Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1937 — Page 12

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937

NEW SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS HE selection of DeWitt S. Morgan as Superintendent of Schools is a happy one. We believe most citizens will applaud the appointment. As principal of Arsenal Technical High School since 1930, Mr. Morgan has been the school executive for onethird of the city’s high school population, for 15 per cent of the teaching staff and 10 per cent of the entire school population. He has demonstrated ability in the various positions he has filled at Tech during the last 20 years. As an executive, author, teacher and lecturer on school administration, Mr. Morgan has had training and experience tor his heavy new responsibilities. Only 47, he has health and youth for a strenuous task. And he has the benefit of having been a part of the reorganization which his pre-

decessor, the late Paul C. Stetson, effected in grading up |

and setting higher standards for the Indianapolis public |

school system.

The Board of School Commissioners makes this re-

vealing explanation of its choice: “We have attached much importance to the steady and smooth continuation of the present system without substantial renovations and turnovers. The situation has changed greatly since the appointment of Mr. Stetson. A new system was then a necessity. It was inaugurated under his wise leadership. We have steadily advanced. Our greatest need now is for a man who can continue that advance along similar lines, with no major interruptions. We have every confidence Dr. Morgan can and will do this.”

The appointment also is a tribute to the high caliber of executives being developed in our own school system. The Board is to be congratulated upon its choice.

WAGES AND HOURS F the wages-and-hours bill is acted on at this session of Congress it should be given sufficient time for thorough discussion and the futher simplification that should be brought about in order to make the act really effective. Otherwise it would be better to deal with the subject either after a recess or in the next session. It involves attempted correction of one of the worst of our economic maladjustments—low-wage and long-hour competition with fair standards; competition that penalizes _ decency and exalts meanness; that opens the road for the chiseler and the sweatshop proprietor and the exploiter of child labor, and in turn ruins the one who would recognize that after all life calls for some humanitarian concept, rather than mere money-making at the expense of those who work for less than living pay. Furthermore it brings to focus the fact that purchasing power must be steadily increased in a mass-production civilization possessed of such great natural resources as ours, and augmented by such labor-saving devices as to make production no major problem until such a time as consumption has caught up. But the bill, which set out to accomplish what seemed simple aim, ended up with an original draft that contained me 11,000 words, and which in its ramifications was as .totesque as a hall of mirrors on a midway. [t sets up a system by which the exceptions would come est and the rule last—and only in astronomical terms could the number of claims for exceptions be computed. That ~xceptions to paying a 40-cents-per-hour minimum and lim1.ing hours to 40 a week be asked is no flattering commen‘ary on our national progress toward abundance, but nevertheless the fact exists that the Labor Standards Board which would have to police that large portion of the nation's industry where exceptions would be proposed, would be confronted with a task that we believe could not be performed, working under the bill as now set up. So we say--this thing is vital. The aim should he achieved. But the purpose should not be allowed to fail by creating an insufficiently considered, slam-bang contraption that won’t run. Take time to do it right. If not now, then after a recess, or when Congress convenes next January. The problem here, in its essence, is the problem NRA attempted to solve. That fell because it was top-heavy and too intricate and too slam-bang. A nation should be able to benefit from its mistakes.

STATE POLICE TRAINING

POLICE form the backbone of criminal justice in America. Yet all too often the men who staff our police departments are chosen for political puil or physique. And all too often training is inadequate and methods obsolete when pitted against modern crime. Indiana University and the State Police have recognized this discouraging picture and now are pioneering in the field of scientific police training. The university's four-year police study curriculum is believed to be the first of its kind or exfent in a state university or in any American university of general academic and professional scope. This State Police-University combination is supplemented by intensive summer sessions such as the one being held at Bloomington this month. The 115 cadets now taking the course are the pick of 500 original applicants. Don F. Stiver, Superintendent of State Police, has announced that 60 of these young men will be selected for the State force and that “All new appointments to the State Police in the future will be graduates of the four-year course and the intensive summer courses.” Professional training, scientific detection laboratories, freedom from political influence and appointments on the basis of merit, combine to give Indiana a police career service which some day should compare favorably with the well-trained Federal units. By providing research facilities and an opportunity for continual education, the program also should elevate the standards of municipal police departments. It is an important contribution to police progress in a crime-ridden country where that progress has been disappointingly slow.

