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SATURDAY, OCT. 23, 1937

THE MILK TRUCE HE 90-day truce between Indianapolis dairies and the milk drivers union, ending the milk strike, shows that more can be accomplished if employer and employee will get together and calmly seek a fair solution of their problems, The two sides, meeting on the accepted common ground of collertive bargaining, now will try to negotiate a permanent agreement before Feb. 1. It can only be regretted that this course was not taken at the beginning, thus averting the 12-day shutdown of deliveries and tension between the disputants. The same approach of peaceful negotiation should be the kev to all disputes of this kind. In force there is no permanence; in agreements reached through mutual effort there is a solid foundation for fair and lasting employer-

employee relations.

RUSSIA'S STAKE IN THE GAME UST when the outlook seemed darkest for the London Nonintervention Committee, Italy, backed by Germany, reversed her stand and saved the day by accepting the British proposal for getting foreign volunteers out of Spain. Apparently “token” withdrawals are to come first— a few thousand from each side. Main withdrawals supposedly will follow, after a commission has visited Spain and reported on the totals engaged. Somewhere in the process, the Rechels are to be accorded the rights of a belligerent. It would take a rash prophet to hazard a prediction on the outcome of this proposal. Nevertheless, a sigh of relief already has gone up from the capitals of Europe loud enough to be heard across the Atlantic. For statesmen had admitted that if the conference failed Europe would be left dangerousiy close to war. Throughout these Spanish parleys the enigma has been Soviet Russia. More often than not she has seemed at odds with Britain and with France, her ally. This is not easy to understand. For in the larger view of things Russia ig vitally dependent on her alliance with France to guard against German aggression to the East. Chancellor Hitler notoriously regards Russia as Germany’'s Public Enemy No. 1. He denies any thought of aggression in western Europe. On the contrary, he openly

and repeatedly gives the impression that he is only awaiting |

a favorable opportunity to expand in eastern Europe— largely at the expense of Czechoslovakia and Russia.

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S slovakia. worthy of governing territory in central Europe. the Nazi press has gone on creating a war psychosis, culminating this week in the propagation of this portentous idea:

If other nations can get away with meddling in the odds, and would like to see them succeed.

affairs of their neighbors, thereby setting up governments

of a kind they like, why shouldn’t Germany take a similar |

course in Czechoslovakia? Well, why not? There are some 3,500,000 Germans in Czechoslovakia. population. Nazi propagandists are working feverishly among them, and if they should stage a putsch against Prague it would cause no great surprise. If they did, only one thing would keep Hitler from rushing to air aid. And that is the fear of Russia and France. Any break in the Franco-Russian alliance, therefore, might be all that is needed to tip the scales in favor of a German thrust eastward. Were Hitler master of Czechoslovakia, he would hold the key to eastern Europe. He would have a direct boulevard to the Black Sea and the grain fields of Russia's Ukraine. He would be at the portals of Rumania’s oil fields, among the richest in the world. And he wants and needs oil as he wants and needs nothing else. While Russia's attitude in the Spanish parleys has been puzzling, it is inconceivable that she would let affairs go to a break with France. Obvious self-interest would be sufficient to prevent that.

JULIAN S. WETZEL

ULIAN S. WETZEL ranked high among the men who |

have worked for the advancement of Indianapolis. Active

pothetae. He was actively interested in the Boy Scout movement and Community Fund, and participated in many other community enterprises. Elected” on the Citizens’ ticket to the School Board in 1930, he served as vice president and chairman of the building and grounds committee until 1933, when he was elected Board president. Mr. Wetzel’s death at 70 years of age is a distinct loss to the community.

LUCKY MR. STRAUS E congratulate Nathan Straus of New York upon his appointment as administrator of the United States Housing Authority. Good low-rental housing is Mr, Straus’ hobby. He pioneered in forming a limited-dividend corporation which used RFC loans to build a big moderate-rental apartment in the Bronx. He studied public slum-abatement projects in Europe for Mayor La Guardia. He is a member of the New York City Housing Authority. President Roosevelt has chosen a good man to head the new Government program, under which $526,000,000 of Federal credit and subsidies will be used over a 10-year period to furnish “decent, safe and sanitary dwellings” for about 150,000 low-paid workers’ families in many parts of the country. C

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a buildup, the full power of the controlled Nazi press, | on the flimsiest of pretexts, is turned loose on Czecho- | The Czechs are denounced as barbarians un- |

Steadily | | sult is that, although almost every American here

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ENGINEER wishes organize staff competent men to work on big project. Opportunity for advancement.

