Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1936 — Page 10

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; THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1038 ARCHBISHOPS ON LOVE Now comes the Archbishop of York, with a lecture on love. “Any kind of love which can be in conflict with duty is not love of which the wospel speaks,” declares he. But what about duty to love. as a thing of itself? He doesn’t say. Nor does he discuss that protestation which has panted its way from generation to generation down through the ages—that “Jove is everything.” He overlooks that. Nor does he discuss the question of who shall define duty and differentiate it from love and then arrogate the authority to set one against the other. The inference, how-

ever, 1s pretty strong that that's where archbishops come in. Alter it’s safe, of course.

In his dissertation on the proper technique of love, the reverend one advises that when you feel it coming on and il at the same time you have a hunch that it may be headed lor a run-in with duty, that becomes a moment of eritical decision, and the “right decision is that they (the lovers) should cease to meet before the passion is so developed as to create an agonizing conflict between love and duty.”

It is to be presumed that the prelate is excluding from present contemplation such extremes as love at first sight, for obviously that variety presents mo premonitory symptoms, the victims being hooked before they know it, having no chance whatsoever to go into caucus with each other and deliberate the question of ceasing to meet. Rather, the reverend’s discussion must necessarily deal with the slow, simmering sort of love, where there is plenty of time for introspection and argument before it comes to a boil. Under such circumstances the arrival of that moment of eritical decision is as clear as if announced by the butler, and those most involved then have opportunity calmly and without too much silly sentiment to appraise the situation and make up their minds. Something like buying a car, don’t vou know, No doubt the archbishop is on logical ground in dealing with love which may be classified as of the coldly calculating sort, but we don’t believe he will get very far in handling a heat wave. It might improve his technique if he would go in for a bit of laboratory work, employ a few scientists with cardiographs, and thereby equip his plant with the means hy which cases can be separated into the controllable and the uncontrollable.

But even at that we still would be a bit skeptical about |

any 100 per cent results being possible. Because, somehow or other, ever since the archbishops, first Canterbury and then York, started shooting at the departed Edward, a bit of doggerel has been running through our head. Somehow or other it seems pertinent. For, after all, the reverend gentlemen are not themselves of the age when romance exactly rages through the veins. We suspect that the tilt of an evebrow, the flash of an ankle, the swish of a skirt, the almost imperceptible pressure of a hand, or the scent of a sweetly vague perfume would hardly raise their temperatures at all. And so we wouldn’t nominate them as the last word in experts on amours. Without implying that the parallel extends to any except the last four lines, they seem to us to be in a position not unlike the other two well-known and reverend gentlemen referred to in the doggerel: King Solomon and King David Led merry, merry lives, With many, many concubines, And many, many wives, But when old age o'ertook them, With its many, many qualms, King Solomon wrote the Proverbs And King David wrote the Psalms.

THE NEW MONROE DOCTRINE HE declaration by the 21 American republics at Buenos Aires that an unfriendly act against any one of them would constitute an unfriendly act to all, forever should bury the Monroe Doctrine as something uniquely ours.

With the Monroe Doctrine as originally conceived no |

The American republics had just been | | about soldiers and soldiering. Of | considering those numerous masquerade generals of | the so-called reserve corps who do i hig dhiyiiiing bam oak . i y . ] ore | about military matters and have to put com[t was still so weak that it was painfully aware that were EE EI In, out any agoeressive European power to gain foothold on this WT | they get their stars they should know enough about | their profession to be able to get by without synthetic | glory and make-believe,

in 1823 when President !

one can quarrel. born into a world ruled—in the international sense-—by the law of the jungle. The United States itself was very young.

continent, its own newly won independence would hardly be worth a farthing. Such was the atmosphere Monroe made his pronouncement. It was for us and for the rest of the Americas a bulwark of prime importance. But, with time, succeeding administrations at Washington interpreted the doctrine pretty much to suit themselves. It was used variously to cover imperialistic designs, as an excuse for intervention, both armed and diplomatic, and for other purposes not always wholly above suspicion. Not only that, but we more and more began to look upon the doctrine as something particularly and peculiarly ours—something with which no other nation on this hemisphere had anything to do—something too sacred to be touched by hands other than our own. . Now, at long last, has come a change. The agreements signed at Buenos Aires, in effect, convert the Monroe Doctrine into a Pan-American doctrine. Instead of the United States insisting on standing guard over the New World, alone and against the will of the rest of the Americas, the new idea is one for all and all for one. Far from weakening the Monroe Doctrine, its PanAmericanization has vastly strengthened it.

NOT SO FAST!

OLDER weather will bring new dangers to motorists and pedestrians. An almost imperceptible layer of sleet can

turn streets into slippery surfaces on which autos skid and -

become uncontrollable.

