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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937

INDUSTRIAL DISARMAMENT ECRETARY OF LABOR PERKINS’ call to leaders of industry, labor and government for a series of conferences, to discuss stabilization of industrial relations under collective bargaining, follows logically upon Monday’s Supreme Court decisions validating the Wagner act. Those decisions underwrote the Federal Government's attempt to minimize costly strikes through recognition of labor’s right to organize and bargain collectively. The Court found that refusal by employers to recognize that right has been one of the major causes of strikes. In brief, the decisions have told organized employers and employees lo deal with one another in working out common. problems of wages, hours and conditions of employment. "They have established the Federal Government’s right to heip in the making of management-labor agreements in interstate industries by removing interfer-

ences to the preliminaries of such agreements. Henceforth -

collective bargaining is legal and attempts to prevent it are illegal. The legalities of such procedure having been settled it is fitting that the Government, through the Secretary of Labor, should seek to “sell” both industry and labor on the practicalities of co-operation. But the Governraent has another important role that it has not yet written into general law. This is the role of mediator in labor disputes.

Only in rail and air transportation has the Government

provided an adequate system for the mediation of labor disputes. The Railway Labor Act, without recourse to antistrike provisions, compulsory arbitration or other crackdown measures, has kept. peace on the rights of way for ‘a decade. It can serve as a model for a general Federalstate mediation systeni for other industries. Monday's decisions have made this next step by Congress practicable.

OLIVE BRANCHES . . . OR BOMBS? PAIN’S “little world war’ seems to be nearing a turn for better or for worse. Madrid's scholarly ambassador at Washington, Dr. Don Fernando de los Rios, predicts its end in 60 days if the proposal to withdraw all foreign elements from both sides is accepted. : Foreseeing victory, Popular Front President Azana has promised amnesty to all captured Rebels unless the Spanish Cabinet itself specifically authorizes prosecutions. Those who voluntarily come over to the Loyalists, and can demonstrate their sincere Republicanism, says the decree, will be duly rewarded. : ; But will the foreign elements now using Spanish soil as their battlefield be withdrawn? - Will Italy and Germany; Russia and France—to mention only the chief coun-

tries accused of sending in ‘‘volunteers,” or of winking at |

enlistments—put an end to the practice? : : For the moment, this is the crux of the situation. And there is certainty that they will. "Around Spain and around Europe, destiny is fast weaving some design. Like a jigsaw puzzle, it shows evidence of nearing completion. But what it will turn out to be no man can say until the final piece is fitted in. that the motif will be doves and olive branches rather than

bayonets and bombs.

- WORTH ANOTHER TRY INCE it is apparent that a handful of states have blocked ratification of the Child Labor Amendment for another year at least, the move in Congress for re-enactment of an antichild labor law should receive widespread support from the friends of children. The new bill, fathered John A. Martin of Colorado, is not perfect. fects can be remedied. The measure is right in principle, applying a Federal ban on the interstate shipment of all industrial goods produced by children under 16. 1t is similar in principle to the first child labor law passed in 1916, except that the age limit is increased from 14 to 16. This is logical, since nine states now have a statutory 16-year

by Senator Johnson and Rep.

limit. We believe a sound Federal antichild labor law would

pass Congress, and we believe a majority of the present |

Supreme Court might well find it constitutional.

TOO OLD AT FORTY LETTER appeared in a newspaper in Passaic, N. J., sighed by Vincent Lombardo and asking what good social security pensions would do him at 65 when everywhere he went he was told he was too old at 40 to get a job. Next day Mrs. Lombardo reported her husband missing, and a few days later his body was found in the Passaic River. : Vincent Lombardo’s tragedy will be understood by millions of Anierican men cast adrift in their prime hy the machines. bSonie of them can pick up jobs enough to keep

~ them until social security comes to their aid; others, like |

Vincent Lombardo, cannot wait 25 years. When America answers the problem posed by this man’s suicide it can boast of achieving a humane and socially adequate civilization. Until then it must bear the reproach implied in his premature death.

