Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1938 — Page 10

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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938 A BRAVE SPEECH HENRY MORGENTIHAU, Secretary of the Treasury, made a fine commencement address at Philadelphia's Temple University, What impressed us was Mr. Morgenthau's courage when he touched on the topic of civil liberties. Ie said that no American can afford to remain neutral in the struggle to preserve those liberties—that he who

abstaing from the struggle, believing his own rights not And he

most

in danger, is unconsciously helping the enemy. added: “Failure to defend city, one county or state strikes at the liberties of all of us. When we tolerate the curtailment of constitutional rights in any place by any individual or group of individualg, no matter how close to the seat of government, we make easier an attack upon our own constitutional rights.” Does it seem strange that a public official should be

those liberties in one

praised for courage in voicing sentiments so obvious and go true? We think this speech did require courage because Mr. Morgenthau knew that his remarks would be interpreted as aimed at a man who ig curtailing constitutional rights in a place very near to Philadelphia—Mayor Frank Hague City. Indeed Mr. Morgenthau, asked later whether he had spoken with Mavor Hague in mind, said: “If the

of Jersey

shoe fits, let him wear it.” Mavor Hague is “close to the seat of government.” He is a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. And others high in the Administration of which Mr. Morgenthau is a member seem to be going on the theory that discreet silence concerning Mavor Hague and hig dictatorial

tactics 18 the better part of valor,

A STADIUM FOR SCOUTS [ND ANAPOLIS Boy Scouts officially are to receive a welcome improvement to their reservation tomorrow when the new £10,000 stadium is dedicated. which seats 1200 persons, was built with raised by a subscription campaign sponsored by the 12th District, American Legion, Scouts are afforded excellent opportunity at the reservation for developing craftsmanship, citizenship and health. [he new stadium should provide additional benefits.

I'he stadium

JOHN, YOU SAID IT OF course John Roosevelt is only the bridegroom, therefore a unimportant member of the happy party at Nahant, which includes not only the bride but also the Pre of the United States and the most remarkible First Lady this land ever had. Millions of hearts, today with fellow feeling for young John.

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should beat We know exactemotions were when the society reporters gathround with demands that he enlighten them on the What shoes would Miss Anne Clark she walked to the altar? “White sandals, which tie here and there,” But John rose to heights of genius when they asked him about the bridal gown. Hig reply deserves a place in We had read without fully comprehending the published accounts of the 20 vards of French organdie, the 620 vards of satin ribbon, the 14 vards of bridal tulle But John, what is to our mind the perfect description of all the bridal gowns that ever were: “It looks like gauze lined with something.”

masculine however,

Iv what his ered momentdus question: wear as he =zaid.

history.

in seven words, gave

AND TOMORROW IS FATHER'S DAY PERHAPS the most encouraging news of the week comes Methodist Hospital, where it is reported something ig going to be done for the “forgotten man''—the

from expectant father Hereafter in the waiting room on the maternity floor movies are to be shown, not only to ease the tension. but to give the men a few pointers on care of the baby after it arrives. More than that, punch and cakes are to be served

after each showing

while they wait, the Mothers’ Guild of the hospital's White Cross Guild, which 18 sponsoring the project, will provide |

picture magazines, It is satisfying to note that the hardships involved in becoming a father are being recognized, and proper steps being taken to lighten them.

THE STOLBERG WARNING THE current battle for control of the C. I. Os United Automobile Workers recalls what Benjamin Stolberg wrote in hig serieg, “Inside the C. I. 0,” which was published by The Indianapolis Times last January, “The Communists are out to get him (Homer Martin,

president of the Uo A. W.), even if they have to wreck the |

union.” Mr. Stolberg said. “They are not interested in the automobile workers’ union. They have to follow a ‘line’.” Whether it is the “Communists” trying to get Mr. Martin, or Mr. Martin trying to get hig opposition, or both, it now becomes clear that factionalism is threatening to wreck the union, Mr. Martin has suspended five officers of the U. A. W,, charging that they violated a pledge against further factionalism. “Communist Party leaders have unduly interfered with the union's internal affairs,” he asserts. The suspended officers retort that Mr. Martin's own group had breached the antifactionalism armistice. Wherever the hlame may belong, the dangers are obvious, Fighting within the automobile workers’ organization, if continued, will make union discipline impossible. Wildeat strikes in defiance of the top union leaders, broken contracts, another plague of sitdowns alienating employers and the public, are probable consequences. The cause of organized labor will suffer, Some members of the C. I. O. criticized My. Stolberg’s articles ag unfair and unfriendly. It is becoming clear, we believe, that those articles constituted a timely warning to a divided labor movement A

derelict

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

All Right! Go Ahead and Organize A National Lottery, but Look at Those Countries Which Have Them.

