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SATURDAY, OCT. 9, 1937

INEXCUSABLE

HE brunt of the unwarranted tieup of home milk deliveries continues to fall on the public—on babies and invalids particularly. The State has ordered distributors to resume milk deliveries by tonight, asking union drivers and companies to reach a settlement by then. Whether the labor dispute is settled now or not, deliveries should be resumed at once. Police protection has been offered for peaceful deliveries. Only three companies are involved in the drivers’ strike. There can be no acceptable excuse for the wholesale milk stoppage that affects every family in the city. Neither side should be willing to continue a course that only can bring a terrific public reaction,

JAPAN: SPOILED CHILD NLESS all signs fail, a new Pacific and Far Eastern conference is on the way designed to restore the peace and balance of the Orient. : Japan, of course, will be invited with the other NinePower Treaty signatories, perhaps with Germany and Soviet Russia added. And the invitation will not be merely a matter of form. The other powers really desire Japan's presence above that of any other nation. Nor do they want to put her “on trial” for violations of treaties and covenants and invasion of China. What they want is to induce her, if possible, to come back within the spirit of the postwar peace pacts which she had flouted. Unfortunately for Japan, she has come to believe she can be a law unto herself. She is the spoiled child of the modern world. And like a child accustomed to getting its own way by flying into a tantrum, she may be in for a lot of grief before she is many years older. Having stalked out of the League of Nations and thumbed her nose at the Covenant, the Kellogg Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty, Japan blandly tells the world that these things may be all right for others but not for her, The East, she says, is not ready for them. Which is like a gangster telling his community that law and order may be all right for others but not for him—a very convenient arrangement if he can get away with it. » " ¥ UT can Japan get away with it? Until this week it looked as though she could. Facile victories and good luck in the past had combined to convince her that she was invincible. Yet her defeat of China, in 1895, meant nothing. The Chinese then still believed that falsefaces and firecrackers won wars. Her next opponent, Russia, was likewise a pushover. Russia's monstrous war machine was mostly papier mache painted to look like steel. And the World War gave Japan no opportunity for a tryout. Which brings us down to contemporary Chinese history. Surely after Shanghai, 1932, when the Japanese went up against China's Nineteenth Route Army, and after what is now taking place on that same battlefield, the Japanese should at last realize they are not supermen. This is not said in belittlement., Japan has performed miracles since her emergence after centuries of seclusion. And her soldiers display qualities of courage second to none. But when either men or nations start to acquire the infallibility complex, they are likely to be on their way to a fall. It is much too early now, of course, to forecast the outcome of the proposed conference. But after all has been said and done, Japan may find she has the choice of re-entry into the world community, or ostracism. And ostracism would probably prove more than this spoiled child of destiny could stand.

‘ROOSEVELT THE CONSERVATIVE’ DOUBTLESS it will shock many Americans to learn that Tory Britain thinks the United States is a backward country and Roosevelt a conservative. Since it sometimes does us good to see ourselves through the eyes of others, The Times reprints herewith a recent article by the Financial Editor of tlle London Daily Telegraph: “It is astonishing, but true, that Wall Street's fanatical hatred and fear of President Roosevelt has in recent times grown even fiercer than ever. Suggestions that the President may summon an emergency meeting of Congress or that he may stand as a candidate for a third term of office have preyed very seriously on Wall Street's nerves. Hardly less menacing as & bogey to Wall Street eyes is the threat of the continuous successes of Mr. John L. Lewis’ campaign for recognition of industrial unions. “Observers of English history of the last 30 years would rank President Roosevelt as a sound conservative reformer of an amazingly backward country. They would probably also rank Mr. Lewis among the conservative labor leaders, although he happens to be faced with the problem of quick realization of working-class aspirations which in other industrial countries have been achieved gradually over decades. “Sp great is the Wall Street obsession on these matters that in that street you can hear free talk of the impending breaking up of America's social fabrie. City (financial) men in 1911 in London talked of the prospect of grass growing in the streets when Mr. Lloyd George started his social reform program, but it has not happened and it will not happen in America.”

