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SATURDAY, NOV, 13, 1937

WHAT NAHUM FORESAW The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall jostle one aoainst the other in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches: they shall run like lightning. —Nahum, 2:4. S the Indianapolis Auto Show opens today this Old Testament forecast finds Nahum vindicated as more than a minor prophet. But even old Nahum couldn’t have foreseen a streamlined nation in ‘which 28 million horseless chariots rage in the streets and run like lightning over a great continent. The auto is king. In less than four decades it has come to rule our lives. Every fifth American owns one, and the other four wish they did. It has speeded up the urbanization of America and made our country cousins neighbors. Directly and indirectly it employes 6,000,000 men and women at $6.300,000,000 yearly wages. It accounts for 9 billions, or 141% per cent, of our national income. It has spun a network of 100,000 miles of paved roads, raised up forests of oil derricks, turned vacant lots into filling stations and garages, streets into traffic lanes and parking

spaces.

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In spite of its nose, gas fumes, traffic jams, regimented |

labor and toll of life and limb it is a benevolent monarch. It has made fast transpc: tation cheap for the multitudes, since more than half of all auto-owning families earn less than $80 a week. It pays good wages, deals collectively conducting auto shows in the fall. It has avoided the evils of monopoly and receives no Government subsidies. Speed, of course, doesn’t mean happiness. But it brings the doctor, ambulance, mail man, fire engine and other services more quickly to our door. It opens our front gates upon the peace of the mountains, woods and seashore. And it makes us all closer neighbors. As Indianapolis gazes on this industry's newest of handsome and intricate creations none but the most hopeless old timer will refuse to salaam,

NO SUBJECT FOR SILENCE

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Some New Faces in the Cheering

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SATURDAY, NOV. 18, 1937

Section—By Herblock L yw - / 7

Came the Dawn By Talburt

| $700,000.000

BUDGE TCUT

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By Westbrook Pegler

with its workers, and is trying to stabilize employment by |

N declining to broadcast Gen. Hugh S. Johnson's talk on |

social diseases the National Broadcasting Co. was wholly within its rights. Its position—that this subject cannot be discussed “before an audience composed of children, adolescents and adults . . . without seriously embarassing the family group”—is the position that newspapers and magazines took for many years. As Gen. Johnson h&d intended to say, after denouncing gonorrhea and syphilis as “public enemies Nos. 1 and 2”: “Until recently | would not have been permitted to accuse them by name on the radio or in my newspaper column, except perhaps some remote references under some of their obscure aliases which would have meant little or nothing to nine listeners out of ten. Fortunately, that is all changed now. . .. The most meticulous of ‘writers, news-

Careless ‘Use of Martial Law for |

Political Purposes Perils Citizens

And Embarrasses Militia Officers.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—To the professional military officer there is no duty more terrible than that of ordering his troops to fire on unarmed civilians, his fellow citizens, in time of insurrection. If he

orders his men to shoot anvone who crosses a deadline previously made known to the crowd

| the dead and wounded are likely to be more or less

innocent individuals in the front rank who were shoved across the line by pressure from the rear.

They may even include women

| and children, for it is the studied

ruthless purpose of those who promote such disturbances to put

| authority on the spot and exploit | the human instincts of the sol-

[ to shoot those who cross the line,

diers for their own advantage.

If, on the other hand, the offi- a cer fails to carry out a warhing Vy the mob begins to doubt that he £ a will fire at all, and the front S ald ranks press closer and closer to the solters. Mr. Pegler If, finally, they are permitted to come close enough to grab the men's rifles the officer has lost the initiative and must then be responsible for andthing that happens in a general rough-and-tumble. In this event the casualties are likely to be much worse than they would have been if he had made

| good his threat in the first place.

papers, journals and the radio have agreed to drag these | reptiles from their holes into the light ot day and end their

hideous power to harm humanity.” Even as to the radio, we think, ‘what Gen. Johnson would have said was only premature. We believe the radio will find, as newspapers and magazines have found, that the social diseases can be discussed frankly without embarrassing the family group. Such discussion, through every possible medium, is desirable. Not by silence or vague generalities, but only by direct attack, can the fight to stamp out these diseases be won.

