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o Light and the People Will“Ping Their Own Way

THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, 1937

MARK FERREE

MONEY GOES UP IN SMOKE = HE oy Council continues to run away from the smoke problem. : By killing the ordinance to tighten present regulations it adds another page to the long record of failure to deal adequately with this costly nuisance. The Council's attitude! seems to indicate that smoke

abatement here still is in the educational stage:

No group

of public officials could perpetuate such a civic evil as now plagues Indianapolis if citizens were keenly conscious .of the waste and uselessness of excess smoke.

Yet some progress has been made.

Many industries,

not through any altruism but because smoke control means

“fuel saved and lower operating costs, have curbed the evil. |

Many business leaders and others interested in the city’s development now recognize that smoke is a halter on community progress. Slowly, but with a few gratifying signs, more householders are realizing that it actually costs money

to harass their neighbors with smoke.

.So they are saving

money by learning better firing. methods. With such equipment, manpower and legal weapons as are available, the City Combustion Engineer’s office is aiding the antismoke campaign. After a recent survey, 25 industrial concerns were warned to change combustion equipment or fuel. More rigid enforcement, along wiih a continued educational campaign, should help convince offenders that the worst evils of the smoke nuisance can be eliminated at a saving to themselves.

: ON SHIVA TEMPLE CIENTISTS, risking life and limb, have climbed a precipitous shaft of earth jutting for nearly a mile into the sky from the bottom of Grand Canyon in Arizona and ~ found it crested with a wooded mesa that probably has been isolated from the rest of the world since the Ice Age. This “island in the skies” yielded a few crude arrowheads of flint, fragments of pottery, plant life that resembled that of Canada, and two tiny leaf-eared mice. What, one wonders, will scientists find of our civiliza-

tion 20,000 years from now?

Will they, perhaps, poke

around Manhattan Island and find embedded in the rocks a piece of machine gun, an auto spring, a broken champagne glass and, scampering through the woods, a couple of city

mice?

In his fanciful novel, “Lost Horizon,” James Hilton told of a temple built high in the Tibetan Mountains by monks who were busy storing there contemporary man’s treasures of art, science and culture against the time when wars will

have swept race has Sd:

the earth clean of everything else the human eved. Reading of wanton destruction in two

of the earth’s great cities—Madrid and Shanghai—this tale becomes less fanciful. :

THE BRASS CARGELLOR HEN Adolf Hitler warns foreign nations to keep hands off Nazis organized in| their midst to promote his ideology, he hits an all-time high for gall. While busy exiling Jews because they are Jews; persecuting Catholics and Protestants because of their religion; beheading Communists because they are Communists; discriminating against all who are not Nordics, and purging

the countr

f) those he suspects of disagreeing with him,

he takes time out to tell other nations they must give his supporters free rein. | For sheer arrogance this latest of his gestures would be hard to match. Not that we believe Nazis in this country

should be molested because they happen to be Nazis.

On

the contrary. The very last thing we should want would be for America to imitate Hitler in his treatment of dis-

“senters. What rankles is his intimation that a free country

might be so medieval a thing. Anyhow, Hitler at last has won for himself a title. If Bismarfck was Germany’s “Iron Chancellor,” Der Fuehrer should be known as the Reich's Chancellor of Brass.

WALL STREET'S. COMPLAINT

EN who make a living in the stock markets complain that Government regulation is hurting their business. As usual they talk about something of which laymen know little. This time it is “liquidity.” £ But it still is pertinent to examine the methods by which the stock traders and brokers propose to inake the markets more liquid. One proposal by Wall Street men is that the Securities and Exchange Commission go easy in its efforts to sep-

arate dealer and broker transactions.

The SEC thinks it

is not in the public interest to have the same men taking buy and sell orders, in the capacity of commission brokers, land at the same time peddling securities for profit, in the | capacity of dealers. Another proposal is that the Federal Reserve Board

reduce the margin requirements. Anyone who buys stocks

now has to put up his own money to the extent of 55 per cent of the purchase price. And if the price drops, he has to *‘cover up” with more of his own money, so that at no time may his borrowings exceed 45 per cent of the market

value.

