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WEDNESDAY MAY t. 1935. THE SOUTHPORT TANGLE Glenn CURTIS of Martinsville has turned down the contract offered him to become the principal of Southport High School and any one who has any conception of the Southport furor can not help but feel that Mr. Curtis is the "innocent bystander” who has been hurt the most. Mr. Curtis is an able basketball coach who is an even more able school administrator. He is the principal of the Martinsville High School and his work there has resulted in one of the lowest per capita pupil rates in Indiana. Re has an excellent course of study for all his pupils and all Martinsville long has been aware of his talents as a principal and a school executive. Mr. Curtis loves good basketball and he has elected to handle the basketball affairs of his school. He has turned out many a champion and the name of Glenn Curtis has become synonymous with great basketball teams. When Trustee Leonard A. Hohlt of Southport signed to a contract Janis P. 'Hunk; Francis and then announced he had offered a contract to Mr. Curtis, Southport parents and Indianapolis parents, too, sadly arrived at the conclusion that perhaps Trustee Hohlt was trying to improve Southport's basketball teams. From Glenn Curtis* standpoint, of course, nothing was further from the truth. Mr. Curtis was considering the Southport position as a school administrative post and yesterday afternoon when he announced he could not sign the contract in view of the existing circumstances, observers felt that the Martinsville educator had suffered a grievous wrong. Glenn Curtis is a scholar and a gentleman. Martinsville can well be proud of him. The pity ot the whole situation is that his reputation as a basketball coach has grown greater than his fame as an educator. His talents are not truly appicciated.

AN APOLOGY TO CANADA ONE of the most serious diplomatic blunders ever made in this or any other Administration has just occurred. The testimony of high Army officers to a House commrttee regarding alleged United States war plans has frightened Canadians and caused official representations by the Ottawa government to Washington. Although President Roosevelt has been quick to disavow the Army testimony, further friendly action will be required to repair the damage. This is an exceedingly serious matter for many reasons. It arouses suspicion in the mind of our oldest and best friend—perhaps our only unqualified friend among all the large nations of the world. It appears to violate the spirit of our treaty with our neighbor. It reveals a dangerous trend of our military men to usurp the policy-making function of the civil government. Brig. Gen. Kilbourne, until recently assistant chief oi staff in charge of war plans, explained to the committee how he camouflaged the Wilcox bill to provide a giant air base near the Canadian border. “I could not put it in the bill because of the Canadian situation,' he said. “You will notice No. 7 in my hill is camouflaged. It is called intermediate stations for transcontinental flights, but it means the same thing." Brig. Gen. Andrews, chief of the new GHQ air force, added fuel by testifying that, even with Canada neutral, the United States in war might seize Newfoundland and British and French islands in the Atlantic and Caribbean: "If the situation is sufficiently vital to require it, we must be prepared to seize these outlying bases to prevent their development by the enemy as bases of operation against us." The President, instating that this Kilbourne and Andrews testimony on war plans "does not represent either the Rolicy of this Administration or that of the Commander-m-Chief," reaffirmed our traditional treaty policy with Canada as follows: "I call your especial attention to the fact that this government not only accepts as an accomplished fact the permanent peace conditions cemented by many generations of friendship between the Canadian and American people, but expects to live up to not only the letter but the spirit of our treaties relating to the permanent disarmament of our 3000 miles of common boundary.” We trust our Canadian friends will accept this assurance by the President and Com-mander-in-Chief as representing not only the policy of the Washington government but of the American people. The easy and often inaccurate phrase about war being “unthinkable” happens to be 100 per cent true in the case of the United States and Canada. As for our militarists, the Commander-in-Chief presumably will find occasion to teach them two very simple facts at least. The first is that attempted military usurpation of civil government powers is one of the most heinous offenses m this republic. The second is that a permanent Canadian-American peace alliance is worth more in the actual defense and safety of this nation than the United States Army,” Navy and air corps combined and all the billions of dollars spent on preparedness. No nation in the world is so blessed as ours with the natural protection of two oceans and a neighbor like Canada. We jeopardize Canadian friendship at our peril. CHILD HEALTH DAY TJ Y proclamation of President Roosevelt today is set apart for "such exercises as will awaken the people of the nation to the fundamental necessity of a year-round program for the protection and development of the health of the nation's children.” ’ Society can not, of course, guarantee eagh of its children his rightful heritage of a good

