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SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1937

FOR A SAFER JULY 4TH IREWORKS no longer are the chief cause of Independence Day fatalities because of the energetic campaign for a “safe and sane Fourth.” Auto accidents and drownings lead the list of accidents that mar the nation’s birthday celebration. But the tragedy of children burned and mutilated by dangerous fireworks still is with us. And because the City Council refused to pass an antifireworks ordinance, thousands of Indianapolis children will be exposed to the same hazards that last July 4 injured dozens of persons here, in-

cluding some with serious eye injuries, and sent the Fire |

Department on more than 50 runs.

“There are now in American schools for the blind near- |

ly 500 children who lost their sight in accidents, chiefly through use of fireworks and air rifles,” says Director Lewis H. Carris of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. “Each year nearly a thousand children suffer accidental eye injuries, and a number become totally blind. An extraordinary proportion of these accidents occur on the Fourth of July and during the few days preceding and following.” Until the City Council restricts fireworks to supervised public displays, parents and others must do what they can by individual precautions to protect children from blindness, disfigurement or death.

STOCK FRAUD CONVICTIONS ESTIMONY in the stock fraud case which yesterday resulted in five convictions disclosed wholesale “bucketshop” operations in Indiana by which innocent investors were duped. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, describing the organization’s activities as “the greatest fraud scheme that ever has come up in this court,” said there was no evidence that any investors ever got anything for their money. Three associates of Clarence J. Morley, former Colorado Governor, were given sentences ranging from one to five years.

Morley, whose name and former official title were used |

to lend respectability to the venture, and one other defendant are to be sentenced July 13. Favorite technique of the organization was to use “telephone salesmen” expert in the art of high-pressuring orders out of gullible individuals. Unsuspecting persons should be on guard against this type of solicitation, because fear of Federal prosecution for using

the mails to defraud causes many racketeers to use the |

telephone method. Val Nolan, United States District Attorney, summarized the hope of law-abiding citizens when he made this pledge during his final argument in the case: “We're going to make it as safe to sell securities in Indiana as it is to sell groceries.”

THE ALLISONS OSE and Roland Allison, a young couple living on Verona Island, Maine, are determined not to go on relief. They put in 12 hours a day in the forest at the only work available on Verona Island, chopping, sawing and peeling pulpwood. When they get home, usually after dark, Mrs. Allison cooks a meal for her family, clears the kitchen, then spends several hours knitting baby shoes to sell. Even so, their income is so small that a movie is an almost unknown extravagance, and they never play cards “because that would waste useful time.” Do the Allisons prove that other Americans do go on relief simply because they aren't determined enough to find some sort of work and to stick at it enough hours a day to make a living? Or is it wrong that any Americans should have to pay for independence the price of such unremitting hard labor? If you can answer those questions, without hesitation or doubt, your social and economic philosophy is 1 good deal more sharply defined than ours,

WE'RE STILL FOR HIM

HAT cubby little god with bow and arrow has been |

shooting pretty wild of late.

There was the case of Edward of England, who lost | | ered the situation.

his erown. And there's the case of Ensign Charles A.

Nash, who lost his commission in the U, S. Navy the other |

day because he was discovered to have married while he was a midshipman a year ago. Annapolis is as stirred over this “scandal” as London was over the Windsor affair. The Navy, like Stanley Baldwin and the Archbishop, say it’s against the rules. No ensign may wed within two years after graduation from the academy. We ardent fans for wedded love have wept over the ill-fated Windsor-Warfield clash with the gold braids. The plight of young Nash is worse, for he may also lose his bride as well as his ship. But we're not discouraged. Empires and navies may come and go, but love marches on. In fact we seem to remember reading in history that a fair face once launched a whole navy.

