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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 193

The Indianapolis Times All de World Am Sad an’ Dreary !—By Talburt

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 1937

THIS TOPSY-TURVY LABOR ERA LICE, of Wonderland fame, should go to Ambridge, Pa., and try to run the National Electric Products Co., one of the most important firms in the Pittsburgh district, with 1800 factory workers and an annual payroll of $5,000,000. For only Alice, with her knowledge of the fantastic, might straighten out the tangle in which this company has been enmeshed by America’s new era of jurisdictional union strife. The National Labor Relations Board declared invalid the company’s closed shop contract with an A. F. of L. union, and ordered an election within 15 days to determine the proper bargaining agency for its workers. A few weeks

ago the U. S. District Court in Pittsburgh declared the |

contract valid and ordered its enforcement.

If the company obeys the Labor Board, it will be in

contempt of Federal Court. If it obeys the Court it will be in defiance of the Labor Board and the Wagner act.

If it plays ball with the A. F. of L. it will probably have | another strike of C. I. O. employees, such as occurred last | June and led to a serious riot when A. F. of L. members |

tried to pass through C. I. O. picket lines.

If it plays ball with the C. I. O., A. F. of L. Electrical |

Workers will boycott the firm's products—a threat which already has worked in the case of another Pittsburgh company which signed a C. I. O. contract and is now threatened with extinction by the resulting boycott. These are a few of the things that Alice in Wonderland would find if she accepted the task we suggest for her. E-3

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= ND what does all this mean—to the company, to its workers and to the public? For the company it threatens destruction. It is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t. The A. F. of L. threatens it with a boycott and the C. I. O. with a strike. Either one could put it out of business. Already caught in the line of fire between those warring labor bodies, it is now trapped midway between conflicting Federal agencies. For the employees the situation threatens loss of wages, whether by strike or by boycott. For the City of Ambridge it threatens loss of one of its most important payrolls. For the taxpayers it means that a lot of folks who want to work may be thrown on relief—for that's where they go whether they are idle by strike or idle by boycott.

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may happen on a national scale if the present knock-down-and-drag-out within labor's ranks continues. = = : = =” n HE Labor Board's decision may have been technically correct, but it certainly wasn’t realistic. The board held that the company had acted in “precipitate fashion” in entering into the A. F. of L. contract and that company representatives encouraged workers to join the union. That is no doubt true, for they had been threatened with a boycott and were trying to protect their markets. That fact was not taken into consideration, just as the District Court’s decision was not even admitted as evidence in the recent Labor Board hearing. There is such a thing as realism in the proper administration of any law—and the realistic aspect of this case is that a company and its employees are being ground helplessly between the upper and nether millstones of rival unionism. The realistic aspect is that a similar Pittsburgh plant—which did exactly what the Labor Board wants the National Electric Products Co. to do—is in even worse shape. The Nameled Metals Products Co., a smaller firm which signed a C. I. O. contract, was bovcotted until it had to stop production and throw 250 employees out of work. It now has resumed production on a partial basis with only 100 workers, and will shortly decide whether it can continue to operate on that level. The realistic aspect is that two innocent firms with union contracts are being put out of business, their investments threatened with destruction and their workers threatened with unemployment—and they don’t know

where to turn for protection.

A SURE ENOUGH “MUST” BILL HEN our Congress writes a tax law it starts out by labeling it “A bill to provide revenue and for other purposes,” and then proceeds to “Be it enacted, etc.” But behold how different the British do it! We quote herewith from the preamble or what-you-call-it that leads off an 86-page British tax bill: “Most Gracious Sovereign, “We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, toward raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty’s public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: ...”

TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH E rise, and in a frail male voice demand to know: Is this the U. S. A. or is it a blooming matriarchy ? We didn’t say anything when U. S. Senators Hattie Caraway and Dixie Graves came up from the South and seated themselves in what was once the most exclusive men’s club in the world. But when we learned that a white-haired schoolma’m will be named head baseball coach in her Kansas City school as the result of her having passed “with flying colors” a Columbia University baseball course, what is there to say but whatthehell! The lady, Miss Lucy Smoot, knows all about screw balls, sacrifice bunts, drop curves and other secrets of the great male game of games. Well, some day we'll learn tha®a man’s place is in the

MIND THEM THAR BOLL WEEVILS

POUR (T ON!