Nov YORK, June 18—John T. Gibson challenges my contention that the people of this country gamble much less than they are poptilarly supposed to. I cited returns to show that in 1935, in the 18 states which permitted and supervised gambling on horse and dog races, the total business was only $257,562,000. By other methods I arrived at the conclusion that the annual American expenditure for Irish Sweepstakes tickets was only $21,000,000, excluding counterfeits and stolen fees. Of course, there is no way of knowing or estimating the amount whose investors received no run for their money in the Irish Sweeps. If it will be of any com-

fort to the other side of the argument, however, I will admit that the traffic in counterfeits and uncompleted deals is equal to that portion of the sweeps here which, although illegal, we may, for the sake of clarity, call legitimate, That would raise the American expenditure on the Irish Sweeps to $42,000,000 a year. The khown volume of gambling even then is only about $300,000,000 a year, and I have to insist on the importance of the fact that the bulk of this money is wagered under legal, open conditions. ” ” ” R. GIBSON drifts off into the dream world frequented by those who believe Americans bet in billions “Most of the money bet on the horse races in the United States is bet by persons absent from the track,” “The pari-mutuels handle at most about 10 per cent of the money bet on horse races. Independent bookies handle the rest.” Says he, but does he know? Nobody knows how much money the bookmakers handle. But we do khow that much of the money wagered with bookmakers is represented in the mutuel figures, because bookmakers make a prac tice of dumping bets into the mutuels. I cannot claim te know any better than Mr. Gibson the amount of the bookmakers’ business, but I do know that many who frequent pooltooms are cheap players, and that if you were to pay $100 for the privilege of frisking a roomful of them you would be betting against yourself, #$ 4&4 £8 E have to admit, however, that the bookies’ customers include many fairly prosperous individuals. But these are an absolutely unknown, fluctuating quantity, and Mr. Gibson offers no evidence that the book trade is nine times the track business. He I might grant—only for the sake of argument—that it is twice as great, but there is still no reason to think that gamblers would give up horse betting to patronize a national lottery. I don’t care. Go ahead and have a national lot tery if the idea can be bulled through Congress sometime. But look at the countries which have chewed the muscle off their own arms to feed their stomachs—France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Cuba, for example—and observe how peaked they are. Ireland is an exception. But we buy half her tickets and the British colonies take much of the remainder, and Ireland thus gets fresh money all the time. But Ireland couldn't buy half our tickets. Even in our busted state we could more feasibly buy half of Ireland, whose total capital investment is less than we bet in a year on the licensed tracks alone,

Business By John T. Flynn

Congress Failed Important Duty By Not Meeting Railroad Problem.

EW YORK, 18. Nothing could more clearly the refusal of Congress, the Administration or the country to face facts than the adjournment without meeting the railroad problem It is not to be regretted of course that Congress did not act th its last days of life. It had nothing before it of importance about the railroads. It had no leadership. The President offered no leadership. He sent a message to Congress early in the session outlining the financial plight of the roads and let it go at that, What is to be regretted is that Congress early in the session did not go realistically about finding some way to put the carriers in a state of health. One of the alarming things about the railroads is the manner in which they are falling into disrepair. The Railway Age estimated as early as 1833 that there was a maintenance deficit of over a billion dollars. If that is true, the deficit must be at least two billions by now. But the railroads are powerless to do anything about that because of their crushing debt structures. No one seems to be willing to consider the railroad problem on any other terms than getting loans for them from the Government or cutting wages or ralsing rates. The only bill before Congress which seemed to have Administration blessing was one to permit the RFC to make loans to roads to buy equipment. But that would mevely increase their debt when it is debt that is destroying them now.

Rail Managements Also to Blame

But it is not enough to say that Congress has heen derelict. The railroad managements themselves and the railroad banker-promoters have been even more They are interested in saving their jobs, in

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None of them is giving a thought to the great social function of the roads or the general problem of the national economy, of the default of the management and bankers that Congress has the duty to step in, One bogey which stands in the way is the stake of the insurance companies in railrond bond holdings. But this is enormously exaggerated. That argument is a camouflage to protect the various stock interests which dominate the roads. Congress may pass up this duty but it may have to face a special session on this subject before the vear is out. There is only one way out for the roads—a great comprehensive reorganization of capital structures and compulsory consolidations based on service to the public and economy and efficiency of operation.

