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FRIDAY, DEC. 17, 1937

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THE MUNICIPAL JUDGE FIGHT

reported plans to give a Municipal - Judgeship to a little-known lawyer, because of party service, shows how sensitive the public has become to the caliber of judicial appointments. Bs : William E. Clauer, Marion County Democratic chigh man, denies the reiterated reports that he made this recommendation for the post. It is best that he make none, for the chairman’s profitable connection with a beer port of entry would impose an unfair handicap on any person who won the judgeship “Fhrough his indorsement. The judge appointed will handle liquor cases. Sr \

Only 14 days remain for Governor Townsend to decide

whether to reappoint Judge Dewey Myers or name a hew: |

judge for the four-year term. The best politics in judicial appointments is to ignore the politicians and choose the

best qualified lawyer available,

THE TEST-OF SINCERITY HROUGH the dark clouds above the Far Eastern horizon we perceive at least one ray of sunshine." It is the apparently sincere efforts of the Tokyo Government to make amends for the bombing of the Panay. We hear that the chief of Japan's aerial forces in China is to be brought home as a first step in the punishment of those responsible. We hear that a salute is to be fired by a company -of Japanese bluejackets on- the spot where the Panay victims were Kkilled., We hear of indemnities. We hear of popular gestures of chagrin tendered to Americans in the streets, of schoolchildren paying their respects to the American Embassy. And of a Japanese proposal to raise, by popular siipseription, a fund to replace the sunken Panay. And soon. All of which is heartening. Until retenily. the news from Japan seemed to indicate an altogether. different spirit. The Panay horror seems to have opened the public's eyes. The people seem suddenly to have awakened to a realization of the disaster toward which their militarists are rushing them. But the test is yet to come. The war and navy mite isters are in the saddle. Do they feel about it the way the people do? Or, if they don’t, can they be curbed? . . The test of Japan's sincerity as a nation, therefore, will lie in the absence of further incidents.

DON’T FAIL THE CHILDREN! 4 ONE week remains before the end of The Times Clothe-A-Child campaign, and hundreds of needy children still await your help to make their Christmas a happy one. Already $5000 has been spent by donors to clothe more than 500 children. However, generous as these contributions have been, the total amount must be more than doubled in the next week to care for all the others who are depending on this aid. Clothe-A-Child headquar-

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Business Manager | Price in Marion Coun= |

ters reports the need this yuletide is the greatest in years. A popular feature of the campaign is the. Mile-of-Dimes on Washington St. in front of L. S. Ayres & Co. and Kresge’s. Here all have the chance to see their small’ gifts grow inch by inch, dollar by dollar. ~. The recent cold weather has emphasized the need of warm clothing which many children must have if they are to avoid suffering and be able to attend school this

Winter.

You can be their Santa Claus.

Iwo NEEDED REFORMS

HE Indiana County and" Township Officials’ Association deserves praise ior advocating reform of marriage ‘and nepotism laws in its annual convention here. County clerks, whose lobby has been accused of de.feating legislative efforts to end Indiana’s notorious marriage mills, went on record as condemning these Gretna. “Greens and asking that the State’s marriage laws be revised in line with health restrictions of nearby states. A movement for a strong antinepotism amendment to the State Constitution, aimed particularly at legislators, also was-ahnounced. Nepotism abuses by legislators and other State and local officials have been unrestrained -since the 1937 Legislature repealed the antinepotism act. The practice undermines the confidence of citizens in public ‘officials and should be curbed.

THE NEED OF LAUGHTER GQURELY we humans have a dmmonts need of laughter” and a woeful lack of it. For instance— Jugoslavia has banished Mickey Mouse. lt seems this. famous comic strip character was parading in a Belgrade paper as a prince’s double, much like the little pretender in Anthony, Hope’ Ss “Prisoner ‘of Zenda,” when the Jugo-

slavians smelled a plot to .overthrow their boy monarch. |

Out went Mickey and out also the American correspondent ‘who told about it. Less lately Brazil banished Tom Sawyer ¥rom “libraries. In Dresden the Nazi Labor Front chiefs have. just issued a warning that Saxons who continue to greet’ each’ other with the old familiar “Guten Tag” and: part” with a cheery "Auf Wiedersehen”. are either disloyaligts or “pa-c-tar coats.” - ~ To their peril let them not forget that, | ing and. ¢« Ta the ‘only patriotic salute i is 4 rr?

