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SATURDAY, OCT. 16, 193%

THE MILK TIEUP HE city-wide stoppage of home milk deliveries is now in its ninth day. Consumers—and that means every family—are becoming fed up with a situation that forces them to drive out to the dairies or go to grocery stores to get milk. Both sides feel the public revulsion. If there is any legitimate reason why the nonstruck companies should not resume deliveries at once, they have failed to make it clear. And if there is any good reason why the striking union drivers and the three affected companies cannot reach an agreement, that, too, is unclear. Both sides are to be complimented on the absence of violence in a dispute of such duration and proportions. It 1s a fine thing to be able to tell the nation that while we have our troubles, we don’t have to get rough about it. If Indianapolis can establish the pattern of nonviolence and

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SATURDAY, OCT. 16, 1937

The Labor Harmony Situation—By Herblock

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peaceful negotiation in labor disputes, we will have accom- |

plished much. But meanwhile the public, as well as business and labor's rank and file, is suffering from the prolonged milk tieup. This is needless and costly. Responsible businessmen recognize the principle of collective bargaining that is now written into the law. There is machinery and a technique for reaching peaceable agreements. And there is public support for better and fairer employer-employee relations. So there is common ground for an understanding. In a situation that contains a potential boomerang for labor and losses that may retard business, all involved should do everything possible to reach a settlement. SAVING THE PEDESTRIANS DEDESTRIANS are to blame in a large percentage of traffic accidents, said a report to the National Safety Congress which met in Kansas City. w That seems a little like saying that civilians who fail to dodge the bullets and bombs are to blame for most of the slaughter at Shanghai. There were pedestrians long before thére were automobile drivers, and in those days traffic accidents were remarkably few. We think something ought to be said in behalf of pedestrians. After all, they walked with reasonable safety for many centuries, and they have had only about 30 vears to develop an entirely new set of habits. It is true that they sometimes hurry along at the dizzy speed of four or even five miles an hour. They don’t always wait for traffic signals or look both ways before crossing streets. Some of them try to save time by jay-walkings others proceed along the wrong side of country roads, and still others walk after drinking. But instances of reckless pedestrians with defective brakes or wobbly steering gear plowing headlong into crowds of innocent automobiles are rare. And if any pedestrian, drunk or sober, ever caused an accident by dashing along the streets or highways at a mile a minute or more, no record has been kept of that. So we are glad that the Safety Congress, instead of abandoning the pedestrians to the consequences of their evil ways, has recommended these measures for their protection: Foot traffic to have the right of way where control signals are lacking. Adjustment of stop signals to avoid unreasonable delays which are “conducive to general disobedience by pedestrians.” Limited use of traffic lights for pedestrians only. Pedestrian islands in wide, densely traveled streets. These suggestions seem not unreasonable. The pedestrians are survivors of an ancient and, in many ways, a useful race, and those still able to walk ought to be preserved, if possible.

STARTING THE RADIO CLEANUP HAIRMAN M’NINCH of the Federal Communications

Commission has made a good beginning toward clean- |

ing up an unhealthy situation in the regulation of radio broadcasting. In his first act as head of this important body he has abolished the divisional setup in the seven-man Commission. Under that setup regulation of the three communication mediums—radio broadcasting, telephone and telegraph— has been handled separately by units of two members each, with the chairman an ex-officio member of each unit. Hereafter, the whole Commission will give its attention to the three mediums. This is far more than a routine move. It is directed chiefly at the regulation of radio broadcasting, of which so much complaint has been heard. This complaint has been, generally, of two types: First, that the radio division has been susceptible to political influence, and second, that it has failed to take a long-distance view of the ever-growing

nation’s social and economic life, and has, instead, acted without much thought of the ultimate consequences of its decisions. It has followed a day-to-day policy of expediency. The McNinch shakeup move is a recognition of the complaints and the faults of the past. And we believe there is much sense in what the chairman says in announcing his action: “The aggregate wisdom and judgment of seven men is surely greater than that of any two or three of the seven.”

