Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1938 — Page 10

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SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1038

: TOWNE END AT THE WASHTUB?

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* of the fre.

ESPI'E denials, the resignation of Earl Crawford as High vay Commission chairman is linked by many with the recer : public indignation against his association with a firm se ‘ng directional signals—a device which the State requires c vners to install on trucks. Other recent developments, such as Governor Townsend’s in: sstigation of State purchasing methods, have caused po.itical observers to comment on Administration

* efforts to .‘houseclean” for campaign year.

But = lot of dirty political linen, including the beer setup, wil. have to be put through the washer before the State Hou-e machine can get the public support which it apparently hopes to control. - The nr achine will need more this year than Two Per Cent Clul funds, the legalized rakeoff from beer and second-rat- political candidates to get by with the voters.

TWO-GUN HITLER ANY ‘gh-minded Americans have been debating, in all since ity, the wisdom of our Government at this time spending : rore money on its defenses. Debat- is a right recognized only in free countries.

There are lands where dissent is treason, punishable by 5 in jails or concentration camps or execution before a fi ing squad, especially when the dissent pertains to the arrad forces. But democratic peoples cherish the right of ‘ree discussion, and to the best of their ability determine nolicies according to their collective wisdom, Conce: ning what is wise in respect to our armament program, ve think it pertinent to observe that Adolf Hitler yesterday ‘old his dummy Reichstag that there are “territorial clairs so palpably unjust that their removal by violence is necessary,” remembering, of course, that Herr Hitler elec's to be sole judge of what is “palpably unjust” and when “violence is necessary.”

In communities of the Wild West, a couple of genera-

tions age, our ancestors who had to live among cattle

rustlers, horse thieves and murderers thought it “wise” to carry adequate sidearms. In the community of nations,

‘where bancitry has been revived, can our republic do less?

0 SAY CAN YOU (highe)? ; A REBE LIOUS little group of poets, musicians and other ourageous souls is out to haul down “The StarSpangled Eanner,’ in 1931. bett, Violi ist Jascha Heifetz, Poét Padraic Colum and Editor Herry Goddard Leach of Forum, who has offered $1000 in prizes for suggested substitutes. They * ink this song of songs excites martial emotions. Written w! aimed at our British cousins. The tune was lifted from an English drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.” Doubt =ss this move will be crushed under a barrage from the I'aughters of the American Revolution, who have warned previous critics to touch not a single bar. However, we feel like giving the reformers at least a feeble cheer. Let’s "2 honest-and admit that, with all the patriotic fervor in tie world, we just can’t do the present anthem

justice. How many of us have risen with swelling hearts,

grimly det-rmined to shout right up the scale to the land only to have our vocal cords let out a mean little squea = just as we got there? Or rolled down to the twilight’s 12st gleaming, hoping to imitate Jovian thunder, only to enc with a tearful gulp? And who of us won't confess th:% we have to begin humming the words after the first verse?

“The {“ar-Spangled Banner" i in triumph will wave, but we do wishlit wasn’t so tough on our vocal cords.

“URGENY NECESSITY”

A NOTHE RC. I. 0. leader—Homer Martin, head of the auton sbile workers’ union—is out with a plea for early resumption of peace negotiations with the A. F. of L. Mr. Martin's five-point formula for settlement seems to us one that the Federation could afford to meet halfway. Briefly, it 1 roposes: Recognition by the A. F. of L. of the principle o. industrial unionism in mass production indus-

~ tries; imm~diate steps to solve jurisdictional problems af-

fecting C. I. O. unions in fields where older A. F. of L. unions are in exizfence; submission of jurisdictional matters to subcommit ees, with a time limit for reaching results; agreement that the C. I. O. unions be readmitted to the Federation as a body rather than piecemeal. Regar lless of formulas, Mr. Martin is correct in calling labor peac: “an urgent necessity.”

