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WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1937

CORONATION MEMORIES CORONATION with a ghost,” cables William Philip Simms from Westminster Abbey, as he views the climax and listens to the peers of the realm chanting their allegiance to George the Sixth. Among all classes, he says, while the outs are for George the thoughts are for Edward. Remembrances no doubt of the Edward who said to Kitchener, “What does it matter if I am shot? I have four brothers.” Or of the Edward who later at the front refused to be kept in shelter and of whom a private wrote, “The Prince is always in the thick of it.” Or of the Edward in India who, when what police feared might be a hostile mob crowded toward him, ordered, “Drop those barriers and let the people in.” Or of the Edward in South Africa, in Canada, in New Zealand, in Australia, the Barbados and the Fiji Islands, riding the seven seas and selling the Empire; of all the innumerable little human details of those: journeys which did so much to bind with hoops of good will the dominions to the motherland. Of such detail as this, described by his biographer, Hector Bolitho: “The Australians liked the Prince most of all for the way he behaved after his train was overturned through a jarriage leaping from the rails. The carriage in which he was traveling left the rails, and before the engine-driver sould stop the train the two rear carriages had turned over, with their wheels in the air. The horror did not last for very long, but the sensations of the officials who hurried toward the royal carriage are terrible to imagine. As they ame near to his overturned carriage, members of the Prince's staff appeared, one by one, crawling out of the windows. Some were hurt. The Prince was the last to appear. He had stayed behind, he said, to gather his papers together. His genius for managing awkward moments was now in full flower. He thanked the officials for at last arranging something which’ was not on the official program and then went on to Perth by car. He arrived at the luncheon party which had been arranged for him, apologized for being late and did not even mention the reason for the delay.” Or: “Legions of big, proud Zulus danced and yelled in front of him, their cowhide shields waved in the air and the fountains of ostrich plumes on their heads moved wildly | as they jumped upon the earth. One young warrior stepped out from the vast company and danced alone. His body was decorated with feathers and beads. He danced like a great flame, a flame that leapt until it was subdued by his own strength and fell at the Prince's feet.” Of such stuff perhaps are those coronation memories made, and maybe, mingled with the words of the ceremony with which the new King is crowned, the haunting echo of — “I now quit altogether public affairs, and my burden. It may be some time before I Yeturn to my native land, but I shall always follow the fortunes of the British race and Empire with profound interest and if at any time in the future I can be found of service to his majesty in a private station, I shall not fail. “And now, we all have a new King. I wish him and you, his people, happiness and prosperity with all my heart. “God bless you all! God save the King!”

FLOWER MISSION HOSPITAL

JD EDPICATION today of the Flower Mission Memorial Tuberculosis Hospital marks an important advance in the community's health and hospital facilities. The hospitalization which is provided for more than 100 advanced tubercular patients will strengthen the battle against tuberculosis. Other hospitals cannot classify these patients as eligible for admission. As a result, many are not getting the care they need and they in turn are exposing others to the disease. Flower Mission Hospital should help check this spread. i The new hospital, a unit of City Hospital, does not overlap the Marion County Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Sunnyside, which accepts cases in earlier stages of the disease. Sponsors of the project expect the new building to help relieve crowding at Sunnyside. The hospital was built with funds from the Indianapolis Flower Mission, the Public Works Administration and the Snow-Butler Foundation. For maintenance, the 1937 Legislature authorized a local tax levy increase from 1 to 3 cents on each $100 valuation for tuberculosis purposes.’ Appropriately, Indianapolis observes National Hospital Day by dedicating this institution.

Me. HULL’S PRIZE AVING been mentioned in the newspapers as a possible candidate for the N obel peace prize, Secr etary of State Cordell Hull promptly. announced that he had “definitely and unequivocally” eliminated his name from consideration. Several weeks ago, he said, he seconded the nomination

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A Little Bit of All Ro |_By Talburt

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Boy Meets Calon Crown—Gets Girly Herblock

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Il Duce's and Hitler's Demands for Curtailment of Free Press and Speech

