Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1936 — Page 9

It Seems to Me HEYWDOD BROUN IT has bppn pasy In recent years to scoff at liberals because of the Torv character of many who have assumed the label. Moreover, the so-called open mind has often been no more than a shutterless shack upon a windy moor. But Washington contains at least one liberal whose words and deeds truly constitute a place of refuge for the oppressed and disinherited. A man I admire was once introduced at a political meeting

as “that great liberal,” and he turned upon the chairman and saia, "When you call me that, smile." But in the case of Maury Maverick of Texas the word can be uttered with a straight face. Maverick is ruggedly individualistic to the extent of actually believing in free speech for everybody. He stands in the direct line of succession from Voltaire through Thomas Jefferson. But he is by no means quit of sectional point of view and prejudice, and he is probably one of the last

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men in the world who should be called a radical. And yet there is a present disposition to paint Maury Maverick red. That rests upon the fact that there are many ir. America who regard the defense of civil liberties ns revolutionary. Some of our patrioteers actually regard the Bill of Rights as subversive doctrine and the Declaration of Indedence as inflammatory. ana Mr. Hcarat lAkcd II IN the last, session Maverick asked for an investigation of the United States Navy, including '‘activities with organizations run by professional patriots.” And in the course of his remarks he read into the record a report on subversive activities in the United States prepared by the Navy Intelligence Section. Mr. Hearst has just exhumed and reprinted that naval report and seems to suggest that its findings should be followed by appropriate legislative and pxpeurive action. To me the report seems straight Fa sc.st propaganda, and I am not stretching the word. For instance, the Navy Intelligence Section has no hesitation m assuming that anybody who works for peace is a Communist or “Communistminded. ’ Thus .lane Addams is listed as one w'ho was “disloyal.” Again it is surprising to find that so-called “intelligence officers” have singled out such a palpably old-fashioned individualist as Clarence Darrow as “communistic.” Let me quote a paragraph from the memorandum: tt tt tt Who's Noisy Now? THESE Communist-minded individuals, each with a certain more or less extensive following, who arc blindly led because of lack of individual intelligence and intellect and devoid of the very necessary quality of being able to think and determine things for themselves, form an ever-grow-ing. highly organized, vociferous minority that is wholly misrepresentative of mass public opinion but carries weight because of its blatant noisiness.” If this means anything at all it is endeavoring to say that there is no right of minority opinion and that free speech should be suppressed by those in power. In a day when the district attorney in New York City is endeavoring to suppress free press and vigilantes throughout the country are waiting the world to go. the doctrine of the Navy’s neoblackshirts is indeed subversive. Maury Maverick is representing liberalism at its best when he fights to have the Bill of Rights restored to the Constitution. (Copyright, 1936)

Smith Not to Quit Party, Talk Proves BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.—1n his Liberty League speech. A1 Smith seems to have cleared up one thing. He was born in the Democratic Party and he expects to die in it. He isn’t a candidate for any nomination from any party. When the Democratic National Convention meets and indorses the Roosevelt Administration, he is going to walk—not run —to the nearest exit. That still leaves one question to be answered:

How much company will A1 Smith have on his walk? There is an idea for a poll that might tell us something about the coming election. In an hour of the most delightful after-dinner entertainment, skillfully garnished with sprigs of tasty hokum. Smith made two telling points against the Administration. He charged that it had sought to array class against class. Much of the bitterness against Roosevelt arises from resent-

