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Give Lioht and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, NOV. 22, 1937

WHEN? “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purvose under the heaven. . . . A time to kill, and a time to heal: A time to break down, and a time to build up.” = ® tJ # : “ E recommend that, from the Goed Book, to those in the executive and legislative departments of our Government who are now pawing over what-to-do about business. Or, to put it another way, what profiteth it a fire department if the firemen organize into a debating society just as the cow kicks over the lantern? Timing is pretty nearly everything in life. And the hest vou can say about what is going on around the capitol in this special session of Congres is that the timing is off, way off. Congressmen and Senators returning from home join in complete agreement that business is sick and getting sicker. Equally in agreement are they that the most obvious cause is taxes—certain specific taxes which should be corrected. What happens? The Senate beats antilynching. The House does nothing except wrangle a bit about this and that. In the meanwhile, the nation’s volume of industry and commerce shrinks, sources of tax revenue shrink accordingly, and unemployment increases as thousands are laid off the payrolls of the country. Uncertainty—the psychological factor—therefore is perpetuated, and that, more than any other single thing, adds to the trouble. Out of a symposium of opinion from noted economists we spot this, from David Friday: “There is need for some definite, dramatic action to

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show that Government promises of helping business are |

more than just a lot of talk.” That seems to us the key. The next few days will tell whether in this critical situation there is “to every thing a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Action—proper timing—now, can turn the slump. The same action next year may be useless.

ARMY OF MERCY HE community's active response to the annual Red Cross roll call is gratifying.

paign of the local chapter has passed the half way mark, | | speaks

with results running 20 per cent ahead of last year. Leaders report 100 per cent enrollment of many firms, and an average of nine out of 10 institutions canvassed are increasing enrollments this year over 1936. A thousand memberships have been pledged by firms from which the Red Cross had no previous support. All this is praiseworthy and, of course, justified by the

Already the membership cam- |

By Westbrook Pegler

Genial Jim Barking Up Wrong Tree By Charging Papers Are Biased, Says Pegler in Dig at Politicians. EW YORK, Nov. 22.—I would like to sound off on Jim Farley's speech in

| ‘which he gave the newspapers the rough

| side of his tongue with an insinuation that if

| he had a message for the nation that mes- | sage, given through the press, would be con-

taminated with editorial comment. His point was that

| the same message, delivered by air, would reach the consumer in the original package with the seals unbroken.

In the first place, some say our

| old prize fight commissioner is

taking things for granted when he of himself as one who might have a message for the nation. Mr. Parley is a professional politician ‘who, while chairman of the prize fight commission, licensed

| some questionable characters as

| managers and seconds.

| order suspending Primo Carnera | for life for the sole reason that | his friend Jimmy Johnston had a

service record of the Red Cross. With its 3700 chapters and | a national membership nearing five million, the Red Cross |

is truly an “army of mercy.” It disbursed $5,200,000 last year for disaster relief alone, and a part of that muchneeded help came close to home. This record is part of the reason why a city's support of the Red Cross may be considered an index of its civic consciousness. is how generously we answer that plea:

“Enroll now!”

TRIPLE TRAGEDY

Once Mr. Farley rescinded an

Kh ball yard on his hands and wanted fo make some money running Mr. Pegler a Sharkey-Carnera fight. Questioned about this afterward, Mr. Farley said he did it because Johnston

{ ‘was his friend and asked, “what good is a friend if he | ‘won't do a favor?”

Now to the point whether any message of Mr. Far-

ley or any other professional politician is, of itself,

pure and whether it should be allowed to pass without

| editorial question. The truth is that no professional

A test of our collective sense of responsibility |

HREE Indianapolis men prominent in business and civic | life, and all distinguished in Masonic orders, were cut |

down in traffic’s frightful slaughter last week. By an ironic fate, two of them lost their lives returning home after a mission of mercy at Lafayette. Edwin E.

politician ever gives both sides, but, even thnugh he knows he is in wrong, as Mr. Farley did in the recent New York mayoralty campaign, delivers a biased message in the spirit of a lawyer or a high school debater. ® “vw wn T is not his business to give the opposition credit for its virtues, great or puny as they may be, or to acknowledge his own candidate's faults or the guilt or failure of his own party. In Mr. Parley’s recent support of Jerry Mahoney,

| the Tammany candidate against Fiorello La Guardia,

Temperley, illustrious potentate of Murat Temple, Order of |

the Mystic Shrine, and Charles S. Barker, recorder, had | | ‘knowingly inferior candidate of a corrupt party, of

spoken before the Lafayette Shrine Club on the work done by the Shrine hospitals for crippled children. Brandt C. Downey, lifelong Indianapolis resident and retired banker, died following another accident.

