Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1937 — Page 22

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FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1937

ANTISMOKE CAMPAIGN HE declaration by the Smoke Abatement Advisory Comi mittee yesterday that violators of the smoke code who do not yield to persuasion will be prosecuted gives a longsuffering citizenry some hope that a grave menace to health at last may be checked. . This is the 20th Century and we like to look upon Indianapolis as a progressive city. It is time that we were Yelieved of breathing smcke and soot.

SHERLOCK HOLMES IS GONE © HERLOCK HOLMES is strangely missing from his home at 21B Baker St., and this time he will not return from Ais quest. . . . : : Before Conan Doyle died, he was convinced that those who died lived in some other sphere. If so, by this time probably he has welcomed William Gillette, who died yesterday, as a cocreator of the greatest sleuth of them all,

“nd introduced him to the ghosts of Monsieur Lecoq, and

‘Mr. Cryce and Joseph Rouletabille. i" For as Holmes once said, “Art in the blood is liable to ‘take the strangest forms,” and in Gillette the art of porfraying the detective grew and grew until the actor looked ‘more and more like Doyle's description of him. “_ Did the shade of Doyle, as Watson, greet Yim with *Ah, Holmes, we have been waiting for you here at your rooms”? : And did the shade of Gillette, dressed in a ghostly Inverness, say: ‘I will be with you in an instant, Watson.

“You will find tobacco in the Persian slipper .. .”?

PARK SCHOOL GARDEN TOUR ) ‘WELVE Indianapolis estates are to be thrown open for ; ‘the third annual Park School Garden Tour which begins tomorrow and continues through Sunday. Hours are from

1 to 6 each day. Citizens may gratify their sense of beauty and at the same time aid in a deserving cause by making this tour. Proceeds go to the Park School scholarship fund. = ‘Garden enthusiasts should welcome an opportunity to gee the best our city has to offer at this season when plants and trees are blossoming. + “When you feel that your garden lacks surprise and perspective—or when you are tired of its arrangement—or when the plants look badly placed—go visiting.” —dJulian

Meade. CAPITAL AND LABOR—1937 MODELS

‘A LL who hope that American industry will soon adopt a just and democratic formula for peace in manage-ment-labor relations will be cheered by two speeches delivered at the annual meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. On the same day an enlightened employer and an enlightened labor leader uttered what was

in essence the same message. President P. W. Litchfield of Goodyear said: “] counsel moderation—moderation on the part of labor jn its new-found strength and moderation on the part of capital in the exercise of its property rights... both employers and employees should at all times realize that service to the public must be the controlling objective of industry. / i “l think we all agree that there must be an end to Hirect action and the illegal use of force . . . labor, above Bvery other group in the community, has the most to fear and the least to gain from the whims and caprices of those who hold themselves above the law. {°° “On the other hand, we must recognize labor’s right to bargain collectively for satisfactory working conditions hd for fair rewards for services rendered. We must recbgnize and defend also labor’s right to strike as a weapon &f ‘last resort, although due account should also be taken Bf the rights of others and the interests of the public

felfare.” “ 2 8 Nn 2-8 8

I DWARD F. M'GRADY, a former mechanic and now ¥ Assistant Secretary of Labor, said: Zz. “We are all industrialists—labor as well as manageMent. It is nonsense to suppose that labor has not as much interest in the success of our joint enterprise in every one of these great corporations as have management, the directorate, or the stockholders. The task for us who are partners in this economic adventure is to sit down together dcross the table in common council, with proper restraints and unfailing courtesy, to work out an adaptation and a golution which, while rendering the greatest possible benefit fo each, will do the least possible harm to any. “That can be done. It can be done without acrimony, yiolence, unfairness, improper advantage or any of the fittle tricks that each side in any ancient hostility seems to expect in any encounter with the other. ~~ “] can assure you of one thing. Labor approaches its gew power with a due sense of its obligations. Labor does not seek trouble. You won't get arbitrary attitudes, unreasonableness, violence or hostility from labor, except in he measure that you mete it out. 1 know from personal contact. These men respect and admire you too much to ‘start in that atmosphere and frame of mind. “If we can now just get rid of all standoffishness—the old throwback to the medieval concept of the master-and-servant relation—to the sense of partnership in a common purpose and on equal terms, you won't find your friends in labor at the conference table one bit more hard-boiled, one bit more voracious in bargaining, than you know your own selves to be when you sit down with either your supplier or your customer to trade out an ordinary business proposition in the ordinary peaceful struggle of com-

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Money Is a Mystery, But Gold Is A Good Topic Because Every Man Can Be and Is His Own Expert.

