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FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1037

‘UM’ [i SPERANTO, which was intended to become the universal language, is 50 years old, and American Esperantists are celebrating the anniversary in Washington. [he language is still quite a long way from being universal. [he movement has only 6243 members in 57 countries. But the Washington meeting discloses there's one word, registered and copyrighted by Esperanto, that’s a

regular honey. That word is “um.” It means—well, any-

thing, or nothing, or yes or no, or whatever the speaker who |

uses it intends it to mean. For instance, an Esperantist gentleman says to an Esperantist lady, “Mi umas vin.” lhat’'s “1 love you, maybe, and perhaps my intentions are serious, and on the other hand perhaps they're not; so you can believe what you please, with the understanding that this affair isn’t going to involve me in any breach-of-prom-ise suit.” What a word! We need that word. Just think how useful it could be. “Mr. President, do you want a third term?” “Um.” “Senator Straddler, how do you stand on the Supreme Court plan?” “Um.” “Governor, where do you stand on the merit system vs. spoils?” “Um.” “Mr. Mayor, what are you going to do about the shameful record of Indianapolis traffic deaths?” “Um.” “My dear, the boys have asked me to sit in on a little poker game this evening. Do you think I should go?” "Um. “Darling, 1 saw the loveliest little dress in the shop today—only 895. Wouldn't you like me to have it?” “Um! Um! Um!” Yes, we certainly need that word. Please, Esperantists, release that copyright.

DANGEROUS WEEK-END

ITH Independence Day falling on Sunday this year, resulting in a three-day observance for many persons, the traditional hazards of the occasion are increased. The nation’s traffic deaths numbered 14,270 in the first five months of 1937, an increase of 17 per cent over the same period last year. The Fourth of July is notoriously a time for fatal accidents on the highways and at swimming resorts. There is more need than ever for caution this year.

EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE

OR months we have been reading dispatches from Europe about little wars raging and big wars threatening—and patting ourselves on the back for our good fortune in residing on this side of the Atlantic. Now from far away River Amur, deep in Asia, comes news to remind us again that we are also quite lucky to have our domicile on this side of the Pacific. A Japanese-Manchukuan river cutter and some Russian gunboats patrolling that boundary stream got too close to each other, and somebody started shooting. And because of that skirmish, within a few hours the foreign offices at Moscow and Tokyo had started exchanging peremptory notes, Soviet and Japanese military commanders had begun mobilizing their forces, and the warlords of Europe had commenced calculating what effects a RussianJapanese conflict might have on their alignments. This poor, diseased world of ours! How the virus spreads from a pinpoint infection! Few people in the United States ever heard of the Amur River, just as few Americans in 1914 had ever heard of Sarajevo. We hope that in the 23 years ahead American students will not have as much occasion to consult their encyclopedias about the Amur as they have had in the last 23 years in learning about Sarajevo.

THE TIME, THE PLACE, THE CHARMER

HE male Democrats of Congress—minus a few intractables—having gone, seen and concurred with their party leader under the mulberry tree at Jefferson Island. we were just wondering why the Republicans don’t work 1p an al fresco stunt like that.

It is high time they were staging some kind of rally. [heir leaders in Congress have been loafing around and letting the anti-New Deal Democrats do all their work for them.

As for the place, two sanctuaries suggest themselves— the Green Mountains of Vermont and the rock-bound coast nf Maine.

And we were just trying to think of somebody they could invite to sit under a pine or a spreading chestnut tree and turn on the charm, when Arthur M., Hyde, former Secretary of Agriculture, came through with the answer. Herbert Hoover! Yes, who but Hoover for an under-the-tree sitter? An echo answers “Who?” (Or was that a hoot?)