ment against appeals to class prejudice such as he made in his recent message to Congress. Lesser officials, taking the President's cue, seize every opportunity to play the same prejudices that Huey Long did more directly in his share-the-wealth hokum. Unless you are trying to incite trouble, it is short-sighted business. Smith also said he would not have minded the heavy Administration expenditures if they had produced results. But we have spent the money and we still have the unemployed with the prospect of being asked to appropriate another $2,000,000,000 for relief. a a a IT wasn’t a new Al Smith who spoke at the Liberty League dinner He just lookPd different, wearing white tie and tails instead of his brown derby. Do you remember the spring of 1932. after Roosevelt dusted off the Forgotten Man and started down the stretch toward the presidential nomination? Smith, taking aim at Roosevelt, said: “This is no time for demagogs. ... I will take uli my coat and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses of the working people to destroy themselves by setting class against class and rich against poor." At the convention, the Smith crowd was brutal in denouncing Roosevelt as a weak man who couldn’t be elected. A month before election Smith again protested against constant talk about the Forgotten Man and ciass distinctions. In 1934 he was again assailing Roosevelt, this time about the baloney dollar. No. Smith hasn’t changed. It is just that anew audience has taken him up. He has been invited m from the sidewalks io eat caviar. BUB T'HIS new audience has for several years felt itself unjustly oppressed and persecuted like the Kulaks of Russia. The 12 du Ponts. the Pew oil family, the bankers, attorneys, and others once known as the rulers of America who were present at the Liberty League dinner, whose aggregate wealth was estimated in Eugene Meyer's Washington Post at more than a billion dollars, have felt helplessly outraged at being branded in political speeches as crooks and wreckers of America. So much feeling has been fanned up against them by the Administration that they felt unable to get a hearing before the country. Hence the almost pathetic eagerness with which they cheered the former newsboy, who. though now their happy hostage in the echoing caverns of the Empire State Building, still retains the magic power to stir the imagination of the crowds on the sidewalk. Or does he? Probably better than any one else. Smith could translate the case of this audience into the language of the Forgotten Man. They needed him. He did a masterful job for them. They were obvious in their gratitude. The irony of it. however, is that in 1928 when Smith was running for President and needed them, where were they? Most of them were saying to each other, '•lmagine the Smiths in the White House!” and were voting for Hoover.

EDWARD VIII—BRITAIN’S NEW KING ***nnmnan a a a a a a England Reluctantly Accepts View Monarch Will Remain Bachelor

This is thf sixth of a series of intimate eioseups of Edvard VIII, long known to the American public as sportsman and man-of-the-worid while Prince of Wales. Milton Bronner, for 15 years an American correspondent in London, is in a peculiarly rood position to rive a revealinr and significant picture of Britain's new King. BY MILTON BRONNER J ONDON, Jan. 27. (NEA) —Gradually, as year has followed year, the royal family and the British public have begun to reconcile themselves to an idea—that it is probable Edward Albert intends never to marry. That he has reached the age of 41-plus, and assumed the throne without marrying and providing a natural heir to his crown, is the best argument of those who believe he will remain a bachelor king. The days when he would be most likely to yield -to pressure on the subject, the days of his youth, have passed. In late years, when he has been more at liberty to construct

his own design for living, it has always followed a bachelor pattern. Since the very day of his birth, the Prince of Wales naturally became the favorite object of speculation on the part of matchmakers, official and amateur. There is a story that his greatgrandmother, Queen Victoria, began it when he was a fair-haired tcddler of 2, remarking, perhaps playfully, that “he and the Czar’s baby daughter Olga would make a sweet alliance.” ana THE game of mating the Prince thus begun by the austere Victoria has been played ever since by practically every one but the Prince himself. He has gone his own way, paying no apparent heed to family importunations, political pressure, or wagging tongues and court gossip. Until recent years, scores—even hundreds—of girls in both Europe and America, have been mentioned as “possibilities.” Every girl with whom he danced twice, or even spoke to in casual social conversation, was immediately “mentioned.” No contact was too casual to set the rumor-makers at work. It was the wish, of cour e, that was father to the thought, for Britain and the world in general wanted a royal romance. So the business of creating one went merrily on. a a a IT should be noted, however, that despite the natural fondness for the company of the fair sex that is common to all young men, Edward, as Prince of Wales, never has “rushed” any girl, or even singled out one for special attention. Back before the World War, in 1911, the Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia was actively discussed as a mate for Wales. But along came the World War, and for years the Prince was exclusively occupied with that catastrophe. Those were, in a sense, his most marriageable years, from 21 to 24, and they were taken from his life as effectively as they were from the lives of millions of other young men. There could be no thought of marriage for him then. u tt AFTER the war, matrimonial prospects were once more actively discussed, especially when prince entered the swirl of night-clubbing, tea-dancing, and generally forced gaiety that fell to others of his time and generation.

Silicosis Is Old Disease; Treatment New Science

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BY FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. Silicosis, the “miners’ consumption” that has come to national attention through the House Labor Committee's investigation of the “mass tragedy” in a waterpower tunnel near Gauley Bridge, W. Va.. was known to Hippocrates, Pliny the elder and others of the ancients, but still its prevention is “a comparatively new science, and much remains to be done.” So testified John W. Finch, director of the United States Bureau of Mines, in giving the investigation subcommittee an idea of the wide potentialities of the disease. Committeemen drew from his testimony the conclusion that there is abundant need for sili-cosis-compensation laws in each of the 48 states. Eleven states now have such statutes. One of them. West Virginia, passed its law less than a year ago after a partial disclosure of the Gauley Bridge tragedy, which is claimed to have condemned hundreds of tunnel workers to a slow death. Silica, which produces the dust threatening gradual disintegration of the lungs of those who breathe it in quantities, is one of the most abundant materials in the earth's crust, Finch told the committee. Silica is found either in c: in association with the ores from which most of the metals are produced. Sand and sandstone “are

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In easy informality, the Prince sits out a rest period between tennis latches with Mrs. Wallis Simpson at a Riviera resort.

