Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1938 — Page 10
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1938
- FOR THE RECORD “A BOUT two months ago, Thomas L. Stokes, a reporter representing this. newspaper, went into Kentucky to find out what was going on in the Senatorial primary campaign of Senate Leader Barkley vs. Governor Chandler. His dispatches from Kentucky told of political coercion
of WPA workers and Federal employees in behalf of Sena--
tor Barkley, and of similar pressure used against State - employees and beneficiaries of State funds in behalf of * Governor Chandler. He documented his reports with “ dates, names and places. He described this conflict of Federal machine vs. State machine as in which the taxpayer is the victim.” WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins sent WPA investigators into Kentucky to check on those allegations which pertained to WPA. Having received their reports Mr.
Hopkins issued lengthy statements, dealing with the same
names, dates and places mentioned by Mr. Stokes and summing up with these words: oa : “There you have the record on every specific charge made in this series of articles. Against the unsupported statements of the reporter and the affidavits of disgruntled workers and party workers, stands the documented evidence _ and’ sworn testimony disproving every important accusation.” Fo : We might add that Mr. Hopkins at the same time went out of his way to charge that Reporter Stokes had ~ been motivated by political bias. The next development came when the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee sent an investigator to Kentucky. Yesterday that investigator turned in his preliminary report, on the basis of which the Committee made a public statement. | Po To keep the record up to date, we quote from the Committee’s statement: . “These facts should arouse the conscience of the country. They imperil the right of the people to a free and unpolluted ballot. | = “The evidence thus a presented to it convinces the Committee that a deplorable situation exists in Kentucky. It is certain that organized efforts have been and are being made to control the vote of those on relief work, and that contributions have been sought and obtained from Federal employees, in behalf of one of the Senatorial candidates. “It is equally certain that State officials charged in part with the distribution of Federal funds for old-age assistance and for unemployment compensation have been required to contribute from- their salaries and: of their services in the interest of another candidate for the United States Senate.” : "Now, we yield the floor to Mr. Hopkins.
TWO ELECTION RESULTS E congratulate the Republicans of Kansas for giving so few votes yesterday to the Rev. Gerald B. Winrod, whose bid for the Senatorial nomination was based on a creed of religious and racial intolerance. We think, despite the blundering efforts of New Dealer Warwicks to make it so, that the nomination of conservative Rep. Howard W. Smith in Virginia was not a test of President Roosevelt’s popularity. The unsuccessful candidate, William E. Dodd Jr., is a fine young man who took a lot of bad advice from across the Potomac. The campaign was so waged that the dominant issue became whether a Congressman should use his independent judgment or be a rubber stamp. Even voters who don’t like the type of judgment used—and we suspect many didn’t in the case of Rep. Smith—prefer not to give a $10,000-a-year job to a man who won’t even say “yes—but.” 0
FARM HAND MORGAN
HIS summer of 1938 probably will produce nothing much more remarkable than the case of John Pierpont Morgan III, who came down with appendicitis while working as a “hand” on an Indiana farm. pt We've seen the time, during threshing seasons of some years ago, when a case of appendicitis ‘would have afforded us welcome respite from our duties in the harvest field. We can recall being awakened at 4:30 a. m., and taking a rapid inventory of our anatomy in the hope of discovering something—bubonic plague, .leprosy, beri-beri, yellow fever or anything at all—that might serve us as an excuse for spending the remainder of the summer in bed. But we never had any luck. And now here is John Pierpont Morgan III, grandson of the country’s begt known banker, heir to millions, who spends his winters at Harvard and could afford to loaf all
summer, who seems to be sincerely grieved over having to.
leave the wheat harvest, the hay loft, the milking stool, “and go to a nice cool hospital for an appendectomy. ‘We just can’t understand it.
. THESE WERE SAVED, BUT
HE heroism of a 16-year-old girl and her 9-year-old companion yesterday cheated Big Eagle Creek of two * lives. Fortunately théy were able to rescue and revive a .» boy and his sister whom they found submerged and unconscious. In spite of their mother’s warning the victims
had gone for a dip before guards at the pool were on duty..
The incident is but ‘another example of the perils that lurk in unsupervised swimming holes.
