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

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Lioht and the People Will Find Their Own Way

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1938

SO FAR SO GOOD

HE Safety Board has recognized one of the city’s worst

mine other spots where safety zones are needed.

Yiders of streetcars and busses have been without pro- | Riders of streetcars and busses have be 1 | bits of Class B members.

ion since March & when the Board, acting on one-half f i of Chief Morrissey, eliminated all

lation cafetv zones guarded only by vellow lines and metal markOrs. Chief Morrissey had said that “unguarded zones are {eath traps for pedestrians,” and insisted on guarded zones. Construction of the 11 new safety zones should elimiate the most dangerous spots on main streets, where large numbers of persons must board streetcars and busses. The whole problem won't be solved, however, until the survey ordered hy the Board has been completed and the additional

safety zones deemed necessary have been built.

The situation demands that City officials not leave the |

project unfinished.

A BARKLEY “VICTORY” "T"HE United States Senate has muffed its fourth opportunity to speak out plainly in condemnation of political

use of relief money. A proposal to apply to Federal relief officials the civil service rules against political activity was defeated twice. An amendment which would have made coercion of voters relief officials a penitentiary offense was voted down. Then 10 Democratic Senators sponsored a resolution for an nvestigation of politics in relief by a special Senate comnitree, ut The Democratic leadership rejected it and has offered instead a weaselworded compromise directing the Senate's Campaign Ex-

even that was too strong to suit.

nds appropriated by the Congress . . . have been spent yr are being spent in such a manner as to influence votes” n primaries, conventions or elections at which candidates ‘or the Senate are to be nominated or elected. No specific mention of WPA or of relief. No penalty And, Federal addition

r playing politics with relief. funds are used votes, in the

previously provided for the investigation of campaign ex-

whether 210.000

spend in

finding

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Huehice yenditures, if credit is the right word—for putting weross this trimmed and pallid substitute for what should ave been a forthright attack against a dangerous evil beto Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Democratic leader

Wf the Senate.

Chief credit

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himself a candidate in a state ringing with charges that WPA is being operated as a political nachine to insure his renomination, didn't object to an investigation of politics in relief. Oh, no. He made that What he objected to was the plan to create a special

Senator Barkley,

clear.

committee to do the investigating.

might embarrass the Administration.

Well, we shall see.

of exposing politics in relief. critically and constantly. Its members are: Senators Sheppard of Texas, O'Mahoney of Wyoming and Brown of Michigan, Democrats, and Senator White of Maine, Republican. A fifth member, to succeed Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite, who has resigned, 1s to be appointed by Vice President Garner.

THE BETTER PART OF VALOR

"THERE is something decidedly provocative about fapan’s

“request” that the United States paint its warships in the Far East red and evacuate the Yangtze between Wuhu and Hankow, The Japanese are not at war with China, or go they say. [fence when they presume to notify legitimately engaged foreigners to clear out of this area or that, so they may more

for the committee to | 230.000 |

There was the Cam- |

Vague as its instructions are, in- | adequately as it is financed, the Campaign Expenditures | Committee does have an opportunity to attempt a real job | Its work should be watched |

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By Westbrook Pegler

The United States Can't Be Made Into an Exclusive Country Club With Class A and B Memberships.

EW YORK, June 15.—There is in this country a class of citizens who believe that the true American is a person of British, Irish, Scandinavian or North German stock and that all other Americans, even of the third or fourth generation, are here by their very kind permission and courtesy. I recently heard a speech by a noted American World War commander in which he advanced this thought and threatened if these others did not show

the proper attitude, then they had a way in the Army of compelling obedience. He said that if “they” insisted on abusing the liberty which he, acting

| through his forbears, had established here, then the

‘ . ; | real Americans, of whom he acknowledged himself to pedestrian hazards by ordering immediate construe- |

tion of 11 new permanent safety islands for streetcar pas- | sengers and at the same time ordering a survey to deter- |

be one, would have to take firm measures. = = =»

HE distinguished officer seemed to regard the United States as a rather exclusive suburban

| country club which, in order to meet the overhead

| character and courage.

easily wipe out the Chinese inhabiting that zone, it irks |

more than a little.

It was not surprising therefore, that Admiral Yarnell | refused firmly to paint his warships red or to evacuate the

200-mile stretch of river below Hankow.