YUM, YUM! TS pretty hard to be gloomy after reading the news from Chicago where poultry dealers report that turkeys [ast ‘several years. There's a reason, of course, why Thanksgiving turkeys, 1937 model, should be pleasingly plump. It is the big corn crop, which has made turkey feed plentiful and cheap. The price of corn worries the farmers and the Government. But at least many an American family will be thankful, on November's last Thursday, for a bird ‘whose drumsticks bulge nobly, whose white meat is ample, and ‘whose ‘grease gives old-time richness to the accompanying gravy. Streamlining may go great in automobiles, ‘airplanes, railway trains and modernistic furniture. It will never be popular in turkeys. Gobbler.

DEATH TRAPS

HREE fatal accidents within three weeks ‘at ‘a railroad

| not to exbose them to needless casualties by irresolu- |

HE theory of the deadline is that although it necessitates some bloodshed, it is actually humane and economical. The officer has a duty to his troops

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| tion and must remember also that if he falters in a

crisis he betrays the authority which he is supposed to personify and uphold.

All officers dread the thought of such duty, The

{ propaganda power of a half-dozen civilians, includ- | Ing, perhaps, a woman or a child, exceeds that of a | hundred soldiers beaten to death in a fight which

| could have been averted, ana the officer though he |

| use,

might escape hanging, would go down in history as a monster, Nevertheless, he has ho option to refuse duty or perform it half-heartedly because of personal reluctance, The commander-in-chief, however, passes the buck in putting it up to him to decide the precise time to use force and how much force to The commander-in-chief 1s a politician. If

| the officer permits the situation to get away from

him and result in a greater disturbance requiring

hs | greater force, there again he is to blame. now arriving on the market are fatter than those of the | I= is a shocking topic, to be sure, but one which

| because of the tendency of state governors to call | | out the militia in trivial causes.

| Massacre.

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constitutes an dctual professional problem of the soldier, the mors unoleasant in the last few vears

Huey Long called out the troops to seize election records in a fieht which was strictly political and had the militia under arms half a dozen times under conditions in which shooting ‘would have constituted political A Colorado Governor ised the militia to

| repel immigration of itinerant beetfield hands whose

[ toil at starvation wages,

only offense was a desire to engage mn backbreaking More recently, in Rhode

| Island, Gavernor Quinn uted the militia to close a

race track because the manager of the track had

| cal™d him a liar in print

We're all for the More Abundant |

crossing southeast of Anderson have focused attention | on this death trap which has contributed heavily to Madi-

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son County's 1937 list of 54 trafic deaths. The State Highway Commission promises safety ‘measures, ‘and is proceeding with the elimination of dangerous crossings ‘at several other points,

But a great many such crossings must be eliminated

before Indiana's crossing accident toll is Yeduced to the |

country's average. Last year, Mississippi ‘was the only state with more auto grade crossing casualties than Indiana in proportion to the number of ear registrations. The crossing safety program now under ‘way is only ‘a starter.

THE GREAT SWINDLE

HE dictators have worked out a plausible selling scheme to use upon the people of their countries. Give us your

liberties ‘and ‘we ‘will give you security, they promise. The |

people, harassed by fears, agree to the “bargain.” This swapping of liberty for security is the great swindle of our day. The people ‘give ‘away their liberties ‘and they get only more insecurity. The democracies ‘are trying to ‘achieve Both liberty ‘and security for their people. They must ‘have both, for if they lose one they lose the other.

| paper and as its guest ‘speaker.

There was nothing in any of thse situations which would have stified military action, which is to say killing, and, that being so, there was no excuse for calling out the soldiers.

The Hoosier Forum

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

WASTE DEALERS EXPLAIN THEIR ATD TO POLICE

| By Leo Selig, Indianapolis Waste Materials | Dealers Association President |

to express

| the public should be informed as HOPES MEN INVESTIGATE [to some of the laws regulating the! JUVENILE COURT

1 | business of the members of our as- | sociation,

[By Mrs. A. L. S. In the

| Indiana and by virtue of the or- himself. .

| dinances of the Common Council of |

| a detailed report setting out ail of |

(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious conexcluded. your letter short,'so all can | have a chance. be sighed, but names will be withheld on request.)