: CRASH MATHEMATICS
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$ HIGHWAY police in Illinois have a simple new formula & to measure the speed of automobiles, designed to check -- on the stories told by motorists after crashes. All they
* do, explains Chief Walter Williams, is measure the length
of the skid-mark, double it, multiply it by the rate of the
car’s deceleration, and take the square root of the result. So that’s all? Well, that may be very simple. Motorists
; might find it even simpler, however, to subtract a few
tounces from the pressure of the, foot, on: the: accelerator, i “by two, refrain from dividing attention
“g grand political racket
Fair Enough
EW CANAAN, Conn. Aug. 3.—An editorial crisis has been happily weathered by the Connecticut Nutmeg, the roguish weekly published by a little group of serious thinkers up here away from it all, of which Heywood Broun, the president of the American Newspaper Guild, C. I. O. Union, is one of the contributing proprietors. Mr. Gene Tunney; another of the contributing propriétors, composed an article for the issue of July 28 with intent to disparage the courage of his neighbor, Congressman Alfred, Norton ‘Phillips, of Stamford. Mr. Phillips, though a New Dealer by political profession, is an economic royalist, , being ‘an heir to a fortune amassed in the manufacture of a famous household remedy, good for man or beast. In Congress he has been given credit for a determined, single-handed and, as yet, unsuccessful struggle to abolish the reptile houses in all the Amerfcan zoological gardens lest there come sometime an earthquake to shake apart their cages and loose upon the land hundreds, or anyway, dozens of venomous
occurred to any other statesman. » 2 ”
N a recent occasion, Congressman Phillips took a sock at the chin of Mr. Harold Skidd, a junior politician of the district. By Mr. Tunney’s account, he missed and Skidd then bounced his one-two—eff
“of friends. ; ‘Mr. Tunney still further reported that on a previous occasion Congressman Phillips threw a punch at a man 30 years older than himself, missed, caught a right in return and fled.’ Although the Connecticut Nutmeg has now rolled
thinkers of strong opinions would hit straight from the shoulder, Mr. Tunney’s article on the local Congressman, rather oddly, was the first essay that might not have been published in the Washington Star without offense to the editorial policy of that friendly journal. Mr. Broun has been writing nature notes and puns. j * 2 = ” UT when Mr. Tunney fearlessly denounced Congressman Phillips, Mr. George Bye, the sort of editor, changed two words in the tail paragraph of his copy. Gene's humiliation was exceeded only by his wrath at Mr. Bye of whom he demanded a written: apology. Professional journalists of the circle were inclined to smile at this bother over two.words but Mr. Tunney is nothing if not earnest and he assuredly is not nothing. Beneath the surface of things up here away from it all it is more than half suspected that neighbor Broun hankers for Mr. Phillips’ seat in Congress and that Mr. Tunney approves of his desire. Mr. Broun has cultivated a William Jennings Bryan coiffure and a platform manner and Mr. Tunney has developed a truly remarkable political influence in the countryside. It is by no means fantastic to imagine that Mr. Tunney. skipping the lower house, may one day adorn the United States Senate. Mr. Broun cannot have Congressman Phillips’ seat this year, being C. I. O. in an A. F. of L. town, a Socialist and not a Democrat and too new to the region to qualify with the organizaticn. But two years from now, with Mr, Tunney’s aid, Mr. Broun might receive that which he sometimes calls 'a mandate, Mr. Bye has given Mr. Tunney his written apology so the Nutmeg crisis is over now. .
Business By John T. Flynn
Better Debt Position Due to U. S., Wallace Says, but Is It Better?
NTEW YORK, Aug. 3.—Mr. Henry Wallace, the able and earnest Secretary- of Agriculture, has ventured into a field far removed from agriculture, namely the economic significance of the national debt. He says that the debtor position of the United States today is better than it was when the Roosevelt Administration went into power—despite the enormous increase in the national debt. aie ae In attempting to prove that, Mr. Wallace makes several statements, gome of which are true, some far from true ard others: profoundly missing the real meaning of "this whole debtor position. He says the debtor :position of the United States in the late Twenties was one of the weakest in our history. That is true. Private debts had grown tb enormous proportions and so had state and local debts. And this played a large part in producing the depression. Theh he gives some figures about debts. He says that in the Twenties private debts increased 40 billion dollars. Today -he says private debts are 12 billion dollars less than in 1932 and 28 billion less than in 1930. It would be interesting to know where these figures come from. There is .no doubt that private debts are now somewhat less than in 1930, and perhaps, in 1932. But there are no reliable figures on the subject. : The mess of the Twenties was very largely made up of those appalling debts. And Mr. Wallace says that for the last five. years the Administration has been cleaning up the mess. But it hasn’t been cleaning it up. Wherever possible it has been busy saving the mess. :
What Did Administration Do?
