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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1938

Naz BUND ACTIVITIES

“HE 400, 000 German citizens living in the United States now have been ordered by Herr Hitler not to hold mem-

bership in Fritz Kuhms Amerika-Deutsche Volksbund or.

any other American Nazi organization.

But most of the German-American Bund members are American citizens, born or naturalized. These Nazi units have met a cool reception in their attempts to organize in Indianapolis. Bund leaders have been refused permission to use the halls of some GermanAmerican organizations here after the purpose of the meetings was revealed. This has nothing to do with the right of free speech or assemblage, nor does it mean Indianapolis is intolerant of minorities, no matter how much it. disagrees with those minorities. It simply shows a lack of t Indianapolis sympathy. wah Nazi propaganda.

D’ANNUNZIO F all fantastic modern lives, Gabriele D’Annunzio’s seems the most incredible. :

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‘When the World War broke he threw. down his pen

Novels, plays and poems filled with sensation ;

and fought in the Italian cavalry, infantry, navy and air

service. He lost an eye. He was shot in’ the arm." . His plane was riddled with bullets, :

After the war, when it seemed Italy would: denied

the Adriatic port of Fiume, :D’Annunzio, heading a. detach- -

ment of grenadiers, “took” the town and for 15 months defied all Europe. And Italy finally got Fiume. The poetwarrior’s: “reign” there was characterized by an almost outlandish (then), mystical jargon with a passionate, operatic sort of patriotism as its central theme. That's right. It is called fascism now.

: D’Annunzio might be called the soul of fascism, and

Mussolini the body. Mussolini never forgot the Italians’ worship for D’Annunzio, who had led them to fascism and

- who could have led them away. II Duce found the Achilles

heel of D’Annunzio—love of luxury and sensuousness— and then made sure the poet would never march against him. The hero was given a fantastic palace at Lake Garda. His World War flagship was dismantled and set up again in his'garden. His later days were like an extravagant dream, filled with color, music, poetry, flowers, jewels, gilded. statuary, erotic paintings . . . and as the old poet dreamed and forgot, the iron bands of fascism drew tighter around the people he had fought for.

- phrase far homelier verse than ever came from his pen—

The soul of fascism lies mouldering in the grave, But its body goes marching on.

NOTE ON THE INDIAN A G. 0.P.

“REPACKAGING” is what the Republican Party needs, says Rep. Bruce Barton (R. N. Y. ), author and advertising man.

“When sales of a product begin to fall off,” Mr. Barton explains, out of his advertising experience, “we frequently

find that the package has become" old-fashioned. Then we repackage, giving our product a modern, up-to-date. look.

The people are tired of the old G. 0. P. package—of all the old names in the ‘Republican Party. Let’s have some

_ new names, new faces, new ideas.”

The new Republican Committee on Program. comes out for a reinterpretation of the “political and economic philosophy with which the Republican ‘Party faces ihe: new circumstances of this new age.” Meanwhile Indiana Republicans have old Jim Watson and Walter F. Bossert, former Klan leader, as their two present candidates for the U. S. Senatorial nomination.’

Apparently the Indiana G. O. P. needs some drastic changes in the product as well as in the package.

A POOR WITNESS N\ESPITE - opposition from Senator Vandenberg * and

others, the Senate has approved a $2,700,000-appropri- -

“ation to start Gilbertsville Dam on the Tennessee River, 22

Fo above the point where it enters the Ohio at Paducah, y ‘We can understand: opposition to the. building of Gilpertsville Dam ‘on the ground of its cost, which will be upwards of $112,000,000 over a period of four or five years,

. But this dam is, and has been from the first, considered an

essential part of the TVA program. It will back up water to make navigation possible on the lower Tennessee. It will develop power. And it will do more than : any other dam,

_present or planned, to reduce flood crests on the Ohio from

Paducah to’ Cairo and then on down the Mississippi.

As chief authority for the statement that “Gilberts-: ~ville Dam should never be built,” Senator Vandenberg

quotes Rep. Andrew. J. May of Kentucky.

By reason of seniority, Mr. May recently became chair- :

man’ of the House Military Affairs Committee, which han-

' dles ‘all TVA legislation. This, we think, is unfortunate,

because Mr. May is a bitter enemy of TVA. He: makes no

secret of that fact, 25d one of the reasons, in his own words,

is this:

- “I come from the Seventh. Kentucky District... Jwiick

{there is produced large quantities of coal. .,. Most of this

coal goes to the lakes . . . but a large percentage also goes: to power plants: owned by private utility companies, and’ these hydroelectric power developments of the TVA will

| eliminate the consumption of coal in that area” .

