Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1937 — Page 12

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MONDAY, SEPT. 27, 1937

IT’S SMART TO BE SAFE

HOPEFUL sign in the gloomy auto accident- picture has come this year with the opening of school. The hard, uphill fight for safety has proceeded on an everbroadening front until today, in the schools, the campaign extends from kindergarten through college. It is to Indiana’s credit that it led the nation in placing traffic safety courses in the required high school curricula. “Traffic safety” is achieving the status of a fashion vogue. Few persons consider it clever any more to speed or run a light when a policeman isn’t looking. Almost everyone, within his own family or the circle of his friends, in recent years has recoiled from the horrifying nearness of death or injury on streets'and highways. We believe public opinion seldom has been so united as it is today behind the demand to make those streets and highways safe. This demand may yet result in a new antiaccident slogan—'It’s smart to be safe!” Certainly Indianapolis’ fine organization of Junior Patrolmen is working toward that end. Aiding in this same work over the country this year, 250,000 boys and 3000 girls are safeguarding daily seven million of their playmates near school buildings and at intersections. Press, radio, cinema, schools, stage, lecture platforms and other agencies are preaching traffic safety in all its many aspects. : = = ” 2 ” » IN the face of all this, many are discouraged because the 1937 Indianapolis auto death toll is higher than last year, because Indiana still ranks among the “most dangerous states,” because the nation’s fatality figures are appallingly high. Students of the problem reply convincingly that dozens of cities and many states have swiftly and drastically reduced their accident totals by scientific safety programs. Some have the mistaken idea that such a program is in progress now in Indianapolis, because of the enforcement drive by police and courts. Unfortunately this is not true. Some important groundwork has been laid, and the enforcement efforts should not be minimized. Plans have been made for nationally recognized experts to co-ordinate the safety work here. We hope Mayor Boetcher and Chief Morrissey will follow up this start with vigor, conscious that delay means the needless deaths of men, women and children.

A MERCHANT OF IDEAS DWARD A. FILENE used no ordinary yardstick of achievement. The son of an immigrant, he became a prosperous businessman. He started as a clerk in a small retail shop, and became the head of a great department store. He was denied a college education, yet he became an understanding patron of the arts and sciences. But that part of his life which most interested Edward A. Filene was his career as a citizen of the United States and the. world. After he had demonstrated that it was good merchandising to raise the wages of his employees, reduce their work hours and cut prices, he devoted more and more of his time to persuading other merchants to adopt his formula. After he had shown that persons with small salaries and wages could free themselves from loan sharks by conducting credit unions, he campaigned for wide adoption of his plan to “democratize finance.” He convinced himself that consumers’ co-operatives offered the soundest method for the widest distribution of the products of modern industry. And he undertook to convince others. But Mr. Filene found that merchandising profit-sharing

ideas in a profit-minded society was more difficult than mer- |

chandising commodities. And so as the years of his life passed swiftly, leaving his shelves stocked with ideas which the public was slow to accept, he came to speak of himself as “just an unsuccessful millionaire.”

AND WE HOPE WE'RE WRONG HEN John D. Biggers took charge of the forthcoming

registration of the unemployed, we were encouraged.

: But the plan which the Toledo businessman has proposed to President Roosevelt, and upon which the President has authorized the spending of as much as $5,000,000, doesn’t impress us as a hopeful one. Registration blanks will be distributed by the Postoffice Department to some 31,000,000 homes. Later, mail carriers will collect these blanks. When that has been done, we find it difficult to believe that the result will be anything more than a grossly incomplete “count” of the unemployed. Judging by the history of every similar enterprise, some people who get blanks won't return them. Many won’t understand them. Many, even with the help of the mail carriers, will supply inaccurate information. Many who are unemployed will never get blanks, simply because they have no permanent homes at which to receive mail. And hence, it seems to us, the registration will not be complete, will not be accurate, and therefore may be misleading, which would make it worse than useless. We may be mistaken. We hope we are. We will be happy if Mr. Biggers compels us to admit next December that our doubts were unfounded.

