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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1937

THE KLAN’S DECADENCE

HE Hugo Black incident has had at least one salutory effect in Indiana and many other. states where the Ku-Klux Klan reigned with vicious intolerance in its heydey. That effect, we believe, has been to make clear that the Klan has little chance to rise again.

_ No important defender of Senator Black has championed the Klan. Both sides, in fact, denounce the racial and religious bigotry of Kluxism. Reassuring are the indications that most of the former Klan followers themselves now disavow the venal tenets of the hooded order. Perhaps, somehow, the people realize that the dictatorships abroad are built on the” same liberty-crushing methods, the same exploitation of intolerance, that once caused the Klan to flourish in Ameri¢a. The people have seen enough of both, and they want neither.

Y.M. C. A. DRIVE HE annual Y. M. C. A. membership drive, drawing to a close this week, calls attention to the wide range of interests and needs which the organization serves. Services to boys have been advanced during the past year, with new stress laid on Hi-Y and Gra-Y clubs in the schools, on the physical program, camps, neighborhood and church groups and educational work. This year 1140 boys were enrolled in the Y’s “Learn-to-Swim” campaign. Other activities are widespread. The free employment bureau made 140 placements. A free day school or junior college enrolled 363 young men and women. The “Y” is nonsectarian, nonpolitical and nonexclusive. It fills an important community need..

THE LARGER BUDGET

T was fitting that President Roosevelt talked as he did at Bonneville Dam, about conservation. For the northwest country in which he spoke still retains most of its natural wealth and beauty. While promising to balance the Federal budget next year the President also promised to do all he could toward what David Cushman Coyle calls “balancing the resources budget.” That means keeping the nation’s human and natural wealth from being depleted. Those who think America has played the part of a wise husbandman in the past should read a book called “Rich Land, Poor Land,” by Stuart Chase. It is one of the saddest books of our generation, for it tells how our get-rich-quick ancestors have brought to this lovely wealthladen continent “stinking rivers, charred forests, the incomparable filth of cities, the wretched shacks of tenant farmers along ‘tobacco road.’ President Roosevelt thinks-we should stop this wasting. He thinks that the wise use, the replenishing and the developing of these resources is as much a part of national housekeeping as balancing the Federal budget. And on these problems more and more Americans have come to think as the President does. .

WHAT IS PEACE? TWENTY years ago two corporals in shabby uniforms faced each other across the No-Man’s-Land of the World War—one of them in the German Army, the other in the Army of Italy. : Yesterday, from the sdme platiorm i in Berlin, those two men talked while a jittery world strained its ears to catch what they said. For the moment it was actually more afraid of the verbal bombshells which might drop from the lips of the speakers than of the actual bombs dropped by Japan on China. But the verbal bombshells failed to materialize. The’ two corporals—Chancellor Hitler and his famed visitor, Premier Mussolini—dropped olive branches instead. Instead of scaring Europe to death by jointly rattling their sabres, the keynote of their meeting was peace. Indeed, there are growing indications that the two dictators desire a rapprochement between their countries and Great Britain and France—a pact to safeguard the peace of Western Europe and the Mediterranean. But the next word still is not quite up to Britain and France. They will want to know the answers to a lot of _ things before they make it a foursome. Quite as Mussolini says, “secret but well-armed forces are engaged in turning civil war into world® war.” Will Italy and Germany, then agree with the others to withdraw their help from Spain? : When the Fuehrer and the Duce say they want peace. do they include all Europe or merely Western Europe and the Mediterranean? For France, certainly, and probably Britain will never agree to stand by in Western Europe while the Nazis carry out their plan to annex Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Apparently the seed of some new European entente is being planted. Whether it comes to fruition is another question. However, if the two corporals of peace can satisfy London and Paris on such points as the above, collaboration is possible. And peace in Europe would go a long way toward curtailing the rampage in the Far East.