HELP—DON’'T HINDER OHN D. BIGGERS, the Toledo glass manufacturer who

was drafted by President Roosevelt to conduct the vol- |

untary registration of the unemployed, makes what seems to us an eminently reasonable and proper suggestion. It is that those (including newspaper editors) who doubt that the registration can be complete and accurate, refrain for a few weeks from further public expression of their doubts. : Mr. Biggers promises to welcome criticism of the registration’s final product. So, until the final product is submitted, he deserves help from everybody and hindrance from nobody in his unmistakably sincere effort to perform a useful public service.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Who Entertained Roosevelt Party Night Before the Fireside Chat? Tommy Corcoran Fits in Picture.

EW YORK, Oct. 16.—Writing of the family party at the White House the night before Mr. Roosevelt delivered the latest of his fireside chats, Mrs. Roosevelt, in her newspaper column for Tuesday, revealed there had been dancing and singing to the music of an unnamed guest, : “It suddenly occurred to us at dinner,” she wrote, “that we would like to dance afterward. My brother and I decided that we would search the household for someone who could play the piano. At first we could find no one. Then it occurred to us that there was no gentleman coming in to do work 0) who was musical and might be : ive diverted into playing. We corraled Le EN him and he not only played dance pt » music for us, but later the entire a party gather around the piano and vi sang. My husband had as good a J wold time as anyone and amused us all Ek ik enormously by singing one or two , 2S old college songs. “This gay evening meant work afterward for several of the party. When I went in to see my husband this morning he looked at me disgustedly and said, ‘it was 3 o'clock this morning before I went to sleep.’ ” Having named other guests and having rather pointedly omitted the name of the gentleman come to do some work who played so attractively, Mrs. Roose-

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| (ru MIKE? No, not old Charlie. Did you ever see him? Marvin McIntyre? Not the type. Very apathetic, goes to bed early so as to be up at dawn for six rounds with his trainer, an old middleweight fighter. Stanley High? Stanley doesn't live there any more. Could it be Tommy Corcoran—White House | Tommy, as they call him in Washington, Tommy the Cork to the President, the most active spook among the mysterious legion of literary and political wraiths who clank their chains through the corridors of the Government?

before the chat that the gentleman came in to do | some work, and what work would have been more urgent than the chat just then? And who else fits the | description of Tommy Corcoran written by Alva John- | ston wherein he said that Tommy plays Mr. Roosevelt's favorite tunes, that he knows no hours, and that | he often goes to the White House to do some work, especially on Presidential speeches to the country? u td n LL these clues point to White House Tommy as . the man behind the mike while all of us sat and listened Tuesday night, but the tip-off seems to lie in the line where Mrs. Roosevelt reveals that the President looked at her disconsolately and said, “It was

3 o'clock this morning before I went to sleep,” for Mr. Johnson put stress on White House Tommy's practice of eating sugar pills to keep alert after midnight.

ASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Somebody said today looking at recent stock market quotations, “Happy days are gone again.” The slump certainly smells Hooverish, though not so steep and not nearly so deep as his. Traders say it is a nervous market. Experts say it “might do anything.” Some tipsters say it has about reached bottom and it is a good time to buy. This commentator doesn’t say anything. He thought he knew something about the market once and it cost him most of the accumulation of a lifetime to find out he didn’t. ” u 4 WORKED on industrial studies for B. M. Baruch for several years. There never was any more successful speculator than he. Maybe some were more spectacular but the acid test is that he knew enough to make his wad and then knew something much more—how to hold on to it—through the booms and depressions of 40 years. He almost fired me once when he saw me playing with a ticker tape. This is what he said: “Nobody but a professional ever made any money speculating on that thing.”

Then he read this lecture: “If you are ready and able to give up everything else—to study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board,

We seem to be getting hot, for this was the night |

The Hoosier Forum

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

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FOR WORLD'S WARS By Edward F. Maddox |

| We might just as well get ready | for a flood of propaganda urging the | | United States to join with Britain, | | France and Russia to stop Japan, Germany and Italy. In fact the hue and cry has already been raised to | that effect.