The loss of these men is felt not only by Masonry but |

also by business associates and others who called them friends.

Tragedies like these should rally civic ‘and fraternal

groups behind community-wide efforts to put the traffic |

safety program on a permanent, well-financed basis.

SYMPHONY’S SUCCESS N the words of James Thrasher, Indianapolis has come of age musically with the season's first concerts of the Symphony Orchestra. The ovations given the orchestra Friday afternoon and Saturday night leave no doubt of the city's appreciation of this cultural enterprise. A special attraction of the Friday performances is the lecture explaining the concert scores. The opening augurs well for a splendid season. dition to the regular subscription series, two special Saturday morning concerts now are planned for young people. First credit for the brilliant opening must oo to the

young conductor Fabien Sevitzky. ‘With about 40 new mem- | | says what you think better than you can say it, isn’t

bers, half of the organization's strength, Mr. Sevitzky has molded his group into a first-class musical unit. ‘We believe with the orchestra's conductor, ‘and ‘with its sponsor, ‘the

Indiana State Symphony Society, that still finer things are

to come.

TORBES-ROBERTSON

HE life of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, ‘who died so often and so movingly before the footlights as Hamlet, has ended in England after a span of 84 years. "We will not be accused of being a victim of the Golden Age psychosis when we mourn Sir Johnston's death ‘as symbolizing the passing of a great epoch of the stage. He belonged with Modjeska, Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and the rest of the Olympians of the Victorian tradition. They were men and women to whom the stage ‘was not only the highest expression of art but also a pulpit for the elevation of the human spirit.

| ‘behalf.

did anyone hear any attempt to dispose of the unsavory record which Tammany achieved during the very years that Mr. Farley and Jimmy Walker were ringside pals at the big fights? Or did Mr. Farley recognize any of the obvious accomplishments of La Guardia’s administration? Did anyone ever hear any

whom there have been many, say, verbatim or in effect, “My message is that any opponent is the better man, that his party is better than mine and that you have a patriotic duty to vote for him and against me on election day?” And, frankly, are not most messages therefore dishonest? = & = S to the editorial bias of the press I make no disclaimer, ‘but, with ‘a few coxspicuous and

rather silly exceptions, the newspapers always pay |

more respect to public intelligence in their editorial comment than politicians reveal in the forensic canned goods prepared by abandoned hacks. There is ‘a fight ‘on now to emancipate the ‘air from political control, but the radio is too beholden to politicians capable of favoring a friend or rescinding an enemy’s license te venture a ‘word on its own Prize fighters didn't criticize Mr. Farley or William Muldoon, and most radio operators are similarly timid for similar reasons. So the fight for freedom of the radio is being fought by the newspapers which this Administration, having tried ‘and failed to control, now would like to discredit.

| HE DOESN'T WANT PYLE | FOR RELIEF DIRECTOR | By Claude Dockery After reading Ernie Pyle’s column on relief, I do not think such selfcontradiction should go unchal- | lenged inasmuch as it concerns a very large section of our people— | those on relief and WPA.

to express

troversies

The Hoosier Forum

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

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

a world which seeks progress through the repudiation of accepted truths and the destruction of established institutions, good and bad alike, we mean to conserve the foundations of American life. We [ mean to hold to the principles born | of the accumulated experience of our race. We believe that they are as valid today as yesterday and that | they are fully capable of adaptation | to the new problems of a new

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In one sentence Mr. Pyle savs, “I |

i last year.

become convinced there simply are : creases in

not jobs for people on relief.”