“FOR LAW AND LIBERTY” HE Belgians have done it again. Back in 1914 they risked almost certain annihilation rather than connive at the Prussianization of Europe. For the sake of principle they suffered four years of martyrdom and came within an ace of national extinction. : : Sunday the Brussels area went to the pollsion a similar question of principle. The issue was whether Belgium should stick to democracy or ahandon it for a Nazi-Fascist regime like that cof Herr Hitler next door. And Premier Paul Van Zeeland won for democracy by a vote of 4 to 1 over Leon Degrelle, his Rexist or Fascist opponent.

It was a victory, commented Premier Van Zeeland,’

“for king, law and liberty.” And a smashing one at that.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Something Fell Out—By Herblock

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937

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Fair Enough ‘By. Westbrook Pegler Dizzy Dean's Fracas With Miley

Is No Reason for Newspapermen To Declare Vendetta on Ol' Diz'.

NEW YORK, April 14.—The recent scuffle between two baseball journalists and an unknown number of St. Louis ball players in the lobby of a Tampa hotel, seems to call for a statement of newspaper ethics covering such cases. Incensed at some comment written by Jack Miley of the New York News, Dizzy Dean took a poke at my colleague and a healthy melee ensued. No damage was done and Mr. Miley's jovial r account of the row was free of i rancor wherein he met with | honor the severe test of his abil- ! ity and sportsmanship and earned . a gold star for his report card. | Other members of the craft, | however, have felt a rise of the | clan spirit and there are indica- | tions that Dean in particular, and | the Cardinals in general, will be , victims of a journalistic vendetta |. this summer. Bad as this might be for Dizzy and the Cardinals, | it would be even worse for jour- | nalism, because it would indicate to the public that newspaper people are not above using their position and the privilege of a free press to flog an enemy in print for private reasons. Although there are members of the trade who do not know as much, this harms the newspaper business. No man should be denied a fair presentation in print because of anything he has done to any indi- | vidual newspaperman or to the whole craft, if it comes to that. Of course, people who appeal for public patronage as showmen in professional sport or other theaters must submit to critical inspection. They stand to profit by their virtues, if any, and to suffer for their shortcomings, but the customers | will not readily believe that the great Dizzy Dean, so | recently a hero on the word of the baseball writers, | has suddenly become a bum merely because he threw

Mr. Pegler

| the incident himself. ” a 2 TT has been much of ‘this persecution in recent | years, not particularly on the sport side, but { flagrantly in the coverage of the amusement trades. | It comes of the introduction into newspaper work of | men and women without the slightest conception of | newspaper ethics and responsibility who are given a

| daily column of space and carte blanche to destroy

or praise, according to their own godlike whims.

| a punch at a man who doesn't place great store by ' | produce

| scientific and inventive genius was | free fo go ahead, our future would

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defend to

The Hoosier Forum

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

PROTEST NOT CRYING, WRITER SAYS ;

By Mabel German

Mr. John Greene, Lebanon, says I have been crying since the election and am a poor loser, also that I aidn’t know the Administration was for the poor people. In the first place, I am not the crying type. I stand up and protest with cold facts to back me. I call a spade a spade and never pussyfoot around an issue. I uphold nothing that is not honest, regardless of party connections. It isn’t yet time to cry. This is the time for fighting. When and if the Administration usurps the three branches of the Government, leaving free-born Americans under a dictator, Mr. Green will be the first to cry. : In Roosevelt's recent fireside chatter he contradicts his statement of last November that “recovery” is here. He said that one-third of the nation is still undernourished, illclothed and ill-housed, and that if he can ‘control the Supreme Court, all these conditions will be corrected. His arguments, as well as Mr. Greene's won't hold water. The Governors of six states have just requested an increase of relief funds. Roosevelt is asking for additional relief funds. : I am an American, and I believe in the constitutional form of Government, its three branches, each separate unto itself. { on on PRODUCTION-FOR-USE IS URGED

| By Arthur Jones, Cloverdale

As a nation we have learned to an abundance. If our

be secure, but it seems that we must submit to slow starvation or extermination of civilization in the next war because we can't solve the | little problem of how to distribute { broducts of our capable industry. Some say raise the tariff and some

Very often, so deep is their ignorance of the first, ‘2Y lOWer it. Some say the way to

principles of the business, they blandly admit they use their space to discipline people who displease them and favor those who flatter their sense of power and importance. ] ” 2 5 : REAL reporter would not mention a tailor's name in pure reading matter to wrangle a suit of clothes though the seat be out of his pants. If a ball player has thrown down his club or made a crooked deal, 'as has happened many times, the baseball writers are not only privileged but bound to report the fact to the best of their ability, and in such cases a champion of harassment is not amiss. But a public fracas between a public man and a - reporter should have no more effect on the policy | of the press than a fight between the same man and | some stranger who refused to give his name. | And let's abolish the idea that publicity made Dizzy Dean and that he owes the papers gratitude for that. | It was Dizzy who made publicity and we wrote him | into prominence to cover the news, provide entertainment, strut our stuff and sell newspapers.