BLAMES COMMUNISM | to express

troversies

(Times readers are invited their these columns, excluded. your letter short, so all can have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

(INSISTS U. §, MUST STAY OUT OF ALL WARS | By B. J. R., Noblesville | People of the U. §. must keep a |usht grip on their emotions these

. | days. The conflagration of war is Letters must | gpreading

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so rapidly in foreign | lands, and there is danger of our | [e— country becoming involved, | [ President Roosevelt has issued an |

Two letters in the Forum recently tried to work up sentiment for communism, Hiram Lackey extols communism as the world's hope for | peace. Communism is the direct cause of the wars now raging in | Spain and China. | Russia is stirring up trouble in | every nation of the world. She has | had a continual civil war at home [ under Communist rule. She has i threatened to destroy all capitalis! | forms of government. She is now | about to reap the reward of her folly. And Robert K. Taylor wants this nation to help her out of the trouble she has brought on herself Propaganda ought to be kept out of our papers if we really want peace Of course, I kriow that both Communists and Fascists wish to drag us in the coming war, but we have | had one dose of that Kind of r:edicine and it was a bitter pill. If the United States wants to start a real | World War all it needs to do is to | interfere in Spain or China. After all the propaganda Com- | munist agitators have spread in this | country, it isn't easy to convince | American fathers and mothers that | they should send their boys across [the ocean to be cannon fodder for | Europe's dictators. Such agitators | are violating our neutrality law ac- | cording to my opinion. " n "

| SAFETY EXPERT PRAISES WOMEN DRIVERS | | By

| Council New Hampshire records show | women drivers in injury accidents | decreased from 12.8 per cent of all | drivers in accidents during 1932 to 1109 per cent in 1936. New Hamp- | shire women injured in traffic acci- | dents were a smaller per cent of | | total injured in 1936 than in 1932. [Is Women, though their men-folks | drove a majority of the 28,270,000 [ motor vehicles registered last year, [have at least an equal stake in traffic safety, intend to protect it. Mrs. Edward Hammett, Sheboy- | | gan, Wis., chairman, committee on | Deeds will | public safety of the Central Fed- | clean, | eration of Women's Clubs, says: | “This committee has not neglected | | the engineering and PEE |

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| phases of traffic safety, but our program is primarily one of education. | The nine departments of the Fed- | eration were asked to fit safety into All did. Safety chairmen are now functioning in ail states, or the work is directed by some other responsible person.” | The federation charged each club |

their programs.

woman to know state and local |

| traffic laws, pledge strict obedience | love —-Shakespeare.

‘General Hugh Johnson Says—

broadcasting problem with all its ramifications into the | Observer of Stock Market Figures Fears 'Mappy Days Are Gone Again’; | Baruch Warns Business Associate of Dangers Confronting Speculators.

as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy— to glue your nose at the tape at the opening of every day of the year and never take it off till night—if you can do all that, and in addition you have the cool nerve of a great gambler, the sixth sense of a kind of clairvoyant, and the courage of a lion, you

have a Chinaman’s chance. “But if you try dodging in and out it's like a man trying to sail a ship in a typhoon. He doesn’t know what causes it, which way it is going or how fast, or where it will wind up. He's just a sucker. The percentage in favor of a crapshooter is 10 times better. ” ” ”

it pays an income and because careful expert study shows that it is highly likely to continue is like buying a dry goods store. and this no greater hazard than any other.

pay up all at once if it goes down far enough. And

if you could have paid, you wouldn't have bought on margin. You lose your whole stake not because the stock is bad, but because you have made a bet on which way a weathervane will turn in the wind. If it turns wrong, the house bouncer tosses you into the street on your neck without even coffee money.”

to them and endeavor to enlist her family and community. Everywhere risk. Some will be foolish enough to women's clubs are co-operating with enforcement engineering authorities. bearing down school officials for inauguration of instruction classes, supplemented by instruction | and academic preparation for drivers’ license examinations, This year the difficulty their influence has been felt in leg24 drivers’ license bills were considered. In co-operation with other interested groups, women thus far have patted .500--new driver=-license legislation approved in Hawaii, with bills | waiting disposition Thirty-two states now or laws the name of traffic safety.

