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TUESDAY, DEC. 21, 1937

. A RECORD IN INDUSTRIAL GROWTH

PRESIDENT OLIVE'S report last night on 1987 Chamber of Commerce activities highlighted many bright spots in the city’s industrial progress. The year, he said, “wit-

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history.” Appropriately, the Chamber's 48th annual meeting honored the top executives of the Stewart-Warner Corp., one of the largest of the concerns which Mr. Olive said have combined this year to bring $10,000,000 of new investments and an anticipated 5500 new jobs to Indianapolis. This cheerful industrial picture cannot hide the fact that the current downward trend in business is lengthening the relief rolls, and that unemployment still is one of the country’s major unsolved problems. But the expansion programs emonstrate a faith in the community’s future

that cannot be overlooked, and the industrial production

figures show how far we've come since 1933.

R.S.V.P.. C.LO.

ALoUsToneD as we are to seeing the name of John L. Lewis in headlines, we are only now learning to look for it on the society pages. But Mr. Lewis seems to be giving his attention to numerous R. S. V. P.s as well as to the C. I. 0. and U. M. W. of A. Indeed, we see by the Washington newspapers that he is by way of becoming one of the lions of the social season in the national capital.

Recently, at a dinner given by former Governor and

Mrs. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania in honor of the visiting Lady Ribbesdale, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were ranked next to the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, and Lady j Lindsay, well ahead of a Supreme Court Justice and Several assorted Senators. It remained, however, for another Pennsylvanian—

: Senator Guffey to entertain Mr. Lewis at a much larger | : : affair as ‘the undisputed guest of honor.

This was a tea

: in the Senator's handsome new home, and from the ac-

: counts of society editors who were e present we cull the : following particulars: The guests included “all the Democratic calhrities in : Washington.” Senator Guffey had on morning dress, but ; Mr. Lewis “was attired in a simple business suit.”

Why it was thought necessary to add that he “controls

: the votes” of several hundred thousand miners in Pennsyl-

: vania we are not certain.

The Washington Post adds:

“Mr. Lewis hag: a rather pleasant social manner. He : grasps one firmly ‘by the hand, looks one directly in the : eye, and saysas though he meant it, ‘I'm glad to meet you’.”

We are pleased to know that Mr. Lewis is getting prac-

. tice for his social manner, and are tempted to wish ‘that : he would try it on William Green.

HERE TO STAY

IR. GRISWOLD, publisher of Business Week magazine, has just told an American Management Associa-

{ tion, conference: that the business recession has reached its

: * Socialization has been going on for 150 years.

3 . came out of a hotbed of communism in Wisconsin.

* bottom: By the end of 1988's first quarter, he said, there will be a definite. rise in business which will continue : through: the year. ; We hope Mr. Griswold is right about that: We're sure. he is right about something else he told the conference * of businessmen: “The worst. thing we can do is to fight the New Deal. 1 remember { when we thought that state reguiation of public utilities No one : opposes it now except the public utilities. “We've got to remember that we've got a new boss in this country, and we're going to have one from now on; that we are doing business by sufferance. right. Whether it is Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal or a Republican and some other deal, you can never take away from the public that consciousness which it developed—a consciousness of its mass power—and it is going to keep it. We are going to buy and sell in the normal course of events with the consent’ of the Government.” Mr. Griswold, of course, was not advising businessmen to accept without question everything proposed by the Roosevelt New Deal. He was saying only what many conservative business leaders acknowledge to be true; that

‘most of the fundamentals of the New Deal are things that. modern conditions make necessary and that the people of

the United States are determined to achieve.

Fighting the New Deal with the hope of preventing attainment of the objectives is futile and dangerous. Presidents will come and go, but the demand of the people for a :' New Deal is here to stay. ‘

HAGUE STUPIDITY

Maybe it's all |

PRERA TER EROOCI EI PRT OPERA WB AE NS BFP EPRIRTTTENTEOG TERNS PPR S ERE PERL LETS ERBA PENA IS SWIPE LE

i public without making them unfair to labor. i :

Mayor Hague's “I am the law,” his “I do, me, right

here, decide” what constitutes “attempted invasion” of Jer-

_ 3sey City by the C. I. O., his wholesale deportation of union 3 organizers, his bans on free speech, free assembly, distribu-

tion of union circulars and anything else he chooses to call unlawful have even challenged the attention of Congress.

labor * “under control. ”» 3 iy does coll for rm. Iti is fortuna e fo

GOVERNMENT" ‘executive: like: Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City is a heavy handicap to current efforts to make labor’s organizing and picketing methods fair to the

. There are some employers unwise enough to approye of what Mayor Hague is doing—to rejoice that he i is keeping | - ; | Hamilton and Mr. Landon have thought up any more |

fact is, of course, that stupid truculence of the: & different mistakes to. elect

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

_ Security Fund Urged for Drunkard;

Columnist Sees Need of Aiding Him Who Has Long Helped Uncle Sam.