Some men in Wall Street want the cash margin

knocked down to 40 per cent, so that a stock trader’s transactions may be financed by 40 per cent of his own money ‘and 60 per cent of other people’ S money.

Doubtle

ess that would be a good thing for the brokers.

And it would be a good thing for those speculators who guessed right, for, having more of other people’s money to * play with they could trade in larger lots. But what about the general investing public? After ‘all, stock markets exist primarily to provide a medium through which investors can buy and sell and industries can

raise capital. way on borrowed money may be just the thing to provide a liquid market and pep up business in Wall Street, the prosperity of the country is not gauged by the daily turn-

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And while speculators gambling in a large

“over in security holdings. Stability of investments is much more impor

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doesn’t promote stability.

.ments for war and destruction that ever appeared .in: history : : : i siational sues, bi but it hasa's dope that yet.

Early —By Herblock

sav! WHAT YEAR IS THIS, ANYHOW?

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Legion Commander Harry Colmery Didn't Mince Words in His Speech

Denouncing Alien 'Isms' for U. S.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—That was a pretty good speech by Harry Colmery, the retiring commander of the American Legion, especially where he gave the Nazis the rough side of his tongue and loaded Nazi, Fascist and Communist all together on the same boat outward bound. I understand that the Legion condemned naziism and fascism along with communism in last year’s convention, but for some 'reason the triple nature of the 1936 resolution. was not as widely known as it should have been. Well, anyway, this time everybody heard the retiring commander and he didn’t chew his words. “We stand committed to oppose not merely one alien ism, but all such ferces,” said he. “We who have been privileged with the status of leadership this year have not forgotten the mandate given us at our last national convention, which specifically stated that we should oppose communism, fascism and Hitlerism alike. Let us remember that our opposition to these forces stops at the boundaries of our country; we deny them only the right to undermine our own form of government.

Mr. Pegler

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OW we hear from beyond the sea that the German Government claims the right and intends to organize Nazi groups in our country to preach and propagandize naziism here, that it will not tolerate any interference with that policy and that its purpose is to save us from communism. What a brazen affront! : ; “The American people have a right to go communistic if they want to, although the Legion will oppose that to the finish. We have the right to have whatever form of government and follow whatever political philosophy we think best for us. That is our business, and it isn’t the business of any other government or any other people. We have a right to protect our system, to declare that there will be no naziism or Nazi demonstrations.”

. I still insist that communism is no great danger in this country, because, while we are not a very church-going people, as our parsons constantly remind us, one sure way to rile us up is to go around

knocking ‘religion, as the Communists constantly do.

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UT up to now we have been shoving them back on two fronts in the belief that communism was ore sort of menace and naziism and fascism were another. Gradually now we are moving them around to one front where they belong, for there is no practical difference between the two elements and the . pretended differences are diminishing every day as the Communists go more and more Nazi and Hitler goes more and more communistic. Now we had better study up on fascism so we can recognize it when it pretends to be patriotism, because it has a knack for protective coloration that may deceive the most earnest, honest and loyal defender of democracy. The Klan, the vigilantes of all kinds, and a large variety of citizens’ protective leagues are good samples of the stuff that fascism is made of.

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

CRITICIZES ‘CITIZEN’ FOR URGING FAST DRIVNG

By a Physician

Permit me to reply to “Citizen’s” letter appearing in The Times recently. On reading his letter I am reminded of the words of Solomon, “Answer a -fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like him.”

