Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1937 — Page 10

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SATURDAY, DEC. 25, 1937

THE CHALLENGE OF CHRISTMAS | “And suddenly there was with the angel a. multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, will toward men.” .

THESE two verses from the second chapter of St. Luke— probably the most stirring words ever penned—come down to mankind through 19 centuries not only as a promise but as a challenge. . : And what a challenge on this Christmas of 1937! Peace? If the great Pacifist whose nativity we celebrate were to reappear and look over the civilization we call Christian the reporters would have to write again that shortest verse in the Bible: “Jesus wept.” ; Spaniards killing each other by the thousands in the shadows of their Christian churches. Japan, the all too apt pupil of “Christian” civilizations, butchering hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians, bombing ships of the United States and other noncombatants. Italy, Germany and Russia bivouacked like great armed camps. “Merrie England” engaged in her biggest armament program, her children practicing with gas masks, Good will? Yes, there is plenty of good will among ; men, much more than in that tough little world of Caesar Augustus. You can read of noble deeds in any day’s papers, and under millions of humble roofs people hourly perform those “little, nameless, unremembered acts ‘of kindness and of love.” Indeed, this country’s Government has dedicated itself to help the underprivileged at home and be the Good Neighbor abroad. A better will appears to dwell in our public relations—between Government and business and between employers and workers. The same is true in many

other lands. 2 » 2 J 2 2

UT what is tragically needed is to translate personal friendliness into international friendliness. And today, as at no time since the Great War, hate and fear rule in the family of nations, threatening everything we hold dear. Peace and good will are not negative things. What makes Christmas the day of days is not its benevolent face —the wassail bowl, the yule log or even the cheery greetings. It is that here is a day set apart to symbolize caring and giving and sacrificing. : To help bring Christmas to all of humanity, that is the mandate to the men of peace and good will of this un- _ Christian world. : Not centuries of cruelties, not even the Dark Ages nor the World War of this generation, have stilled the challenge hurled by the herald angels on that starry night in Bethlehem. The roar of cannon, the whine of bombing planes, and the clatter of armament factories, will not drown it out. oday.

CHRISTMAS EVE KIDNAPING EOPLE everywhere today share the relief .and joy of the parents of 3-year-old John Bryan, whose release by kidnapers last night lifted a pall that spread over Christmas Eve celebrations because of his abduction a few hours ‘earlier. The baby and his nurse, who also was kidnaped, were reported safe today at the Centerville home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bryan. State Police and other authorities are pushing vigorously the search for the three kidnapers. Only by bringing such criminals to justice can worse tragedies be’ averted. :

GOOD BUSINESS :

RINTING pressmen are like other American workers’ Newspaper publishers are like other American employers. Between them, as in other American industries, differences arise over wages, hours, working conditions. Bat for 30 years the International Printing Pressmen’s Union and the Ameri¢an Newspaper Publishers Association have operated under an agreement to prevent strikes and lockotts in the pressrooms of newspapers. In Washington, this agreement has just been renewed for five more years, that actibn having been sanctioned by a referendum among 62,000 members of the union and by representatives of 458 daily newspapers. No changés in the agreement were found necessary. It will continue to provide for settlement of differences by mediation, conciliation and arbitration if necessary. : : .- Unlike the Railway Labor Act, the agreement between pressmen and publishers involves no action by Government to make its peace-preserving machinery work. There is nothing to enforce it—nothing except mutual good faith founded on mutual realization of the fact that, whatever their differences may be, employee and employer have it as one great common interest that work shall not be stopped. This newspaper, though proud to be party to such an agreement, takes no special credit for abiding by it. It is good business for us, just as it is good business for our friends in the pressroom. We believe the wide extension of its principle throughout American industry would be good _business for all employers and for %11 employees.

