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THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1937

POPULAR GOVERNMENT?

DIK HELLER, the Governor's secretary, says in effect that his boss is the Governor of “loyal Democrats.” People generally who voted for Governor Townsend, including a great many Democrats who wouldn't think of being “loyal” in the rubber stamp, undemocratic sense Mr. Heller insists on, probably will be shocked by Mr. Heller's open flouting of the State and National Administrations’ ‘merit pledges. He told a group of State House women “employees: ; “We have a hard job finding places for the many hardworking Democrats who have not yet had State positions. There are very few new jobs. That means every.time we hire someone, we have to dismiss someone. . . . I shall never hesitate to dismiss my. best friend if he is disloyal to the Administration.” get the ax will be those who fail to kick in throtigh the machine’s fund-raising clubs. Why the need for new jobs and more jobs? Take away patronage and there is no er bis to create new government jobs or to provide room at the trough for those “who have not yet had State positions.” But even more damning is the admission that such a spoils setup is responsible to the party machine maintained by patronage, and not to the great mass of voters who put the Administration in power. If Governor Townsend is the Governor of all the people of Indiana, he should flatly disavow the statements of a spokesman who tries to make a joke of popular government.

EVERYBODY'S PRESIDENT

LOT of people are still damning president Roosevelt for being ‘‘prolabor,” blaming him because he didn’t

stop the C. 1. O. sit-downs and strikes in the auto and steel

industries.. Yet John L. Lewis utters some very harsh words against the President for not being “prolabor,” professing to see something almost treasonable to labor, in. Mr. Roosevelt’s now famous remark that a great many Americans, annoyed by the capital-labor strife, were disposed to say: “A plague on both your houses.” # = # = * o OMEHOW this calls to mind an article written by our foreign editor, William Philip Simms, while on his recent tour of Europe. From Prague, Mr. Simms gave. this description of the technique employed by President Benes in holding together the pniagonistic groups in the Republic of Czechoslovakia: “After his election to the Presidency, he held a series of conferences. First he called in the peasants. To them he said: "5s “ ‘IT want to thank you for voting for me. You are my friends. But if you expect me to be President only of the peasants, 1 will resign.’ “He then called in the workers. He told them the same thing. They had voted for him, and he appreciated it. But if they did so in the belief he would be exclusively their man, he would refuse to serve. “Next he made his position clear to the business world. They must not expect him to be a wirepuller for hig business. He would have to be everybody’s President, the President of Czechoslovakia with all its social, economic and racial complexities, or he would not be President at all.” > 2 s 2 : 8 & 2 JUDGING by the criticisms that are coming at him from all sides, President Roosevelt looks at his job the same

way.

THE EXILE i HE Duke of Windsor, according to London dispatches, may not return to England with his American wife for 10 long years, unless it be for sickness or death in his immediate family. It is understood that he has been “advised” by the British Government not to visit certain other countries—the United States, Germany, Scandinavia or the Dominions. He is completely cut off from his kin, as shown by action of his youngest and favorite brother, the Duke of Kent, who with his Duchess had planned to visit the Windsors in their honeymoon castle in Austria only to change their plans at the last moment and speed by without stopping. How this young exile feels today probably is best expressed by Robert Gilfillan, a British poet, who wrote:

O, why left I my hame? Why did I cross the deep? O, why left I the land Where my forefathers sleep? I sigh for Scotia’s shore, And I gaze across the sea, But I canna get a blink 0’ my ain countrie.

BIG LEAGUE TIEUP

HE role’ of the Indians as an indepshdént baseball club has become increasingly difficult in recent years. Major league enterprises have reached out until today they own, control or have working arrangements with almost every minor league club of importance. : The result has been that clubs like Indianapolis, which formerly could have their own farm systems and develop their own players, cannot compete with the fat treasuries of the majors in the search for talent. So most fans will rejoice if the Indians are able to effect a tieup with the Chicago Cubs, the Pirates or some other big league organization. The sale to the Cubs of Bob Logan, the team’s star lefthander, has multiplied persistent reports that such a plan seriously is being considered. Indianapolis deserves better baseball from its American Association representative. Unless some way is found to meet this need. soon, and at the same time preserve in- ~ dependence, the fans are entitled to a big league arrange- ~ ment that can help restore the sport to its former popularity.

