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} o EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNISM SINCE HISTORY began no venture in practical comgi munism ever has succeeded, and even Russia, after a brief trial on a national scale abandoned all but the vocabulary, a fact which should have been well known to the | © blithe spirits in the Farm Security Administration who * thought up Deshee Farms at Vincennes. Today Deshee Farms has come to the inevitable end of all such communal enterprises, with the usual loss of huge sums of money the ordinary Americans have paid in taxes. An interesting thing about Deshee Farms is the clarity with which the farmers who took part in the experiment sce what happened to them. Again and again in their conversaticn with Victor Peterson while they stood watching the liquidation of the bubble this week, the theme creeps back: “Some folks did all the work—some wouldn't work at all.” But they all shared alike in the results of that work —the idle and the shiftless and the lazy along with the hard-working and ambitious. They got the same reward, whether they did a full day's work in the fields, or a half day's work. So Deshee Farms placed a premium on idleness and sloth. The rate of pay for the lazy man was twice, or three times, as much per job done or per hour worked, as it was for his diligent neighbor. So, “some folks didn’t

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NO ECONOMY, whether it be that of a 3000-acre farm “ir a 48-state nation, can long stand that kind of a strain. : No enterprise, great or small, and no society, can long survive if its people get exactly the same reward whether they work or not. The rulers of Soviet Russia found that ~~ out, through years of bitter national agony — and today every Russian worker is paid on a piece-work basis, ex"actly according to what he produces. So did the sponsors 4.0f all the identical experiments, usually in farming, that “ ‘have been tried in the United States for the last 150 years. “Until the coming of the New Deal these were all financed . voluntarily by private capital—and when the capital ran . © out the ventures collapsed. “ss. Deshee Farms was financed by public capital, money the United States government had borrowed. It didn’t run out quite so soon—but when it did, Deshee Farms + ‘went on the auction block. 3 It will not, apparently, be all loss. The government ... may get back nearly half of the money it spent on Deshee “Farms, when everything is finally sold. Just the amount “it has lost, however, would have been enough to buy every «family who took part in the venture a $10,000 farm of his own. Just the deficit alone, if divided, would have giver every one of those families about a $1500-a-year income iW during all the years since the project was started. [J = » s . 8 THERE WAS nothing anywhere in history, or in “i “aconomics, cr in practical experience, that indicated that _ this Deshee Farms project ever had the slightest chance "to succeed and provide an earned living for this group of ..farm families, or that any such venture can come to any other end than speedy failure. Yet a group high enough in the national government to be able to draw almost unlimited millions from the federal treasury plunged headlong into it, and others like it, anyway. Some of them are not in the government right now. The head of the Farm Security Administration, for instance, has quit that job at least temporarily, to give full

man, and the rest in the election campaign of their Political Action Committee. ; Probably he feels that he can develop his theories more effectively that way.

LONDONER’S VIEW

HE TRANS-ATLANTIC edition of the London Daily Mail carries the answer of its New York correspondent to a question frequently put to him on his return to London: “llow does Britain at war strike you as compared with America at war?” Here is the answer: “There is no comparison. The American civilians—all of them, not just those with big bankrolls—are living a life hardly distinguishable from peace-time existence. There are mountains of food and acres of clothing for everyone. Rationing is the merest pin-prick. “There are plenty of luxuries. More money is being made by the entertainment, catering and clothing industries than ever before. The war is remote. Almost, it does not exist in a physical sense. Psychologically it is close— for ‘remember there are 10,000,000 Americans or

home in America.”

we who gripe and grouse and gouge and strike.

“MONEY TALKS

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million dollars. We wait all we can get.

Committee, July 2x. “Politics is the science of how who "—C. L OP. A. C. Political Primer, -

time to helping Messrs. Browder, Curran, Bridges, Hill-|

* more ir uniform, and their relatives belong to nearly every |

Exaggerated, would you say? Not to a man who has | i 7 seen war-time London—just the daily living, not the blitz and the robots. It might be well if we would try to look at ourselves now and then through a Londoner's eyes—

“KK VER since the C. I. O. Political Action Committee was = organized, fantastic stories have been circulated con- - cerning the fabulous funds available to us . , .” Sidney « Hillman, before the house campaign investigating com-

“If every member of the C. I. 0. contributes, we will have roughly five milliop dollars . . . I hope we get 25 ay The more we "get, the more we can spend ...., It's as simple as that.”’— David J. McDonald, finance chairman of the Political Action

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler FREE SPEECH FOR VICTORY

The thing we all love most about the glorious old United States of A. a hs color, is

