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FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1938
A SENATOR GETS ANGRY WHEN a man gets angry he is likely to do unwise things. ! Senator Sherman Minton became angry yesterday. He made a speech in the Senate directed at anti-New Deal newspaper publishers. And then he introduced a bill. : The bill would make it a felony to publish a known untruth in a newspaper or magazine. Offending publishers could be jailed for two years, fined $1000 to $310,000, barred from the use of the mails for six months. What our junior Indiana Senator did was unfortunate. For he is a hot New Dealer, a thick-and-thin Administration supporter, a spokesman of the President. And those who accuse the President of wanting to be a dictator may point to this bill and say it is proof. We feel certain that Mr. Roosevelt knew nothing about this bill before it was introduced; that he would have advised against introducing it if he had been consulted; that he would veto it in the unlikely event that Congress should pass it. Mr. Roosevelt believes that most newspapers are unfair to him, but we think he also believes in a free press. Nobody can deny, however, that the Minton bill is precisely the weapon a dictator would want in order to destroy freedom of the press. It is difficult enough to prove what is true, what untrue. Such questions often boil down to matters of opinion. But Senator Minton proposes the impossible to go into the minds of other men and prove that they knew what was true, what untrue. Or ig it, perhaps, his theory that what he doesn’t like must be false? Some newspapers have criticized the authority given by the President to Senator Minton, as chairman of the Senate Lobby Committee, to examine income-tax returns. They have charged that this authority might be used to intimidate opponents of the Administration. The Senator, of course, would call these charges untrue. Perhaps he thinks the publishers of these newspapers should be jailed, fined, barred from the mails. Perhaps he believes that courts which share his views—and we ‘don’t forget that he has been on occasions mentioned for appointment to the Supreme Court—would jail, fine and bar such publishers. : There are penalties for publishers who print deliberate falsehoods—the penalties of libel law, of loss of confidence, or loss of influence, or loss of circulation. But Senator Minton’s idea, we suspect, is to suppress opinion. That can’t be done safely. Maybe Senator Minton, when he cools down a bit, will understand that. Meanwhile, it seems to us he has done a foolish thing which may unnecessarily embarrass his friend, the President.
THE HISTORY MEETING SPECTS of the history of 29 States embraced by th Mississippi Valley Historical Association are being presented at the organization’s 31st annual meeting in progress here. Of special interest to Hoosiers are the various program topics on early Indiana affairs. The Indiana Historical Society, the Indiana Historical Bureau, Butler University and the Society of Indiana Pioneers are acting as hosts to the meeting, with Dr. Christopher B. Coleman, State Librarian, as chairman of the local arrangements committee. Indianapolis takes pride in entertaining this learned association and its outstanding scholars. Its meeting here will play an important part in integrating the history of
the Northwest Territory, the Mississippi Valley and the :
Civil War.
COOKIE DAY
OMORROW is Cookie Day and Indianapolis Girl Scouts are hoping to sell 50,000 dozen. Already orders for 42,000 dozen have been taken. - Proceeds of the sale are to be used to maintain the organization’s Camp Dellwood, located eight miles west of the city. Those interested in promoting good citizenship and youth training can help this splendid organization by purchasing cookies.
$4,500,000,000 BOUT $4,500,000,000, all told, is what the President proposes to have the Government lend and spend in the new pump-priming effort. How much money is that? Such a sum is difficult to visualize. ! But imagine all the sweat and all the back-breaking toil that went into the production of all the bales of cotton grown in the United States in 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937. : The Department of Agriculture has just announced that the total income of cotton farmers from cotton and cottonseed for these six years was $4,381,734,000.