+ As we say, the ultimate cost of Gilbertsville Dam hay a ‘respectable argument against starting its construction | now. But the fact that Rep. May « does not want it no argument at all, .

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler A

Most Serious Threat to Peace in |

. James Cagney and Joan Crawford in the organized

men with whiskers or talent of

may be whittled, the point of the integrity of a con-

- they can be expected to trust the signed agreement of |

-is the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage

“tion. But unfortunately, prices have gotten all mixed.

UmBersta of os to the point, at times, where profits’

_ they could control competition. prices and thus ensure profits. And they ee ason | that when the businessman makes profits: ‘he hires hires: people ‘and hence all this is for ‘the henefli of, the

| this thou. aint nica ors ] of the ‘public with: an attack on ‘these,

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Actors’ Labor Relations Comes From an Ambitious Rival Union.

OS ANGELES, March 2.—Some people regard as pompous affectations the interest and leadership of such enormously rich actors as Robert Montgomery,

labor movement: in the moving picture business.

But whatever their personal motives, they have formed a union called the Screen Actors’ Guild, with

a charter from the American Federation of Labor, and have imposed on the industry an agreement which produces the effect of . a closed shop in the lower orders of the profession. The rolls are now closed, but may be reopened from time to time if there appears ‘to be a shortage of dress-suit people or

some other type." Extras and bit players must belong to the union, but the employers are allowed to use nonunion actors in the krigher classifications at the ratio of gne in 10. ¢ The agreement raised the minimum pay of the extra from $3.20 a day to $5.50 and established a minimum of $256 a day for persons who have lines to speak. The fortunate rich are proud of the fact that these benefits were handed down to the poor members of the profession their willingness to violate their signed contracts and strike.

» ® 2 “HE strike vote, taken a year ago, was 98 per cent, . for a walkout, and the stars who voted “aye” adjusted their problem of the integrity of the signed agreement in interesting but inconclusive fashion. They decided that the obligation to help the helpless was greater than their individual obligation to their employers. Mr. Montgomery admits that no matter how fine it

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tract still exists, and the employers naturally ask Low

a union whose president and other leaders already have

shown that they reserve the right to abrogate for any cause which they consider sufficient. . However, the agreement, promising, among other things, that there will be no strike for 10 years, appears to be working: well, and the only serious threat against the peace comes not out from the employers, but from .an ambitious rival union, also chartered by the American Federation of Labor, This

Employees, run by a Chicago man named George E. Brown, as president, and locally administered by one William Byofi. ; 8 » » : | HIS union includes the stagehands, lamp electricians, property men, makeup men and, most important of all, the projectors or projectionists. There has been no formal move as yet to absorb the actors. Nevertheless, the actors are wary. On the other hand, they present a tempting possibility well worth fighting for, and they have heard that the executive council of the alliance passed a resolution at a recent meeting in ‘San Antonio autheorizing themselves to take over the guild at some future time.

o The actors” leaders are amateurs and altruistie dilettantes in labor organization. They have not yet stood any test comparable to that which would come if the Messrs. Brown and Byoff attempted to put the

San Antonio resolution into’ effect.

Business—By John oy : Competition Will. Produce Injury to Some Operators, but It Provides’ © wd The Only Effective Method of Controlling Prices in This. System. :

types such as production agreements, etc.” You can- | not reach the price controls in an’ article of mex-

TASHINGTON, March 2. —Prices now are resting| - heavily on the conscience of the Administra-/

up in so many other her Lungs that anybody who. at them is on trouble.

would be wiped out. And so businessmen felt. a if

" principle of action has gotten: 50 despiy - A bedded in all our ur Sisinces B Znilpsophy at

With the coming of the NRA practically the last vestige of organized resistance to the price-contro systems was destroyed. As a result these con controls 1 through the Whole fabric of ind

"The Hoosier Forum

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

VANNDUYS’ CAMPAIGN IS CRITICIZED By J. i, Morgantown

An open letter to Senator Fred-

erick VanNuys:

I have your circular letter in

which you announce your candidacy for United States Senator. I cannot support you in your campaign because:

1. There can be no progress oub|

of our present economic embarrass-

_jment without constructive leader-

ship. We have that leadership in

] | state and nation. You err greatly in} assuming that these leaders are -fbosses.

2. We need intelligent followers now more than we need leaders. You have shown yourself utterly

lacking in this respect. Having ro.

programa of your own and having no

following sufficient to put it over if

you dic! have, you have played into the hands of ‘the Republican Party at a critical time for both the nation ard the Democratic Party.