It is because

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

$ OMEN wear such funny hats” says Dr. George Crane, psychologist of Northwestern University, “because they never grow up mentally.” We don't doubt his word at all, but we hope he will be consistent by giving the same reason for

men’s dressing up in those queer-looking lodge uniforms they wear on parades. These men not only put on hats of assorted shapes and colors, but further embellish their beauty with flowing robes, turkish trousers, sashes, epaulets, brass buttons and what-not. Moreover, brass bands advertise their glory as they march down the city streets in tasseled feses, with scimitars dangling at their waists, looking like a bunch of Moslems off for Mecea. Nobody minds, of course. They are as engaging as little boys playing horse. I believe it is true, however, that the gentlemen originated the idea of lodges and thought up the fantastic uniforms they use. Most of the organizations have allowed the ladies to form auxiliaries, but the females cannot compete with their husbands in the matter of fancy dress. Since the days when knights wore armor and generals donned uniforms and medals, men have displayed a weakness for such haberdashery, Other psychologists have called this an escape mechanism. But at last we have the truth from pr. Owe. BL omen Se hats are evidences of mature minds. wha at make some of our

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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.

INFLAMMATORY SPEECHES OF | NAZIS ATTACKED |

By W. P. Speaking at Stettin, Germany, in | the presence of Der Fuehrer, Rudolf

| Hess declared that Hitler “alone is

to be thanked that Europe is not in | flames.” Czechoslovakia, the Nazi lieutenant went on to say, is the real menace to peace. And he pictured the little central European democracy as a sort of monstrous dragon, shorting fire and brimstone preparatory to pouncing upon the long-suffering Germany. Germany's “love of peace,” he concluded, must not be trifled.with too far, This would be laughable were it so tragic. The Hess technique too familiar, The German Kaiser employed it before the World and others before him, back into the dim beginnings of history, Japan's war lords used it in 1931 to “justify” their invasion of Manchuria, and again to excuse their present war on China, I'he portents, therefore, ominous, Nobody believes

are little

with powerful Germany. | Hence the only convincing reason | for the inflammatory speeches of the Hesses, the Goebbels, the Goerings and the Hitlers is a desire to arouse the Germans themselves to the necessary pitch of war Herein is to be found the most sinister aspect of the European situation today.

hy & £ ASKS END OF POLITICS IN NATIONAL RELIEF

By Disillusioned

After reading what the papers are full of—Federal politics in relief with the President condoning and even defending such action, and some local politicians and election officials obviously guilty of dishonesty at the ballot boxes—I can't help letting out a heartbroken wail. Is there no moral honesty among public officials and politicians? That politics played too large a part in local relief we have known for a long time. At least all those who ever had contact with the relief problem did. No amount of local protest, when it brought forth anything but denials, did any good. But we had faith in the word of the President and Harry Hopkins that such political skullduggery was not condoned by the top officials. And so we blamed the selfishness and ambition of local politicians. What a blow it is to our faith now to realize that our sense of honesty and justice has been betrayed by those we trusted so much as to be our national heroes,

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To politicians this is no doubt all considered “practical politics” but to us it reveals a toe of clay.

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cureé the sick feeling we have if he would at least cease playing any more politics in administering relief; if he would publicly reprimand Mayor Hague, and resist all temptation to act unjustly because opponents stoop to conquer, no matter if the whole New Deal is at stake. In our opinion the New Deal philosophy is not at stake, but the New Deal clique, trying to get a strangle hold on its administration, certainly is, Locally election fraud is too obvious to be ignored. That almost nullifies the rights of citizenship

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to remedy evils. Fditorially you say something can be done about it. Haven't the people of Indiana been trying to do something about installing a city manform of government and a complete merit system in all government for years? Organizations At the polls we also meet with frustration, for either the officials we elect break

DAD By A. S. Dad, T owe so much, it seems, For your helping hand in making dreams Come true—for joys I'd never had If I could not call you dad,

Sacrifices you made for me That I might greater happiness see; When {illness came you faithfully watched, Books and bought,

toys you lovingly

The many romps and plays we've had, You've known the joy of being dad; God grant my prayer that I may pay The debt of love I owe today.