Commenting on the speed limit rule now in effect, his words sound like the diatribe of a high school sophomore attempting to be funny. If an adult, he shows all signs of a 16-year-old at the wheel of a Model T, with no liability insurance, with no financial backing, stepping on the gas and “let every one get out of my way” attitude. - He claims .to “have seen more crackups since the law went into effect.” Yesterday the representative of one of our large auto insurance companies told me that since the speed law was enforced they have had fewer claims for damages than at any time in his experience. How can “Citizen” explain that? He speaks of the “horse-and-buggy days” and the “hitch rack.” It occurs to me that the people of America have been entertained with these expressions before. “Citizen” neglected to greet us as “My friends” and omitted mention of the Klan. These words might classify him as being one of the “favorite sons” who find America his oyster with no regard for the other fellow. Or perhaps he is a Federal employee on WPA work who must dash madly to the project to get his upholstered shovel before the supply is exhausted. Since 1910 as a physician I have driven cars, at all hours of the day and night in all kinds of weather, and no insurance company has been called on to pay one cent of damage through fault of mine. My usual speed has been from 20 to 30 miles. During the past 60 days it has been a pleasure and relief to drive

along the streets because one is not |

continually fearful lest he be crashed into by some wild-eyed speed-crazy driver. If “Citizen” would visit our hospitals and see the human wrecks caused by fast driving, he would be ashamed of writing such a letter. Personally, I commend the police on their efforts to rid our thoroughfares of a lot of irresponsible speed maniacs.

8 ® 2 SUGGESTS BUTTON SALE FOR MATANUSKA AID By Mrs. J. W. Megenity, English

; I have just read of Ernie Pyle’s visit to Matanuska Valley. My heart went along with the children when the U. 8S. called the people to Alaska. I sent four pounds of frost-proof

up to this bill

(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.)

manager of the corporation, but Ernie Pyle says they can never raise corn there. Wait, Ernie, till my dream comes true. When electricity can be generated by cheap wind power in Alaska, then

they can plant iron pipes under | ground and thaw it in time to plant ‘my corn. If they can thaw for gold,

they can thaw for corn. We can pay the bills by letting our children ‘ sell Ludlow Peace Buttons. They are made with the picture of a white dove on a blue background. The dove has a green leaf in her mouth and across the leaf is written, “Ludlow Bill.” I have talked to many people who

‘have not heard of the Ludlow Bill,

but as soon as they hear they are interested. They need to be waked Let the teachers explain to the children and they in turn explain to the people as they sell the buttons. Give the children a penny a button for their work and give a penny a button to the power plant at Palmer, Alaska. This, plus cost of making the button and shippage would cost 5 cents per button. Let's see what electricity can do for the cold, dark north. » t n CORE OF COURT PACKING ISSUE IGNORED, IS VIEW By Z. B. Cutler, Lafayette President Roosevelt, as customary with him, ignores the real core of

the Court packing criticism. Our present-day public is not so

COMMON BOND

By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL So much I wish for him Of good, without the sting— Of bitterness and greed. True beauty may he heed. And know not great despair, When shouldering life’s care I wish so much for him! My winged thoughts clear bring— The inner hopes and prayer Of mothers everywhere.

DAILY THOUGHT

Be not afraid, only believe.— Mark 5:36.

OVE God, and He will dwell with you. Obey God, and He will reveal to you the truth of His deepest teaching.—Robertson.

deeply interested in the vicious practices of law, judges, business and politics of our shallow history. It is interested -in the current exaggeration that puts all the faults on the backs of present judges, and the intellectual crookedness that evades the plain common sense of having judges independent of legislative and executive branches. The faults of our history and current practice lie chiefly at the door of legislators, who have the sole power to make laws and enable

means of enforcement. To condemn judges for this is

wrong. To try and fix the courts|

that judges shall be ruled and rule in accord with the ideas and will of executive and legislative, disregarding inconsistencies and impracticabilities of the often murderous legislation, is wrong. Perversion is no cure for perversion. All the earmarks indicate the present tirade against the Federal