body and mind. But until it sets about to provide the least of them wholesome food, education, play space, sanitary home and medical care it has not even begun to try. The New Dial A J "jjnistration has sought to meet its obligation in childhood's darkest days. Its NRA codes have taken at least 150,000 child wage-earners from mines, mills and factories. Its spokesmen have urged unwilling states to write a ban cn child labor into the Constitution by ratifying the Twentieth Amendment. Os nine titles in its social security program six are devoted to the health and welfare of children. Its public works program will touch most of the 7,400,000 children whose parents are on relief. With industry and the localities co-operating, these measures can be translated into strong bones, tough muscles, active brains and youthful laughter. Some day, perhaps, every child will greet this month by romping “ ’neath the waving green of blithesome May.” Until then we must have child health days, as President Roosevelt urges, ‘‘to awaken the people” to the cry of the undernourished and underprivileged children In their midst. MAY DAY THE first of May, once a holiday for spring festivities, pagan pageantry and dancing about the maypole in the Strand, has become an occasion when radical workers parade their wrongs through the streets. Too often men have betrayed the day’s mprry spirit by acts of repression, violence and even bloodshed. America has nothing to fear from open peaceful demonstrations. So long as radicalism parades or speaks from stump and rostrum it is not dangerous. Drive it to cellars with gas bombs and night sticks and it becomes dangerous. May Day should demonstrate that America is not a land of oppression. Every denial gs the constitutional right of tree assemblage, free petition, free speech and free press puts a weapon in the hands of revolutionists. The authorities will be wS,e if they allow the freeest expression of opinion today. With widespread want and insecurity still within its borders, America can not this year recapture the joys of the old May Days. But it can keep the day free of hate and violence.

JUST AN ILLUSION "VTOU can not talk very long about our chances for staying out of this “next war" that everybody seems to be expecting without ringing in at least a few echoes from the last one. What happened between 1914, when the European war started, and 1917, when we finally got into it, is not entirely clear even today. But it is about all we have to go on when we try to forecast the future, and it has a way of horning in on all our arguments. One is reminded of it by some speeches made the other evening before the Foreign Policy Association in New York. There was a round table discussion of the war-and-peace problem, and a lawyer named Frederic R. Coudert expressed himself as follows: "I disagree with the assumption that war is a most terrible thing. The people of this country will not be satisfied to preach neutrality rights, to keep their flag off the high seas. They will want to know if there is a moral question involved in the w r ar. “They will prefer to take part in the war if it is against a brutal aggressor. They are 120,000,000 energetic idealists who will not shut themselves up lest they be drawn into a war. but will take sides undeterred by fear of war.” With the statement that we will want to know if there is a moral question involved in the next war there can be little quarrel. The only trouble with it is that you so often can't be sure about a thing like that until some 20 years aftenvard. If you will cast your mind back to 1917, you will recall that we had not the slightest doubt, at that moment, that there was a tremendous moral issue at state. Freedom, democracy, civilization itself—they all hung in the balance, and if we did not go forth to fight for them they were apt to be lost. So, as you remember, we and and go forth to fight, and the cause with w r hich we sided won as overwhelming a victory as the history of warfare records. So what? So freedom, democracy, and all the rest were preserved and made forever secure? Just where—in Italy, in Germany, in Russia, in Poland, in Yugoslavia—or where? The bright moral issues of 1917 don't look as clear now as they once looked. We may be 120,000,000 energetic idealists, but we might be better off today if we had been just a bunch of suspicious cynics. And that’s the trouble. Go around looking for moral issues in the midst of a great war and you lay yourself wide open to the sale of a gold brick. The one great lesson of 1917 is that if we are to protect our neutrality we must start long before the shooting actually begins.

