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THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1937

WELCOME, TEACHERS "THE Indiana State Teachers’ Association, meeting here todav for its 84th annual convention, will focus attention on a number of vital issues. Among its own problems is the proposal for unification of the five teachers’ associations, which is of special interest because of the movement for fewer, but larger and better, professional teachers’ organizations. The U. S. Office of Iducation lists 542 state and national educational associations, of which 121 are state-wide, 421 national or regional. Another internal problem is the familiar proposal to abandon the custom of meeting in Indianapolis and to break up the state into district meetings. A look at the brilliant program arranged for the convention this week should cause serious consideration before acting on this proposal. In addition to the impressive showing which the convention makes, the big, central gathering has a definite value in attracting noted leaders who probably could not be brought to small sectional meetings. Particularly timely, in view of developments abroad,

is the scheduling of U. S. Senator Gerald P. Nye to speak | Other speakers include

on “Neutrality and Experience.” Dr. Will Durant and Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation's Business. . To the thousands of visiting teachers, who are centering some of the state's best thinking on important issues of the day. Indianapolis bids an enthusiastic welcome. BOYCOTTING THE WORLD HE boycott, we have said, is a doubtful weapon at best, with a habit of backfiring on those who undertake to use 1it. We were speaking, specifically, of proposals for an

organized boycott against Japanese goods, as indorsed by |

the American Federation of Labor, the C. I. O., and many other groups and individuals. Some union ieaders, however, seem to regard the Japanese boycott as only a start toward boveotting the world. I. M. Ornburn, secretary of the A. F. of L.'s union

labels department, predicts that 20,000,000 Americans will |

soon be participating in boycotts organized by the federation, beginning with those against “aggressor nations.” Eventually, he adds, “we want to stop purchases of all imported and all nonunion goods.”

informed President Roosevelt that the A. F. of L. hopes

to cut heavily into all manufactured imports with the idea |

of increasing sale of American unionmade products. We believe that a whipped-up campaign against the buying of Japanese goods, though inspired by perfectly natural resentment against Japan's actions in China, would be dynamite in the present international situation. cott extended to products of peaceful nations, though inspired by an equally natural desire to protect the home market for American-made goods, would be more dangerous. And it would defeat its own purpose.

” = » = o » EGPLE of the other nations, of course, would retaliate us. As we stopped buying their products, they would stop buying ours. Indeed, they would have to stop. America is a creditor nation, holding most of the world’s gold supply. taking their goods in payment. one-way road.

under the 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, to undo

way trade agreements have been made with many nations, our export business has increased from $1,611,016,000 in 1932 to $2,453,487,000 in 1936. As Secretary of State Hull said: “In thus promoting economic disarmament and

the liberalization of world trade, we are helping to lay |

the most important groundwork for world peace.” We hope that members of organized labor, and all Americans, will avoid doing anything that might destroy that groundwork, promote economic rearmament, and defer the hope of world peace. :

TOO MANY ALIBIS

HE one bright spot in our otherwise shameful trafic accident record has been that—until yesterday—no child had been fatally injured in going to school or returning in more than three years. This record attracted nation-wide attention. But today the black flag symbolic of death on the city’s streets was unfurled on Monument Circle. A 12-year-old girl was crushed to death by a trackless trolley she was hurrying to catch on her way to the Theodore Potter Fresh Air School. It was the school's first traffic fatality in 23 years. This tragic accident should serve to impress city offi-

cials that the longer they delay starting the proposed com- |

prehensive safety program the greater will be their responsibility for our unnecessarily high traffic toll. There have been entirely too many alibis about getting this program under way.