3. Thanks to time and not to you,

| the President's Supreme Court case

has solved itself. But while it was before Congress you did all you could to thwart the will of the people who wanted the very measures the Supreme Sours was declaring unconstitutional. 4. You distracted the country and further disrupted the Democratic Party by insisting upon the passage of your antilynch bill. 5. Your election as an Ingependent would deprive Indiana’”of her just share of influence. 6. A man in the Senate of the United States should be a cogwheel

(and not necessarily the master.

cogwheel) of the state machine at home. You seem to want to be all the wheels at once.

7. You were elected by thé larg-|

est. majority any candidate ever received in Indiana—but the vote was not for you. It was against Jim Watson. I live in Morgan County and

work ‘in Johnson County. If the sit- |

uation in these counties is an index of feeling over the state, you have a rude disillusionment coming. . . . : : # » ” PONDERS NEED FOR DICTATORSHIP By Roscoe Smith, Sheridan

Is this democracy— Wher. a labor leader seems to be able to dictate to our Government?

When a few men can seize con-

trol of large - factories and hold thousands of men out of work? ‘When the richest auto: manufac-

turer of our country can defy the

NLRB? When the members of Congress talk over such a small matter as the antilynching bill for weeks while thousands of men, women and chil-

dren are on the verge of starvation? nol

When . men with : families, money and no jobs see thousands of others working on WPA and are told they can’t work?

T. Flynn

Von Muller.

(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.)

‘When men over 40 won't be hired ‘by industry? ‘When wages for some are held up so high that thousands of others are forced to work for small wages and can’t buy the articles manufactured by high-priced labor? .- Aré we drifting toward" dictator-

ship—or toward the need of dictatorship?

. 8 = SCORES INDORSEMENT OF CANDIDATES

By Harrison White, Republican Candidate for Juvenile Court Judge A “bipartisan” committee names candidates in the Democratic and Republican primaries, then gets or‘ganizations to support their selections before they know who else might become candidates. This principle, of course, if extended, would do away with all elections and permit this committee to select all of our public officials in the future. Russia had a one-man election recently. The publishing of such indorsements is done with the intent and for the purpose of keeping others

from entering the primaries, thus|

denying ‘the voters the right to a choice of ‘individual selection. This ‘principle is un-American and unwise; therefore such pacts should be broken with impunity. If a voter would be. a good American, he

WHERE PASS THE ~ CROWDS:

‘By MARY WARD Westering sun, and day is done, - And wheels keep going round, And foot‘steps pass, and the = ° hourglass - Shifts, and the night is spun.’ The thoroughfare has buildings square, © And some “are santak ctowned; And souls pass there and onward fare, Not one to spare, not oné.

DAILY THOUGHT . -

But as for you, ye thought evil against me: but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it “is this day, to save Tues people alive.—Genesis . 50:2

OOD has but one enemy, the evil; but’ the: evil has two enemies, the good. and itself.—J.

should not permit the control of his

right to. vote. He .should .be an

American by being hi himself.

SEES NO BARRIERS IN INDORSEMENTS

By Dr. F. S. C. Wicks, Cochairman, Juvenile Court Committee Our committee is strictly a nonpartisan group which is attempting to keep out of politics altogether. I'do not see that indorsément of candidates by the committee closes

the way for anyone desiring to en-

ter the primaries. And the voters certainly can exercise voluntary judgment in the choice of their candidates. # » 8 TOO MUCH SHOWMANSHIP SEEN IN GOVERNMENT

By Martin S. Washmuth

I wonder how long it will take |.

the American. public to wake up to the fact: that it is statesmanship and not showmanship that we need in Washington. They say that P. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever known. Did anybody ever hear of P. T. Barnum balancing a na< tional budget? They say also that Mr. Roosevelt is a great showman, and has: anybody ever heard of Mr. Roosevelt balancing the national budget? That takes something more than showmanship. - Some say that Mr. McNutt’s big show was a neat bit a political strategy. Considering the fact that

in most industrial centers there are | thousands who would have liked to |

receive even the leavings from that 40-foot banquet table, I don’t know. We have one office holder who is an example of the difference between a New Dealer and a Democrat. Yes, Frederick VanNuys. ~ I

sincerely believe that: in the near

future the people of Indiana will disclose whether or not we have relinquished our right to choose our public servants.