In U. S. and Britain Need Squelching

EW YORK, May 12.—Although Mussolini insists that fascism is not an export commodity and Hitler says the same of his type of lunacy, there comes a point in their relations with the free countries when they

try to impose their peculiar ideas on the

neighbors. They both presume to. suggest,

even demand, that freedom of speech and freedom

of the press be curtailed in countries which guarantee

such freedom. Inasmuch as impaired or limited freedom in these matters isn’t freedom at all, what they require of us is the abolition of two very important rights. It makes no difference to them whether we and the British do this by violating our existing laws or by changing the laws in violation of our principles. : The recent La Guardia affair was an instance of interference. It may be true that was only campaigning when he said Hitler would shame Nero out of a chamber of horrors, or whatever it was that he did say, but unless you are going into a question of etiquette, Fiorello’s position was sound, However, our laws don’t deal with etiquette. Mayor La Guardia was way inside the law and if it comes to a matter of etiquette, our little chestnut-stabber would have been justified if he had turned on Cordell Hull and given him the rough side of his tongue for apologizing to Hitler in the name of the national Government. He could have said to Mr. Hull: “Listen, you, what do you mean deprecating the conduct of the lawfully elected Mayor of New York? Mind your own husiness.”

= ” ® USSOLINI hasn't given us any trouble, but he has been needling the British for a couple of years. His press, like Hitler's, is strictly official. So when Mussolini's papers print dirty pieces about the British and even incite riots around the British Embassy in Reme as they have done, those pieces are really state documents and the official sentiments of Popeye, himself. On the other hand, when a British paper plucks a little fuzz off Popeye's chest and blows it in his face with a reference to Adowa or Caporetto, or the dashing retreats of the Black Shirts in Spain, that is an indepeiident utterance. The reason Mussolini burns up at these references is that he has spent 14 years trying to make the world and Italy think of Italians as conquerors. But the British Government isn't responsible. ” 2 2 FTER LA GUARDIA tossed off his crack about Adolf, the Nazi papers turned on the heat and the most flattering thing they said about the American people was that we were a race who kept our hats on indoors, put our feet on the table and spat chewing gum at the walls. Yet they are demanding that this country revoke freedom of speech to prevent unfriendly utterances by minor officials in the subdivisions of the nation. And then they went further and threatened to interfere in our domestic affairs, although in their country Americans are forbidden by law to organize internal interference. In both cases there is only one thing to do. The free countries must look them dead in the eye, stamp on their corns and tell them to go/to hell Otherwise they will run us ragged, apologizing, explaming. curtailing our rights until we shall be no better off than they.

Mr. Pegler

The ‘Hoosier Forum

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

DECLARES ODDS FAVOR LEWIS IN LABOR SPLIT By William Lemon The Supreme Court’s recent surprise decision giving labor the right to organize and bargain collectively, now leaves the battle for union su-

.premacy up to William Green and |

John L. Lewis.

Lewis has the odds in his favor as his C. I. O. takes in the forgotten men, common labor. The. credit for labor’s victory goes to President Roosevelt, whose idea is to eliminate industrial slavery. The Supreme Court, for the present, saw fit to be “yes men,” and will play ball until the smoke clears away. Local unions should elect officers who are not radicals for strikes are costly and lose them public sympathy. Sit-down strikes seem to be effective, but arbitration is more economical. We had four years of sitting down under a previous administration. Probably that's where we contracted the sit-down habit. Capital and labor are essential to

each other's. existence and if we are.

to return to prosperity, arbitration must solve the problem.

#2 = CRITICIZES TIMES SINCE ELECTION

By Hiram Lackey If The Times wishes to see how badly it has gotten out of step with the common people since the election, let it study its attitude toward relief, sit-down strikes and the Court proposal. How can we continue to recommend The Times as we did during the campaign? In Indianapolis there is a market for a newspaper that champions the cause of labor and the poor. Telling the truth is a good business venture. Scripps-Howard proved that long ago. But if Scripps-How-ard continues to fail us, another champion will appear. Will The Times please consider how the prestige and circulation of the Daily Worker has increased since the election? .