RHETORICAL NOTE TODAY'S award in the mixed metaphor sweepstakes is hereby presented to Attorney General Homer S. Cum-

mings, who said: “That is a bridge we will cross when we come to it. Let me stick to my knitting now.”

» ” »

City folks are wondering what the Administration is going to do for the never-normal pantry.

Judging from pictures of the honeymoon places, the » Duke is an authority on good housing.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

A Study of Housing Problemgs—By Herblock

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Perhaps President

Pointed Declaration Will Prompt |

Hoodlum Nations to Ask Time Out.

EW YORK, Oct. 9.—The President's speech on the hoodlum nations was & shocker, the more startling because he engaged in no preliminary argument, but just busted them one. The same tone of voice a

few years ago would have been much more effective, for the Nazis were less sure of themselves then, although their intentions were almost as plain as now. As matters stand, they and the Italians are armed to the eyebrows and spoiling for a fight and both are exporting their lunacy to other countries too weak or listless to resist. The Italians have been less troublesome here, but now some are quite openly and arrogantly allied with the Nazi organizations which conduct semimilitary formations on the hospitable soil of an indulgent nation. Both Mussolini and Hitler have openly declared their contempt for democracy, the Duce, in his latest editorial lumping it in with communism, liberalism and everything else he doesn’t like. Hitler's sentiments are the same, and it is surely no mistake, in view of their oft-expressed detestation of American ideals, for the American President to let it be said for the sake of the record, that the loathing is mutual. » » ”

Te look ahead, as the President did, what can this country expect when the stickup nations have taken over Spain, and, as Mussolini predicted for tomorrow, made all Europe Fascist? After Europe has

been consolidated, what about us? We are a rich country actively envied and only a little less heartily

hated for our success not only in material things but | in governing ourselves by the consent of the governed, |

a matter in which they both achieved miserable failure. This is a case in which two men and a few hundred subordinate leaders are threatening the peaceful nations with war. isn't able and ready to protect itself, for they are set to pounce on any desirable spot of geography which isn’t well defended, and they are only beginning to feel their muscle after years of preparation for nothing else but conquest.

HERE is no use attempting to reason with them, for they speak a language peculiar to their men-

tality which sane and honest people cannot under- |

stand. A sample of this is the statement of the

spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office who said |

it was Japan's policy “to carry on her peaceful development on the continent (China) not for the sake of the Japanese alone but for the happiness of the Chinese.” Certainly this country has ne desire for war and its most warlike feeling is one of resentment against nations which threaten to force the world into war. Possibly the warning of the President, though nonspecific, will be sufficient to make the hoodlum countries back away and avoid a rough and tumble, for they had not counted this country among their possible opponents, and their calculations may need revision and their preparations more time.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

State Department Has Violated the Spirit of Nation's Neutrality Acts; Branding Japan Aggressor in Chinese Conflict Is an Unfriendly Move,

ASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—~Well, here we are again, taking sides in a war. Our State Department has announced that Japan is the aggressor in China. While that is a plain fact, in the efforts of nations to keep out of other peaple’s shindys it has been customary to refrain officially from what are known as “unfriendly acts.” Branding one belligerent or the other as an aggressor is strongly taking sides. It is not neutrality.

The policy of this nation touching war was laid down in the Neutrality Act of Congress. That policy is to keep out of war. This act of the State Department is an executive violation of the spirit if not the letter of that act of Congress. This surprise action committing the country to a course it had repudiated seems to be defended wholly on the ground that the war in China is undeclared war, So it is, but Japan could cut all that ground from under us by declaring that a state of war exists.

