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‘FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 1037 MECHANICAL ROBBERS VERY person has a right to make a fool of himself— within certain broad limits. A favorite current method is to play the slot machines that are becoming increasingly

numerous in Marion County, or to drop nickels into the marble machines that clutter up hundreds of small business

places. The player can’t even gratify a passion for so-called

gambling, for he hasn’t a chance. Unfortunately the public, accustomed to periodic and meaningless “gambling cleanups,” is not much impressed by the recent police drive on slot machines or by the court threat to end the pin-ball racket. When one of these campaigns becomes permanent, when the antigambling laws are enforced, and when the legal loopholes in the laws are closed, these devices that rob school children of lunch money and pour needed family funds into ratholes, can be outlawed. But not until then. All of which reminds us of the Chattanooga merchant whose slot machine was seized by the law. Undaunted, he set up a cigar box with a hole in the top.. On the box he placed a sign: “Police got my slot machine. Please put your money here.” Amused customers, realizing the logic of their previous performance, had about filled the box with coins at the last reports.

DEMOCRACY CAN TAKE IT

ROM Nuremberg comes word that the Nazis have no intention of pulling their punches in attacking democracy at their party rally, even in the presence of representatives of Britain, France and the United States. Their Dr. Rosenberg and Herr Goebbels will continue to shout themselves hoarse about democracy’s failure and doom, and other Nazi orators probably will say equally silly things. All of which is perfectly proper and patriotic—if they feel that way. We are just as outspoken over here in our detestation of dictatorships. But from Chicago comes news of another sort. In a copyrighted article the Chicago Times claims to have proof that an undercover and “rapidly growing” army of 20,000

‘anti-Semitic Nazi Germans are organizing in various cities

for a putsch to seize the U. S. Government when “the Communists’ revolution starts.” In the meantime they will preach their doctrines of race-hatred and raise their palms

in salute of Hitler.

Which, if true, isn’t so proper. To the extent that they stir up race prejudices, such movements are degrading and vicious ‘influences. ‘However, we shall-do nothing about these Nazi-minded

- Germans over here for the very reason that we are a

democracy. Democracies aren’t afraid of minorities. In

«fact, the more unreasonable minorities are the less democ-

racies fear them. There are 12,000,000 German-Americans living here, the great bulk of whom like our country and our ways and loathe Hitlerism as much as we do. Twenty thousand ‘Nazi revolutionists in a nation of 130,000,000

. people are about as ridiculous as the three tailors who began

their petition with “We, the people of England—" No, we will not arrest these Nazis over here and put them into concentration camps or shoot them down. But if a fraction of that many Americans organized in Germany to overthrow the Reich Government the Nazi police would have them under lock and key or under ground in a Jiffy.

That/is-one difference between America and Germany.

THE ONE WEAK SPOT IN his Labor Day message President Roosevelt pointed to the one weak spot in our governmental set-up for labormanagement relations—the lack of “necessary machinery to facilitate the adjustment of disputes and thereby eliminate the need for strikes and the interference with the flow of wages and commerce. "In short, an adequate mediation system. Only i In rail and air transportation do we have a workable mediation system functioning nationally. ‘The Railway Labor Act’s stop-look-listen formula has proved itself

| by keeping virtual peace on the rails and airways for il

years, That act’s principles should be extended gradually

. to shipping, manufacturing and other industries in which * strikes affect interstate commerce.

For smootiing out local disputes, Edward F. McGrady has suggested that cities and states set up permanent local mediatory boards, manned by prominent citizens represent-

~ ing labor, management and the public. This system is work-

ing in some cities under what is known as “The Toledo Plan.” However it is done we must soon evolve more effective and expert mediation services, local, state and national.

SOMEBODY DID IT THE sons of Adam and Eve—Cain, “Tiller of the

Ground,” and Abel, “A Keeper of Sheep”—are the two’

lads generally credited with having invented war. Comes now Prof. S. H. Hooke of Kings College, London, with a bit of higher criticism intended to absolve Cain of He says it wasn’t murIt was, he

“Recent finds in North Syria, dating from about the second millenium B. C.,” he writes, “show that it was a _ritual to kill 3 shepherd at the time of the summer drought and that Cain Probably worshiped by killing Abel, thus presumably helping the soil.” : So, it must Ravé been a Sounle of other fellows who devised war.