SOMETHING WRONG Fo : THE U. 8. Treasury has received checks for one cent each - from the cities of Morganton, N. C., ahd Cascade Locks, Ore., representing the utiexpended balances of PWA grants of $99,900 for hospital buildings and of $27,899 for & waterworks. Pat ei Plainly, these rémittances evidence the closest sort of figuring and should be cause for general gratification. It was Benjamin Franklin, we believe, who advised taking care of the pennies on the theory that the dollars will take care’ of themselves. Uncle Sam has proof that Cascade Locks ‘and Morganton are helping him to take care of his pennies.

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Liberal View By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes

Failure to Match Social Planning With Scientific Progress Perils Civilization, Commentator Claims.

EW YORK, Dec. 25.—Rarely. has the world presented a more disconcerting spectacle in peacetime. At home we have the most serious clash between capital and labor which has taken place since the World

War. Europe is treading nervously on the brink of another military cataclysm. If Hitler and Mussolini do not get Europe into war over the Spanish crisis it will be almost a miracle. = Cabinets

fall and Ministers change portfolios because they fear to deal realistically with the issues which confront them. Por years clear observers have been warning us that we could not go on with our present civilization without falling into a major calamity. = Right after the World War H. G. Wells told us that it was “a race between education and catastrophe.” It now. begins to look as. ¥ Satasirophe is coniing down thé : : ome stretch many lengths ahead of education. Never before in the BE Batut history of mankind has there been such ‘a gulf between technology and social institutions. ‘We have & thoroughly up-to-date material culture, complete, varied and potentially efficient: beyond : comparison with that of any earlier age. : : On the other hand, our institutions and social thinking, through which we seek to control and exploit our advariced material culture, is an antiquated mosaic compounded of accrétions added - from the stone age to the close of the 18th Century. ot 8 #8 = HEN a man desires to have a bathroom faucet repaired, a new tube put into his radio or a tooth pulled he thinks he must call in an expert. Yet when he faces.the much more coniplicated problems of public life he rests completely satisfied with the opinions of the man in the street. He wants a brain trust to design his automobile, but won’t have

“anything to do with one when it comes to planning

his Government. This is no idle gossip or amusing reading. It lies at the heart of our social crisis today. No matter what aspect of our social problems we consider, it is always a secondary manifestation of the major evil of our day—the gulf between machines and institutions. . If our political and economic thinking were cons= ducted on the same level of efficiency and modernity as our scientific work and engineering activities we could be living in an éra of international security.

‘ ® 8 8 OWEVER 41ight heartedly we may. view this strikihg discrépancy in our civilization between our machines and our institutions, a frightful penalty has already been exacted for our dilatory stupidity, and if this condition continues it may demand the supreme penalty of the extinclion of civilization. This fatal maladjustment in contemporary life has produced economic depressions and countless financial disasters. It has brought democracy: close to extinetion. It has made our legal system inadequate and produced widespread contempt for law in general. It has given us a crime bill running into the billions each. year, and enabled the greater criminals. to render themselves safe from molestation, to say nothing of Sonyickion, It has bred moral chaos and educational utility. ” The upshot of all this is the spéctacle that wé behold today—the impending collapse of western civilization from internal weaknesses, with the grave probability that the process will be greatly hastened by & devastating world war. Ha :

ASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The coming of Christmeas into the world 20 Centuries ago did untold good for the relations between individuals. But it did even more, I think, for the relations between groups—among people in communities and, above all, for rélations between nations. Sh ee Mothers loved their children before Christ came, friends Were faithful and not all men were sélfish and cruel. 'Thé new note of His teaching was, “For it ye ‘love them which love you, what reward have ye? Lo riot even the publicans the same? And if ye salue your brethren only, what do you more than others? Do not even the publicans so?” : EE a That Was a New Deal and the essence of it was io have regard also for those whose only tie to you Is that you and they are human beinigs. Godot boy ‘The effect of even half-way acceptance of that wis beund to be some change in thé idea that the wold “stranger,” as among nations, was an equivalent of tiie

word “enemy” and that a neighbor nation was 0 ~ field for conquest. fw ati

a to Seri” a a pin ow endl, ;

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly: disagree with what you say, but will ~~ _ defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

POLITICAL CONTROL SEEN IN WAGE-HOUR BILL By Amos Pinchot, New York John P. Frey, President of the etal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, demanded that the Wages and Hours

Bill be recommitted to the House Labor Committee for further study.

for labor. : This original bill, which Mr. Frey says was not framed by any members of the Committee of either branch of, Congress, will set back recovery and will open the way toward Fascist or Communist devel-

| opment in the United States.