CHARLES REMSTER

HARLES REMSTER gained prominence in Indiana when, as judge of the Marion Circuit Court in 1910, he decided the Marshall Constitution case against the State Board of Election Commissioners. His ruling that a new Constitution would not be submitted by legislative enactment was upheld by the State and U. S. Supreme Courts. But friends and associates will remember him more for his personal attributes, his distinguished service on the bench, his leadership in the Democratic Party, and for his long career as a lawyer which ended yesterday when he died at the age of 75. A wide circle of friends will mourn his passing. 3

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By Raymond Clapper

Demand of Knudsen for Guarantee | Against Wildcat Strikes Declared | Reflection on Leadership of Union. |

VV ASHINGTON, July 2.—It is a serious reflection upon the management of the current labor organization drive when William Knudsen, General Motors president, announces his refusal to renew negotiations until officials of the United Automobile Workers give effective assurance against wildcat strikes with definite penalties for instigators. This is not Girdler or Ford talking. Knudsen

is not a labor baiter. He has not, like Girdler, refused to enter the same room with John Lewis. On the contrary they got on swell together during the negotiations last winter which ended the Gen-

eral Motors strike and led to the present agreement. In fact, it is understood that Knudsen was in favor of dealing with the union from the outset. He figured that the sensible thing

labor and reach an agreement so that the corporation could get back to the business of making He was not interested in trying to smash the union. He though it might be better to have responsible employee organization. Others in his concern wanted a finish fight, hoping to kill off the union threat. They lost and the company in the end had to follow the course which Knudsen favored.

Mr. Clapper

2 o ” ABOR would seem to have the most urgent reasons for making Knudsen satisfied with his bargain, considering the other troubles it is up against. Here was an opportunity for labor to demonstrate to other employers that collective bargaining was a smart thing —from the management side as well as labor's. Labor ought to want Knudsen to be a satisfied customer, that his experience might encourage others to follow his policy, I talked with Knudsen in Detroit a few weeks after he reached an agreement with the United Automobile Workers. I asked him how it was working out. He said it was working out very well. There had been some 19 unauthorized sit-downs up to that time, but he said that was to be expected. The union was new and some allowances had to be made until discipline had been developed. Whenever the company found a wildcat sit-down, it telephoned the union officials and they promptly did the best they could to break it up and put the men back to work. That was all that Knudsen asked. = = ” UT four months have gone by. In that time more than 200 wildcat strikes have been pulled in 48 different General Motors plants. Still Knudsen does not denounce the union, as Girdler did, as an irresponsible band of terroristic Communists. He merely asks that the union officials take more positive action in the way of discipline, to enforce Clause 5 of the existing collective-bargaining agreement which he

signed with U, A. W. last winter. This clause reads: “Should any differences arise over grievances there shall be no suspension or stoppages of work until every effort has been exhausted to adjust them through the regular grievance procedure, and in no case without the approval of the international officers of the union.” How can labor expect a more reasonable attitude than that? How can it expect to retain public sympathy if, in a case like this where the employer shows every evidence of trying to make collective bargaining work, labor is unable to carry out its end of the bargain more effectively? Is the U. A. W. trying to prove Girdler’s case for him?

The Hoosier Forum

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

FATHER SAYS BIKE TAX WOULD BURDEN PARENTS

| By Father of Three Boys

What has this city administration come to? Charging the young boys and girls $1.25 for license fees for their bicycles. I agree with Mr. Kealing about it being unfair to tax persons under 18 years. The parents will have to pay the fee. I have three boys under 18 and I will have to pay $3.75. I have to pay all kinds of taxes now as it is, even State taxes on what I earn to try to keep my [amily from starving. The way it is now, I don't blame all these men for working on the WPA. They don't have to worry about paying eny taxes. If the politicians need more money why don't they collect taxes on all of these marble machines and

| slot machines that are scattered | throughout Indiana, and on tliese | so-called pools that are run in the i city? | everywhere. | the first to holler on gambling and

Gambling is in evidence The higher-ups are about the last to do about it.

something

If the bicycle fee goes through, |

what protection will the boys and girls have? Will they have a regular bicycle lane where they can ride without fear of getting run over by some drunken driver that our police let roam the streets? Taxes! tration thinks of. When they do get a chance to convict someone that is guilty of a gambling racket, they don’t do it. Why make the younger generation pay taxes? They will have to pay them soon enough. ‘Why put that burden on their parents? censing them won't do anything more than put more money into the hands of the tax-spenders.