CIVIC THEATER DRAMA

ITH the Civic Theater subscription drive well ander way and the opening date of its first production, “No More Ladies,” two weeks from Friday, those who enjoy legitimate drama would do well to arrange for membership . and seats at the Playhouse. “No More Ladies,” a sophisticated comedy of modern marriage with an abundance of clever lines, should prove an entertaining opening vehicle. Alfred Etcheverry, new Civie director, will have’his first chance to show Indianapolis audiences what he can do in the way of light entertainment,

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By Westbrook Pegler

American Numbers Racket Finds Its Equivalent in British Football Pool—Promoters Make the Money.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—The Glasgow Herald has published a study of the football pool which is the British equivalent of the American numbers racket. the football pool has been attacked on moral

and economic grounds for years and is now governed by certain easy restrietions, it remains legal nevertheless, and the gross turnover in a season of 36 weeks, from August to April, is estimated at from

$150,000,000 to $200,000,000. There is no legal limit on the amount of profit which the promoters may deduct, but the large dealers, who are now banded together in an association, profess to take down not more than 5 per cent for themselves. Their expenses are estimated at 15 per cent, leaving 80 per cent to be distributed in prizes. The claim that profit is limited to 5 per cent is not binding, and, as the Herald says, must be taken on trust, but the paper finds no evidence that the large dealers have exceeded that figure.. Possibly they, like the promoters of the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake, have decided that it would be wiser in the

long run to take less than the law allows. # s ” HE sweeps promoters arbitrarily limited their percentage to a fraction of their maximum legal

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- due in the belief that they would create good will and

thus last longer and eventually make more.

However, an independent pool operator has noth-

ing but his conscience for his guide, and cases are cited in which one dealer deducted 77 per cent for profit and expenses and another held back 64 per cent. The British football pool could not be operated in this country except as a racket because it depends on the postal service for existence. The mails carry the coupons on which 6,000,000 gamblers attempt to guess combinations of football scores and the money is transmitted in the form of postal orders. ;

” ” o HE operators profess to conduct their business on the parimutuel pattern, and it is likely that the big ones do. Thus they are running a sure thing even though they minimize expenses and restrict their profits. Losses from bad debts, unavoidable owing to a peculiarity of the British law requiring that all bets be made on credit, are deducted from the kitty in the guise of expenses. The credit system is a dodge devised by the operators, to circumvent a law which forbids the wagering of ready money except on the actual premises where the contest takes place. Consequently, each customer gets his first bet on credit and thereafter his remittance is supposed to cover the bet of the previous week. : There have been phenomenal winnings which are advertised widely to tempt the suckers. One guesser won $105,000 on a 2-cent bet, and last February a bet of one shilling returned more than $305,000. These advertisements, which are welcomed by. many of the reputable ‘English newspaper publishers, create a much greater impression than the calculations of learned professors who have pointed out that

the odds are 531,419 to 1 against a correct forecast of the results of 12 games and 14,348,906 against the same result as to 15 games.’

EW YORK, Sept. 20.—About the silliest defense of our 37-billion-dollar debt is that we ought

- not to kick because it is no bigger Telatively than the

debt of England and France. Those nations had much bigger debts when the war began. They were bankrupted by the war which hit them harder than us and left them with much greater debts—impossible debts. We paid off much of our debt before the depression. They paid off a lot less, if any. The depression hit them as hard as us—but they did not use it as an occasion to double their debt—as we did. ! The average man doesn’t care very much. On

the contrary, he is told that this is part of the Roosevelt plan to take away from the “haves to give to the have-nots.” On his Western trip the President has

said it has benefited this country. The people who.

take the most trouble to study and know the real dangers of the vast public debt, the simple mystery of finance, are financiers. But if they point out any dangers, the Administration says they are modern Macaulays, that they are just trying to fool the country to prevent Mr. Roosevelt from taking away their money to give it to the poor.