” ” % TERMS SURPLUS TAX ROOSEVELT WEARNESS By R. F. Paine

At the United States Chamber of Commerce convention the little business men join the big ones in demanding modification of the undistributed profits tax law. Little doubt remains that this law, as it stands, is a decided weakness of Roosevelt's policy. In fact, the Treasury itself confesses that the yield from the - tax is very disappointing. To put more of business profits in the hands. of stockholders is a part of Roosevelt’s process in arriving at a more equitable = distribution of wealth in the country. To deprive corporation directors and managers of the outrageous konuses to which they have been helping themselves is to aid stockholders. There is no business—and all of

General Hugh Johnson Says—

us are in business, indirectly at least —that should not have safety reserves, as insurance against hard times, fire losses and other calamities, and particularly for extension and progress. In this era of speed, wonderful machinery and dangerous depletion of good soil by flood, drouth and erosion, there is always a tide in the affairs of business that threatens failure. The concern or the individual that stagnates “peters. out,” and law that diverts funds that would otherwise go into growth means stagnation to national progress. Great is Roosevelt in his just, humane, wise endeavour to more equitably distribute the rewards for toil, I am one of his devoted admirers who hopes to see him modify this stagnating, unsafe profits tax and abandon his plan to pack, or unpack, or reform the Supreme Court by acts of Congress.

? 2 8 » GEN. JOHNSON TAKEN TO TASK BY READER By Frances E. Beck, New York City

A columnist like Hugh Johnson has an unfair advantage over the newspaper reader who may have facts and experience to challenge misstatements, but who has not the professional privilege of appearing in all of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Gen. Johnson scoffed at the purpose and the results of a first of a series of labor-employer public conferences held in the offices of the Department of Labor and having as its aim peace and better understanding in industry. It is, of course, Mr. Johnson's free

WOULDN'T YOU?

By ANNA E. YOUNG If I were “a child again I would wade more sand along the beach; I would catch more bird notes everywhere And grasp more beauty within my reach.

I would roam each field and mea- ~ dowland And chase more rabbits to their lair; I would see all changes Nature makes And catch more fragrance everywhere.

I would not sit and idly dream Of when I'm grown and what I'll

do. I would only be a child and live More fully. Wouldn't you?

DAILY THOUGHT

Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.— - Isaiah 42:1.

E become willing servants to the good by the bonds their

virtues lay upon us.—Sir P. Sidney.

speech privilege to ridicule anything he wants. But as a columnist who did not attend that conference in Washington and who shared no responsibility for the courage of it, nor its difficulties, it comes with poor grace that he should be so omniscient about it. These comments coming regularly from columnists are getting just a bit overdone when they pass judgment over a wide range of men and public affairs with which they have slight experience and no responsibility. Mr. Johnson belittles Secretary Perkins’ summary to the press because she said, *. . . there was a complete meeting of minds on the proposition that contracts are sacred and binding, and both sides agreed to recommend to their respective principles should so regard them.” Well, Mr. Johnson, are you going to deny that many a grave labor disturbance has hung‘on just exactly that pount? I can quote you a dozen of them. He .then proceeds to ridicule the first woman who has ever sat as a member of any President's Cabinet by referring to her as “Muddum Secretary.” But I have heard ex-

perienced labor men speak of her |

with deep respect. There is a story that she was too much for him in his day as chieftain of the NRA. Is it something he can’t forget or forgive? And Miss Perkins hasn’t the “foggiest notion of ‘what the labor in-

dustrial problem is and refuses to.

find out,” says the General. Perhaps an ex-army officer has been in a position to learn more. When the General was snapping orders to buck privates, Frances Perkins was serving constructive labor relations.

” = = THINKS NATION HUNGERS FOR SANE LEADERSHIP By John W. I have been a life-long Republican. The Grand Old Party in its day served the country well, but overtaken by its many infirmities, it is dead. The 17,000,000 devoted Americans who could not be bribed to remain away from the obsequies still should | have a common purposée—to help save for us all the heritage of our forefathers, which the egocentric leadership of the majority seems bent upon destroying. "The nation (except that considerable part of it with its nose in the trough) is fed up. with nonchalant smile and specious promise. It hungers for sane guidance. | Indiana points to her man of the hour—a marr of the people, for saneygovernment by the people, and with both feet on the ground. For myself, I hope to have the opportunity in the next presidential election to cast a vote for Senator Frederick VanNuys or a like-minded

genuine constitutional, states’ rights Democrat.