EW YORK, Dec. 21.—There is a serious flaw in the administration of the liquor taxes, Federal, state and local, the correction of which would work to the advantage of the Government, the liquor industry and

the consumer. Not always am I able to suggest a remedy when pointing to a fault, but in this case I propose a sort of social security fund .for drunkards and liquor invalids and their dependents,

to be amassed by a small deduction from the taxes which already are imposed on the traffic. My plén is a happy one, in that it bespeal:s heither a new tax for the increase of any duty now existing. It would even yield a net saving in the present cost of confining the wretched - rum-pot in an inefficient and often brutal manner, to say nothing of the profit to be gained by the occasional if temporary: redemptions and the protection of the victim’s, Mr. Pegler family.

It would be argued, also, that there would be a

| gain in national man-power, as of course there would

be. . But let us keep this on an honest plane -and confess that that is a weak selling point ih‘a country whose worst problem is to find work for the man. power now available. Under present conditions the drunkard or liquor invalid is neglected and despised and his dependents receive 10 organized sympathy, in contrast to the case of the criminal whose rehabilitation Is a topic of constant agitation.

“Yet the criminal is an enemy of society, whicrens :

the man who drinks to excess obviously is a contributor to one of the most reliable revenues of govern-

ment. » # » 1 a:

| go I propose, just for a figure, which may be miih ~

too high, the allocation of one-half a cent per drink on all the liquor ‘consumed to a special fund for the purpose described. The Federal fund easily could be reckoned on a fixed rote of so many standard drinks per quart with tke internal revenue and customs figures as index. ‘Ther, should a man fail out of line as an alcoholic, let him be certified for treatment at the nearest public cure and his family pensioned during his absence, not as a matter of charity or 6fficial condescension, but as-a matter of indirectly they, will have contrib@ited to the fund for years and probably at the sacrifice of many comforts.. And though the individual may receive back more i: benefits than he paid in as taxes, be it re-

| membered that for every beneficiary there will be | 100 or more contributors who never will find if neces-

sary to tap the fund. #8 » » N cases where home treatment, whether for snakes, ulcers or liver trouble, seems desirable, that could

be arranged, too... With very little risks of imposture.-

Any dcctor can tell by simple tests whether a man really lias the shrieks. For moral effect, I would propose fire and imprisonment. for ‘any teetotaler who undertook to defraud: -the Government: by posing as a drunkard.

Ew YORK, Dec. 21.—The Republicans Have’ resumed the: march just where they ‘left off in

| November, 1936—in the parade of the wooden soldiers - or the stumblebums delight. I refer to the new pro-

gram committee ahd the selection of Dr. Frank.

In June, 1936, “Sunny” Jim: Parley. would not have -

made his famous electior o ori prophecy. - Neither | ri | Se conspiracy to"

anybody s. around the. oo osaratle, hea

Mr. Roosevelt?. Mr. Roossvelt would have been elected anyway, but it was Republican blundering t almost made the states

';-jor‘gefuse to join et ‘| dent that the emplo; wy. “willing to

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1 & » a: | a ‘he Hoosier Forum 4 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

LABOR BOARD ELECTIONS CALLED DEMOCEA C By John S. Hamner Suppose an cniploN er has 9000

workers, 4000 of which are union |

workers in ‘two unio:

ting in their government and their

demands. The employer has agreed to employ union men and to recog‘nize either or both ons and to bargain with ' .them collectively. However, the unions are unable to

decide which will be|the bargaining agency, since it would be impractical to bargain separately. Suppose the other employees are undecided which union join Ib

recognize the union, Hopes the nonunion employees will| join and remain in his employ, or that he is indifferent to them, which is not likely. . The NLRB calls an election to

the right to ould recognize

tion will be regular and democratic even though the nonunion workers did not vote. If, there is any against nonunion em an election, it lies ployer and not with ‘the ‘NLRB, for he has decided in favor of the union workers, indicating his ‘desire to have all his employ It is well known among most emunion is oo d, its aim and object is to

‘have the closed shop, The nonunion

workers will have to lay the blame

-{where it belongs—not on the: so-

called tindemocratic conduct of the slection called by the NLRB.