LET'S TEST OURSELVES \ N intelligence test to determine the fitness of state and national legislators is proposed in the current issue of The Zion Herald. Methodist weekly. It's a sound idea, as far as it goes; but why not go farther and have a similar test for us voters as well? For when all is said and done, these legislators—and some of them are pretty sad-looking specimens were elected by us. We looked them over, listened to what they had to say, and gave them their jobs. Strange, when you stop to think about it: we are almost unanimous in berating the stupidity and the chicanery of Congress and Legislature —but we never stop to think that congressmen and legislators are direct reflections of ourselves. We put them where they are; if were so smart, why don't we put better men in their places? In a Boston beauty shop, women watch movies while their hair dries. Wonder how they get their hats on after a thriller? You've got to hand it to that naval officer who is marrying for the fifteenth time. He's at least making a valiant effort to carry out the promises made at various ports. Mae West says, “I ought to remember who I married, oughtn t I?” Maybe, but for a number of actresses, that's quite a feat. Mayor La Guardia in Arizona asks Indians to give their support to the Great White Father. It is uncertain whether he meaat Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Dionne.

I Cover the World BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

WASHINGTON. May I.—According to semiofficial news sources of a neutral country. Germany has "offered'’ Lithuania to Poland in exchange for the Polish Corridor and Danzig. Lithuania, of course, does not belong to Germany nor does Danzig belong to Poland. But Chancellor Hitler's land, sea and air armament program is said to be terrifically handicapped because of the Corridor. A "swap” would greatly strengthen Hitler’s hand. The ancient Hanseatic port and Bay of Danzig with the nearby fortified camp of Konigsberg are vitally needed to further the Nazis’ army and navy plans. But as long as Danzig is a free city, and East Prussia is separated from the rest of Germany by alien territory known as the Polish Corridor, their use will remain strictly limited. Berlin, therefore, is reliably reported to have proposed to Warsaw the exchange of Memel and Lithuania for Danzig and the Corridor. Poland would be compensated for the magnificent new port of Gdynia which she has constructed in the last few years. a a a POLAND is said to have refused Germany any encouragement. She is aware, however, that more than once she and Germany have been on the edge of war over the Corridor since the war treaties gave her that outlet to the sea. But it would likely require war to put the deal across—even if Poland were otherwise willing. And Poland does not want a war. The Poles, however, look upon Lithuanians as brothers who have merely strayed from the family circle. Marshal Pilsudski, Polish hero and dictator, is of that stock, his ancestry going back to the Lithuanian princes of Ginet. He himself was born at Vilna, which city Gen. Zeligowski and 15,000 Polish soldiers seized in 1920 and annexed to Poland. Since then Polish-Lithuanian relations have been strained almost to the breaking point.. For years they were close to war. For centuries Vilna had been regarded as Lithuania’s tiaditional capital—and still is, although the geographies now place it in Poland. But Pomerania (the Corridor) is Polish to the core historically and even if the swap could be made without bloodshed, Poland would scarcely use her Pomeranian brothers to buy her Lithuanian kin back into the fold. a a a MEMEL was part of East Prussia up to 1919. Lithuania was one of Russia’s Baltic provinces. The treaty at Versasilles took Memel from Prussia, and Soviet Russia recognized the independence of Lithuania. Memel became its port. Chancellor Hitler has made no secret of the fact that his eyes are toward the East. Russia fears aggression in the direction of Lithuania, along the Baltic and in the Ukraine. Moscow believes one of the Nazis’ main objects in building anew navy is to control the Baltic. In anticipation, Russia has strengthened Kronstadt and Leningrad and is planning new warships. Abolition of the Polish Corridor by diplomacy or otherwise is regarded as imperative to consolidate Germany’s position in the North Sea and the Baltic. Weakness either east or west of the Danish peninsula would be fatal in a war with a sea power.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES THE right of collective bargaining is regarded by most civilized persons as an indispensible element in the present economic and social order, particularly if we wish to give capitalism even a fighting chance to survive. As to whether labor prefers to carry on this collective bargaining through labor organizations—either trade or industrial in character—or through company unions is a matter of bitter controversy. Labor unionists ridicule company unions as a mere travesty imposed and dominated by employers. Many employers, on the other hand, contend that if organized labor allowed the working man to make a free choice, they would in most cases support company unions in preference to formal labor organizations. It is obvious that this issue can be settled only by recourse to the facts. There must be a sufficient sampling of labor opinion to give us some basis for conclusions. Just such a sampling has been provided by the Twentieth Century Fund, basing its study on all labor elections held under the NRA labor boards to March 15, 1934. These cover 138 elections held in 546 separate plants. More than 200.000 employes in 36 states and 50 industries participated. tt a a SINCE the Twentieth Century Fund is supported by Edward A. Filene and numbers among its trustees men like Newton D. Baker, it can not be accused of partiality to union labor. The director of the study, Alfred L. Bernheim. is