84 # VIEWS SPANISH CONFLICT AS INTERNATIONAL WAR

By Agapito Rey, Bloomington

The Spanish conflict was never a civil war. It began as a military revolt a year ago and it soon developed into an international war. The Rebel generals, unable to win popular support for their dictatorial aspirations, betrayed their country to Italy and Germany. For a good many months now Fascist and Nazi forces have been fighting openly in Spain trying to suppress the people and to hand over the country to traitor Franco, who will give them military and naval bases in Spain to be used against England and France, and who will allow them to village Spain’s mineral resources. Gerinan air forces and Italian infantry have taken Bilbao for the Rebels. Now we are to expect mass executions as have taken place in Badgjoz, Toiedo and Malaga.

‘War of Extermination’

The brutal shelling of the Spanish Port of Almeria by the German navy shows conclusively that Germany is waging a war of extermination against the Spanish people. This shelling was in retaliation for the bombing of the Deutschland by Government planes. This Nazi warship had been on Spanish waters

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(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.)

for several the Rebels. In August of last year the Deutschland helped Franco ferry his Moors and foreign legions across the Strait of Gibraltar. Then when | the farcical international blockade | was established, this warship was | assigned to patrol the Valencian coast. These official duties gave the German and Italian fleets a command of the Spanish Mediterranean coast. These fleets have been used to sighal the Rebel ships the position of merchantmen and | lo help in their sinking.

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The Spanish Government has on | several occasions presented unques-

|and German fleets were sinking merchantmen, shelling coastal towns, and committing other acts | of war, but the League is powerless | to do anything. The white book issued by the Spanish Government at Geneva a few weeks 320 shows to what magnitude Italy is waging war on Spain. Eighty thousand fully equipped Fascist soldiers have been landed in Spain. The Italian papers publish even now the official list of their nationals who die fighting for Fascist glory in Spain. The Deutschland was in the Rebel-held port of Ibiza in the Balearic Islands. Since these islands were assigned to Franco to patrol, it is clear that the German warships had no excuse for calling there, unless they went there

SOUTHERN INDIANA JOYS

By ROBERT O. LEVELL Peaceful moments, Oh! how grand, Fascinating to the soul; Amid the trees of woodland Where the earthly scenes unfold.

A fragrance amid them all So high in the soothing air; By a rocky waterfall Extending a welcome there.

So cool and fresh and clear With a fond inviting way; When the birds sing out with cheer And you're free from care of day.

In a joyful quietude The glad hearts enjoy so well; When we're in the happy mood For the scenes where nature dwell.

DAILY THOUGHT

And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.—Exodus 9:34.

EW love to hear the sins they love to act.—Shakespeare.

to defend the island ports from Government attacks. According to all reports the Deutschland fired on the airplanes before it was bombed.

Islands Become Bases

The Balearic Islands were taken by Italian forces early in the war and have since become air and naval bases from which raids are carried against Barcelona, Valencia and other coast towns. These raids have been carried an by the Italian air and navai forces. The acts of aggression committed by Italy and Germany against Spain are too numerous and too well knowin to require enumeration here. The world democracies are too supine to bother over injustices. In this country we still consider the Spanish conflict as a civil war. In this manner both Italy and Germany may buy materials from us to to use in Spain. on o ” TAKES OFFICIALS TO TASK FOR PROPOSING ‘TOY’ TAX By Disgusted

I am a novice at writing this sort

| of thing, but just can’t refrain from tionable proof before the League of |

Nations showing that the Italian |

expressing my utter disgust with the city administration for taxing bicycles. A boy's bicycle is nothing but a toy which gives a child good healthful out-of-door exercise, and if toy taxing becomes necessary to give a big, healthy looking police officer an increase in pay, he will probably be ashamed to accept it, if he is half the he-man his appearance would suggest. Beware, police and firemen, You might have a son of 2 or 3 years who is the fond owner of a kiddie car, and our alert city fathers will never overlook a good bet like that. I have often heard the expression “Taking candy from a baby,” but it took this city administration to make it a reality. With all the additional revenue and Government aid, plus underpaid city employees, I, as a lifelong Democrat can't see the necessity of it. ” ” ” ELIMINATE CAUSE OF STRIKES, PLEA By Arthur G. Gresham