OUR DR. JOHNSON O Dr. Robert Underwood Johnson, who died in New York at the age of 84, this country owes much. As a lover of nature he helped John Muir start the

movement that created Yosemite National Park. As editor |

of Century Magazine he advanced the causes of peace, freedom, good government and decency in human affairs. © served as our ambassador to Italy during the war. As a literary entrepreneur he played a role something like that of England's Dr. Johnson, and left our culture richer by his discoveries and friendships among writing people. A ~ writer himself in a severe and classigal style, he became nown as America’s unofficial poet laureate,

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | Autumn, 1937 —By Herblock

THURSDAY, OCT: 21, 1937

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Narragansett's Wild Irish Rose War Gives U. S. Its Own Battle Front, And Pegler Is First Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—As the peacemakers of the nine powers converge on Brussels to strive for a happy solution of the problems of a troubled world, news comes from Pawtucket, R. I., where another

undeclared war is raging. It is the war of the wild Irish roses, in which Governor Quinn has mobilized the National Guard to punish Mr. Walter O'Hara, proprietor of the Narragansett racing park.

Mr. O'Hara, through his own | newspaper, supposedly called the | Governor a name some time ago, | and one word led to another until now the armed forces of the state are on active duty in the field and a pathetic mass of noncombatant touts, trainers, swipes, monkeys, | ginneys, mutuel clerks, sweepers | and horse players are caught between the lines. The great, free American press, handmaiden of our liberties, also seems to have caught her jabot in the wringer, for she is yelling bloody murder. The Governor's army has ejected from the zone of

Mr. Pegler

| combat a journalist representing Mr. O'Hara's paper and the editors are raising the cry of “censorship.” |

The problem of field equipment has been worrying some of the journalists, however, and when your

| correspondent wired the war correspondent of the

| Daily Walking Horse at the front he was told to bring

| his own dice, a rabbit's foot and plenty of fresh ‘| money.

$ & & OUR correspondent talked with Governor Quinn

the laws of the State of Rhode Island and would be

First Rhode Island Regiment of Foot. Mr. Eugene Moriarty, another wild Irish rose, who is manager of Mr. O'Hara's journal, declared there was much more in the situation than meets the eye, and Mr. Mulligan, the city editor, of the Pawtucket Times, which is neutral in the conflict, said there was even more to the situation than meets the nose. Mr. Mulligan, an Irish rose, if you will, is not wild yet, but neutrality undoubtedly is a great emotional

Kenneally, which is the name of the journalist who was rushed out of the war zone by a detachment of | Governor Quinn's legions. Governor Quinn has been contending that Mr. O'Hara's horse park has attracted to Rhode Island undesirable characters of extreme unscrupulosity who were not above acts of dishonesty. This is indeed a

connection with horse running. ¥ n »

T would be an astonishing thing and a shock to the nation if it were true that Mr. O'Hara's horse park had drawn persons capable of telling falsehoods or fumbling up the odds or using an electrical gimmick on man’s best friend, the steed. Just one happy fact remains. It will have to be a small war, because if more than 10 wild Irish get to fighting at one time in the limited area of Rhode Island they are ceftain to slop over into Connecticut or Massachusetts to find room in which to take their swings.

- grave charge, never having been heard of before in |

The Hoosier Forum

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

| GIVES WRITER CREDIT | FOR IMPROVING PEGLER | By Hiram Lackey

Lovers of truth naturally thank |

{ Pat Hogan for his efforts to keep | Westbrook Pegler and his tribe on the straight and narrow path. And

has He

| ing successfully with Mr. Pegler is |

| to keep his good side to the front.

| The quickest way to get the other |

man’s best side to the front is to | awaken the best that is in our- | selves and get our own best side to the front. Mr. Hogan reminds us of the fact | that those who argue, those who

move the minds and hearts of men. |

| are the ones who control the world. Everyone wants power. » ”n ou OPINIONS ASKED ON UNCLE

SAM'S PART IN WORLD AFFAIRS |

By E. J. Unruh, Director, Midwest Council on International Relations, Inc. The President's Chicago speech

| was aimed at Americans as well as | Japan, Italy and Germany, it seems | to us. | American people think and are prepared to do. | tell people what to do but to fur- | nish them facts upon the basis of | Which to formulate an opinion. by phone and received word that that other wild | : . . : | Irish rose, Mr. O'Hara, had attempted to set at naught with boycotts or even more effective measures against | restrained by the full might of the warriors of the |

He wants to know what the

Our purpose is not to

Can America be indifferent to the

| world situation and what are the | facts?

