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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937

M’NUTT AND THE PHILIPPINES AUL V. M'NUTT can be an excellent High Commissioner to the Philippines. As Governor of Indiana he demon- ’ strated unusual ability. He has intelligence and courage. But it is disquieting to hear him hinting—even before confirmation by the Senate—that he will stay in Manila less than one year. He ‘will be lucky if he can find his way around in the critical intricacies of insular and Far Eastern affairs in that short time. It is no hop-skip-and-jump operation. If Mr. McNutt is to earn the confidence of the American and Filipino peoples, he must think more about his job than about the campaign strategy of a Presidential aspirant.

MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL ODAY is the 42d birthday of Manual Training High School. A suitable program has been arranged to mark the anniversary. But that is only an outward formal tribute to a splendid school. The real homage to such school is often unspoken. It is in the minds of those who have come under its influence. Inarticulate it may be, but it is there in form of a warm, grateful feeling toward teachers who, by precept and example, opened in the minds of boys and girls new vistas of fuller, more mtelligent living. Manual started with 12 sets of carpenter tools donated 4 by generous citizens. Today its huge shops might amaze but not daunt its first principal, Charles E. Emmerich. Ot 1! course, technical training is only part of its function. d Mr. Emmerich had the questing, restless, indomitable spirit of the true educator. He inculcated that spirit into Manual. It is the spirit of Manual that we salute today.

THE “LONG HAUL” ILBERT and Sullivan made this simple classification of the human race: Nature always does contrive That every little boy and girl that’s Born into this world alive Is either o little lib-er-al Or else a little con-serv-a-tive. The debate about the President’s Supreme Court proposal is giving that idea a test. For the lib-er-als and the con-serv-a-tives are falling in all directions. More pointed | to the situation perhaps is Mark Twain’s comment on human nature—“Irreverence is disrespect for the other man’s |

God.” . And probably there should be thrown in for consideration another quote from R. H. Fulton: “The highest func- § tion of conservatism is to keep what progressivism has accomplished.” A potent reason we believe why men long classified as

garded as reactionaries are being put into what the earlier

Court proposition deals with something so fundamental in : our whole national scheme as to stir up thought-processes long dormant and to cause a new look at our intellectual “holecard.” What is worrying us all as we go farther and farther down into the problem is, we think, the fact that the Constitution is divided into two parts. One, involving the p vague; the other, the explicit. Vague: “Due process,” the commerce clause, the regulation of the value of money, the “right to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution” the power vested in the Government by the Constitution. Explicit: Those things which have to do with what the shooting was all about through all the centuries that

by jury, habeas corpus, protection against unwarranted search and seizure, speedy trial, freedom of worship, of expression and assembly. The Supreme Court issue arises not from decisions relating to the explicit but to the vague. The “due process,” for example, twisted and tortured by lawyers from something that had to do with protecting freed slaves into something which has to do with protecting a utility. But there has been no change in those explicit things. Speedy trial is as important today as it was when it was mserted in the Constitution.

simple solution of his difficulties the more we wonder what might happen to “certain inalienable rights” under a prece- : dent, established now because of a benign purpose, if employed by some future leadership of purpose not benign but vicious. Thus the issue becomes one not merely of solving a vitally important and immediate problem, but one of the Jong haul.

“LIFE IS WORTH LIVING” OR more than 30 years Dr. F. S. C. Wicks of All Souls Unitarian Church has been a factor for social and civic petterment in Indianapolis. Respected for his tolerance, beloved for his devotion to social welfare, and admired for his intellectual courage, he was congratulated by many friends the other day on his 69th birthday anniversary. . Among them were some who recalled this philosophy of living which he once expressed: “The burden of my preaching these years has been

pain and struggle and hardness; that it is good in strict proportion to the amount of truth we put into it, in the amount of good we put into it, in the measure of beauty with which we give it grace. sympathetically with our fellows, we find our joy and our salvation.”

