Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1938 — Page 12

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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1938

ALBERT B. ANDERSON = JUDGE ALBERT B. ANDERSON, who died yesterday at the age of 81, was an outstanding jurist for 27 years. He was on the Federal bench here for 23 years and later served as a judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. He resigned in, 1929, two years after he had become eligible for retirement. * He presided in many important cases. He was known for his dignity and strict enforcement of the law and his opposition to long delays in legal processes. His friends and associates will remember him as-a man of wide learning and brilliance and as a judge of unusual ability. : : LEAT

MR. FORD’S VISIT HE afternoon sun shone warm on Washington, but as Henry Ford emerged from the White House, reports "the United Press, all he would say to the 100 waiting newspapermen was something that sounded like: “Brrrrrr”’ : : Mr. Ford, we take it, was not commenting on the weather. We trust he wasn’t referring to the temperature at Mr. Roosevelt's luncheon table. At any rate, were glad that what he said didn’t sound like: “Grrr! HY For the visit of the motors king to the President—their first meeting in 20 years—had been much : publicized and eagerly awaited. We're not certain just what was expected to result from it. But since, so far as any statement from the White House or from Mr. Ford has revealed, nothing of great moment did result from it, we should be glad to know at least that the party was pleasant and that a good time was had by all. . And that, apparently, was the case. The President’s brother-in-law; Hall Roosevelt, who was among those present and who has been credited with having arranged the luncheon meeting, is quoted as saying: “Very little economics was discussed. As a matter of fact, the President and Mr. Ford talked mainly about family affairs.” ; The affairs of the Roosevelt family seem to be thriving. So do those of the Ford family. There are many millions

of American families whose affairs are not so happy. And

if the plight of these other families was not mentioned over the White House table, we may be sure that it was on the minds of the President and his guest, each of whom wants sincerely to make this a better country for everybody. Their disagreements have been over methods. It was, of course, too much to hope that all their differences could be reconciled during two hours of talk. It was absurd to believe that Mr. Ford might come out with an announcement that he and Mr. Roosevelt had agreed on some miraculous scheme to put people back to work, start industry full speed ahead, end the depression and carry the country into permanent prosperity. It won’t be done that way. Meetings like the one at the White House yesterday will help. Promises from the President to do his share toward getting Government, industry and labor to work together will help. Pledges from businessmen to co-operate with the Administration will help. All these foster better feeling and better understanding, which are greatly needed. ‘But it’s not conferences or. pledges or promises, but actions; that will do the job. What Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. " Ford talked about at luncheon may not have been highly important. What they do, from now on, may be.

FOR JEWISH RELIEF HE city’s 1938 Jewish Welfare Fund drive is to open officially tonight with the address of ‘Dr. Solomon Goldman of Chicago at the Kirshbaum Center. Active solicitation is to begin tomorrow and will continue through Monday, May 9. : : The goal of this year's drive has been set at $81,640, an approximate 30 per cent increase over last year’s. The additional amount will be used for relief and refugee work in Europe to aid an estimated five million Jewish victims of persecution and economic discrimination. This campaign is deserving of wholehearted support.

. FOR CHEAPER AND BETTER RELIEF THERE are many things we could do to make our huge problem of unemployment relief less costly in borrowed dollars and human morale. One relatively simple improvement was suggested by WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins in his recent statement before the Byrnes Senate Committee. This is to set up a more workable and coordinated Federal-State-Local system for relief administration. All needy jobless should be routed through a regular routine, Mr. Hopkins said. : The Government's work program should be integrated with unemployment insurance systems and the public employment service. Unemployable jobless should be taken care of by their localities in direct relief. The aged would be taken care of by old-age assistance and old-age “insurance” benefits. Employables laid off by private industry should first apply to the public employment office, which should make every effort to place them in other private jobs. Those for whom there are no suitable jobs would then get unemployment-insurance benefits. If they have not landed jobs by the time the benefits run out they can be turned over for hire on public work jobs. Such a routine calls for a number of changes. The public employment services should be extended, made more efficient,..and patronized generally by private employers. The unemployment-insurance systems should be broadened to include more workers than at present. And work relief ~ should be put on a long-term basis so that the jobs offered are on: needed projects and to a greater extent than now financed on a pay-as-you-go or self-liquidating basis. Finally all of these services should be put under the merit system. : ~ We agree with Mr. Hopkins that we cannot expect perfection in administering relief, that our system must be improved and integrated “as we go along.” e obyious reforms in procedure that ¢all for.