GOOD LEADERSHIP GQETTLEMENT of the jurisdictional dispute between the Marion County Building Trades Council and one of its members, the Carpenters’ Union, leaves one only to regret that it was not ended sooner to prevent some of the bitterness that developed. Those interested in the welfare of organized labor want to see such interunion strife prevented or patched up before it damages the cause both sides represent. Internal rivalry alienates public opinion, creates impossible situations for employers eager to deal with organized labor, and often is unfair to the rank and file of workers. Better machinery is needed for settling such disputes. Apparently in this case intelligent leadership has cleared up a situation that was costly: to all concerned.

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MONDAY,

That Mussolini-Hitler Visit—gy Herblock

WOULD YOU 80OYS " MIND \F I

THOSE SLEEVES?

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler Il Duce's Son Only 21 Years old,

But as an Expert Movie Producer, He Will Be a Success, No Doubt.

EW YORK, Sept. 27.—What a remarkable young man, this 2Y-year-old son of Benito Mussolini, who, without previous experience in the moving picture business, becomes one of the leading Italian producers. Vittorio Mussolini has come to this country to study American methods for a few days, and on his return to Italy will produce movies in co-opera-tion with Mr. Hal Roach. His success is assured before he begins, because failure is not a habit of the Mussolinis. His father’s own newspaper is proof of that. It is a matter of pride, not to say prudence, in Italy to subscribe to the Duce’s newspaper and advertise in the same. The editor usually has a break of from 12 to 24 hours on big

news developments, which make it necessary for all the other Itai-

ian papers to quote from and thus

advertise the Duce’s own paper. This advantage of the news breaks is due to sheer journalistic genius, of course, although a rival journalist might have private, unspoken suspicions that there was some connection between these scoops and the fact that the proprietor of Mussolini's newspaper is also the principal source of news.

Mr. Pegler

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HERE is a superstition, but really no more than a superstition (the Italians are a very superstitious people, you know), that it would be very bad luck for a rival to scoop the Duce’s own paper by independent rooting and digging. And, being so very superstitious, they also think it brings good luck to give prominent credit tc the Duce’s journal in lifting

- news belatedly therefrom.

At times when the war scares are up and shipping by sea and rail is restricted, it occasionally becomes necessary to limit the quota of newsprint for the

. Italian papers, all but the Duce’s own, and this, too,

tends to promote the success of Mussolini's property. It is easy to foresee tremendous success for Viftorio Mussolini in the moving picture business, and the American Mr. Roach is indeed fortunate to have established relations with so gifted an associate. There will be no problems of equipment or stock or talent in the studios of Mussolini and Mr. Roach, and who is the theater operator anywhere in the boot who would have the unwisdom to refuse to exhibit one of

Vittorio’s productions? ” 2

B™ suppose that eh there were? Might it not

be discovered that there was a shortage of electric

power, and that ynfortunately his theater would have

to remain dark far a spell? Indeed? Might he not be picked. up on Suspicion of disloyalty to the Duce himself in declining to show the movies made by the Duce’s son? - : Let it not be thought that the Mussolinis or their particular friends enjoy any special privileges, but neither should it be forgotten that they are very smart people, the Mussolinis and their friends. Americans in Rome soon léarn. Youth is wonderful, and it is inspiring: to observe the phenomenal success of a Duce’s son in any country and in any line of business, whether it be the movies, the insurance and bonding business, the liquor permit business or what. :

: , ® 3 2 The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

BELIEVES G. O. P. SHOWS POOR SALESMANSHIP By William Lemon Senator Vandenburg and other Republican orators fail to tell us what they would substitute for the New Deal—providing they * should

be successful in 1940. Hoover and his Economic Royalists gave the farmers mortgages and labor bread lines. Can such capitalistic persons trusted again? Their first move would be to detroy Organized Labor, then a reduction of wages would destroy the farmer’s market by decreasing the purchasing power of the masses. They show poor salesmanship by denouncing the New Deal without offering us a substitute, but ask us to put our faith in their crack-pot ideas. Like a rabble rouser at a county camp meeting, they paint the New Deal red, and put the horns on the only President we ever had who is a friend of the forgotten man, the man who was not forgotten in 1917.