When the streets are covered with ice and snow, most |

drivers exercise more caution and accidents probably will be

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Generals Generally Develop a Pompous, Silly Arrogance Which Is Fantastic, Mr. Pegler Asserts.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24. Military tradition has developed in the title of “general” and in the persons of most men who rise to that rank a pompous arrogance which would be silly but for the fact that civilians, too, have learned to regard generals with awe. Now and again there occurs a general with a sense of the ridiculous who does not take himself serjously as a superman, but these individuals are uncommon and may be considered as eccentrics. Their refusal to accept the tradition is likely to be looked upon as an affectation and an undignified bid for personal popularity, as

| was the case, I deifeve, With

Smedley Butler, who has persist ently conducted himself ‘more like a sergeant than a man with stars for his shoulders. Most generals, however, eagerly accept the idea that ‘upon promotion to the rank of brigadier, even temporarily, they suddenly acquire a new character and a godlike quality which must be protected by a special etiquette amounting to servility. They like to be addressed in the third person—‘Would the general like another slug of rye?”—even by subordinates who are their old friends and who know their mortal weaknesses from long acquaintance. They like salutes and honors, and they encourage the observance of those old superstitious forms which have been established to fatten the ego and prestige of the commander,

uae is no reason, military or otherwise, why a general's dignity needs any more elaborate honors than that of a second lieutenant, even granting, for the sake of argument, that second lieutenants themselves need artificial dignity. They are both commissioned officers whose commands have tie force of authority, and that should be sufficient. But if any one should be given the benefit of the more elaborate forms it is the shavetail, because he is closest to the enlisted men. The men see the shavetail intimately, and when he is new they observe his mistakes with Joy. His dignity with his soldiers depends on his com= mission as an officer in the sense that, in a showdown, he can strut his rank. But in practice it depends on his ability and personal character. If he is a heel, personally, his rank will not help him out of trouble with his soldiers,

Mr. Pegler

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hand, is an oldknow something urse I am not

comes. I mean real army generals. By the time

Yet so great is the difference between the colonel of vesterday and the brigadier of today that you can hardly recognize the new general as the same man. There are generals so petty that they will rank an inferior officer out of his turn at the water cooler, which is a curious way of cultivatirig respect. It is my idea that the more ceremony and side a general puts on the more he is t0 be suspected, because this might be the bluff of a man who isn't sure of himself.

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EMPLOYERS UNFAIR TO MEN PAST 30, CLAIM By F. Pr. D.

Now that the government has made provision to care for the working man after he has reached the age of 65, it is my belief that something should be done to provide employment for those of us who are in our late thirties, There seems to prevail among our industries and various business organizations, their personnel directors and independent and United States employment bureaus a ‘gentlemen's agreement” that when a man passes the 30-year mark he is too old to work. This fact is very evident among those like myself whose training has been along various lines of office work. Pick up any paper and read the classified ads under “Male Help Wanted” and note the age requirements—21 to 30. Note, too, that the college graduate is always given preference and in many instances he can be single, with little or no experience. What recourse have I, a married man, father of two children, when I have had but a few months of work during the past year? Today, with five months’ back rent staring me in the face, as well as grocery, light, gas and coal bills piling up, I was told by an executive of an employment agency that it would be a waste of time to register with them, due to the fact that I am 37 years old and have been out of work 80 long. Of course, as always, I smiled and thanked him for the kind interview and charged it to experience. My experience, which includes a thorough knowledge of cost accounting, production planning and six years of public relations work, has bhecome meaningless to those who look upon me as “too old for the job.” However, I still consider my age and ability an asset, instead of a debit, ” ® " BUSINESS FOR PROFIT ONLY CRITICISED By a Subsorfber We hear much talk of increasing purchasing power and then we have the spectacle of importing highpriced, super-efTiciency experts from Connecticut to decrease need of employes. This would in turn reduce purchasing power, as in the case of a local firm. If this firm has money to pay an expert, it has money to pay the wages of its employes, who might then increase the morale and purchasing power of workers, and

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General Hugh Johnson Says —

Everything Is Not Exactly Rosy on This Christmas Eve and There Seems

“Do ye not after their works—for they bind heavy

burdens and grievous to be borne and lay them on they will not move them

men's shoulders; but

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exact profit from another to live on this earth? If an ant could sense how the human race operates its economic life the ant would probably be glad it is an ant. 8 ” »

GROSS INCOME TAX CALLED UNFAIR LAW By Mrs. K., Greenwood

I don't know anything about the “instruments of propaganda” Mr. Lackey writes about in his recent letter defending the Gross Income Tax Law, and I'll admit that I know very little about law, but this I do know—it's an unfair law,

I believe in taxes and know they are necessary, but no consideration is given the load different men are carrying on restricted incomes under this particular tax. I would like to ask Mr. Lackey if he is a man trying to bring up two children on $1500 a year. He might say, “Why are you kicking about a tax on $500 a year?” And I say to him, “It does look small, but it ueans that a utility bill must slide for a month, or the insurance must go delinquent or one must borrow money for food until the next payday. I will say the “forgotten man” of today is the man who is on the bottom rung of the ladder. The very poor are cared for, the well-to-do

CONVICTION BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK

Oh death will never be release To one who loves the velvet show; Will never be a sure surcease To one who loves at dark w go And worship stars on a high hill; To catch the throat of blooming dusk, And hold it reticent and still, The while the empty, deepening husk Is turned to night, and silent dawn Comes down with petaled robes of pink To bid the salmon moon be gone.