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I wholly disagree with what you ‘say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

FLOWERY SPEECHES EMANATE

By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport

Well, the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution is over and, without doubt, you all heard many long, ‘loud, loquacious and lofty speeches-—but, if you want speeches you should go to Philadelphia, where the Fiorists’ Telegraph Delivery Association is holding its convention , , . Headline: “Fred MacMurray Likes to, Lose Himself in Crowds.” In my opinion he has never emerged from one , .. On a charge of extortion, they've got a chap in jail who threatened to “expose” a movie actress—well, I don't think that the movie actresses need much help in that line, . . McNutt made so much fuss over the way he was to be toasted that many have just decided to roast him instead. . . . From the Irish Free State comes the news that a man has been found who has never heard of the Great War, Edward VIII's abdication, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera, the Black rebellion, or the Free State itself! Oh, yes, and what was the man’s name? Well, I can’t remember, but I think it was U. S. Sena-

there on his vacation. ” 2 ” PUBLICITY COSTS HIGH TO AID SPAIN, PASTOR CHARGES By Rev. P. A. Deery, Bloomington Your issue of Sept. 20 contained an excellent account -of the Spanish War. I wish to congratulate you on the true and honest statement of facts. Mr. William Philip Simms epitomized the whole situation in a few words. He declared: “With every available rescurce, Soviet Russia is fighting to gain foothold for her ideas in Spain.” It is an historical fact that Russia has been working in Spain for the last 10 years. Soviet Russia is also working in the United States. Many peace movements in this country have their origin in Moscow. At the present time appeals are being made in this country to assist the Soviets in Spain. The Communists of Spain are asking the people of the United States to send people, money and supplies. Considerable funds have beén collected in this country to help the Russian Government in Spain, but most of the money has\ been retained in this country to promote the Russian propaganda. The State Department of our Gov-

facts: The American Committee fox Spanish Relief, New York City, reported contributions received—$30,753.96. Under the heading of “Contributions Sent to Spain”—there was entered the word “None.” It listed Funds Spent for Administration and Publicity—$25,793.72. It gave unexpended balance—$3340.22. Here is another interesting report. « The North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy reported contributions totaling $61,597.47. Funds spent for “Publicity” and Adminisration were given as $36,866.97—almost twice as much as the $18,841.12 reported as having been sent . to Spain. - This organization reported an unexpended balance of $15,327.36. Last winter the good people

General Hugh Johnson Says—

There's No Logical Basis for Comparing U. S. Debt With That of Allies; The Average Man Doesn't Seem to Care, but His Security Is Threatened.

(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.)

of Indianapolis donated $150 to this fund. 3 » » ” CHALLENGES FACTS IN ‘QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS’ By Joe Saunders In its Questions and Answers column, The Times recently stated that Cheops (Pharaoh Khufu) probably built the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, about 4700 B. C. This is, of course one of the many wild conjectures predicated on the conflicting testimony of secular historians and romancers, whose dates assigned to Egyptian chronology vary anywhere from 300 to 3000 years. The date (4700 B. C.) is only an arbitrary guess, with no more factual basis than the popular fiction that Haile Selassi is a direct descendant of King Solomon. Modern archaeologists generally are agreed that the Pyramid was designed by the Great Architect of the universe; that it was built under the direction of some one of ancient Hebrew patriarchs—possibly Melchizdek: and that it is specifically referred to in Isaiah 19:19-20. They also are agreed that the Great Pyramid, by its location, its construction and its measurements, not only

AGE

By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

Behold the ruins of this old farmhouse, Untenanted except for bat or mouse, Or some small spider or perhaps a snake. What strange Sppearance it seems " now to make.

A link Between the future and the

__ past; ; : Its life is over, save to last and last Beyond ‘all usefulness to slow decav, A ghostly silhouette beside the paved highway.

Each nook and cranny and deserted wall Exudes some memory beyond recall; Yet motorists who pass with cryptic smile = May live to be as it is, afterwhile.

DAILY THOUGHT Be thou 1aithful unto death and - I will give thee a crown of life.— Revelation 2:10.

Far is to believe, on the word of God, what we do not see, and its reward is to see and enjoy what we believe. Augustine.

CORRECTION Through a typographical error, the Bible quotation in Daily Thought for Sept. 20 was incomplete. The quotation should have read: “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. ‘I. John 3:15.”