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Practically all the eligible princesses of Europe were discussed publicly as candidates for the royal favor: Princesses Cecilie of Greece, Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Juliana of Holland; the Swedish princesses, Astrid, Ingrid, and Martha; the Italian princesses, Yolanda, Gio-

almost pure silica” and granite and igneous rocks have it in high quantity. Exposure to silica-con-taining dust, he continued, “is thus inherent in metal mining, rock tunneling in coal mining, quarrying, excavation and sand blasting.” BUB “'T'HERE is little doubt,” Mr. Finch said, “that silicosis is one of the most widespread and important disabling occupational diseases. From a compensation viewpoint it is at present the most important occupational disease. Owing to the slow delevopment of its harmful stages, some industries that have been in existence 10 to 20 years are just now having their first real manifestations of the disease. “In addition to a wide recognition of the disease and an increasing number of legitimate claims for injury, racketeering in compensation has arisen to an alarming degree. This aspect is rapidly creating difficulties in enactment and administration of laws that provide compensation. With the rapidly increasing claims, both legitimate and illegitimate, it is difficult to estimate insurance risks and insurance companies are reluctant to accept the risks.” The stealthy menace of silicosis was impressed by Mr. Finch, who said its early stages may pass unrecognized, and the advanced stages may be attributed to other causes.

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vanna, and Mafalda; Princess Ileana of Rumania. Ingrid, especially, was known to be a favorite of Queen Mary, and was several times her guest. But there was never any real reason to believe that Edward had set his heart on any of them. In many cases, religious or po-

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Now that the Prince of Wales has become King of England keep an eye on British foreign policy. The new King is a sincere believer in democracy, hates dictatorships, and has a personal dislike for Mussolini. (He does not know Hitler personally.) Also he is a dynamic individual, likely to impress his views upon the British Cabinet. . . . The nation-wide hookup - which the Columbia Broadcasting System gave Al Smith’s Liberty League harangue cost the League not a cent. Without Columbia’s generosity, the charge would have been $15,235.25. . . Pittsburgh's industrious Rep. Henry Ellenbogen is an unquenchable optimist. He has introduced a bill to create a commission to negotiate payment of the defaulted war debts. . . . The United Mine Workers, one of the most liberal affiliates of the American Federation of Labor, will hold its annual convention this week in Constitution Hall, Washington, owned by swank, conservative Daughters of chc American Revolution. Around 2009 miner delegates are to attend, and one of the important questions to be acted upon is a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment curbing the power of the Supreme Court. tt n Tahnadge Publicity WASHINGTON publicity man for Governor Gene Talmadge, Georgia's arch-Roosevelt foe, is Sam Jones, formerly a press adviser of the Republican National Committee. The com-

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litical factors interposed strong bars, and those “in the snow” dismissed the “candidates” with a shrug long before the public discussion subsided. Nearly all of the princesses later married. B tt tt SEVERAL of these rumors reached a point where offeial denials were issued from the court. In the case of Ileana, daughter of the English Queen Marie of Rumania, a noted royal matchmaker, the rumor died only when a story went the rounds that the Prince himself had said: “Ileana’s a pretty kid, but I am still going on being a bachelor.” More highly regarded in court

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mittee denies emphatically that the Republicans have any connection with Jones’ current activities. . . . The Social Security Board is making a quiet investigation of reports that hotels and restaurants in many cities are requiring waiters to report the amount of tips they collect. Such information is not required by the Social Security Act, and the board wants to know the reason for the order. . . . More than one-fifth of the members of Congress, including Speaker Joe Byrns, Vice President Jack Garner and other leaders, omit birth dates in their personal biographies in the Congressional Directory. . . . Despite the bitter warring by utilities against the Holding Company Act, a large number of them have notified the Securities and Exchange Commission of plans to simplify their capital structures. Among those instituting such reforms are the giant Electric Bond and Share, New Jersey Public Service, Cities Service, the Bylesby group, International Paper and Power, and Niagara Hudson, a Morgan company, a o u Thumbs Down JIM FARLEY has turned thumbs down on a suggestion made by pro-Roosevelt friends of Al Smith that the olive branch be extended to the Happy Warrior by including his name among the New York delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Big Jim took the position that a man who would be the chief speaker at an anti-New