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liberals are being accused of going Bourbon and men re- |

brought forth these guaranties in the Constitution—trial |

| care to miss, and during the intermission received

: So—the more we study the President's quick and |

' back to make this explanation lest it be as-

| round-heels or pop-overs, are tankers.

| win for losing. He has a weakness, | usually in his chin, which becomes

| round-heels have

that life is good and worth living; that it is worth all the |

In dealing justly, mercifully, |

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Cites Two Varieties of Splash Man In Profession of Pugilism—Tankers And Round-Heels or Pop-Overs.

NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—There are two distinct varieties of splash man in the ennobling profession of pugilism, and I came

sumed that many earnest, conscientious

The tanker is a gladiator who does business with the manager of his opponent and goes off the springboard for a consideration. The round-heel is one who | sincerely strives to win but can’t

known to the profession, and some made fortunes out of failure, because the customers, for all that may be said about the manly science of boxing, have a distinct preference for carnage, spectacular falls and conclusive endings The splash who went to Baton Rouge, La. to go mto the water for Huey Long's boy, Jack Torrance, appears to be a tanker, but hardly a credit to a craft which contributes so much to the prestige of Primo Carnera. He refused to go through with his

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| performance, and if there is anything beautifal in the

art of the tankman it is his touching devotion to

| duty, and his resolute ability to hold still when his

second pounds on the canvas in the corner and says “Now!” At that he will miss a terrific swing to the chin or body, leaving his own head exposed and hold the pose until his opponent strikes him savagely on the ear and renders him insensible, as they sav.

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water from the stunning force of a terrific jab

: . § es | on the wrist or elbow, hat is jus t i Roosevelt called the lunatic fringe is that this Supreme | : OE a) i doe Bk

most cases. An ethical tanker who knows his business and loves his calling will wait for a punch, catch it, roll with it and swoon with convincing realism. Sometimes he will shut his eves and lie there | untii they drag him to his corner, but the script varies, and he may be allowed to come staggering up just at the count of 10 and wobble around the | ring with his eyes crossed, begging the referee to let him go on. Tankers, being human, have been known to err, of course, and there was a dreadful mishap in Los Angeles a couple of years ago when a referee with no sense of humor warned an artist that he would be indicted and sent to prison if he failed to put

forth his best efforts. n

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E had already received his instructions and his |

inducements, and was tossing on the antlers |

a quiet call from the referee. who solemnly reminded him of indictments and jail. In the second round, therefore. the distracted tanker let one fly and knocked his opponent flat and then. without a pause hopped over the ropes, down the aisle into a taxi and away, still attired in his gladiator's costume. Primo’s board of directors used both tankers and

round-heels on their picturesque tour of the country, but some of the pop-overs were not quite safe for

Carnera and needed moral suasion in the dressing |

room. In some cases this was advanced through a glimpse of a pistol in a shoulder holster or pants pocket, but one subject said the roscoe was placed against his nude ribs for emphasis.

ANSWERS CRITICS OF | WEISS BILL | By B. H.

| Marion County Juvenile Court will | agree wholeheartedly with me that (a change is needed.

| will intensify the racial problem in

| few, and for that reason a Negro | judge is needed.

| Government be representative of

| legislative and executive branches,

| power within itself—after the na-

| self as competent, able and willing

| racy, to the President of the United | States, a United States Senator, a

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Keep Your Hands in Your Pockets, Sam !—By Kirby

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The Hoosier Forum

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

In answer to people who oppose Senator Weiss’ Children’s Court Bill

let me first state that I believe any fairminded person who knows anything at all about the present

As for the statement that the hill the city, it is untrue and shows

lack of judgment. How many white people treat Negroes fairly? Very

The “professional survey” that the | opponents of the bill are proposing |

| is a joke. Of course, everything wiil |

be perfect until that survey is over. | Why waste the time on it? { I am a Democrat and as I recall, | we Democrats accused the Repub- | lican Party of having a political machine. We must be careful lest we ourselves be subject to the same accusation,

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COMPARES HIGH TRIBUNAL TO CROWN COURTS

By L. IP. If one studies the attitude of the Crown courts during the Colonial period the present attitude of our Supreme Court seems exactly the same. It is an attitude of refusal to listen to the mandate of the people. It is time we Americans realized that in this Supreme Court issue of | today we have the same principle | we had during the Revolutionary | War. The question before us is: Shall the judicial branch of our

the will of the people as are the

or shall it be something over and above representative government—a

ture of the old Crown courts? un 8 1 ASKS CHANCE TO VOTE ON COURT CHANGE By John L. Niblack

President Roosevelt is but one citizen of this nation. I regard my-

as he to speak on whether the form of government should be changed by making the Supreme | Court subservient to the executive branch. I regard myself as having equal of a rather sharp-horned dilemma, because his man- | Tight under our theory of democager’'s opmonent was a very ill-tempered man who might meet him somewhere and blow him through with a deadly weapon if he betrayed his trust.