: a2 5% 8 ad A LAW OF TAXATION BELIEVED WRONG WEAPON se From The Baltimore Evening Sun The Administration is trying to use the tax bill to do something that

"| tax bills are not devised to do. The

Administration has discovered, or thinks it has discovered, that there are some close corporations in the country that aren’t business organizations at all, but law-created ban-

ditti getting away with swag that

belongs to the country. So the Ad-

ministration has undertaken to tax

them out of existence. Doubtless there are some’ bandit corporations,. but the way to get

them is to change the law of cor-|

porations, not the law of taxation. Rats in the chicken-run ought to be caught in .rat-traps, not exterminated by spreading around a lot of poisoned. mush; which may, or may

not, get the rats, but is practically

certain to lay out every hen in He lace Stiff and cold. od

YORE, March: 2 —A young relative of mine

|| nis price.

i cannot be avoided ned. oe and while the loss individual es | ducers now and then and here and ‘there may be Ze un

chandise by shooting at its producer. Because info

commit a ‘grave injustice against.

le SE only ra. tn st fen titel i i + system is throug competition ‘Competition Boks eanuol be avoided. Fois a a raft

suff,

fortunate for them the society as a while, wil Demented by it and he ‘as well, since in the

in on a week-end absence from Wilegs. he asked.

: * dropped. “Gould I have ‘your Fliciogratiby his’ product go numerous other products—iaw ma- | I: ; terials and semifinished goods. Unless you can go |b down the line and reach’ the makers of all the materials that ‘go into his product you may very well: him by stiacking. &

“will you. autograph. wer added the young col

4: “What on earth do you wast with my autograph?” : quired. ‘1 1 co) lect ‘2

Gen. Johnson

Says—

Shall Governmental Policy Toward Business Bigness Be .to Encourage Efficiency or Preserve Littleness?

ASHINGTON, March 2—There are two ideas about the campaign against business “bigness” which is sometimes loosely, and only partly truthfully ‘called, a campaign against “monopoly.” These two ideas are more than inconsistent. They are absoe lutely opposed. One bases on the very old principle that business bigness is against public policy because it makes pos= sible the exploitation of consumers by charging them higher prices and exacting larger profit than the goods or services furnished are worth. . The other is that business. bigness is bad because it permits goods and services to be furnished to .the . public. at: a price lower than ‘small independent operators can accept and stay in business. - ~~ Thus one complaint - against business bigness is the charge ‘that it: makes prices to consumers too high and the other complaint is that it- makes prices to consumers too low. ‘One is based on a purpose to. protect the public. The other is on a purpose to. protect the small businessman and maintain him in business even at the cost of higher prices to the consumers. An example T have used here before illustrates this point. The proprietor of a great grocery chain came to me in NRA, and showed me that due to efficiencies in mass’ production and mass distribution, he could cut the price of bread to the public at least 20 ‘per cent and still make the same profit on bread fate

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did on the rest of his line.

» » » vr if he did that, his. independent individual small grocery ‘competitors : could not meet “his price. Bread ‘is a staple which brings people to a grocery where they are apt to buy the rest of their necessities. As a: “loss leader” it would be ideal and this man could have used it as a “leader”’--not at a loss, but at his normal profit. I. knew his figures were ccrrect because I had made a study of bread: distin. tion. Yet, if he had done that. he would have put a great many independents in both the grocery and

: ‘bakery trades out of business.

His problem clearly pictures the conflict between these two ideas. What should be. Governmental policy

. toward business bigness—to preserve less. efficient -smaller enterprises or to get goods to Sonsumers; at ; the lowest possible: price? = i

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A s recéntly widely advertised studies show, busie ness consolidations of several independents have

sometimes not made lower costs or lower prices or even

greater profits. That is undoubtedly true. It is equally true that frequently the reverse is the Case and, furthermore, where the small enterprise “tan under-cost, under-price and over-profit the big concern, the latter will become small and the former large and these studies add little to the essential question of bigness in business when it actually does result in lower prices. That question remains simply: “Shall we encourage it to benefit the public, or penale ize it to maintain littleness at public expense?” The answer isn’t as easy as it sounds. There is such a thing as getting too efficient. Kansas or Iowa organized as unified; mechanized, incorporated farm factories could probably produce double their output at half the cost'and with one-third the people. But what ‘would become of two-thirds of the Ss of those states thus rendered surplus? =

: pruning to Heywood Broun 5

A Fraternity Brother: Admits There Are Plenty of More Famous Alumnl Of Delta Upsilon; but They Are Too Busy to Autograph Their Pictures.

replied, “Because Brother Vandenberg is a D. U. He is joined in the bonds with you and with me.” “Speak for yourself,” I answered in anger. “Mayhe he is a brother, but he is a reactionary Republican just ‘the sane, Jon 1 Jens wai 0 Share any Piss of a ‘wall with him. Get somebody else.”

Re AL \HAT'S the trouble’ ns

mean to be partic men so wrapped up in public uldn’t have time to send any pictures let alone auf ) them.” “And who are these brothers. of such: ing renown?” I inquired. Sls “Well, there's brother Chalie Hughes, whe | Ss Chief Justice of the United ‘States at the m