Hoosier Under the laws of the State of Where Judge Geckler 1s defending

“You Don't Shed Enough Tears” — | the City of Indianapolis we are re-| maybe he doesn’t know just how | quired at the close of each business Many tears were shed when that |

| day to send to the Chief of Police article was read. ..., So, as the article written by H.

| the merchandise purchased during |M. says, why not have some wom. that business day, together with the en's clubs look into this?

| None of them, so far as I can see, | has the consumer point of view— | that of the average man who has difficulty in financing a home for | his family. Make Observers whose accuracy and lack of bias gives weight to their words have noted that, far from Letters must being tised to start hew business (in | which wage earners share), the undistributed profits had a strong

views in

sterile pools—to pyramid financial structures and to be generally concentrated in the hands of a few as “savings.” The contention { amply supported by the findings of | the Brookings Institution. It | this that brought on the depression.

Forum I saw

can go back into new business, They { do nothing of the kind. As I un-

{ revenue alone. It had a social aim,

' name, age, address and description | let some good groups of men, not | tion that followed in the wake of

| of the seller, as well as a description | Women. and license number of the motor | vehicle ‘which the seller used to] transport the merchandise to ! dealer, Mav Yon ¥ The reason for such regulation is obvious. During every period of 24, I do | hours there is reported to the Police Department many larcenies of | merchandise, If the stolen property { can be broken up into the form of | scrap material it is often sold to | I members of our association It is] seldom that we can ascertain upon | making a purchase that the par-| | ticular material is stolen property, and for that reason we make re-| | ports as described above. | capital We consider and it is generally | acknowledged that the business of | reclaiming waste materials 1s of the utmost importance to this country, for by so doing we are conserving | many of our natural résources such as lumber, iron ore, copper ore, zinc | ore, and other metallic ores The members of our association | always have strived to co-operate | I'with the Police Department, as well | as the courts, and we shall continue | {to do so in the future. |

» ” J | ASKS IMPARTIAL PROBE | OF DETENTION HOME Fay a Serious Citizen | I merely want to add my voice |

Geckler

not

By Tax Conscious

But it bend,

{to those who are calling for an Before it stops in flow.

| investigation into the Juvenile De[tention Home affair. The facts [brought to light by the “Social Worker's” letter were incontroI'vertible. . , | When I think of the $11,000 al- | {lowed to run the Detention Home, | —- an institution of great importance | to the future welfare of our com- | {munity and fits citizens. and then | [think of the handsome $10,000 salary paid to. the Judge, what can {I concade but that there is some- | | thing decidedly out of joint some- | I'where? An investigation should be made | |" L spoken

sure

mature.

| [by a committee composed of mem[bers interested in children, | community welfare and not

| =G. D. Prentice.

» JUDGE DECLINES ANSWER the | TO UNSIGNED LETTER | again.

wish anonymous letter. Any one who is | cowardly enough to forbid the use | revision. But to argue, as some fin- |

LT HOPES PROFITS WILL NOT BE REPEALED

gain and indeed be reconsidered and ren- Pg, Witifkm TEHon "ovated where alteration is needed if | | found to be actually as punishing | to business as charged. . But for a layman who does not|qualms showed the public's retalia- | understand much of high finance | tion in Detroit's election. and less of the tax tangle, but who| is vet tremendously interested be- | cause it involves his welfare, I may | to capital and labor, must be shown be forgiven for being wary of the] experts who make the charges. the experts are men of finance, with | | financial backgrounds and interests.

| WORLD AT END By XEN HUGHES

[ I thought the world could never end did, just as a river may

1 thought my love would be more |

'But I forgot the world and river Until I was alone!

DAILY THOUGHT

And they spake unto him, =aying, if thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants forever. II Chron. 10:7.

WORD of kindness is seldom vain, while witty and [sayings are as easily lost as the con- | pearls slipping from a broken string.

Juvenile Court Judge |

| better business conditions in 1934.