TAX ON LOSS SEEN WAY TO AVOID INCOMPETENCE By L A. B.

As a substitute for the profits and :

Gains could be taxed at one-haif their present rate if more business-

might hustle the gains line. Wipe dut the incompetent by taxes, if) not by natural

process of bankruptcy. Make capitalism : produce. p

jovn Hugh. Johnson Say nn

Dr. Frank and G. O. P. ‘Platform Will Be Great Aids—For Democrats: New_ Dealers Steal Republicans’ Stuff of Making Political Blunders.

evi- press

(Times readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious confroversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

NLRB ACTION CALLED ASSAULT ON PRESS By R. F. Paine, San Francisco

As a veteran newspaper man, I am wondering if the American press is going to. lie down, whine and exregrets, in. Japanese fashion with a corkscrew turning in it, operated by an arrogant Federal bureau. A trade paper has. eriticized the National Labor Relations Board for its attitude in the Weirton Steel Co. matter, and the Board has subpenaed the publishers of that paper

_ BIRD REST By MARY R. WHITE

White ‘ ghost-like trees by the light of day, Whose long, bare arms by he cold winds sway. So cold and bare by the morn'’s gray . light But what is this covering, so strange, at night? On each id twig there's a soft, fluffy ball To the tip-top branch of each tree so tall: Sh-u-u-sh- what is that twittering “sound I heard, Like the chirping note from a sleeping bird? Of hidden life? An eerie feeling That Im not alone, is o’er me steal- - ing. And that sound I heard has doubled in tone Louder and stronger. No! I'm not alone. . From the trees’ strange covering, : soft and warm, From thence it seems came that note of alarm.

Then back to bird dreamland, a sleepy. bird hies.

Cradley re in the arms of the sycamore tree.

DAILY THOUGHT

For Moses said, Honor thy fa- ¢ ther and thy mother; and who so curseth father or mother, let him die the death.—Mark 7:10.

HE voice of parents 1s the voice of the gods, for to their children, they are Heaven's lieutenants. —Shakespeare !

A soft litle fluttering, a note of’

Little foamed friends fear not the

to appear and make a complete revelation of all details of preparing, writing and publishing said criticism, The Board’s action is a vicious and direct assault upon the freedom of the American press. To be sure, the publication in hand is only a trade paper—Mill & Factory. But consent to the smallest wedge entering, and there soon will be a hole through which all of the freedom of the daily press can be kidnaped. It is birth of Hitler management of America’s free press, and God help the American press and America if anything like Hitler control of the American press isn’t strangled in ‘its Jneeption! * Cites Board's Order Heros: the “-figke-up. of = American-born of shoot of Hiilerism: “All information pertaining to interviews or any other material used in the article are required to be produced; ouice copies of all letters, memoranda, telegrams, cables, radiograms, reports and; other communicaitons sent by the magazine to employees, officers or other persons connected with the Weirton Steel Co. and its labor relations; records, memoranda, invoices and bills relating to the sale or loan or gift of copies of the October issue of Mill & Factory and the reprints; proofs of the article and

corrections; and notations of tele- |,

phone communications between the magazine and any of the persons connected with the steel company;

drafts, outlines, sketches and lay- |. outs which. may - have been cor-i. rected or approved:by any one con- |.

nected with the Weirfon outfit.” In short, the publisher must appear before the Bosrd with his business stripped naked and his right of freedom destroyed. What Is Press’ Attitude? Eternal vigilance and eternal battling of aggression are the price of press freedom. What is the American press going to do about it, when one of Mr. Roosevelt's numerous boards proposes to use, in re-|

“turn for criticism of its acts, the in-|-

timate processes and confidences of an American publication? Lie down, squirm and take it, or demand that

President Roosevelt control or retire.

his board, rather than permit ‘any of his instruments of administration | to Hitlerize the American press? United, the American press will stand. Divided, or comatose in the face of cyass outrage of its Constitutional rights, it will fall and its. potency as exponent of our country’s democratic form of government will be extinguished.

8. Nn 2» ASKS PERTINENT QUESTION ABOUT SMOKE NUISANCE By C. W. I_ wonder if it would be considered radical if I were to dare to

ask when something is going to be done about the smoke disgrace?

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New Doctor on n the Case-By Herblodk

Merry-Go-Round By Pearson & Allen

Japanese Ambassador Had Hand in Creating Rift at Brussels Parley And Putting Envoy Davis on Spot.

| VV ASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Here is an in-

side incident occurring during the late . lamented Brussels conference which: sheds some light on the Japanese attitude toward the Roosevelt Administration and the Par East.