For one who dares to stoop and drink The wine of pain there is ne peace In having death knock at the door.

{Oh life, I want to live you deep,

Until I taste the hidden core.

DAILY THOUGHT

Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in is brother's way.—Romans 14:13.

"Tis not enough to help the feeble

up, but to support him alter. Shakespeare.

men are pouring

(can take care of themselves, but what about the men with intestinal fortitude enough to hold on against an overwhelming tide?

You speak of our need for education. Is there a child in Indiana who, because of lack of money, does not have proper schooling? Do we actually need all the money for colleges our Governor thinks we do? Are we not known as the nation which has the highest education for the masses?

What we need in the state and nation is not education—we have that--but we need a quality of the heart, which appalling masses of our people lack. I read not long ago that $7000 of our Governor's annual income was wantaxable. Is that fair? Why should people who are commonly Caccu the “packbone of the nation” | limit their families to only one or | two children because of economic difficulties when people on relief can have a haby a year and the well-off are too selfish or having too | good a time to be bothered. What about the small, independent grocer’s angle of the question? Is it fair to make him pay tax on an income he's never really had in his pocket? Let’s not adopt the despot’s method of government—-“Tax them, it will do them good.” Instead, let wus patiently pick out the flaws in our { government and make this country of ours a still better place to live in. » ” POINTS OUT WAY TO HAPPINESS

By Moon Mullin

| this time next year he will be des- | titute. . . . Imagine how you would | appreciate some aid if you were

| “down and out.” ., .. » ®w ® OFFICER AT SCHOOL 70 IS PRAISED

| By Mrs. R. A, Pence and Mrs. C. J, | Sanders | There are probably a great many | fine men on the Indianapoiis police | force, but if you want to see a sincere friendship between a policeman and school children, pass School 70, | 46th-st and Central-av, daily as the | children arrive and are dismissed. We, in driving the children to school, have seen the fine qualities in this man. His pleasant disposi- | tion is always with him. He handles his traffic well, and considers the ones who drive the children to and

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Two Aspects of Christmas Annoy Our Mr. Broun—Comic Cards and Little Girl Who Wrote to Editor.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Christmas is my favorite holiday, but there are two aspects of the festival which annoy me. 1 hate comical Christmas cards, and I'm awfully bored with the little girl who wrote to

the editor to ask if there was a Santa Claus. In the past I have been called cynical because of my lack of respect for the Santa Claus tradition. But I have never suggested that America should organize and liquidate the old fele low. It is merely my mild notion that when boys and girls want to know the truth it should be furs nished without equivocation and with a limited icing of symbolism. The father in many a home Just now is assuring some earnest little lad that Santa Claus is really on the level. In the days to ¢ome, when the boy has grown older, he will be going off to college, and by that time he will have other questions to propound. But since he was tooled once, he may pay little attention to the series of im= portant answers. Sometimes I wonder whether the whole Santa Claus business is really maintained for the sake of the tiny tots. It has Deen my privilege to see many a tot who had the hell scared out of him by one of the spurious counterfeits on a corner or in a store. Look for yourselves. Surely it is not an uncommon sight to see a mother, nurse or guardian pushing a rebellious lad forward and saying, “Go up and speak » good old Santa Claus or I'll thump the breath ous of you.” Anybody who deplores this unfortunate condition is accused of trying to rob childhood of its precious illusions. I think an illusion is a bad place in which to live at any age. America might hold a plebiscite for 5-year-olds and let them decide whether thev want to retain Santa Claus in office or ship him back to the country from which he came.

T has been said that nobody ever shoots Santa Claus, That may be true, but I have seen the old gentleman get some pretty nasty looks. He was lucky in staying away from me some 43 years ago on the morning when I got a complete set of the novels of G. A. Henty after I had most legibly written “sled” in my letter to the old bird. Those sentimental grown-ups who say that a beau« tiful legend should be protected ought to have legise lation passed to make Santa Claus seem plausible, If the age of skepticism is constantly being lowered the fault does not lie with the so-called cynics but with the sentimentalists who love Santa so much that they must apply mass production to the myth. In almost every case of unbelief among the young the reason can be found in the carbon copying of Santa. When a little boy sees an old gentleman in a white beard and a red suit in every toy store and on almost every corner the iad, if not moronic. has a right to assume that there is something: just a shade screwy in the arrangement, " » »

Ir I had a son of 5 or thereabouts I would be bite terly disappointed if he did not become a little suse picious of good old Kris Kringle after seeing too many models. Indeed, far from making up any lie in answer to the honest question I might be inclined to foment the boy's skepticism By saying, “Oswald, does it seem at all curfous to you that every department store we visited today has its own Santa Claus? How do you account for it?”

Mr. Broun

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Italian Soldiers and Supplies Are Pouring Into Spain to Aid Gen, Franco; Whatever Happens, Mussolini Probably Will Get Balearic Isles,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen OME, Dec. 24.—Not a line appears about it in the Italian press, but increasing Fascist supplies and

into Spain to aid the wabbling rebel

marshes. Mussolini has the habit of jumping about by plane

to inspect this playground or that sete notice,

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