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AW SToP TICKLING ME!

LABOR PARTY AGITATION

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler: Lewis Isn't Spokesman for All Labor;

. C. 1. O. Has No Choice in 1936 but To Back Roosevelt or Bust 'The Rope'.

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—One loud flaw in the reasoning of John L. Lewis as he

presents his demands on the national Gov-

ernment is his contention that, as spokesman for the C. I. O., he speaks for all lahor in the United States. At least that seems

to be his contention when he refers to the President as one who supped at labor’s table and then cursed with equal fervor and fine impariaiity both labor and

its adversaries. True, the President and his party supped at the table of John L. Lewis and the C. I. O., but Mr. Lewis and the C. I. O, are not labor in the all-embracing sense of the word. There still is the A. F. of L. with a membership comparable to that of Mr. Lewis’. union, and there are still more working people outside both organizations than there are within. Certainly Mr. Lewis isn’t speaking for the A. F. of L., which certainly is composed of labor, and neither is he speaking for the great majority who are not organized. : In fact, Mr. Lewis does not even speak for the entire membership of the C. I. O., because there are many members of that organization who are members under duress and stand to lose their jobs under the closed shop agreement if they quit. Some C. I. O. members have been, bulldozed into membership and

others have been “delivered” by majority vote of

unions which they joined when those unions belonged to the A. F, of L. é 2 a = AVING been “delivered” by majority vote they must sfring along as nominal C. I. O. people, although they still are opposed to Mr. Lewis and the

C. I. O, and voted against affiliation with his outfit.

Although 51 willing members may drag in 49 unwilling associates and make them pay dues and strike

on occasion nobody can compel compliance with a

decision of a majority. Neither can Mr. Lewis deliver them to the President in the event of a deal

‘between them.

Mr. Lewis is correct when he says the President cursed with ecual fervor and fine impartiality, but

‘he takes liberties when he says labor was the party

of the first part. The President’s curse, as Mr. Lewis calls it, was delivered against a state of affairs in which the C. I. O. undertook to drag unwilling labor into its ranks and warned of violence in case troops were not called to close the mills. It was all right to use troops to keep men off their jobs, but it was a betrayal of labor to use the same force to protect from massacre, men who wanted to work and had not given the C. I. O. authority to represent them, 2 » ” : Y the same reasoning that Mr. Lewis employs in his claim on the President’s political gratitude, he and the C. I. O. might be held to be indebted to the Communists, for he has supped with the bolos much the same as Mr. Roosevelt supped with Mr.

‘Lewis and his group. The Communists find the C. I..

O. much to their liking. When Mr. Lewis undertakes to speak for all labor in the United States, he is like those habitual letter writers who say: “All right-thinking people believe” or, “Every good citizen vigorously will oppose—” He takes in much more territory than he has any authority to represent.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 9.—This nation should be grateful for the expert handling of its foreign relations by the President and Secretary Hull in this dangerous time.

International law has been wrecked by disregard of treaties, undeclared wars, brigandage by great nations on land and their piracies at sea. In this chaos, the job of protecting our national rights and interests and yet keeping us out of messes into which other nations would like to drag us, is many times harder than ever before. Thus far it has been done with great skill. Protecting our people in Spain, getting them out of there as rapidly as possible and yet giving no offense either to the warring factions or their undeclared allies— that was a perfect job.

; 8 8 =» WE have the same problem in Asia. It is being solved in the same way. The notice to Amer-

icans that they can come out of China under the protection of the flag for a reasonable time, but there-

_ after that they will remain at their own risk, seems “harsh to people whose means of living it takes away. But it is the only possible move for both the general ;

good and their own.