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WEREN'T BY ANY CHANCE CORGETTING THESE,

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Race That Wears Hat Indoors, Puts

Feet on Table and Chews Gum Held In No Danger From Its Nazi Guests.

NEW YORK, July 28.—Recent activities i . Su: of the American outposts of the Nazi regime are a reminder of that occasion a few months ago when Adolf Hitler's official newspapers gave warning that the Nazi Government might take an unpleasant interest in the affairs of the race which wears its hat indoors, puts its feet upon the tables and spits chewing gum at the walls. The American Nazis, naturalized and unnaturalized, have been conducting summer camps in the vicinity of New York in an attempt to fulfill the warning, but up to now the effect has been more ludicrous than unpleasant. The veterans’ organizations which have taken alarm need not bother to grab their old muskets from the walls for the race which wears its hat indoors, puts its feet upon the tables and spits chewing gum at the walls will be more amused and enlightened than disturbed. The Old-World spectacle of men in masquerade uniforms doing the goose-step and hailing the Reich as tie greatest country in the world is not only light summer entertainment, but a tip-off on the character of those imported Nazis who take the American oath of allegiance but rate the United States second, or worse, in their loyalty.

Mr. Pegler

” n T last week's main demonstration one of the principal speakers said Italy and Germany were the two greatest countries in the world and the fact that nobedy tock exception to this appraisal would appear to place the United States in the show-hole at best. To be sure, those immigrants who rank this country no better than third can hardly have much loyalty left for the land of their adoption, but there are not many of them, and in case of need they could readily be rounded up from their membership rolls. As a subversive force they hardly amount to a respectable nuisance, but as an example of Nazi manners and morals, they can do some good. The effect would be better if they would reproduce in their camps certain other attractions of their homeland, such as pagan rites and raids upon churches, concentrations of political prisoners and an election with a ballot having no place for a dissenting vote. These exhibits, along with a model of the Nazi censorship and a few mock executions by the courtly official in the full-dress suit with the medieval ax would be sure to make a strong impression on the race which wears its. hat indoors, puts its feet upon the tables and spits chewing gum at the walls.

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F course there will be some members of that race, including war veterans, who will be impatient and somewhat indignant, at the rudeness of aliens who abuse the hospitality of a free country to flout that freedom and extol the rule of the gun. But to suppress the Nazis here would be to adopt the most loathsome trait of their own character.

It would he interesting to know, however, just how intimately these camps are connected with the Nazi Embassy in Washington. Probably our State Department does know. Because George Messersmith, once stationed in Berlin and more recently Ambaseador in Vienna, 1s now serving in Washington and he is one of our best Nazi authorities.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

McGrady, Ace U. S. Labor Conciliator, Without Future in Present Job; Pressure to Keep Him From Taking Attractive Industrial Post Unfair.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 28.—Edward MecGrady, dodging the limelight as usual, seems to be on the edge of another success in preventing what might have been one of the nastiest situations in the recent labor turmoil. The Philadelphia Apex sit-down was terminated by an injunction, but mass picketing continued. This situation was heading straight toward an Administration decision whether or not to uphold the Federal courts by using Federal troops. All attempts at mediation failed until Mr. McGrady stepped into a series of conferences with what appears to be a complete success.

There is nothing unusual about this performance. So far as I can remember, he has succeeded in every mediation in which he had a free hand and sole responsibility. = ” n

1 point here is that Mr, McGrady is at the time of life when every man must! think of permanent employment and something more than political insecurity for himself and his dependents. He has given four of the best years of his life to his brilliant, gruelling work. There is no prospect of advancement for him and none of security. His work is the one bright spot in the dreary record of the Labor Department. Yet, Secretary Perkins is cemented to her seat as head of that department. Even if she jarred loose into the proposed “social welfare” post, Mr. McGrady is neither.

AVE You FORGOTTEN ANYTHING?