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demonstrated every known. mathematical axiom, even to the squaring of the circle, but confirms the chronclogy given in the Bible and indicates the date of its building as 2150 B. C. While it might be objected that the “Pyramidologists’” offer as proof for their claims the conclusions of scientific investigation, anyone who is familiar with the writings of Piazzi Smyth, Robert Menzies, John and Morton Edgar, must.admit that their findings are far more plausible than the statements of the historIt is a most reasonable—and charitable—conclusion, that the venerable Cheops did not possess the wisdom to design the most massive and unique structure on earth. And to believe that the Pyramid was built 572 years before the creation of Adam—which the chronology of the Bible shows was 4128 B. C.—would be quite a severe strain on the credulity of many herd-minded wayfarers who peruse the columns of The Times witha punctilious regularity. 2 8 8 THE CANNING SEASON IS ON By R. M. L.

This is the time of the year in which Fingers of housewives possess an itch To get out the kettles and pots and pans, Hunt up the glasses and jars and cans, Try out the cooker to see if it perks, Grinding the canner to see if it works, Get the tools ready and then for the show, Half an eyeful would let you know The canning season is on.

Bushels of peaches, tomatoes and beans, Cucumbers, beets, and maybe some greens; . : Apples and apricots, plums by the crates, Nectarines, oranges, grapes; Fruits of all kinds for jellies, preserves, Marmalades, bar le duc, jams and conserves. : Then for a winter's palate to tickle— Chutneys, relishes, catsup and pickles. The canning season is on. L’ENVOI When shelves are all stacked with jars full of food, Goodies for winter in plentitude, Glowing contentment the housewife then feels Certain her family won't miss any meals. 2 » ” REMINDS OF NOTE-WRITING AND ‘EDGING INTO WAR’ By D. K. Hope those Nanking bombs don’t carry “Made in America” labels . . . Now is a good time to remember how this country once began edging into war by writing notes. . . . Judging from our last experience,

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end it everywhere. . .. The fact that the President’s train went through Nebraska at night is no sign that Senator Burke is a bedfellow. Some of the New Dealers are reversing Wheeler Dam and using it for a slogan.

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By Heywood Broun

Another Subway Series Looms; Alas and Alack! That Means No Pop Bottles Flying, No Fighting.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—It looks like a sub way series. And the prediction has been made that the receipts are likely to establish a new high for baseball. But from an esthetic point of view a contest between the Giants and the Yankees is less than the

ideal setup. There will be too much fair play. On the field the gladiators may brawl and tangle, but neither imprecations nor pop bottles are likely

to be thrown from the stands. I suppose that rooters of the big town may still: be roughly divided into Giant and Yankee fans. But the civil war is over. The scars have healed and sectionalism no longer prevails.. Indeed, just the other day I heard a fan explain, * “Why, I'm for both teams. I applaud good plays on either side.” - There was a time when such an attitude would have been held to constitute rank heresy, and anyons who uttered such sentiments would have been sent to coventry. Even today it might be possible to organize a small partisan baseball group on the island of Manhattan, but it would be necessary to go far back into the days when the American League was just dawning in New York. It would be a club founded somewhat along the lines of the D. A. R., and it might well be called Sons and Daughters of Highlander Rooters.

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EN » > F the original stalwarts who went to that tiny park, too few are left to be effective and I am afraid that their fervor may not have passed on fo their children and grandchildren. As one who watched the new team come to town and languish I would like to hear from other original Highlander Rooters and see if we might not club together to create some memorial for the only neighborhood professional ball team New York has ever known. There ought to be a tablet to mark the spot where Wid Conroy played an indifferent third base and Kid Elberfeld fought the umpires, the opposing team and the ball in his role as shortstop. As a matter of fact Medical Center now occupies

the ground where Harry Wolters, Bert Daniels and Jesse Tannehill used to roam.

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T would honor, of course, Mr, Ganzel, the first baseman of those early days. In spite of the brilliance which Hal Chase brought later to that particular job I've always regarded John Ganzel as ons of the best fielding first basemen I have ever known. But his batting was quite a different matter. Whenever he came to the plate in a pinch the fans, all 30 of us, would groan in unison.