It was wise of the President not to increase our

naval strength in the Asiatic powder magazine. Every warship there is a hesiage to fortune. The sinking |

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

DECRIES ‘WET’ ERA; ASKS WOMEN TO HELP By H. V. Allison

Women no longer can be called the weaker sex. In years gone by a girl could win a husband before she reached the old maid rank. Failing in the effort, her last chance was to marry a widower with a family. Later, equal rights gave the women a chance to come to the front. A mother after rearing her children with years of care and toil: should have the support of the Government to make this a fit place to live. We are the Government. Are we making any effort? No, we are not! I have lived in this city 56 years. I came here at the age of 19. In the old saloon days, a woman could not loaf in a saloon or drink at a bar and a minor was not allowed in a saloon. Today the young generation is headed for ruin, in many cases with the help of their parents. Back in the Seventies, the women, through the churches, formed a club called the Crusaders and did much to regulate the liquor problem. Prohibition was responsible for home brew, bootlegging, and drinking anything containing alcohol. Repeal let down the bars and politicians have made a mess of it all. The male sex has failed to see the mistake. It i$ up to the women to call a halt. Replace the saloon with police regulations. Eliminate the beer joints. .A restaurant is to serve meals and a saloon to serve drinks to adults, if they must drink. = » 2 ‘LITERARY GOURMET LIKES HIS TASTE OF PEGLER By R. M. L. ‘Westbrook Pegler seems to be in the doghouse for a good many readers. Mr. Pegler himself wouldn't be surprised about it. He has reported getting the fishy eye and cold shoulder from several worthy citizens of our land. : They find him too cynical, too sour, too harsh, too astringent in thought. Well, maybe we are too gullible, too easygoing and inclined

to think in loose, flattering generali- |.

ties. Does he look at politics with

‘|a jaundiced eye? There seems to be

enough backstairs diplomacy and vicious hypocrisy to warrant. Does he dispel the glamorous haze from the field of sports? It may be the haze is there only because the dim

lights and cigar smoke hide the very

sharp goings-on behind them. Does he debunk our most cherished notions? It is possible our notions are false and not worth room rent, any= way. He has humor, grim and perverse though it be at times. : The Times offers a nicely bal-

‘anced literary menu with each issue.

..» Those who like a bland diet omit condiments and seasonings. . . . The gourmet likes a squeeze of lemon cr bit of tartar’ sauce with the fish, a dash of Worcestershire or caper

General Hugh Johnson Say ys—

President and Secretary Hull Protect ay An Rights in War Zone; / Tactics Are Keeping Nation Out of Messes

back at Japan or China.

hers Want Us to Enter. of any would increase our danger of having to strike

(Times readers ars 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.)

sauce with the broiled porterhouse.’ They add zest and piquancy to any meal. . . . As for me, I shall continue to like a dash of Pegler with my daily literary fare, © » ” HOLDS KANSAS SENATOR WASTING FARM EFFORTS By M. S. With so many ‘real issues lying

about for the Republicans to take.

up, it seems a pity that Senator

‘Capper of Kansas would be wasting

his time trying to stir up the farmers against the Administration’s reciprocal trade policy. Apparently he has forgotten how a certain other Kansan by the name of Landon tried that issue out un the voters last year only to be laughed off the hustings when he charged that imports of Brazilian babassu nuts were ruining American dairymen. Mr. Landon got nowhere in his attacks on the Roosevelt-Hull dttempts to restore foreign trade. Senator Capper’s three-month tour on the same mission will get no farther. Trade reciprocity is not partisan Democratic doctrine. The Republicans first broached the idea under

James G. Blaine, Secretary of State’

in the Harrison Administration, and at that time they pointed with pride to a dozen trade treaties they signed with foreign countries. Senator Capper himself was one of five Republicans who voted for the New Deal’s Reciprocity Act in 1934. But, regardies¥ of its origin, this “hoss-trading” method seems to be working: The 16 agreements we

MORE AND MORE

By MARY WARD

I would not dread it, being old— Not very far to go— The weather pleasant, warm or cold, And years teach patience so. I would not heed the mystic dark Come settling down at night— More and more to His word I'd hark, Age too, has its delight!