DAILY THOUGHT Moreover ve shall take no satis faction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely be put to death.— Numbers 35:31.

URDZER itself is past all expia« tion the greatest crime, which

The President could do much to | nature doth abhor. —Goffe,

their promises or there is dishonesty

ballot boRes, ” ” ” BELIEVES BEAVERS CAN RESCUE U. 8. By T. KE. I am happy to see the Federal Government making use of the instinetive engineering genius of that industrious animal, the beaver, The Interior Department has an<

nounced plans to resettle 300 or perhaps 500 pairs of beavers on small streams in Idaho, where they will be encouraged to build check dams to prevent soil erosion, increase water facilities and create [lakes for fishing and duck-breeding purposes, Secretary Ickes’ men estimate that each beaver, trapped and transplanted at a cost of $8, will be worth $300 to the cause of | conservation, Even more interesting is the pos- | sibility revealed by the further esti mate that the beaver population | will increase 100 per cent the first | season and 150 per cent each year | thereafter. Let's see. With 600 resettled beavers {at the start there should be 1200 by the end of the first year. Then, | the annual rate of increase rising | to 150 per cent, there should be 3000 after the second year, 7500 after the third, and so on to 453,160,230 [busy little dam-builders after 15 years. At the end of 20 years, if my [calculations are accurate, the beaver population of Idaho should reach 44,292991,200, and if each beaver is worth $300 for conserva= tion purposes the total value will be $13,287897,360,000—and all from an original investment of only $4800. Apparently spending can go on at the present or even at an accelerated rate, and the Interior Department's 44-billion-odd beavers will dam the country well out of the red by the year 1958. Or, if not, we can wait until 1959, when there will [be 110732478000 beayers worth | $33,210,743,400,000, 8 § # THINKS LOVE HAS ADOPTED MORE MODERN COLE | By T. E. D. Time was when swains expressed | tender sentiments through the flow= | ers they sent to their ladies fair— roses for ardent devotion, violets for fidelity, lilies for purity, ete, ete, Love seems to have adopted a more modern code and a more ros bust one, even though its interpre= tation appears to us a trifle obscure. There seems to be no other conclusion to draw from the case of the young man in a New England town who, using the facilities of the Oanadian National Telegraph, had a messenger boy deliver to a damsel in Montreal one fried egg, sunny side up.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

last means of bolstering up their deep and lasting sense of inferiority. . . ” YES. Leading employment managers agree best first method 1s to typewrite all possible information about yourself, including age, education, religion, politics, sports records, outside activities and interests while in school, frank reasons for leaving previous jobs—indeed everything to give pic ture of your real self. Then discuss your statements with school principal and two businessmen. Then mail to 20 or 30 firms asking inter-

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MY, how times have changed! I married in 1008 when I was

$480 a year and went to g hia felt no fears of e future. Now are asking if they marry on three times that

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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938 |

Gen. Johnson Says—

It's Too Bad John Roosevelt Hasn'#

200,000 Ancient Mariners to Keep Crowds Away From the Wedding.

ABHINGTON, June 18.—1It 1s a pity, if it is true, that 200,000 people are going to jostle and rube ber around while John Roosevelt gets married, or to be in the same town where it happens, It has been sweetly said that it is just because the world loves a lover and that, after all, the Amers leans are an old-fashioned folk, It is no such thing, It is because the Americans are a rubber-necking race. Let no public character momentarily in the limes light lay the flattering unction to his soul that because crowds obstruet his passage and people stare at him in streetcars and restaurants, it is because of either his pulchritude or his popularity. It is because of their curiosity and his publicity. They would do exactly the same thing for Al Capone or a threes headed calf. All the Roosevelt kids are fine samples of simple, modest and decent American youth. If a French mayor gets squirted with fizey water or an automobile exceeds the speed limit, it doesn't detract from that statement one bit. They are American kids and hence full of pep and do not take themselves too seriously. If they didn't happen to be ohildren of the President, but just your kids or mine, you would never have heard anything about it. ” o ” OT one of them hunts the limelight and the kind of publicity under which they have to live is a constant burden of embarrassment, ‘That they main as modest and sweet and decent as they are is something of a marvel, Some mistakes have been made but the wonder is that they are so few considering their almost lime itless opportunity to make mistakes. Nevertheless, the President has been criticized for not sitting on them more. For crying out loud, do they have to live their lives in plaster casts because they happen to bear the misfortune to have had their father become famous? The President isn't, by nature, much of a sitter<onner and ha thinks his adult children have a right to live their own lives. I think their record is pretty good as it stands and that if he had done more repressing it wouldn't have been any better,