And Pop-up John himself presented a most doleful countenance. He walked out from the bench with the hopeless gait of one who has been summoned from: a condemned cell to the little room from which there is no returning. Given three fomrades on base, John Ganzel could hit the highest pop fly ever known in organized baseball. He couldn't have done better if they had allowed him a spade mashie, instead of a bat. But we original Highlander fans were always faithful unto death. If we do organize, I think it will be found that most the members of the devoted band are actively at work in the promotion of lost causes or minority movements. The rival city team, the New York Giants, represented success and big business and pennants. The only championship the Highlanders seemed to be competing for was the championship of the underdog.

The Washington Merry- Go-Round

James Roosevelt Gets His Baptism of Fire as Father's Press Officer: It's an Acid Test When Reporters Get Temperamental Under Pressure.

our unwieldy debt has greatly weakened our defense against war. Starting with the most luscious national credit of all time, this country spent far more on the World War than there was any need or excuse for spending. By not taking proper negotiable instruments of debt for billions loaned to other nations, it lost them and thus paid for a large part of the cost of the war, not only to the Allies, but to Germany, The next lunacy was.the idea that we could keep our farms and factories going and abolish poverty after the war, by lending bankrupt foreign customers the money to buy our goods. Again we sent uncounted ‘private billions across the sea: : » 2 » / EXT came the New Deal financial debauch. We cut the gold content of the dollar and that was a forgiveness up to 40 per cent of every debt owed this country either by foreign nations or individuals. It was a special discount to foreigners as compared with -Americans of 40. per cent on the purchase of any stock, bond or manufactured article in our markets. And they took advantage of it by the billions. How much of our wealth has been wasted on foreigners? It is an incalculable but ineredible amount, t half our deb

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

BOARD THE PRESIDENTS TRAIN, Sept. 29.— President Roosevelt is subjecting his politically ambitious son, Jimmy, to an acid test on this trip. He

‘has made him press liaison man—the toughest job on

the train. Handling reporters on a trip like this is a grueling day and night grind, requiring the patience of Job and the disposition of a martyr. Working under high tension, the correspondents are as temperamental as prima donnas. White House Secretary Marvin McIntyre used to handle press relations on transcontinental trips, but was a dismal flop. ‘Although once a newspaperman himself, he seemed uiterly unable to get. along with the correspondents—chiefly because he incessantly hung around the President and the ds couldn’t find him when most needed.

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; Jory is taking his duties very soPiontlvi: He is al-

ways available, affects no airs, gets replies to queries promptly (something Mr. McIntyre never did),

.and appears eager to be helpful. -

One of the correspondents received a telegraphic inquiry from his editor at 2 a. m. It wasn’t important and could have waited until morning. But he decided to test Jimmy's good nature. Kicking on Jimmy's compartment door, he demanded action.

“Okay, I'll be right with you,” young Mr, Roosevelt and he . Si

missary”

The Presidential train is similar in equiptment to the 1936 campaign caravan. It consists of eight Pullman and compartment cars,

.a diner, changed whenever the train is switched to a

new railroad, and the President's private car. The 30 newspapermen and photographers who are chaperoning the President, plus his military aide, doctor and secretarial staff, are quartered in compartments, two to a room. Local reporters, politicians and other guests, who travel part of the way, are put up in a Pullman car carried expressly for, this purpose.

NOTHER Pullin. prodide. sleeping quarters. for waiters and porters. Ordinarily they would bed themselves in the dining car. But because the reporters demand restaurant service most of the night the car is kept open and the waiters work in shifts. A compartment in the car adjoining the President's is the official White House office. The President's home on this tour is the “Roald Amundsen.” . On previous trips he used the “Pioneer,” but the car is being overhauled and was not available. Like the “Pioneer,” the “Roald Amundsen” is a Pullman-owned private car. The company has 38 others like them. Rental is $75 a day, plus “comexpenses—food, flowers, etc, In addition the railroad charges 18 fares to haul the car. The total cost of the car for the trip will be more than