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In Europe

By Raymond Clapper Alert Soviet Secret Police Cast

Shadows Over Foreign Shoulders; |

Americans Show Effect of Strain. OSCOW, Oct. 23.—The courage and stamina with which the American group in Moscow endures the difficulties of life is worth reporting. First, there is the nerve-wracking feeling of always being under surveillance. It seems to me that most Americans here show a visible effect of nervousness and strain. They never cease talking about it when alone, and they are always guarded in discussing certain matters in the presence of their Russian secretaries or other employees. It is generally believed that Soviet employees of foreigners are frequent ly questioned by the Secret Police Whether or not this is true, for eigners think it is, and it affects their conduct in the presence of Russian employees, Living day after day in thi atmosphere, and finding in every newspaper warnings by Soviet officials that citizens must beware of foreigners and consider all of them as spies, eventually affects everyone.

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was sympathetic to the Soviet regime when he arrived, they soon became extremely critical of Soviet Most of them, however, retain a theoretical sympathy to the extent that they admire the battle which the Russian people are making against great

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OREIGNERS get some grim laughs out of the Secret Police. For instance, the car in which two

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Americans were motoring from Moscow to Leningrad } broke down, and within two minutes the Secret Police They constitute about 20 per cent of the |

car which had been trailing them pulled up. The police obtained assistance and got the foreigners

| under way again.

Some diplomats say they are glad to have the Secret Police trailing them, as this always insures them protection. Others remark facetiously that if the police watch them it is recognition that they are important people. Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies came here anxious to be friendly, but Soviet officials do not encourage social intercourse with any foreigners, so the whole diplomatic colony is isolated. Its only contacts with officials are on business. # MAZING is the way the permanent working staff of the American embassy—in charge of Loy

Henderson, who came in with former Ambassador Bullitt at the time of U. S. recognition of the Soviet

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| regime-—manages to keep its balance under irritating

conditions. The staff

is constantly helping Americans trouble.

Some of these cases are pathetic. such as

| that of a husband who in his eathusiasm became a

Soviet citizen and who is now in jail; his wife, still an American citizen, is frantically trying to help him but doesn’t even know where he is. In another case the husband, an American citizen. was ordered to leave the country while his wife, a Soviet citizen, was denied permission to go. The patience and energy of America’s official representatives in dealing with all sorts of distress here is a chapter to the. credit of the American

| foreign service. in business, civic and social affairs, he served as president | of the Kiwanis Club and president of the Indianapolis Ty-

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The Hoosier Forum

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

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| PROPOSES STATE CHARTER | UNIVERSITY HERE [ By Robert K. Taylor It sounds inconveivable, but dianapolis could have an important, successful state university with- | out any additional cost to the tax- | payers. We have in Indianapolis i now an extension of Indiana Un:- | versity affording full first and second year work in most of the libh- | eral arts and sciences and third { year, fourth year and graduate | courses in many fields.

also the medical school, dental

| school, nurses’ training school, and | { the bureau of social research of In- |

| diana University. | Now this would be the procedure to | without any cost: First, grant of a

{charter by the state providing for |

{a new university; second, transfer of

| all Indiana University units in In- | | dianapolis to the new institution; | new | four-year |

| third, arrangements for the school to offer a full | course in the College of Liberal Arts the School of Medicine and the School of Dentistry. Eventually new schools could be

veloped between West Michigan St. {and Fall Creek where the present

would be no initial expense.