The business of |

American ships in the Orient, he observed, is to aid Amer- |

icans in time and place of danger. just that. Japan, he reminded, could not thus rid herself of her

And he proposed to do |

obligations. She would still be responsible for any injury to |

foreigners in China. Technically, the American Admiral is absolutely correct, That said, however, we have one other observation to make. Let us not be too much like the automobile driver who, at all times and regardless, insists upon his right of way. We can be killed just as dead, if the other fellow illegally runs into us, as though we ourselves were in the wrong, The people of the United States do not want war with Japan, lessly station themselves where they are apt to get hurt,

RHETORIC FROM MAINE ERE, quoted from the Congressional Record, is our latest entry in the Mixed Metaphor Sweepstakes: “I said that there were very definite limits to what pump-priming could do, and the minute you get beyond those limits you be4 gin to go downhill,”"—Rep. Ralph 0. Brewster (R. Me.),

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Neither our ships nor our nationals should need-

in a period of necessity, had admitted large numHe and his class, of course, enjoyed full membership, and each owned a share of the stock. They were annoved by the bad manners of the Class Bs and were beginning to regret that they had been allowed to come in and, worse, given voting privileges. The officer made no mention of the work for the benefit of the club which the Class Bs had performed. He complained that the country was overcrowded, with 122,000,000 demanding food, cover and clothing, as compared with 50,000,000 50 vears ago. It seemed a proper occasion for someone to remind the gallant soldier that he was in no position to peer down his nose at any other law abiding citizen and, in fact, was himself in need of some reminding as to the meaning of liberty and Americanism.

a & & KNOW it is trite to say so, but there are still many Americans who cannot be reminded too often that this is not, as they try to believe, an AngloSaxon or Nordic or Aryan country. We speak, read and write our version of the English language, we share Shakespeare with the British—whatever that may mean—and our laws are similar, but we brought

| in millions of Italians, Serbs, Poles, Greeks and Ru-

manians to do the strong-back work at a time when

| the cities and railroads were building, and they stayed, | and their children and grandchildren are here, and

nobody is going to send them back and nobody is going to make Anglo-Saxons of them. I discussed the officer's remarks with him after

he had left the platform and tried to learn just how |

anyone would go about compelling “them” to show a proper appreciation of the American liberties without destroying the very liberties which he was so anxious to preserve. He couldn't give a very clear idea of the

precedure and plainly was just out of patience with |

the active citizenship of peoples who have now been

here long enough to feel they are Americans, not the |

docile greenhorns of old. Most ill-mannered of them, but it should have been realized back in the days of the heavy immigration that the newcomers would stay and breed and that some day about now their descendants would take their citizenship millions of them with no claim to nor classification as Anglo-Saxons.

Business By John T. Flynn Offers Specifications for a Paid

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President of the Stock Exchange. |

15.—The Stock Exchange has

for a paid president to run

EW YORK, a big want

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its show.

Fifteen or 16 vears ago when baseball, the movies, theater, the garment trades were they called them tsars. But tsars are So this gentleman

the functionaries not popular in this country now. is to be called a paid president. Since the exchange is iooking for a man are some suggested specifications for him. First of all he should not be a lawyer. would be the greatest mistake of all. Secondly he should not be a man connected with the present Administration in Washington. That would be merely selecting a lobbyist. He should not be a man who is under economic pressure, to whom the job would mean the difference at any time between bread and no bread. And, there-

That

fore, the salary paid should not be too big a one. |

; A : : : : | § b ne which the recipient vaign Expenditures Committee, already appointed and that | It shila Pe AmBle pif ngs Ie wi i p

would feel difficulty in throwing overboard. These are the three big don'ts. He should obviously be a man of great intelligence, But this is a trite way of putting it. The specifications on these points must be more particular. He should be a man who is not merely pecuniarily honest but who is eminently intellectually honest.

One who cannot be bought by social favors, blandish- |

ments or the fear of battle.

He Should Understand Economics He should be one who knows a hand from a hacksaw. Therefore he should be a student, as well as an administrator. But student I do professor of English or poetry or biology.

by

The exchange once wanted an economist. It went to Yale and employed a professor of English and made him the economist of the exchange. He took his economics from the board of governors and the Law Committee. A professor, and even a university president may be a very naive person. He should be a man who does not stand in awe of oreat wealth and of the men who have great wealth.

| The curse of the exchange so far has been the domi- | nation | selection ends | stand up to these interests the whole adventure will

be a failure.

