Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1938 — Page 10

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TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1938

STC P BTHIS RAID! BE "ORE the House of Representatives is the Senatenassed McKellar amendment to the independent-offices apr opriation bill, exempting from civil service and subjecting to Senite confirmation all lawyers and experts of $500 ‘or more salary. ‘“his® amendment, in itself of limited importance, is dang rous as part of an apparently concerted program by Sena‘ spoilsmen to-chisel away the merit system bit by bit. The louse can thwart this program by: standing nly

again;t the amendment and against future forays from th s :

Senai side. It should serve notice to Senate spoilsme that #ais kind of job-chasing must stop. The President and his party are pledged to extend the mer system. His party in the Senate appears bent on

destroying it.

MR. AULL’S WORLD R.'NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, reporting on the yaar ’s work of the Carnegie Endowment for International | Peace, tells what the mythical “man from Mars” would! witness were he to look down on our r screwball little planet. “ie would hear vigorous, emphatic. abd oft-repeated declarations in favor of prosperity and peace, accompanied almos’ daily by acts and policies the effect! of which is to make oth prosperity and pea ‘whether: ngtional or inter-% nationil, wholly impossible,” Dr.) Butler writes. : However, through the gloomy our “visitor would see at least ¢ne ray of hope, and one that Dr. Butler acknowledges. This is the. patient task to which Secretary of State Hull has set himself in rebuilding the world’s: shattered trade routes by means of his program of reciprocal agreements. Good Neighbor Hull knows that trade and peace go together. He knows that trade moves on a two-way thoroughfare, and that tariffs, q uotas and exchange restrictions choke ‘he flow of traffic. Acting on this knowledge, he has been engaged since 1934 in clearing trade routes between the U. S. A. and its neighbors. This week hearings opened in Washington on a proposed agreement with the United Kingdom. This is Mr. Hull's greatest project in world prosperity and peace. Britain is our No. 1 customer, and because of her far-flung trade relationships she wields a mighty influence in the whole structure of world commerce. The success of a reciprocal pact with Britain and her colonies would take humanity nearer Mr. Hull’s goal of world of peacefully trading nations. Political pacts have proven ropes of sand in the efforts of peac: statesmen to rebind the nations in mutual security. Perhaps such economic disarmament as Mr. Hull is winning with bis old-fashioned horse-trading methods will werk better. :

PRISON LIBRARY WEEK

BY proclgmation of Governor Townsend the week of / Mzrch ‘27 has been designated as “Prison Library Week.” State penologists have urged Indiana citizens to search ‘heir homes during that week for unused, discarded books ‘=nd to take them to County Welfare Department offices for distribution to the State’s institutional libraries. Libraries in Indiana’s institutions are woefully inadequate, says Thurman A. Gottschalk, state institutions supervisor. who proposed the “Prison Library Week.” “We need fic ion, drama, poetry, travel, history, adventure, biography =nd especially books on trades: and business and timely cuestions,” he explained. : * We hope Hoosiers will respond to this appeal. Wellrounded libraries are an essential part of the State's prcgram for education and rehabilitation of inmates of these

institutions. -

DR. SOLLIS RUNNELS

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D& SOLLIS RUNNELS, who died at 83, was widely

kno 'n not only as a physician but also for the important part he played in Indianapolis affairs. Out: tanding among his achievements was his industrial plan for -lind men. This plan later was incorporated in the Indiana Industrial Home for the Blind, a project later taken “over by ‘he State. He also leased the building known as - Ft. Friendly to the G. A. R. for $1 a year. Dr. Runnels was a member of the Volunteer Medical Corps, the Congrega- _ tional Church and the Columbia Club. He was past presi- - dent of the Homeopathic Association of Indiana. His death means a loss to the community of a * physician, philanthropist and civic leader. :

INVESTIGATE TVA HAIRVIAN A. E. MORGAN has called again for an impartial investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, making and implying charges against the two other TVA directors which Congress cannot afford to ignore. s . That Dr.. Morgan and his fellow board members are at odds has “been known for a long time. Their differences, = "he now ‘asserts, are not merely over power policies but re- / sult from “an attitude of conspiracy, secrecy and bureaucratic management which has made proper ‘and effective : conduct of TVA business exceedingly difficult.” “The. eal difficulty,” he adds, “has been in the effort to secure onesty, openness, decency and fairness in gov- - ernment.” And, as an instance, he refers to the claims by . Senator Berry of Tennessee for marble lands flooded by a TVA reser oir—claims which Senator Berry represented as ~ worth mill ons and which a Federal Coury. commission has now held yorth nothing. Dr. Morgan, citing the record, insists he stood alone for opposing ti 3 Berry claims on the ground of bad faith, at a time when the other directors wanted to make a friendly jaarsemes 0 fix a value on the flooded marble. Those we '10pe, are now disposed of. <x A prompt and thorough investigation is necess \ gharge: are too serious for the inyestigation to be mad

Business Manager

of our great railroad, utility and industrial

Another Bluff That Work

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HOWEVER DICTATORSHIP: p’ HAY SPREAD (N THE WORLE THE UNITED STATES

AMERICA MUST REMAIN

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

The Los Angeles Times President, Foe of Union Labor, Comes Closest To Being the Head Man of the City.

