SOUTH BEND PUBLIC LIBRARY, 3 04 S.MA-IN ST., f C I TY. I Windy City/" Good Name for It Next Week/ G.O.P. Takes Over "OLD SHUFFLERS" TO SHUFFLE *? Dewey or Bricker — Willkie? EXT week is Republican week in Chicago, "Windy City," well sobriquetted for the purpose ELIEVE IT —but next comes the Democrats, and maybe then it will be "Typhoon City,"—when the N selective service act will be put into first gear, reconseripting a commander-in-chief. Of .ourse it would never do to defy such selective service board. WMPC Paul V. McNutt ("V" as in OR ELSE 'Vicarious") might put th© defier to work in a war plant. It is "work or fight" with Paul V ("V" MEAT <_>' THE COCONUT as in "Virtuous"), you know, and the manpower short­ age, all stages, brooks no recalcitrants. Maybe that is -••• BY Wgffl why Dewey (left), Tom Dewey, Thomas E. Dewey ("E" SILAS W1THERSPOON I as in "Erstwhile"), is so silently waiting for the call in­ stead of trying to enlist. WOODROW WILSON IS -*___-,__! But Bricker (right), John Bricker, Gov. John W. only writer Bricker ("W" as "Whooper"), is no such hang-backer. He REGATEGORIED WITH in America is out trying to enlist, of course, for "commander-in- with more shief," not "buck private,"—and maybe there's Willkie, ABRAHAM LINCOLN & "poison in Wendell Willkie, indeed Wendell L. Willkie ("L" as in his quill," "Lost"), or some other "dark horse" to save the G. O. P. than his GEORGE WASHINGTON from its otherwise certain, post-election dissolusion. They present assailant; Hughes, who put George say they're going to "name the next president" in Chi­ Washington in the "dog-house," and reduced Abraham Lincoln to a commonplace "ward- cago, and they will, no doubt, but in negative terms. Half -.,-. COn Page Three) heeler"; even "humanized" Christ into a "rabble-rousing" soap-box orator, and bibli- cized the scripture into a dime novel,—now has another "ideology," as he calls it, tor­ DEMOCRATIC MEET HARMONIOUS-PERFORCE or PERCHOIGE turing his brain-pan (I said "brain-pan," OTHING but "harmony" marked the course of the Indiana Democratic state convention last not "think-tank"). week. When Fred Bays, state chairman, says "open convention," and "here is the slate," He is out after the scalp of Woodrow Wil­ N and "no back talk," that is it. Gov. Henry F. Schricker (left) and Senator Samuel D. son, the Versailles treaty, the League of Na­ Jackson (right), went across as expected, for senator anpl governor respectively; went across with­ tions covenant, the League, and everything out a dissent, but for that matter, so did all the rest, even and everybody else forsooth, who dares sus­ to including Paul McNutt, Cliff Townsend and Frank Mc­ pect any wrong, or any blame, or any ill- Hale for delegates to the national convention. Of course results, contributory to the present world it wouldn't do not to recognize these big boys with their holocaust,-—in America's ditching of that en­ national hookups—though a considerable element of In­ twined quartet of happenstances. He all but diana Democrats are holding their noses in consequence. beams Berlin, as we blessed her by treaty in 1921, and industry up to 1939, succoring the McNutt, Townsend and McHale, you know, are almost German resuscitation, and Nazi germination, as distasteful to a lot of Indiana Democrats as Gates, as Time's most gracious gift to man since Capehart and Lyons are to a lot of Republicans; so many « Moses slid down from Siani. discarded (though tolerable) deuces in the Democratic Of course, he doesn't put it that way, but instance, and a like number top*-notch enshrined (though with such pride as he takes in Washington's disgraceful) in the Republican instance. They're still attitude in the matter, repudiating the Wil­ pollywogging in the Republican party, over their KKK son treaty and disowning the/covenant, there blight, hoping to cover it up by resignations of the more is no other alternative thanjglpry in what pronounced—and to "pass the buck" to someone of the Washington indulged as a substitute — and (On Page Three) the consequences are theirs, not Wilson's or the League's, so tax as America is concerned. Hitler Proves "Rodent" in Manless Move Is it the proper HOSE manless rocket planes, shooting over England, dropping bombs and incendiary fbm:s, by mission for Anti- ANTI-LEAGUERS IN time instead of triggers, are a fitting last breath gurgle for the "rat" of the Reich. "Rodent" nvans Leaguers to rat, mice, beavers, squirrels, porcupine; also cancers and ulcers—but why insult the cancers and ul­ damn the mem- T NEED OF AN ALIBI cers, the porcupine, squirrels, beavers, mice? In the Hitlerian case it means "rat,"—gnawing, biting, of bers< of the USE STOOL-PIGEON League, either for the genus mus, spreader of disease, author of the bubonic plague. the use, misuse, or non-use, that; they have Major difference is that the "rodent" plane seems turning out more or less of a bluff; its bark is more made of a set-up in which we declined all dangerous than its bite. If the timing isn't fitted to its speed it is likely to shoot off Jgme where m'.d- cooperation? In effect we aligned ourselves Channel instead of mid-London; a millionth of an inch eff course at the source migm"-'-miss :a whole beside the one nation, our World War I ene­ town a hundred fifty miles away—and that is its limit of distance. The Nazis have proven repeated'ylJjjR my, encouraging her that much in her defi­ (On Page Four) ances cf the League's efforts. The Four- Power pact, the Kellog-Briand treaties, that ran e By SOMERSET MAUGI provoked the Lacarno episodes, were all cal­ culated to ease things up for the Germans— $n a St £ J^flindi and incidentally our international industrial­ AM of a roving disposition; but I travel rot writer in the pages of his book and the itoi-v ists; according them a German base for our to see imposing monuments, which indeed m his picture; but I have journeyed a hiincl. foreign trade. It was intrigue international, I somewhat bore me, nor beautiful scenery, of leagues to see a missionary of whom I I-ad^d with Germany the situs, for supplying our which I soon tire; I travel to see men! I avoid a strange story and I have spent a fortnight"!, foreign markets from German rather than the great. I would not cross the road to meet American labor. vile hotel in order to improve my acqua.nta. a president or a king; I am content to know the (On Page Nine} (On Pag*-* Two) Page Two THE MIRROR argue" Sh-T engage in super-Super left-wing disquisitions, tinged al­ ways with the martyr compfas. A ELIEVE It Why a Farmer Should B|jr| p&y^l_iatrisf^W-puld have a fielcf day a-rio-ig their ^complexe^ _rti!_tra- / and Keep War Bonds tions aisl rationalizations. But the sad fact is theft wot a few-of these Or ELSE! crackpots have wormed their way (From Page One) by G. W. Hedlimd into government, where without Head, Dept, of Agricultural Econdrmcs mandate from the people they ex­ But that is what was in the back of the American anti- periment with the rest of us gui­ University of Pennsylvania nea pigs! Moreover, they are League head; not whast-»7«©_^ii_c>fi_e back of Woodrow Wil­ deftjcedly clever in clothing their son's, and other pro-League "idealist's" heads. We mustn't Marxian ideas in the garments of overlook the discount that Mr. Hughes puts on their "ideal­ Christian idealism; the latter be­ ism": he is strong for realism . "Idealists distort League of HERE are many compelling crease as prices in general go up. ing native to the American and Treasons why farmers should But investments in farm real deeply beloved, he is often fooled Nations Facts," he says. Of course, the "realists" never dis­ buy War Bonds. But there is one estate and other farm property do by" this ideological wolf in sheep's torted any League of Nations facts; follow him and see. reason, often overlooked during not offer prote-c-ii-cgj or hedges clothing. <5Jt§E times like the present, which I against |»rice declines. When The pet result is that a .Itjt of It came per NBC broadcast (June 3), but it didn't take believe is fundamental to the in­ prices of farm products decline, the majority press of America (congealed into "one-and- dividual farmer. That reason is: the prices of farm land and other Americans have reached the point onlies" .by buyups), bound body, soul and britches (via Farmers should buy War Bonds farm property also decline. To of believing that they are not real­ make matters worse, net farm in­ ly masters of themsely«_v* but back rolls) to the 1921 anti-Versailles perfidy, very long now to protect their personal finan­ should look- for direction to the cial posiiioa against falling prices come declines more than almost 7 to reduce it to print. His words can be accepted therefore at some future time. anything else. Farmers must look "socially enlightened few* who, as* indicative of what the "realists" of the party applauding The typical faaaner has most if elsewhere to protect, themselves out of their superior wisdom and not all of his funds invested in against deflation or price declines.