Watchword 1 _gy Herblock , HALT AND GIVE THE COUNTERSIGN!

PASS, FRIEND, AND HELP YOURSELF

The Hoosier Forum

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

HITS TOWNSEND FOR

VANNUYS ATTACK By John Robbins, 517 E. 25th St. Permit me to make a few remarks | | regarding Governor Townsend's un- | called for attack upon our able Sen-

| ator Frederick VanNuys.

| Senator VanNuys should be ap- | plauded for possessing the courage he manifested in opposing a meas- | ure which he sincerely believed to be | | not only undemocratic, but uncon- | | stitutional. The Democratic Party of | Indiana does not want a Hitlerized Governor to dictate who should or should not be nominated U. S. Senator. The Democrats and the citizens at large have had enough of the dictatorial methods of McNutt and Townsend and are capable of naming their candidates. Governor Townsend has placed himself in the ranks of a cheap ward politician. Laying local and state matters aside, I wish to speak of our great President Roosevelt and his Administration. No President of the United States | ever came into power under such | dreadful conditions as confronted | Mr. Roosevelt when he assumed the | high office of President on March 4, 1933. Mr. Roosevelt said: “There shall | | be no human starvation while I am President.” Mr. Roosevelt had the wisdom and | the courage to bring about laws to relieve the distressed conditions, to | reduce the number of unemployed | eight or nine million, to give aid | and comfort to the suffering. He | has done more to help the farmer, | the laboring man and the poor than any President we ever had. By his wise course, he has developed industries which have placed the country in a prosperous condition. The very few mistakes he has made have been vastly overshad- | cwed by the wise legislation he has rendered the nation.

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” URGES GREATER PRACTICE OF EQUALITY THEORY By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logzansperi I read that Rep. Arthur W. Mitchell (R. Ill), who is the only colored member of Congress, is investigating the resignation of a young Negro lad whom he appointed to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Rep. Mitchell says that another of his appointees was ‘‘railroaded” out of the academy and infers that he suspects unfairness again. I think that there are few who | would judge that the resignation of | this young Negro was not forced upon him by prejudice and snobbishness—and, on the other hand, I imagine that there are few who will say that he should have been left where he was. The American pub-

never should have been admitted. Now, what I would like to ask is

lic probably sums it up like this: He | ‘was most likely forced out, but he!

(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.)

Spangled Banner’—the rotund clubwomen who read papers on the Great Document of the Founding Fathers — the damp-eyed patriots who murmur with great reverence that All Men Are Equal—how do all of these reconcile their sacred principles with the above-mentioned example of inequality? When the dictators of Europe box the ears of their countrymen and tell them to keep their mouths shut, the liberty lovers here at home wax indignant and point with scorn—but when one of their fellow citizens finds the heels of race prejudice and emptyheaded militarism on his neck, the take no notice. : I suggest that the Knights and Dames of the Ancient, American and Loud-Mouthed Order of Equality either start practicing or stop preaching their beliefs! ”n ” » INTERNAL LABOR STRIFE HELD COSTLY TO NATION By R. F. Paine, San Francisco Mr. William Green, head of the

A. F. of L., claims that his labor organization has a membership of 3,091,000. Mr. Lewis, head of the C. I. O,

| claims that his labor organization

has a membership of 3,000,000 and more. The executive council of Mr. Green's organization will meet on Aug. 21 to increase membership dues for a war fund with which to combat Mr. Lewis’ organization. What war fund Mr. Lewis will raise is not yet actermined. It means industrial war, and noncombatants will sustain a big share

MEETING

By MAIDA STECKELMAN

I knew that you would be just you; That when you clasped my hand, my inner self Would greet you as an old familiar friend, I knew when I had seen you smile Behind it lay a soul I'd known long since and lost awhile.

DAILY THOUGHT

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.—Genesis 25:21.

how do the Daughters of This-and-That War who choke with emotion when the band plays

a professor, a parlor pink nor wouldn't be put in the Cabinet.