t sity would be assured by the 2000 students in the Extension center, the 750 students in the other units { of Indiana University here, the 800 | Marion County students in Indiana | University at Bloomington, and others who are not now attending col-

| | Tege, but would do so in the event |

that there was a state university in | Indianapolis. | It should also be remembered that | America is in a period of growth of | colleges: New colleges are springing up in the large cities, and an increasingly greater percentage of high school graduates are going into ad-

vanced work. So other Indiana col- | | leges need not fear a new develop- |

{ ment here, because there will be

| plenty of earnest young students to |

| go around. ® wv =» | STUDY TRAFFIC RULES, | BUS DRIVER ADVISES | By Morse W. Eagen I am a bus driver here in { city and have driven a bys for seven | years. I have made my living drivling for 13 years. For my part, I ‘do not think “W. L.” knows what | he is talking about when he says {that he can follow another car at a speed of 50 miles an hour, five

| feet behind the car, and can stop |

{in two or 1000 feet and still be five | feet behind the other car. When

he does that I want to be about one | block away so I can get there in|

| time to pick up pieces of W. L. and | his car. { by himself. | W. L, you say that half the peo-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Army Officers’ Book, 'If War Comes," Antidote to 'Alarm' Propaganda; Theory of Widespread Destruction of Cities in Mass Air Raids Discounted.

ASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—“If War Comes.” by U. 8. Army Majors, Dupuy and Eliot, published by the MacMillan Co., is a valuable book. It is a simple, careful study of the new weapons of war—aircraft, tanks, gas, smoke, flame, armored cars and new explosives.

civilians. In all this scarehead stuff about whole cities being wiped out “between the dawn and dusk of a single day,” mations paralyzed by swift mass air raids on their economic nerve centers, armies put to sleep by drenchings of gas—a dose of this readable stuff, which any high school student can take and digest, is an antidote. The book minimizes nothing of the truth of the horrible effect of new weapons, but it certainly punc-

| tures the bunk—and it is highly important to punc- | | ture it. For example, on the goblin gas attack on New York City, it shows it would take 80 tons ot

phosgene to cover a five-mile area and that it would be fatal only if breathed with no protection at all continuously for an hour. = = n Qg™== parts of the book show that no possible aircraft concentration against reasonable +

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ground and aerial defense could lay such a gas bar-

rage on any American city,

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We have |

establish a new state university |

and Sciences, and graduate work in |

added and a regular campus de- |

Medical center is located. But there |

The success of such a new univer- |

the |

I sincerely hope that he is |

(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.)

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[ple in town do not know how to { drive. I do not agree with you. Only la small percentage that doesn’t

| of them. You say that pedestrians should look before they start to cross | the street. Do you know that they | have the right-of-way over any but an emergency vehicle, and if you | were to hit me or one of mine, 1

{ could sue you and collect? My advice to you is to get a copy |

of the traffic code of this city and see if you are wrong. A lot of people think because they can start and stop a car they can drive. I was driving on W. Michigan St. this morning for 14 minutes at 20 miles an hour and took the license numbers of seven cars that went around me at 30 or more. I have them if you want them. | u un = | CRITICIZES MUD-SLINGING | AGAINST PRESIDENT [By E. R.'N. Hugh Johnson reverses himself so | often and is so rash in his state- | ments, readers can scarcely take him | seriously, and as for the humor in his writing, where is it? Pegler | sometimes does manage a biting bit {of irony that is good—and he is { fairly cautious. | Through England's crisis and | through our own Presidential cam-

| paign, the American people was fed | | Since Johnson says he don’t know

through the radio with some of the

most puerile nonsense imaginable. |

When a prominent commentator called England’s new King a “fro- | zen-faced, stuttering nonentity,” I | considered it a caddish remark and | was ashamed for him. We have heard almost as much

DEVOTION By CONDWAY BROWN There were you— In a world so far away; Then. suddenly, one day We met, And there a friendship grew; Ana from that day we knew That there could never be another two So much in love, And love As I love you.

DAILY THOUGHT Glory and honor are in His | presence; strength and gladness | are in His place.—I Chronicles 16:27.

IVE near to God,

and so all

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[in comparison with eternal ties.—R. M. MeCheyne.

reali-

know how, and perhaps you are one |

It Seems to Me

said against the President of the

United States.