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circles were the repeated rumors of the Prince’s engagement to English girls of noble blood. Lady Rachel Cavendish, Lady May Cambridge, Lady Ann Wellesley, Lady Eileen Butler, Lady Furness and the Countess Carrick were among those mentioned in recurrent rumors. While the Prince was on a hunting trip to Africa, Lady Ann fell ill, and daily reports from her bedside were radioed to him. That lent strength to this report, but as usual nothing came of it. Lady Ann has since married. a a a 'T'HERE have been other London society women, of high position but not of noble blood, with whom the Prince has been friendly for many years, but none of these friendships has given rise to any serious talk of royal marriage. The Prince’s free-and-easy manner of dancing with whomever seized his fancy when on parties has again and again blossomed out in reams of newspaper stories, especially in America. At one time during 1926 he danced frequently with Adele Astaire in London, and his dancing with Irma Cherry in Biarritz in 1931, with Carolyn Granberry at Panama City in 1921, Eileen Stanley in New York the same year, and Joyce Lindsey in New York in 1924 all brought their share of open-mouthed comment from the press. To few commentators did it occur that the Prince was just like any other young man—he liked to dance with pretty girls, and did so on every convenient occasion. And that was really all there was to that. tt a a * I ’'HE Prince has been especially fortunate, too, in his family associations, and his devotion to his sister Mary, the only girl in the royal family, and to little Princess Elizabeth, daughter of his favorite brother, Prince George, is noteworthy. The answer, among those who know the Prince well, is simply that he has been too busy to become interested in and court a bride. Having missed this experience due to preoccupation with the war during the years when he was most likely to be drawn to it, he launched into the period of postwar gaiety and latter-day seriousness without ever having had time for marriage. What seldom occurs to the sentimental is this—Edward may simply prefer the bachelor life, and the competence and completeness with which he has set up his bachelor quarters and regime at St. James’ Palace and Fort Belvedere suggest that this may be true. Whatever the inner reason, the mere fact that the Prince has been able to resist for so many years the family and political pressure put upon him to marry speaks volumes for his strength of will. In this, as well as in other matters, he has been increasingly “his own man” for the last five years. Next—What kind of a King England thinks Edward VIII will make.

Deal banquet of the" American Liberty League had no business on a delegation pledged to the renomination of the President. . . . At the request of the Federal Alcohol Administration, the Federal Trade Commission is investigating over 200 cases of alleged unfair trade practices by liquor distillers and rectifiers. . . . Owing to lack of funds to enlarge its staff, the FAA investigation division is swamped with unchecked complaints of liquor law violations. It has only six investigators, and recently received more than 200 complaints in one day. . . . Professor Rex Tugwell, the Red Terror of the Administration to conservative foes, attended a dinner recently where he met Frank Kent, Baltimore Sun columnist and one of the New Deal’s most persistent critics. Said Mr. Tugwell innocently: “And what government bureau are you with, Mr. Kent?” .... The first big loan made by the Rural Electrification Administration to a private utility went to the Florida Power Corp., a subsidiary of the Associated Gas and Electric Cos. The latter is a violent Administration foe and under investigation by two congressional committees. . . . The Consumer, the official publication of the Consumers’ Division of the NR A, declares in its latest issue that the “clothes of American women would suffer little if all communication with Paris were cut off.” (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc t

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Fair Enough WSISRoii PEIiIK LONDON. Jan. 27.—The death of King George has evoked some expressions of sympathy and sorrow i which are quite beautiful considered as mere wordj age. but a hopeless puzzle when laid beside the | pages of recent history. The ex-Kaiser of Germany, from his exile in Holland, has sent Queen Mary word that he is deeply affected by the death of the man who in 1917 threw him out of the Order of the Garter and several other highly exclusive fraternities.