While the Nine-Power delegates were rowing over what they could or could not do to block Japanese aggression in China, Japanese - Ambassador Saito : in ‘Washington sent the Japanese Ambassador in Belgium a cable summarizing his views on the, Roosevelt Administration's im-

potency : Mo stated it could .do nothing. Mr. Roosevelt was engrossed in domestic affairs, he said. Congress ~ was opposed, to intervention inthe "* Far:East, and finally the State Department differed with the American delegation at Brussels ‘and would not let Norman Davis move.

It was a neatly worded message and the Japanese Ambassador: in _. Belgium handed it to his ally, the Ita Ambassador. Then the Italians slipped it to the press. This cuf the ground from under ‘Ambassador Norman Davis, ‘It made him appear to be a delegate without a Government. Shortly thereafter the Brussels ‘conference folded its wings and ‘Mr. Davis went home. ©’ What reports ‘Ambassador Saito - 7is sending back to his Government - now- are not known. But having . “lived in this country 17 years and BI ak being = very shrewd hgerver. hols . Robert opr y diagnosing the situa Allen - Detter than the Administration hel, :

fost significant is that Saito cabled that the State Department was at _cross-purposes with the American delegation in Brussels. This was not supposed to be known by anyone, let alone the Japanese Ambassador, but it was absolutely true. And it is extremely important, because it illustrates / the: way Mr. Roosevelt has marched up the hill. in foreign affairs and then marched down again. At Chicago last October, the President marched up the hill with his “quarantine” speech against an aggressor. Then in his firesitie chat he marched down again.

By SHEN before the Brussels ‘conference he gave Nora man Davis a fighting pep talk at Hyde Park, “advising him to go the limit in censuring Japan, But ‘after Mr. Davis arrived in Brussels, the State Department tied his hands. When he cdbled back the draft of the first speech he proposed making, the State Department threw it in the scrap basket, cabling back a new text. Every time Davis raised his hand at Brussels ‘he was stymied by the boys back home—which was completely out of line with Mr. Roosevelt's pep talk to the American Selegation before it sailed.

Significant sign of the “times: For the first time since the World War, the anpusl form sent to reserve officers by the War Department for corrections of address also contains this query: “Jn the event of an' émergency how much time woiild you desire for the purpose of placing your affairs in order before Joining your regiment?” :

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According to Heywood Broun—

Giving Advice to Lovelorn Is Easier Job Than Political Forecasting; If He Drinks and Gambles, Then' Give Him More Dough and Marry Him.

EW YORK, Dec. 21.—A young lady, inclosing a

d is to approve the more popular Places of = ation, Bu | to show hoy gach can thou estroying e wers ongr and the states and withou pe i oy The Democrats/made the mistake of using popular objectives as a cloak to disguise a silent Fascist revolution.. The objects|are all vote-getters, but the Third 4 to “the

for the donkey's ear

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self-addressed stamped envelope, writes and says,

“I am preparing a Eymposium with the hope of selling

it. to some am asking all the newspaper columnists I can nk of a same qQuestion— What is your idea of the ideal woman you would like to marry?’ Please send me your reply. use more than 100 words.” “I am not replying for three reasons: symposia should be opposed on principle. Second, if any magazine wanted my views on such a frivolous gr hor I'd rather try. to get the money anyself. And, ‘anyhow, the question is p all wrong. © - Nobody wants to marry an ideal woman. ‘Even an ideal man would probably hesitate and say, “Enough is enough.” ‘The best marriages are those in which

.the two contracting. parties seern wholly. unsuitable. |

You need not First, silly’

| because he never takes me with him. There is another girl who goes with him to the horse races, 1 know this is true, but he always denies it. And'I am worried, too, because he has such a bad temper. He frequently swears at me and is cross almost al the time. Do you think I ought to marry him?" == The newspaper expert answered, Tell the young man that you do not wish to. see him “again, and then proceed to-forget ‘about itn as. soon as possible.” 2 8 8 AN M- answer wouldri't have been anything like that. After all, what's the pia t of telling the tended is risky bu i?

lady that marriage to her She knows that. : On the surface the indications do not sous

. In such cases nobody expects Yery mitsh, and so there | 1s mus

3 isa fair chance of success.

os ow : |B a year I've been treasuring a ‘Hinan docu ment which appeared in a ‘Miami ‘newspaper