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SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1938
OUR BIRTHDAY ‘HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES was founded 50 years ago : today, as The Indianapolis Sun. Since May, 1922; it has been a Scripps-Howard newspaper. ~~ - The past half century has brought profound changes in the lie of the community, State and nation, and in the life of tis newspaper. And The Times, as a chronicler of those changes, has played a part in the progress and devel‘opment >f the community. But even that lapse of time has brought no change in the basic independent principle on which The Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers have operated since E. W. Seripos established the first newspaper in this group 60 years ago. At that time in the first issue was this policy announcement: We have no politics, that is, in the sense of the words as commonly used. We are not Republican, not Democratic. . . . We simply intend to support good men and condemn bad oncE, support goo: measures, and condemn bad ones, no matter what party they belong to. We shall tell no lies about persons or policies for love, malice or mone. It is no part of a newspaper’s business to array itself on the si ide of this or that party, or, fight, lie or wrangle for it. e newspaper should simply present all the facts the editor is pable of obtaining concerning men and measures before the bar of the public, and then, after having discharged its duty as a - witness, he satisfied to leave the jury in the case-—ilie public— to find the verdict! The idea that there was room in America for newspapers which represented only their readers; which represented no party, or club, or bloc, ‘or any other special interest, was novel at that time. The journalism “of the Seventies
was the journalism of the party organ. The # dianapolis Times; with this heritage of independence, has a lively interest in the problems of government and 2 deep concern for the welfare and betterment of the community. ‘A newspaper is a human institution. It makes mistakes. But The Times is dedicated to an honest, impartial portrayal of news; reporting of news in its news columns, wicolored by its own frank opinions which are limited to the editorial columns. Realizing that the growth of The Times is ‘significant * chiefly gs part of the growth of Indianapolis, we appreciate your generous support which has made this newspaper's development possible. It is our ideal that Indianapolis shall become a leader of American cities—in government, in beauty, in culture and in happiness and prosperity. -
"THE INTERNATIONAL GANGSTER FTLER’S shotgun action against Austria should, -and probabl:- will, go down as one of the blackest crimes of - history. ‘His offense not only is vicious in itself but Hitler cannot even hide its shame with an extenuating fig leaf by
pretending t at Germany is driven to this, assault by des- |
_ peration. © If Germ-ny were fighting with her back to the wall,
this deed might be understandable. But Germany is not in a desperate situation. On the contrary, Great Britain is in “the midst of an effort to help Germany. Not in years has there been a: keen a recognition of the need of readjustments to aid Germany as in the last month. Work actually ~ has begun toward that end. Yet before it is fairly under way, Hitler commits an act of insane terrorism and forfeits all further claim to consideration. - He makes it impossible for decent powers "to help Gerrrany. He fulfills the worst that hysterical critics have = aid of -him. Hitler not only has betrayed the cause of European peace. He alsc has thereby betrayed his own people Because peace is the only thing that will save Germany. Hitler's people will cheer him for this deed against Austria, but what fate is in store for them as a result of this day’s victory? They can now look forward to more bitter enemies everywhere, to loss of friends that Germany can ill spare. What will Mussolini’s attitude be henceforth? He cannot look upon this rape across his doorstep without concern. Germany, starving for raw materials, is encircled by nations resources and staying power. Hitler is steadily firing their wrath and he is overestimating their atience just 2s. Germany misjudged our patience in 1917. There ha::been increasing recognition of the close natural relationship between Germany and Austria. If the Austrian people showed clearly that they wanted union with . Germany little outside protest would have been raised against such &, union, But Hitler apparently preferred to otgun methods. Secretary Hull is right.
gangster. Hitler has two personal obsessions. They are such
~ powerful obsessions: that they assunie irrational intensity. ~ One is his obscssion against the Jews.
Hitler is an international
* youth. Much of the . conker of Gainany which exists today
derives from his treatment of the Jews. Now his obsession _ for the annexa’ ion of Austria has driven him into another act of criminal insanity which earns further contempt and * hostility. The intoxic ation of power has caused many a ruler to destroy nimselr. Like a drunken driver, he steps on the gas when he should be using his brake. The highway of _ history is strewn with their wreckage,
DRIVER, SPARE OUR NERVES
: JE Hou Hoosier mot orists ever get rid of the ‘gadget nuisance”
~_the title card windshield sticker that doesn’t always . ick—they might take up the campaign to curb automobile horns. A bill to do this now is before the New York Legis-
Amid the rultitude of city sounds, some auto horns
intrude as rauccis offenders, Bad-mannered, they shatter
s and rough en tempers. They break sleep, dreams and
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d rather be lulled first by soothing tones than
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The other is his | _ obsession to ar nex. Austria. ,-He has had them from his |
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
Southern California May Find I Difficult to Swear Off Gambling After the Bills Have Been Paid.
