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_. .."TUBSDAY, MARCH 22, 1938
SENATOR MINTON'S MISTAKE 3 yee have thexight to tell members of Congress- Tow you. think they should vote on public issues. You have the right to urge other people to write to “meinbers of Congress. . That, in effect; is circulating a peti=. ‘tion, and the right to petition is guaranteed by the Con“stitution. 4; The Senate, Lobby Committee is making a serious This“take wher it attempts to browbeat citizens who have exericised this right in’ a legitiniate manner. Senator Minton ’ ‘of Indian=, the chairman, and Senator Schwellenbach of Washington, the other member, are both supporters of the Administr=tion’s Government: Reorganization Bill. But it -is not thei business to persecute people who oppose the bill. Ther ht to Tobby cah ‘be abused. When. interests that “would get special . benefit from the ‘passage or defeat of a * measure organize a‘campaign to flood Corigress with demands for the action they. want, that is wrong. It was ito expose uch abuses that the Committee was created. : But. of icials of the National Committee to uphold Con--stitutional Government; against whom Senator Minton is “now directing. his fire, could not benefit specially by defeat of the. reol zanization bill. . Wheth: or they are right or wrong in believing that the ‘ general interest would be served by, defeating the bill makes “no differenca. It is entirely proper “for them to print litera“ture and write letters trying to convert other citizens to * the same br Hef, 7° Even te most benevolent Administration needs opposi“tion. Indeed, it is not only the right but one of the highest + duties of ci‘izenship to oppose an Administration measure “that appears dangerous. And an Administration ‘which . permits its supporters to intimidate its opponents will “create grave doubts of its benevolence.
"GRATITU DE! THOSE who fear that Government relief has fostered a “gimme” class in . America during depression years may get renewed faith in their ,fellowmen by reading the ~ story of Mrs. Maude L. Thomas and her husband J: ames of : Sharpsville.: : For 15 months" Mrs. / Thomas, who is 54 and blind, ‘received monthly awards of $20 under the Indiana Welfare : Act. = All the while Mr. and Mrs. Thomas had their life “savings of £1300 tied up in a closed bank. The other day their money was returned when the . bank: was liquidated. Immediately the couple .sent.-the State a checl: for $306 as payment in full with interest of “ the monthly awards: “The State of Indiana cettuinly has played fair with * us when we ‘vere in troublé and we want to play fair with’ “them,” said )Mr. Thomas. “That $20 a month did so much for us when we could not get. our money that we would like “for it to be vsed again for: someone else who needs it more than we do.” |
|CHATRMA: N MORGAN'S DEFI HAIRMAIN ARTHUR E. MORGAN of the Tennessee Valley -A authority is either very brave or very rash. “I do.not choose to. run away,” he says, after informing _ President Roosevelt that he will not present evidence to the President in support of his charges against his two fellow ~ directors; the: he will not retract the charges; that he will ‘ not resign. 24 Two exp. buhations of the chairman’ s attitude are : - possible: 3 ; 1.. That lie has no evidence and is trying to bluff his: © way out of a bad situation. = -2.. That he has evidence which he condiders sufjeient, ‘ but believes he can fet a fair hearing for it only from a . Congressional investigating: .committee. . We are ir clined to give Chairman Morgan the benefit of the doubt. : : Yet he hes left Ir. Roosevelt no choice but to attempt . to remove him from office. . Obviously, the controversy among the directors was harmful to TVA. Obviously, it i. was the President's duty to investigate that controversy. f Obviously, Chairman Morgan has refused to support his charges of di: shonesty against the other directors or to . answer their charges: that he has tried to sabotage the. TVA program. ; Bat if the. ‘President can oust Chairman Morgap-sand : : his authority ‘0 do that is not altogether clear—he cannot: thereby free TVA of suspicion or dispose finally ‘of the . charges that have been made by both sides. : 7 There: i& only one ‘way to determine finally whether . Chairman ‘Morgan has evidence to prove his charges; ~ whether TVA is suffering from dishonest methods or wrong : _ policies; ‘whether the people’s great investment in the'TVA. - experiment, and the people’s great hopes for it, are being { adequately protected. ‘That is to have an impartial and :.open. investiga: ion by a Sonjinitise of. Congress, : ;
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to see these very erdinary undraped figures.