OS ANGELES, March ‘15.—~Unlike most other.

American cities, Los Angeles is politically shapeless and as insubstantial as a cloud and has no head man. Affairs, like the notoriously wild and dangerous motor traffic, are conducted. by. the rule of every man for himself. Although the city has _- boss comparable to Tom Pendergast in Kansas City nor any government head comparable to La Guardia in New York, there is a

sort of great spirit in the person of Harry Chandler, the president of the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Chandler is; 73 years old and is heir to the authority and traditions of the late Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, who fought union labor to his dying day and made LosAngeles a nonunion town. Mr. Chandler married the daughter of Gen. Otis, and he has been faithful to his late father-in-law’s principles. His own devotion to the old PER General’s cause was strengthened Mr. Pegler by personal experience in the dynamiting of the Times plant in the fall'of 1910. The charge which blew up the building, killing 21 men, was placed beneath his own office in the hope that it would get him, but he had gone home ‘when ic went off. #8 8 ”

NOTHER bomb, placed (in the General's home.

failed to explode, and fig time men who were the personal objects of the plot lived to see ‘those

' convicted in prison and to exploit the disaster to the

detriment of labor organization long after the public had forgotten the explosion. a, : Los Angeles became the refuge of manufacturers and other industrialists who (did not want to be bothered by union troubles and grew vastly by contrast with and largely at the expense of San Francisco, where the unions were strong. Mr. Chandler

insists that the nonunion shop. also appealed to a good grade of workmen who had run foul of union rules, discipline, exactions and rackets in other places and had been harassed or blacklisted and barred from employment. : Los Angeles doubled her population in the decade

between 1920 and 1930 and now has about 1,500,000

people in a city which sprawls over vast areas ‘of thinly populated land and includes a great seaport and naval base and farms, oil fields, slums and the Hollywood colony. 8 8 = i R. CHANDLER participated in the plotting of Hollywood as a subdivision in 1903 and recalls that the place was so called by sheer inspiration when he and some others who were arguing over a name saw a boy leading a burro laden with holly, which grew profusely on the land. As a boy of 16 he had come out from New Hampshire for his health and earned a living peddling fruit at first and later delivering newspapers. It is hard to interpret his attitude toward organization. The merchants and other business= ‘men are organized against labor organizations, but he says he thinks it would be a calamity if the unions were to be destroyed. Yet he refuses to deal with unions and fights them constantly. He pays good wages and gives bonuses and claims to believe that the other employers are high-minded, conscientious men who are better judges of right and more reliable guardians of the workmen’s interest than union leaders. There he takes his stand.

Business—By John

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Lo ® : N : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disdgree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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MOTORISTS CONGRATULATED FOR CAREYULNESS,

By an Observer The other morning automobiles e plying up and down E. New York St. At Dearborn St. a little 3-year-old tot stood on the south curb looking wistfully at her mother who was on the north side of the street. The excited mother, who had not expected the child to follow her, was motioning frantically to the little one not to attempt to Cross. The child evidently misunderstood the meaning of the mother’s signals suddenly, without warning, started across the. street at full speed. A dozen cars were at the moment passing in both directions. Immediately, brakes ground and screeched as cars skidded to a sudden stop. Arriving in the middle of

fused and bewildered, not knowing what to do. Cars were lined up on both sides of the street intersection and the little girl held them as effectively as a downtown ffaffic cop. Finally, to relieve the situation, the mother, pale and trembling, walked quickly out to the middle of the street, took the child by the hand and led it in safety to the. curb. The danger over, motors started and soon traffic was again at normal, all rejoicing that no fatality had occurred. The passing motorists are to be congratulated on the splendid manner in which they met this serious and sudden situation. Had a careless driver been passing at the time, another child might have been killed.