No one, I believe, approves of mob rule or confiscation of property. [ do not think that when any certain group of working men or women go on a strike, they intend te or even anticipate a resort to mob rule. The fact is very evident that the standard of wages has been raised by organized labor, and the only means available for organized labor to protest injustices to the working man is the strike. To say these injustices do not exist is to prevaricate. When a manufacturing company can donate $600,000 to a library or some other philanthropy, some working men and women have been deprived of a just wage. Accumulated wealth is accumulated efforts of labor, and labor is justly entitled to a fair share. When capital or the employers understand this and show a sincere desire to be fair with labor, then there will be no strike. A strike is an expression of unrest and dissatisfaction. Eliminate the cause and you cure the evil,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Bush League Tactics to Be Used By Senators Fighting Court Bill, Says Broun, Who Dubs a Few Teams.

TAMFORD, Conn,, July 2.—A number of Senators have opposed legislation concerning the Supreme Court on the ground that such action would impair the orderly processes of Government as established by a

democratic constitution. This same bloc has now announced its intentions of resorting to ende less discussion in order to prevent any vote being taken. By this process orderly democratic govern ment is to be preserved. Senator Burke (D. Neb.) a pase sionate devotee of balanced power, announces his bloc will be ore ganized into teams, each team heing responsible for holding the floor for an entire day. The other units in the league will go fishing while this program of education continues. Naturally each team must have a name. Senator Burke's own club might quite prop« erly be called the Dodgers. And I imagine there will be a scramble as to which little group may have the right to dub itself the Pirates. There might also be the Gnats, the Bees and the Used-to-Bees. Or possibly a name could be taken from one of the lesser circuits, and I think that Burton K. Wheeler might well be captain of the Mud Hens. At any rate, it is possible that big league practices will not be followed throughout, for I have heard it said that no deadline will be imposed upon trades within the circuit.

Mr. Broun

o ” ” ENATOR VANDENBERG (R. Mich.) has allowed it to be known that he himself is ready with a preparad speech which will take 16 hours to deliver. “It will be,” he adds, “an outline of what I have to say later.” I fear that the gentleman from Michigan has delusions of grandeur and has begun to imagine that he is Carl Hubbell. Although he throws as good a screwball as anybody in the Senate, I doubt decidedly that he can stay in the box for 16 innings. Senator Vandenberg is effective only against righte handed hitters. Sooner or later somebody who bats from the left side of the plate is going to nail one of the Michigander’s curves. In other words, I think Vandenberg will be driven out of the box and forced to take the long walk to the showers, Leaving the Senate to its own juices for the moment, I wish to remark, much more in sorrow than in anger, that Sinclair Lewis might well be one of the major prophets of America if it were not for a fatal weakness. He does not recognize his own prophecies when they begin to loom up over the horizon, He is not a wise enough author to know his own dream children. He can turn fiction into fact, but when he is confronted by actual facts his comments are wholly fictional. ” ” ” ECENT developments in Senator Vandenberg’s Michigan are almost uncannily along the lines set forth in “It Can't Happen Here.” Ray Daniell of The Times, reports a movement on foot to crush labor. One of the leaders of the vigilante movement told Mr, Daniell that there would be a march on Washington of interested groups to force Congress to repeal the Wagner act. The gentleman said that this army would not try to depose President Roosevelt or set up a dice tatorship, but admitted that when the time came for the putsch he and his allies would be under military leadership. This, of course, is fascism up to the hilt, but Sin« clair Lewis, who predicted such an event, is mumbling now about the evils of trades unionism.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Talk About Successor to Roosevelt Pure Nonsense at This Time, When New Deal Architects Are Drafting a Government on Third-Term Lines.