“But here what will our programs be?

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Apparently Florida Grand Jurors Are Not Protected From Political Machine Representing the New Deal.

AMPA, Fla, April 28—The politicians of the WPA have. just got ‘away with something in Tampa which is so raw that if it were not a matter of record you might not believe it could happen even in the United States. A WPA employee served as foreman of a local grand jury which indicted nine politicians, all city and county officials, in connection with the traditional spring antigambling crusade. He was promptly fired from his WPA job on the ground of “no dough.” He reported his dismissal to the court immediately. Within two hours the head of the locat WPA office reinstated him without explaining where ‘he had suddenly raised the money. - The local court thought this looked like political intimidation of a grand jury after it had been dismissed, so the new grand jury began an investigation. There is a WPA man on the new grand jury, too, and it might cramp a grand juror’s style to reflect that a member of a previous grand jury had lost his WPA job after bringing in indictments against politicians. The new grand jury summoned R. J. Dill, the State Administrator of the WPA, and he refused to discuss the case on the ground that a state agency has no right to investigate a Federal agency. Mr. Dill was cited before the local court and the local

United States Attorney won a decision for him based

on Federal statutes and :decisions of the Federal

Supreme Court. # 2 =

: : SO now grand jurymen have no protection from the

political machine which represents: the New Deal in Florida. The moral effect of this decision on future grand juries in cases involving politicians or their friends need not be speculated upon. In this case one of those indicted is J. R. McLeod,

the sheriff, who formerly had charge of the WPA in ;

Tampa. ; The victim is Carl Thoner, a former newspaper photographer. Thoner’s job is to take pictures of

' WPA projects. He is not strong physically and nat-

urally is much upset. Thoner didn’t know he was doing wrong. He just figured a grand juror was supposed to do his duty and never thought of the possibility that a man could be “canned” for that. 8 8 »

No under the court’s ruling he can be fired again. This time for good. The local court can do nothing to protect him or punish anyone. Thoner was fired by J. D. Brotchie, the present local WPA boss, who supposedly acted on instructions from Dill, phoned from Miami. About the time of this telephone call Dill was conferring with the indicted Sheriff McLeod, his old colleague in the WPA, but within two hours Thoner was reinstated. The new grand jury and the court naturally wanted to know what Dill said to McLeod and vice versa and what considerations prompted Thoner’s dismissal and reinstatement. Dill said it was none of their business. The WPA in Washington wired the grand jury that, in as much as Thoner was reinstated the case wasn’t worth bothering about. That wire ignored the question of intimidation of a grand jury. The Florida WPA belongs to Senator Claude Pepper, a candidate for re-election, whom Jimmy Roosevelt recently blessed for re-election with the indorsement of the New Deal. * Senator Pepper hasn’t said a word about the case. It’s in the bag.

Business By John T. Flynn

Allowing States to Handle Relief Money Would Be Serious Blunder.

NEW YORK, April 28—Congressman Bacon (R. N. Y.) favors an appropriation of $1,250,000,000

- such as the President has proposed. But he wants the

money allocated to the states and the administration of it left to the states. The proposal reflects & mood that has been growing in the House for some time. The House is willing to vote money for relief and recovery. It does not want to put that money into the hands of the President so that when a Congressman wants something for his district he will have to go around on his knees to the White House. : There is no doubt that the worst possible use of recovery moneys has been made by the political machinery of the Democratic Party. But in the effort to escape from that it may well be that Congressman Bacon may bring us into the arms of a worse fate. 1 have been about the country looking at relief administrations and welfare administrations in the States. There are a few places where the relief problem is handled without the intrusion of politics. But on the whole, I would rather leave the administration of these funds in the hands of the Federal Government, at least so long as Mr. Harry Hopkins is at the head of that work, than anywhere else.