] APA'S PURSE

ERICH mow. said young John Roosevelt as he returned from Europe and. headed for Hyde’ Park, “my funds are a bit low.. Will I'be glad to see the Old Man!” ~The “Old Man,” who has been hearing the same line pm. corporations, states, cities and politicians for the last e years, must be'getting a little bored, |

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Hitler's Policy of Demanding Nazi Loyalty of Naturalized Germans Is Renewal of Kaiser's Hyphenism.

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—It is nothing to

fret about at the moment, but the attitude of the Hifler Government toward Germans who become naturalized in this country is a renewal of that hyphenism which

became a synonym for disloyalty during the war. Under the present policy of the Nazi Foreign Office, Germans who take out American citizenship are encouraged, in fact, exhorted, to remain German, nevertheless, and loyal’ to the Swastika as well as to the Stars and Stripes. The Nazi system to which these Germans are asked to give continued allegiance is a contradiction of everything to which they swear devotion when they take out American citizenship. Moreover, they are inferentially asked to commit the crime: of perjury, because anyone who retained his regime, though swearing allegiance to this country and forswearing Hitler in particular, according to ithe formula, would be taking a false oath. The Nazis have caused us little trouble up to now, and their comic strutting, saluting and heiling in their summer camps, is mere foolishness compared to the plotting and political tunneling which their agents have conducted in Austria, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia. In England, also,‘ they planted a great swarm of political spies to check the activities of German sojourners and refugees, and the British,took notice of this when they kicked out several phony journalists,

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N Austria, long ago, they plotted and directed the assassination of Premier Dollfuss who may have been a great man, or a great man to be rid of, according to your opinion, but was, nevertheless, the head of a foreign state. In Switzerland the Nazi Gustloff organized groups of Nazi political agents in the guise of social clubs which were disbanded by the Swiss Government in defense of its sovereignty. In Czechoslovakia, a democratic country, the Nazis have been organizing for a long time, claiming minority rights which they do not grant in Germany. Like the Communists in our midst, whom they much resemble in their mental processes, our imported Nazis, including not a few who have taken out American citizenship, insist on the liberties guaranteed by the American Constitution and laws, while serving a regime which has abolished those very liberties. It is no trivial matter when the government of one nation, through the agency of these socigties, actively promotes disloyalty among the naturdlized citizens of another nation. % ” » ”n . HIS, however, was thé method of the Kaiser's Government, and the Hitler Government nowadays revives that msthod, although it needn’t follow that a naturalized German who still likes to hang around with others from the Fatherland to drink a few steins and sing a few songs of an evening is keeping his fingers crossed. He may be honestly delighted to be out from under the terror and be a citizen of a free country with nobody to curb his opinions. Nevertheless, the Nazi policy of dual allegiance, recently re-emphasized in the great reunion of hyphenates under Hitler's auspices, tends to create sus- . picion of all bunds here which engage in marching and semimilitary formations under foreign flags.

: naturalized Germans abstain from such activities and shun the company of hyphenates, but that would be evidence of good faith.

> | ® . The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

ASSAILS HELLER ON STATE JOB SYSTEM By P. A, T

Dick Heller's open advocacy of the spoils system, as evinced in his speech to the Democratic Women’s Club on Sept. 7, is the worst exhibition of bad taste made to date by a State House employee, Indiana citizens and taxpayers can be filled only with disgust at such pronouncements as the following from Mr. Heller's speech:

“We have had a hard time finding places for the many hard-work-ing 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. You can be assured that we will dismiss first those who are not members of this club and the Hoosier Democratic Club. . « » I never shall hesitate to dismiss my best friend if he is disloyal to the Administration.” There are those of us in Indiana who believe in giving the merit system our patronage. We rather think there are other qualifications of greater interest to the taxpayer than whether or not our State employees belong to a couple of Democratic or-

"ganizations, particularly when there

is some doubt as to there being more than - gentle solicitation in their membership campaigns. But what makes us blush for Mr. Heller is his statement: “Like all of you, I'm working for Governor Townsend and State Chairman Jackson . . . .” So we see a political party through its reliance upon the use of patronage feeling responsible not to the persons who voted for it, but to the party organization which is maintained by patronage. The “will of the people” thus becomes an empty

‘phrase.