A COOLING-OFF TIME Our in Los Angeles not very long ago a trial was going on in the Court of Judge Harry Holzer. It was a particularly ugly affair marked by frequent outbursts of passion from the District Attorney, defense counsel, witnesses. But the judge was very wise, and whenever one of these wrangles broke out he rapped for order, got out his watch and said: “We will now have one minute of silence.” When the minute was up the trial resumed in a changed atmosphere. Passion spent, reason had returned. Everybody had been given a time to cool off. Some procedure like this must be written into our laws governing labor-management relations. We have worked out such a routine under the Railway Labor Act, in which there must be cooling-off periods all along the mediation line, from the beginning of the quarrel clear up to the last step of a Presidential fact-finding board. That's the main reason why there are so few strikes on the railroads.

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Roosevelt Losing His Standing With Reporters, Clapper Says, by Verbal Slaps and Ducking 3d-Term Query.

ASHINGTON, July 3.—Probably no President in our time has had as large a percentage of the newspapers against him as Roosevelt has. Likewise, no President of the five I have seen in action here has had as many Washington reporters in his corner as Roosevelt. In general, they have been more sympathetic toward him than have their editors. At the end of Hoover's four years, relations were

strained between him and the newspaper corps. Many misunder= standings and irritations had produced a general state of mutual antagonism. This has not been true of Roosevelt and the press. Up to now. But several incidents have occurred recently. Several weeks ago, when Roosevelt at a press conference undertook to expound his philosophy of shaping the New Deal toward lifting the consuming power of the lower one-third which he described as ill-fed, ill-clad and illhoused, he began by telling the group of 150 or more newspapermen and women that some of those present would not want to understand what he was about to say, some couldn’t understand it, and a few would understand it. This seemed uncalled for.

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HIS week Roosevelt offered reporters some budget figures which had been prepared for him. He said he had asked that these be prepared after reading newspaper reports on the budget situation, adding that he had observed that no newspaperman understood the difference between dollars and cents. When questioned about his figures, Roosevelt showed not too much familiarity with them. Once he acknowledged that the questions pushed him in over his head, and at another point a reporter corrected the President’s statement with regard to state unemploy-ment-insurance funds.

But the really amazing incident was the way in which Roosevelt dealt this week with questions regarding his third-term intentions, or lack of them. First he was asked if he cared to comment upon the recent statement of Governor Earle of Pennsylvania indorsing the President for a third term. Roosevelt ducked the question, which was from a SecrippsHoward reporter, by saying the weather was hot. Then a New York Times reporter put the direct question: “Mr. President, would you tell us now if you would accept a third term?”

It seemed an entirely legitimate question, con. cerning a subject upon which even a Cabinet official has recently spoken publicly and which is being discussed everywhere. Roosevelt told the questioner to put on a dunce cap and stand in the corner.

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HEN another reporter asked if the President's statement on the subject last winter fully covThat was the passage in the Victory Dinner speech in which the President said he had told some member of Congress it was his “ambition” to go back to Hyde Park at the end of his present term. The reporter who asked about this also was told to put on the dunce cap. If Roosevelt prefers to let the speculation continue, that is his choice. What reporters, this one at least, can’t understand is how the dunce cap gets into it. What are reporters for if not to ask questions about matters of public interest and importance? On the basis of the way the charter members got in, membership in the Order of the Dunce Cap is apt to rate along with the Pulitzer prize.

The Hoosier Forum

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

BLOODSHED AT MILLS IS LAID TOC. I. O. By James R. Meitzler, Attica “Any attempt to open the mill gates will automatically bring terrific violence and bloodshed. In the name of God we urge you to immediately intervene.” So stated a telegram to President Roosevelt signed by the presidents of three C. I. O. lodges in Youngstown. For years workers have been going to and from their jobs in these factories in peace and safety without fear of hurt or death. And now the menace of being brutally attacked on their way to work threatens them. Whence comes this threat? “Two thousand pickets will be on duty in Youngstown,” said John L. Mayo, strike leader and S. W. O. C. director. “There will be so many men down there they won't dare go in. We can bring in outside men, you know.” A peaceful picket as authorized by the picketing law means a patrol of the factory front by a few strikers or their emissaries who may notify inbound workers that a strike is on and attempt to persuade thém by peaceful means to stay out. But not with a club. The picketing law gives no warrant to bar workers out of factories, to blockade streets or railroads, to maim or to kill. Does C. I. O. want Mr. Roosevelt to step in and close the factories by martial law like Governor Earle?