1. One-third of our national wealth is invested in means of production and distribution of goods. Fifty million people are gainfully employed by these means. The prosperity, stability and security of our national life depends upon the full-

employment of our capital resources |

and labor. Our standard of living | can be maintained and improved only on this basis.

But to do this our industries must | import regularly from 50 per cent to |

| 100 per cent of their requirements of

| certain strategic raw materials from |

all parts of the world. All major industries of the country are thus | affected. Peace Essential

Conclusion—Uncle Sam is an integral part of the world community of nations—the health of

the maintenance of

order everywhere.

peace

production, and is one of | strongest moral forces to give backbone to international law and order. 2. The United States during the

‘General Hugh Johnson Says—

“ritain and France Even Yet May Crush Duce's Mediterranean Hopes;

the case |

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past has, for the protection and advancement of its interests in the world and to promote human civilization generally, become a party to a great many international treaties. concluded at Washington concern'ing China, is a good example. To | maintain his honor, Uncle Sam can- | not evade his responsibilities under | these treaties. An indifferent at- | titude toward such obligations gives | assurance to outlaw nations in their | disrespect for international law and | order.

| ligations the world over is the only assurance of mankind to progress | of civilization and against the indiscriminate extermination of human life everywhere. The co-oper-ation of every nation in the maintenance and enforcement of inter- | national law and order is imperative. It is not merely an ideal | but a practical necessity dictated by ' the reality of facts.

| War May Be Avoided Does it mean war—military con- | flict? Not necessarily. But, to be

| truthful, it may. The concerted moral force of the law-abiding

| powers of the world, it is believed, is |

still strong enough to set certain | trends aright. Also, economic forces | are extremely powerful if employed by the peaceful powers. The concerted use of the moral

MA DUSKY LILLY WHITE By F. F. MacDONALD

De one I'm most fondest of Am ma dusky Lilly White— She cooks and scrubs for Mistress Dove An’ shines de Kkittles bright. | Wiv lavender complexion An’ her eyes so big and brown She done stole ma affection | An’ ma heart goes roun’ and roun’. When de watermelon moon | In de sky am shinin’ bright— Ah sholy means to marry soon Ma dusky Lilly White!

DAILY THOUGHT

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.—Psalms 4:1.

RAYER is not overcoming God's | & reluctance; it is laying hold of ‘ His highest willingness.—Trench.

Peril of Dictatorship Lies in Extent to Which It Will Gamble on War.

ASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — A press service carries a story of a London cartoon which has British Foreign Secretary Eden saying to Mussolini: | “Benito Mussolini have a care! You've ruined the | woman I love (democracy); killed my aged mother (the League); sunk the British fleet and set fire to | the Empire—but beware. Some day you will go too jar.” : That is much graver than a political joke. There is surely some point beyond which England and France will not permit Mussolini to go in the Medi-

terranean without a fight. When Great Britain took |

the unprecedented step of concentrating the whole British fleet around the Red Sea and the Mediterran- | ean as a threat against the seizure of Ethiopia, I got | way out on a limb and predicted either Mussolini wouldn't dare or that if he did, the British would blow him out of the water. That guess turned out wrong. France wouldn't | take a stand, and the British Admiralty reported the | concentraved fleet not ready. The situation is different now.

effort in the meantime has been centered in getting the fleet ready. I know of no naval or military authority who does not believe that, if and when Mussolini “goes too far,” the combined French and British navies could sink everything that flies the Dalian fas on the Mediterranean—and do it with

ONSIDERING that, what fascism? Mr. Mussolini's Ethiopia and Libya are hostages to

would ventures

happen to in both | this fortune. The

The Nine-Power Pact of 1922 | | advise the President of your opin- |

3. Observance of international ob-

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| influence of the peaceful nations is {a step needed .immediately. The

| employment of economic measures |

By Raymond Clapper

Soviet, Suspicious of Foreigners, Building Up Nationalistic Spirit, U. S. Observer in Moscow Discovers.

| |

| may next be needed to strengthen |

| the moral forces. Perhaps, military |as well as economic sanctions may | be necessary.