THE G. 0. P. AUDITORS R. GLENN FRANK, chairman of the committee which will attempt to formulate a new policy for the Republican Part; says that task No. 1 will be: To mzke “an utterly honest and objective audit of the New Deal, beginning with March, 1933, and coming down to date.” ‘Well, maybe that’s right. A party which has nothing at which to point with pride is following orthodox political ~ procedure when it goes in heavily for viewing with alarm. But we think another useful and profitable job for Dr. Frank's committee would be: ~~ To make an utterly honest and objective audit of the Republican Party’s record, beginning with March, 1921,

when Warren G. Harding became President, and coming

down to de te.

10,000, 00¢,000, 000,000 WORDS

JR. EDVARD, KASNER and his mathematics classes a at : ‘Columbia University, after long, research, estimate

that “gince ‘Adam and Eve” the human ; race e has spoken { ten h ‘million i on words. :

’ our national anthem by act of Congress / mong -its members are Baritone Lawrence Tib--

terms, should be stated in terms: of en America was on the march in 1812, it was

Ef LIVUR

Washington ' By Rodney Dutcher

Untrained Politicians Given Tips In Nonpartisan League's Handbook; First Lady Has Lipstick Troubles.

ASHINGTON, March 19.—The major political parties have no handbook on “How to Organize and. Conduct a' Local Political Campaign.” Their politicians know all about that from experiences. Labor's Nonpartisan League is in the nature of a new political party and it has just published such a pamphlet as a necessity for local groups. Learning a lesson from such defeats as that of the

C. ‘I. O. municipal ticket in Detroit, labor political strategists emphasize necessity of “winning a majority of the electorate to an understanding that labor is genuinely interested in the welfare of the community as a whole. Since organized labor is seldom a numerical majority in any community, to win it must have support from: other. elements in. the popula-: tion. . It is not difficult to demon=strate that the interests of the socalled middle class voters: Professionals, small merchants, etc., are, on analysis, identical with those of organized labor. The issue, in’ broad ; i progressive and efficient ‘gover | Mr. Dutcher ment.” » z o- iw . oe Fon gives specifications for Gistionnains for candidates, publicity campaigns, radio ‘arrangements,. Speakers’ bureaus, literature, advertising, organization of ward and precinct workers with: card index systems of voters, electioneering, rallies and parades. Automobiles to take workers to polls and light

meals to be served by women for’ polling booth watchers are among the many items recommended. “Make your calls at convenient hours for householders,” house-to-house canvassers are advised. “Never bother housewives early in the morning. For women, the best hours are from 1:30 p. m. to 5 p. m. and for men, 6:30 p. m. to 9 p. m. Avoid meal times. Use women as well as men canvassers for this work.” ; : 8 we OME Washingtonians with long ‘memories have no trouble recalling the time a few years ago when Mr. Richard Whitney was telling Congressional .committees zbout the New York Stock Exchange's right to self-regulation and its ability to protect investors from dishonest practices. That was when Mr. Whitney was president of the exchange, long before he had pleaded guilty to charges of first degree larceny. Congress disregarded Mr. Whitney and created the Securities and Exchange Commission with powers much larger than Mr. Whitney and his associates desired it to have. “We have brought this country to its standing in the world of speculation,” testified Mr. Whitney before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. “I claim that this country has been built by speculation, and further progress must be in that

line.”

It was Mr. Whitney’s unfortunate speculation in stock of an applejack concern which led to speculations which led him to indictment. \ 2 ” ” Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who seldom has complained of publicity, nevertheless has been fussed by the newspaper attention attracted by her 'ventures into soicalled hair-bobbing and use of cosmetics. “I've got to the point where I almost wish I had never heard of lipstick,” she complaine recently.

The Hoosier Forum

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

CALLS SUPERHIGHWAY PLAN CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSAL By John F. White

Senator Bulkley (Ohio) proposes |

the building of a system of national through motor truck and bus. highways, east and west, north south, to cost from six to eight bil-

lion dollars. This seems to .me to be one of the |

most constructive proposals yet

‘made in the whole category of Government projects, not only as a,

means to meet modern transportation needs and to relieve traffic congestion and its hazards on the general public highways, but would be one of the sanest and most substantial aids in: promoting economic recovery yet proposed. : This enterprise would be paid for

‘without any real increase in the public’ debt to be liquidated through | or Wwhat- | ever form of payment may be pro-|.

taxation, since the tolls,

vided, would meet construction costs as well as all maintenance charges. The payment of these tolls would return compensating services of special usefulness to the public, all to the general advantage and unity, of our national life. The supreme advantage of this form of public improvement over the usual PWA projects is that it is building a vast income-producing property and that it does not run into dead ends when finished, as happens to most WPA projects, in addition to its incidental waste of human character.