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| the President is a weakling, a mere

People are weary of | that sort of thing. We are satiated. | | What thinking person believes that

| clever politician, etc.? One may not |

[agree with some of his policies, one

may have a better suggestion, con- | | structive and just criticism, but this

defamatory propaganda that begun to circulate agaih is as unjust and cruel as it can be.

has |

After all, |

| he is the President of the United |

| States and entitled therefore, to the

| demands.

measure of respect which his office |

Let the press and the radio con- |

i sider this: The American people are 'not all ignorant or feeble-minded; { most of us are quite shrewd if the

[truth be knewn. We buy our papers | land listen over the radio for news |

| and know quite well how to discard the slush from the few grains of ruth which we glean. | ” » ” TAKES OFF ON GEN. JOHNSON IN POETICAL STYLE By W. Scott Taylor

Fierce General Johnson takes the air To tell us why, where. He says he never hopes to see A better man that Franklin D.

who, which and |

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By Heywood Broun

Critics Who Fire at Roosevelt's Chicago Speech Reminded Issue Is Between Fascism and Democracy.

EW YORK, Oct. 23.—It may well be that somebody will throw an egg if I under take to speak briefly in favor of patriotism. As a matter of fact, I make no claim that I am a 100 per center, and I have never gone along with Stephen Decatur’s slogan of “My country, right or wrong.” Indeed, it is my notion that 70 per cent ought to be passing mark, and I will insist that I should not be flunked. Criticism of the Administration is not enly per missible but salutary at all times, And this applies to foreign policies as well as domestic problems. Perhaps the thing I have in mind is hairline distinction, but I might as well blurt it out. I hate to see American publicists and American Congressmen make statements which in effect are hand waves to Germany, Italy and Japan to continue on their course and pay no attention to the remonstrances of Mr. Roosevelt. My difficulty lies in the fact that I must freely admit the right of

Mr. Broun

| anybody who thinks the Chicago speech was unwise,

{ On second thought, omit the “who,” | | Because, perhaps, it might be Hugh. |

The General says he don’t know which— | To soak the poor or soak the rich.

Wy o5ps without action are

| To soak the rich will rob the poor— | | speech Mr. Roosevelt expressed an indignation against

The very thing he can’t endure. This leaves us only “why” “where.” “where” we look in Johnson's chair.

For

why, | With all his blunders, Frank gets by, | We've covered why, who, which and where ! As General Johnson takes the air, { If sadder words of tongue or pen Were ever when, ” ” n

| PDEPLORES OVERLOADING | VEHICLES BEYOND SAFETY

| By Michael W. O'Connell

I read of the accident in which! |

| an innocent 12-year-old girl lost her

and |

to say just that. But very sharp dissent as to method can be expressed without some shirttail which suggests to the world that the Chief Executive officer of the United“ States is a man drunk with a lust for power, u

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still It seemed to me that in the Chicago

not wholly ime

potent,

international lawlessness, and that this expression of

| indignation might have an actual effect, even though | no specific program to implement it was set forth,

But after bedding down on the original impact of a truly thrilling address, many influential men in

| America began to cut the ground from under the feet

| do not want | any circumstances.

of the President. Their excuse has been that they to see America drawn into war under

That is a pious desire, and I am

| heartily in agreement that we should not throw our

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trackless trolley, The date will be| imprinted as a tragic memory in the |

minds of those who were held very

| dear to the little victim of care- | ents are preparing to make capital of his statements Carelessness, not on the part of | | the operator of the vehicle, but on |

{ lessness.

| the part of those who make the (rules and regulations governing the

y ; | armed forces into action. said — we don't know |

life under the huge wheels of a |

‘operations. Those who read this will |

| understand what I mean.