# which at the time was siphoning off | the money into the hands of the few

| Since these laws

to answer an |

lof their names will receive no con- | aneiers do, that they should be re- | sideration from me

pealed would be asking for the same o { conditions that enabled financial TAXES | pirates to wreck our economic system in 1929,

The undistributed profits tax and | REGARD FOR PUBLIC

loss tax should | ASKED OF LABOR

Although labor showed fts strength in Nov. 3 elections, fts split and

The public, although a third party

[one consideration if either capital Allfor labor expects the public's sym-

pathy. The farmer, merchant, tailor and candlestick maker include the great American public; a strike affects their pocketbooks whether it is the fault of labor, eapital or a family squabble. To some of the older, more experienced heads of the rank and file of labor, it looks as if some of capital's money had entered the [arena in an effort to keep them split. The C. 1. O. and the A. F. of L

Because through vears it bloomed | should remember the first American |

slogan of the 13 original colonies— “United we stand, divided we fall.” ” » ” SAYS REPUBLICANS TRY OPTICAL SURGERY By Observer The Republicans met

county chairman and to remove the beam from the elephant’s eve before they proceed to remove the mote from the donkey's eye and twist the donkey's tail. We hope the operation ‘was successful so that they may make an early start in 1938.

nected with polities mm any way.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Jim Farley Continues Administration's Flank Attacks ‘on Newspapers, Though ‘Speaking ‘on Radio Tie Paid for by Conservative -Journal.

EW YORK, Nov. 13.—A striking speech was made in the week by genial James for Third New Deal. Mr. Farley's latest effort was made over the air on time paid for by a conservative Republican news-

in this diadem of Mr. Farley's second-hand thoughts bitterly criticized all newspapers in general for adulterating, changing, contaminating or so ‘editing their publication of the remarks of great men that the public is deceived or cozened. At least that is the unavoidable implication from the Postmaster General's panegyric on radio. = » ” F I have any message, that message goes to my nation-wide audience unadulterated ‘and unchanged. . . . It will De uncontaminated by e¢oincidental editorial comment. . . .” During the President's Potemkin ‘parade through the ‘Northwest, he ‘quite properly praised the ‘way the public had Been ‘edudated and informed by tadio and the movies and he also omitted to mention the ne ‘as bei strut PR Beato £30 ST Lad

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The brightest gem |

ird ‘New Deal | The Is "a ‘priblic Blessing But it Is Hot ‘ultogethe

| ‘editorials, columnists nor the hews ftself tell the truth about Government “unadulterated, unchanged, | uncontaminated.” There is no freedom of press in | the press and no freedom of speech. You get that only on the radio. ‘This is the prineipal New Deal shibboleth from the White House down. ”

The Washington Merry- Go-Round

tendency to be siphoned off into]

I say | designed to stop the rising specula- |

were experi- | mental in nature and hastily drawn | up to boot, it is not surprising that | in the light of experience they need |

Craw- | fordsville on Nov. 6 to appoint a |

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Governor Davey's Praise ‘of Own | Steel Strike Actions Criticized | As Forgetful ‘of Unemployed Men,

| NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—I tuned in the din- | ner of the Ohio Society of New York just a little late and caught the speaker of the evening in the middle of a panegyric. He praised without stint and spoke almost in awe of the attributes of his hero. I waited for the key sentence. “He'll name Lincoln,” I thought, i" maybe George Washington,” but it turned out

to be a tribute from Governor Martin I. Davey of

Ohio to Governor Martin L. Davey i of Ohio.

—— Greater love hath no man. ; ‘2 But though the orator spoke very warmly of himself, the record which he presented was less impressive. It seemed to me that the Ohio executive practically admitted that he never worked very hard to bring about a settlement between Little Steel and the strikers. Aécording to his own version of events, he telephoned the Adjutant General and ordered out the troops the moment he heard that the mediation conference had bogged down. Indeed, the Governor told the diners of the Ohio Society, with great glee, of the manner in which he kept the Secretary of Labor waiting on the telephone while he completed his plan to mobilize the militia,