” = 8 RISING SUN EMPIRE'S SUNSPOTS DISTURBING . By D. A. Sommer

Japan calls herself “The Rising Sun Empire.” We suppose she considers her wanton destruction of China’s university and property in general, and her merciless slaughter of harmless refugees in trains and boats as health-giving ultra-violet rays. But the whole world sees in them only disturbing sunspots. I've often wondered why more people didn’t put their shoulder to the wheel and help push good causes along. partment has solved the problem, and at intervals along the roads announces, “Soft Shoulders.” It’s not the U-boat that should worry Americans now, but the I-O-U-boat—it has sunk many of our homes and may sink the Ship of State. One trouble in the world is that there is too much face-saving and not enough soul-saving. Be happy—as happy as a city boy when he spies a paw-paw bush.

#2 2 =» URGES THIRD TERM FOR ROOSEVELT

By Mrs. Mary Coffin Trowbridge

Speaking of the Republican Party I'd like to call everybody’s attention to the view of the true Republican. No true Republican, now or ever, will stand by the Republican Party while Herbert Hoover, the one who put us just around the corner where we could only starve, keeps blatting all the time. ‘ I was born and raised a true Republican but now, as thousands of

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others, I am a Democrat. And just as long as Hoover is chewing the rag, I'll remain a Democrat. No wonder Landon never ran to any point of interest, when Hoover did all the arguing for him. It looked as though Landon would have had Hoover as his dictator and as his guide if he had been elected at all. I'll never be a Republican again as long as Hoover keeps butting into the Republican Party. If the Republican Party ever hopes to win again, let them find a good man who operates his own brain and uses common sense. I've turned Democrat as thousands of others have. Franklin D. Roosevelt saved the thousands that faced starvation under the depression that the Republicans allowed to be brought upon us. I’ll also tell everybody I won 68 other Republican votes for our great and good Democratic President. We should lteep him in a third term.

PRAYER By R. M. L.

O Lord, Teach me to look at life with quiet eyes And ease the torment and confusion in my soul; Restore to me the will to reach my goal; Becalm my head to act in manner wise,

Let not the pain and bitter loss of ties So dear and needful to the balanced whole Of happy living, sear and warp the scroll We call the mind, into some hateful guise.

Forged by fires of pain, adversity, From weak, disastrous mental shackles freeing, Let me attain a strong serenity And grow into a worthy human being.

DAILY THOUGHT

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.—Mark 11:24.

WISE man will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

URGES CAUTION IN USING AIDS FOR DEAFENED

By Robert L. Keeney, Vice President, Indianapolis League for the Hard of Hearing I wish to protest and make public a situation in Indianapolis and other cities in Indiana: Exploitation of the deafened. A number of “remedies” and so-called deaf relief instruments are on the market to foist upen a gullible public a menace to health and happiness. The Indianapolis League for the Hard of Hearing, in endeavoring to help those who are “slightly deafened” and others whoare very hard of hearing has protested the use of instruments and aids not recommended by-the American Society for the Hard of Hearing. If you are hard of hearing consult a competent otologist or physician before trying to relieve your deafness. The Indianapolis League, Chapter 66 of the American Society, offers to the hard of hearing in Indianapolis information those instruments "and aids that have proved beneficial to the deafened. For your own sake, regardless of the integrity of the firm selling them, beware of deaf relieving instruments unless administered or advised by a good doctor, ! 2 ” 2 YEAH! MAN SAYS ‘HUGO’ MAY ‘SCRAM’ By George Sanford Holmes Is it true what they say about Hugo, Hugo Black, the justice chosen overnight? Although now a judge de luxer, He's a gold-card, lifetime Kluxer Who will wear a robe of black instead of white?