OS ANGELES, March 12.—California, north and south, now has about 300 days of legal horse racing a year. The northern half, including San Francisco, is sinful by nature, but the southern portion, peopled so largely by elderly retired immigrants
from the small towns and cities of the Middle West, was a land of loud and baleful piety until want came in, hand in hand with Satan. And, sad to report, al- | _ though Southern California was timid and self-
conscious at first, she now seems to take great pleasure in gambling and therefore may find it more
| difficult than she thought to swear
off when the bills are paid. ‘Santa Anita race track. at Arcadia, outside of: Los Angeles, is one of the most: prosperous gam- - bling plants in the ‘world. The ma- ' chines there handled $25,000,000
“in wagers in 1937, and the total
for the season whichis about: to end will be almost $40,000,000. . There are two tracks at San Francisco and another one, a small plant near San Diego, down the coast from Los Angeles.’
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N addition to: these two sinkholes the southern por-'
tion has another track building in Inglewood, a
suburb of Los Angeles, whose people 10 years ago.
would have fought like the embattled farmers of Lexington to keep the invader out, but recently fought just as hard to obtain a license for a plant in their community. This’ one will start operating in June, and the residents are eagerly awaiting the ‘worst and hoping it will-be nothing trivial. The State gets 4 per cent of the gambling money,
~ which means a yield this season of almost $1,600,000:
from Santa Anita alone. The track promoters” are
allowed to retain 8 per cent of the mutuel money, plus |
the breakage, which amounts to 2 per cent. Like the operators of the. Irish Hospitals Sweep, who take much less ‘than their legal due from the rich pot,
lest public opinion eliminate them altogether, the .
owners of Santa Anita content themselves with only 6 per cent, plus breakage, or 8 per cent in all, instead of 10. ; ® “ 2 HEY also oppose the pablication of the daily and cumulative figures as vulgar overemphasis .on sordid commercialism, realizing, of course, that the State could squeeze out private. enterprise. and actively enter the business herself with hired staffs and collect all 14 per cent for the treasury. Of late there has been a movement to repeal the racing law. The leaders are allowed to "pay solicitors 10 cents for each signature to their petition. But the opponents of repeal, with vast resources of cash money, have basen buying up the petitions from the solicitors at 15 cents a name and throwing them in the fire. May all this be warning to. ‘other regions! 'The people of Southern California sold their precious self< respect for a mess. of taxes and, worst of ail, are now afraid they like the sporting life.
By John
N= YORK, March 12.—After offering. some: un- |
invited testimony through these - “columns to the Senate Committee considering unemployment in a
“series of severai articles, I was. interrupted by the | . necessity of reporting some unnoted facts bony She
tax bill. The steps covered in the proposals were: a: that the first job of statesmen is to arrive at a theory as to how our economic. system works; (2) that in doing this we come at once to the fact that the capitalist system works only when long-term investment is heing made and bogs down when investment stops; (3) that whatever will revive investment will help
revival and whatever will retard it will retard revival; :
(4) that next we must decide what we mean by. recovery—just the usual inflationary boom or a readjustment of the system along scientific lines to make
it function more smoothly and to distribute. its bene- |
fits more widely in the future. "We then saw that_the coinmonly accepted idea of a revival or recovery is false, because it means higher prices, higher profits ‘and higher wages. If is false because these can ‘be made higher only by
inflation and can be kept higher only by more inflation; that the present price level is actually based on inflationary measurements; - that therefore we must | decide to dot Prices Sip Ios er and deflate or to iny higher: The;
flate in order
Mr. Pegler
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly. disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
WANTS LAW AGAINST SMOKING DRIVERS By A. W. G.
There seems to be a lot of etijoyment for a good many very fine |:
.people in the smoking habit. The fact of the matter is this is a free country and folk should be allowed to do as they please, with a few exceptions, if it does not interfere with health or injure others. Just recently a very serious accident occurred because an automo-
-| bile driver lighted a smoke while
driving along a busy street. If such a person is found guilty in a case like this, it ‘should teach us all a lesson, and a law might be passed to prohibit smoking for anyone while driving an automobile Such a practice is not allowed for air-pilots or railroad: engineers: Why should it be permitted for au--
tomobile drivers?