banking interests. If this of one who cannot

great the choice

certain with

of

These are very few and very simple items. But

| they are very essential and it is possible to find a man

who combines them.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ERE'S a bright gleam in a darkened world sky. Just one little item of news, enough for headlines, but when we put several of such items together they add up a pretty sizeable sum of optimism. “Representatives of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland have signed a declaration pledging their governments to a common neutrality policy in event of war between other states.” As the editor of The Christian Century reminds us, the Scandinavian countries managed to remain neutral for the duration of the World War; they could not be persuaded to depart from their pacifist ideals. Although appeals were made to their humanitarianism and patriotism, and although they were many times the victims of insult from the larger, more aggressive countries, they did hold fast to their convictions. They are committed to the belief that freedom is not only a physical state, but consists of some quality of soul which is not to be won or lost on battlefields. They feel that it is better to endure a few “insul's” than to defend national honor by bombing cities and subjecting the whole of a peaceful people to horror, misery and ultimate destruction. What an example the Scandinavians offer to us, who exist in comparative safety thousands of miles from the seat of conflict! And if our leaders could make it plain to the war dogs of Europe and Asia that under no consideration will America send troops to the other side of the earth to help fight the battles of either side, perhaps they would pause before they ravaged their hemisphere by destroying its wealth and manhood. We can be reasonably sure that the nations which stay out of war will dominate world affairs in the future. They alone will have the strength, the riches and the moral sfamina to do so.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

SEES GOVERNMENT LOANS AS AID TO BUSINESS By J. MeL. “Government destroying confidence of business.” One hears such expressions in a thousand ways on every side every day. Let us make a sane attempt to analyze this. For instance, Henry Ford says: “If finance would get out of Government and Government get out of business everything would go again.” A pertinent question is: If Government had not built thousands of | miles of fine roads in America, how many cars would Henry have built? Alfred P. Sloan says: “Bxploita(tion of industry by Government means the death knell of individual | enterprise.” Does Alfred think that the $600, - | 000,000 the Government has lent the | railroads is exploitation? Or does he | think business groups in violent conflict have any bearing? One group desires to control retail stores by corporate devices, while the small storekeeper runs to | Government for laws prohibiting chains. Railroads fight shippers; coal men fight oil men. Some groups want a free competi- | tive market, bigger groups want | prices fixed. And they fix them. Are the Government loans for housing projects, past and present, exploiting business? It strikes me | that these dollars rolling along from | reliefer to retailer, to wholesaler, to manufacturer, to banker, have | been a material help to business. | Roosevelt is making a real effort to get labor and capital to co-op- | erate. Organized labor is also making a real effort for co-operation between employer groups and the unions.

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2 8 =» 'U. 8. SEEN AS MAJOR FACTOR | IN EUROPE'S PROBLEM

By W. P. In a peculiar fashion the United States has become a major factor in Europe's present problem of | peace or war over Czechoslovakia. This does not mean that the Government in Washington has secretly declared itself in. It hasn't. On the contrary, it has said and done all it can to protect itself from the | threatened explosion, But the United States enters the { picture wherever and whenever the | question is raised: Are France and | Great Britain prepared to aid

not mean a |

I mean one | who has an understanding of the social sciences in- | | cluding economics.

| Crechoslovakia if Germany attacks? |

| The chief danger of conflict at

A STED ALL THE ER, TUEY TE QE ME oR LOR - 8! CW YY COLOR- BLIND PUP k "80. AREN'T, WOMEN EVER OP RENMES THINK T WAS WMEN T MARRIED YOUR ap = “E MT TWEN, MAYBE WE THINK

LAME OF ME. 0 ANGWER —— NN

COLOR-BLIND WOMEN are extraordinarily rare but about one man out of 25 is color-blind, at least for red and green. This is because the determiner, or gene (Jean), in the germ-cell that Kauses

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present arises over the weakness [of Great Britain. Just how weak {or how strong she is at the mo- | ment, of course, is known to only a few, If Hitler is convinced that she lis not in a position to fight, he might decide on war, Hitler to that he could hold the French Army | at the frontier without excessive dif- | ficulty., France's aviation is far behind schedule. The question arises, therefore, as (to what America would do. Would | America’s vast and up-to-date in- | dustrial machine be at the disposal of Burope's democracies? Or would the Johnson act against { credits and the American Neutrality Act barring trade come into play | automatically and remain in force

is said he

for the duration of the struggle? | Great | for several

Britain is placing orders hundred airplanes in

| the United States. This is regarded |

i as a disquieting symptom and one | that Hitler will not fail to note and | evaluate. ¥ & 4 STATE WELFARE PROCEDURE | CRITICIZED BY READER | By Mrs. M. B. Indiana points with pride to welfare laws enacted by the Legis=

OUR LOVE BY VIRGINIA POTTER matters not we cannot be Together all the while— In memory I am content | Bach day I see your smile, | You've called me wonderful and said | You love me, and I'm sure— Tho’ circumstances mould our fate— Our love will long endure!