“ina 0 : thats n around e days and then ‘ask yourself |. whether" we aon need. an Axis Ward, 8 Mister Dooley ‘or a Will Rog

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~~ Maybe the farm} bill's Tangnge is purposely On the Supreme Com tinge it's just AAA.

| the problem as Santa

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Songtor Berry's Profest Over VA Ruining His Marble Land Is Lesson

In Civic Vigilance, Columnist Says. |

VW ASHIN GTON, Dec. 17 .—The-" attempt of the Tennessee Valley Authority to appropriate the marbles—various—of Sena-* tor Berry, the millionaire labor leader, continues at Knoxville, Tenn. .

The TVA has been trying to make’ out’ that the workingmen’s. rich friend obtained leases on marble lands in the area now flooded ‘by the waters behind Norris Dam with a view. to the condemnation vzlue of the marbles— various. There are several<kinds of marble in the mountains, including one [jype which a ‘marhlé | - expert described as _ivory-vein marble, worth $5.50 a cubic foot. The labor leader, -statesmanpatriot, who combines: in one versatile person the president of the Pressmen’s Union, the proprietor of a 30,000-acre farm and the owner of a great printing plant, has declared that he does not have to sue the Government > to make a living. That is a fact which nobody can deny for he Me. Pegies was already a millionaire with an assured living when he ‘accepted the civic duty of resisting the Government’s-attempt to appropriate his marbles. It is an |{important case because if the Govern-’ ment can take Senator Berry's marbles the Test of us will. be just pushovers: : rn

#8 8 8 HIS was, to be sure, only a small portion of the total one billion feet of marble said to have been covered by the water or shut off from transportation, and, considering the state of the marble market, it might be argued that the remaining deposit did not represent a [very lively asset except in condemnation proceedings. |

In fact; it is so argued, and there are individuals sufficiently callous to the sanctity of a citizen’s rights and equity to insist that marble in such quantities, in view of the limited demand, is comparable to the fieldstone on an abandoned farm in Connecticut or

+ the sand on a desert tract.

Connecticut fieldstone might have value in Florida, : where the only stone is something like Swiss cheese, and the desert sand might be suitable for making sandpaper, but appraisal seems to be ruled by con-

" sideration for the demand and the market price.

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O even 2 TVA hadn’t surprised the millionaire labor leader with a ‘sudden flood which came up with only a few years’ notice, or practically overnight, hé might not have been able to realize on his leases -

"in this life.

‘The surprise element is this flood is important. The millionaire union president declares that nobody could have been more surprised than he when he discovered that his leases were condemned to the depths of & lake. The TVA has been insinuating that he wasn’t surprised, but, on account of his political knowledge and shrewdness, may have had just

| an inkling at least, that if he leased the marble land

. the Governinent might have to pay. As anyorie can see, it is a very dirty case, involving an attempt on the part of the very Government itself to impugn the motives and take. the marbles—various —of a mar who, though rich land himself an em-’ ployer of labor, is nevertheless the personineaiion ot the Hae honest toiler,

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The Hoosier Forum

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

CITIZENS" COMMITTEE TED By Francis C. Smith, M. D, I am writing letters

Karabell: and the coroner in an effort to sponsor a movement to lessen traffic accidents and to promote greater safety in driving. T propose that a c mmittee be appointed to select 50 representative citizens who will be given a certain police authority, and who will post | W

1a cash bond to be forfeited if that

these citiwer to stop ecord their

privilege is abused. Le zen police have the Dp traffic violators, and

‘I names, addresses angd-license num-

‘bers at headquarters. (If a second violation occurs during|a probation period of six months, make them answer for both violations. I also propose that anyone caught speeding or arrested for reckless driving shall be required to carry on his windshield a sticker reading “I'am a reckless driver, beware,” to be removed by police in two weeks. 8 un = ANTISMOKE OFFICIAL EXPLAINS ORDINANCE By Roy O. Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer, Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League, in a Letter to City Councilmen It has been suggested to us on every -hand -that doubtless the reason the Council did not pass the proposed amendments to our smoke abatement ordinance when presented in September was because they were not xplained . to the Council at the time. For example, one councilman had not seen a copy of these amendments until a few days ago. The provision in these amendments about which e are most concerned is. the adoption of the Ringelmann’s chart as a measur-