COUNSEL BEAUTIFUL By MARY R. WHITE There's ahother me, that none may

From whose counsel I'm never tree

| Yet sets the pace for me, The flesh is weak, and rest would |

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| None see that other you. | If you would know—there is a rule— | is—cannot [ A rule that shows the way. Words may much, or little, mean. show

And the way we live, each day.

DAILY THOUGHT

And she made haste, and down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.—Genesis 24:46.

INDNESS in women, not their |the expense of the lower classes of | beauteous looks, shall win my |

| Roosevelt's closest friends, “and if farm prices drop, | “YP UYING and paying outright for a stock because | | gear.

All business is a hazard |

“But buying a stock on borrowed money and part payment is a desperate gamble because you have to |

ultimatum that Americans who stay in the war zone do so at their own

{stay there, not only endangering their own lives bul the lives of their [eountrymen, Or perhaps our Ameri- | [can flag will be insulted, and then a few old men who sit in Congress will | decide that these outrages can no | longer be overlooked, but must be avenged to save our national honor

There will be no diplomacy fron: our statesmen, and no way out of will be found--only the drastic experience of sending our | | boys, our best boys, to die on barbed | | wire entanglements, blown to bits by hombs, their lungs burned out by | | poison gas, or to die in no-man's-[land without water or friends. How | barbarous we are! No one knows what the present | | slogan will be that will infiame our | hearts and minds, but have we, the common people, wisdom that comes from past experience? There have | been slogans of “States Rights,” | | “Slavery,” “A War to End Wars,” | “Preedom of the Seas” and many others in our own country, But] | President Roosevelt has said that | {only 15 per cent of the people want war, Cannot we, the other 85 per cent, join together and say with Broun, “They can't have a war without us and they can’t have a war with us?” | Peace is not so easily won as that, | however, We must fight the battle | on every front. (I wish these mili- | tary phrases would not spring 50 | | readily to our minds!) Our girls, | |as our boys, must be educated for | | peace. For girls are fighting now, | | in Russia, China, Japan, and Spain. | | They must be taught that war has no place in this new world we are | trying to build, that it violates a spiritual law, that is as sure of pun~ | | ishment as the violation of any | | physical law. |

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4 " u befool | CHARGES A. F, OF L. HEADS | ACT SELFISHLY w. | BY W. Weiland Hs Some things are distinctly the | | function of government, The oi- | ficials of the American Federation lof Labor surely know the Govern- | ment should set a minimum wage, ' the hours and also prevent strikes, | but if the Government does all it | {should in regard to labor, there | would no longer be a need for some | labor leaders. An organization which expects the | better classes of labor to profit at]

the life

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labor must reform or it cannot | stand the test of time.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

When John Lewis Starts Pacing Convention Platform, It's a Sign He Will Reach Oratorical Heights.

TLANTIC CITY, Oct. 16,—] think that John L. Lewis is one of the most effec tive orators I have ever heard, when he is at the top of his swing. Ie can be dull, His best performances come when the stage is sot for him, but as an intuitive dramatist he often moves the scenery around himself. The C, L O. conference here afforded him the best possible spot when he spoke on the issue of unity in the labor movement, Any newspaperman miliar with the modes of John L. knows ahead of time that the C. I. O. chairman was going to shoot the works. Before he talked he walked, That preliminary prowl of Mr. Lewis is one of the strangest mannerisms I have ever observed among platform speakers, As a chairman of long experience Mr, Lewis presents the picture of one who is wholly calm and seli-con-tained. But in reality he sits in his chair under much the same tension which afflicts a prize fighter just before the bell rings. And at some point in very many sessions the president of the United Mine Workers gets up and begins to walk at the back of the platform, up and down and down and up.