Is that everybody, irregardless of creed or entitled to have their say. ir It makes no difference whether you are a member < of the wealthy group. ; Of if you are so poor all you have for your humble fare is soup. ; > It is just the same whether you are of socialistic persuasion, Or vegetarian or any other peculiar denomination, Everybody is entitled to express their opinion in this wonderful free land of ours < From the rockbound coast of Maine to California's tropical bowers. . d

II But that doés not mean that discordant elements have any right to abuse The wonderful freedom of speech by telling any lowdown dirty pack of lies they choose "About our wonderful Commander-in-Chief with his firm hand. Or the great and gracious First Lady of the Land. So if it happens that your mother or your teachers forgot. . To teach you true patriotism, we true ready to tell you what, He came to rule over us when ing for bread. And millions were so ill-clad they wished they could be dead. And the first thing he done was he drove the money changers out of the temple. And why didn't Herbert Hoover do it, if you think that was so simple.

Americans are

the poor were clamber-

His heart is overflowing with sympathy for the common man, Whereas all Thomas E. Dewey ever did was put underprivileged offenders in the can. Yet, on every hand all we hear is low-down, underhanded prevarications About this and that, and all kinds of character assassinations. When our great President for twelve long years has been striving with might and main To sweep out the Agean stables and set us on an even keel again, So our little children, instead of being always hunegry and weak and cold can be warmly garbed and do not they are even ten years old, And the bosses do not have power to push the working man around. And grind you down until finally they put you under the ground.

have to toil before

Iv So if you are a patriot American please get wise And do not go around repeating anti-fourth-term propaganda lies. Freedom of speech does not mean the right to spread disunity When we are all out for victory over the aggressors with impunity. And meanwhile our President is protecting our beloved home fires Only to be the target for anti-fourth-term, pro-Nazi-liars. If you didn't know the true facts you might think he was a worm Because he obeyed the people’s command to run for a fourth term. Freedom of speech is our glorious heritage from Plymouth Rock But those who don't use it the right way will get a good sock. v So, everybody, all together, let us stop this discordant repining And when the war is over we will find the silver lining. * ® ®

(Any resemblance in the foregoing to current New Deal and Communist verse is purely intentional.— Pegler.)

We The People

By Ruth Millett

SHE WAS “Mom Wimpy” to the -high school boys of Grand Rapids who used to stop in her hamburger shop after school and in the evening's with their dates, back in the days when 18-year-old boys were carefree kids. Now many of “Mom Wimpy's” customers, along with two of her sons and one grandson, are fighting all over the world. And “Mom Wimpy” writes regularly to 75 of them—keeping them in touch with what is going on at home. It is a safe bet the 75 soldiers, sailors and marines are glad to get those letters. ° For when servicemen who have been long away from home talk about the things they look forward to when they finally come back, they talk of such everyday things as going to a barber shop and “getting the works,” stopping in at the corner drug store for a chocolate soda, dropping by their favorite hamburger joint for a nice sizzling hamburger with onions.

Boys Would Welcome Letters

THE OTHER DAY a serviceman who came home on a leave after a long stretch in the Pacific said the one thing he dreamed of while away that didn’t disappoint him when he got back home was leaning back in a barber’s chair and wallowing in the luxury of steaming hot towels. So “Mom Wimpy” is doing a real service by keeping in touch with the boys who used to eat her hamburgers and now dream of eating them again. And there are probably thousands of other boys | in service who would welcome a letter from the man who runs the corner drug store, the man who used | to cut their hair, and the man or woman who ran the | juke joint where they used to take their dates. Those places are as much home to the young men | overseas as their own front porches, Their furlough | plans unconsciously tell us that,

To The Point—

WITH THE increase in purse-snatchings, a great

many of the ladies must be losing their complexions. » . »

| BEING on your toes will keep other people off them. # . * . . THE SAME rule holds in wartime: are on the level often get to the top. . * -

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THE GARAGE MAN who is lucky enough to hire a mechanic is also lucky if he can buy an adding machine. * .. * EAT, DRINK, and if anything happens be in the

back seat. i * * *

winter comes it will be time to get hot about it. . . . be on the job as much as they are after it. ! * - * 0

start withr the lawnmower. : ‘ . ro. . SOME WOMEN become married to jackasses. 5 > *

thout honor.

the question—the Normandy, South

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LET'S KEEP cool over the coal situation. When | YOU WONDER if some of these politicians will | | IF THE WIFE wants to run everything, let her . )

nags because "they are

By John Knox in The Memphis Commercial Appeal.

The Hoosier Forum

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

“NOTICE THE POLICE CARS” By George Shaw, Indianapolis

I live near a street that is one of the outlets of Indianapolis and I have noticed police who chase motorists. Naturally that is O, K. it the motorist is speeding or violating the law. But today while at lunch during noon hour I saw gathered in a lunch car four policemen. Out in front there were two motorcycles parked four feet from the curb. Now, if these motorcycles belonged to some of the clan outside of the police department, they would have received a nice little ticket or sticker. These motorcycles were parked right where city busses turn and where big six-wheeled trucks pass. Also, go behind the police garage and notice the police cars with wrinkled fenders, radiators bent in, and an essortment of other carelessness. Oh, for a reform in the ranks of our dear public guardians! - 2 »

“THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE ANSWER” By T. Sgt. William Paul Amos, Carmel.