2 2.x WORKERS’ ALLIANCE WANTS REAL DEMOCRACY, HE SAYS

By Charles E. Black, Chairman Local No. 80, Workers Alliance of Indiana I am writing in regard to an article in The Times recently by E. A. Evans on unemployment. One paragraph had no bearing at all upon the story, except maybe as a mild form of Red baiting. The paragraph follows: “Many Congressmen regard the Workers Alliance as a left wing organization dominated by a group of New York radicals whom they sus‘pect of being interested only in

causing trouble for the Govern-

ment.” The Congressmen who are supposed to believe the above statement were glected as representatives of the majority of the people to

«carry out their wishes in the form |

of laws. Instead, the Congressmen betrayed their faith by delaying action on the most important problems of the day—the Schwellenbach and Allén resolution, wage

| and hours legislation and others. There is no legal reason to demand that honestly :

I often have wondered who, in their - opinion, constitute this supposedly democratic country of ours. 1 The, majority Sonstistes the toil-

(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.)

ing masses of labor and: farmers who have built our country, not those who live on the workers. I am sure the Workers Alliance is not causing trouble for our country; we are only trying to get a portion of a living in a‘land where there is plenty for all. The Workers Alliance, like Presi‘dent Roosevelt, wants a real democracy and not just a sham. Just a short while ago the Workers Al- | liance staged a demonstration against the unjust cuts made by WPA because Congress refused to appropriate sufficient funds for relief. - t » ” » TERMS TAX MONEY

BEST INVESTMENT By Hiram Lackey

R. L. has raised the question as to ‘whether I pay taxes. His question gives us an insight into his understanding of American tax problems. He argues that if a man pays high taxes he feels it and becomes interested in good government. If we are to follow his reasoning, if we are to agree that interest in good government be the result of paying high taxes, then I must be a heavy taxpayer. The fact is that all independent workers are forced to pay taxes. As a rule, the less a man pays, the greater is his personal sacrifice in paying. R. L. would do well to recall that his tax money is his best investment. What other money gives him greater security and happiness? How: long would you hold your property from the mob if it were not for the pro-

~ MY LOVER

By ALICE SULLIVAN When I was just a tiny child, I often dreamt of love And’ in my- childish fantasy I fell in love with you!

A child I am no more - But still I dream of love And all my fancies are the same I'm still in Jove with you!

And now .you say, “Be mine,” How can I doubt my heart? You are my dream come true I'm still in Iove with you.

DAILY THOUGHT

Blessed are they that keep His testimonies and that .seek Him with whole heart—Psalms 119, 2.

» s » P= is so characteristically

calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbear-

ance implies strength.—Bulwer.

tection you enjoy from your tax investment? I should like to.see people who continually howl about taxes forced to live for a while in a land where there was no government,

Taxes are our greatest protection. from greed. R. L’s problem of “shelling oui” is not a mere tax problem. These tax howlers don’t like to shell out. When I see some men reking in money off their counters, unwilling to spend a cent, I offer praise for the Gross Income Tax Law! R. L. speaks disparaging'y of 99 per cent of ourpublic officials. Then he belittles and seeks to discredit idealism—the only thing that gives a Lincoln-like heart to a Harding or a Hoover, In a nation as a whole, the political idealism of Plato has never been tried.

Such men as Edward F. McGrady |

should be given security by government. And if our rewards be so low that he cannot hold the honest, efficient men we have, how can we expect to attract more?