Adolph Hitler has telegraphed that the entire German people sympathize in the loss which has befallen the British nation. Moreover. Herr Hitler, who has been playing footie under the table with Great Britain for several months, was first under the wire with a telegram of solicitude when word of the King's illness was announced from Sandringham House. And in Italy, where only a few weeks ago the best vituperative brains of the Fascist Party were mobilized to devise louder and dirtier anathemas against

everything English, including tea. and the little children ir. the schools were taking hate lessons the first thing every morning, expressions of profound sorrow have been inserted in Mussolini's papers bv Mussolini's order. B tt B It Seems Very Inconsistent r I ''HERE seems to be some inconsistency somewhere, for it is only too easy to remember and all too hard to forget a time when the favorite song of the entire German people was a rousing work called “The Hymn of Hate," which built up to a wild culminating roar of “I Hate England." That was the time, too. when “Gott Strafe England” was the motto of the entire German people, and on the English side of the case the sentiment was rather feebly expressed by the late Rudyard Kipling in one of the worst poems ever written, called “The Hun Is at the Gate.” This poem stood alone the worst by many lengths until John Masefield, the English poet laureate, sojourning in Los Angeles, composed a lament called “His Most Excellent Majesty George Fifth” and pulled up even. In 1917 you might have suspected that there was some slight ill feeling between King George and Kaiswer Wilhelm. Certainly many millions of their subjects felt this to be the case, and altogether soma six million men were killed expressing resentment back and forth on one front or another. It would be a great joke on the six million dead if it should turn out at this late date that the King and the Kaiswer were only pulling a gag. tt tt tt Little Giuseppe Puzzled THE Nazis, through Herr Hitler, are also playing footie under the table with the Japanese, who are virtually matched to fight Great Britain in the Far East. Thus when the gong rings and the British start fighting Japan in the Orient the Nazis might find it necessary to decide that the British are not nature’s noblemen, after all, but curs, barbarians, vandals, butchers and thieves just as they thought all along. In that case they would be honor bound to resume their old duty of bombing London on moonlight nights, for it is the solemn duty of the entire German people to exterminate such undesirables. They said so in 1914. This begins to get serious, and nobody can be worse puzzled than little Giuseppe in the first grade of an Italian school, who is getting high marks in hatred and finds himself on the honor roll but then sees the Italian flag half-staffed in sorrow for the death of the British King. Little Giuseppe’s normal reaction would be to cheer, and the complexity of the problem seems almost enough to drive a little schoolboy nuts. In fact, there are many of his elders who won't know the answer to this one. The old Kaiswer can’t have very far to go now, so if the old hatred was only a make-believe it i3 being carried to extremes. They ought to give him back his lodge buttons.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 27—No public official has so much of the whole world’s good wishes and oownrighc affection as England’s new King. That happy circumstance may have the most profound effect on the welfare of all humanity. The atmosphere of suspicion, jealousy and even hatred that broods over large areas of international relations is a constant menace to the general peace. It is largely intangible—an emotional abstraction on the side of evil. The world’s love for the modest, wistful young man who liked to be called Dave Windsor rather than Prince, is also an emotional abstraction. But it is on the side of good. He is loved and respected, not for his royalty but because, in spite of his royalty, he yearned to be Dave Windsor—a friendly Englishman. In whatever he undertakes the peoples—not only of the British Empire, but of all nations—will wish him well. They will be eager for his success, especially in his early endeavors. They will want to help him. Progress toward peace and away from ill-will depends almost altogether on what these people wish and feel—on their better emotions. tt tt tt IT is a very hopeful harbinger in a world of alarms. The inestimable worth of all this comes from a consistent life of 41 years, establishing beyond doubt, in anybody's mind a heart for the other fellow's troubles—whether among the high or the lowlymore tritely still, “love of humanity.” We condense all this and say that the King has charm. That it what the President has and for similar reasons. Indeed there is much in common between the heads of the two greatest nations—and especially in the emotional attitude of all people toward both. That doubles and emphasizes this happy aspect of the world’s good fortune. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate Inc.i.

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Every romantic American male who ever heard cf Poor Butterfly has doubtless had moments when he dreamed of a slant-eyed sweetie in the islands of the east. You know: Cherry blossoms, the snowy peak of Fujiyama, paper parasols, collapsible houses, and all the rest, with the aura of young love suffusing the ensemble with a nevernever light. Well, if you have ever given yourself to such profitless musings, “The Wooden Pillow” < Viking; ($2.50), will be like dreams come true. For Mr. Fallas seems tc have all that sort of thing right in his own memories, and this book is a novel of haunting and wistful appeal. In a leisurely, dreamy way it tells about a young Englishman who visited Japan and fell in love wiUa the entire country, especially with the Poor Butterflies. Our young Englishman dons a kimono and lives Japanese style. He visits with the Japanese, makes friends of innkeepers and geisha girls, students and storekeepers, and soaks up the atmosphere of that strange land where they give a gin-mill such a name as "The House of the Playful Kitten." and where burglars return the loot with apologies when they accidentally rob a foreigner. And through it all is entwined the thread of a delicate and appealing love story. Altogether, it makes a singularly delightful book. (By Broca Catton).

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