Is it true what they say about Hugo? That he joined. the Klan when bigotry was rife; That he swore to text and tenet, Got elected to the Senate And is now Supreme Kourt member for his life?

Is it true what they say about 2

Hugo? That he failed to kome kuite klean to F. D. R.? That this New Deal Kourt reformer Was. an Old Deal Klan konformer, When the law was merely feathers mixed with tar?

Is it true what they say about Hugo? THat for politics he joined the K. K. krew? But if he has outgrown it, Will he publicly disown it, Ere he mounts the bench Katholic and Jew?

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Is it true what they say about Hugo, Hugo Black, the silent judge from Alabam’? If they prove he is a Klucker, Who'll turn out to be the sucker, If the Pres’dent tells him, “Hugo, you go—scram!” }

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

They Will Always Come Back— And So Will Legions of Mikado Relinquish Their Hold on China.

EW YORK, Sept 27.—The armies of

Japan press deeper and deeper into the heart of China and the rulers.of Nippon would have us believe that they will not come back. They will come back. High on the slopes of Olympus sit the

sisters three. Clotho spins the web of life. Lachesis measures its length and Atropos waits with shears

-in hand to cut the thread when the appointed time

is come. They are ancient and to the Greeks they seemed a somber trio. That is not true, for they sing at their work and little jokes pass between them. When war lords cry out, “History is on our side and we will, follow the course of destiny,” the. old girls giggle. i They have seen the elephants of Hannibal go up to the Alps and over. They have watched the legions of Caesar tramp through the sacred groves of the Druids. They heard the tears of Alexander and saw the bloodstains on the snow in the retreat from Moscow. The proud armies of Japan will break and veturs, for the ebb is mightier than the flood. The bird of destiny is on the wing and he is heading home.

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Mr. Broun

ET the war lords of the world read history, for it is written that victory in the field is nothing more than a flourish of trumpets, and when the last note dies away there is no echo and the silence comes. The tattered banners of the brave brigades will never wave again. Deep in the dust lie the eagles of the conqueror and grass grows in those places where the aspirations of the aggressor have been given back to the earth. All victories are Pyrrhic, for an army does not march upon its belly, but upon the necks of its own people. A bomb is dropped in Nanking and in Osaka an increasing burden falls on the back of the working masses. The leaders of Nippon will learn too late that the same bayonet thrust which pierces a Chinese coolie tinges with blood that moon which hangs low above the mean houses of the toilers of Japan.

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Ther say that to his people the Mikado is a god, but even gods have been cursed and cut down when they visited too heavy a tribulation upon their worshipers. Men will starve a little while for the sake of an emperor. For a span of days or months or even years they may bed down with privation if

such a mate‘is painted up and passed off to them as

glory. But there will come the morning when each worker in Japan will wake and know her suddenly as a hag and harlot, The conflict in the Far East will not be settled by the planes which dart in circles above Nanking, but in ‘the rice fields of Japan. The thread will snap. Behind the far-flung army lines will come the roar of the aroused millions drowning out the sound of the siege guns. And to his own the Mikado will have to make such answer as he can when they cry out for bread and peace. The bird of destiny is on the wing. The armies of Nippon must follow the course he sets. They will come back.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Herbert Hoover and Lammot du Pont Wave Flag for Republican Party; Old Guard Doesn't Want La Guardia to Sit at Constitutional Convention.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 27.—The New York State Old Guard won’t let Mr. La Gudrdia be a Republican delegate to the State Constitutional Convention. Mr. Lammot du Pont says he doesn’t

believe in any government regulation. Mr. Herbert

Hoover refuses to rub himself out as Republican candidate for 1940. Herbert goes further. He thinks he is Paul Revere. Trumpeting that, “America needs a new flaming declaration of rights and responsibilities of free men,” he undertakes that fiery task. He proposes a new and thrilling alias for the G. O. P., “the party of historical liberalism.” He recites a creed in which he comes right out boldly for peace, justice, law, order and the Bill of Rights.. In all its adipose generalities and elephantine wit,