What is the opinion of the peo- | How far are they willing to |

| ple? | go? That is what our Government | desires to know, it seems to Fanatics always write and telegraph

the White House, constructive peo- |

ple seldom do so. This makes it | difficult for the Government | Judge the opinion of the informed | and responsible citizens. Perhaps, it would be wise now to

lion to help him to judge the | sires of our responsible citizens.

de-

on 2 " NOTES NEW EMPHASIS | ON PERSONALITY | By E. A. E.

Most school children, and many | parents, know about I. Q —the in-

Association that quotient — 1s

Psychological | Q.— the personality even more important.

The child with a high P. Q., it | seems, stands well as a leader among |

| his fellows. He has initiative, self- | reliance and ability to adjust him=- | self to the other sex. He may be | a dumbbell {his I. Q. may be deplorably low, | but if his P. Q. is at or above par | he is likely to succeed in life through | getting along with other people.

| John’s College in Maryland have | enrolled for a four-year course based on the reading and study of 100 selected books which the college authorities believe will give them all the essentials of a liberal education. I haven't heard of the titles of the hundred books. But if P. Q. | is so all-fired important, it occurs {to me that, while 50 of them may | properly be chosen for their appeal to the intelligence of the students, the other 50 might well be copies | of one of those currently popular treatises on “How to Influence Priends and Make People Do What | You Want.”

” o o FEARS 1920 PACIFISTS | PRACTICE ON BUGLE By D. K.

Many of the intellectual pacifists of the 1{20s seem to be practicing | on the bugle. . . . President Roose- { velt wants the mandatory feature | removed from the Neutrality Act. He must be tired of ignoring it

| Revision needed: “Spain is one of | is |

{ the countries of Europe which | of little importance now. '—From The Book of Knowledge. . takes the first term to get prices up and the second to get them down, there doesn’t seem to be any reason for a third.

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in book learning, and

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A OSCOW, Oct. 21.—Feeling against fore | eigners is a major fact in Soviet life today. The whole story cannot be written here, for fear of causing harm to individuals, It is one of the most unfortunate aspects of Soviet Russia, although in fairness it must be said antiforeign feeling is not a Soviet innovation. It | is an old Russian characteristic, as are some of the | other unsatisfactory features of Soviet life today-—cruelty, terrors ism, carelessness, red tape and inefTiciency. The Soviets have changed many things but they have not changed the Russian nature in these re=-

! | spects. Foreigners have been com= | : plaining for two years about being

spied upon in Russia and about the difficulty of getting visas. Even diplomats are no freer from this treatment than they were under the old regime. Antiforeign feeling is currently encouraged for three reasons: 1. Fear of foreign military spies, for which there is some justification. 2. Fear that foreigners are trying to hold back the industrial development of Russia by sabotage, for which there is only minor justification. 3. The foreigner is used as a whipping boy to lash up nationalistic sentiment, which is a policy of the Stalin regime. Nationalist sentiment is no stronger anywhere in the world than in Soviet Russia. Foreigners are becoming more and more isolated, Russians who have anything to do with them are | apt to be under suspicion.

Mr. Clapper

on un ” HERE are countless incidents. such as the are | rest of Soviet employees of various embassies | and legations, which are constantly finding their | Russian help disappearing and are unable to get | explanations. One ambassador's Russian barber | disappeared. Another diplomat went to his dentist and got a temporary filling, but upon returning the next day found the dentist gone. . The American wife of a foreign engineer was arrested recently while strolling along the river bank and was held for three hours, without explanation, before she was released. Many visitors are turned back at the border despite visas. There is, in fact, every indication the Soviet Gove ernment doesn't want foreigners around, and is anxious to keep facts about conditions from going out of the country. Papers of visitors are scrutinized at the border, my own clippings were pawed over, although nothing was taken.