So, in the first round, he swung viciously, taking

General Hugh Johnson Says —

Property System Is Selfish, but Success in Modern War Depends On Existing Economic System Functioning at Its Utmost Perfection.

ASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—“So you'd take a man’s life to uvefend his country in war—b wouldn't take his property, eh?” you Something like that you get when you o se legis~ lation that would abolish the property at on tem in the United States on the first thundering reverberation of war, At least you get it from two-for-a-penny demagogs who are trying to read into the recJ of 2 SOleT SiaunY into great and troubled quesions of national defense something they ca on a political stump. 5 Sah NS ey The property system is one of selfishness. It has been allowed to go too far. As civilization advances it 1s being curtailed. Maybe some day it will be canceled out. But that is not the primary question when the enemy is atshe gate. Then there is only one question —how to beat him back.

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TI do that in modern war requires the existing economic system functioning at its utmost perfection. The idea of government taking all property in mihes, factories and farms and operating them for the public good and without compensation or profit to the owners is the essential plan of Marxian socialism. It is a high ideal, but as a war measure it is

suicide. angle this kind of demagogy takes is:

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

cree that it be submitted to state conventions in 1937. We used that procedure in 1933 on repeal. Such method will be highly satisfactory to all. It is provided for by the Constitution and is orderly process of government. The majority would decide the form and spirit of the national Government. Every true American believes in majority rule, by the people.

* ® =» WARNS AGAINST MENACE OF FASCISM

| By W. G. Proctor

It seems to me there is much needless fear on the part of some

folk regarding the so-called menace |

of communism. There cannot be a speech or discussion, even in private groups, that savors of liberal

| thought without some alarmist rais{ing the warning cry of “Commun- | | ism! | you don't watch out!” Last December a prominent prel-

The Communists ‘11 get ye if

ate in Detroit uttered this warning. “If we don’t look out, the Commun-

ists may seize this city and start a |

real terror. . . . It behooves us to get

busy.” Yet, in Detroit there were only about 4000 Communist votes | cast in the last election. Their |

small proportion is significant. Communism cannot possibly make headway in this country. It thrives only in the soil and atmosphere of ignorance, oppression, social injus= tice and privileged classes. We need not fear communism in the United States, but we most assuredly need to be on our guard against a more subtle danger, fascism. Democracy in Europe is being crushed, not by Communist laws, but by fascism; and the way was prepared for super-tyranny by first alarming the people about communism. In the last analysis, the conflict is not between communism and fascism, but between democracy and fascism. It is true that com-

MICA

By ROSE CRUZAN " I gazed through my window this morning And beheld an exquisite sight. A winter fairy had waved her wand, Worked diligently through the night.

All the houses were fringed with prisms, Which were made of transparent ice. The earth was carpeted withumica, Frosted trees were coated thrice.

Then ethereal star-like snowflakes, Quietly descended to the ground. Then all resembled white velvet, For miles and miles around.

DAILY THOUGHT For I know that the Lord is

great, and that our Lord is above all gods—Psalms 135:5.

ISTINCTION is the conseD quence, never the object, of a great mind. —Washington Allston.

| be compelled to pay for any and

munism destroyed czarism in Russia, yet it is interesting to note that democracy is gradually displacing communism there, as witness the practically unanimous vote of tne Russian people for their new Constitution last December.

Communism a menace? Where are these Communists? Never did the working masses feel so bitterly the injustice of our industrial and

receding depression. . . . Yet, out of a total vote of 45,814,377 cast in the last election there were only 80,096 Communist votes. Our people, as a whole, are simply not interested in communism, but Fascist propaganda in this country will bear watching.