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#4 # F all those children, none has a finer, happier, temperament and character than John, He wilt be able to bear up while his 200,000 wedding guests listen to the “loud bassoon,” on the outside of the church, but it is too bad that there aren't also 200,000 Ancient Mariners to hypnotize each one of them with

| an old sailor's story about six miles back of the village

limits as was done in the poem of that name, But it's all right. In spite of all hot political is sues, these young people will have the best wishes of 130,000,000 of their fellow citizens, When this day is over, they oan get some peace and quiet. As soon as the seven days’ wonder of their wedding fades, they can almost live the lives of half-way human beings so long as they do not ride in trains, or visit restaurants, theaters or other public places. It was something of this constant staring and craning of necks which was partly responsible for the self-banishment of the Lindbergh family. I know celebrities who have experienced more or less of it, but I don't know anybody to whom it is not a torment,

Washington By Raymond Clapper

These Arguments on Steel Prices Have Become Somewhat Confusing.

ASHINGTON, June 18.—At a recent meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute, its pres ident, T. M. Girdler, said that the only way to bring about real improvement in industry was “by the ree moval of artificial barriers to production so that private enterprise can function.” Later in his address, touching upon the delicate question of steel prices, Mr. Girdler said “there is no hidden hand in the ine dustry with power to prevent price reductions except the hidden hand of costs.” The same week saw some interesting financial news about the steel industry and I reported a summary of it. Mainly it was to the effect that Bethlehem Steel had just announwed its new price list for the third quarter, reaffirming existing prices and following a virtually identical announcement a few days earlier by the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. Along with this was the news item that steel production was below 30 per cent capacity compared with 90 per cent a year ago. I mentioned that it seemed odd that prices were held practically identical with what they had been when boom production exe isted. A few days later, Gen. Hugh Johnson took the ine dustry to task in an address to the Iron and Steel In= stitute. He said: “The whole country believes, includ= ing the foremost of independent economists, that iron and steel prices are too inflexible—sticky—and thas their present levels are a principal influence retardeing recovery. . . Why don't you take some action here, even at a considerable sacrifice of profits?”

Weir Replies

This all seemed very confusing fo me in trying te follow the argument that Roosevelt is against the law of competitive supply and demand while business« men are for it, Mr, Ernest T. Weir, a leading steel producer, was provoked by the foregoing to write an open letter to the newspapers protesting that I had ‘cast certain serious reflections upon the steel industry.” He said that the steel industry “is most highly competitive and that the only force ‘fixing’ prices is high ‘fixed’ costs.” Now if Mr. Weir had said that because of the peculiar economics of the steel industry it can’t have free price competition, and that it is necessary for steel companies to stick together and prevent prices cutting, he would not be so crosswise of the facts, Of course there are objections to saying that, bee cause it would only encourage somebody, possibly a New Dealer at Washington, to pipe up and say, all right, but let's have the Goyernment in on the private price-fixing to be sure the public interest is protected since steel is a principal utility in modern industry,

And why bring that up?

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HEN the principle was established that artie ficially induced fever might be beneficial in a wide variety of diseases, attempts were made early to see the effects of such treatment on diseases of the eye, This was particularly important, because many of the diseases of the eye are difficult to attack and some of them are considered hopeless. For this rea« son physicians, working in a large Midwestern hose pital, tested the fever methods on an assortment of 50 different eye diseases. : In heat treatment the patient is first made ready by being given a special diet with large amounts of orange juice and dextrose, He is then put into the fever box with the head outside. He does not ree ceive any fluids until a fever of 1056 to 107 degrees is reached. It has long been established that certain diseases are mare susceptible to treatment by fever or heat than are others, principally because the germs which are involved in these diseases are also especially susceptible to increase in temperature, It is also believed that the heat treatment may be especially of value in stimulating the defense mechanism of the

body to action. As a result of their tests of more than 50 cases;

the investigators are convinced that the fever treate

ment is most useful in the treatment of gonorrhea and syphilitic infections of the eye, but that various other forms of disturbances of the eye, including ulcers and reuritis of the optie must be studied much more extensively before | ] the heat ar fever

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