This bill and what will necessarily grow out of it in the future will‘ definitely place labor under political control. In all countries where political control over labor has been established, the results have been exceedingly unfortunate. When things go badly and the Gov-

move is.to: lower real wages and the worker's standard of living. °° Wages in Italy are the lowest in Europe. Germany's state control of wages and hours has been a major element in destroying labor’s standard of living so that proper nutrition is impaired. In Russia, where similar political control over economic life prevails, the standard of

average wagé® earner alinost a ‘month to earn enough to buy a pair of shoes and three months to buy a shoddy suit. : : The most important factors for raising wages and strengthening labor's position are democratically controlled labor organizations and such a high level of production as will enlarge the demand for labor and increase its bargaining power 2 = = RED AND FASCIST CREEDS SEEN PERIL TO U. 8. By Edward F. Maddox

Pearson and Allen’s summary in the Washington Merry-Go-Round of the private views of Marriner S. Eccles: “If conditions do not eventually right themselves, we will have to choose between communism or fascism, and of thé two Mr. Eccles is said to prefer fascism,” is highly interesting. ; : It has come to a pretty pass when high Government officials predict ‘this nation must choose between some alien isms as a remedy. for oyr present troubles. Some of us have come to the conclusion that the New Dealers are moré anxious t6 set up a new form of Government in the country than they are to bring about normal business recovery. . People who prefer communism or fascism to our constitutional de‘mocracy are going to do everything

conditions that normal business res covery will be impossible. ~ For -anyone to say that chief responsibility for the slump rests on the shoulders of labor is as false &s it is for some communistically in-

General Hugh Johnson Says— ; World Must Realize That Christmas Ideal Is Mankind's Only Hope; _Christianity's Message, Good Will and Peace Are All Synonymous. . | ercion. Ghengis Khan engulfed Asia from the China

Sea to the Danube. What we used to

in the pledged word. belief that nations,

| for the lives and peace of human

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‘and culture than were

‘péginning of this eéntury.

This bill raises very grave questions |

ernment has to retrench, the first |

Hving is so low that it takes an

in their power to create such chaotic |

“Qi nations so lately no more advanced toward peade bands of Apache Indians. It seemed to be slowly and steadily prevailing until the fy. t ut |

in 1914, 1 was not first set back

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

‘lined New Dealers to say that employers jare wholly to blame for the present slump. , 23 / 1 have read that Rexford G. Tugwell is the man who brought Mr. Eccles to his present position. It would be interesting to know how thany of our public officials are Communists or . Fascists. It might also be one of the surest ways to bring about sound business conditions for the voters to demand that Président Roosevelt ask Mr. Eccles

CHRISTMAS : By GENEVIEVE MITCHELL Soft lies the snow on the crystal world, ead : And the night is aglow with a thousand stars. Inside the cathedral the candles gleam, na And melodies swell with the glorious

Co. theme: =f. Jesus the Saviour is. born! -

So silent the throng that wends its

way | Pa, In the mellow light down the old church aisl ra And sweet is the ae | As souls are borne on the wings of

prayer . ~ Up to-the Babe of Bethlehem’s throne, =. - |

dor of the incense

Once more are the heavens aglow with light, = | And angelschoirs fill the 'world with song. ap The wise men come from the East ~ afar, And shepherds follow the glorious star, ; wid = And the heart of the world is in

Fast Jace the - sophistries of the : ay; op ~ i My heart responds like that of ' a child Es : As the beautiful story again unfolds Of shepherds, and wise men, and treasures of gold— And faith, like a candle, burns in my heart.