An American once said to the Americans and to the world that America would become the “Arsenal of Democracy.” Through that American’s leadership and guidance and with the co-operation of all true Americans—Republicans and Democrats alike—America did become the arsenal of democracy. This man’s figures, which he predicted Americans could produce in the way of war materials, were not only reached, but surpassed. And yet Mr. and Mrs. America, his enemies both at home and abroad, laughed at him and said it was impossible. It was not the Democrats or the Republicans, but all true Americans, regardless of their party, who rallied behind the commander-in-chief and gave to our boys the finest equipment the world has ever known. Yes, Americans, you not only equipped your boys with these great fighting materials but, through the direction and guidance

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great materials were placed in the hands of our boys, fighting comrades of the allied nations, thus inspiring a speedier victory. Victory is now in sight. Should we even think about replacing this great American at a time like this? I should like to put it this way: Supposing this were football and we were now winding up a very successful season, would we dismiss our coach or demand that he be retained? Ladies and gentlemen, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as true Americans, I am certain there can be only one answer. We must demand that he be retained. »

8 = =» “ARE YOU WILLING TO SELL YOUR SON?” By J. M. T., Noblesville.

A very large number of war workers are beginning to be concerned about their big-paying jobs and believe that, should Roosevelt be defeated or the war end suddenly, a natural return to peace-time production would stop their huge Income. Many have not saved enough to last them six months of unemployment and many will cash all their bonds as quickly as possible—but how many realize the true reason for their high wages? They will not admit that the war was the chief

of the man you chose to be your commander-in-chief, these same

cause. Instead, they put all the

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credit in the laps of Roosavelt, the New Deal or the Deomcratic party, little realizing that to do so is to place the blame for the war in the same lap. Now, Mr. and Mrs. War Worker, are you willing to sacrifice your son or husband or your neighbors’ dear ones in order that you can receive higher wages than you ever believed possible for you, and also s0 you can give parties, buy expensive cars and clothes you do not need? Every time you receive your pay check and smile with satisfaction because of the many hours of pleasure it will provide for you, think of the cost in human lives that makes that check possible. Are you willing to “sell” your son or husband for a thousand dollars worth of parties? . os .

“LET HER SUPPORT HER HUSBAND” By Daily Reader, Indianapolis I read a piece in Ruth Millett's column, “We the People,” about women who helped in winning the war by working in factories and feel that they have. done as much as the boys and men in the military service. It seems that some {feel they should have the right to hold their jobs in preference to the veterans when they come back. Well, I believe a good way to fix that is to pass a law that every woman who thinks more of her job and the dollars she is earning than she does of her home and her children should be allowed the privilege of working and let her husband stay home and care for the children and do the housework. Let her support her veteran husband and fine every one who fails to support her husband and children. . I think the boys and men who have given up their good jobs and gone into the military service have gone through enough without coming home to be hounded to death by their wives who would rather work in a factory than stay home and care for their children and do the housework. I think that is where most of our juvenile celinquency comes in because the Bible very plainly tells us the love of money is the root of all evil.

ss 8 = “WHY CAN'T WE EDUCATE FOR LIFE?” By Henry W. Reger, 1909 N. Talbott ave.

The problem of juvenile delinquency is growing even more acute. Its full effect on society can't be measured at present, but, like the rivers that flow ever to the sea, the evil or our time will wield its full influence on society 20 or 30 years hence. “The mills of the gods turn slowly but grind small” The parents, the church, the school, the courts have done a very poor job of curbing child wayward-

lectively to look out for the welfare of our youngsters or we must pay the penalty for our neglect, ° The movie which recently enjoyed an extended run in the city, entitled, “Going My Way,” I firmly believe will do more to lead youngsters up the straight and narrow path than a multitude of sermons, court lectures and parental reptimands. The public needs more films like “Going My Way” with more people like Bing Crosby to play the leading roles. If Hitler can educate oe Jeaih, why can't we educate for e

DAILY THOUGHTS

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the rches; he that overcometh shalli not be hurt of the second death.—Revelation 2:11.