Sluss

It Seems to Frog

‘By Heywood Broun

Columnist Was Listening to Radio, But Talk of Cooking and Plumbers Drowned Out Results of Derby

TAMFORD, Coyn., May 12.—Note to Edis tor:—Will you please send me by pony. express or carrier pigeon the result of tie Kentucky Derby. 1 attended a mint julep party on Briar Brae Road where we weie

going to get the race by radio. The recess ing set was all right, and so was the voice of Clem McCarthy. Nor have I anything against the mint Juleps, since I have come to be a beer, light wines and tomato: juice boy. They tell me a tomato juice cocktail tastes: just as good as any old-fashioned-after the first few months. All I can say is-that if is going to have: to make a fast run in the stretch. { It is true that my interest in America’s greatest racing ¢lassio: became a little academic before: the radio was turned on. kK We all put in a dollar and had a hat pool. I. drew a horse named:

Bernard F.

Clem McCarthy wasn’t so verygood at the beginning of the broadcast when I/could catch a word here and there. He started by saying that from: where he stocd he could distinctly see the back ofGene Tunney’s. neck. As McCarthy started to give the current mutuelprices the lovely.lady to my right began an animated: discussion of cookery. “War Admiral is held at -—".said McCarthy. But at that point the lovely lady drowned him out. explaining. “Why, no, my dear, I don't ‘do -it that way at all. I let it soak in brine.and port wine over night, and then I strain it through a collander and: let it fry until the outside is crisp. and crisp.” : i: E-3 2 ”

# ¥ may get a start almost any minute,” McCarthy.

Mr. Broun

said’

But the little trick to my left:

wanted us all to hear her method with a steak. It

seems she begins by thumping the breath out of it, and then coats the relic with rock salt. Fortunately -. Connie, who is not usually tonguetied, took no interest in this discussion. She has reduced the culinary: art to a formula. You take a large chunk of garlic and broil it for two hours, and then you baste it with a piece of meat or dry bread or whatever happens to be.. in the ice box. “Bernard F.®as just stepped through the barrier,” said Clem McCarthy, and I rather imagine that was -

the last eall my horse got during the afternoon, al-:=

though TI wouldn't be certain, since the lively debate: among the Derby fans immediately swung to another: domestic art.

“1 always" knit two and then pearl a couple,” re«

marked the little trick with great vehemence. ” = H

HEY'RE off,” “carpe the shout from Churchill*

Downs.

“Do any of you girls know where I could get a":

good plumber?” inquired Connie dreamily. The polling for a favorite among the local plumb=ers carried us all the way around the first turn into the back stretch. < And yet in spite of the balloting I distinctly caught - a dim echo of the roar of a racing crowd and very :

faintly the names of several horses, none of which - was Bernard F. Above the roar of the thousands.

rose the voice of Clem McCarthy to announce the : ‘winner, but it did not rise above that of the lovely - lady who inquired, “Mr. Broun, do you know a good vet to worm a dog eight weeks old?” I wish I did. I'd walk Bernard F. around the first thing SS yoy

The Washington Merry- Go- Round

I mean good:

Government Just Has Bought 9,100,000 Acres of Submarginal Land; Eckener Planned to Use Helium in Hindenburg, Writers Declare

Toward Duke Better for It

There Is Something Sad and Cruel in British Attitude

of President Roosevelt, which had been made hy Cuba and Of Windsor, but People May Remember Him All the

other governments, groups and individuals.

One of the elements of Cordell Hull's greatness is modesty. Another is loyalty. Here he has displayed both. He may have eliminated himself as a candidate for the Nobel peace prize, but not as a candidate for his country’ s gratitude. And if, as he hopes, the Nobel prize is awarded to his chief, that honor will be shared in a very real sense by the self-effacing statesman from Tennessee who has worked . so tirelessly and so effectively to substitute friendly trade among nations for the selfish rivalries that lead to war.

GLAMOUR, PFD. ITH strip-teasing headed toward a high place in art, it was with alarm that we read the opening words in the gpeech of Alice Hughes, New York style columnist. Fashions are slipping, she said. Patterns are giving way to pulchritude in the interest of woman's page readers. Glamour, she added, is acquired by ‘a mixture of: cosmetics, - clothes and confidence.” We are relieved. Hearing much of Gypsy Rose Lee, et al, whose glamour seems to depend mainly on cosmetics and plenty of confidence, we are glad to know that clothes still have some share in the recipe.