Avoids Inflationary Effects

Income-producing public propemty avoids this dead-end result for the reason that the circulation of money given through all the various branches of industry and commerce

incident to the construction does not

stop with the tcompletion of the

project itself, but this continuity of |. circulation is provided for by thel:

revenues coming in from the use of ‘these highways, thus avoiding the inflationary effects of expending money for nonproductive works, in which the expense must be met by taxation.

That ‘is, spending money for: the.

‘building of self-sustaining highways would act in the same way in the stimulation of industry and promoting business activity as happens in| private industry, when the money going into payrolls and material bills sends products into the exchange market, :which in turn, commands money and keeps it in circulation exchanging goods and services, which is the only real sound money in circulation with men working in individual selfrespect. Under such circumstances money is always being redeemed in goods and services and is not clogged up into nonproductive dead ends, to be redeemed afterwards by taxation by pay for dead horses. This principle of building motor

and |.

(Times readers are invited fo 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 Mithheld on request.)

trucks and bus ‘highways could ‘well ‘be extended to the states in the construction of toll highways for the exclusive use of motor trucks and

‘buses, though probably a better sys- |

tem of payment for use could be devised than the inconvenience of toll stations. (Our gasoline tax now

‘serves. as a toll. system to pay for

‘construction’ and maintenance.) ‘Sees Traffic Solution

measure, solve the problem of graffic congestion now of such serious consequence. on many state highways, as well as providing for heavy transportation traffic in an effective and practical way. . ' As applied to Indiana, and probably in other states, there would be immediately available: numerous abandoned traction line rights-of-way, to include other lines destined to give way to more modern forms of transportation, The building of such income-producing projects, on a scale commensurate with the ‘demands of modern transportation,

‘| would be a tremendous help at this

time in relieving the economic jam without, in any way, adding to the burden of taxation, as well as providing for a continuity of the.activities incident to the building of these properiiss; the payments, for use

IN ARABIA By ROSE CRUZAN

The desert sun seemed hottest . When I crossed the dunes of pnd; I slid down from my camel : But let: the animal stand.

The sizzling heat caused objects By beams of the heated air To acquire shim'ring aspects; Inferno. seemed in my hair.

1 sat in the shade and rested—

The shade of the old humped

©, back; Again resumed : ‘my journey, And finally reached my shack.

DAILY THOUGHT

And ye ‘shall be hated of all men for my name's sake; but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.—Matthew 10:22. te

HE blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ~Jerome.

Such highways would, in great.

being continually fed into 'main-

the same way as when industry sends goods into the market, to result in creating demand for more goods. In every particular the establishing of these enterprises, as proposed, meets the demands of sound modern business principles in providing commodity exchanges and passenger services. “i FRE GANGSTER TENDENCIES SFEN IN DEMOCRACIES By M. R. Kuehn, Richmond According to a Times editorial, Adolf Hitler is “an international gangster.” Secretary of State Hull thinks so too. Now that is unanimously agreed’ to, let's attend to the following matters: : 1: Print the little slip of paper that Col. Edward Mandell House

trapped Wilson and all the United b States - with him info a gangsterpeace for “democracy:” 2. Print the cablegram of March 5, 1917 from Page to Wilson. - 3. Point out for the “democracies” that Great Britain built her empire with “shotgun action.” 4: Take immediate steps to‘ stop “the civilization” that has murdered 448,000 men, women and children in the United States in the last 20 years, = = 5. Let the people of the United States in: on the cockeyed ballyhoo about the difference between “the democracies” and the “gangster nations.” 6. End the New Deal depression. ® #2. =» ANSCHLUSS IS TERMED NATURAL NECESSITY By H. L. S. Hitler's anschluss with Ausirll is the result of a 20- -year struggle of the conquered Germans to break the economic chains forged by the Allies at Versailles. The dismemberment of the German Empire and the dissolution of the Austro-Hun-garian empire by the Allies destroyed the “economic . cohesion”