» » ” RANK AND FILE DEMOCRATS AGAINST VANNUYS, IS BELIEF By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville 3 . Senator VanNuys seems to be :encountering the opposition he should
have expected. The Senator should rid himself of the idea that the
State organization is leading ‘the
fight against him. If he could go out and talk to the rank and file
| Democrats, he would soon discover where the opposition comes from. ‘The organization is only voicing
conditions as they are, not as it makes them. : The Senator was given ample warning when he took un the fight against the President’s plan to reorganize the courts (not the Con-
stitution as some would have us be-
lieve). -- Instead of listening to the advice of the voters in his own party, he. chose to ally himself with seven Republicans and two Democrats in a committee report which was deliberately designed by enemies of the New Deal to weaken the confiden of the masses in the President. Wi that committee report. came 10 reasons why it was submitted.” It was a scathing denunciation of the President, untrue in‘many of its
statements and defamatory in char- | - | acter.
These 10 reasons were fathered by the seven Republicans of the committee. For some reason or other, the Democratic Senators Van-
Nuys, Wheeler and Burke thought |
it their duty to join in these state-
ments to inform the public "how |
they had saved the Constitution and our liberties from the dictatorship of the President. As a Democrat of the rank and file, I don’t think any Senator who would sign a public document that carries denunciatory and untru statements against a President who
T. Aymn =. People ‘May Laugh at Brain Trusts All They Wish, But ~ Are : Capable of Measuring the Effects of : Deflation and Inflation.
(Times readers are invited to express: their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. = Make . your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be wiilield on request.)
had worked faithfully and nonesily to better conditions, has any right to ask the suffrage of the Democratic Party. The fact that he is willing fo run independently and put out an appeal to Republicans for support (which he won’t receive) is ‘proof that -he realizes he has forfeited his right for renomination on ‘the Democratic ticket. The Senator stands today a tragic figure—but by his own choosing. x 2 =» VANNUYS SCORED FOR INDEPENDENT STAND By T. W. Yeager, Bainbridge An open | letter to Senator VanNuys: ; It seems fitting that the voters of Indiana should remind you that you were elected on a Democratic ticket by an overwhelming - majority to represent the people of the. State in carrying out the objectives of the New Deal—which you have utterly failed to do. Our understanding is that in
order to have a democratic govern-
ment, we must-have two or more political parties. We have no independens party - ‘in Indiana and it
STRENGTH By KEN F. HUGHES
The pines grow strong “upon the rocky hill Like men who grow Sheir roots into © God's will. The pines will. never {fear the wind or the storm; Their roots hold ‘them firm, deep ‘and warm. Thus will the heart that’s clean and
good Have ater strength to hold than ; Tork or. wood.
DAILY THOUGHT And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies; they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none Pursueth you.— Leviticus 26: 17. ,
HE certainty © of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventative of crime Tryon
Edwards.
Only Experts
certainly would be unusual for one
individual to control sufficient votes}
to elect himself Senator | without party affiliations. We have no George Norris in Indiana—no William Borah—no Bob LaFollette. You have sufficiently. denounced the principles which you were elected to follow. You have failed to keep the faith and have joined with the Republican party to defeat constructive legislation of the New Deal. GIt. would be better | to announce yourself as a Republican candidate and not. fry to carry water on both shoulders—or- retire to private life and save yourself the humiliation of being, Felared by the voters. : 2 88 BELIEVES TOWNSEND PLAN IS KEY TO RECOVERY
By a Farmer, Crawfordsville |
: What makes a government?. If|’ one part of a government is run by monopoly, why shouldn’t all parts |.
be run the same way? THat is what is causing all the trouble with our government today. The farmer and laborer knew nothing about - monopoly until it was shown to them. Now they say if big manufacturers and bankers can grow by monopoly, why can’ they? Farmer and laborer say they are against monopoly—but they are trying to do the same thing’ as | those against whom - they talk. | These things are what cause | wars. Monopoly is greed, love of money. They want to ‘tax the | other fellow to help themselves. but. don’t want to be taxed to help the) other fellow. Our mation is mortgaged for more than we are worth. | is the easy way out? Dr. To
national ‘debt. It won’t be hard to pay off if we can create prosj while we are doing it. ~ ee. = n° 7 SUGGESTS WAY TO DEAL | WITH KIDNAPERS By W. W.. : "Another kidnaping and the father wishes to assure the guilty person or persons of safety if his boy is returned. The Ross case is forgatten and the kidnaper may be free to play the same game over | and
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over just so the Levine ‘boy 1s re=-
turned. When this problem is co dered from a co-operative standpo t land it is deemed a crime to deal With kidnapers, except. when advised by and in co-operation with the Department of Justice, then kidnapers will cease to play on our selfishness. Social consciousness would cure. many of our problems. .
According to Heywood" Broun—
‘How |, send and his aids ‘have the key to | \pros- : | perity--the easy way to pay off the
rity
Gen. Johnson : Says—
Both Our Economic and Political . Systems Are Very lll, but Nobody Yet Has Made Complete Diagnosis.