1 EW YORK, April 30.—1 suppose nobody knows less about the anatomy and temperament of money than 1 do, but there is comfort for me in the essays of my colleagues on the subject because all the

arguments are based on the acceptance of a mystery. One authority said a few years ago that there were not 10 men, or maybe he said hot a dozen, in all the world who understood the mean-

ing of money, and I once struggled through a symposium by a group

“of noted experts who disagreed

on the very definition of money in the opening chapter. Today I read Hugh Johnson on gold and yesterday it was Ray Clapper who held forth on the same subject and, though the entertainment was good, I still have to wonder why, if this nation . should corner all the gold down to the ‘ast grain and stick it in that hole in Kentucky, that would be a calamity to us. Mr. Pegler And why, inasmuch as Wwe : clamored for the payment of the war debts, would it be a disaster to be avoided by force of arms if necessary, if Britain, France, Italy and all the rest of the debtors were to drop anchor in New York tomorrow with gold enough to pay the debt in full with compound interest and say, “Where do you want 1t unloaded?” - It has been explained to me that it would he advisable to meet, these boats outside and torpedo

them and I understand vaguely that a corner on.

gold would ball up the world exchange and bring a general disaster. nations will fight to get all they can of it, how come any nation can have too much and how much would be enough for each in a fair distribution? ” un " N Italy, a year and a half ago, the women were dropping their wedding rings and gold trinkets into laundry hampers to raise gold for the purchase of food and war materials which Italy could not produce. The Italians insisted that there was good gold behind their money which circulated freely within their own country at the point of the bayonet, but couldn't explain why, if that were so, the same money was hardly worth its weight in soap wrappers outside. A lot of Italian-Americans from the United States and Canada went back to join the Italian labor battalions in Abyssinia, attracted by the comparatively high wages in paper lire which would buy simple necessities from the Italian quartermaster. But even in lire they weren't drawing as much as they could have received on relief or public work in this country and, on the basis of the gold actually behind the paper notes, they probably were doing all this for a few cents a day.

” ” z 1 French and the British both have dug holes like ours in which to store their gold and they say in Paris that their gold beneath the Bank de France is protected by a series of steel and concrete barriers deep in the earth and finally by a subterranean river. The big nations are always shipping gold hither and yon to trim the balance, and the freight and insurance from France to this country is about 1 per cent of the value each trip, so that by the time a brick has been shipped over and back 50 times, it has eaten itself up; yet still retains its original value; which ought to be crazy, but defiantly isn’t. : There is one good thing about gold as a topic though. Inasmuch as nobody knows anything about it, every man can be, and is, his own expert.

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CLAIMS ENGLAND SUPPORTING FRANCO By Bull-Mooser, Crawfordsville

Since our Stat€ Department will see to it that America follows whatever policy Britain adopts toward Spain, it is well that Americans look rather closely at the British policy. Britain has refrained from taking

she could favor neither side. She was afraid of communism and fascism. But now we find Britain taking an important role in the Spanish affair. © Of course, England’s role is being disguised as neutrality, but she has chosen the side of Franco. The reason for this is that the Fascists have been forced to unite with the monarchists, and in uniting, the monarchists have come out on top. If the rebellion succeeds now, it won't be Franco that wins the victory but the monarchists—the king will be restored in Spain. Franco has been forced to admit this

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_ Britain is interested in establishing a puppet king in Spain, the same as. she established a puppet King in Greece. King Alfonso is the only dictator BPBritain could trust to protect the British interests in Spain, ” ” ” ASKS WHY THE FLURRY OVER COURT REFORM By Frank Fauble, North Vernon

Why all this scare and superfluous propaganda about the proposed change in the Supreme Court? There isn't a thing concealed and it is self-explanatory. Roosevelt's predecessors reduced the Supreme Court twice and increased it five times for no other reason than the one involved now. It is evident that Mr. Roosevelt is not trying to pack the Court. Instead, he is merely trying to frustrate dictatorship of the masses by the Supreme Court.