recognized as one of the most competent students of labor statistics in the United States. The result of this study indicates that American labor is overwhelmingly opposed to company unions: “They show that out of 204,582 ballots cast by workers outside of the automobile industry, 138.017, or 67 per cent, were for trade unions; 61,401, or 30 per cent, voted for some form of company union, and only 5,164, or 3 per cent, elected individual representation or some other form of bargaining. “A sharp divergence from this general trend in elections was shown in the automobile industry. With 105.000 out of 123,000 eligible workers in the Detroit area voting, only 12 per cent elected trade union and 11 per cent elected company union representation, while the great majority, 77 per cent, voted for individuals and ‘other’ organizations.” a a a THE reason for the remarkable divergence of labor opinion in the automobile industry from labor opinion elsewhere is to be explained by the fact that in the automobile industry the elections were held under conditions which made it very difficult for a worker to indicate his choice of affiliation with a definite labor organization: “In the first place, the other labor board elections were held only in disputes to which the ! union was a party and usually at its request, | while the Automobile Labor Board conducted j elections on its own initiative and in the abi sence of a request from any party to a dispute. “In the second place, other labor board elections have been usually conducted in such manner that the workers could vote directly for organizations, the names of which appeared on the ballots. In the automobile elections they voted for individuals whose affiliations were not stated on the ballot.” It need not be contended that this study puts an end to all legitimate argument about ihe company union issue. But it does show that labor opinion believes company unions entirely inadequate to uphold the interests of labor. TO END HITCH-HIKING ' ■ ''HE Pennsylvania state highway patrol has A declared war on the hitch-hiker. Capt. Wilson C. Price announces at Harrisburg that any one caught thumbing a ride in Pennsylvania hereafter will be jailed and fined, and he adds: “A hitch-hiker and a panhandler are the same, except that the panhandler whines for a dime and the hitch-hiker wants a ride that is often worth a $lO bill.” This stand may seem a little harsh, but ! there are plenty of motorists who will applaud it. For, when all is said and done, the average hitch-hiker has a colossal nerve. As Capt. Wilson remarks, he is a panhandler on a big scale. It is hard to feql very indignant over a plan to squelch him.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to iSO icnrds or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld at request of the letter writer.) a a a FLAYS “WHIP-CRACKING” BY MR. ROOSEVELT By Wilma Hendrickson. “Roosevelt Cracks Whip Over Sulky, Lagging Congress,” the headlines of The Times of April 29, is potential notice to Americans | through the medium of the press that representative government has ceased to exist and that whether we like it or not we are under a dictatorship. Yet several months ago when the writer suggested to The Times that intimidation of Congress by the executive branch of our government has been practiced since the World War by every President and that it was a usurpation of power to which the executive has no right and for which he should be impeached, that portion of my article was deleted in your publication. Our forefathers wisely gave us three independent branches of government; first the legislative or lawmaking body now consisting of stl minds gathered from every state and district in the nation and directly chosen by conventions and primaries to represent his or her section of the country; second the executive branch (the President), whose duty it is to suggest legislation and to execute the laws enacted by Congress, but whose authority stops there and who has ncr legal right to coerce, by direct or indirect methods the legislative branch to his will. To hold a threat of veto over Congress on any program not to his liking, or to whip the legislative branch into his way of thinking by subtly suggesting loss of patronage is coercion, yet the press has for years condoned this violation of the sanctity of representative govern- j ment, and on the other hand yelps about the fear of a dictatorship in America when Father Coughlin pleads for social and economic justice. The third branch of government is the judicial, the Supreme Court,■ the duty of that branch being to pass upon the constitutionality of the laws written by Congress. Each branch was intended to be free and; independent of the other, but how j far we have traveled from constitu- I tional government, your paper now proclaims in screaming headlines. Until we demand that our Coni gressmen and Senators represent us, | rather than the will of the Presi- | dent, we may not, rightfully, call our i form of government democratic. Let ,me remind the veterans of the i World War that every piece of legisI lation that has become law since the Wilson Administration has been passed over the veto of the President, and that all suggestion of soldier legislation has been sharply criticised by the chief executive, regardless of his politics, since then, and in every instance Congress has been threatened with vetoes, loss of patronage and what not, and we the people, who should be the true government in this land of ours, have stood passively on the side lines and let each successive President get away with this form of murder of representative government* Will we stop it, or will we drift lazily on into such chaos that we shall be powerless to help ourselves? a a a TRUTH LEADS TO CRIME, IS HIS VIEWPOINT By John Stewart. Many people welcome the spirit of • enlightenment, for they contend truth will set us free. In the final