DAILY THOUGHT Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he diéd. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O, my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof—II -Kings 13:14, - . FE who always waits upon God,

A is ready whensoever He calls. —Feltham. |

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to pass, which the h City of David. lay’ behind & fer, high hill, ihe ‘crest of which there danced éircle there was one ca

| sential tenet of communism whieh took

When it érashed tw : job had been done over 30 years by a thinly disguised cult of .a new’ paganism principally | — “

in Germany, but also elsewhere in Europe. The es- |

‘by arms. The

“his crook inte the turf and clung to it. pe,” cried the eldest of the shepherds,

and every other purveyor »f communism or fascism to resigr. There is one thing certain neither communism nor fascism received a mandae in the Yecent election. The American people want ecoiiomic recovery and they will not ticde their constitutional rights nor bow to a red of fascist dictator to gob it. The New Dealers nave put bus nessmen in a strait-jacket and now put the

burden of bringing back rtcovery on

them. : CRT NS PLEADS FOR OPEN MIND IN WORLD OF PREJUDICE : By John McLellan, seceretat | /treasurer,

Labor's Non-Partisan Leagué of -Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

The unemployed today ¢:¢ restless with good reason. They ie seeth-

ing with pro and con arguments |

on fascism, communism, /mericanism, New Dealers, and anti-New Dealers. : What makes this conflicf of words

hore bitter is the fact thi; on’ each | | side there are sihcere men and

women who think that tteir partic-

‘ular - beliefs ‘are “Holy of Holies,”

and, like the law of the liledes and Persians, cannot or should not be altered. It is time for inost of us to think honestly of what, will bene= fit the greatest number, {5 remems= per that the truth is sometimes a compromise. In the last war we vitre taught to hate the Huns, and ncv’ an effort is being made in places to rouse prejudice against the Jews and Negroes. We must keep our minds open and flexible for progress, rather than arouse hatred. A Although private . capitalism in Russia has been abolished, desirable socialism- has not yet b::n accomplished; but absolutism ¢nd terrors ism surely are there. Heli: in Amerjcas we must keep our leads cool.

‘The best argument fo: the ever‘halting but never hited

labor movement is that an individual alone has no chance. See 8 TITLE CONTAINER LAW DRAWS CRITICISM A : By Guy Roby, Frankfort Sa I have driven a moto! vehicle for 15 years and tried to oly the laws. But there is one law this year that anyone wotld be temjited to dis obey. That is the title contn ner law. It tells you to put the little frail looking container on the right hand corner of your windshitld right in

front of thé person rid'r g with ¥ou. |-

The State: charges 25 c¢nts for the container; which ‘I iragine costs about 4 cents fo mali. If you change cars, you have to buy more, ‘because it is to delica’e to move. tt is made to hold the moisture on your windshield so 23 to dampen your title. Then the bright- sunshine turns the cardboard brown, no one will be able to read it.

According to Heywood Broun—

Behind When His Fellows Went to Bethlehierd;

Amos the Sheph: rd Stayed

But in Night of Wonders He

" (Fér Mt. Brour’s regular Christmas live column A : sée the Page One | call international law was just | = which incorporates it.) a tissue of treaties and customs. Yet, thé world’s | _ : ace rested on it. The treaties were based on faith The customs were based on the | VV the as well as men, have some regard | I¢ . Now, the beings of every | shepherds

Roosevelt Christm address,

% 7 ASHINGTON, Dec. 35—The host ¢f heaven and Wis angel of the Lord had filled thie sky with | 'adian 1ory of God was fjtne, and the : and. the sheep stbod undér iim starlight. The men weré shaken by the wonders 8 | ana heard, and, like the animals, they

{key hac. seén hiiddled close.

gi rat af mew | “Let us now,” said the eldest of ‘the shepherds, was @ leaven in a loaf of mew | _ “C0 Sito ‘Bethlehem and: seé thi thing whieh > Lord hath made known

a star. The

nen made Haste to-be away, but as they’ broke out

fled Amos who remained. but

his head,” They marveled, and called out: ‘angel. You heard the tidings.