® ” » APAN might also say, “What are you beefing

about? Didn't you do the same thing to Nicaragua

and Haiti? Didn't you twice invade Mexico by force and arms without declaring war? : Of course, that kind of “you're another” stuff doesn’t get anywhere, but if we are going intp this on

the grounds of equality and high idealism, it would be better to have ¢ledn hands.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

| GEN. JOHNSON CALLED | UNDISOIPLINED

By Hirman Lackey

Will Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson please study any one of President Roosevelt's speeches and observe the habitual pains to which the Presi-

dent always goes to speak accurately and truthfully? Then will the good General please contrast his own column with the President's statements. Surely Gen. Johnson can understand why President Roosevelt does not choose him to be his adviser. If Gen. Johnson will read scientific books, such as Dr. Howell's physiology, he might grow to appre[ciate the wonderful accomplishment accuracy is. Let him note well how scientific writers use such words as | “indicate” and how sparingly they | use .the General's favorite words | everything, everywhere, all, always, | only, never, ete. | If the General wishes to write and | say things just “to produce an | effect,” that is his business. | he wishes to become an adviser to | a man in a responsible position, he must pay the price, He must practice intellectual discipline. He must

balance to use his intelligence. If he wishes to become President Roosevelt's adviser, he must find some kind of intellectual exercise that is more constructive than repeating Al Smith's and Herbert Hoover's advice. Also, he must appeal to the President's sense of logic. The quickest way to do that is to praise the President's logic in laboring to convert the Supreme Court into an instrument of democracy. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the General is develop[ing the Al Smith complex. ” ” »

PICKFORD WRONG HERE, | ST. LOUIS PAPER SAYS From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Talking to the amateurs of the | Civic Theater at Indianapolis, Ind. | Mary Pickford is quoted as saying: | “Hollywood is a racket.” Continuing in that key, she advised her audience: “If you are interested in acting, stay at home.” That may be sound professional counsel, but it flatly contradicts the whole history of the theater. ‘The strolling player” of legend and rec- | ord was ever a rolling stone. How

| much had the stage and literature | lost if Shakespeare, wife's importunate tears, had choslen to be a Stratford poacher? | “Hollywood,” in the voice of vaga- | bonds, was calling, and so “to Lon- | don town.” Through the studios of Califor[nia's desert, a long procession has filed. The swift transition from the ludicrous fumbling of awkward beginnings to the Florentine magnifi- | cence of today has been a sort of [Trojan war. Priam and his sons

gin to roll—we started it.

But if | cALLED RUTHLESS

develop the courage and emotional |

moved by = | Fulfillment

Don’t let's forget one thing about today's incidents when a few months or years from now the drums beIt is now said that we can get by now by joining with our allies of the World

(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.)

and daughters have proudly reigned and bitterly wept, Hectors preened themselves in mortal and Olympian favor, to be dragged around the

| walls at last by the heels, while vin|'dietive, strutting Achilles was him|'self charioteering to a crash, | the Helen of this tawdry Iliad has

But

been Mary Pickford, upon whom Hollywood has lavished fame, fortune and the dizzy eminence of royalty, Her Majesty might speak Hollywood well, it is humbly ventured, or keep silence,

" Ww Ww ROOSEVELT STATEMENT

By Otto N. Moore In his Marshalltown speech Mr. Roosevelt said those who do not like certain objectives say, “Oh, yes, we do like the objectives, but we do not like the methods proposed by this particular fellow.” Such a statement is ruthless and vicious, He does not say whom he quotes or disclose the objective of methods, But by th very nature of the statement he points the accusing finger at any and all who object to the setting aside of the methods set out in the Constitution and the starting upon an uncharted cruise with a blind policy of, “means justify the end.” There are millions of honest thinking people in these United States who love and trust the Constitution, and they will in the end triumph over public officers Who have a scrap-of-paper attitude toward it.

SANCTUARY

By F. F. MACDONALD

Together we knelt in silent prayer At the altar of mutual love Though lips were still, o'erflowing hearts Cried out to God above, “Eternal God of love divine, Our union bless till life is done, grant that we may

know

| in existence which would

That love and life and God are |

one!”