® n un BACKS PRESIDENT'S COURT PLAN By a 73-Year-Old Voter I wish to tell certain Senators in Washington not to be like John | Lewis, | These Senators voted as most | everyone did—for our President. He has won his spurs. Those gentlemen past 70 have been through the grind and are on the downward slope. Let them rest. The President is right and deserves everyone's sup- [ port. Don't be sitters or quitters. We expect knocks from Maine and Vermont, but not Indiana.

#n ” FLAYS CHILDREN'S COURT BILL By Rev. Daniel H. Carrick

As pastor of the Christian Rescue Assembly, I wish to protest the bill introduced recently by Senator Jacob Weiss. Who is he to judge what the clergy and thinking people of Indiana would like to have done with the children of divorced parents?

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Senator Weiss ought to know that we Americans can pe redblooded without being “Russian

red.” Such a bill would complete a scheme of chiseling of American rights, and help in the process of making this country as red as Russia. They already have children controlled by the state, but here in America we love our children too much te allow them to be subjected to cruel courts unless they become delinquent and there is no other course to pursue, . . . I feel that I owe my native land a more patriotic spirit than I would have if I allowed anything to happen that would distort, weaken or break up the home and the fireside.

” ” ” LRLAMES UNEMPLOYMENT ON POLITICIANS By Ira Carl

I recently read a Forum contribution in which the writer suggested that drunken drivers should |

all damage they do. I suggest that politicians, too, should do this by supporting all whom they throw out of jobs. I know little children who are cold and hungry because their fathers were put out of work through politics. We elect men to office and then | they set themselves up as bosses and make us their slaves. If we were not so soft and would let them know that we are boss we would not have things in the mess

economic setup as during the now |

they are today.

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Patient Knocked on Head Before Election Wakes Up and Headlines Sound Exactly as They Did Then,

EW YORK, Feb. 18.—Fred Snedecker sat up in his hospital bed and asked for the second time, “Was that doctor really telling me the truth?” “Of course,” replied the day nurse. “With just one or two more days of rest you can go back to your nice office and get to work.” “But let me get this straight,” said the patient.

“I fell and cracked my head just 10 days before election, and I've been unconscious

until today, which is Feb. 18, That's right, isn’t it?” The nurse nodded, and Mr, Snedecker shook his head as if still unconvinced. “It makes me feel a little lost,” he continued, “something like Rip Van Winkle coming home after 20 years, Things move faster today. I sup-

pose a lot has been happening, I'm just crazy to see a newspaper, “All I know is that Dr. Farns= worth told me Roosevelt was reelected. He said something about his carrying every State but Maine and Vermont. But that doesn't sound right. Let me see that batch of today's papers —and this is really Feb. 18, 1937?”

Mr. Broun

“Yes,” said the day nurse, whose full name is Constance Frances Terwilliger, “but I don’t think you ought to nse your eyes quite so much yet. Let

me read you the headlines.” She opened a paper at random and read, “Brookiyn Dodgers Seek to Add Strength Before Season Opens.” Mr. Snedecker frowned. “I'm sure I've seen that before. Is that really a paper of Feb. 18, 1937, that youre reading? They were running exactly the same story before I hit my head.” “It’s today’s paper,” said Miss Terwilliger, thumbing through the pages. “Perhaps I can find you something more novel and convince you that it's true that three and a half months have gone out of your life. How about this: ‘Green Blames Lewis for Labor Split?” ”