‘Think They're Cheated’

Evidently big business men think that they are getting cheated unless they have an ace in the hole. In other words, since they have lost their domination in the White House they still persist in nursing their pessimistic feelings over the Roosevelt landslide. They are the same. bosses and newspapers that sponsored depression conditions, that collapsed under their own dictatorship, leaving one of the worst depressions that ever existed. Americans are mentally alert to the undisputed fact that the rich and the poor _are enjoying renewed prosperity. Mr. Roosevelt's honest achievements are laughed at and derided with unjust criticism. For nearly a quarter of a century the masses and the farmers had heen claimed, mothered, and cuddled by dominating influences: They were led blindly, stupidly and short-sightedly, They were

General Hugh Johnson Says —

Perhaps Reason No Census of Unemployed Is Taken Is Number of Aliens lllegally in U. S. Who Would Constitute Impossible Deportation Problem.

ASHINQION April 30.—In his last prevacation press conference, the President is re : have said that we are to have no count of I ployed, challenged the conference for a definition of unemployment, asserted that we have all the figures necessary for administration of the unemployment problem, and asked the conference what useful purpose such a count would serve, If by “census” the President means a door-bell pulling count after the manner of the decennial census, this column agrees with him. . But if we are talking about an instantaneous crosssection of unemployment, and perhaps employment too, by self-registration, using the draft plan used in the war, taken at once and repeated every 60 or 90 days—then to ask what good it would do is about like asking what good it does a doctor to take the temperature and keep the chart of a fever patient, especially if that patient is his own child whose illness is costing him two or three billions of dollais a year. To answer in a few words why we fied these facts this column would say, “to plan with creditable intelligence the fiscal, social, industrial, agricultural and labor policy of the United States.” u o "2

T= column could never get the point of the President's supposedly devastating question, “How are you going to define unemployment?” For the purpose of this discussion, I am unemployed when (1) I haven't got a job, and (2) need one to

live, 15 there anything very. comp

sides in Spain for the reason that |.

The Hoosier Forum

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

(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.)

standing in their own light, until they banded together and rebelled.

Noted Injustices

Mr. Roosevelt saw the injustices and he frustrated any further attempt upon the toilers. He raised the hood so they could see and learn for the first time that equality of opportunity and individuality never did balance without collective bargaining and co-opera-tion. Industrial analysis has proven repeatedly and conclusively that Mr. Roosevelt is the greatest humanitarian of the ages today be-~ cause he is not afraid to defy big business. ” s ” LAUDS CHESTER ATTACK ON CALLOUS MANAGEMENT

By a Businessman

Chairman Colby M. Chester of the

National Association of Manufac-

turers had his thinking cap on when he addressed the U. S. Chamber of Commerce on industry's role in these changing times.

ploysrs to do all they can to employ more workers from the relief rolls. He was right in assailing “managements so callous to the concepts of fair dealing as to arouse the indignation of all right-thinking people.” Ba Industrial Conflict

He was right in deploring industrial conflict, in inviting “labor’s co-operation in = the complicated problems confronting us,” and also in urging greater labor responsibility toward industry's problems. He was right in pointing out that American industry's oroesperity lies with increasing mass buying power

LIFE By VIRGINIA POTTER After sunshine must come rain— After joy, a little pain— And success, too, is often lost— Riches are not worth the cost. : Youth fades to age without a reason, Spring gives way to winter season. Fame too soon is quite forgotten, Choicest fruits are known to rotten— Changes must come and I confess, Variety makes the monotony less.

DAILY THOUGHT

In those days there was no king in Israel: every - man did that which was right in his own eyes. —Judges 21:25.

WOULD rather be right than President.—Henry Clay.