Ohio, Pennsylvania Cited

The local administration of relief and old-age benefits, frequently in the same body, has been fantastic in many places. These relief agencies are shot through with politics. In Ohio relief has been a mere adjunct of the amazing Democratic administration under Governor Davey. In Pennsylyania, where an excellent citizen headed the work of relief and ruthlessly kept out the politician, he was publicly attacked by the sister of Boss Joe Guffey. After

_a hearing Governor Earle said the director was all

right and would stay. But the director thought differently. He said he wanfed not a verdict, but a Governor who would stand back of him and keep the politicians out of the distribution of relief. It had fallen into the hands of local agents named by the Democratic county chairman. It would be very easy to point to weak spots in Mr. Hopkins’ organization. So large an organization

cannot be run by angels and there will be places.

where it will go awry. But it must be conceded that he has struggled desperately to keep the hand of the politicians out; he has administered those vast billions honestly. If the sum: of $1,250,000,000 is to be spent—and it must be spent—it would be a grave blunder to take it out of competent hands and put it into the hands of the crude political machines of the States.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N the spring thousands of program committees work like beavers getting out their club yearbooks. I wish there were some way of knowing exactly how many of these programs will follow the customary formula and how many will be based upon subjects of national and international concern. From personal contact with clubwomen and correspondence with others, I know that many are tired of routine topics—as for example: “My Vacation Experiences”; Book Reviews; Great Men of America; History of Peru; Colonial Art; the Philosophy of Robert Browning; Dramatic Interludes, et cetera.

Yet you'd be surprised to know in how many groups these or similar topics go everlastingly on. With our own society changing so fast we can’t keep up with events, and opportunity knocking loudly at feminine doors, many of us still delve into the lives of mummied Ptolemys and debate. about Hamlet's mental state. This was all very well in bygone days, but we can’t overlook the fact that the average mem-

ber today is both educated and intelligent. Is it then

oid Jueh to expect constructive efforts from the maority Cit : Our clubs are forces for progress or destruction. If we move forward, we live; if we turn our thoughts backward and stand still, we die. . Some concern with vital questions, whether we agree about them or not, is absolutely necessary. As citizens, wives and mothers, we are responsible. for much of the confusion and misery around us, and as club members we shall be failures if we refuse to face that truth. : Opportunity is before us. Unlimited power is within our reach. Our-organizations are formed and functioning with a membership of zestful workers—

n America depends

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | Herblock

Souvenirs—By

Gen. Joh Says— "The Little Flower Doesn't Need &

Cowboy Hat or an Indian Costume To ‘Win Over the Western Voters. ASHINGTON, April 28—There is something a

“¥'¥ 10t less absurd in little Fiorello La Guardia in a ‘buckaroo’s costume, sitting jockey-fashion in a stock-

) | saddle on a Guthrie, OKkla., cow horse than seeing Cal

Coolidge doing it similarly dressed up. After all, Fiorello started out in the Army on the Mexican bor=

5, -| der and, even if he hadn't, he rode a much more

The Hoosier Forum

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

LIQUOR TRAFFIC IS ATTACKED By A. W. G. : May the writer take issue with T. L, the contributor who, “Says it’s easy to see who retards employment.” “Can a man go to a tavern with his wife and no harm be done?” In the first place there may be children: There is harm in such a case. It also may create a bad example to other young folk who may hold you in high regard. Good citizens do not wag their tongues to judge others. They like to see their city and country made a good place in which to rear their children. Has the liquor traffic ever done anything for our land

any- historian ever write anything noble about the manufacturers of wet goods. a A father earns, say, $20 a week

for liquor; wouldn't it be much better if his wife and children got an extra pair of shoes occasionally or some extra , food? Wouldn't the grocer and shoe man have a larger volume of business so it would enable him (to pay more gross income and Federal taxes or ‘put some of his profits into a better ‘home? : I sincerely believe it would help to solve part of our unemployment problem. n ” 2 .CARTOON ON SPAIN CALLED UNJUST By Alfonso In the Times recently appeared a cartoon entitled “There Must Be Some Women and Children Left; Wipe Out Barcelona.” The cartoon is very unjust.