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% DOUBT whether this canter has anything to do with the preparation of the remarks which are to come, Rather, it is a sort of limbering-up exercise for the release of nervous energy. The man whose followers expect much of him is out in the bull pen warming up. Undoubtedly Mr. Lewis began his lockstep without any intent of embarrassing the speaker of the moment. Nevertheless, from the point of view of many in the hall the fortuitous diversion was happily timed, Homer Martin of the Automobile Workers had the floor. Mr. Martin came to the union movement from a Baptist pulpit. Indeed, his contact with the life of a motor plant was not of longer duration than a month. But when anybody says to a Martin partisan, “Your boy friend is a phoney,” the invariable answer is, “Just wait till you hear him speak.”

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T the C. 1. O. conference in Atlantic City Homer laid an egg. His act was tedious and unprofite able, In all fairness to the young man, he was up apainst a lot of competition. He came on just after Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky, who are both speakers of long experience, And both men wera under an excitement which made them peculiarly eloquent, On top of this, Mr. Lewis began to walk about three minutes after Homer Martin began to talk. From the story immediately be-

the press table

| came the Lewis warm-up and not the Martin oration,

Even the lighting effects were just right for John L, Twilight raced through the windows and in the fading illumination the extraordinary head of the man from the mines was accentuated into a jagged silhouette, You may like Mr, Lewis or hate him, For the sake of the record I want to express my admiration. But even from a hostile or a neutral point of view nobody can listen to him when he has a concern without admitting, “this is certainly quite a fellow.”

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Fireside Chat and Special Session Designed to Quell Economic Hysteria: Reports From Nation's Leading Industries Reveal Discouraging Factors.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Behind the President’s fireside chat and the calling of a special session | of Congress was one all-important motive—the head-ing-off of a further stock market slump and the first tinges of attendant economic hysteria. Toward the closing days of the last Congressional session, when the Crop Control Bill still was buried in the dust of the House Agriculture Committee, Joe Kennedy, Maritime Commission chairman, went to Mr. Roosevelt and urged immediate passage of that bill. “Here we are faced with a tremendous cotton crop, Mr. President,” said Mr, Kennedy, who is one of Mr.

and the buying power of the farmer falls off, the | whole industrial East is going to be thrown out of We can’t afford to let farm income go into a tailspin.” es on ”. R. ROOSEVELT'S push for the passage of the | Crop Control Bill began with that interview. The things the President saw on his western trip made him extremely optimistic, but the minute | he got back %o the White House he was surrounded | with brows furrowed over the stock market. He had already made up his mind to call an extra session, The fireside chat was calculated to throw out an aura of confidence to the moguls of big business who have been curtailing orders. Sometimes the stock market is a barometer of

business, sometimes it is not. This time either the

| market knew that a slump was coming, o. else the

market's uncertainty helped induce a slump For, behind the 15 billion dollars of values squeezed from securities during the last two months, are some none too encouraging factors. Here are some of them:

» u n TEEL—The backlog of orders in the steel industry has been pretty well used up. Official figures

| show steel mills operating at 63 per cent

Railroads—Carriers have stopped all steel orders, are manufacturing no more cars, have laid off their shop men to such an extent that they haven't been able to supply enough coal cars in the West Virginia bituminous field. Textiles—Southern cotton mills are running two and three days a week. Electrical Equipment—Plants operating for the most part at capacity. Automobiles—Production is holding up, due partly to the scarcity caused by last spring's strikes. Capital Goods—These industries in general enjoyed

| a good year.

Clothing—Both the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the International Ladies Garment Workers report production way down. Retail Sales—Volume is excellent. September was better than expected in all consumers’ goods. This is the picture which has been trickling in to the financial soothsayers in Wall Street long before it reached the country. Nevertheless the picture is not as black as appears from the gbove.