ling scale in the observation ef

smoke. The way the present ordinance stands, the only way by ‘which a smoke violation can be determined is by use of the umberscope as a measuring scale. This

less than. about $25, whereas the Ringelmann’s chart can be printed for a fraction of a|cent a copy, and is in our opinion a much more simple and just as reliable a meas-

thé umberscope.- : Reviews: Past Efforts

Last year the Smoke Abatement League sponsored an appeal to the Federal Government in our smoke abatement enterprise, in response to whichi the Federal

control .department our city 14 men, making an appropriation to cover salaries and expenses. It was then that Mayor John W. Kern ap-

aid in the direction of these men and to prepare and |present such |:

‘amendments to our ordinance as

General Hugh Johnson Say: L.

Nazifi cation Peril .in Farm Bill Emphasized J Present Measure Is Saturnalia of Economi And not. even a handful of lawyers understand the:

FASHINGTON, Dee. 17 ~Mdrk Sullivan emphasizes 5 the tascistic effort of the Farm Bill, say= | ing. - “1 think ‘President Roosevelt and Secreiary Wallace have respect and regard for at least some who hold

. this view ahout the crop control bill.” If these persons .should make an earnest prayer to. Mr. Roosevelt and

‘Mr. ‘Wallace to use their influence to defer the enact-

“ment of the measure until after there is complete puble understanding ‘of it, would this be’ too much to ask? | ‘My, ‘Roosev:lt and Mr. Wallace : ‘i not those who oppose the bill used the last five months ; To fit. ‘acquaint’ the public’ with the, nature of the pill?” 7 you just. listen to some of ‘the talk i

ask why ‘have

As Mark intimates, the oil {Il is the ‘essence of fas- |

rent casions.

dreamed of. Perhaps it does some good to keep vil that out Poroaps li do does ome ass; 300 ir :|vand verbal blueprints. But.Mr. 'W: es

as th as one

billion dollars in his sack: ck io out to any sub-

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proposed law. As Mt. Sullivan

: monstrosity on the. up in conference.

similar to | this to the chief of pplice, Judge |

uring scale in these ol servations as

Government assigned to the smoke.

pointed ‘the advisory [committee to |. -

‘by Fellow Columnitt: | a) and Political ‘Heresies. | Ee

raw YORE, Dec. 17,~This seems to me an ex- - cellent time for everybody. to keep his shirt on : “and. ‘his ‘mouth shut. I refer specifical tators, columnists, broadcasters, publicis even Congressmen. a Naturally, I am not suggesting that the American le or their representatives should surrender the right to criticize, suggest and even condemn a for-

ggests, the salve Congressmut™ give their conscience is that they can vote for this und that it will all be cleared ut it will be cleared up prin-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in “these. columns, religious con- © troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can’ have a chance. ‘Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

would be helpful, in using these men to the best advantage in our smoke abatement work'in Indianapolis. This committee, which is composed of Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Daniel J. Welsh, railroad smoke abatement supervisor; J. Webster Clinehens, city combustion engineer; John J. Cooper, city prosecutor; Michael Morrissey, chief of police; George R. Popp Jr. city building

commissioner, and myself, prepared:

these amendments. Of course the one provision which is needed so far as the WPA help is concerned is ‘the adoption of the Ringelmann’s chart as a measuring scale. The adoption of the Ringelmann’s chart by: the City Council will be an: act of co-operation not only with the City Administration but with the Federal Administration in the service that the WPA help can give in the survey which they are making. Failure to adopt these amendments will in this respect jeopardize our chances of obtaining further help and co-operation from the Federal Government.

Chart Economy Cited

It is also the plan of this advisory committee, which has the appioval of our Mayor, to use the City Police Department and the City Fire Department in making observations and reporting violations to the smoke control department. It is also the plan that members cf the Police Department, after sufficient instruction in the use of the chart, may call attention to the violator of thé nuisance he is creating, and thus in numerous cases, no

‘doubt, the violator can and will vol-

untarily correct the conditions responsible for causing the smoke

AN OLD REFRAIN By MARY WARD Tell me, tell me a tale - Under the stars; “Of breezes that regale With lufes- and guitars. And sing and sing again Airs that caress Like springtime’s old fefrain Of happiness.