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Run-Around Handed Max Schmeling Is Compared to Mussolini's Tactics In Defending Rome From Abyssinia. EW YORK, Sept. 2.—For the third time this year Max Schmeling is the victim of the run-around in his quest for the heavy-

weight championship. Having knocked out Joe Louis, he was promised a fight with

| Jimmy Braddock, but was postponed so that

| Braddock himself could fight the Negro boy. { dock thought that

| postponed

Bradif Schmeling could knock out

Louis he could, too. He was in error there, however,

| and Louis became champion.

At this point Schmeling was almost champion, for he was ob-

And for the country as a whole this is a taste of what | Yiously the new champions mas-

For this reason he was again while Louis fought

ter.

| Tommy Farr of Wales.

There was a sort of popular ungerstanding that Schmeling would surely get a bout with the winner sometime this fall, but popular understandings are not

| legal and binding, and everyone | with any knowledge of pugilistic | diplomacy knew that the winner

| of the Louis-Farr fight, whoever

Mr. Pegler it might be, would break a hand

| and be unable to recover from this injury and train adequately to meet Schmeling this year.

Sure enough, Louis broke a hand, and, moreover, Mr. Mike Jacobs, the promoter, decided that

| the situation had now become sufficiently confused | to warrant the holding of a heavyweight elimination | tournament.

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» » » HILE the current heavyweights are eliminating one another next winter, Louis will retire to await the decision of fate, and thus Schmeling is postponed for the third time. There is also a strong possibility that he will be eliminated during the winter, whether he enters the tournament or not. For clarity it is best to regard pugilism as a miniature of international diplomacy and to apply to the profession all the duplicity, hypocrisy. the vicious cynicism, dishonesty and treachery that nations, and

| particularly the dictatorships, employ in their dealings

with one another. It is not strictly analagous, but the case of Mussolini and Abyssinia has points of similarity. Sor reasons of their own, the Italians brought Abyssinia into the League of Nations, agreed not to resort to war, and further agreed to impose boycott measures on any nation that did. " xn on R. JACOBS, the promoter, welcomed Schmeling . to competition in the belief that Louis would lick him. But when Schmeling unexpectedly beat Louis, it was deemed inadvisable to permit him to become champion. In Mussolini's case the League of Nations was so old and the popular sentiments of the hour had been so far forgotten that he could ignore his promises. Mussolini then attacked a fellow member of the League at a distance of 3000 miles in defense of the gates of Rome, conquered the country, and, by sheer gall, bullied the world into acceptance of the act. Similarly, the public has regarded Schmeling’s case as ancther of those things, not forgetting, however, that he behaved the same way toward Jack Sharkey when he was champion.

| By Arthur O. Ellis

The Onward-and-Upward Hikers Club—By Herblock (

NOT ME! I THOUGHT

YOUR FRIENDS CERTAINLY DON'T SEEM TO BE VERY

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, MY FRIENDS! DIDN'T THEY COME

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but wiil defend to the death your

right to say it.—Voltaire.

BELIEVES MODEL PLANE BAN IS UNNECESSARY to express

An open letter to the Works | Sanitation Board referring to the |

troversies

banning of model planes [rom the | Municipal Airport: “I am a member of the Indiana | Gas Model Association which is an |

(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious conexcluded. | your letter short, so all can have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

views in

ing of the gas-powered models at the Municipal Airport at the City of

Make Letters must

diate vicinity thereof.

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educational project in the city and | state.

FOR ALLEGED HEDGING

(created by their use in the vicinity | of other aeronautic activity, that in | interest of public safety the Board | entered its order prohibiting the fiy- |

Indianapolis and within the imme- |

“During the national meet in De- | troit last year, 700 models took part. Two or three models were in the air at a time. The contest was a | success. Results: Everyone had a good time with no injuries to persons or transports, although I must add for your benefit one plane did a

| power dive from about a hundred | | feet and cracked a car window.