has the kindest, tenderest heart in | criminal assault. all North America.” What do you

as well as discouraged, from seeing »

sary things of life. Alas! Tender-

hearted Ernie, it is too bad

people as WPA workers. He would | | fire one-fourth of us; what would |

aried “vagabonds from Indiana.” ~ » »

can’t see even ‘where the ‘wildest |picniren ‘Mr. Hoover stated that! tif boom could create enough jobs to | more felonies were committed thus | With any faction within the party. put people back to work. . .. I have | far in 1937 than in the same period There were sharp in- | robberies, : ‘The |)arcenies and auto thefts. Times in its editorial says, “Ernie | were more homicides, more cases of |

Clearly, there is nothing in this think tender-hearted Ernie would | picture to justify any trace of com- wr “ww w do for us, if he ‘were relief director? | placence in our attitude toward the | pamrHER CRITICIZES He says he would cut our already | crime problem. A fine job has been | : miserably low living standard down | done since Capone was in his hey- | ATHLETICS POLICY | to a dollar per day to discourage us, | day, but an equally big, if less spec- By X. Y. Z. as if 'we ‘were not already disgusted | tacular, job remains.

our families go without the neces- | op FUNDAMENTALIST such | EXPLAINS PRINCIPLES

kindness should be wasted on such |'By Wesley T. Wilson, State Chairman of | Republican Fundamentalists

world.” We are not identified or allied

We are not interested in changing | lor resisting the change of party | ’ ne | leadership or the personnel of any burglaries, [part of the party organization. We are not concerned with party organization, but only with party | principles.

For the sake of the younger generation I ‘wish that your sports writers would investigate the ath- { letic departments of this city’s high | schools. Being the father of a son who 1s |

know wherewith I speak. My son made the freshman footin high

in his last year of high school, I|

PROTECT PAY CHECKS, IS WRITER'S PLEA

By L. E.

I know several ladies ‘who would gladly send orchids to D. Fredrick Burnett for his comments on pay checks belonging in homes where children are barefooted and underfed instead of in saloons where they are cashed.

Party principles in terms of true Americanism and the drafting of a constructive program to offer to the 1938 Republican State Convention for adoption as the party platform. We are conservatives in the sense in which Ogden L. Mills used the word when he said: “I would make this the party of conservatism.

school. His second year he played on the reserves. His third year he played second-string varsity. In b2tween second and third years I was approached by a coach who wanted me fo pay $150 for my son’s summer

vacation (duration of vacation was six weeks). This vacation would have cost ‘me in the neighborhood

I am one and I know several others who suffer from the kindly act of the tavern keeper. He cashes a workman's check with a smile and buys every other drink until his | victim becomes intoxicated. He then knows he will make it back double | With the soft or maybe three times. I know a saloon keeper who accepted 'a man’s full pay check and then paid a taxi driver to take him home. The man’s wife and children waited for a small amount with which to buy groceries, Each firm employing men should | make a check out to be cashed at ‘a bank only. He may be late in getting his money, but at least his {wife and children would get some of it. "Why do most plants and fac- | tories have a saloon nearby?

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| G'MAN HEAD QUOTED ON CRIME INCREASE 'sy B.C. The insolent underworld gangs |

| ago have pretty well been broken | up; yet J. Edgar Hoover, head GMan, warns that it is a mistake to suppose that crime in the United States is decreasing. Addressing a convention of the American Hotel Association, in

General Hugh Johnson Says—

In ad- |

At Last Here's Professor Who Sums Up America's Needs in ‘Nutshell: Administration Caused Recessidn and Now Puts Blame ‘on Business.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Far be it from me to dodge my daily stint, but if ‘another fellow

it 0. k. to quote him? This is N.Y. U. Prof. Spahr's

| essay--condensed and minus ‘a few proposals with

which I do not agree: “Perhaps just as significant is the implied threat of Government action ‘of some sort, vaguely defined, which the President says must be taken if business does not recover from this recession. His statement says: ‘If private enterprise does not respond Government must take up the slack.’