DAILY THOUGHT

‘Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, ‘ahd turn again with me, that IT may worship the Lord.—I Samuel 15:25.

IFE that needs forgiveness has for its. first. any 10 Jove. Bulwer. ha :

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‘subpena.

nuisance. This can be done without

additional expense to the City. Some provisions of the proposed | ordinance are more lénient than the crdinances of neighboring cities, dnd | the firing up of locomotives is more lenient than our present ordinance, which only allows six minutes for building new fires in locomotives. Sees Little Opposition -

So far as we'can learn, the only elements opposed to these amend-

ments are firemen who are afraid |

they will be compelled to exercise reasonable care in the firing of their ‘boilers or locomotives, or by other elements who still have. the medieval belief that a smoking

chimney is a sign of 'prosperity,|

whereas such a: chimney is conclusive evidence - of-- managerial stupidity.

Indianapolis is far ‘behind 'neigh-

boring cities in its smoke ‘abate-

ment program, and it is our sincere |.

hope and prayer that eventually we may have an adequate smoke abatement program ‘in our city established on a permanent basis, and until this is done we cannot expect relief from this menace. It can be done, and in an almost painless manner if propérly handled. -

Your adoption of these amend-i:

ments will be an ‘act ‘of co-opera-

tion with the Smoke Abatement |:

League, the City administration and the Federal Administration, and will be a great aid to the smoke dbztement forces of the city in their

work. A 8 8 =n

‘SEES CLASS PERSECUTION

OF LABOR INTERESTS

i By PF. B.

There seems to be a great hub-

bub raised over the .Labor Board | Here are: some facts

from the other side, not the: Lahor Board, but the class it i§ supposed. to protect. Of course everyone re-

members the Chicago massacre, in|

the steel strike,- wherein 10 persons

| were killed. If I remember right

there was no great concern felt for them and nothing was printed about liberty and a man’s right to picket. No great fuss was. raised when

labor leaders in the South were |

tarred and feathered, and some even hung. There was no criticism when Davey brought out his “tin” soldiers and broke the ‘back of the strike in Ohio and in which strike the word liberty was mauled in mud and dragged through blood of strikers. Nobody is raising any ‘fuss over Mayor Hague's action in Jersey City. In Jersey City 13 C. I. O. organizers were put in jail and 50 were kidnaped and run out of the city. When the Labor Board issues one subpena and asks for a little information, the editors rise in 3a body and cry for dear. life “about freedom of the press and the danger connected with obeying this subpena. This all leads to this, that if the class that is persecutsd is organized it can’ protect itself, if it is not, the class bears: apd gut: |.

fers in silence; =

According to Heywood Broun— =

Merry-Go-Rou nd

By Pearson & Allen

Jimmy Roosevelt Defends Cause of ~ Business, in White House Parleys; Britain Links War Debt and Trade.

“VWASHINGION, Dec. 17.—New York and Boston friends of Jimmy Roosevelt are boasting about the way he champions business during inner council debates over White House policies.

They claim the President’s eldest son n and secretary is urging ‘prompt and drastic relaxation of the. capital .gains and .undistributed profits taxes, hefty pruning of relief expenditures and abandon- : ment of the hostile attitude to= ward utilities. * They also credit Jimmy with putting over the appointment of “John W. Hanes, Wall Street broker, to the SEC. According to his friends, Jimmy is not merely pleading the cause of business but is militantly ‘opposing the counsel of other adyisers of the President. They say he has clashed with Secretary Morgenthau over the tax issue ® and with other insiders .over re4 » © © lief and utilities. -.Drew Pearson Jimmy was able to put over TR “his friend Hanes thanks to a biti © ter San Francisco feud. First choice for the SEC job, ‘rafter it was decided in the inner “council to bracket a broker with the militant New. Dealer Jerome ‘Frank, was Frank Shaughnessy, ‘head of the San Francisco Stock :" Exchange. 3 a But, suddenly, a fellow-San ‘ Franciscan intervened and "blocked Shaughnessy’s selection. - He was A. P. Giannini, potent chairman , of the Transamerica Corp., and the only leading bank- ' « er who supported the President in

‘Robert Allen 1936. . Mr. Giannini and Mr. Shaughnessy have been

- puasiness enemies for ‘several years. t spring Mr, Shaughnessy barred Mr. Giannini’ s. stock from the San Francisco Exchange.