“What jurisdiction does the |

| Works Sanitation Board have over | | the Indianapolis Municipal Airport {and surrounding fields?

“If every boy and girl had a hobby interesting and safe as model airplanes and construction, there would be fewer criminals in the state. At first the City Administration tried to make it tough on children who owned bicycles, and now |

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asking that gas-powered model airplanes be barred from the airport,

setting out that the same created a distinct hazard to airline operations. The Board also received communication from the Junior Birdmen of America, wherein they recommend the barring of these gas-propelled models from the use of the airport setting out several instances where accidents occurred as a result of the gas-propelled models crashing into other aircraft. You will readily admit that the wing-spread of as much as 15 feel and weighing from 5 to 15 pounds,

tion or in their landing. This naturally creates a hazard to life and

flying of these craft, some with a |

cannot be controlled in their direc- |

property of anyone within the area |

By Daniel Francis Clancy Senator O'Mahoney has drawn his opinion that Black is ineligible to sit on bench of the Supreme Court cause he, Black, had increased the emolument of that office while a member of Congress. Senator O'Mahoney was, without doubt originally correct—but he now says that since Black has settled this question in favor of himself he, Senator O'Mahoney, is satisfied. Nice bunch of boys running the Government, eh? Ah, yes, if they think they're right they stick to it —full of high ideals, intellectual honesty and political aren't they? ”n

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morality, |

it is trying to stop a child's hobby which, in most cases, is his future and ambition. “I have heard nearly all your arguments about the dangers of gas

of its flight.

consideration of

It was only after a very careful

educational value of the gas-power- | ed models as well as the hazards! | illusions just won't last these days. |

| GLAMOUR GOES AS GYPSY | ROSE LEE RIDES ROADS By B. C. There are no two ways about it,

all the facts, the

models. During our contests the | models are ‘grounded’ when any | planes are coming or going. On the other hand, have you studied | the stress analysis of the metal used on transports? If not, the crashing of these models into transport would not endanger the lives aboard. That is, just in case one ever does hit a transport. “Even as politicians you should | not hinder these pilots of tomorrow by attempting to hamper their hobhby today.”

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WORKS BOARD AID REPLIES TO MODEL PLANE LETTER By Ernest F. Frick, Executive secretacy, Board of Public Works and Sanitation. This is in reply to Mr. Ellis: Pursuant to chapter 33 of the Acts of General Assembly, 1931, the Board of Public Works of any city of the first class is granted exclusive management and control of the aviation fields maintained and operated by such city, and also for the purpose of the direction of public use such part of all highways and territory as adjoins or is lying within 1000 feet of the limits of such airport, The Board, on June 15, 1937, entered an order prohibiting the use of the Municipal Airport for gaspropelled model airplanes. This action was taken after the Board had received communications from the American Airlines and Trans-Con-

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tinental and Western Airlines, Inc., Saadi.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Treaties Regarded as Scraps of Paper and Irresponsible War Thrives

As Governments Permit

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 2.—International law is in a mess. Time was when even an insult to an ambassador was enough to start troops marching. We fought Spain because the Maine was mined in Havana Harbor. We sidestepped a war with England when we were battling at home only by backing down on our seizure of two confederate commissioners on a British ship on the high seas. Nations then violated the rights of others, but they did it with more caution because a “recognized cause for war” was pretty apt te result in war. Now you can use a friendly ambassador for aeriai gunnery practice, shoot up a neutral battleship, or try to sink a great passenger-liner on an errand of mercy and get away with it. War has become so destructive that no nation can afford to use it as an instrument of national policy, but what has it done to international law and what is there to replace it? Treaties are scraps of paper. Force alone is dependable.