Childhood has no forebodings; but (then it is soothed by no memories

“The Star- of outlived sorrow.—George Eliot.

a politician. He

{.Jabor, by all means.

of the loss and suffering, as they do in all wars. Six million of laborers in the A: F. of L. and the C. I. O., some 30 million of laborers not in these organizations and perhaps 100 million Americans not in any labor organization, counting men, women, children and dependents whose interests and welfare cannot avoid, in some degree, the effects of war, industrial or other sort. That the A. F. of L. should squelch C. I. O.,, or vice versa, is one matter. That their war should be conducted at cost of the whole country is an entirely different matter, one in which the Government of the entire country should decidedly concern itself. Six per cent of America cannot for long run America with the spirit of “The Country Be Damned,” and there recently have been frequent demonstrations that that is the spirit with which labor organization war is to be conducted. Organization of labor to bargain for and secure better conditions for But, how many factories, mines and stores are Mr. Green and Mr. Lewis going to close in their war? By their war how many millions will be added to the big army of jobless, workers who want to work and don't care a cuss whether Green makes Lewis take the count or Lewis knocks out | Green? How many more able workers to go on relief? How many businesses, little and big, to endure loss and stagnation while Lewis and Green spend their war funds, regardless of the rights and welfare of all of us? Is dominance by greedy, selfish, merciless organized dollars to be replaced by reckless, lawless, unpatriotic labor? Very much depends upon the leadership of massed labor. A civil war by the embattled labor organizations, at heavy cost to all of the country, cannot fail fiercely to arouse public opinion seriously hostile to all unionization, just as the oppression and scoundrelism of entrenched capital have caused the great changes in national policies which we are now witnessing. The dangerous, self-s ee k i n g, wholly unpatriotic leaders of organized labor should be run out into oblivion by labor itself, and in that job of renovation labor should have the unqualified, courageous support of the American press, now somewhat given to the policy of straddling with a view to displeasing nobody.

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PAYING WAGE TO WIFE BRINGS HINT OF STRIFE By R. M. L. “Lord High Executioner” was what man used to be; Said Mrs. F.. D. R. one day, "Pay wife a salary.” Tho wife was “Lord High Everything Else,” it's now a total loss, To pay friend wife a salary pro-

motes “High Ex" to Boss.

It Seems to Me

'By Heywood Broun

Think Weather Doesn't Have a Parf In Politics? Then Take a Look at Scandinavians, Liberal S ays.

EW YORK, July 28.—Recently I wrote about the political effect of the climate of Washington. My guess turned out to be all wrong. I thought the heat of the nation’s capital would help President Roosevelt in putting over his Supreme Court plan. Indeed, I was accurate in believing that no extended filibuster would have much chance, but as events turned out the humidity was a considerable factor in killing the

move to liberalize the Court. I am not learned enough in meteorology, politics or economics to attempt the feat; but I still believe that a very profound treatise could be written on the effect of climate upon political institutions. It is my belief that the rather sporadic and seasonal nature of » progressive movements in Amer- : ica is conditioned by the fact that our summers are very hot. The Scandinavians both here 2+ and in their homelands have been traditionally liberal. The Swedish system is certainly an economic setup which is far in advance of our own. Does this mean that the Swedes are smarter? I doubt it very much. It is my belief that it is merely a matter of temperature and sune light. on un n ERSONS more familiar with the countries to the north can correct me if I am wrong, but, according to my theory, the lands of the long nights foster iscussion, and out of discussion comes a burning désire for economic and political betterment. During the American summer it is easy for any ob~ structionist to say, “Let's drop the whole business and go fishing.” To be sure, fishing is a fake. It is a sort of propaganda which has been put over on the American people. Save in rare instances, it is one of the dreariest of all pastimes. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred the angler doesn’t catch anything, and if he does he may well be in a quandary as to what to do with his haul. There are, of course, a few devoted Waltons who actually take a fiendish sort of glee in snatching living. creatures out of their element and reeling them in for no tangible purpose whatsoeves, except the savage delight of conquest. im I don’t pretend to be a fanatic. I like sardines an fish cakes and clam chowder, but I certainly wouldn's