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Gas Cos. Purchase Plan Flailed

By P. J. Mi nek We have read with interest the editorials on gas in The Indianapolis Times, and the writer believes that your readers would be interested In knowing that it appears that when the city takes over the gas company the city will be paying interest on sl7 500,000. It will be paying the Citizens’ Gas Cos. $6,362,500 and $1,637,500 for improvements, plus 5 per cent on $9,500,000 to the Indianapolis Gas Cos. every year. The city should employ a repu-

analysis this may be a fact, yet the psychological trend today leads one to conclude that truth is largely responsible for crime. For to retaliate has been man’s greatest blunder. The coward who refuses to strike back is despised by the mob. This atavistic tendency is manifest both by the individual and the state. Parents who tell their children the truth about society lower the child’s opinion of all our institutions. The preacher who acquaints his congregation with the hypocrisy within the narrow confines in which he moves, creates a burning indignation in the righteous person. What line of business is free from the stigma of graft?. Banking has been likened to the money-changers in the temple whom Christ drove into the street with a lash. The government itself falls short in the estimation of the man who is informed by the statesman that war is a game of the munition manufacturers, and soldiers merely pawns sacrificed in the interest of profit. The wave of crime is a wave of retaliation, and to cure it, we must either suppress truth or build a structure man can respect. a a a DEPRESSION UNNECESSARY, BOOSTER ASSERTS By a Times Booster. This so-called depression is wholly unnecessary. If the owners of our industries expect the public to protect their property rights in these industries against any violation, then there ought to be and must be a corresponding obligation on the part of the owners of these properties to use them to produce the goods necessary for the public interest without interruption. When any industry does not find a so-called market for the goods it produces, ther. the government must exercise its prerogative to keep this industry operating at full capacity to prevent unemployment and the stoppage of goods production. The owners of these industries must not have the final dete-mina-tion in the matter of closing down or curtailing production. The interest of the public must be paramount in all industries; they are all charged with a public interest without exception. With their privileges must go also duties. The government of the people must keep them operating for the people. Our relief rolls for March, 1935, show one out of six of the population on relief. They would not be on relief if the people had sense enough to have their government force the American industries to operate their plants at full capacity. The industrialists have forced the government to take care of the unemployed, who would not be unemployed if the government forced the industries to operate instead of letting them determine when they will create a scarcity of goods. Those on relief will stay on relief until they determine not to accept any further relief and insist on the opening of all industries to produce the goods they all nsed. When they reject the relief subsidy and de-

[/ wholly disapprove of what you say and will 1 defend to the death,your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

table gas engineer to give the citizens a true picture of this purchase before the bonds are sold or any contracts are signed. According to the 1934 report of the Citizens Gas Cos. filed at the commission their earnings will not pay 5 per cent of $6,362,500 plus sinking fund, therefore, HOW CAN THE CITY EXPECT TO OPERATE AND PAY INTEREST ON $17,500,000? It is the opinion of the writer that the present purchase price is inflated to the extent of $6,000,000.