So when Mr. ‘Giannini gts wind that Mr. Shaugh-

nessy- was No. 1 man on the list for an SEC appointment he pulled strong political wires and his rival was shelved. . Jimmy then came forward to. boost John Hanes, : # 2 2 INKED with- the war debt payments is a joker proposed for srictusion in the British-American trade treaty under negotiation, ~ The plan is ‘to ipelude in the treaty a clause by which the. British recognize their war obligations and undertake ‘to pay them off. This would lift the prohibitions of the Johnson Aet and permit the British to borrow money in the United States. ~ However, the debt would not be paid in gold but in goods. ‘The British argue: 1. That they have little gold, that the U. 8. is glutted with it, that more’gold would.only embarrass us, disrupt the world money marts: 2. That the war debts were contracted by the ship-

Tons of goods to the Allies, and the Allies should now “be given the same means of Yepayment-—under Mr. Hull's reciprocity treaties. :

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Present: Diplometic Crisis Is Time for Commentators to Keep Quiet; Let's Call Attention to Some Internal Problems That Cry for Justice.

to commen= 5 of all kinds,

“ols and came out on: 15. On July 14, 1 pointed ‘out ‘its prircipal weakness. - On July. 25, I analyzed it | eg i “Nazification of Agriculture.” . eracke at. it Som PR ,

cipally by changing all outright compulsion into a billion-dollar bribe to) be paid by a sales tax on food and clothing of the poor. This will be disguised under the name of a “pr ’ or “tariff-adjustment” 8 » o is by ‘all odds the| worst bill I have Kkriown after 20 years of contact with the drafting of laws. It emPRI on a perfect saturnalia of economic and polit4eal heresies—valorization, Government gambling on grain ‘prices, dictato al control of croppage, ‘destruction of export markets, bureaucracy and Planned scar= city. It is to be considered also with: companion conces=

, for agricultural labor, sweatited hours, with no Testriction on child labor.

But, oh, whats th e use, Mark? I doubt # even the combined voices of Mr. Sullivan and Miss Thomy

bill which autho shop wages and

son can yell loud

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sions forced by its sponsors into the Black-Connery.

p= 30 get Congress to pay spy |

eign policy. ~ But a moratorium: upon advice would do much more good than harm. We should not hand a blank check to President Roosevelt, but at a ‘critical time there ought to be

sufficient national faith in his capacity to insure

against any sudden and precipitate movement to hob-. blé him in negotiations.

‘When the issue has Been drawn clearly there will pin his own |. position of | ‘MH

be plenty of time for everyone to declare particular point of view as to what the the United States should be. Within 'a very short time it would seem to me expedient that the clearest and fullest discussion ought to be in order, with, no shade of opinion barred.

SUT neither now nor er will thers ‘be much utility in seizing upon some slogan and whipping ourselves into a purely onal reaction based

upon a few lilting words, rather. sound common sense § involved. -

.and sober analysis of the . Even as a minor es figwe ut

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themes, devote: myself wholly to. frivolous subjects for the next two’ or three days.

Failing that, it. might noi be inappropriate to call

attention toa domestic: outrage concerning which sufficient time has flown: to allow the national will, “the national reason and she national conscience to set. A meeting has just been held: in Madison Square Garden. to urge the release of Tom Mooney. Something more than an apology would seem reguired. Mooney has been heid in jail for 21. eaxs. The Senate is about to investigate his case, In ull ny ‘ability the Supreme Court will take up the qu But 21 years have passed. There is such a as ‘coming. lo detonate

EW, 1 belieds, “respect the ovigndh; wee tga) > processes under which Mooney was convicted. Some. of those Who wisn to keep him: confined are

a aes Lamers motivated by a

present fear of the man’s influence rather than any real confidence in the justice of his sentence. . They feel that he has become: a symbol of: militant .labor leadership. And he has become such a symbol. And .s0 during the briéf period in which there might well be an agreement not to confuse the foreign situation there is every reason and Jusification why! an ancient wrong should be wighted. ow. 1s. time for us to put ou house Ina ad

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