Supreme Court to be.the product of |

hard-boiled politics. The old-timers among the hard-heads of the Demo-

cratic Party, well knowing most of |"

the New Deal fantasies inevitably are doomed to failure, simply put up the job' of making judges the scape-goats. Of a man who would make a ceremonial occasion a conveyor of his own self-praise, it is further to be expected that Constitution Day be likewise used for political pot boiling. 2 2 8 F. D. R’S CONSTITUTION DAY SPEECH RAPPED By Martin Wiegal ; In his Constitution Day speech President Roosevelt said -of the Constitution “This great layman’s document was a charter of general principles — completely different from the ‘whereases’ and ‘parties of the first part’ and the fine print which lawyers pub into leases and insurance policies and installment agreements.” I have been selling insurance for 17 years and have never seen. any of the fine print, with its “whereases” that the President refers to. As a matter of fact, insurance companies urge their policyholders to read their policies carefully. The President’s gratuitous insinuation shat the insurance business resorts to sharp and deceptive practices is in line with his evident hallucination that all the honor and decency of the country is confined to those on the WPA or other relief and those of his own political machine, some of who get their living from the thrifty who are still willing to work.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Legion's Aggrandizement Brings Praise; Broun Lauds Emphasis on Peace.

EW YORK, Sept. 23.—It can hardly be

a secret now that most members of the

American Legion do not come to a convention to hear the speeches or observe the debate upon the resolutions. According to the press reports, some 15,000 serious-mind-ed veterans attended the opening session in Madison Square Garden, while a quarter of a million, more or less, danced on the top of trolley cars and set off firecrackers in hotel lobbies, :

This is not said in any captious spirit. I am pointing “with pride

It seems to me that the members of the organization grow in wisdom,

up to 40 years of age or a little beyond it. They are much more eager for a frolic than a fight. They seek their lost youth in violent horseplay, but while a hotel lobby may ‘not be best place in the world in which to fire off cannon, I can think of less appropriate places. The far-flung battle line in China, for instance. In earlier days it seems to me that there was a grave risk that the Legion might be used as a solid Fascist bloc by some enterprising leader. It is on record that in 1923 a national commander did declare Mussolini's Blackshirts were performing the same function which the Legion should take on in America. & 5»

DOUBT very much whether there is such a thing as “a Legion vote” on the general run of national issues in this country. It is better so. ‘Surely it would be less than a healthy democratic thing if some brass hat—and the Legion has such in its membership— could by a word of command mobilize millions to pull chestnuts out of the fire.

But leadership has become more enlightened, To- °

day the Legion puts far more emphasis on the cause of peace than it did 10 years ago. In sporadic instances in various parts of the country there have been episodes in which Legionnaires have acted as

vigilantes or strike-breakers against organized labor,

but on many occasions national officers have pointed out that such activities were without sanction. After all, the membership in the organization is so large that it should constitute a cross-section. of our population. The discipline of war is not productive of individual thinking, Indeed, it does not encourage raising Cain in cafes and along the sidewalks of New York. 2 2 2 UST imagine a gathering of Naz storm-ticopers putting on a jamboree in Berlin in which they, tied up city traffic. The cheerful smile upon the faces of the city police may be growing a little bit forced by now. In Shite of all their fervent protestations. of hospitality, I rather imagine that some of the merchants and citi= zens of the town will be glad when the Legion hands them back as much of Manhattan as is left at the end of the celebration. Nevertheless, it is not in’ the militaristic spirit. Rather it resembles the Yales and the Harvards after the football game. And so I add my voice to the welcome and cry out encouragingly, “Lay on, MacDuff.” “After all, I live in Sa

corn to Don Erwin when he was

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Legionnaires, Convening ‘Again, Show They Are Doughboys Still; \ Avoiding Partisan Alliances, They Are a Stabilizing Political Force.

EW YORK, Sept. 23.—No city ever handled a Legion convention better than New York. It makes you as proud of the police as it does of the Legion. And it was a hard job. Maybe 250,000 huskies came to the city—voluntarily and at great expense as measured by poor purses. They're a little older and many of them are fatter than in 1917, but they're still toygh hombres— ‘and I mean tough. There is something pathetic about a couple of regular soldiers just wandering around the streets of any city after duty. Not enough jack in their pockets really to start anything, but hoping something may turn up and thinking, “Gee, but this is a lonesome town.” Any old soldier could

~ spot them a block away—just a couple of “regs.”

Half of the Legion was not in service six months, but somehow these lads wandering around New York in couples or threes have never shaken off that doughboy wistfulness and readiness.