Taxes are high. I sincerely sympathize with the poor who carry an unjust burden. We can improve our tax situation by making Government positions attractive to superior men. We can make our offizials ir.--dependent of graft and the unwholesome influence of bankers. Our tax money-—paid out for interest—and stagnant in banks, is our serious evil. But since almost every organ that controls public opinion is controlled by bankers and since American indifference and prejudice are what they are, I see no silver lining. ‘When we have good men, such as President Roosevelt and Covernor Townsend in office, the most constructive help we can offer consists not in disparaging remarks but ia letting them know we appreciate their service. » o 2

SEES STATES LOSING

GUARANTEED RIGHTS By A. J. McKinnon In regard to Governor Tov/nsend’s address at French Lick against Senator VanNuys, we know exacily what it is all about. This fight against

the American people that Roecsevelf, Farley, Guffey, Minton and others

put on is not all summed up in the Supreme Court plan. The real effort behind this fight is

| to strip the states of their power and | .| establish a despotism. To prove my

tatement, I might quote Senator J. Pope Lewis in Congress:

e advance of the Federal Gov

rnment has multiplied itself to such’

a degree as to drive the stales back to mere provinces or political divisions of the Government of the United States. We have no longer a ‘union of states’ but we now have @ state of the union.” » I am pained to say that the policy of my Government has cast the die and that the states are nn longer being preserved as a branch of the Government. Ne must

rise to the issue.

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FRIDAY,

From the Pittsburgh Press.

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By Heywood Broun

Earliest Americans Won Fame by Backing Cause of Underprivileged; Agitation Is Word for Progress.

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—The notion that -

Franklin D. Roosevelt has created class antagonism is naive, It would be much more accurate to say that class antagonism has created President Roosevelt. Nor can any . chief executive in this country be completely neutral in all clashes between the haves and the have-nots. Rie ‘And this point of view is not based whally: on a survey: of the present situation. Even the most casual student of American history must realize how unpatriotic it is to label all cur=~ rent racial ideas as alien. . This is decidedly unfair to native spitit and intelligence. America from the very beginning has fashioned a large amount ~ of radical thought for the foreign’ market. There might never have beet. a French Revolution if there had not been an American one. No land is well off when the balance of trade in progressive ideas res mains against it, but I insist that America has developed as gallant a band of agitators as any competing founiey,

Mr. Broun

“3 08 » ® 0 g WT are in our schools today are taught to revere many who in their own times Were. regarded as men both dangerous and subversive, . hub I’m afraid that this element in the careers of thie great dead is often glossed over by the teachers. It is difficult to remember that the grandfather of Oswald Garrison Villard was a man given to the utmost violence of expression. And just the other day I was reading Mike Gold’s column in the Daily Worker and happened, upon the following Parsgraph:— “The ' lesson of these times is the vulzinily “of wealth. We know that wealth will vote for the same thing which the worst and the meanest of the people vote for. Wealth will vote for rum, will vate for tyranny, will vote for slavery, will vote against the universal ballot, wiil vote against international

copyright, will vote against schools, colleges or any high direction of public money.”

As I read these words I thought to miyselt, “The Communist writers sometimes exaggerate, ‘and few of them realize the value of moderation in , eXpres. sion.” :

” » 2 ” B= then I noticed that the words in question were not those of Gold himself but an extract which he was submitting .from the Journal of Ralph Waldo Emerson written in the year 1854. I suppose that to many of us the name of Emerson suggests utter New England respectability and conservatism, but here he was lashing out at the economic royalists

in terms far more bitter than any which Franklin :

Roosevelt has vet utilized.

I think it will be found that most Americans who have been accepted by succeeding generations as great were individuals who sided passionately with the underprivileged. Quite possibly there were those “in Concord who regarded Emerson as an outside agitator from Boston and who were prone to say that he gught to go back where he came from. 5 After all, agitation is merely atiother “word for progress. Human liberties never have been advanced and never will be won by contented cows.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Lewis Tearing Leaves From. Books of Huey Long and Father Coughlin 0

In His Endeavor to Pry Administration Help for His Beloved C. I. O.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 10.—The leading commentators whose judgment I most respect seem to be agreed that John Lewis’ hand grenade tossed at “those who have supped at labor's table” is just'a petulant gesture. They say he has no place to go if he quarrels with Mr. Roosevelt. ‘They predict that he will soon be back in the nice warm

, New Deal bed and all will be forgotten.