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HE patient groaned and began to whimper, “You're trying to fool a poor sick man. I don’t know why you're doing it, but that same story was in the paper the morning of the day I hit my head.” “Don’t get excited,” pleaded Miss Terwilliger, and she began to read a variety of headlines. “Here we are.—Bishop Manning and A. Lawrence Lowell have come out against President Roosevelt. So has Amos Pinchot. Mr. Pinchot has written a letter asking all liberals to unite against dictatorship. It begins, ‘IT have taken the liberty of writing to you because it seems to me that the time has come when every man should do what he can to help in a crisis.” Mr. Snedecker held up a skinny hand. “Stop!” he said. “i heard that letter last September, and I didn't think it was news then, so why should it be news now?” n on ” ISS TERWILLIGER picked up the paper in desperation and rapidly read, “There are brutal dictatorships in Russia, in Germany and in Italy, In all of these countries civil rights—" Again Mr. Snedecker held up his hand. “I know that one, too. That's Dorothy Thompson saying that Landon is a liberal. I read that one in June.” In a fever of activity Miss Terwilliger half read and half recited, “ ‘Senator Glass Flays Roosevelt. ‘Bainbridge Colby Declares Liberty in Peril’ ‘Taft's Brother Critical,’ ‘Lippmann Says Yes and No,” ‘Bar Association Protests,’ ‘Smith Meets Landon at Murray Hill Hotel.” “Bring me my pants,” said Mr. Snedecker sternly, “You and your February, 1937! It's all a lie. It's a plot, and I'm going.” “Where?” “To the polls, of course, to vote for Roosevelt, We've just got to lick Landon and win this election.”

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Justices Cardozo and Brandeis Saddened by Roosevelt's Court Plan; Stone Thinks Present Discussion Healthy for Democratic Government.

paid in industry during a war?” If you say, “Yes” you know that the burden of cost on the country would make any adequate defense practically impossible. If you say “No” you are back on the ground of heartless capitalism. The real answer is that you can’t appraise in dollars the service of a soldier in war. He is asked for sacrifice above and beyond any civilian in peace or war. His neighbors who stay at home and do infinitely less than he stands ready to do will make many times more money,

” ” n T is hideously cruel and unfair, but to an extent it is

a long way to regulate it—but it cannot abolish it. It is part of war and war is the most hideously cruel

even this incidental cruelty and unfairness until we wipe out war. All war is anyway a raid on property—the property of one nation coveted by another. When we can wipe out property and selfishness and greed in the

out war if all we do is destroy our own property system and trust to the Christian charity of other nations to follow our example, In present international rela-

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unavoidable. In the next war this country will go |

lunacy that afflicts the human race. We won't escape |

other fellow, we can wipe out war. But we won't wipe |

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By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Feb. 18. ~The private reaction of liberal Justices of the Supreme Court to the President’s proposal is interesting and varied. Justice Cardozo, who has supported most of Mr. Roosevelt's legislation, feels sad and humiliated that a situation ever could have developed by which the Supreme Court would cause such discussion and bring such criticism upon its head. Mr. Cardozo is not vigorously for or against the Roosevelt proposals. Justice Brandeis’ reaction is somewhat similar. He believes the blame for the present impasse is largely the Court’s, but he hates to see the President take this method to remedy it. Justice Stone, the most forthright liberal on the bench, is pleased and openly defiant. He thinks the present discussion is very healthy for any democratic form of government. " » n ONGRESSMAN SAM PETTENGILL, of South Bend, prides himself on being a graduate of vale Law School. He recently wrote to Charles E. Clark, Dean of the Yale Law School, asking his opinjon of the President's Supreme Court proposal. Rep. Pettengill, although a Democrat, is a bitter opponent of the Presidential move and wanted to get some ammunition, bearing a Yale trade-mark, with which to knock the A iy ah

But imagine his embarrassment when Dean Clark Mole an enthusiastic letter supporting the Roosevelt plan. Rep. Pettengill has not been showing off the letter,

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IR experts here already have worked out a private explanation of the San Francisco Bay tragedy. They say there is nothing mysterious about the crash, that it was caused solely by the fact that the pilot, although one of the best on the line, had spent years flying a Boeing plane, was not thoroughly familiar with the Douglas in which he crashed. United Airlines had just put a fleet of luxurious Douglases into service. The Douglas has a flap which is order to cut the plane's speed while landing. is a new invention, permitting the plane to on a much smaller field. It is believed that Pilot Thompson overshot his mark, went a little beyond the airport, therefore started in a large circle in order to come down again, To do this he pulled in the plane's wheels, also the flap. Pilot Thompson, drawing in his flap, must have lost altitude’ so that one wing of the plane, at that moment ir the act of m Ang a turn, was ripped

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