” ” 8 CHANGE IN AMERJCAN RULING CLASS SEEN By an Observer Something of far-reaching importance has happened to American politics in the past decade. Everyone seems to realize this fact but no one seems to understand what has happened. It seems to me that there has been a shift in the ruling class in America. In the past, “will of the

people” meant not the will of the majority but that of the most active part of the people. \ In the past, democracy and freedom have been whatever the active part of our population said they were, and of course that was whatever was to the advantage of the active group. This group was a small minority but was all-power-ful. It controlled the press and named the school books. It besame so powerful that the unorganized could not attack it. Then the depression toppled this rganization. Newspapers, school books, schoolteachers, churches, and so-called patriotic societies pled for the American masses to stereotype the certain rules of the organization, but to no avail. The masses made a second Declaration of Independence. Freedom and democracy, proclaimed the masses, are whatever the majority of American people want them to be; that is Americanism and we will tolerate nothing else being called Americanism, The Constitution and the Su-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Attacks on C. |. O. Demand for Check-off Being Made With Hypocrisy, For System of Collecting from Workers' Pay Was Invented by Employers.

OST of the published squawking against the check-off speaks of exorbitant initiation fees

ULSA, Okla, July 3.—A good deal of breast-beat-ing hypocrisy is being broadcast about John Lewis’ “dictatorial” demand for the check-off. It is condemned as an “instrument of oppression” and “un-

official income tax levied on the poor” and a “club to enforce unionism.” But labor didn’t invent the check-off. Employers did that. It isn’t applied in all industries but it has been used in those most oppressive to labor—and that with no such consent as the labor-dues check-oft requires from the worker. The employers’ check-off is like “deducks” in Southern plantation practice. A doal miner, for ine stance, often is required to live in a company house and buys what he buys at a company store—includ-

ing his powder and fuses for mining work. Some-

times the company checks off for the doctor. All these sales are “on credit,” but every cent of the debt is “checked-off” from his monthly or weekly wages and collected at the pay-table before he gets a cent. That process is even carried so far sometimes as to collect for “outside” credit. What is more natural than that, when join a union, they should ask that their collected monthly and turned over to organization? What is more inconsisten! trary than for a whenever it wants to use it at all in

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preme Court were called in to preserve the old standing, but the masses answered: We are not so concerned with what the Constitution says or what the judges say it says. We are more concerned in what it should say and we will let the majority of the American people determine that. Is there occasion to be alarmed about this turn of events in America? That all depends on where you stand. If you believe in the old idea of ruling there is plenty of occasion for alarm. That has passed irrevocably from the American scene.

® nu...» PASS UP ‘WISE GUYS’ AT INFIRMARY, IS ADVICE

By S. M.

On Sundays, hundreds of autos stop at the dog pound east of town. Men and their wives jump out of their cars to have a visit with the doggies. As they look around, I hear one nice lady say, “I just wonder if those poor doggies have a good place to sleep, a good bed, and plenty to eat.” Then drive six miles west of town to the County Infirmary. There is a law against cruelty to animals, but there seems to be none for the human animals, or at least politics forbids it. When and if you should go out, do not consult one of those wise-looking guys, with white pants on, a bulge at the waist line, cigar in one corner of the mouth, a pan-

quietly into the poor house and have a look, if you can bear to wataoh those decrepit old men. If you ask those wise guys, you

CASUAL EYES

By VIRGINIA KIDWELL

Her eyes are bright and casual, They have no inner light; They never warm with tenderness Nor soften with delight.