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through lower prices and higher wages. “Certainly,” he said, “no intelligent businessman would dare say that the workers everywhere are as well paid as they might be. Some of us may hot have realized it some years back, but I venture to say that today virtually everyone in business realizes that the success of the American system of large-scale production and. distribution from

now on depends largely upon a con-

suming public having a purchasing power which grows steadily and is capable of providing the people with the merchandise which they need for modern life. It's Common Sense

“And an important part of that consuming public is the group on the payroil—the 40 million or more In employment. . . . Our employees are our customers. And since all business is interdependent, it is only common sense for us to want your workers and ours to prosper— if only for the self-interested reason that widespread prosperity is the best assurance of large-scale production and consumption of goods. > “That, sense.”

I say, Is only common ” o ”

SAYS “DICTATOR” WANTS

| FREE SPEECH—FOR SELF

> | By a Subscriber He was right when he urged em- |

E. F. Maddox’ letter of April 16 reminds me of the dictator who

| believes in free speech—for himself.

” 7 2 HERE'S A CHANCE TO SELL AN ISLAND By Reader

The man we're most inclined to envy today is Edwin L. Stanton, an axle manufacturer of Los Angeles, who has bought himself an island— the Island of Santa Cruz, 30 miles out across the Santa Barbara Channel from the coast of California. It's a regular Robinson Crusoe sort of island, is Santa Cruz. Fifty or .60 miles of rugged coastline, with sheltered coves and sunny heaches, with towering cliffs where black cormorants - and ghostly pelicans roost. by millions, with hidden seascooped caves into which boom the long Pacific rollers straight from China. Inland, wild goats and wild pigs clamber over a miniature mountain range, and sweet springs send trickling streams down green valleys to the ocean. The deep waters offshore teem with food and game fish. A million dollars is what Mr. Stanton is said to have paid for his island, and he intends to maintain it as an old-style California rancho. From Santa Cruz he can get back to the mainland—to bright lights, paved streets, automobiles, telephones and other modern conveniences, to the axle factory and sales conferences, and labor negotiations—in two or three hours by boat or 30 minutes by seaplane. But

we can’t imagine why he should

ever want to do it.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Supreme Court's 5-4 Decisions on Issues Are Too. Close for Comfort, Writer Claims

EW YORK, April 30.—When Yale beats Harvard in football, as it did last year: by a score of 14 to 13, the boys gather in the

Fundamental

center of the field when the final whistle has blown and Harvard cheers for Yale and Yale

cheers for Harvard. After a grueling battle the opponents respect each other, and there are fraternization and back slapping. All this is known as the spirit of fair play, and it is a pleasant thing to have around when amateur athletes are engaged in friendly rivalry for the honor of their respective alma maters. But it startles me when I. find that many believe that 5-to-4 decisions of the Supreme Court: should be handled in pre= cisely the same manner. Thus I find the New York Times hailing the Herndon de=- | "cision as a proof that the high bench is the bulwark and protector of human liberties. Somewhat the same attitude was taken by many * in regard to the Wagner decision, But I think it would be very wrong for Van De-

Mr. Broun

vanter to come up to Roberts after the Herndon ver=

dict and say, “Nicely put, Bob. You found the weak=ness in our line and shot a touchdown play right through it. But, after all, you had the luck, and when we play again I'll lay you even money that we trim you.”

It is impossible in such fundamental issues as civil liberties and the right of Congress to legislate .

for labor that both the majority and the minority can be right. If Justice Roberts is now a liberal if follows as night follows day that Justice Van De= vanter is a gross reactionary. And I am not forgete ting Justices Butler, McReynolds and Sutherland.

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HIEF JUSTICE HUGHES in a letter to Senator ! Wheeler gave an advisory opinion that it would ! not be constitutional to divide the Court into sec- . tions for the preliminary consideration of routine But the Court is already divided on all ! Indeed, it is almost a mistake to speak : of “the Supreme Court,” since instead we have two ! factions utterly divergent in their point of view -on !

business. major issues.

the truly vital issues.