PASSING OF ’LIZABUTH ANN
'T IZABUTH ANN, immortalized in James Whitcomb *~ Riley’s poem, “Our Hired Girl,” is another American institution that is passing into the limbo of things as they were. : The Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Home Economics has surveyed 8434 white nonrelief village families all over the country and found that only those of higher income are employing kitchen help. The average paid for such service by families with incomes between $3000 and $4000 was only $54 a year, indicating that many even of the more comfortably fixed families employ help only on a part-time basis. Hiring help for housewives was found most prevalent in the Southeast, least prevalent in New England and the Pacific regions. Dr. Louise Stanley, the Bureau's chief, says that the work that used to be done by that family factotum now is being turned out by commercial bakeries, laundries, canneries and garment factories. Labor-saving devices make kitchen police an easier chore for the housewife. A
For Bough By Westbrook Pegler
A Former Attorney General, an Ex-Newspaperman and a Retired
of the Gulf of Mexico a few days ago who somehow looked familiar and turned out to be Harry Daugherty, the Attorney General of the Warren G. Harding Presidency. Time has changed Mr. Daugherty. He is 76 years old now and softened up by the blows of personal and political tragedy. His wife died after 28 years of invalidism; his son, Draper, the pride and hope of his younger days, died some years ago, and of course the smash and scandal of the Harding Administration left scars. : I once was assigned to follow Mr, Daugherty to Miami and wherever else he might go at a time when there was some thought that he might jump the country. 67 : Knowing that Mr. Daugherty was very sick, and ‘wanting not to be a nuisance, I propose to him after several days’ surveillance that we make a deal. I was to let him alone and he promised to tell me in good time when he was leaving and where he was going. A week later he telephoned that he was going back to Washington that night, and that was all there was to it. : ” o ” UT the old man chuckled the other night as we sat in the dark on the front porch at the thought of a reporter trailing an Attorney General of the United States. : ? Mr. Daugherty has been blind in one eye and deaf in one ear for many years, and now his good eye and ear are none too good, but good enough, at that, says he, hy see and hear the little good that there is in the woria. ! In his time he ripped and slashed for power and came on to be the personal boss of a President of the United States, so it was a little comic that night when the woman with the little boy planned to go to the movies and the old-time tyrant told her to run right along and not worry, for he, Harry Daugherty, personally would sit up in the rocker in the dark at the foot of the little boy’s bed and watch over him. o o ”
N= day Karl Bickel came over—Bickel, the expresident of the United Press, who batted around the world for years and years and clawed his way to the top in tough competition, and then sud-
town ‘way down the Florida gulf coast. Mr. Daugherty and Mr. Bickel sometimes sat in the sun, two retired guys who were flerce and fast in action so short a time ago, talking like Noah and the hero of the Johnstown flood, of times gone past. And there was a man in the placid little community who went about leading a soft-eyed gentle old greyhound. “Nice dog you have there,” Mr. Bickel said. “Is he a racing dog?” “He was,” the man said. “He was a racing dog. His name is Smiles. He was a very good, fast dog, but one night he caught the rabbit. After that they lose interest. They discover that the thing they have been chasing so hard is just a phoney, and they just lie down in the box and watch the other dogs run, like saying, ‘Go ahead and run yourselves ragged for a mess of hair and sawdust!’ ”
to Smiles, and he would stretch out in some shady spot, sigh deeply and go to sleep. —— ETI Sn
Business By John T. Flynn
UU. S. Now Could Revise Economic System, but Leadership Is Lacking.
EW YORE, April 20.—In public circles there is apparently one consuming topic now—what is the matter with us and what can we do about it? Another way of asking this question is—why is our economic system working so badly and what can we do to make it work? But what is meant by “making it work”? After all, it is a capitalist economic system working within the framework of the democratic society. It is this the people want to preserve. But they want to preserve something more. They want to preserve what they feel lives inside that system—a certain powerful energy which makes for greater abundance among the people generally. If this is what they wish to preserve then you would suppose that all other things within the system which get in the way of these great objectives would be ruthlessly discarded. But when you look the society over you find that 8 great many things have grown up in it and around it and on it which are not only not essential but which actually get in the way of the very objectives which make the system so generally desirable. And when you come to speak of getting rid of these Shines, the problem becomes appalling to say the east. :
Problem Is Complicated
This is the thing which makes the problem so difficult that most of the time it seems insoluple. And, strangely enough, these nonessential, parasitic growths have been so confused in the popular mind with the essentials, that a greater part of the current debate as to what we shall do is occupied with measures to preserve not the system itself but these destructive appendages. The problem is further complicated by the feverish
' energies in the system which are supposed to produce abundance. But are we sure these energies exist in the proportions generally accepted? Are we aware of the fact that the forces which produce the abundance are the very forces which produce the depressions? ; It is these considerations whic lead many social reformers to believe that it is impossible to set the present economic system upon a sound keel save in periods of great crisis when people are willing to make sacrifices. -But even then it is not possible unless there is wise and informed and courageous leadership. We have had the crisis, but not the leadership. We are being presented with another crisis—which is an ‘invitation to health, But again the leadership is lacking. °
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Y what right do certain organizations appropriate to themselves the title “patriotic”? The thought
Peace Council co-operated recently with several other groups in bringing a speaker of note to the city. We were told that we should get the support of the patriotic societies, meaning, of course, the American Legion, the Reserve Officers’ Training Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
groups such as these to call ‘themselves patriots, which, by inference at least, classifies those who do not Spies (With all they do or say as incipient Benedict olds :
to hear myself and associates referred to as parlor pinks or dangerous pacifists or a subversive force. Is antagonism to huge armament spending, and hatred of the martial spirit, proof of treason? All right then, let’s out with ‘it so everyone will know where he stands. If we honestly believe that the person or group waving a flag adores America while the advocates of practical pacifism are indifferent to its welfare, we should cease these innuendoes.