DAILY THOUGHT

Forbearing one anether and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against any, even as. Christ forgave you, so also do ye.—Colossians 3:13,

E that cannot forgive others

breaks the bridge over which

he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven ~Herbert.

‘| People’s Lobby reports.

have signed have not, of course, undone all the demage of the FordneyMcCumber and Smoot-Hawley tariffs.. But they have rebuilt some of our wrecked commerce. In the first six months of this year our exports to the agreement countries were 60 per cent higher than in the first six months of 1934, while our exports to

.| nonagreement countries increased 2

per cent in the same fime. o ® ” SUGGESTS LOVE AS NEW THEME FOR FORUM

. { .| By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport

Everyone, lately, has been suggesting changes in the Hoosier Forum. Some want fo limit the contributors to one letter each six

months and some don’t, some want more humor and some less, and so on. There has been, lately, altercation regarding alteration. So, the time being ripe, I shall fling my proposal into the ring. Now, what subjects does the Forum deal with?—domestic, politics, foreign affairs, political and other public perspnalities. Now and then we have an indignant protest from someone who has been splashed by a passing motor car— frequently some criticisms of Pegler, Clapper, Broun or other columnists. During the summer the contributors themselves, warm and worried, rush in now and then.to slap each other. “underprivilegecl classes” send notes written in the back ‘rooms of their perspiration parlors: (called “sweat shops”)-—in fact, all of the

important questions of life as we|

live it are touched upon but one. And that one?—Ah, Love . .. Here is something we all ‘actually do know a bit about—so why not tell all? Here is something which touches us all--it makes the world go around—it’s the bard's meal ticket—it keeps 25-cent cigars in the mouths of movie makes life worth while for the one-~ third ill-housed and ill-fed—it’s life’s paramount problem for rich and poor, white and black, Democrat and. Republican, patriot and Prohibitionist, iconoclast and souse.

But nobody (in the Forum, at least):

talks about it. 2 2” 2 LEWIS TALK LIKENED ‘TO VILLAIN IN PLAY By D. K. If the natiotal debt keeps on growing the Treasury Department will have to get adding machines made at a locomotive works . . . Fable for Today: Once upon a time there was a man who ran the well dry priming the pump. . . Chances are the Chinese are Sorry ‘now that they ever invented gunpowder: “Labor is at the Crossroads” the Probably part of the back-to-work movement. . . John L. Lewis’ radio speech sounded a little like the villain who might foreclose the mortgage on the White House. r

Members of the.

magnates—it |

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun i’:

John Lewis Upheld in His Charges Against President, but. Possible Blow to Labor Seen in Opposition.

EW YORK, Sept. 9.—John L. Lewis said many true things in his radio address.

With some slight reservations I think his

criticism of the President was factually justified, The White House did labor a disservice when the “plague o’ both your houses” quotation was authorized at a press confer-

ence. And yet I think that Mr. Lewis will hurt rather _

than help the cause of progressive labor in this country if he insists on forcing a break with Franklin Roosevelt. Mr.. Lewis is the last man who should join the pack of those .who are snarling at the heels of the Prebie ‘dent. If the chairman of the , Committee for Inéustrial Organe ization will look over: his press notices he will find that reactione ary newspapers which have hitherto played down all his” utterances give this particular address first page prominence and chortling commendation on their editorial

es. Mr. Broun beg

open split between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Lewis, I am ready to grant that the labor leader has many reasons for dissatisfaction, and if complete cleavage comes the blame will not be wholly his.: But the times are too tense and co-operation between advancing

forces is too important to allow any Persons consid .