DAILY THOUGHT

READER DEPRECATES PEGLER'S COLUMN By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind. Westbrook Pegler, specialist jejune journalism, takes

in

filling his mouth with a lot of cheap talk filtered through Senator Ellender's hat, sneaks around behind it and demolishes it with his artillery. And at the head of his carping column stands the deceptive head “Fair Enough.” Hiram Lackey wrote recently in

the Forum that the only term that |

ably described Pegler was “literary

coward.” That is actually a compli- | “literary” |

ment, There is nothing about anything he ever produced. One Forum writer who says he is a literary “gourmet” and sauce with his steak, onions with his fish, dill pickles with his gingerbread, relishes Pegler's stuff as a spice. Most anyone likes a little seasoning with the menu, but a rot-

| ten egg spoils the whole feast.

"> Ww Ww SEEKS INFORMATION ON SCHULYER COLFAX

| By Wiltard H, Smith, Goshen

I should like to make an appeal for information on the Schuyler Colfax. I am particularly interested in securing first-hand information such as that contained in unpublished diaries and letters which he wrote or received. But any other kind of first-hand information, whatever the form, would be greatly appreciated. A number of kind friends, in Indianapolis and elsewhere, already have given me substantial aid in locating such material, bul since Colfax was a voluminous letter writer, there must be many letters throw light on the life and times of Colfax. Families or librarians having or knowing such materials would do me a favor by corresponding with me at Goshen College, Goshen, Ind.

REGRETS RADIO LISTENERS

LACK INTEREST IN U. S. By J. ©. I understand from radio broadcasts that the people are more interested in the foreign countries than in our own country. Of course, there are two ways to look at it, but we must stop to think of the un-

Even as I have seen they that |employed people in this country and

plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.—Job 4:8,

some on the verge of starvation. With high rent and the cost of liv ing, from what I see, if this keeps

ELI, does Heaven take care up we will not have to go out of the that no man secures hap-|U. S. A, to find war, as it will be

piness by crime.—Alfleri,

right here, You can believe it or not.

puerile | pride in setting up a man of straw, |

likes |

life of |

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Ideals of Woodrow Wilson, Once Repudiated, Come to Light Again; Concerns of the World Are Ours.

EW YORK, Oct. 9.—If Woodrow Wilson were alive today he would be entitled to smile broadly though grimly over a news item originating from Boise, Ida. After reading Mr. Roosevelt's Chicago speech, Senator Borah gave out a statement in which he said, “Every American will support the President in that policy.” But this was a speech in which Franklin Roosevelt declared for concerted effort by the neace-loving nations of the world. Has the Idaho Lion so soon forgotten that he put the knife into the ribs of the League of Nations and became the father and founder of American isolation? Indeed, when the League had been killed by the diehards of the Senate all the victors proudly pro=claimed that the issue had been settled for all time as far as Amers joa was concerned. Europe, and, indeed, all the other nations beyond our borders, were to stew in their own juice, “ ”" ” 1 AM not a passionate partisan of Woodrow Wilson, It seems to me that he fumbled in entering In the war and erred again most grievously in the terms of settlement to which he agreed, But at least he had more foresight about the future than the men who said. “Let them stew in their own juice.” The fumes of that devil's brew bring contagion on the wind and there is no wall high enough to keep the poison from the very air we breathe. Peace cannct be regarded as wholly a local issue, Tt will be said truthfully enough that the League has been a feeble thing with a record of failure in every orisis. Tt will be said, but it should not be said by any of the men or forces in this country which doomed it to defeat by driving home their daggers. The old League is dead. Of that there can be little doubt, but it now hecomes the duty of the na=tions of the world to build a better one on a more democratic basis. In fact, it must be a league of peoples, for there can be no great hope for anything which a little group of diplomats may achieve in secret session,