Mr. Roosevelt spoke of the highest judicial body : as the third horse in the system of co-ordinate gov= . But that third horse is now not a single :

ernment. animal, but a filly and a full grown colt. The team pulls potentially in four directions instead of the : former possible three. ‘ One of the arguments against Mr. Roosevelt's pro= . posal of reform was that the appointment of addie | tional justices might endanger civil liberties. It is ° hardly a secret that the President is not likely to appoint, nor the Senate confirm, any additional . Sutherlands or Butlers. :

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TILL another charge against the President's plan + J is the assertion that the public would have scant respect for decisions handed down .by an augmented . body. But certainly 5-to-4 verdicts are a great deal ' less than decisive. An eminent newspaper man, Carr ’ Van Anda, formerly managing editor of The New : York Times, has already advocated that an attempt . be made to get a rehearing in the Watson case, and in other fields of industry there has been at least : a hint that other Wagner decisions may be sabotaged because of the closeness of the vote. Five-to-four decisions for progressive measures are a great deal better than defeats, but they are not

‘good enough to stand as fundamental settlements of

pressing problem.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

A. F. of L. Decides on New Strategy of Boring From Within C. I. O, And Setting Up Rival Unions in Hope of Putting Lewis on Defensive.

~ Maybe we have the figures necessary to administer this problem but that hasn't been my experience —at least so far as WPA in New York City was concerned—and they certainly are not sufficient to

satisfy this particular well-wisher of this Administra-

tion on such vast discrepancies as appear in the estimates of the various official and unofficial guessers.

Why don't we take this count? I don't pretend to know but, as I have said before, this is my guess. Ever since immigration quota restrictions went into effect there has been a constant seepage through all our borders of aliens ineligible to enter—maybe millions of them. Nobody knows how many of them there are, nor how many are on relief, but perhaps enough to make a wholly impossible problem of mass deportation if they were involved. :

os » 8 5 T= revelation would not present a savory dish

for the Secretary of Labor, whose baby it is.

Immigration restrictions are laber’s protective tariff. It-wouldn’t be any duck soup of a situation for Harry Hopkins either. How many hundreds of millions has it cost the American taxpayer to support these land-lubbing stowaways? Finally, it would be putting a porcupine in the bed of an innocent bystander, Secretary Hull. He'd have to figure out a way to give citizenship to some, to get their native nations to take back some, and perev the immi

| 0 work out, some amendmen

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, April 30—A. F. of L. leaders secretly have decided on a new line of strategy in their bitter struggle with the C. I. O. Unable to stop the onward sweep of the rival unions by the frontal attack of suspension and denunciation, ‘Federation master minds are going to see if they can get better results by guerilla raiding and harassing. In the past the A. F. of L. has made no attempt to invade C. I. O. territory. But from now on it will encourage not only raids on its rival's ranks but dissension within them. As a first step, anti-Lewis miners in Illinois and Pennsylvania will be offered A. F. of L. charters. : As one Federation chief put it, “We aim to stir up so much trouble for Lewis and his allies in their own camp that they won’t have time to think about anything else.” : » » ” HE new line of attack is the work of the three so-called “moderate” Federation big-guns—George Harrison, president of the railroad clerks, Matthew Woll, head of the photo-engravers, and Dan Tobin, boss of the teamsters’ union. These three opposed the original suspension of the C. I. O. unions, and at last week's meeting of the A. FP. of L. Executive Council called to expel the insurgents permanently, Sey succeeded in persuading

Green and His di take a differerit course.

other unions to bolt, further depleting A. F. of IL. ranks and revenue. “Fight fire with fire,” urged Woll; “give Lewis a dose of his own medicine. Bore from within, set up rival unions and put him on the defensive.” After three days of wrangling, this advice was accepted. The expulsion plan was shelved until the Federation's annual convention in Denver this falls Meanwhile a special meeting of handpicked -unions, whose loyalty is unquestioned, will be held May 18 in Cincinnati to approve a special assessment on all A. F. of L. members to raise a fund to finance the new strategy. Ss "” ” ” £ NE of the greatest vogues among the ladies of | Washington is astrology, fortune-telling, and the: spirit world. Mrs. Roosevelt has had two astrology: readings in the past year. Twice she has called .in a fortune-teller. This particular fortune-teller has become one of

the most popular in Washington, is called in at vaerious fashionable dinner parties. 3 Mrs. Oscar Underwood, widow of the late Senator from Alabama, also is an ardent experimenter in numerology, astrology and other ologies. She frequently explores the spirit world for messages from her husband. Mrs. Frances Parkinson Keyes, wife of the ex-

Senator from New Hampshire, is interested in both