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1 wholly disngree with what you say, but will : defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire. :
REGRETS WOMEN DEMANDED REMOVAL OF PAINTINGS: By Mrs. E. F, Mildner The spectacle of women . ... demanding the removal of paintings of nudes from: an art exhibit is a sad tommentary on the lack of’ understanding by women of beauty. Women pride ‘themselves on -being the cultural pillars ‘of society, yet refuse to see beyond the nude into the realm of the artist. where the solving of artistic problems is more
By R. A. D.
depicted. I'm not proud of being a woman, wife and mother, when women are so small as to object to something so natural and so beautiful. If such‘ objectors were sure of themselves, they would never voice moral indignation and insist upon the removal of the nudes from our Indiana Artists’ Exhibition. #8 = OBJECTS TO. REMOVAL OF! ‘NUDE PAINTINGS By a Reader” yr
To appease a few ‘shocked pa-
And’ fasted;
gained.
removed the - objectionable » nudes which ‘would have remained mod- s estly in. the background had not the spotlight of righteous: indignation: been: turned upon :them. Now, no. doubt because these pictures| By B. Co
bers, lives, will visit the Lyman galleries
They, are not very well done and are about as disappointing and lacking in subtlety as Mae West’s broadcast. But to what may this lead? If the pictures are ordered down from the walls of our Indiana Artists’ Exhibit why may we not expect some fastidious customers ‘to find im-| morality in. pictures other than nudes—because this is- possible you know. And so in time the gallery walls may become nude—of all things! How much more sporting it would ‘be: to. stand: behind our out-of-stéte |
Brotherhood
, compromise
the exhibit fair to Indiana artists. The result is an exhibit—not without faults, of course, but a vital and colorful one.
tJ ” ” WANTS YOUNG LEADERS IN REPUBLICAN PARTY
By a Young Republican
Haven't we any Republicans unider 70 years of age to rebel against the County and State organization? : If the ‘G. O. P. had the proper leaders of young voters and a slaté of new faces, we could win, - minus Jim Watson. : meg + ‘If the old faces don’t take a back seat and let the young voters bring new life into the party, there’ll.be| more than 35 per gent unvoted Republicans.
wear glasses.
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“THANKS FOR THE MEMORY” PARODY IS SUGGESTED. - ?
_ Heil! and—
Thanks for the memory Of shellholes in the rain, Of bodies : wracked: with pain, - ; Of all the: hell it now appears | We muddled ‘through in vain. i 0 ghastly it was!
Thanks for: the memory’ : Of -trenches in the mud, Of -blind men, slime ‘and blood; ‘An’ Armistice that came too soon, A peace that was a dud. How farcical it was!
oft were the times that’ we feasted oft were the. Aime. that we.
But wasn't it swell while it lasted? Ten million slain .and nothing
So thanks for the memory Of things we left undone, Of reckonings yet to come; Of faithless faith and treachery— The menace of the Hun! So thank you, so much.
HAIRCUTS, PRICE-CUTS WORRY CHICKASHA
According to the. town’ barthere is chicanery in Chickasha, Okla. where baldheaded men have joined themselves together in the of Brows and are vociferously demanding that barbers charge only for the amount of hair they cui. They object to paying 40 cents for a haircut— the same as the fellows with a lot of hair are charged.
' Their demands at first seem eminently just, especially hes .they 8 hl £2 willing -t0. | . : "8. 8
“more: than’ and a neck clip.- But. the snap .decision that thé -bald-headed meni are tight .and the 'bar“bers” wrong just proves .once “more the fallibility of supers: + ficial reasoning. oe It seems ‘thet. the barbers. don’t like to cut bald-headed men’s hair. One barber claims “bald-headed men are too’ par- * ticular, ‘afraid something will | happen to.one of their rare -»/sprigs. Another ‘declares’ that : the glare from a bald pate is hard on the eyes and has .. made it. necessary for him to .