Genera

gence, “America’s petroleum reserves are on the verge | of exhaustion—they may not last the war.” Periodically. that cry has gone up ever since. . | My father brought in one of the first wells in the Oklahoma field—at about 800 feet. I saw that area drilled out at 800 feet and begin to decline. Then new sands were found at 1200 feet and the whole state revived—¥o droop a little until a new dead sea was drilled in by some bold adventurers at 1800 feet. This was repeated at various intervals from 2400 to 10,000 feet. Now again the old flush days are over. Okmulgee, which I first saw as a huddle of Negro-Indian huts, with fewer than 10 white families, later grew to a jewel of a boom town of 32,000. But no more. These old oil horizons are all

a once-thriving little town in the midcontinent field is like sweet Auburn, ‘ioveliest village of the plain,”— deserted. : For the 20th time the Cassandras again are ‘keening that the nation's oil reserves .are threatened with exhaustion. 2 ” ” ELL, maybe. But Walter Teagle tells me that, with the so-called hydrogenation process, which merely rearranges the atoms of carbon and hydrogen on any natural base, gasoline can be produced from coal at no very much greater cost than that at Jhich we now crack it out of crude

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Hugh Johnson Says — New Mechanical Method of Excavation by Drilling Up Instead of Down May Assure U. S. of Inexhaustible Oil Supply Despite Alarmists

: (;onarTowy, S. C,, April 14—During the World oil. Our coal reserves are almost inexhaustible. War, several scientific Paul Reveres rushed to | | the Army General Staff’ with the: startling intelli- | of

‘have a full life is to create scarcity. | We set out to accomplish a balanced budget, more spending, less | spending, change the Supreme { Court, more power to the Administration and so on. But all we need [to do is to cut the private capitals '{ail off right below the ears and then usher in a production-for-use program. Produce to fill needs of people, not for private profit. The New Deal is aware of the masses’ lack of purchasing power and attempts | to bridge it by relief channels, WPA and AAA, but with private profit | taking the lion’s share of the profits, all the New Deal theories are

i doomed to failure.

| As a people, we should be intel- | ligent enough to see the futility of all this. Hawever, we continue to elect men whose whole interests are

Joe Pogue—who with De Golyer was the genius the NRA petroleum code, is probably the world’s

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

1d up in the preservation of the rofit system and private ownership of industry.

” o ” PRAISES ADMINISTRATION OF COUNTY INFIRMARY By a Marion County Infirmary Inmate How many times we havé heard the trite wisecracks about the poorhouse and how often we have dismissed optimistically the possibility of such a fate overtaking us with the thought that, “Of course, that can never happen to us.” Yet, here we are, 600 or 700 of us. Of all the County institutions, the poorhouse—refuge of the lame, the halt, the blind, and final port of those , who have lived too long— —seems the least understood. The Marion County ‘Infirmary, is managed by a kindly, middle-aged man in the person of J. M. Twireham, whose background of a successful farming.and a business career in Indianapolis for the last 27 years, qualifies him for the position. Mr. Twineham is fair in the discharge of his obligation fo the taxpayer and in his attitude toward his charges. . : i The grounds comprise some 200 acres, 30 of which are used for truck gardening. Mr. Twineham’s pet ambition is to make the place 100 per cent self-contained and self-sup-

ON THE HARBOR

By HARRY AND JOAN SAIR

On the harbor I wander all day long And listen to the sailors sing their song; Hearing the captain give order to sail. And the sailors singing their song with a Hail!

I wonder if they dance and sing like me, | Or do they work and look at the sea; If IT were a sailor, I'd like to see Mermaids dancing and singing to

me. Oh! gee I know ‘this is never done. So I am leaving the harbor, So long! DAILY THOUGHT So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, that

the Lord spake unto me.—Deuteronomy 2:16.