and, as such, is liable to be bombarded by artillery and aircraft.

buildings as ammunition depots, has factories manufacturing explosives, has the waterfront cluttered with ships bringing war materials, that city can’t expect not to be bombarded. During the World War the Allied forces evacuated many cities such as Antwerp, Paris, etc, when these cities became untenable, because

and to garrison them with troops would subject them to enemy fire. I have before me a military map

tary objectives within the city. It appears that the Reds are using

dren as camouflage. Franco will have a chance to tell the world the true story behind the Red revolution in Spain when he ‘wins his campaign in a few months.

that is wholesome and abiding? Did]

and spends from $1 to $5 per week

Barcelona is a military objective |

When an opposing force takes cover |- in a city and uses private or public|.

they knew that to fortify these cities |

of Barcelona and it shows 180 mili-|

the bodies of their women and chil-

~ (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 withheld on request.) .

HOLDS HITLER WILL ANSWER

FOR HIS ACTIONS

By R. L. K. ° : : Adolf Hitler is unaware of the

‘bonds of love and sacrifice upon

which family life is predicated. He sees men and women only as sO many citizens, so many inhabitants, -so- many: producers, 80 many consumers. : > If the goal for which he strives is reached, that baby son of mine, innocent and sweet, that loving helpmate of mine, loyal and trustful, will be literally enslaved, dragged in the dust, derived of all means of support, perhaps separated and imprisoned—merely to satiate his cesire for power and might.

Who gave him the right to crush, |

wreck and destroy innocent lives? Not the God Almighty. The day lies not far distant when he must answer for the anguish and sorrow ‘he has inflicted on others.

~~ PLAYFUL PUP By: RUTH SHELTON

There is always something for him

to do— . A flapping sheet to be torn to

.. shreds; A string to pull from an off-ung + -shoe; A rollicking roll in the iris beds; A bone to hide and rehide again; A rooster whose tail feathers pull with ‘ease; : A someining Jo dig from imagined e

n In my finest row of full-podded

Scamper and nose and aftack and

chew, Never a moment can he be still, Always . . . come back here, you rascal you, That's the receipt for my last light bill!

DAILY THOUGHT

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. . —Job 27:4.

ECEIT is the false road to hap- / piness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquet3, vanish when we touch

them.—A, Hill.

SAYS WORLD RECOGNIZES DANGER SIGNALS TODAY

By B. C. It is not without significance that the editor of a big London newspaper the other day chose for his front page streamer the headline, “No Bad News Today!” ; As a New York paper promptly remarked, there are few enough days on which even the most optimistic editor can use such a headline. We are so used to bad news that the mere absénce of it is news in itself. 5 : Yet it may not be wholly fatuous to suggest that things are not quite as bad as they seem. It may be that we have simply got our eyes opened wider than we used to have them— that we can recognize bad news for what it is, now, and that we have ‘stopped kidding ourselves. :

looks so peaceful and settled by comparison with today’s unhappy state—was it really so much better than the present, or were we simply blinder? The common people of Europe wanted peace, but they had no more to say about it than they have now. Nor were internal affairs so much brighter. There were strikes, lockouts, depressions, slums, rumors of change, then as now; after all, the Colorado mine massacre took place before 1914, not after 1929. The prewar era was not really peaceful or settled at all. We just thought that it was—and, a little later, paid a fearful price for our blind | complacence. . Today we at least know what is going on. We at least recognize danger signals for