ASHINGTON, May 12.—Somebody sent me from England an “official” program or prospectus, or. whatever you call it, of the coronation. It is a thick and handsome pamphlet with many group photographs of the royal family from the childhood of the King to date. They must have ransacked the morgue to gét so many taken when Dave Windsor was somewhere else. His picture is nowhere in the book. Up to two years ago the darling of the British Empire, he is now the principal pain in the British neck. Why? human instead of a waxworks clothes-horse to hang an erminevYkimona and a metal hat on with as many rites and incantations as a voodoo funeral. The British monarchy is a fetish. The King is a puppet and while neither the King nor his brother probably could make a living even in the Garden of Eden, George is a whole lot better puppet than Dave. He has exactly what it takes. " ” ” F course, it is a superpageant. No one can escape a keen interest in the reperformance of a ritual of one thousand years standing. “But the abdication of Dave Windsor, forced by old Iron-Hat Baldwin because he did show faint stirrings of life, in order that the giddy garments could be hung on George because it was absolutely certain that he never would —that makes the whole thing so stupendously ab-

Because he acted like something halfway.

surd ‘that, if it ‘were not stupendous, away with it at all. There is something both sad and cruel in the British attitude toward wistful little David. He seems to be scarcely so much as mentioned in the London press and if he is noticed it is with a dead cat. What he did was asinine and moronish beyond belief. But, after all, he did abdicate. ” ” ” : E could easily have slipped over a fast one—gone

ahead to be crowned with no expression of his intention at all and then, if he hadn't cooled off by that time, married the girl and thumbed his nose

they couldn't get

at old Sour-Puss Stanley and the Archbishops of Can<

terbury and York. He could have staged a stubborn fight and split the kingdom from stem to gudgeon. He walked out frankly and willingly. His charm had been an asset to the Empire for many years—a kind of asset which his successor-brother can never be. Yet it seems to be studied British policy to smear Edward on some stolid British idea that somehow this will put a gloss on George. It will take a lot more than that to make a shining figure out of the new King. Dave is done but it is just possible that this persecution by silence or dirty digs, if overdone, instead of wiping his face from the memory and loyalty of the people of England, may impress it there more deeply than ever,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, May 12—The transaction has escaped notice, but the New Deal has just completed the biggest land buy since Thomas Jefferson put through the historic Louisiana Purchase. An area as large as the States of Maryland and Connecticut combined quietly Hos been added to the public domain. The vast addition covers 210i ,000 acres of submarginal land, mostly in the Great Plains region. Of the total area, the Government already has assumed possession of 4,000,000 acres and legal formalities shortly will be completed for taking over the remaining 5,100,000. |” ” ” UGE as the purchase is, it is only a fraction of the land that Government experts say should be bought and retired from cultivation. They estimate that there are 100,000,000 acres of farm land in use on which it is not possible to raise profitable crops. The farm tenancy bill pending in Congress contains a $75,000,000 item for additional farm-land retirement purchases. But the economy wave is likely to trim this figure considerably. . The new public domain will be converted into national parks, forests, wild life refuges, grazing reserves and recreational areas. Occupants of the land will be moved to other sections by the Resettlement Adminis-

tration.

Na: experts and diplomats, familar with the: negotiations by which the Hindenburg was given = U. 8. landing privileges on its trans-Atlantic trips, - attribute its tragic ending to Nazi economy and a row between Dr. Hugo Eckener and Hitler. = The giayt airship originally ‘was constructed to use helium, hydrogen. All of Dr. Eckener’s plans were based, opf this. When he was in Washington last year he had assurances that the United States Government would let him buy American helium, which is produced :

Export of helium is strictly controlled by the Gove : ernment for national defense. But its use in the + Hindenburg on a transoceanic mail and passenger - route was not considered prejudicial to the national : defense, and Eckener was assured he ‘could buy the ; precious gas.

The cost, however, is $75 to $100 per 1000 cubic feet, =

or upward of $25,000 to inflate the Hindenburg. At © 3 this the Nazi Government balked. This may Er official denial now, but fact is that Germany is cuter

ting down on imports of all foreign commodities, foes I a strict embargo on the export of gold or foreign cure

rency, and purchase of the helium would have been a : big item in the Reich exchequer.

So it was barred. =

Dr. Eckener went home, rowed with the Nazi offi - -

cials, and has been on the sidelines since. It is sig= = nificant that he was in Austria’ lecturing when his -

prize ship blew up.