“There can be no mistaking what the new program |

| means—it is an ultimatim to capitalism to bring

about prosperity or take the conssquences. Unless

| ‘business does recover, then there will be but one course | to take, and Roosevelt will take it, namely, national- | ize the railroads, the utilities and the insurance com-

panies. The economic crisis put capitalism on the

in the Administration taking such ‘a position, after being chiefly responsible for the present recession, ought to be clear.

Ww uw “nn T= hope ‘of this nation must lie ‘with Congress. Until Congress ‘demonstrates it has ‘an understanding of the economic situation, and ‘rises to its responsibilities, the people of this nation cannot have ‘any great ‘assurance as to ‘what the future holds for

Prof. Spahr suggested “that the Federal budget be balanced by cutting ‘flown expenses, not by increasing | taxes; that the tax on undistributed corporate sur- | pluses be repealed; that the capital gains tax be revised to recognize capital losses; that we return to a | sound currency by returning to a gold standard; that | there be no further inflation of the currency; that | the Government cease harassing and competing un- | fairly with private business enterprise; that the Wag- | ner act be amended so ‘as to make it equitable and | impartial in its operation.”

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|& THER recommendations of Prof. Spahr are that |

| the problems of relief be returned to the states;

| that the engendering of class hatred and of ‘a class | | ‘with the business of freezing any area and killing the

: ; | Jous regard for our check ‘and balance system, by | crve There has been an overeagerness for anestheSpot. The utter unfairness and demagoguery Involved |. iiqing up ‘a therough=going system ‘of -civil Service, | | by developing a responsible cabinet government and by |

| ‘according a proper respect for, and protection of, the |

| ‘struggle cease; that there be a definite return to eon- | stitutional law and government, by showing a scrupu-

integrity of our Supreme Court. Prof. Spahr is not in favor of wages ‘and hours legislation and wants to leave agriculture to the mercies of the tariff system—with ‘which I do not | ‘agree. I ‘also believe that the Federal Government should ‘aid state relief. ‘Otherwise, I think this is the

| most reasonable program I have seen,

Conservatism in this sense: that in

SNOW FLAKES

By RUTH KISSEL

sweet touch of a mother’s love The snowflakes come fluttering

Ma jestically covering earth and That are so bare and brown. Dame Nature's put her children in And lulled them to sleep with a

She gently spreads the blanket over | hn Ob] SBYStEim To warm them the ‘whole night tions, Indianapolis Public School Syste

DAILY THOUGHT

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear

| that ‘were so notorious ‘a few years| thy God: for I am the Lord your God.—Leviticus 25:17,

THERE is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; there can be no repose for him. For ; the sighs of the unfortunate cry for | players entirely ‘on the basis of abilvengeance to Heaven.—Pestalozzi.

of $250, if I had signed the contract. Here is the catch. The coach promised, if my son went to the camp, he ‘would have nothing lo worry ‘about in sports at said school. Of course, I said no, and this year I can see the fault. My son turned in his suit after a city conference game and he is not the only one. I have talked to fathers who send children to high school here ‘and they all seem to know there is something wrong.

BELIEVES FATHER MISUNDERSTOOD COACH

I'By ‘William A. Evans, Director of Publica-

Some Indianapolis coaches work at private recreational camps during the summer, and many of these camps offer fine training for Boss: | However, it is probable that the | father ‘of the boy referred to in the | above letter entirely misunderstood | the coach's meaning. What the coach probably told him was that | the camp would be of great benefit | in the boy's physical training I am | quite sure that Indianapolis high school coaches select their varsity

ity.

By Pearson & Allen

Extra! Five Spies Found in Navy! Uncle Sam Knows It and Likes It, Senators Are Busy at Gum-Chewing.

WW ASHINGTON, Nov, 22.—The Navy has uncovered five Japanese spies employed on U. S. warships, but they are not saying anything about it. Instead, Navy officials are using the spies to let the Japanese have certain ideas they want them to know. These spies are Filipino mess boys of part Japanese lineage. They are watched carefully, and are known to make reports when they go ashore. The reports they make are chiefly on the morale of the Navy and efficiency of gunfire, Since these two are now at their peak, the Navy is only too glad to have the information get back to the Japanese, During the last maneuvers, a record in the fire for 16<inch guns was

chalked up of only one miss in 120 shots, with a target at 22,000 yards.