A. 8 8 = FEDERALVCONTROL OF EDUCATION CRITICIZED By W. L. Ballard, Syracuse, Ind.

THe meeting of the Superintendents’ Division of the American Educational Association at Atlantic City recently considered the matter of national financial support of education and the inference of Federal control of education. ' This is more important than anything Else before the country. About 10 years ago the Supreme Court invalidated an Oregon statute

was equivalent to saying that Oregon could not guarantee the perpetuity of its own democratic institutions unless it could teach democracy faster than any competing private schools could destroy it. What is-the nature of compulsory education? It is not for the benefit of the individual, but to help society .perpetuate itself by educating informed and sympathetic new generations.-

It was bad enough for such a

| rule to obtain in .one or a few

states, but when the Federal Government, by providing only onefifth of the funds, seizes the right to say what is education and method in- teaching, then the Oregon

T. Flynn

SEC Should Force Stock Exchange to Prohibit Brokers

‘Both as Agents. for Their

EW YORK, March 15.—It is certainly too soon for any man to pass judgment on Mr. Richard Whitney, the bankrupt former president of the New Yorke Stock Exchange, who has been ousted from the

Exchange and now faces charges on some undisclosed |

kind of misconduct. But observers feel justified in believing that the whole episode will-have a powerful influence ‘upon one of the great, ‘basic problems of stock exchange management, namely the question of segregation.

For a long while, up fo the time of Mr. W. O..

Douglas’ chairmanship, the SEC dodged the question

of segregation. The heart of that question is this:

Brokers are first and foremost the confidential trustees of the clients who employ them to handle their security transactions. These .clients are bhyers and sellers of securities

.. Brokers have especial opportunities to Po this inside, confidential aoviode of what their own clients and those of thelr colleagues are planning for their securities in any given day or period. 5

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insisted that brokers acting in so fiduciary a

the street, the child became con-|

abolishing all private schools. This|.

(Times readers are invited to 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.)

system would become nation-wide in practice and theory. % The temper of the forces now dominant here, would do to Americanism is indicated in an editorial in a metropolitan paper. It quoted the Oregon decision, in this sentence: “The fundamental ‘theory of liberty on which all governments in this union | repose excludes the power for the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only.” That decision, even as rendered, when acted on nationally, will destroy democracy here. i

It may be important that Fngland |

joins the dictators, preferring chaos to socialism or even democracy, but such Federal control of education, slipping almost unnoted into American life, is of infinitely greater import. f { » ” os COMMENDS READER FOR PEACE STAND - By True American

Good for you Gerald Fonall I hope The Times is flooded with answers to your questions. You have every right to refuse to go to. war. enever we produce enough men with your common sense, we won't have to be afraid that war is right around the corner. If others invade our country, then fight for your home and family—otherwise, stay home and at-|_ — tend to your own business. In The Times of the same date as your letter, Mrs. Walter Ferguson wondered why younger mar-

WEEDS ‘By ROBERT O. LEVELL A sight the way the weeds can grow, TD mean and pesky ‘way they c Killing She corn in every row, ’ They're such a spreading thing.’

No good or right. they ever spare: They: re thriving so much all the a, When Yiriving out the light and air, In their most harmful way.

DAILY THOUGHT Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to 1 help in time of need ~Hebrews

HE greatest attri attribute of Heaven

and what they|

is . mercy. — Beaumont oH Fletcher. 2

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ried couples are “content to live in furnished apartments, to deny themselves children and {feel no sense of civic or national duty.” Is it a national duty to bring our sons into the world to make armies—to see them - butchered, gassed, maimed? . We .have no right to thrust life upon anyone with the world in its present condition. When we feel this world is straightening out, then you will find us rearing families,

# 2 a CRITICIZES DISTRIBUTION OF UTILITIES’ BILLS

By a Consumer

I wish to bring to the attention of |

the General Public the method of two local utilities in distributing monthly bills. These are left on porches, stuck under doors, or shoved behind door knobs. Thousands of them sre mistaken for advertising matter and destroyed, or blown away, and the consumer is

forced to pay the gross amount be- |

cause of del iniueney. This policy should be ended

EDITOR'S NOTE Officials of one

of the utilities referred to above explained that they make every effort to insure delivery of their bills. They said they are now using a system whereby the bills are attached with rubber bands to doorknobs. Officials of the other company explained they have been unable to

.devise. a foolproof distribution method. They pointed out, however, that |

their complaints average about 1 out of 1000. They also said they tried to be reasonable in dealing with delinquencies arising out of nondelivery of bills. The water and telephone utilities distribute their bills by mail. 8 = 8 STREETCAR SERVICE I8 C CRITICIZED

By a Taxpayer Can anything be done about asking Indianapolis Railways to provide better service on the lines they have contracted to serve? By the looks of the people having to stand up and being passed up, there is something wrong some place.

EDITOR'S NOTE—Indianapolis

Railways officials declined comment.

s # = PRAISES MORRISSEY FOR FAIRNESS By Mrs. J. W. R. I read with great interest of those

two policemen charged with taking |

$10 from a 17-ycar-old boy. Another officer says he was “pushed around.” As to demanding money from the people they are supposed to protect, our city would be well rid of any policemen who did such a thing. * I think we have about the best Chief of Police in the country. He gives all a fair chance. I do, not eve Chief Morrissey “pushed” any officer around. .