I hate to disagree with such experienced observers and I don’t pretend to know or to be here making more than a conjecture—but Mr. Lewis’ strategy I think he is tearing & leaf right out of the books of the late Huey Long

and taking lessons from the career of Father |

Coughlin.

These gentlemen, by differing devices, procured’

for themselves vast groups of fully-trusting crusading followers. worshiped these two leaders as heroes and were supposed to be willing i follow wherever those heroes e

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NEE of these Pied Pipers could have created a third party. Neither could have controlled the nation. But at different times the power of each both in Congress and in influencing the President—was very great. By one apie ‘speech, Father Cough

made a clearly decided to follow th urt,

The Washington Merry-Go-Round |

Secret Conversations by America and Britain Plot Course in Orient; Roosevelt Administration Ready to Take Firm Stand to Block: Japé.

Both were personal armies of zealots who-

down, roll over and jump through hoops. The White House was afraid of him right up to his complete deflation. Huey Long had a similar weapon—growing strong-

er right up .to the day of his death. The White

House was. afraid of him, too. These men were both, during the heyday of their power, members of the strange and conflicting assortment of political bedfellows: who make up the New , Deal.

Youns not them but their following. - H.. | : OHN LEWIS is now convinced that the New Deal takes its friends for granted, that if you serve faithfully for love and ask for nothing, you will get

just that. Mr: Lewis is not politically so unwise as to make

, Father Coughlin’s mistake with Mr. Lemke and tread

the rocky terrain to the third party precipice. Unlike Huey Long, he is not trying to serve himself. He realized from the, record that the New Deal does not respond to gratitude. Its polyglot aggregation can best be bluffed into action by a militant minority bloc bound together by special interest. However bad such strategy may be for the Sou, Mr. Lewis’ political is Sougect and, for the ad-

They were hated, but they were feared.’ They got what they wanted, not in reward for love and service, but as a tribute extorted by the Shresy of |

ASHINGTON, Sept. 10 —British ‘and American conversations regarding the Far East have gone much farther than has leaked out in the newspapers. Representatives of the two Governments actuallyj have discussed what course they would follow in case of an “incident” tending to drag one or both

‘countries into the melee,

Details regarding these conversations have been ascertained by one of the Merry-Go-Rouncers, re-

‘cently in London, and are corroborated here.

Judging by these conversations, the Roosevelt Administration is more anxious to play a decisiv2 role in blocking Japan than appears on the surface.

Probably it will be denied, but U. S. officials have

.emphasized to Britain that if Japan conquers China

she may build up an empire with which ro white nation can reckon.

British officials have coBeurred and have pointed

out that such an empire would ruin the U. &. cotton belt. Given a stable government, China could produce tremendous quantities of cotton, and Japanese mills

could sell the finished product at a price thet would

wipe out the British textile industry. £8 8 =

. 8. OFFICIALS have also taken the view that the world democracies need to take a fArmer

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institution and would be an example for Mussolini and Hitler. Thus an object lesson in the Far East would help to maintain peace in Europe. U. S. officials appear more willing to take the Japgnese bit in their teeth than the general public would suspect. Secretary of State Cordell Hull believes that a firm stand should be taken against Japan for her aggression. He goes so far as to believe that. 21 it is

now. American naval strategists are Complete og cent and-are- urging the British to send ‘at least" battleships: from the Atlantic. and Mediterranean | R] Far. Eastern waters. fod ® 8 = : : ‘ 3 MERICAN and British naval straits] worked out an economic blockade. of Japan they believe would subdue her. It is based upon the fact that Japan is a group of ‘Islands and must import everything by sea. By stationing fleets, at. the Singapore Naval Base and at the Panama Canal, British and American

_naval strategists believe they could blockade Japan

sflecijvely. "Most of her supplies must be imported by hese two routes. ' The only other source is China, now Ie enemy.

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