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OUGH! It wasn't fashionable to be otherwise in 1918. Not aggressively tough and with plenty of lightly corked-in sentimentality, but bad babies in a ruckus. You could put these men into olive drab tomorrow and they would still be an army. These marching platoons are a reminder that, properly mobilized from the uses of peace, the industry and manhood of this nation are the most powerful instru-

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Matthew Woll, C. I. O. Enemy, Praises Lewis at Warsaw Labor Meeting; Rout of Tammany Hall in Primary Reveals Voters' Social Realignment,

These men color the diplomatic and military policy of the United States if they do not control it. They have been in one World War—six million of them.

They would nearly all come back voluntarily to de-

fend this country from enemies without—or within. But it would be hard to get so much as a corporal’s guard to go to France or Spain or China to make the world safe for anything. They are hard-boiled. They have been stung once. They may not understand diplomacy—but they savvy ‘boloney and the great love and admiration our glorious gi allies have for all the Americans.

T Now York Legion convention was a gesture of si cance for the whole world. It didn't give |

any comfort to the Nazis or the Communists, or to highbrows in more orthodox parties who think it would be fine to change our form of government to a one-man management.

Except for Cleveland, there wasn't a President from Johnson to Teddy Roosevelt who wasn’t a G. A. R. It was just a branch of the Republican Party. The Legion has wisely avoided that mistake. It is in no partisan sense political, but in a stabilizing sense, it is potentially one of the most powe political influences in the country. There may be some danger of its making the KuKlux mistake of becoming too “100 per cent American” and taking too active an interest. in Policing the |

‘ Carillo, Mexican delegate to the I. F. T.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen :

ASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—In the United ‘States Matthew Woll, vice president of the American ‘ederation of Labor, is considered a bitter enemy of John L. Lewis and the C. I. O. But although it has not leaked out here yet, Mr. Woll recently made a speech in Poland in which he praised Mr. Lewis and reported that the C. I. O. and A. F. of L. were coming closer and closer together. Reason for Mr. Woll’s sudden friendship for the C. 1. O, was the fact that the International Federation of Trades Unions, meeting in Warsaw, delayed

‘admitting him and other A. F. of L. delegates hecause

of their C. I. O. attitude, A first-hand report on the entire incident was brought to Washington the other day by Alejagideo U. meeting in Warsaw. ” » ” t E said that France, the Scandinavian countries and Mexico all opposed admission of the A. F. of L.. Finally Mr. Woll made his sensational speech. He had spoken on the first day of the conference

—without one mention of C. I. O. But this time, ac-

cording to Mr. Carillo, he was loud in its praise. “The internal labor dispute irr the United States has been grossly exaggerated in the press,” Mr. Carillo quoted Mr. Woll as saying. “It will soon be settled in somtaddly fashion.”

.. Mr. Woll culogized. John Lu Lewis in the highest:

It was only after receiving these assurances that the convention moved to admit the A. F. of :L. ll ML ae . x HE complete rout of Tammany Hall in the New York City primaries was a political lesson of possibly greater significance than the surface shows. It showed not only that throwing brickbats at the New Deal does not win votes—not yet, anyway—but also demonstrated that oldtime party tactics no longer work in modern big cities. Incidentally, it also brought into bold relief the fact that ex-Governor Al Smith is completely washed up as a popular leader. What is happening in New York is that Belghtiorhood politics is disappearing, along with neighbor hood social life. In its place has risen a realignment of the voters along the lines of their vocation and economic position. . One source of Tammany’s strength was the social unity of blocs of voters living in the same district. This was fostered in the local political clubs and corner bars, and by picnics, “block parties” and the like. People knew and mingled with their neighbors, voted for members of “their own crowd.” That geographical division of the city has broken down. The average New Yorker’s social group is now

and tied together by common interest in a union, line of business or Some other factor insiend

Avoidance of Political

rather than viewing with alarm,

The bulk of the Legionnaires are now.

Sauipe) of acquaintances scattered all over the city, labor

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