- | which was a natural necessity for

the people of this territory to exist. The creation of independent nations out of these boundaries set up insurmountable trade barriers among the population which was and stil is absolutely dependent upon the products of all the groups to live. Hitler is tearing down the political barriers to allow the removal of

| economic barriers. When such bar-

riers are erected by force they will be torn down by force. Trade barriers produce violence.

tenance and extensions, acting in|

handed to President Wilson that]

Gen. Johnson :

Says— Will Europe Have War This Summer?

Guesses Must Answer That Query, And Your Columnist Guesses ‘No."-

ASHINGTON, March 19.—Will there be war in: Europe this year? Wars have a habit of starting in late spring or early summer, That is not. just random coincidence. It happens because it is so much easier to move and maintain troops in the ‘field in summer than in winter and because most wars start

-on-the cocky belief of the aggressor that he is strong

enough to end his war “before snow flies"—a belief

that very generally turns out to be wrong. . Many people ask me the question in my first sentence. They: think that because I graduated’ from West Point, spent 20 years “in the Army, was chief of a di--vision of our General Staff, and commanded a brigade during the World War, I ought to have an . informed opinion. - Up to about five years ago, it would have been easy to answer that question. The French Army and the : British Navy were so strong relative to the gangster nations, that the one could have moved through Germany assmoothly as a- hot knife through butter, and the other could have wiped Mussolini out of the Mediter-: ranean as a wet sponge erases a chalkmark on a blackboard.

-Hugh Johnson

” # »

T was the constant military and naval advice in both those democracies to maintain that situation by forbidding by threat of invasion the rearmament of potential disturbers of the peace. Pacifist idealists” in both countries rode down that professional opinion. “ Lloyd George says: “The British Empire and France have been maneuvered into the worst strategic position which they have ever been. . Napoleon knew the strategic advantage of securing Spain in a struggle with Britain. Luckily the British ministry of that day realized the danger ‘in time, But our ministry" seems blind as bats.” The reascn nobody can give a worthwhile military opinion on whether there will be war this summer is because relative strength for war as between the democracies and their enemies been allowed .to be-< come so nearly even, Military strength consists of two elements—arms. and strategic position. Hitler and" Mussolini have taken brilliant advantage of every favorable strategic opportunity to offset a relative weakness in arms in a gamble that the Pacific democracies would not fight. : » » ” Fan OW long will that gamble be good? If there were-. any logical way to answer that question it would be the logical way to time a war—if any. Could Bri-: tain and France save Czechoslovakia against Hitler and Mussolini? Certainly not, and because of that; whether Hitler squeezes down on that banana-shaped © country or not, there will be no war this summer. . .. But could Britain and France prevail if Russia, joined them? If Russia were free and sure to join, probably yes. . But who can depend on Russia with Japan on her flank? How good are the Russian and Italian Armies—they never were good before? If you could answer these questions you could have an opinion about war this summer. As it is; you can only guess. My guess is “no”—no matter, what happens in either Spain or Czechoslovakia. _C

Business—By John

Critics Are Exaggerating the Effect of the New Deal on Business: h The Slump Was Caused by Mechanistic Defects in the Economic System. |