them. In a very real and important sense, we are actually in better shape now than we were then. » 8 » SCORES ASH “COLLECTORS FOR ALLEY CONDITIONS By 0. To a : Referring to letters in The Times as to glass and rubbish in alleys. | ‘There are imnany more alleys in the same condition. Girls as well as boys think it smart to break glass and throw cans and bricks in alleys. But the worst: are some ash collectors who only empty half a

bucket then throw buckets, no matter where they go. They broke down

mer. Many—though not all—the men on ash wagons think we have no right to kick as they are doing us a favor. Some inspectors and city officers seem to think the same way, and we pay for it. ; Our alley is from Ninth to 10th Sts, befween Olney and Tuxedo.

K TO WHITE MEN? ed NES ORNO ——p

IN “THE SAVAGE HITS BACK” by Julius E. Lips, (re-

The fate of the massive the

viewed by Science Service) this an-

cause

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGG

oO WHITE poe LOOK AS FUNNY ° OGLE SVMS Sze

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made by savages—one of Queen Victoria with a sawed off body be-

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in doubt that she had legs or feet. One of the Kaiser shows him in all his pomposity but with his feet turned backward; whether intended as comical or not, certainly the savage must think we are God’s peculiar people, and probably he is right. Vs ; 8 8 8 : DEAR MRS. K., that's a hard question but I'd say a woman's feeling is not, like Samson's strength, in her hair but in her heart. She vents her feeling in her

desire to be well dressed er to pos- |

sess some boy friend or to be a social leader, ete., or she tries to have finer lingerie hung out in Monday's wash or have her daughter give a

| bigger party or cut out the other’s

daughter or son socially. These give her a greater “surplus of le feeling” than grabbing out a handful of hair. TER Th Sn 8 2 = :

NO. “There ‘are no “experts” in phrenology. The shape of a

.

man’s head not only does not indi- |

cate his mental abilities or tem-

| perament but does not even indicate

the size or shape of his brain. A bump on the outside usually means

a_ depression, not a bump, on the |

That far-off prewar era, which |

danger signals, instead of ignoring

my wire fence three times last sums |

* is found also in cod liver ofl, and parti

dangerous contraption during the war—a fighting plane. -He was once treated to the terrifying expe-

rience of having a propeller shaft break over the enemy’s ‘lines. : Nevertheless, Fiorello as a cowboy is pretty awful. He isn’t much better as Chief Rising Cloud in a tribe which I heard a distinguished radio announcer pronounce “Arapayhos.” : : The Little Flower is starting his 1940 Presidential campaign and doing 4t by trying to take off the curse in the wide open spaces that, after all, he is Mayor of New York. i ® 8 =» : T is true that they don’t care much for New York in the short grass country. Al Smith found that out. But these Indians are all washed up as noble redmen—or maybe “washed” isn’t the word. “Through” is better. I have known the Southern Cheyennes and the Arapahos since boy hood. The war bonnet and the rising cloud stuff is now just medicine show Indian snake oil. It’s O. K. for Mr. La Guardia to start any way he wants to. But I doubt if he needs a 10-gallon hat and a pair of chaps to fumigate his New York atmosphere. The heart of that explosive little pinch of political powder is true and honest and able and courageous. That is pretty generally known and, if not, it would promptly appear in any real cam=paign he got mixed up in and without any Chief Rising Cloud Schmoos. He has long been my candi= date for President—for the Republican Party. I wouldn't be afraid of any party label he might wear, nor of his highly advertised Latin temperament. He sometimes explodes foolishly, but he cools down under stress or cogent argument. He is a hard-working, intelligent, generally hard-headed, invariably honest and always faithful public servant, He has his eye on no distant scene of semi-sociale ism as so many suppose. He plays some politics with postures and utterances, but little or none with patronage and pap and none whatever with derelictions of duty. 7 » ” ” : {Er auy he selects good men to help and advise him, although I wouldn’t give him much on Rex Tugwell as chief planner for New York City. Mr. La Guardia booted that one, but you can't expect even a first string executive to make a bull’s-eye with every shot. ) Could he be nominated? Not by the present Democratic or Republican parties. But this new La Follette movement will bear watching in consnection with the course of the third New Deal this autumn. OM line Democrats are in silent revolt now, They will never follow Mr, Roosevelt in a new excursion to the extreme left, such as it is rumored that he proposes. The La Follette movement would make a strong appeal to the other wing of the Roosevelt army. Just possibly the old Democrats could become the Conservative Party and the present New Deal left wing its opposition. There would be a big possibility there for the Little Flower, :

li Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

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Magnates Don't Realize How Closely Baseball Is fAllied to the Theater.

EW YORK, April - 28—The recession seems to have touched baseball lightly, if at all. Indeed, over in Brooklyn a boom is on, and Chicago is full of fire about the acquisition of Dizzy Dean. Much of -Dean’s value to a ball club lies in his nickname rather than his right arm. 2 : Magnates seem to be a little slow in realizing that their industry is one allied to the theater. I raised this point in conversation with Larry McPhail, the hew executive director of the Dodgers. Mr. McPhail met me half way and then went on much further. “The theater nothing,” he said, “big league baseball “is a first cousin to the circus.” F In all fairness to the Brooklyn club of today and recent. seasons it has developed the atmosphere of a side show beyond all other rivals. The only trouble with this state of affairs is the fact that it has kept the club out of the main tent. Of course, the neat trick is to find eccentrics who can also play a little baseball on the side. I am willing to admit that Dean could be even dizzier and still not fit if he were de= void of pitching ability. In fact, there is a grave suspicion that the young man has both feet on the ground and merely does a little play acting for the sake of the record and the gate. : :

| Old. Days More 1 nteresting

: This suggests a way out for the manager who wishes to achieve both color and a high position in . the standing of the clubs. During the winter it might be expedient to farm all the rookies out to stock companies or enter the entire club as sub freshmen in some good dramatic academy. Maybe the old days will never come again. The fans took baseball very seriously in the years when much partisanship entered into politics and when our foreign and economic problems were less passionate than they are today. For instance, in the year in which John W. Davis was running against Calvin Coolidge it was easy to get more excited about the baseball race than the Presidential one. And in days before the Nazi peril the average man found an opportunity to drain himself of incipient hatreds by rooting hard against the Cubs or Cardinals. To grow fervent all over again about’the national game might be a retreat to infancy. And yet I fear that a fine pastime may decline and perish if the modern game is to be played in front of sportsmen who applaud brave deeds on either side. That is - a very proper mood for. lawn tennis or international polo, but baseball won't be baseball any more when ‘no part of the crowd is ever articulate in calling for a purging of the umpires. .

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

TAMIN A is one of the most widely distributed of the vitamins in relationship to the diets that people usually consume. For this reason it has been commonly believed that adults do not need any extra vitamin A, unless they have symptoms indicating there is a real deficiency. ; : Recently, however, some studies have been made on the effects of lack of vitamin A in the diet, which indicate that the deficiency may be wider than has : been suspected in the past. i Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin. We get most . of it in our diet from animal sources, like liver, milk, butter, fish, and the carotene that is found in yellow “or green pigmented fruits and vegetables. Vitamin A cularly in halibut Hver oil. - : Sa When animals are fed diets that are satisfactory in every other way but deficient in the amount of vi A, they develop degenerative changes, in some of the cells of the body that are known as the epithelial cells, those which are on the surface of the -skin, and of the mucous membrane, ; In addition, vitamin A iv definitely-associated with that portion of the eye which is concerned with light and adaptation to darkness. For that very reason, “night blindness or inability to see well with dim de-

- grees of illumination is an early symptom of vitamin _A deficiency,

“A persop) who does not get: enough vitamin A is unable to flevelop the material called visual purple in the eye as rapidly as does a person who has enough vitamin A. | Extreme glare or brightness of the light will use up fhe visual purple rapidly, resulting in con.