So if bald-headed men in Chickasha aré going to insist ° on getting their haircuts at ’ cut rates, they should at least be less persnickety and also try to do something about the hazards they create in the ordinarily safe vocation of barbgring.
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your ‘letter short, so all can have a chance. *. names will be withheld on request.)
Letters must be signed, but
RAPS SKEPTICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT SUPERHIGHWAYS By Lucien Marksbury, Beech Grove
A | Strife has tetarded industrial progress in the United States. This retardation has killed the initiative and morale of the young people of | America. Practically every field of business a young person enters to1 day under the present economical status of our country. turns out to be ‘a blind alley, “Out of the gloom emeried a plate ‘for a network of superhighways and communication facilities—a plan that’ would accelerate the progress of industry and. commerce; that would insure a more adequate na- ‘| tional defense and the future of our most valued democracy. Now comes a Times ediiorial tending ‘to. impede the materialization of this plan with skeptical gestions: What would become of the railroads? What would become of outlying cities? 3 The railroads would be given a * | priority franchise covering a more profitable and ' less competitive transportation business. The outlying cities would be connected at | 12-mile intervals.
What became of the village _| smithy when the automobile came? | The law of progress says every precedent must give way to its successor. When our forefathers ‘wagered their lives on the future of their posterity they didn’t ask for {a positive cinch—but only for a change to try. . " To such skeptical questioning we should say, as did the man to’his assistant on the other end of a cross-cut saw: “We don’t mind your riding—but don’t drag your feet.”
Burnished
4 DEFEAT OF VANNUYS IS PREDICTED By J. B. Cook, Boggstown _ . 1 want to commend J. E. of Morgantown on his letter: published re- | cently in the Forum anent the can- | | didacy of Senator Frederick VanNuys. It was both timely and potent. “If the primary does not serve to : kriock out Mr. VanNuys, thén the final count will come this fall. The majori Mardi Gras stuff. It is quite possible that if Mr. -VanNuys had a job as deck hand, he would show a keener interest in the decisions that have been ren-
ya ‘nickel cents for a:
instance, the decision that it is not
employee's salary while the rest of us are subject to.any taxation that may be levied. That High judicial intelligence is clear as mud to the layman and is‘ just a sample of the decisions handed down.
The last nine years of- economic |
| fight.
of us are surfe ted on this
dered by the Supreme Court—for]’ ‘Just: or lawful to tax a Government
‘URGES BUSINESS FORGET POLITICS ‘By 8. H. ‘America is a great pag-holding corporation. Senator Glass’ banking bill should be set to music, with a refrain, “I Want to Be Let Alone.” Of course the 63 bank holding companies are sitting pretty, since Uncle Sam became the bagbholder for the sour assets of -the financial ingtitutions. - Since American customers have let business alone, due to evaporated buying power, business should be happy even if it must go through the wringer in order to
court patronage on a ‘larger scale. It is not the New Deal, but too few deals that is killing business and producing “unemployment. .If business would saw wood and tend to its" own affairs it would not be bothered with politics and it might get off relief.
: ” ” ” PREDICTS RE-ELECTION OF VANNUYS By Maurice Rush, Anderson . I wish to predict now that Governor Townsend and party are going to be rudely surprised this coming November when Senator VanNuys is returned to Washington by the acclaim of the uncontrolled voters of this sadly controlled state. I regret publicly that I was a
voter for the Townsend regime at
the last election. But no more! I've stood for enough of their crass, ‘egregious ‘nonsense. _ Never before an admirer of Senator VanNuys, I do now admire his courage and the upright manner in which he stood during the Court And to be writteni out of his ‘party because of courage and fore‘sight is to me a confession on behalf of his party that it lacks both attributes. Henceforth, I am pledging myself against. his party and for him. Incidentally, the outcome of the Court fight. proved Senator VanNuys so conclusively right, and the Administration so conclusively wrong, that -it would have been smart ‘politics of the present Governor and his cohorts to have kept their mouths shut. But apparently that was one thing they never learned from the politically astute and ‘publicly loquacious McNutt. In the coming election I shall not feel as if I am voting for Senator VanNuys so much as I am voting against rank injustice. It | is habitual for uncontrolled vofers to" vote against somethings and. in this instance I think the mass of them will arise to embarrass the Townsend crowd.