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DAILY THOUGHRT Take good heed therefore unto

vourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.—Joshua 23:11.

| OVE is an image of God, and 1. not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.— | Luther.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

GW SCHOOL (LAGS ASKS: oo A PERSON (OMPARE MIG SAE ny TE oar wini eT ong ™ IN OTHE IMGELH A BREAK ?* YES OR NO. color-blindness is linked with the sex-determiner, It will surprise some to learn that the initial cause of sex has been known to biologists since it was discovered by McClung in 1902, I shall take more space

confident |

[lature presumably to aid the uns ( fortunate. I will not criticize the laws as I believe they are a step | in the right direction, but I do object to the administration of these laws by so-called collegetrained “workers” who do not know the first principle of home life. A person applying for relief is subjected to the most humiliating questions imaginable. Before a | widow can get aid, her case must | fit exactly the procedure outlined by these ,“motherless” workers who know so much about children and home life. And if a widow cannot get aid from the Welfare Depart= ment her troubles have just begun. Giving an example of one specific case: A widow with children under [16 and on relief applied for aid as (provided in the law. The investis | gators investigated for four months

| before they even so much as talked | asked her |

|to the woman. They | questions ranging from how much {insurance she received from her | husband's death to what she did | with her money while she worked in [a factory making $18 a week, even | though they knew she had been laid

| off at least six months previous. Fin« |

ally she was told that the department could not aid her because she | was able to work and that [ might get her job back. She then asked who would pay her rent, doctor bills, utility bills, grocery bills, | ete. The college-trained worker | then pointed out that she received groceries from the trustees amounting to about $2. She said nothing about rent, etc.

Applied for WPA Job

In desperation the woman applied to the WPA for a job on a sewing project or anything that they would offer, 'The WPA office then informed her of its own rules. These were that if a woman was a widow and had children under 16 years of age she should apply to the Welfare Department for aid. The woman told them of her experience with the County Department. The WPA | official shrugged his shoulders and | said he was powerless to help her and could not do so. While this is being written the woman has received notice that unless she pays up back payments totaling $1000 her property will be seized. I wonder how many other cases are similar to this one example, I believe that if the County Director would employ workers who know from experience the tasks and hardships confronting a widow with children the laws would be beneficial.

soon to explain it fully, but the result is that if a color-blind marries a normal woman, none of their children will be color-blind, but when their daughters marry, none of their daughters but one-half of

their sons will be color-blind. ” o ”

WELL, this is a broad, off-hand statement that has a grain of truth but is mostly false. No doubt the Pharisees and Sadducees were made famous by their enemy, Jesus, Lincoln by his enemy, Douglas, Cataline by Cicero, Hayne by Webster, ete, but the average person must be boosted by his friends. ® 8 =» YES, DR. DAVID MITCHELL, consulting psychologist finds if you list twelve traits such as self confidence, persistence, ete, and compare yourself on them, with 10 friends, making 120 judgments in all, you are sure, without realizing

it, to rate yourself above your friends on over half the traits. When the most timid person compares himself in retail instead of wholesale with his fellows he finds he has more courage and belief in jymself than he thought he had, .

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1938 Gen. Johnson Says—

No Formula Can Cause Industrial

Prices to Swing Up and Down With Wide Fluctuations of Farm Prices.

ASHINGTON, June 15.-—<A theoretical “antie monopoly” argument is that “monopoly” prices are proved when prices of farm implements, for example, do not go down as fast as prices of farm products. They are kept too high for consumers to buy. This reduces sales and employment and deepens depression. If all prices went up and down together it wouldn't make much difference whether they were high or low, If a farmer wants to buy a $50 mower

and has $50 worth of hogs, but the price of hogs is suddenly cut to $25--no sale. But if the price of the Jr is also cut to $25, he can buy as easily as be« ore, Correct. But the cost of that mower is made up of three parts. Using imaginary ratios, fixed charges at normal rates of operation for the plant are, say 10 per cent—which is the mower's share of the manus facturer’s taxes, interest, depreciation, etc.—imagi« nary labor cost, 30 per cent—material, 60 per cent, You can’t cut the fixed charges. On the contrary, taxes keep rising. You can't stop depreciation. These theorists say you must not cut labor costs, The remaining 60 per cent is material—largely steel, lumber and parts. You don't control this and your suppliers have exactly your problem. There is stiff price ine flexibility here all right, but the manufacturer didn't make one-tenth as much of it as the taxing and social policies of the Government,