They never melt in pity Nor dim with tears of pain; They never widen in amaze Nor narrow in disdain.

Like mirrors flashing in the sun No depth do they reveal; They gleam alike on everyone, They see—but never feel.

DAILY THOUGHT And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed

shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.—Genesis 26:4.

VERY child born into the world is a new thought of God, an

ever-fresh and radiant possibility.— Kate Douglas Wiggin.

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whole vision. They will show you the top crust—oh, how nice it is— but they will never crack the crust. Those old men you see were once their mothers’ pride and joy. The kid in the three-cornered pants, men and women, all alike, get more homely with the advancing of years. Humans are endowed with a thinking and reasoning brain.

All Are Unfortunate

“Survival of the fittest.” The fittest are not in that institution. The five million unemployed that are not on charity are fighting men like our forefathers, individualists bound to be independent. “The poor always ye have with you,” but by all means have a talk with these old men you will find. Some have been up in the middle class. and some have never made their goal, have never gotten to first base. These are the ones that want the $200 Townsend pension but are unfortunate just the same, and nine times out of ten you will get the truth at least.

4's =u LABOR AND CAPITAL NEED SAME OBJECTIVE, VIEW

By H. L. Seeger Labor is organizing to secure wages at. higher levels, while businessmen all are highly intent upon profits. If labor and capital had the same objective—profits—then there would be no conflict of interest between capital and labor. The smart businessmen would do well by themselves if they offered their employees, as such, one-half of the profits they help the company make. Wages would take care of themselves, as profits can only be had after wages are paid. Here capital and labor would pull together. Then there would be the incentive ‘to double production to create profits. n " ” NO-BABY PLEDGE MORE THAN PEACE PUBLICITY

By Pacifist When Leda Arlen, 19 and unmarried, announced in New York the cther day that she had pledged not to have a baby until the last threat of war is banished, she did more than provide a peace league with good publicity. She dramatized, perhaps unwit-

tingly, the futility of having a few legal minds try to settle the problems of the human race by shifting warships and armies on the international chessboard. Miss Arlen’s example stands as a sharp reminder to diplomats and politicians that the family still is the basic unit of civilization, and should be consulted whether the question involves cannon fodder or the price of pork chops. Incidentally, herein is a hint that if women ever decide to organize a fight for “family rights,” they have a mighty telling club to swing as they stroll the picket line.

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By Heywood Broun

Camembert Cheese, in Columnist'sOpinion, Is Bitter Ambrosia Coming Exclusively From Discontented Cow.

TAMFORD, Conn., July 3.—Some of the most startling facts to be found in any newspaper are contained in those short items which are used for fillers. I came across just such a scoop the other day wedged down at

the bottom of a column. The story said simply that the inhabitants of Vimoutier, Normandy, had built a monument to Marie Harel, who invented Camembert cheese in 1791. Only that and nothing more. I would have been interested in a much longer article. Was this the year in which she first served the cheese to a group of startled villagers or merely the time she set it aside to attain a desirable maturity? And what happened at the unveiling? I refer, naturally, to the cheese, and not to the monument.

I suspect that the Camembert could hardly have been popular at first blush. The belated statue seems to suggest that Vimouterians sought in later years to make amends to the descendants of Marie Harel for some original lack of appreciation of this great woman. And, for that matter, it is quite possible that she left no hostages to fortune. For all I know the inventor of Camembert cheese lived the rest of her life alone and died unhonored and unsung. She may even have been blamed for the French Revolution, which was just around the corner,