ET the gulled fool the toils of war pursue, where bleed the

many to enrich the few.—Shenstone.

porting.

This was impossible last year because of the drought. However, with the ordinary weather conditions this year the idea is quite feasible since the place is already equipped with its own water and heating systems, power plant, bakery and laundry. The dairy herd, Mr. Twineham says, has paid its way.

Mr. Twineham also suggested a system whereby an interne and a student nurse from the City Hospital would be on duty at all times during the day, alternating every week. This would be good experience for them and would also prove valuable in the case of a convalescent patient who is transferred from the hospital :0 the home, since his hospital treat-

ment would not stop abruptly. The | interne and nurse, of course, would

be assistants to Dr. Ruse while on duty here. We have a good laundry. There being only 27 employees on the whole place, it has been necessary to depend on the help of some of

the inmate nurses who are doing |.

splendid work, without pay. The main topic of conversation, or rather debate, among us inmates these days, is the probability of our being moved to Jullietta in the near future. The prospect of such a change is decidedly undesirable to some of us. Others, however, are inclined to be more philosophical about it. Especially since Mr. Twineham assures us that he is planning to still better our living

{conditions in that event.

" un ” STOP U. S. SPENDING TO BRPAK PRICES, IS SUGGESTION By a Tax Doubter There is a serious doubt as to whether it would be advisable to curtail Government spending by pinching into the pocketbooks of the $500 to $1000 a year incomes for taxes.

tax on the relief workers’ pay to provide funds for relief.

Government spending circulates buying power that would congeal in the hands of the overpaid and toll collectors. Some collect more than they can possibly spend, so Uncle Sam should properly tax them to get it back into circulation. The more you go into the lew-in-come pockets, the less spending power will be where it counts. Those hidden taxes also keep the mare going. If our Uncle Sam had not borrowed from our broken banks in 1933 and 1934, the watered stock. of cur capital structure would have dried up and prices would have been lowered to meet existing buying power. Borrowing kept the balloon

afloat. More taxation will take the |

gas out of the joyride bus. Stop Government spending now and see how fast prices will break in all lines. |

By Heywood Broun

Seeing Giants or Pigmies Makes Writer Uncomfortable, but He Thinks They May Have a Purpose.

NEW YORK, April 14.—I was sitting in a "room with two giants and so I got to thinking about God. Of course, they had a midget with them. : Jt was the annual ball of the Press Pho-

tographers’ Association. One of the giants was mature and quite obviously he had been jin show business for several years. Besides, he was less than eight feet tall and, he didn't mind very much when anybody said, “How is the weather up there?” He had heard that one before and it was easy for him to pass it off with a smile or some returning wisecrack just as funny. ‘But then there entered a yourg giant, 19 years of age, and more than eight feet tall and still growing. In-all my experience I have seen few more unhappy young men. He moved across the room clumsily and with palpable selfconsciousness. He was not amused when anybody asked, “How is the weather up there?” Indeed he tried to find a corner in which he could sit down and hide. That was difficult. Before he could sit down he had to test the chair with his hands to ascertain whether it might stand the strain. And, as I have said, I got to thinking about God in- a somewhat critical way. Summer is just around the corner and on hot nights I like to stand out in front of the farm house, and at such moments, I would be an easy prospect for any religious denomination whatsoever. My knowledge of astrecnomy is very fragmentary, but you can’t look up at the sky in ‘June, July or August without murmuring, “What a lovely job.”

Mr. Broun

” 2 4 OREOVER, aside from the scientific point of view, the work has been done in an aesthetically satisfactory manner. The universe is in good taste. One might almost speak of the superb tact of the Creator. But when one bends his eyes to the earthly plain the same situation does not obtain. When men are out of scale, either as on the prodigious or the pigmy side, there is a certain note of vulgarity in such experiments. Possibly my feeling of distress in seeing men of

About the next thing would be a | J than seven feet or less than four is parochial.