» ” ” HIS is not the whole story. Profits were not cone sidered because in deep depression, sensible mans ufacturers forgot profit to keep plants going and people employed. The problem of overhead was deferred for simplicity, Overhead is money spent, for expenses that do not go into the mower itself and for supere vision, This theory says: “If you will cut your price, your sales will increase which will reduce your pers centage cost of overhead,” : Correct. If my plant, general and selling overh ! ‘ ! serhea is $100,000 and I sell $1,000,000, that is 10 per cent, ul with the same overhead, ky lowering price, I can sell $2,000,000, that is 5 per cent and I have gained 5 per cent to offset lowered price, Every manufacturer knows this principle. But it has distinet, narrow and easily figured limits. Any industrialist would be a fool not to use it to its limit. All use it to the limit of its effectiveness, ® x =»

HIS isn't to say there is no way by better manage« ment to lower price. It is a complex problem different in every industry, but the constant endeavor of good management is to reduce price and induce larger sales. In most industries it is being done to the

limit of possibility and far beyond what any amateur | could- suggest. On no formula can industrial prices | be swung up and down into step with quick and wide | fluctuations of farm prices. These theorists say: “Oh yes they can—sell at [a loss.” You can't sell at a loss for long without a | large surplus out of which to maintain losing produce | tion, Small companies rarely have such surplus. This | theory would wipe them out rapidly and really make monopoly. But these babies don't want any company, | large or small, to have surplus. Wipe ‘em all out? Ne | tended or not, all their theories together would ree sult in just that.

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

F. D. R's Stubbornness Leads Him Into Trap on Politics in Relief.

ASHINGTON, June 15— President Roosevelt's stubbornness is trapping him into an unfortunate attitude regarding politics in relief. For five years he | has built up a resistance to criticism. So much of the attack on him has come from enemies who were | Brabbing any stick to beat him with that he has become indifferent to complaints, It is so now with complaints of politics in relief, So Harry Hopkins was allowed to mix into the Towa | primary and Mr. Roosevelt defended him for it. Ade | ministration forces in the Senate three times voted | down proposals to forbid relief officials from playing politics, WPA has issued a report attempting to | whitewash WPA in Kentucky in face of the disclosures and affidavits reported by Thomas L. Stokes in The Times after an investigation on the ground. When a group of Senators introduced a resolution to investi= gate politics in relief, Administration leaders were bored and indifferent. All of this is surprising on the part of an Adminis tration which has championed so aggressively the policy of using Federal funds to help victims of our economic system. But never before wholesale distri bution of Government checks. That in itself is not necessarily vicious. In prine ciple there is no difference between giving a farm to a homesteader, as was done to thousands of unems= ployed during the post-Civil War years, and giving a check to a WPA worker, But in practice the tempta« tion to abuse the distribution of cash is much greater,

A New Dealer's Opinion

I quote the’ substance of what a very prominent New Dealer said to me recently on the subject: “I am conscious that WPA and other developments { such as our social security program have far-reaching | political implications. Government checks of one {kind or another are now going into about 20,000,000 [ homes. It has been the history of Europe that these | benefits are never reduced but on the contrary tend to enlarge. Politicians run for election on the issue jo giving larger benefits. “That creates political pressure. Politicians go nut (to line up groups by offering them larger benefits, | The vote goes tc the side that seems to offer the | most in public benefits.” That New Dealer was looking at the long-range | political effects of what is going on. Few would | dispute his analysis. What is difficult to understand |is the Administration's indifference to putting any | curb on these influences, appearing rather to en= | coniags them. Such programs as these have to be accomplished by strong national self-discipline or else the country is liable to he trampled under the stampede to the public trough,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

EETH receive more attention in the United States than in any other nation in the world. We have developed a quality of dentistry above that available in most other nations. For children the chief problem is dental caries, or decay of the teeth. The use of the toothbrush, regu« lation of the diet and the treatment of decaying teeth are all valuable methods, but they will not stop the extension of decay. The one best method of handling decay is to replace the decaying material by fillings. From time to time studies have been made of the teeth of large groups of children in various parts of the United States to find out the extent to which dental caries are present. In one group of almost 4500 children, 53 per cent were found with one or more unfilled decaying teeth, By the time most children have reached six or seven years of age, they have a considerable number of de= fects of this character. Analyzing the entire population of the United States on the basis of the number of cavities available in several groups which have been studied, we have an indication of the amount of dental work that is necessary if all children are to have tooth defects properly cared for by the time they are in the first two years of the elementary school, It would apparently require 10 per cent of the time of all the dentists in the United States to take care of such defects in children’s teeth. If we were to start now to take care this year of the dental defects that are now present, 30 per cent of the time of all of the dentists in the United States for one year would he required to take care of the amount of dental caries that is now present. While this is only an estimate, it is based on enough statistical data to make certain that it is approximately correct,