. To my notion, a great many good citizens are in-
believe the Daughters of the American Revolution are one whit more ardent in love of country than the membership of the ¥Y. W. C. A. or the workers in a iy Council—so why issue them a patent on the itle
branded with organization marks. Behind all the words which separate us is a sincere desire for peace. ought to start all over again on an even basis, with
the term patriotic stricken from the records,
Greyhound Find Rest in Florida.
QARASOTA, Fla, April 20.—There was a gentle, AJ kind old man stopping at the inn on the shore
denly chucked it to retire to a drowsy, supny little
Both Mr. Daugherty and Mr. Bickel took a liking
eagerness of the country to save these imaginary
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SAYS ROOSEVELT SEEKS AID FOR WORKERS By J. E. P.
I have had steady work for four years, but I know what it is to be p without work and have a family looking to you for support. Therefore my heart goes out to the work-
person who wants to have peace
erly clothed, fed and trained. - Never before has the common class of people had a man in the White House who has looked beyond the upper crust and had compassion on the worker as Mr. Roosevelt has. That’s why there comes so much opposition from so few, Never before has there been an attempt at laws to protect the laborers, but most of them have been protection for those who profit by the laborers. Uru ove oy The working people know who is representing them in the White House and in Congress and we are going to give those Congressmen and this Senator from Indiana, who
race at the next election. Lew. WANTS LABOR TO END INTERNAL STRIFE By William H. Dishman
No man or woman is big enough to hate and be possessed with normal reasoning power. We all preach against war on the battlefield, yet all military wars had their beginning in little petty hatreds—hatreds between nations finally result in armed strife, and the fanning of class hatred can result in nothing less than industrial warfare. . In the vast industrial field throughout this land of ours, with all its craft trades, and labor with its mass production workers, constitute a field large enough for the A. F. of L. as well as the C. I. O. The leaders of both of these great organizations should take the wishes and the welfare of the rank and file into consideration, and the ranks of organized labor should put pressure upon their leaders for a speedy
ganized workers. Upon their failure to do so rests the security of their jobs. ; For eight long weary years we have been in the midst of the most ievastating depression in the history of America. We have seen ‘thousands of workers thrown into the
visible means of support of themselves and their families. We have witnessed the somber shadows of the ever increasing breadlines. “
More than half our population is without sufficient income to provide
ing class of people and every honest.
and see his wife and children prop-.|
have been attacking the President, a.
solidification of the ranks of all or-|
street jobless and wageless with no |
(Times readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious con. troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must _be signed, but names will be withheld on request):
for its economic necessities. What a picture for the richest nation in the world! One worker in every five without work, one American in every eight in the public breadlines, more than half of the entire population living below the deadline of
economic decency. We have a long
way to go before all is well in this land.” Men no longer can be regarded as mere machines by their employers, to be scrapped and thrown into the street. Corporatiors that build up great reserves to care for their stockholder when the lean times come are under like obligations to provide workers with sufficient wage to care for him in his time of distress. =. : Let there be cake for none un there is bread for all. 4 % 8 CLAIMS FRANCO IS FAILING TO WIN POPULAR SUPPORT By Agapito Rey, Bloomington The foreign invaders have been: gaining ground consistently in their war against the Spanish people. German and Italian hordes are devastating Spain, yet our Department of State still refuses to admit there is foreign aggression, and the nonintervention committee has found no reason to meet since last November! : Because of the cowardice and hypocrisy of the democratic nations, the Spanish people seem to be doomed. They are perfectly aware of their situation, yet no one in
THE BARBER SHOP By ROBERT 0. LEVELL
I like to go to the barber, - My barber’s where I like to be, In his easy chair 1'll harbor : "And refresh myself with glee.
DAILY THOUGHT
For the kingdom of God is not “in word, but in power.—Corinthians 4:20.
VEN in war, moral power is to
in the winter.