It seems |

[to me there must be some way to | | prevent the overloading of public |

| can no longer be operated | safety.

things will appear to you little | conveyances to the point where they | with | | our President,

And yet I doubt, and gravely doubt, the sincerity of many of Mr. Roosevelt's critics, " F you or I were acting as a confidential agent for - Japan or Germany or Italy, our first report to the home Government after the Chicago speech would have been one of warning that American sympathy had been alienated. After a week or so the foreign agent, if an accurate reporter, might be justified in sending a correction to his lead in which he would say, “Discount Roosevelt speech. American press in large measure is ganging up on him. Political oppon~-

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and nullify them. Drop all the bombs you please and pay no attention to frontiers, The anti-Roosevelt group is working to stifle all criticism here in America.” I hate to be the first one to suggest that we all stand up and sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” and I am still loath to fall in the line behind Decatur. And vet I say that in the moral issue between American democracy and foreign fascism I'm for America and Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Stanley F. Reed, Solicitor General, Is Main Gun in Justice Department; Liberal Attorney Was Brought in by Roosevelt to Win New Deal Cases.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The adage that “all that |

chemicals, | It tells about their | probable effect on how armies and navies will fight | in the future and what modern major war will do to |

“The really horrible thing about such a concentration would be the panic produced in a community unwarned and untrained —ignorant of the powers and limitations of gas.” Ignorance about war starts war, prolongs war and makes war disastrous. The book sketchily exposes the worst force for provoking war—lying propaganda. That is a part of war that should certainly be understood. It places this country in its setting among possible enemies and at least indirectly indicates how much defensive preparation is necessary to keep us out of war and— even more important—how much is not. ” ” HE increased offensive power—and the distinct

limitations—of tanks, armored cars and modern | simply dis- | cussed with a conclusion with which I think most ! It is that they leave the essential |

| mechanized and motorized armies are

experts agree. principles of war exactly as they have always been, | but that they make it swifter, require much smaller armies than marched in 1918—and make war far more expensive. It emphasizes what has been frequently said here—that the military and naval policies of this Administration are making this nation very safe from attack on these shores. They ought to be continued and upheid, ‘

“glitters is not gold” never had truer application than to the New Deal's Justice Department. In the public mind the top legal light of the regime is Homer S. Cummings. he has the title and the honors. But the tall, easygoing Connecticut Yankee is not the real legal burden-bearer of the Administration. That responsibility rests on far abler and more energetic, though less famous shoulders, those of Stanley Forman Reed, a Kentuckian.

great battles before the Supreme Court. In that time he has fought more momentous legal encounters than most lawyers do in a lifetime.

before the Supreme Court. After his appointment the score was exactly the reverse. » " un TUSTICE HARLAN STONE once remarked to a friend that preparation of any one of the ma jQr cases that Mr. Reed has argued ordinarily would require a year's hard work. Mr. Reed has carried his staggering load by means of almost superhuman labor. He works four and five nights a week, every week of the year. In four years his only vacation has been a three-day golf outing. Despite his ceaseless and immense work, Mr.

As Attorney General |

| seldom seems to tire or become fretful. Once, hows | ever, the strain was dramatically revealed. During the Cotton Act hearings in 1935, Mr. Reed keeled over in the courtrcom in a dead faint His fighting in the ranks of liberalism goes back 25 years, to a time when such views were not so popular or politically profitable as they are today, Now 53 vears old, he was then a youn} lawyer in Maysville, Ky., only a year or two out of his studies at Virginia and Columbia Universities and the Paris Sorbonne. Directly across from his residence was a

| textile mill. Mr. Reed noticed young children entering

As Solicitor General, Stanley Reed for four years | has been the New Deal's shock trooper in the |

labor law, Before Mr. Reed hastily was thrust into this post, | the Government was losing two out of three cases |

the factory at dawn and leaving at night, u u un E decided to do something about it, ran for the State Legislature on a platform pledging a child He was bitterly opposed. But Mr. Reed was elected "and made good his promise, putting through the first child labor act in Kentucky. From the industrial scene he turned to agriculture and became a leader in the fight against farm tenancy, The reputation he gained in this field brought him, to the attention of President Hoover when the Federal Farm Board was organized in 1929. Although Mr, Reed was a lifelong Democrat, Hoover made him general counsel of the agency. “When the New Deal came into office, Mr. Roosevelt, asked Mr. Reed to become general counsel of the RFO to direct its rescue of hundreds of tottering savings banks. His outstanding work on this job led to Mr, Reed's appointment as Solicitor General,