EW YORK, March 19.—This is an era of exaggerations. Perhaps all eras are eras of exagED But when men’s passions are high their minds run to extreme forms of expressions and ex= treme characterizations. - The Roosevelt people have exaggerated out of all proportion the recovery they are supposed to have produced. But the Roosevelt critics are now exaggerating out of all proportion the effect of ‘the Roosevelt Administration on the business decline. Business has declined—of that there is no doubt. It continues to decline. Roosevelt must bear his share

of responsibility for this. It is partly positive and |

partly negative. It is positive to the extent that his |

monetary policies and price supporting and pricefixing policies and his utter uncertainty about ‘his spending licies have accentuated the decline. : To t may be added what might be called ‘his “big talk” without corresponding action and his inJationary price policies without orresponding inflaon. gs 8 =» : B= his contribution to the decline has been ay negative in that he has not dealt with any of

the fundamerital- factors in our. economit : system |

out of which booms and depressions grow. Perhaps hese: cane be: adequately dealt with, But certainIr dis hat 8 en SP Gached

T. Flynn

| Roosevelt brought about not a recovery but a Gov-ernment-supported intervajyof relief from the depresWhen, without understanding the nature of the machine he was. .dealing with, he withdrew. that treatment, the machine began to sag again. It is not true that business withholds vestihént because of things Roosevelt did. They do withhold But in: spite of what; ; Roosevelt did, business managed along pretty well up to the fall of last year. ‘The Steel Corporation’s report just out that its gross sales ‘were $264,000,000 greater Its Operating oosts intoo, but not quite so much. - “ix

sion.

‘investment.

Showd, th the preceding year. creased

2» .

collégted more dividends from subsidiaries and It paid its regular 1 | per cent on preferred stock and ‘over $33,000,000 ‘of arrears on preferred dividends and its first common | §,stock’ dividend in a long time. concerns attempted it they -could have done as: well

more rents and royalties.

of the year. business had a good y during a period ‘when the Proslaen:o

“Had. other business |

N= YORK, which I purpose

right to express

“me a lot of work.

and firm in the

et.al. Equally high | Radical, who is idealistic, progressive and firm in the principles of Marx and, of late, Thomas Jefferson. “Between these mighty peaks is a dark valley where dwells the stunted, pale lit Tahergle Little Sunlighy reaches’ their gloomy. locale, and ghey Jack: the fine hardy taineers.

| According to Heywood Broun

He Disagrees Today With Heywood Hale Broun's. Opinion on Liberals, ~ Radicals and Conservatives, but Everyone Has a Right to Speak Freely:

March 19.—1 disagree with most ‘of

the opinions. expressed in -the communication

using” today. But as a believer in

free speech I think that Heywood Hale Broun has a

himself. - This “assumption is ‘based

not on: the fact that he is a close relative but on the notion that he may be speaking for some part of the present undergraduate body. Besides, it is.a rainy day, and if I can get by with this column it will save

Heywood Hale Broun writes:

~ “High on a windswept peak stands the Conserva: tive, four-square; 100 per cent something or other, ashington,

principles of’ Ww, Lincoln, is the peak en which stands the

little race called. the fies, courage 6f me

PUTTING asi aside the shery 0 or 5 y: while, tet us

% pont ot of ig who in io Jnl pare Esme

£35. possiiile, the

veasehingy over the

with Britain, France and the Union of Soviet Social. ist Republics and then, tell the Fascists nations that" the might of democracy will fight them with every - available weapon if they persist in their imperialist™ designs.’ = “For the Liberal, unfortunately, there is no such happy touchstone. He is not so certain of the military power of Uncle Sammie and his Yanks, and he is not so sure that he wants to. see America become a monster drill ground surrounded by expansive battleships. On the other hand, he does not feel that" there should be so much freedom in the use of the - term ‘democracy.’ -

ROM day .fo day “the *Liveral sways from camp

F" to camp—to the lett when he hears the destruction which Mr, Franco's unpleasantly international group is wreaking in Spain, and to the right when: | pease Joan the catchwords and fighting ‘phrases 1914“He is not eager to see Japan overrun beleaguered - China, nor is he anxious to see Spain become a putty state for the Germans and Italians to mold. . But even as he thinks this he is not. especially = anxious. to fight in a war which is not his business. “As each new ‘Progressive’ appears he leaps on~ the bandwagon, but the proposals there made. to

‘him are such that he always has to walk home. == m has a perfect solution. Says the Gon A biggest - the /wor rd,

“He is hated by the ‘Conservatives ‘because

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