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{MORTALITY is the of Christianity. ~Wm. Ell-

|By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-That official Dumbarton Oaks come* munique is pretty slim pickings, It repeats generalities given the public before the conference. The only exception is that the original, . phrase as to permanent members of the league's controlling council, “four major nations” (the Big, Three plus China), is now changed to “principal states,” which Is interpreted to mean that possible future inclusion of France is being

discussed. ! ; It is not news that the Big Three have agreed on three points: A league assembly of all peace-loving nations based on sovereign equality, a council of ths major powers with a few changing representatives of the smaller nations chosen periodically, a world court, * and “such other means as may be necessary for maintenance of peace and security.” All else is official secrecy.

Public Has a Right to Know

DOES THE American plan permit an American President or his council member to commi . tion to war without a congressional vote as required by the constitution? We think the American publig has a right to know and to discuss that plan, whatever it is, before it becomes fixed as official American policy. Does American policy agree with the reported Russian proposal for an international police force for air? We think the American public should be given the information necessary for an intelligent discussion ’ of this issue how. . Is the league council to have control, with the ase sembly relegated to the status of a debating society— in line with Churchill statements to commons but in

Moscow pact, the Atlantic Charter and the united nations declaration regarding rights of small nations? We think this is very much the immediate business of the American public, : And these are only three of many such questions on which official secrecy is attempted,

Playing a Self-Defeating Game

WHETHER PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT personally is responsible for this secret-diplomacy rule as he hag * been so often in the past—he has not even yet ree ported on his Teheran conference agreements—we do not know. The British are said to want less secrecy. Most of the facts about allied policy in the past have been given to the public by Prime Minister Churchill and by Moscow-controlled publications. But whoever silenced the Dumbarton delegates is

tween distorted and reliable information.

Dangerous Waters of Rumor and Fear

ANY AMERICAN OFFICIAL who thinks he can help launch a league of nations successfully in the , dangerous waters of rumor and fear flowing from such distorted secrecy has forgotten more than Woods row Wilson's plea for open covenants openly arrived at. Worse, he has forgotten what happened to the remainder of Wilson's 14 points when that first one (open covenants) was scrapped by the big powers at Paris. Certainly it is neither possible nor desirable to , prevent occasional executive sessions in any such negotiations. But most of the proceedings, and pare ticularly the decisive ones, should be reported fully and accurately. That is the price of democracy. It has its dangers, but they are small compared with the * alternative—an alternative never willingly accepted by the American public in a presidential campaign year or any other year.

Pomp and Protocol By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. «= Twenty-three years of watching diplomats, big and small, come and go here, do their dips and bows, mental and physical, still leaves you with a certain wonder at the whole business, Which is anent the visit of newspaper correspondents to Dumbarton Oaks to attend what was called a “press conference” with the heads of the United States, British and Russian dele= gations here for preliminary meetings for creation of a post-war world organization to keep the peace, Correspondents covering the state department have been protesting the secrecy about what is going on behind the estate's walls. They can not even hang around the place. Finally, under the . battering, the conferees broke down and announced a press conférence. A crowd of newspapermen gathered, and went through a gate, showing our tickets to soldiers on guard and to a pleasant young lady who checked the names and numbers. Each person had a number on his card which, on its face; said he “is a member of the press accredited to the Washington conversa= tions on international organization,”

‘It Was Quite Elegant’

THIS LITTLE MATTER of protocol attended to, the newspaper men and women went down a Walk « and into a side room of the house. It had beautie fully paneled ceilings, a big tapestry at one end and plenty of chairs in neat rows. There we waited, {ace ing a long table with three chairs behind it. A « tapestry graced the wall. It was quite elegant, which inspired remarks from the assembled troop, along with the usual cracks from the lighter spirits, such as addressing one another as “Mr. Ambassador™ and “Mr. Secretary,” with appropriate bows. . After a few minutes, there was a stir at the front of the room, and down some stairs came Russian Ambassador A. A. Gromyko, head of his country’s delegation, with Undersecretary of State Stettinius, head of the American delegation, and Sir Alexander Cadogan, head of the British delegation, plus assorted ; secretaries. The gentlemen took their seats at the table, Mr. Stettinius in the center. (Somebody must have worked that all out.) Mr. Stettinius rose and said he had a state ment. which he read, an outline of the hasic struc= ture for the world organization which had been ap= proved. It was similar to one President Roosevelt had announced two and a half months ago—a council, assembly, world court. :

‘Courteous But Added Nothing’

SOME QUESTIONS were asked, and Mr. ‘Stete tinius was courteous, but added nothing. Mr. Gromyko~ was given an opportunity te speak, but he preferred jos to talk. Sir Alexander answered a question or wo. : Then Mr. Stettinius read another long statement, his own. It told why the meetings had to be done fidential, going all the way back to the constitue tional convention to show how confidential confers ences precede agreements, including national politi= cal conventions, committees of congress, and so on. He did promise that no commitments were being made, here, that everything would be made public ultimately. for discussion and debate before final adoption. Mr. Stettinius, whe comes from a business back=

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