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By Pearson & Allen _ Roosevelts' Christmas Confrasfs With Way Coolidges.and Hoovers Celebrated Season at White House,

ASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Christmas in ' ' the White House under the Roosevelt Administration really begins two days earlier, when the President gives a tea to mem" bers of his office staff. . During the early days of the New Deal when Mr. Roosevelt was both President and an author, the question of gifts to the staff was fairly easy. He

gave them autographed copies of his books, “Looking

' Forward” in 1933, and “On Our . Way” in 1934. After he became ! too busy to be an author he fell . back on Mr. Morgenthau’s Treas-. |. ury Department and passed out | -crisp new dollar bills. (He paid for ) . them himself, however.) . About 100 presents are bought: for members of the White House ' staff. Gathered around the tree hin the East Room, all the mem- § bers of the Roosevelt family dis< | tribute these .presents on Christe- § mas Eve. Even Mrs; James Rooses | velt. Sr. joins in the distribution,’ though when Sistie and Buzzie wele here they wanted to do ll the work. : ’ i The tree in the East Room is | electrically lighted, but the family tree in the second floor hall is treated with a fireproof solution, then lighted by. candies. ,. On Christmas Eve, the Presi» dent reads Dickens’ Christmas Carol (Mrs. Hoover engagéd a pro-" fessional reader) and the whole: family, both childrén and adults, hang their stockings on the mantel of the President's room. iin + Christmas under thé Coolidges

Robert Allen “I'Y was drab in comparison. Those:

were the days of fervid Coolidge economy when Mr.

Coolidge. insisted’ that his staff use up lead pencils to the last stub and refrain from using bent paper clips as pipe cleaners. Result was that members of the White House staff always could recognize their gifts as pass-me-ons which Mr. Coolidge himself. had received. : = : a a ” : HE White House took on a noticeable: change, A though not exactly a fervid glow, when the. Hoovers arrived. Mr. Hoover made a prodigious efforf ” to: be informal on Christmas Day. Also, he had grandchildren. | : 5 : Peggy Ann was 5 ahd Peter was 3 when their » grandfather became President. And although never greatly impressed by the embellishrnents of that high office, they have not forgotten, ever. today, how lary Richey burst out from the fireplace in the East Room on Christmas morning. . ; _ Mts. Hoover carried out the custom handed in her family, of turning out the lights on Chrigtmas Eve while the entire party trooped through the house holding candles and singing carols. & = Grasping 8 candle in one hand, Mr. Hoover bravely, led the procession which ended on the great stairway in the front hall. Here Mrs. Hoover had arranged. white ribbons attached to bells, one on each stair, and the entire assem sibiage stood with lighted candles Afterward, the family helped trim the tree, while Mr. Hoover stood solemnly on the sidelines. Despite his wan smile, he looked unhappy and ill. at ease. Finally he would steal. quietly away. to his desk in

Meard the Whisper That Brought Him. Joy.

Amos held more tightly to his crook and answered, “I have need of & whisper.” : aa cE & 8 8 J this "HEY laughed at him Sd sald; “what should this voice say in your ears?” ae 3 too i Coa aie ama, tn, ou, Sante voles, “and to my hun héep, I am’ pur.” | "And wher the din of the angry shepherds about him slackened Amos pointed to his hundred. «gee my flock,” he said. “See the fright of the The fear of thé bright angel and of the voices is still’ upon them. God is busy in Betlilehem. He has fio:

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time for & hundred. sheep. They are my sheep, I

will abide.” 4 . : : r Himself, “One shepherd the less A will not matter at the throne of God.” Nor did he have time to be troubled that he was not to see the Child who was come to save the world. fio With the morning the others came up Joe tad from Bethlehem, and they told /Amos of the mal ; and of the wise men who had mingled there with: gold, frankincense and myrrh. And when they wer said, “and, did you see wonders here in the

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