The point Mr. Wallace seeks to make is that the debt of the people must be considered as both public and private; that both constitute loads upon their backs; that both must be borne and serviced out of the same. pocketbooks; that, therefore, to form an opinion, it is necessary to measure the complete load— private .and public—in 1932 with the complete load now. : So Whether the total load now is smaller than. in 1932 is difficult to say. It may be a trifie smaller. If it is, however, and if that means improvement in the nation’s debt position, who is entitled to the credit for that? The Administration? Then how? What the Administration did do.was everything in its power to increase the national debt and it has succeeded amazingly. Td
this national borrowing was good or bad. It is that the nation’s debt position is better now than in 1932 and that the Administration is entitled to the credit for that. The merest glance at the situation reveals how utterly unfounded that claim is, : .
’/ ° ° : A Womans Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson : I thankful T was not born beautiful. Coming from
a woman, that may. isn’t, it’s the truth. : on Oh, I had my time of mourning and complaints, the ‘same every girl goes. through when she realizes the passing masculine glance doesn’t linger on her. It’s tough going then. Especially must it be tough nowadays, when so much: emphasis is put upon personal appearance and the competition for men’s attention is so. keen. Stringy’ haired, scrambled featured girls of every period suffer the same old heartaches, because lack
sound like sour grapes. It
greatest feminine -cross. It takes only .a little time, however, to show us how mistaken the idea is. Of course, d ht homeliness is akin to tragedy (happily we see very little of it these days), but the passably good looking girl ought to thank her stars every day that she belongs ® be in-between crowd—not too plain, not too beauFirst of all, she knows that when a man falls in love with her he sees Her real self and not merely the gilded outside. ‘ Therefore, her marriage is more likely to succeed than that of the superlatively lovely lass. In her social circle, the passably woman is generally tops in popularity. She fits into any group without inciting envy or jealousy, because
on devoted friendships among her own sex. three rousing cheers for being & member of the Av-
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By Westbrook Pegler |. The Editor Changes Two Words. in > Gene Tunney's Copy and Causes a |- Crisis on the Connecticut. Nutmeg.
serpents. It is a dreadful possibility which had never the Congressman’s chin and swooned him in the arms
11 issues, .and was acclaimed as a paper in which
The question raised by Mr. Wallace is not whether
of glamorous beauty is generally. regarded as the
good looking the siren who attracts swarms of men can’t count | “As the middle years approach, you feel like giving |
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® The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will “defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
CLAIMS DICTATORS USUALLY HAVE PEOPLE'S CONSENT
By Mrs. L. We do a lot of shouting about dictators. But do we ever stop to think what caused them or how
they come to get. in power? They generally come into power with the consent of the people and perhaps
enough to know they have to do
socialism. In Russia and Mexico the people went over to socialism. Italy was about down and out when Mussolini marched on Rome, took over Italy and ruled with an iron hand, Germany was beaten down to the ground, stripped of all she possessed, disarmed, while the other mations were arming. Hitler came along, fired with zeal to right what he thought was wrong and unjust and which many people now admit were. In downtrodden Russia the peasants were hardly more than serfs. The same in Mexico. nature has not changed in this world; But the world is changing and the old formula won't work any more. The people are also more enlightened with the same old human nature which does not make things any better, but worse. But the dictators can only stay in power as long as they can realize on their armies. But if the dictators can’t do the job of bringing peace and prosperity to the people and I don’t think they will, the
they will go
and great will be the fall. ;
» = ” SAYS AAA MISREPRESENTED BY LIBERTY LEAGUE :
By Everett S. Brown
The Forum letter by G. L. Stout about the Liberty League meeting
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have made this meeting a com-
stone politician - preacher should have had John ‘D.- M. Hamilton, Herbert Hoover and Lowell McDaniel of Wilkinson, Ind. as the three chief Republican cheer boys. : It is an attempt on the part of th
represent. the true purpose of the
importation. of corn and wheat. They do not dare tell you that the corn is used in the main for hominy and the wheat for macaroni. It is because of the texture or firm‘ness of - the grain which makes them more suitable for those purposes than that of our own corn and wheat. . - San They do rot dare mention those
a few capitalists - who are smart |
something to save themselves from.
No, human,
people will get disillusioned, down |
at Noblesville was to the point. To
plete flop, Mr. Manning, the Ko-| komo soap box orator and the curb-
Republican Party dictators: to mis-|~
AAA. They tell you of foreign grain |
(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.)