Mr. Broun

» » n : E held Frances Perkins up to scorn because she

had suggested that the subpena power of the State Industrial Board be used to force a prolongation of the conference. This apparently was the only basis for the wild story he gave out at the time in which he said that Secretary Perkins had advised him to kidnap Mr, Girdler and other Republic officials, On several occasions Governor Davey referred to “the American way,” but I am loathe to believe that many American Governors would rather settle labor disputes with bayonets than with round table discussion. And Martin tipped his mitt revealingly when he thréw in a line which seemed impromptu, He spoke of industrial peace in Ohio and advised other employers who might have “labor troubles” to “bring your factories to Ohio and we’ll take care of you.” The Governor spoke of the days which followed the breaking of the strike, and of the telegrams of thanks which were sent to him. He told the Ohio Sotiety diners, “The common theme running through them all was, ‘This 1s our first ray of hope.’ ” ” ” 8 HROUGH the velley where the tall chimneys rise the pleased puddiers came back, traveling like an army, to get their places if no black mark had been set down against their names, The Governor and his trocps with machine guns, bayonets and gas had won | for these free Americans the right to work, This was the happy valley. Governor Martin L. Davey forgot to add that although joy came in the morning, it was not of long duration. Today the independents of the Little Steel | “group are dicharging men by ‘the thousands. Théy are without means and without jobs. What has become of that Davey=given gift, the right to work? Seemingly Mr. Girdler has exercised his veto power, | and this time there will be no telephone messages from the Governor's mansion mentioning the matter. | Governor Davey hoasted that he had saved hot only the State, but also the'nation. How about his giving | “an encore, or is it just barely possible that there ate problems which cannot be solved by running to the | ‘phone and shouting, “Send me soldiers”?

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Self-Effacing Daniel Bell Refuses Appointment as Budget Director

To Keep From Losing -25By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

RK FASHINGTON, Nov. 13. —=Touring IHinels during the 1936 campaign, President Roosevelt ‘was greeted at Kinderhook, a small farming town, with a large banner reading, “Home of Dan Bell.”

| 1g to Governor Horner, the President remarked:

HERE Is such a thing as freedom of the ‘press. |

There is ho such thing as freedom of the ‘air. There tan’t be. Radio time costs big money. Radio is an advertising machine. Nobody can address the radio audience unless either somebody pays for the privilege or the speaker occupies a high official or public position. Radio debate is the greatest necessity of our time but the method is not vet invented. The result is that propaganda goes forth ‘uhchalTenged, uncriticizegd and unmodified. It is one ‘of the greatest of public dangers. The broadcasting companies are not to ‘Blate. They ate under Government licsnse. They ean Be destroyed by an executive decree. The only way they tan operate is through advertising tevenite. Their donations of tithe to public discussion must be Himited.

“I've known Dan for many years, but this is the

first time I ever heard he ¢ame from your State. | Matter of fact, how that I think of it, I don't believe | I know anything about him personally, exeept that |

he is ohe of the very ablest and most ‘modest ‘men

[in the Government service.”

The President's observation sumined up the eater and character of Daniel Wafefia Bell, ‘acting Budget Director. Of ull the key executives in the national capital he is the least known and the ‘most siheerely selr-

| effacing. Thete fsn't ‘a héwspaperman in Washing- | ton who ¢an truthfully Say that ‘he ever obtaified a

| statement for publication from Mr.

; Il. Priendly and accessible, Mr. Bell ‘will extend every assistance in supplying factual information. But when it eothes

| to personal publicity he shriftks ‘as from the plagie.

" mw ME BELL 1s the first ¢atéer Wan to Head the Budget Bureau. He is also the Hes

€ jest type of this CHS of public ‘servants, e v :

the Governtent yy “sihite 1911, "When He

Turf |

Year Classification in U. S. Civil Service,

votion to his job from a $700:a-vear Treasury clerk { to his present high post, Mr. Roosevelt has repeat. edly offered him a full appointment as “Budget | “Director, ‘but Mr. Bell has preferred to retain his Civil Bervice status, Hence his title, acting director. When he retires from this office he will revert to his | permanent rank of Commissioner of Accounts ahd | “Deposits, a Civil Betvice position. His remarkable ability to memorize complex figures is how being used by Mr. Bell to keep tabs on the operations of the two billion dollar stabilization fund created ‘when the dollar ‘was deévaliied. Mr, Bell is one of three persons who khows at all ties Just how much of the fund is being used to buy orsell foreign exchange. He keeps his priceless figires Th his head, not trusting them to paper for fear of a Teak. » # » Ba career man without politieal pull, Mr. BelPs position as Budget Director has been ho bed ‘of roses—particularly since Mr, Roosevelt ihatgurated his economy program, On Mr. Bell has fallen the ofierous task of ‘wieldifig

and their chiefs on oceasion have voiced bitter com. plaints,

him “up. In fitter pHs ation circles, Mr. Bell 1s beifig strongly or Ofie of the two vacancies on the Federal “Board, »

the knife on department ahd bureau appropriations, - Mr. ‘Roosevelt has fhever failed to Baek. ,

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