READER CLAIMS NEWS IS SUPPRESSED By R. G. L. Regularly the question: of free speech comes up and is vociferously defended as one of our constitutional guaranties. It seems ironical
‘then to realize that free speech on
any vital matter affecting social and economic welfare is misinforming, distorted, edited, suppressed and anything but free in its discussion. It was ‘academic freedom of a university - which provoked the latest defense of free speech. There is very little real academic freedom in. our universities. ... . Look at the rec-| ords. of the Civil Liberties Union to find how very many liberal social-
minded professors have been ousted |.
because of speaking freely on “taboo” subjects concerning public welfare. Newspapers and periodicals, however, commit the greatest crime against free speech. Most of them print only that which they want the public to believe. If anything inimical to stockholders, advertisers { or bankers is going on, the matter is more often than not suppressed] so the general public - ‘doesn’t ‘even. know it exists. Consider the food and drug bill. News of this was so thoroughly. quashed that few today know that Dr. Tugwell even | wroté a new food “bill. ! A free press and free speech as} defined by our American publishers means simply press and speech not inflienced by the Government or any other ~gency in the interests of: the general public. If any periodical or paper dares to speak . freely and truthfully, it is either bought up or ruined. This talk about free speech, one might suspect, is only to lull us into thinking there is such & thing,
SEES NOTHING "RADICAL IN SOCIALISM'S OBJECTIVES By W. L. Ballard, Syracuse, Ind,
Perhaps I am a Red—a radical... I believe in the inviolate. freedom of .the individual and his family; in the right of free speech and: as-
sembly; in religious and other. toler-. ‘ance for individuals (not for insti-
tutions); in free compulsory education; in democratic government; in free public-owned roads, libraries, music halls, .... and much more.
.1 How radical am I? But, you say, those things might once have been |-
radical, but now they are our free heritage. All progress was “radical” |" in its day. So the reforms ‘we seek | now are merely the good things our forebears strived for but. were prevented from: attaining. a Socialism is but .the organized
by taking the profit out of some endeavors and turning them into
mere services. The trouble is that|
when an effort is made to systematize the attempt, it stirs -up fear and opposition and gives rise to “fascism” in some form, That is why human progress seems: Slow,
MNUIT TERMED “LADIES’ MAN” By a Reader, Brightwood Who wants McNutt for President? Maybe they think with McNutt as
candidate, - the “opponent -would
surely win—or do they think they could wrap him around their . fingers?. How many Dpictiires have you seen. of him surrounded by worshiping females? Distifictly he is a ladies’ man. But who wants that type of man representing our Gove ernment? What we want is a real man—orie who thinks things out for himself; who is reliable; who has common sense and who has the welfaré of his country at heart. EE a TE ; AMERICAN NAZI MOVEMENT SCORED BY READER: | By-a Real American ? Nazi organizations now -speak of themselves as German-Americans, However, if they had their, ‘way, there would be no America; it would all ‘simply be Germany in the same ‘manner in which Austria is now Germany. This movement is cone trary to every. ‘principle of Ameriganism “If ‘one’s ‘sympathies are with the ‘country of his birth or from which his ances came, instead of the country from which he derives his bread and butter; if he is not satisfied ‘with "the American form of Government, whose very foundation was for the purpose of religious freedom; he and all others ‘like him should be sent’ back where there is already plenty of trouble without agitating matters: of that sort. I wonder how long Hitler
~ | would tolerate any organization in 1 his country which was not in sym-
pathy with - Naziism. Let's. keep
| Atierica for ‘Americans.
“ SPRING’S CHALICE _ By GRACE M. COOK
The great god Thor reached out and tipped pie The dipper upside down, And Sough the night the raindrops
~~ tripped Wa A’tap-dance through the town.
He ‘threw a thunderbolt to wake The Seven Sleepers up, : But. when the.day began to break ‘He dropped, a buttercup.