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" 8 » ND yet I like to think that even at the original trial run there was some old gentleman who spread the stuff on toasted crackers and said, “Not bad, Marie. I think you've hit something.” But I guess the rest muttered and grumbled, and exclaimed rudely, “Let's all go down to Jake's and get a nice mess of escargots. We want to forget.” Moreover, I am curious to know just what cone ception Marie Harel may have had as to the edible extent of Camembert. Did she expect her guests to eat the rind or just the middle portion? Obviously Camembert is a kingdom divided against itself. It is Ireland and Ulster, Maine and. Vermont, the lost provinces, and each one must determine for himself whether to stop at the rind or go beyond. No treaties

exist. Perhaps I exaggerate the fromagenous, fratricidal

condition, but I have known seeming neutrals to grow very violent. I had a friend who no longer dines with me because he said it gave him a slight sinking sensation to watch anyone devour the outer layer. ” ” ” N the beginning, I accepted the rind as an une bidden guest at the feast, a culinary kibitzer. Bus presently this forbidden corrugated delicacy had won a place in my heart for itself. I used to go to a small French table d’hote restaurant where we were served by a waitress who knew rather less French than I do. She always said, “Will you have the ice cream or the canvasback cheese?” No one ever attempted to correet her, for there was general feeling that the analogy to the wild duck was fundamentally sound: A gourmet told me’

once that he never thought of ordering Camembert unless there was a stiff breeze from the southwest, And he much preferred cloudy weather. I think he meant to say that this is not the dish for Pippa or Pollyanna. It is at best a bitter ambrosia, and should come only from discontented cows.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Justice McReynolds Goes Shopping and Demands Cheap Pants at Sale: Senator Reynolds Stanch for New Deal With Election Due Next Year,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen X 7ASHINGTON, July 3.—Washington’s most fash-

and heavy dues checked-off. These are almost exclusive in the old aristocratic craft unions which rarely have the check-off or ask for it. In nearly all new C. I. O. unions there is no initiation fee at all and the dues are usually one dollar per month. Another crack is that the check-off gives Mr. Lewis a constant call on a “vast treasure” with which he can wage his organization campaigns. But by far the bulk of union dues are needed and used by the “local.” Only from 1 per cent to 21% per cent are available for the central organization.

HE most horrendous indictment of Mr. Lewis is that he contributed $500,000 to the Democratic fund. But that wasn’t Mr. Lewis’ money

, authorized Mr. Lewis to contribute, but not workers?

ionable department store had a special sale of men’s trousers the other day. The sale was limited to account customers who were notified of the bargain opportunity by mail y The sale was heavily patronized, swarms of men crowding around the clerks clamoring for their attention. In the midst of one jam a tall, hawk-faced, elderly gentleman suddenly shouted in a stentorian voice: “Here, young man, pay attention! I want a pair of trousers. They must be cheap but of good quality and subdued in color. And mind you, I said they must be cheap.” : The bargain-seeker was Justice McReynolds, 75-year-old bachelor member of the Supreme Court.

ORTH CAROLINA'S Senator Reynolds knows on which side his political bread is buttered. Asked a friend, “Bob, how are you going to vote on the relief bill—with the President or for the Hyrnes amendment requiring cities and states to contribute 40 YY

North Carolina's other Senator, Josiah Bailey, dise played marked New Deal leanings last year when up for election. This session he has fought against eve ery major policy advocated by the President. : 8 ” a T= wife of the Bolivian Minister in Washington . would like to find an international language to prevent the sort of blunder she fell into with the Japanese Minister's wife. Shortly after the Bolivian, Senora Gauchalla, moved into the official residence, Madam Saito came to call. Conversation proved difficult, since Senora Gauchalla speaks Spanish and French, but no English,while Madam Saito speaks Japanese and a little. English, but no French or Spanish. The two sat vis-a-vis in the Bolivian parlor, and’ smiled. Finally, fearing that she was not proving a good hostess, Madam Gauchalla resorted to sign language. She looked out the window and pointed to the Japanese Embassy across the street: “You home,” she said, meaning to comment on the neighborliness of the situation. To the little Japanese lady, there was apparently « only one meaning to the remark and gesture. : Bolivian Minister's wife was telling her to go home, So Madam Saito got up, wrapped her cloak about her,

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