L physical as three parts out of four —Napoleon., Tare Bis
Loyalist Spain thinks of submitting to the traitor generals and their foreign masters. When the Rebels approach a
town, the population flee as if: a4
plague were falling upon them. They prefer to starve and freeze to death in the mountain passes to France rather than meet the “liberating” army of black and white Moors. Why this terror? They know what happened in other localities entered by the Rebels. Te
The greatest indictment of Franco ;
rests on his inability to win popular support. His foreign masters have conquered for him two-thirds of Spain. But instead of trying to attract the people through economic measures, Franco thinks of nothing but vengeance. After almost two years of control over much territory which was never in the hands of the loyalists, mass executions are still common. First they murdered the republican civil authorities, then leaders of labor unions and of political organizations. For many months not only did they murder war prisoners, but they also destroyed the families of their own deserters. Their own newspapers publish the lists of those who are officially put to death. ; :
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THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE,
IS READER'S ADVICE By W. N. V.
The primary election is a day for weeding out undesirable candidates as well as time for choosing good men. Many politicians choose to run who are wholly undesirable as candidates for the offices they seek. If you don’t want “I'm a Crook” for office, vote for another man. If «“pje County Bill” wants a third or fourth term, use your ballot to eliminate him. If “Simon Baldpate” is not the man for the place, vote for a bétter man. “Corkscrew Bill” and “Andy Bunk” may be weeded out also. - : : . Be careful of your ballot and think before you vote. :
” ” » WANTS CANDIDATES WHO FAVOR CITY LIGHT PLANT By C. J. Johnson : In our entire file of primary can—
didates there is not one who is in-
terested in cheaper light rates and will campaign for a municipal light plant. It has been shown conclusively that municipal light rates are universally cheaper than private light plant rates. Sate Some of our service stations pay as high as $100 a month for lights : Our service station men need cheaper rates and it. seems that a municipal light plant is the only way. ° ae :
LET'S
EXPLORE YOUR MIND
.By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
DICK= "NEARLY ALL CRIMINALS THAT MEAN MEN INHERIT © INSTINCTS THAN WOMEN?" 0OT= "OF COURSE IT DOES." YOUR, OPINION asses
instincts” as such. As Terman; Cox and other psychologists have shown, the fe e type of mind,
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and behavior in many other ways— proneness to take risks, etc. Thus women’s crimes are more apt to be harboring criminals, etc, whereas men tend more to plan and carry out the real crimes. At least this is a partial explanation. : nn 8 ~ THEY not only cannot teach 44 that way but make their students worse. This is because, as Frank Gilbreth, founder: of motion study showed, when any player or
‘| skilled worker slows his motion to
show a student how to do it, he entirely different set of motions, Instead, therefore, of showing his student how he does it, he only confuses him and shows him how he does not do it. All such teaching of skills is wrong. If
‘there is'a sufficient number of in‘quiries from readers I shall tell
what is the right way to teach golf ” » oo» - = 4 I FEAR we may get people feeling so inferior over their inferiorities and so conscious of their “unconscious” and so self-conscious of their self-consciousness that we
shall land some in the insane
asylum. Seriously, there are many fine, helpful books on popular psychology but I think there is too
1 in hand and said no mumbling word.
Gen. Johnson
Says— Despite Charges He Is Getting Soft, Your Writer Will Praise Or Criticize When He Pleases.
YY SEnveroN, April 20—When I could barely ¥ talk, in a little town called Greenwich, Kas, my mother tells me that she rescued me, backed up against her front door, from an angry ‘circle of little playmates who were throwing brickbats and cinders "because I kept yelling at- them even on my father's
stoop! : “Lousy head! Lousy head! Everybody's a rinkestink except Hughey Johnson—and he’s all right.” 1 try to get over this complex. It isn't easy to do. I know now the balm of the French philosophy “to understand all is to forgive all.” It has seemed to ‘me that the duty of a commentator in such a place ‘as this is to say, from his experience and study, both what he thinks is right and what he thinks is wrong, no matter whom he hits or favors. But I often wonder if this complex remains too clearly.. From my correspondence, I gather that the temper of the customers is in a reverse direction, You must either be all in favor or all against any particu= lar public policy. #2 = HE other day I wrote a piece expressing my sympathy with the awful responsibilities of the President, my reluctance to be always criticizing his proposals, and my personal affection for him as an old friend. than 300 letters. According to them, I am getting soft. I am alienating my following. - Thanks to all. It at least gives me a swell ope portunity fo make the position of this column clear, It is not a place for any kind of partisan political propaganda. It has no candidate and no formulas,
except its own, poor as that may be. It purposes to say what it thinks is right and what it believes to be wrong whether the actor is Stalin, Roosevelt or Muse solini—or even Hughey Johnson. ; ° A constant criticism is that this writer was once a first New Dealer and is sore because he was thrown out on his ear. That is less than partly true. I left NRA in 1934 against the President's personal protest, as his holographic letter to me will establish, and I have his personal word that nobody supported him more effectively in 1936. He and this column came to the parting of the ways on some major measures of economic policy after Jan. 1, 1937, but that doesn’t mean that I have joined forces with the Roosevelt-haters.