termine to starve themselves, rather than permit the tyranny of the masters of industry to continue curtailment of production, then things will change. TURNING THE lIEAT ON MR. LOUIS LUDLOW By L. Reed. Mr. Ludlow brought up the question of looks and physical attributes in speaking in great contempt, of "Beardless Boys.” Mr. Ludlow’s personal appearance and public behavior are at least debatable. I am guided by the cartoon published some time ago in The Times. It must have been a fair sketch, as Mr. Ludlow wrote a, thank-you letter to the paper about ! it. The pictorial Mr. Ludlow stood down in one corner of the picture—the corner to the left, where the eye is supposed to first light. The Hon. Mr. Ludlow stood somewhat toed-in, but he did take a; stand—in the picture—and waved a 1 flag against war, about which it is safe to take a high moral ground, at I least for a time. He struck me as in need of a shave, but I overlook that, as a man who has come out strongly for beards naturally would want to get a personal one anyway. I will leave it j to any good city or country town tailor that his pants—l refer to the pants in the picture—were too short. Mr. Ludlow also falls a little short of a lot of questions but not on those concerned with the idea of classy righteousness for the masses, which prevail for the moment and on which you will find Mr. Ludlowstriking while the iron is hot. He looks over his specs, in the cartoon, with disapproval at drink, bank robbing and war. He will never be found taking sides with kidnapers or home wreckers. Asa man who takes a firm toed-in stand on the matters affecting the morals of the fireside, Mr. Ludlow is the top. Asa loyal, intellectual, alert, keenminded statesman, seeking to uphold the government and the will of his constituents, he is the absolute bottom. METHODIST*BOARD UNDER BITTER FIRE By James E. Tindall-Foley. On Feb. 22 your paper carried a United Press dispatch from New York, advising the world at large that the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Church had aligned itself with the Mexican government against the Catholic Church. Had this dispatch originated in Moscow, and had *t been a report of a resolution passed by the Society of the Godless we would not have been so keenly surprised. But coming from an organization that has, until now, professed to be Christian in practice, I fear the fair-minded American people will have difficulty in isolating iheir motive. What would the Board have us believe the American people will deeply sympathize with, once they realize the full significance of the Mexican revolution: Children caused to learn about

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sex by viewing the mating of dogs, horses, and cattle? Boys and girls stripped in the schools to demonstrate sex education? Children of the secretary of agriculture named after Lenin, Lucifer, and Satan? Churches demolished or turned into public buildings, and their priests driven from the country? Children of tender age taught to say, “There is no God!”? The Holy Bible and religious articles kicked about on the stage in theater performances to belittle religion? If the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions believes that fairminded American people will “deeply sympathize” with such action on the part of those in power in Mexico, I believe they have underestimated the intelligence of American Christianity. After all, Protestant opinion m this country is not accountable to the Methodist Board ... thank God! Their resolution was indeed a timely expression of “brotherly love” for the persecuted Christians of Mexico —coming just tw-o days before we celebrated Brotherhood Day. But I, for one, refuse to believe that their resolution expresses the opinion of Methodists in general. Behold the contrast! In Germany the Catholic leaders say,— "Ova; fight is not with Protestantism, but with Heathenism.” In America the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Church soys, in effect: "Our fight is not with Godlessness in Mexico, but with Catholicism.” In this country we have a name for a man who will kick his brother when he is down. This resolution is unparalleled In the history of Christianity. Churches have fought among themselves. but never before has a Christian Church taken up the cause of Godlessness in preference to helping a brother Christian. If they wish to do this, then in fairness to other Christian organizations they should drop the “Church” from their appellation, because the dictionary defines “Church” as a place for Christian worship. To my mind, the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions has seceded from Christianity. Will the fairminded Methodists who still adhere to the tenets of Christianity rise up and repudiate their Board of Foreign Missions for abetting Godlessness in Mexico? I believe they will.

Daily Thought

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.—St. Luke, vi, 43. WHAT is human sin but the abuse of human appetites, of human passions, of human faculties, in themselves all innocent?— R. D. Hitchcock.

GENIUS

BY MARY J. CAREY Genius and Arrogance were walking down the street. One was going west and one was going east. As people often do they met along the way; Arrogance went walking on while Genius knelt to pray.