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T is a terrible condition of international anarchy in which the outlaw institution of undeclared and irresponsible war is thriving. Its worst aspect is that the jealousies and desperation of great nations are so fierce that none can undertake to rectify the condition by use of its own force without risking a new world war, Teddy Roosevelt wrote: “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead”—ang got Perdicaris. Sensing a threat in the Pacific tof ais plans for the Panama sent the fleet to the Orient for a “fight or & frolic.” According to tradition, before he did it, he talled in |

International Law to Go Unenforced.

the Japanese ambassador and asked him which the Japanese preferred. They chose the frolic. Those days are gone. You can’t deliver an ultimatum unless you are willing to back it instantly and we are not prepared to do that in Asia. = ” = T leaves Mr. Hull in a mess. The maritime unions that say their men will strike before they will sail a munition-laden ship into those waters are making dangerous use of labor's defenses to enforce a frace tional view of national foreign policy. But who can blame sailors for refusing to take a ship into waters where they may be sunk, when they know there is no international law to protect them and that their Government is not likely to do so? What is our State Department to do? There is precious little that it can do wisely and it is doing that masterfully. It could declare a state of war and stop loans and shipments of arms to both Japan and China. The President also might forbid American travel there, declare cotton a munition and otherwise make mortal enemies of both sides, destroy the greatest export market of the agricultural South, and disrupt our whole economic and political situation on the Pacific side. What good would that do? It probably would result in more death and danger to American lives and destruction of American property than anything that yet has happened. So what? Mobilize the Navy, send it into the China Sea, possibly get a battleship sunk,

maybe precipitate a naval efjgagement and thus, peron a ; war for the

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IN THE MOONLIGHT

By WANDA MITCHELL

The fairies dance in the moonlight Across the distant hills, (And moonbeams dance along the

While the western wind is still.

The waters ripple a little sound As sweet as music far— I'd like to dance in the moonlight, |

Where all the fairies are.

While the moonlight is so bright, The fairies dance along the lake With hearts so free and light.

The years roll by so swiftly But still the fairies dance, In the moonlight—along the lake And to their hearts’ content.

DAILY THOUGHT

Blessed are they that keep His and that whole heart.—Psalms |

magnanimity

| For a while Gypsy Rose Lee was | about the most glamorous that ever heightened the humidity of a Broadway stage. She went

| college bovs named her their ideal | woman. She was slinky and sleek and slithery and suave. Then what happened? She went to Hollywood and got married.

Venice? To Paris? No.

goes glamour. There goes illusion. A | Gypsy on four-whe=l brakes,

rippling over the

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TERMS JULIETTA HOSPITAL “ORDERLY AND CLEAN” By W. E. Mendenhall, M. D, I am a Republican and for { number of years my business has (taken me at unexpected times to | the Julietta Hospital for the Jn- { sane. At all times I received the most courteous treatment from | everyone. My business took me to all parts bi the building. I found everything [orderly and clean. It is no easy

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cient executives.

By Drew Pearson ord Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—There is nothing immi-

close friends if Henry Morgenthau resigned as Secre-

tary of the Treasury, The main reason, if he does, would be his health.

Henry has been in an overworked and nervous condi-

complained of severe headaches. This nervousness has resulted in part in an assas-

was constantly attended by Secret Service bodyguards. They worked in three shifts of eight hours each.

has been too much work and worry over the job of meeting the demands of New Deal spending. It is an open secret among White House intimates that many times he has urged a drastic curb in expenditures. Young Henry does not exactly argue Roosevelt. He is rather plaintive about it. He doesn't

decision, Mr. Morgenthau goes down the line and finds the money to carry out that decision,

Treasury, was agriculture and conservation. never been exactly happy in the Treasury, though on the whole he has done a good job. \ Sometimes Mr. Roosevelt has felt that it would be better to have a Secretary of the Treasury with more experience in monetary matters, but if and when Young Henry gets,out it will be only because he wants to. An almost sure bet as Mr. Morgenthau's successor,

thing |

| from 14th street to the Follies and |

And now she's taking a honey- | moon: trip. To the South Seas? To |

To New York in a trailer. There

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tion for some time now, and for several months has |

sination complex with the result that before he left | on his recent vacation to Honolulu, Mr. Morgenthau |

Chief cause of Mr. Morgenthau’s nervous condition |

with Mr. |

conceal his worry, but once the President has made a |

Mr. Morgenthau's specialty, before he entered the He has |

By Heywood Broun

1937 Classic of Softball Diamond Impends Between F. D. R.'s Hyenas And the Prehistoric Sluggers’ Team.

TAMFORD, Conn., Sept. of training a heavyweight, 1 have decided to work on myself. It's all on account of the rash of softball baseball games in this part of the country. The next time 1 participate I hope to be at least as hard as the missiles. We have a chance to appear for the benefit of some fire department almost every Sunday {rom now until the snow flies.