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DON'T have to. In the freedom of the American press, which still prevails, and the liberalism of the
ponent, I am permitted to say whatever I please. That is why I think the relatively new institution of columns is worth while. I read all of my contemporaries and sometimes get mad enough to spit sulphur—only to reflect what some of their authors must think of me. : "As Elsie Robinson says, “Listen world”—until ‘somebody cancels my contract, I am going to criticize Franklin Roosevelt when I think he is wrong, put I am going to the bat for him when I think he is right. That may not be often but that is how it is. What difference does it make? At best, you will find here only one man’s opinion—and he has made as many mistakes in his limited field as the President ever did in an infinitely larger one,
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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun Bo
Forces Against Tyranny May Gather Slowly, but - They ‘Strike Swiftly.
NY YORK, April 29.—An official Nazi newspaper in Vienna has attempted to set down the future, and says that Czechoslovakia has but a year to live. A physician told something like that to a friend of mine and the patient took it in his stride and replied, “As long as that, Doc?” But the years rolled by and the doctor is dead and my friend goes on and on. It is not safe to be precise as to the longevity of men or nations. Doom can be delayed, and again it may come suddenly, almost between the tick and tock of a grandfather clock. Who knows now what the year holds in store for the Nazis? Often some mysterious and moving finger has written its compelling message on the wall, even at ‘the feast of triumph. And there is no appeal. The forces against tyranny may gather slowly, but they can strike with the speed and fury of the hurricane, Jericho was a mighty city, and from its battle= ments the warriors watched the forces of Joshua and the men of the great King laughed, because for six days no spear was leveled at them. According to the command of Joshua, the Ark of the Lord was carried around the walls of the city. And seven priests bear=ing seven trumpets of rams’ horns marched and blew upon these trumpets. Before them and after came the armed men, but they were forbidden to shout, That was the strict injunction of Joshua. * «ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye “shout.” :
Walls Will Tumble Down
And it seemed to the warriors of Jericho as if the armed men of Israel were meek, and that in them there could be no threat to the might and majesty of great Jericho. They merely marched with sword
But on the morning cf the seventh day the ghostly host .marched seven times around the city, all misty in the dusk of dawn. Then Joshua commanded the children to shout. “And it came to pass when the people heard the sound of the trumpets and the people shouted with .a great shout that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.” = So it shall be again. History has ordained it. When the people shout in unison. and every man walks straight before him, the walls of tyranny will come tumbling down. ; . |
Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein |
JEW people in this country have enough of vitamin F A deficiency to develop xerophthalmia (dryness of the eyeball), but apparently there are conditions in daily life in which the lack of this vitamin may bring about difficulty; for example, going in and out of fairly dark motion picture theaters, or driving a motor car at night. . It is, of course, possible to assure one’s self of an adequate amount of vitamin A by eating diets containing foods which are rich in this vitamin. The following list indicalss international units of vitamin A per ounce : . Bread - Cereals: - Cereals, 20; whole wheat bread, 50; white bread, 0; yellow corn meal, 200; macaroni, 0; rice, 10; rye bread, 0. { Meats: Pork (lean meat—salt), 0; average lean meat, 5; liver, 3000; kidneys, 250; bacon, 5. ) Fish: Clams, 10; lean fish, 2; fish roe, 10007 ‘salmon, 100. : fin Fruits and nuts: Apples, 20; apricots (dried), 300; bananas, 100; berries, 50; cantaloupe; 100; grape= fruit, 5; lemons, 100; oranges, 100; peaches, 200; pears, 5; prunes, 800; watermelon, 35. Dairy products: Butter (per pat), 100; cheese, 1000; cream, 300; fresh milk, 50; evaporated milk, 200; lard, 0; eggs, 1000. Vegetables: Broccoli, 200; brussels sprouts, 1003 cabbage, 20; carrots (raw), 1000; cauliflower, 203
| celery (white), 5; asparagus, 150; string beans, 200;
navy beans, 20; lima beans, 0; beets, 5; lettuce, 500; onions, 0; peas, 300; green peppers, 300; turnips, 5; yellow potatoes, 500; white potatoes, 10; sauerkraut, 5; squash, 700; tomatoes, 400; spinach, 3000 :
vitamin ‘A is 5000 units per day. No doubt, there are. millions: of people in the United States Who
do not-eat enough protective foods to assure selves of this amount.
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