_ Hugh Johnson

“mentioned at his trial.

Gen. Johnson

Says— Parole Record Gives Weight fo the Charge Mooney Is Kept in Prison For Being a Radical Labor Leader.

ASHINGTON, March 15—Why don’t they let old Tom Mooney go? There is certainly a doubt of his ‘guilt—to some people an absolute certainty of his innocence. Maybe he had “done some donations on other jobs—destroying property, not lives—but the charge that he bombed a Preparedness Day parade, killing and wounding many, has been almost certainly exploded. The fact is that he is serving a sentence for being something, or doing some-= thing, for which he was not convicted—a radical labor leader -opposing our entrance into the World War. That is a bad business. It is something in which every man has a direct and personal inter est. If it can be done to Tom ° Mooney today, it can be done to Hugh Johnson tomorrow. I used to see Al Capone strutting around Chicago. He came as near deserving the title public enemy No. 1, as anybody who ever wore it. But it has always seemed to me that a Government which wasn’t efficient encugh to convict him for his well-known crimes, was doing a very evil thing in trying him for income tax evasion and sentencing Mim for atrocities not even

Vio ” ” 8 HE destruction ‘of liberty under: the form of laws guaranteeing liberty isn’t excused by the observation that the culprit deserved it on general principles, and that is especially true of Tom Mooney. It doesn’t vindicate the majesty of the law or discourage Pinks, Reds and Bolshevists to keep a man in prison in such doubtful circumstances. It. is water on their wheel. They can and do say that Mooney, a labor leader, is kept in jail not because of crime but because of labor affiliation and he thus becomes their official. martyr. It is-one of the most. provocative arguments in the Communist bag of tricks and has served them for many years.' Rather than being radical, about the most conservative thing the Governor of California could do right now would be to pardon Tom Mooney. We » »

H= appearance before a California legislative committee adds nothing new to the well-known facts and is insignificant because there is probably legally no such thing as a legislative, pardon. But it keeps the whole controversy in the limelight and reveals the stubborn conservative opposition to any leniency to a man who already has served 22 years” in’ San Quentin. During those 22 years, according to many studies of the parole and pardon system in the United States, literally thousands of convicts, unquestionably guilty of worse crimes, have been released on parole and many hundreds have been convicted and released and convicted and released again. That kind of record has nothing to commend it, but it does serve te emphasize the refusal to do anything for Mooney and to give weight to the repeated charge that official conduct in this case is more influenced by the fact that he: was labor leader than that he was, if ever, a criminal. :

According fo Heywood Broun—

fers Washington Correspondent Thinks Roosevelt Either Shel. Ignore

- His Press. Conference Audiences. or Push His Jokes More to the Left.

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Principals and Speculators for Themselves.

It is out of this dual function that the trouble in which Mr. Whitney now finds himself grows. Caught in a stock speculation, he and his firm suffered such loss that they were ruined. It is the privilege of men to ruin themselves. But apparently the desperate effort to save himself brought the former exchange head to do things with his Clients propenty which he now admits “was wrong” 8 2 PE tp sn a] change, like all human idstitutions; is made up of all sorts of men. All of them are subject to the general run of human weaknesses, Richard Whitney

was himself one of the most honored and his firm | ‘one of the most highly respected in the Street. And 3

he was not a weak man. He had access to enormous et he fell a victim of the eternal, struggle of poor, weak men to

money resources. but always

think on both sides of a human problem at the same :

time, to represent. two points of view, to be on both

! : sides of the counter. ‘Why should we suppose that | Papermen HIS being 50, & great many market students Baverl st en so s ;

pnd wo i peed 5 nit | "The

the market.

‘tion who asked the President tough questions.

EW YORK, ‘March 15—A Washington correspondent dropped in for the day, and so we took him around to the Museum of Natural History and the Planetarium. As we sat around the table he said

politely, “That was a very ignorant column you wrote

‘about the President's last press coriference.” “Among other things,” said the gentleman back from the front, “you were inclined to be a little facetious about a young woman from some radical publicathe first place, she didn’t. At least, none any more searching than several other women from other news-" FEpSIS Save sxken Ear at press

ony ise anal ftrent En I is imposed by the themselves. Ot course, Tan rit sefors

of the conventions established ‘ by your. corre= spondents.” “Now you're getting warmer,” ‘replied my friend. “That's what he. press seeds in. Washington—more

pring many cases a Washington corre corres really what you would call a reporter. The head of a bureau is, in fact, a city editor. addition to that the Washington representativ some extent an ambassador from the cattoral 1 of his paper rather than its news columns.

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