” " A FEW days after I arrived in Moscew a servant at one embassy found outside a window a strand | of fine dictaphone wire, apparently dropped by a { workman who had been working on the embassy telephone wires that day. 1 know some foreigners who run a knife around their walls frequently to cut any hidden dictaphone wires that may have been secreted. Going into Russia I showed a letter of identifica | tion at the border, and in Moscow next day an of= | ficial told me he had heard about the incident from the border police. That's how fast they work.

ashington Merry-Go-Round

Struggle Between Hoover and Landon to Come to Head Next Month;

Kansan Would Establish Party High Command to Curb Ex-President.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The quiet struggle between Herbert Hoover and Alf. M. Landon for

| than war is Herr Hitler. | more across northern France to help Mussolini and

France has no | future apart from England. Every ounce of British |

military force he has in each place depends on open | Wouldn't the new Roman Empire Just | The defeat of a dictatorship is |

sea-lanes. break into pieces? the end of it. It prevails by force or not at all. If there were no more to this problem than that, European dictatorships might be wiped from the

| world’s slate very suddenly. The something more that

presses Mr, Eden and France to try anything rather Could Germany erupt once

plunge the world again into a new 1914? Most military observers I know do not believe it, Germany

| has just promised again not to invade Belgium and | the new French fortifications now thrown across the

only other route of conquest are reckoned as impregnable, ” n ”n

ERHAPS the new promise is no better than the |

old, but even at that the French defense is immeasurably stronger than in 1914 and the German strength much less.

What is the point of all this military speculation | Only to call attention | to the desperate chances in which a dictatorship is |

if it reaches no conclusion?

wiliing to involve its people. One-man government is so dependent on a permanent personal cockiness both at home and abroad, that a dictatorship must be willing to gamble far more than a democracy to preserve the existence—not of the nation but of the dictator,

leadership of the Republican Party will come to a head at the special meeting of the National Committee in Chicago next month, with G. O. P. moguls sharply divided. As the party's last Presidential candidate, Mr. Landon is the titular leader until its 1940 convention. Disregarding this tradition, Mr. Hoover is trying to grab off the leadership. Mr. Landon doesn't intend to let him. The Chicago meeting actually was called by Joh Hamilton, National Chairman. But Herbert Hoover was the real instigator. He has made the unprecedented proposal of a midterm convention to formulate a “declaration of principles” on which the G.O.P. could stage a comeback. s In other words, Mr. Hoover would have the party write a platform for next year’s Congressional elections, rather than wait for 1940 to form a new policy. Favoring a midterm convention are Mr. Hoover and Mr. Hamilton, House Floor Leader Bert Snell and Senator Townsend (Del). Opposed are: Mr. Landon, | Senator Borah, Senate Floor Leader McNary, and Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York. * # =u JR Eason for opposition to the Hoover idea is obvious. A Republican platform would put Republican candidates in a political strait-jacket. Their best tactics in these days of Roosevelt popularity is to pussyfoot on the New Deal.

another try at the presidency. { | |

Mr. Landon does not necessarily harbor hopes for His friends say he has no such ambition. But in any case he does not intend to allow Mr. Hoover, if he can help it, to elbow him off the driver's seat. Both champions have powerful support. Mr, Landon is the abler tactigian and is far more popular

| among the G. O. P. rank-and-file than Mr. Hoover, | In fact, the ex-President's biggest handicap is

1i8 lack of goodwill in the ranks. But he has the very important advantage of a close-knit and aggressive organization quietly built up in the last year. ” " " R. LANDON'S plan calls for the establishment of a policy committee, or High Command, consisting of Mr. Landon, Mr. Hoover, Col. Frank Knox, and Senators McNary, Borah and Vandenberg. While this group is not particularly pro-Landon; on the other hand it is emphatically anti-Hoover. In fact, the only sure pro-Hoover man on it is Mr. Hoover, him= self. Entangled in the tug o' war is the fate of National Chairman Hamilton. Most of the Congressional leaders would like to axe him. But their problem is to find a successor, Few people want the job. Overhanging the party is a large and unattractive deficit. . This is Mr. Hamilton's biggest asset. So far it has kept the very welcome $25,000-a-year post in his own lap.