it would fit right in with any of his awful 1928 campaign dreariness and you couldn't tell the difference. 8 #48 R. DU PONT'S outburst, the freezing out of Fiorello and this cold fire of hibernating Herbert, represent the “pendulum” or “dead-from-the-neck-up” school of current Republican so-called thought. ‘The idea among these Brahmins is that popular favor swings like a pendulum from one extreme to the other. They hope that, from the highest poing of New Deal idiocy, the public is swinging back sO

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Secretary Hull's Attitude Toward Japan Is Revealed in Legion Speech: ‘Depend Upon Japanese to Play Their Cards Wrong,' He Said.

-that they will effectively make it. If gars be ade Applau

‘President, replace the Senate with the American Association of Manufacturers and move the House of Representatives over into the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. ; : It isn’t just that this country’s belief in the Old Guard's “historic liberalism” has changed. The be-. lief in that old bun is gone from almost the whole human race. The world has opened Pandora's box, the genii have come out in the form of smoke from the fisherman’s corked vase; and not all the wishes and efforts of all the frozen-faced reactionaries in the world are enough ‘to box or bottle them up again. s ” ” ” : HE task of the opposition is not to show us how to go back. We are never going back. Their job is to show us how we can go forward without. bankrupting the country, changing our governmental form, wiping out the wages of workers and the savings of everybody—how we can go forward without wreck= ing the ship in which we are sailing. This New Deal crew is so intent on going forward that it doesn’t care whether it wrecks it or not. | There is a real issue—hot, honest and sufficient but it can’t be made unless the opposition means it and puts up leaders who can convince the country

by freezing out Fiorello,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Those who talk with ‘Cordell Hull while no diplomats are around report that his eyes snap and he even drops his Tennessee drawl at the mention of the word “Japan.” Inside fact is that Mr. Hull is ready to go farther than any other member of the Cabinet. in maintaining a stiff policy toward the Japanese. He was absent from Washington, attending the American Legion convention in New York, when the American Ambassador left Nanking to escape the Japanese air raid. Otherwise the Ambassador wduld not have left. ‘When Hull returned, the Ambassador went back to the Embassy. The key to Mr. Hull's policy in the Far East can be found in his position toward the Versailles Treaty. He was a devout Woodrow-Wilson-League-of-Nations man. Then a member of Congress, Mr. Hull concurred with President Wilson in the three-power alliance by which the United States tied with France and Great Britain to keep the peace of Europe. ® 8 = “WE have made it clear,” Mr. Hull told the Legion convention, “that while we are resolved by every means to avoid war, we are not and cannot be indifferent to policies that lead to war, or to in-

Stances of international lawlessness that disturb “the

of peace and a very patient man, believes that the saturation point of patience may, be reached in the Far East. President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull have similar views on the Far East, with the exception of one phase. Remember that Mr. Roosevelt is a great naval enthusiast, spent eight years under Woodrow Wilson building a big Navy, has pushed the Navy as never before during the past four years. To a considerable extent he shares the Navy’s viewpoint on the Far East. That viewpoint is—If Japan seizes control of China, she may become a serious threat to a white standard of living across the Pacific.. The difference between Mr. Hull and Mr. Roosevelt: \ is that the President feels public opinion in the United States may not be Fesdy. for a stiff attitude toward Japan. s = =

HE man who ordered Ambassador Nelson T. Johns son to leave his Embassy in Nanking for the. safsts of a U. S. gunboat in the Yangtze River was 80-year-old Acting Secretary Walton Moore. 5 Mr. Moore’s chief nightmare in life is Americafy ° neutrality. He even went so far as to issue an order barring passports to American doctors and nurses aiding the Loyalist Government in Spain. Never before in History ‘had the United States