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ISHING is a symbol. All political leaders must pretend to be passionate about it or their lack of enthusiasm will get them in dutch with the voters, Somehow or other America has accepted the notion that no male person is quite manly unless he loves to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to troll for tung. They come neatly packed in cans, and so why bother? The slogan, ‘“‘Let’s all go fishing,” does not actually mean that the proponents of adjournment must literally dig for worms. It means more definitely that there should be a period of loafing and inviting the soul before vital considerations are taken up again. Many hold that after such an interval purposes are firmer and heads are clearer. I don’t think se. When a drive of any sort slows down it is extremely difficult to get it going again. . It seems to me that Americans should have more character. We ought to be able to damn the humid. ity and go ahead just as Farragut damned tha torpedoes.

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The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Putnam Still Confident Amelia Earhart Survives Somewhere in Pacifich May Be on Japanese Fishing Boat Without Radio or Marooned on Island.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, July 28.—Despite

the Navy's

In the meantime, his remarkable performances of intelligence, fairness, resourcefulness, vigor and tact have attracted national attention. To my certain knowledge four great corporations have sought his services, offering the most flattering terms of permanence, position and compensation. Enlightened industrialists are at last awake to the fact that the most important position on their general staff is “director of labor relations.” In this new and rising pro{ession, Mr. McGrady is the dominant figure.

OME such appointment to him in this field is to the interest of everybody. It will be a new departure and a shining example. Half the recent great labor outbursts have been due to the ignorance of topside management of abuses of labor that existed in their own factories. Mr. McGrady will avoid labor trouble by curing sores before they fester. He is eager to go to this important new work but each time the opportunity opened he has deferred to Administration pressure to stay. Such pressure is neither considerate nor kind, nor wise, nor fair. Since the Administration has no proper place for him, it should let him go to one of these proper places with its plenteous praise and thanks. : He owes it nothing that has not been repaid in full measure, pressed down and running over, It owes him | too much to frustrate him in this.

official announcement that Amelia Earhart is lost, it will take a long time before her husband, George Putnam, gives up hope. : Mr. Putnam has an unshakable confidence in his wife’s skill, and he pointed out that if she reached one of the thousands of islands which dot the South Pacific, or was picked up by a Japanese fishing boat, it would be weeks before she could communicate with the outside world. None of the fishing boats carry radio equipment, and to them a good catch of fish is more important than rescuing a mysterious stranger. Whether Mr. Putnam's confidence is justified or not, those who have flown with Miss Earhart say that she is one of the toughest, most wiry and tireless women who ever lived, and if marooned would survive her navigator, Fred Noonan. Miss Earhart never smoked or drank, and ate little. She had nerves like iron, and an uncanny sense of direction. ” ” o LTHOUGH a superb pilot, Miss Earhart’s friends say she was not as careful in her advance preparations as Col. Lindbergh. For instance, neither she nor Noonan was competent to send radio messages. During the Pacific flight the Coast Guard vessel Itasca several times ra-

diced her asking Her to stop using voice and use the

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ship's radio code channel instead. However, she kept on using voice. ‘ Naval radio experts credit almost none of the re= ports from amateur radio operators that they heard the Earhart plane. They say that with the plane's engines stopped, Miss Earhart could not send farther than 300 miles. The plane would have had to have reached an island, and got the engines running dee spite lack of fuel, in order to have had sufficient strength for any long-range radio transmission. Regarding recent criticism of the cost of the Ear hart search, and the claim that she should not have been given an official permit to fly, it is a fact thad officials of the Bureau of Air Commerce of the Com= merce Department were not anxious to give her a permit. . ~ 5 » HEN it comes to tonsorial attentions, Vice President Garner is most particular. He does nog shave himself, and there is only one man in Washe ington who is allowed to scrape the tender skin of “Cactus Jack.” Tels For 37 years James Neale, Negro barber in ‘the House of Representatives, has laid his hands tendely on that face and drawn a straight razor across it. This is not a daily job for Neale, since, as he ts it, “The Vice President's got a tender skin and A beard, an’ he can't stan’ to be shaved but |. once in two days. His beard grows pretty long in two days, but it's white and you don’t notice 80

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