erations to come into the picture, Sev # case HE issue, to be sure, is larger. than that, but I gravely suspect that there is. an indication: of chemical incompatibility in the: ‘character of the two men concerned. If Mr. Roosevelt is wise he. will make no answer at this time. Enough rancor has already been spread. upon ‘the record to kill the silly story that the President. of the ‘United States has been proceeding: directly ‘under the orders of the President of the United Mine Workers. It is my impression that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Lewis ‘have not met since before the Democratic’ Convention in Philadelphia. : ” 4 2 ‘ F the breach persists a great burden will be taken off the shoulders of all Democratic reactionaries in Congress. It is true that Lewis in his radio talk suggested that the progressive labor group. should fight Tory Congressmen and the President :of the United States at one and the same time. But such a campaign will cover too many fronts. JI am all for independent political action and the creation of a

national Labor Party for the election in 1940, but I gravely suspect that Franklin Delano Roosevelt may be the only available person with any chance of suce cess to stand as its Presidential candidate in 1940.- . I saw Mr. Lewis in Washington several weeks ago, and I made a timid proffer of what seemed to me good advice. I still think it is good advice. I suggested that he call a press conference and emphasize those portions of the President’s program with which he was in sympathy. “But what can I tell the newspaper men that they don’t know already?” he replied. I love President Roosevelt within limitations.” “Sure,” I said, “but for heaven's sake stress ‘the love and not the limitations.”

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

American Bar Association Scheduled to Lambast President Roosevelt

For His Reform of Judiciary at Convention in Kansas City, This, Month. By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

The recent demands of several “peace” societies and some bally-hooing radicals that the President promptly crack down on both sides in China wita embargoes of the Pittman act are dumb and dangerous kibitzing. The usual argument against applying the neutrality acts is that it would favor Japan and hinder China because Japan has ships and money and can “come and. get” what she wants here on the “cash and carry” plan while China can’t. ” o ” iar will result from a Japanese blockade whether we apply the neutrality act or not. The nation which commands the sea can always cut off its e€nemy’s supplies. The fact is that full application of that act would hurt Japan more seriously than China ‘because Japan is more dependent on American trade. The neutrality act gives power to the President to keep us out of war—and also to push us into war. If the idea of these unasked advisers is to crack down with the neutrality acts to punish Japan for her cruel, ruthless and bloody assault on China and to

register our disapproval of all war in general and this.

war in particular, the President could accommodate them—but it wouldn’t be neutrality. It wouldn't be keeping us out of war. It would be dragging us into a bad war in a big way. :

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plan.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The President’s battle with the judiciary is due for a thorough lambasting at this year’s convention of the American Bar Association in Kansas City, Sept. 26-30. Every one of the guest speakers is a militant antiNew Dealer and hot foe of the court reorganization

Heading the list of speakers is Willis Van Devanter, whose resignation from the Suprenie Court played an important role in the defeat of the President’s bill. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, generalissimo of the Senate opposition, will be the high light of the annual banquet. The two other featured orators are

former Senator James A. Reed, who bolted to Lan-, don in 1936, and Frank J.

ogan, chief defense counsel in the Teapot Dome standal suits and, recently, attorney for Andrew W. Mellon in his fax evasion battle with the Governm ab

OW a Melty-go-roun was sold to the Sultan of Java for $16,000 is related in a lively story written by WPA relief writers for the State Guide of - Kansas. 3 They uncovered the tale while digging into the lore of historic Leavenworth, Kas. The Sultan, while visiting the state in 1916, was immensely intrigued by

a merry-go-round operated by a touring carnibal show. What particularly interested him was the fact that it had 48 wooden horses, the exact number of wives in his harem back home in Java. He approached the show owner and explained he was interested in buying the carrousel as a; means of keeping the ladies of the harem entertained’and thus prevent quarreling. The owner sold for $16, 000. :

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SSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE A ERNEST G. DRAPER predicts a national incdme this year of $70,000,000,000. This would be $8,000,000,000 more than last year and $11,000,000,000 under the record all-time high in

1029. Mr. Draper's estimate is unofficial and is Gk 4

on confidential monthly reports. "8 =» : CCORDING to Mrs. Roosevelt, relarnishing the

White House, or even making very small changes in -its furniture, is “net a thing which you can; go

£

‘about lightly.”

Explaining to friends not long ago "how" she was getting four new chairs for the Red Room, Mrs. Roosevelt said: : ““You see, anything which is to remain definifely in the White House must Have the approval not only of the Fine Arts Commission, but also must be Bolstered by an act of Congress.” >

There .is nothing the Tories of - America would like better than an’

“They all know that

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