2. Instead

Naturally, T have considered the possibility of just playing myself into shape in the games themselves. Unfortunately, I am a Tirst-bal! hitter, and co batting furnished an insufficient amount of exercise. Generally it is a matter of stepping up to the plate, smashing a terrilic fly to the pitcher, and back to the bench again. We have a hanging date to meet President Roosevelt's team, the Hyde Park Hyenas. Accord= ing to popular report, the Hyenas are quite ferocious, but our gregation, the Prehistoric Slugse gers, is also pretty terrible. In fact, we have yel to win a game. That is one of the reasons why we exs pect a bid from the President, for without question | we constitute one of the most underprivileged teams in the country. Moreover, we are being exploited. In our last game at Pound Ridge we drew more than 5000 spectators, and my cut for two and a half innings out iia the sunfield was a hot dog, a bottle of beer and some luke= warm Scotch.

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» ” n HE Boston National League team on that same day drew only 2000 people, and there is some talk of transferring their franchise to Hunting Ridge. But before they can get me to turn professional I want ice in my Scotch and also soda. | George T. Bye, the softball magnate who owns my contract, keeps harping on the fact that he is giving { all his players a lot of free publicity. George is like that. He is the most generous man with free things whom I have ever met, but at the champagne supper which he gave (0 put the team on edge the wine | flowed like mucilage. ” ” ” UT the sparkplug of our nine is undoubtedly Gene Tunney. Mr. Tunney is a money player. He { works as hard on the diamond as he did in the ring. { During our big rally in the seventh inning of the last game, when we almost scored a run, he came to me with tears in his eyes and said, “You've got to get a hit, Heywood.” The third strike the umpire called on me was at least a foo! outside. Since the official in question was Anna May Wong, I could not speak freely. All I could do was to give her a look, but evervbody around the field was doing that. Her black silk slacks were shirred with some yellow material. Before I hang up my blue and purple playing shirt and my famous number 387 1 hope to get a home run And yet, gosh, how I dread it. It's a far piece around all those bases, even if I drive the ball into the bleachers and can walk, not run, to the home plate,

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Henry Morgenthau, Overworked and Nervous, May Quit Treasury Post; Federal Reserve Board, in New Quarters, Well-Guarded From Outsiders.

y if he departs, is Joe Kennedy, brilliant chairman of | the Maritime Commission.

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nent about it, but it would surprise none of his |

T= Federal Reserve Board has gone high-hat | since moving into its elaborate Greco-Roman | palace on upper Constitution Ave. Constructed of gleaming white marble and embellished with glitter ing brass eagles, the structure is one of the new show places of the Capital. The pompous formality of the new establishment | is in keeping with its lavishness. Officious guards in | swanky uniforms clutter the place and treat visitors with hauteur. A recent caller on Chairman Marriner Eccles was | stopped at the front door of the building by a guard | who demanded to know his business. Informed, he | admitted the visitor and directed him to a certain | elevator. On the proper floor, the visitor again was halted by a guard who inquired his business. When told, he said, “I will have to announce you.” He did this by phoning Mr. Eccles’ office. “It's okay,” he observed, “Mr. Eccles will see vou.” “Where is his ofTice?” “I don’t know,” the guard replied. “I'm new hera, I'll call another guard who knows the joint and he will show you.” » L°5% legislators in the Virgin Islands, trying to boost tourist trade, want Congress to allow visitors to bring $100 worth of liquor into the United States from the Island duty free. , .. The Cuban Government’ has hired Nelson J. Riley, Washington newspaperman, to explain Col, Batista's three-year

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