In the telescopes of Mars they do not vary by more than the breadth of a fingernail. And it may well be that those of us who think of human comrades, large or small, as “freaks™ are falling into the error of too complete an acceptance of an unsatisfactory norm. Possibly there is no future for the race unless radical experiments are scattered upon the surface of this planet. ®o a na ia . HE day may come when the six-foot man is pitiful because of his scanty stature. And while I will not wholly abandon my contention that the process of trial and error may bear a little harshly ¢ upon the heavenly guinea pigs, I cannot pretend to any inside knowledge as to what the end result may be in the cosmic plans of any first cause. 2 All I know is that those who are marked in any physical way as mavericks are likely to bleed and suffer in their hearts. But instead of a rebuke, the creation of strange people may be intended as encouragement to the adventurous. These curious creations are possibly intended as a criticism of humanity's passion for conformity. And so giants and midgets are set down among us as hostages to the hope of democracy which ought to be a kind of divine diversity among the sons of man.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

C. I. O. Not to Use Sit-Down Tactics in Organization of Textile Workers Because Industry Is Scattered and Violence Is Feared.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, April 14.—C. I. O. leaders are not shouting it from the housetops, but the sit-

drained out. Okmulgee has dwindled by half. Many +

| greatest oil economist—tells me that due to this, the probabilities of further exploration and discoveries | and one other reason, there is no predict®hle situa- ! tion where oil will long remain above $2 a barrel and that the exhaustion “Reveres” are again all wet. The other reason is the prospective mining of oil— an astonishing development. When you stick an oil well down, you top a solid sheet of sandstone impregnated with the detritus of old marine life— iu most of us call “oil” and a few of us call When you hit that stone, s combination of gas pressure, capillarity and suction overcomes gravity and sends some of the oil, or “erl,” to the surface. But only from “10 per cent to 40 per cent of the reservoir—an average of perhaps 30 per cent—is ever , recovered. .

a 4 ” un = UE to astonishing new mechanical methods of excavation, it now seems to be at least possible to reverse the whole oil fields and get all the oil. You drill a shaft five feet in diameter down

bottom of that you tunnel out under it in all directions and drill it from beneath-—-not down but up— like poking holes in the bottom of a tub—then gravity does the trick and you get all, or almost all, of the unrecovered oil. A If there's anythin yi ns | are coming hak, g in that, all the sweet Aubur:

process, go back to all the old |

below the oil “sand” or strata of rock. From the : | truculently antiunion

| might seize on the sit-down as an excuse to resort

down is barred as an offensive weapon in the textile organization drive they are pushing. This drive is their third major unionization campaign in mass production - industries—the other two being steel and autos. Reason for soft-pedaling the sit-down has nothing to do with the pyrotechnics in Congress. Behind the strategy are two controlling considerations: First, unlike steel and autos, ownership and location of the textile industry is not centered in a relatively few hands or small area. It is a widely dispersed industry. The 6000 textile mills are scattered along the eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida, and their control is vested in over 3500 independent corporations. Thus it is impossible for the unionites to cripple a major portion of the industry by tying up a few plants.

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GECOND. C. I. O. leaders fear that southerr® city

and police officials, most of them much more than northern authorities,

to strong-arm measures to smash the union. The textile strike of 1934 was marked by widespread violence, in which a number of workers were killed and injured. The C. I. O. rulers are anxious to avoid a repetition,

The basis of their strategy in textile unionization is to organize by infiltration. They propose to move quietly into the mill areas, unionize the workers: and then by sheer weight of numbers, instead of the site down bludgeon, compel the owners to come to terms. Since a large portion of the textile workers have had some union experience, in contrast to the auto hands, who had none, C. I. O. strategists believe they can maintain sufficient discipline to put across this technique. ‘ ” ” ” USTICE M'REYNOLDS is the terror of lawyers arguing before the Supreme Court. The acide tongued Tennesseean loves to disconcert them with heckling questions. But sometimes Justice McReynolds gets it thrown back at him just as hot as he dishes it out. This happened when he tried to haze William Barron, new chief of the Appellate division of the Justice Department. . : Mr. Barron was arguing the Acme Can case, ine volving the validity of the standard container act, when McReynolds suddenly snapped: “Do you mean to say that Congress could passian act fixing the size of the pocket in which I keep two quarters?” : “I didn’t say anything of the kind,” replied Mr. Barron quietly. “I fail to see the relevancy of that question.”

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