ASHINGTON, March 12.—The early New England idea of wheeling the patient out of doors and letting anybody who had a hunch prescribe a remedy, is being given a tryout on the depression. At the White House, Danny Roper’s ‘Snow White and the 700 Dwarfs,” the Byrnes’ Uhemployment Committee hearings—big men, little men, medium - men, labor, capital, professors, farmers and
bankers. . : a : Hardly two agree. Supposed facts, tables, graphs. and charts - are sprayed as.though.\by a lawn sprinkler but nobody chi ks them ,.. and a few separate se prove the: ‘same conclusion.’ It is all futile churning. How can anybody expect to get.truth out of a political party .or ade ministration investigating. - itself? ‘It Is a perfection of the patently absurd.” Yet this is a deadly serious '’ business. Me Hoover Bammeten hnso © at this terrible depression for Hughi.J6 n three years and failed. Yes failed. The President said on his fifth anniversary. that his objectives are the same-principally the “more
‘abundant life.” But he is not any nearer them—
and he ‘is busting the country. Sir Tran 8's : : OTH our economic and political systems are in danger. Yet nobody has ever gathered and .exe posed all the facts in any such way as makes sense.
Nobody ever has made plain. even the opposing
theories and drawn them together in a set of issues divorced: from political hokum or whitewashing. We would try to do that even for a partly sick COW, but we haven't done it for a ‘very sick country. . Perhaps the facts are all available.” It would % interesting to call a conference of all the statistical and economic services in Government—like the Bue reaus of Labor Statistics and’ Agricultural Economics —and out of government—like Standard Statistics, National Bureau of Economic Research. ; » » » F such. a conference were: headed by. ‘a man like May of Price, Waterhouse and not some political stuffed shirt,’ we might get what Woodrow Wilson used: to call a “sonspectus’'—and get it quickly. It would be equally interesting to select some nome political he go-getter to head a commission: on. “cone flicting economic theories of restoring prosperity.” . 1 believe a man like Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago could do a job on that. If out of it came no more than clean-cut mar. shalling of opposing theories, they, with a digested picture of controlling facts, would at least relieve us from the present confusion of cures. which get a trial
in proportion as some persuasive “yarb” doctor is able to reach the ear of supreme authority. Gs
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Hoover Was Unwise in Paying Hitler a Visit, for Foreigners Remember
~ Him as President and They Still Think He
I we seek to dodge the choice then we will deflate or inflate anyhow. What then sho 1d we do? No one is capable of
The first: ep, lisrefore. is to name a group of experts to make an immediate study of the effect defla~
tion will en upon prices, profits, employment, wages, “eredit, trade, agriculture. Similarly a completely ob-
“jective study should be made to chart the effects of
inflation of various types on all these functions in our
society. - : 8
MODERATE-sized group of real experta-not Just Gd friends of some secretary, not some chance ac- | 3° | -.quaintance of politicians, could do the job. Give them hea a large staff. They can make up this chart and study A
tremely | adventage of the Democrats in recent years has been | “that whenever they made a mistake some Republi
NT YORK, March 12.— Herbert Hoover is not a : rivate citizen. In addition to being an ex-
| ‘Presidont, of the United States he is still active in ‘the councils of the Republican party. Indeed, certain
Republicans have announced that they regard him as
the leader of their faction. : Under these circumstances it was certainly exunwise of him to visit Hitler. The great
would immediately save them from the rap by fal into an even greater blunder.
It was inexcusable for James Roosevelt to pe “ ‘himself to be entertained by the Dominican dicta Something should be heard about it, but the yo = man’s case is all too likely to be forgotten, because of y . | the Hoo.er howler. - 1 ; Somewhere the rumor arose. that although Mr. | er entered into converse with Der Fuehrer, .
ply of Nazi philosophy. "That has since been | And it never sourided very probable. Amer- |.
to exchange views with persons in power - it. Surely an Ambassador. is out of line
th them some lingering | Pid not butt inte diplomatic rela-
a Dodd has said. but § do not think :
| sation should be largely restricted to the query, a shall T charge’
1
£ with almost hina which sl] :
Plays ‘an Official Role.
1 understand it, allows our representative abroad to
‘transmit private - -information to the State.
‘ment, but that he should ‘findings without direct instructions from: "Washing.
uld take no action on his owh
ton. ; Being an Ambassador has grown to be a tolerably
: unimportant job in these days of fast communicas~
tion. And that is right and The man in
Proper. . knee britches and a high hat should always. ‘be sop
scious of the fact that, save at state role is that of a messenger boy and that his conver you want to pay for this or it?” “In | need not. always be asked,
eging to’ give assurances ua jo What, his OE :
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