0 fell to earth, she- looked within The lovely: golden thing, - | And found. it filled up. to the brim "With harbingers. of spring. 2
‘effort to generalize on human expe-}| : - perience and to attain, at-one jump, | many objectives of our forebears—|
DAILY -THOUGHT This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory; and “His disciples believed in Him.— John 2:11. ;
\VERY believer is God's miracle w=Bulley.
Business—By John T. Flynn
- The Elements of Race," Religion and Tradition oy. an Important Part
In Der Fuehrer's. Moves, But Behind All This Is [Economic Pressure. |
FEW. YORK, March 22.—The general assumption : _ now, is that Germany, having gobbled Austria
so much more easily than she had any right to hope, will move swiftly eastward into Czechoslovakia. And this raises again the question whether Hitler has ny notion of stopping. there. Ostensibly. the Gaechoslovakian shadow arises out
of racial troubles. Hitler is supposed to have, de- | termined to save the 3,000,000 Germans in Czecho-
slovakia from the oppression of their Czech ‘masters. :But, while this is a. factor of importante with the
- German - people, it! is probably. subordinate to the
economic factors. : Will Hitler stop with the rescue of the Germans. in Czechoslovakia? - Or, having entered that country, will he ‘seige all of it? There is a well-defined: theory in Europe ‘that the cult of Pan-Germanism that has been. nourished by Hitler and Goering and
and some of the old war-lords comprehends the con-
quest of all of Czechoslovakia nd 0 Sisk. 4 merely as a
4 prelude fo s fatiher push to the Eas
-rich grain fields of the Ukraine Sieady’ sid Germany. should ‘have.
Russia. has an arrangement for that sort of thing. if necessary. It may seem equally difficult tp imagine
Poland permitting Germany to overrun {that southern
tip which separates, te. Ukraine from the lands of the Czechs. 5
But in the light of revel Nappeitingsishis is not: 2
at all unimaginable. Poland. has her own objectives
about which she is keen. Confronted ‘with an op--portunity to attain some of those objectives in return. :
for a concession ‘of a ‘small strip of ber &
territory or maybe. even: only o In a passage. across, it, she
may turn out to be a cop And always; of course, a hey te. dares. 0 cross that small strip ‘which would /b X “her to the
Fa N. the other hand it may. be that Eitler will be
, fo, pause when he has. taken Ozecho- |
for the day when, as. he hopes, Rus-
Aisin to
EW YORK, March 22-By ‘now I think some’ public apology is overdue from American par-
Heywood Bron
No One Should Believe That Franco will Restore the Romantic Spaing If He Wins, Both the Country and His Uniform Will Be Taken Away.
cannot be translated wholly’ ‘into terms’ of 5 cents a word, or possibly 10 for established writers. Frans wins what- will be known in Rome and
‘Hisans of Franco.. They have insisted that the war in Spain was purely a local Issue between the “Reds” and a noble patriot. :
‘writing, “Doubtless Franco’s Government will establish ‘order by the peremptory ‘methods which follow . all successfiil wars, but once. it is firmly in the saddle its inclination will be to work out. Spanish salvation in a thoroughly Spanish way.”
‘tread ‘upon the grapes inthe fashion which is an-
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“Even at this late date I find. Mr. Ellery Sedgwick |
Apparently Mr. Sedgwick means to say that. after | ; ‘has: shot many ‘thousands of the |.
yards of Theria and that laughing peasant girls will | Es
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is o romantic pleturs. When Sho giehiot Bis lings: completed by Mr. Franco and. his Moorish re
Berlin as “victory,” two of the most surprised persons: on the surfage- of this earth will be ‘Mr. Sedgwick "and the ‘Generalissimo. If the present drive succeeds and the ‘Loyalist, cause is lost, one of the fist acts of Mussolini and. Hitler will bé to take away: the mes-"séngeér-boy outfit which’ ve allowed to Franco, ‘He will be stripped of his his khaki and his bicycle and
lated kingdom where he ‘is hot in way. the three or four Spaniards who have Sanstitated his national Army will also be instructed to scram.
cient and familiar. After sufficient blood has been | the