ULSA, Okla. July 2.—It is grade-A nonsense to

be talking about heirs-apparent to the Great White Throne at this stage of the game. What a sucker the President would be to trot out a successor now! It would weaken his own leadership, split his following into factions, and put his fairhaired favorite in the position of the circus lady at whom the man throws knives and hatchets—except that the political cutlery wouldn't miss. That same rule goes about a third term. In spite of all that has been printed about Mr. Roosevelt having said he will not run again, a close inspection of what he has said reveals no such promise or even implication. - s =

Tre American formula for killing a Presidential boom was written clear in our history by Gen. Sherman—"If nominated I will not accept, if elected I will not serve.” There stands the precedent. Anything less absolute will always carry the hint of a desire to be drafted for the supreme sacrifice—like

Calvin Coolidge’s, “I do not choose to run.” _ Mr. Roosevelt hasn't gone even one-tenth so far as Cai and he isn’t within shouting distance of Gen. Here, also, what a sucker he would be to adopt Sherman's forthright refusal! Any such morsel

of raw horse meat thrown into a royal Bengal tigers.

Apart from what he has not said, does Mr. Roose-

cage of ravenous

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Long TVA Feud at Last Squelched by Roosevelt's Shakeup of Board; Robinson Has Received No Hint of Supreme Court Appointment,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, July 2.—It was done very quietly, but the long-raging under-cover dissension be-

dropped in the pit of the present strained Democratic harmony would have the same effect on it as a haunch

velt ever dream of a third term? Does a dog ever dream of chasing a rabbit? Mr. Roosevelt is doubtless like any other man vaccinated with the Presidential virus—whether it takes or not, it is perpetual. » = = HE architects of the Third New Deal, whoever they are, are building a form of government that argues for a third term and against any heir-appar-ent. Unlike Lincoln, Cleveland and Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt has sought not the best tools but the most subservient ones and then supplied what they lacked of energy and talent by being himself, like Mussolini, minister of everything. This tendency has been intensified by the reorganization proposals for the executive and judiciary. The executive is to become more than ever the sole moving force of government and his real effective lieutenants are to be the “six synthesists”—a brain trust of such small public stature as to be so selfless that the President himself has said that the names of two candidates are John Doe and Richard Roe. You can’t imagine the intricate power grid of the executive and judicial reorganization plans in full ration without imagining another thing—Franklin and nobody else, at the switchboard.

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tween TVA Chairman tArthur E. Morgan and his two fellow commissioners has been squelched by President Roosevelt. At his direct instigation, an administrative

shakeup has taken place that has stripped Mr. Morgan of most of his power and in effect relegated him to the role of a minority member of the board. Mr. Morgan and his colleagues have been scrapping bitterly for several years. He favors a conciliatory attitude toward private power interests. The other two commissioners advocate vigorous competition. David Lilienthal’s reappointment intensified the feud and for months the President tried to find a way to end it. A plan was finally evolved and at the prompting of the President put into effect. Under it Mr. Morgan continues to hold the title of chairman, but relinquishes his executive duties as chief engineer. The other two members also give up their individual executive spheres. This three-cornered administrative control is replaced with a one-man rule in the person of Executive Officer J. B. Blandford, former safety director of Cincinnati. The board is now solely a policy-making body. It makes decisions and Blandford executes them, thus removing a chief source of friction. | White House insiders predict that * Mf. Morgan shortly will be offered,a new post by the President,

IRMAIL history will sagon be made by the. United States and Canada with the opening of a route linking Washington and Ottawa, the capitals of the two countries. An agreement on the new line has been reached after two years of negotiating. The United States route will be via Harrisburg, Pa., and Buffalo, N. Y.; the Canadian via Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. In addition to joining the two capitals, the new line will also serve as a feeder to the forthcoming: trans-Atlantic airmail and passenger service, :

” o ” HE President has said nothing to Senator Robe inson (D. Ark.) about appointing him to the vacancy on the Supreme Court, : They have conferred frequently since Justice Van Devanter retired and have discussed many matters, including the judicial reorganization bill, but the President has never, either directly or by inference, given Senator Robinson any inkling of whether he is considering him for the Supreme Court post. - Other Senate leaders, among them Pat Harri: son, Alben Barkley and Jimmy Byrnes, have talked to: Roosevelt about the subject and warmly urged Joe's: selection. They are confident ne will get the prize: and have told him so. LT Senator Robinson wants the job very much. The’ big obstacle in his path is the fact that he will be 65 on Aug. 26. This is five years over the maximum age: limit announced by the President for his appointe:

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