Drew Pearson

‘Merry-Go-Round *

U.S. naval gunnery is now superior

to the Brifish and is equaled only by the Germans, recognized for vears as the best gunners in the world. After a vacation of two months, the “world’s greatest deliberative bodv” looks just the same. Senators still make just as much noise and chew gum just as vigorously. Leader Barkley's gum chewing has a slow, reflective pace. Senator McCarran ‘of Nevada works his jaws faster, but Senator Donahey of Ohio Senator Bulow of South Dakota, still unabashed, takes a plug from his pocket, pinches off a corner, and sticks it into his cheek. Senator Ashurst has the same dark vest with the white cord lining, still pens courtly notes in a flourishing hand as the debates go on. ” ” » ENATORS M'ADOO of California and Hitchcock of South Dakota pass each other at the rear of the chamber. They are a pair. Senator McAdoo at 74 walks faster than any other member of the Senate, His legs are long, his step is lithe. Senator Hitcheock, a natty dresser, looks like a smart young bond sales man from Wall Street. You wouldn't believe he was more than 45 if he didn’t put his bith-date in the Congressional Directory—as 1867. That makes him 70, The militant censure of “the growing concentration of economic control” in the Presiden’’s message to Congress was the handiwork of Vice President

Garner. The Texan returned to the Capital all hopped up over the menace of Wall Street, went immediately to the White House and had a 45-minute talk with Mr, Roosevelt. Mr. Garner told him that monopolistic interests were ‘annihilating small businessmen and that the Government had to take drastic measures

to halt them.

Robert Allen

chews faster still.

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E alto told the President that the undistributed

profits tax ‘must be modified to relieve smail busiriess but that he was all for the tax bearing down on big business. Mr. Roosevelt welcomed the counsel, and went it one better, “Why not reshuffle the tax,” he suggested, “so that it will enable the small businessman to compete better against the big fellow?” Three days later Mr. Roosevelt Congress. If vou look up his speech you will note that he supported Mr. Garner's idea almost word for word.

According to Heywood Broun—

President Roosevelt's Sore

Tooth Symbolizes Aches of New Deal;

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Mavors' Conference Refutes House Members' Stand for Spending Cut.

EW YORK, Nov. 22.-<All good Americans, 1 imagine. followed with great interest the fate of the President's aching tooth. But to me the last report ‘was ‘a little disturbing. 1 read that the White House dentist ‘was trying to save the tooth. Indeed, that he was treating it. Of course, this is much deeper than ‘a dental problem. My ‘own feeling is that in New Deal strategy there has been too much treating and not enough yanking. Certain fundamental problems have been crowned and forgotten, For instance, there is no longer ‘any point in pretending that the ache of unemployment can be solved by a temporary filling. Nor is it ‘advisable to go on

sia and too little for frank ‘and outright oral surgery. w ww ERHAPS the United States Conference of Mayors had ‘a salutary “effect in convincing Congress that even the most skillful orthodontia (the cor-

rection of the position of teeth if you must know) will not suffice. There are things in ‘our present economic structure which just ‘will have to come out, Incidentally, those newly “elected -or recently re-

turned members of the House who insist that Amertcans want a radical curtailment of Federal spending do not speak with the same authority as the Mayors of the United States, who come in closer contact ‘with much larger groups of people. And the Mavers were unanimous in declaring that the WPA must inerease its employment ‘quotas, In ‘all probability the judg ment 6f any convention of Governgrs would go in the same direction. When people urge the National Ade ministration to: balance the Pederal budget immes diately they seem to forget that this would unbalance practically every State budget in the nation, » Hu »

I “I'd Rather Be Right” Mr. Landen has a life ih ®

which he says in effect, “I know 1 was lousy on the radio, but, after all, I did balance the budget.” This sally always gets a hand, but the first state ment is ‘more ‘accurate than the second. The budget of Kansas must be balanced. That is the law, and tive effect of the Jaw was that relief in Kansas came to be the job of the Federal Government. There ‘would be no great gain in adjusting the budget at the top only to shake the finanefal structure of all our states ar municipalities.

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