Mr. Broun

” ” ”

RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has spoken of “quarans tine,” and the word will suffice, since it is an epidemic disease against which the democracies of the world must guard themselves, But the President has already said too much or too little unless he has in mind the development of some definite program of effort by which the plague of fascism can be effec tively localized. We mus’ be quick and frank in recognizing the forces in Europe which are sincerely devotad to peace and those which are committed to war as the last toss of the dice in maintaining their system, It is sound to say that fascism is actually a syno= nym for war, The Italians have a right to the form of government which they want, and the same is true of the Germans. Although, for that matter, so have the Chinese and the duly constituted Loyalist Republic of Spain. But the fact we must face is that Mussolini and Hitler press for world conquest, We ought to play our part in establishing an economies boycott, It is a small world and we are not alone,

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Dave Beck, Labor Tsar Who Beat C. I. O., Runs Seattle With Mailed Fist;

Northwest Strife Showed F

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—President Roosevelt met many politically powerful people on his trip West-—Governors,

Senators, Congressmen, local

War—England and France--to put economic pressure on Japan and never go any further. But if we start that and others go further, what do we do then? Do we say, “Go ahead and finish up the war, boys. We got you into it, but you can get yourself out.” » ” » HERE is only one thing more absurd. That is the idea that you can trip up a great power like Japan by choking off her lifelines when she is engaged in a death struggle and ever convince her again that you have not made war on her. Yes, or convince yourself if you want to be honest and frank

with the world. The conduct of Japan toward China is brutal, in-

human and inexcusable. If we are ready and willing to go to war again—not to defend ourselves--but to punish one nation for what it does to another, okay. But if we don't, let us not let any aspiring teacher of the “better conscience of ail mankind,” or any new interpreter of “the great heart of the world” orate us into the idea that condemning one side and making economic war against if. is not of itself un‘declared war,

bosses, newspaper publishers and leading business executives—but by far the most powerful was a gentleman who bears only the innocuous title of “Organizer for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the 11 Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast States,” but who actually is the tsar of Seattle and the dominant factor in the Northwest. The gentleman in question is Dave Beck, sometimes called the John L. Lewis of the West, though he uses tactics that make Mr, Lewis seem meek and mild in comparison, By these tactics, Mr. Beck has fought the C. I. 0. to a standstill and made the Northwest the one stronghold where the A F. of L. still reigns supreme.

” » ” R. BECK has made Seattle the most completely unionized city in the United States. When the Newspaper Guild went on strike against the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about a year ago, that paper was forced to close down chiefly because Dave Beck willed it. He merely refused to let his teamsters haul its paper. A year later, when the Newspaper Guild pulled another strike, this time against The Seattle Star, it was a flat failure-—all because Dave Beck was on the other side. For by this time,

. D. R. That Labor Rivalry Is Major Problem.

the Guild had joined the C. I. O. and Mr. Beck was its vehement enemy. One of the first things which John Boettiger, sone in-law of the President, did when he became pube lisher of The Post-Intelligencer, was to form a friend« ship with Dave Beck. Mr. Boettiger has had no more strikes and Mr. Beck has been able to give the appearance of basking in the favor of his friend's Presi= dential father-in-law.

” » » WO things have put Dave Beck ahead in life, One is mailed-fist tactics, the others is selling employers on union organization, When the sit-down strikes got started Mr. Beck

went to Seattle employers, waved the danger flag as to what would happen to them if the C. 1. O got a foothold, told them to sign up with his more conservative unions in order to stave off a worse fate. The strategy worked. Employers don’t particularly relish Mr. Beck, but they give him credit for keeping his werd. Jurisdictional warfare in labor never reached such ruinous extravagance as is being witnessed in the Northwest today. This was one of the factors which made Roosevelt return East convinced that perhaps the chief problem of the New Deal was not the Supreme Court, budget balancing, or war in Asia, but the growing bitterness between the rival

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