly filled with the gosh-awful screeching of brakes as a south-bound auto came to a stop to avoid a collision. If one had occurred, the driver of the 'passenger car would no doubt have been arrested on charges of failure to give right-of-way to a police car. It was dark, the view is obstructed by houses, the patrol sounded no warning. Perhaps the motorist should have heard the red light approaching. It is fortunate, I think, that the other vehicle was a light car and not a heavy truck or heavily-loaded Millersville road bus which might have been unable to stop quick enough, Perhaps then the police department could have had another picture to display in front of Engjish’s during their safety campaign. Safety first! . » » 2 “WHAT IS LIBERTY COMING TO?" By C. F. D,, Indianapolis

All right, J. E. R., you asked for an apology from some New Deal supporter, so please make the most of this: As one of the Rooseveltforever clan, I must apologize for Mr. Robsevelt being only 99 per cent perfect instead of 13 per, cent which some 13 per cent mentalities seem to hope for. I am sorry he is.not a dictator instead of patchwork congress, for then we could get things done. 1 must ‘apologize for the 98 per cent prosperity instead of the appleselling rugged individuality so dear to the hearts of some freedom lovers. And I am particularly sorry that he has curbed the stock-sellers from gyping the suckers, because it is our privilege to be skinned by somebody. I must apologize for winning the war through lend-lease instead of losing by our isolationism as advocated by fifth columnists who

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them governor of Minnesota or elsewhere, I am sorry for social security

to starve if we want to choke off the helpless old folk whose crime was paying taxes and raising families for years. . I must apologize for insuring bank deposits because, as a nation of gamblers, we should be good.sports to lose as well as gain. I am sorry for wages being increased because we should be free to work for what we please, or can get, in view of the fact that we are only common rabble with no more brains than to vote for any upstart with a windbag, I must apologize for the constition being violated in order to help the farmer or worker because they love to work from sun-up. to sundown for the good of humanity and want to be let alone. I must apologize for the New Deal's WPA, which kept people from starving, against their sacred right to stand in soup lines. I am also sorry the CCC and NYA were established to interfere with individual enterprises such as bootlegging, hijacking and holding up filling stations. I must apologize for anti-inflation regulations which invade our rights to pay what we please, to hoard and let the devil take the hindmost. I am sorry we had home-loans and farm insurance because, after all, why deprive the loan sharks and mortgage leaches of their right to free enterprise. } I must apologize for stretching the constitution to favor the common man because aren't we still in the horse-and-buggy age and what was good enough for grandpop is good enough for us. I am sorry the government had to invest over $150,000,000,000 to safeguard fifty times that much, even though the airfields, dams, roads, ete., will pay for everything, like the Panama canal “waste. I must apologize for so much bureaucracy, commissions, departments, administrations, corporations, etc, because government

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. trade commission which interferes of the volume received, let |oith the sacred right to mislabel, ters should be limited to 250 [cheat and defraud the public, and words. Letters must be [the FBL is such a meddlesome party. What is liberty comirg to? . And there are so many, many other here are those of the writers, |items to be sorry for, whereas life and publication in no way [was so simple in the Hoovervilles, with no rent or taxes to pay, no automobiles to dodge. Ah, that was opinions by The Times. The |the life!

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tJ » 8 “HILLMAN SHOULD" BE DEFEATED” By Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis It is poor writing to call names

because it interferes with our right!;,, tn. Forum. Thus, I would say

that T, A. Casey is clear out of order in calling J. B. a windjammer of the tornado type.” g Mr. Casey is the writer who, a short time ago in bragging about the present “prosperous” times, failed to mention the ten million men in uniform who have left their jobs and opportunities and homes behind them to sacrifice as no Americans have sacrificed betore. . Mr. Casey believes that the Good Samaritan will remain in the “driver's seat.” If Mr. Roosevelt is a Good Samaritan, it can still be questioned that he is in the “driver's seat.” You don't have to pull back the curtains to see that Mr. Roosevelt did not control the Democratic convention. The ‘Russianborn Sidney Hillman, who is not even a Democrat, not Roosevelt,

the Democrats at Chicago. In 1634, Dr. Wirt of Gary, claiming.inside information, stated that Mr. Roosevelt was in the middle of a swift stream” that would carry him far to the left. Wirt was ridiculed for his statement and died with a broken heart. Dr. Wirt may have been one hundred per cent correct, as thousands of martyrs have been before him. . Who i in the driver's seat? Roosevelt, the New Dealer, or Hillman of the American Labor party? The Democratic party is certainly not in power. Hillman controls the largest campaign fund ever assembled. It is taken from American workmen who cannot protest or resign from their union because they are free men bound by maintenance of membership controls. Boss Hillman should be defeated next November by first defeating President Roosevelt who has led us into excessive debt and disunity and Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt who is now making a political show of the most sacred job ever assigned to man, » - » “CORRESPONDENT WAS IN ERROR”

By Constant Reader, Indianapolis’

the organization of a police homi¢ide squad?

board members.

mayor and his chief of police, -

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As the mountains are round abopt Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from Renee/orh even for ever.—Psalms 125:2. ie

of stockings! | feel dreadfully

Would it be in order to point out that your correspdndent, Mrs.

Studebaker, in The Hoosier Forum | matter of. domestic policy, as in the soldier vote bill was in error when she wrote that| 2 few months back, and in the reconversion bill a

Mayor Tyndall “publicly rebuked the chief of police” for suggesting| ‘Party in Congress Lacks Leadership’

There is and always has been a police -homicide squad. The mayor did not rebuke the chief of { police, but only advised that the chief and the board of safety discuss the proposed assignment of a certain ranking officer to direct the squad. This came after the v president of the safety board com In the house, Democrats are worried, too, about 8 plained that duty asignments were . pep Bob Ramspeck (Ga), house whip, has this being made by the chief without| problem, which is to get Democrats to the floor consultation with him and other| when there is a vote on an important party issue.

4 This information has been published in the news columns but ap-| an overwhelming majority, when a few absentees parently in the interests of fair| didn't matter. And, occasionally, members absent play it should be recorded again.|{hemselves when they don't approve of their party's I have never read that there was| stand, and let the issue go the other way by default, any serious friction between the Joe: Martin, to the contrary, gets his boys on the

GLORIOUS indeed is the world foot to shoe to the of God around us, but more glo-| any commander

might win. He counts Gov, Henry FP, Schricker out in

| the senatorial race and Senator Samuel D. Jackson

| out in the race for the governorship. | “The Republican tide is far too strong to save { them,” he said, He predicts with certainty that Ralph .Gates will be the next governor of Indiana and

Homer E. Capehart will take the U, S. senate post,

Says Reported Defections Are Unfounded

“THIS TALK that either or both might be beaten is unfounded when you dig right down to it” Ms, Halleck explained. “It always Is predicted upon the alleged defection of some leading Republican here and there. But when you trace down such rumors you find that the man or woman mentioned is out fighting for the full G. O. P. ticket and is astonished at the suggestion nd they would foster a split in the Republican ranks.” . Upon returning here Mr. Halleck got down at once to his congressional work with the house rules come mittee. But at odd hours he was busy with the natione al campaign as chairman of the house Republican campaign committee. Calls were coming from nae tional headquarters and from congressional districts from coast to coast, f Mostly the talk was about finance and Mr. Hale leck seems to be in the dough and ready to. dish it out for his committee wherever it will do the moss good. In fact before the campaign closes he may have writers cramps from signing the checks,

Mr. Rowe's Idea By Thomas L. Stokes

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1T— Sometimes it takes an initiate, still fresh in the order, but with a naive sort of insight, to rise up and tell the oid hands what's what. Ed Rowe, freshman Republican congressman from Akron, cid thag for the house, and for the senate, too. "

‘Observing how things are work= ing at the capitol, with Republice ans and Southern Democrats acte ually running the show, big Ed Rowe wondered why Republicans just didn't take over control, put their man in the speakership, seize contro] of the commit.

turned the stop-and-go signals for| tees and assume

responsibility. He alarmed his fellow Republicans, particularly Boss Man Joe Martin, minority house leader, by his bright thought. Joe Martin, of course, called in Mr. Rowe and explained the facts of life, how such a thing just isn’t done. Republicans don't want to take over ree sponsibility yet. They were nervous for a day or two after the 1942 elections when it seemed they might win the house and have to run it. With a Democratie administration in power, that would have put them on the spot continually, co

'Republicans Exercise Actual Control’

REPUBLICANS DON'T have an actual majority. But neither do the Democrats. Republicans have 213 members, Democrats 216 members. A majority is 218, There are four members of other parties, and three vacancies. . There's no question that the Republicans exercise actual control, with the help of conservative Southern Demdcrats, on most domestic issues. A showdown vote over organization of the house would be very | close. A few desertions Democrats, with some support from those of other parties, could turn the trick for the Republicans, though on the issue of control the Democrats, even rabid anti-New Dealers, - would be found standing with their party because nice plums are involved, such as committee chaire manships. So Congressman Rowe's one-man revolution won'y come off. But he did frighten the Republicans for a moment, and he dramatized the strange situation in JB congress, in. both branches. Te The truth is, no party controls either house or senate for practical purposes. A coalition of Republicans and conservative Deme ocrats, largely Southern, now controls on most any

few days ago in the senate.

THE DEMOCRATIC party in congress is split wide open, and lacks leadership able to pull it together. There is a conservative wing and a New Deal wing. Every to often each supports a different bill on the same subject. : The only appearance of unity comes on war meas. sures, which have the support of all factions, though this is about over as the work of congress moves toe ward post-war problems.

mechanical problem.

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