“good” old Hoover days with an oversupply of farm commodities which brought the price of corn to 5 cents per bushel, hogs 22 cents per pound, oats 8 to 10 cents per bushel, wheat 30 to 35 cents per ‘bushel--and no market for any of them. I suppose those Corn’ Belt Liberty League farmers want some more of those experiences, and also to see farmers dispossessed of their farms and all because of those “good old Republican Party Hoover days” of 1931 and 1932. Stay with them, you anti-Corn Belt Liberty Leaguers! They are only tools of the Republican Party, promising the people two chickens in every pot and a car in every garage. LC I am a farmer myself by proxy and have only one objection to the present AAA setup. It is not rigid enough in the protection of marketing prices against the price-fixing boards of trade which should be totally abolished by law. That would allow the farmer to set his own selling: prices, with certain restrictions on the amount produced and offered for sale at certain specified times. Such a procedure, I believe, would aid, the present AAA setup. But the nays from the Republicans would be even louder. The farmer has been a political tool of the G. O. P. and they want to continue him as a tool.
EGOTISM
By ROBERT O. LEVELL
The one who thinks he’s funny, In some untruthful way, Hasn't gained a single thing Or made a friend today.
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‘He’s made himself repulsive * Wherever he has been, Jiigt “a common nuisance When he has butted in.
DAILY THOUGHT
Blessed be the name of God forever and ever: for wisdom and might are His.—Daniel 2:20.
IVE near to God, and so all _¢ things: will appear: to you little
in comparison with eternal realities. --R. M. McCheyne.
‘1'ness concerns.
HOLDS CONGRESS’ DISORDER SHOULDN'T BOTHER US By B. C. A traveling American newspaperman has been observing the House of Commons at work, and he reports that when it comes to boisterousness, noise and general disorder the much-maligned U. S. House of
| Representatives can’t hold a candle to its British counterpart.
The correspondent has watched numerous assortments of American legislative clowns, rabble-rousers, and eccentrics at work, and he writes home that an ordinary House of Commons session is enlivened with behavioristic fireworks that would “cause a complete suspension of activity in Washington.” Responsible to an extent, he writes, is the wide social and economic gap between the Conservatives and the Opposition. But if you should find the House of Representatives some day! getting boisterous to a comparable degree, don’t assume the climax of the Class Struggle has arrived at last. Remind yourself: The House of Commons has. been meeting regularly for considerably longer than the United States Government has been functioning. ]
2 » = CONTRASTS POSITION OF BUSINESS, COLLEGES
By J. L. : One out of every 22 business and industrial concerns went into bankruptcy during the last three years. But churches, colleges and hospitals have survived the depression far better than the country’s busiOnly one out of every 45 colleges have been closed because of financial difficulties, one
of every 44 hospitals and only one
of every 2300 churches. Why? The reason is that our churches, colleges and hospitals have been
| far more conservative in their ex-
pansion plans than business. The churches, colleges. and hospitals which are in the worst financial difculties today are those which violated the conservative practices and borrowed money for expansion. The leaders in the field deserve to be congratulated for their fine record.
| HOPES TO SEE
FEENEY SHERIFF By Taxpayer ‘Ray for Al Feeney. It just goes to show you when a guy tries to get
in office the wrong way, he always comes out on the bottom. : Good uck, Al. I hope you are
our Sheriff,
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EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
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long as she makes him feel he is really thé superior person.
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ACCORDING to Science Service, failure to eat plenty of green vegetables, and thus load
your system up with plenty of
Vitamin A is probably directly responsible for a good many auto accidents at night. If the eye lacks Vitamin A, the glare from an approaching auto will last hundreds of feet farther than if it is toned up with this vitamin. - Prolonged lack of this vitamin may even set up “night-blindness”—a very grave form of near-blindness—something that some drivers have but don't know. it. Milk, butter and especially parsley, are the best sources of Vitamin A. ;
. » ” MRS. JEAN L. SHEPARD, director -of executive personnel of one of fhe largest department stores in the world says, from long experience, that this is the surest way to lose a friend or prevent an acfrom growing into . How to induce a faults and yet not of the most difficult has assigned to
Gen. Johnson’ Says—
Medical Association Is Headed for Dog-House of Public Disfavor, but Antitrust Action Won't Aid Cause.
ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 3-—Two items in today’s news raise novel conflicts. Out in Iowa, a Governor who has declared martial law at the scene of a labor conflict used the authority of its existence to close a hearing of the National Labor Relations Board. In Washington, Trustbuster Arnold of the Department of Justice announced that he is going to begin prosecution of a branch of the American Medical Association as a “combination in restraint of trade” in violation of the antitrust acts. Martial law is a paradox. It is nolaw at all. It is an official act of community self-preservation in some
great public calamity like a flood, fire, earthquake or riot. It is in itself a violation of law and the official who invokes it must be prepared to defend his illegal actions on the ground of absolute and unavoidable necessity. :
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DOUBT if there is a case on record where martial tain such a quasi-judicial commission as the NLRB,
law was invoked to suspend rather than to suse In this case it is being attempted on the ground
- that the Labor Board itself is the cause of the dis
turbance and is preventing a settlement. It would be curious enough if what we had here was the executive of a state using martial law to suspend a state commission, but this case is even more astonishing in that martial law is being used by a State Governor to suspend a Federal function presumably in a constitutional Federal field. If the Federal Government chose to resist in an area controlled by state troops, it could do so only by importing Federal troops. That would be a civil war— which is, of course, absurd. The incident will pass peacefully, but it goes to show the danger in any unnecessary use of this extraordinary power. The American Medical Association doesn’t like co-operative medicine, According to news reports, it has been boycotting doctors who lend themselves
to plans for co-operative health insurance and to
groups which hire their doctors out of a common:
T= is no use blinking at the fact that medical attention and hospital care are just too exe
pensive for the lower income classes and that some-. thing must be done about it. But what's going on here? ‘The American Medical Association is a kind of high hat union of doctors. It would be pretty hard to distinguish what they are doing here from what
labor unions do every day to “restrain trade.” It is true that unions are exempted from the terms of the antitrust acts, but it is not so clear that an associa« tion of doctors couldn’t qualify as a union. The association didn’t cover itself with medals for co-operation in the recent Washington health con=ference. Its resistance to the growing demand for co-operative clinics is heading straight for the doghouse of public. disfavor. But is this the way to bring about the desired end? It is a slick, novel and sort of smart-aleck use of a 40-year-old law for a purpose which nobody ever before, believed that it was intended. It is a little like the invoking of martial law to produce a sleight-of-hand result and neither is good, stable administration,
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Columnist Favors Charlie McCarthy Over John O'Connor for Congress.
N= YORK, Aug. 3.—Rep. Samuel B. Pettengill (Dem.) of Indians has rushed to the defense of John J. O'Connor (Tam. Dem.) of New York. In ringe ing tones the.gentleman from Indiana makes an ine quiry of the voters of the 16th. District, New York, and asks, “Do you want Charlie McCarthy as your Cone gressman—or John O'Connor?” I didn’t know that the dummy was running, but, if so, it seems to me that there should be time for mature consideration before an answer is rendered to Rep. Pettengill. Possibly it is irrelevant to suggest that Charlie McCarthy attracts a much larger number of ‘admiring listeners, and that as a rule his remarks are more to the point than those of his flesh and blood rival. The rivals have a different manner of approach to public problems. Charlie is always on the record. Once he is lifted from the rostrum, Charlie lapses into silence. Much of O'Connor’s work in Washington is not known at all to outsiders. His most effective thrusts are delivered behind the closed doors of committees. In other words, John begins where Charlie leaves off. McCarthy is wholly unskilled in pulling strings or wires, while O'Connor is an adept at this art. Again, it is a fairly familiar fact that when Charlie speaks the voice is really that of Edgar Bergen, but when John J. O'Connor voices a free and untrams . meled opinion one can only guess just which person, group or interest has animated him into becoming articulate. Of course, no constituent will go very far astray if he assumes that when John J. gets vocal it is the voice of the Tiger which is heard in the land. O'Connor has served the organization well and faithfully under many Wigwam leaders.
Charlie at Least Turns His Head
Mr. Pettengill, of Indiana, may be unfamiliar with the political history of Manhattan. “Do you want a rubber stamp of a man?” is one of the queries he submits to Mr. O’Connor’s constituents. Seemingly he is under the impression that Tammany makes it a rule to push forward only men of complete independence who make all decisions according to their own conscience. ! It may even be that John J. O'Connor has served under a special dispensation in Washington, and has never been under the compulsion of yielding to the will of the machine. But that is not the rule. If Charlie McCarthy actually intends to run I would advise vdters in the Sixteenth to support him rather than O'Connor. It is better to have a Repre= sentative who can at least turn his head rather than one who is compelled in every crisis to bow. it
Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein
FoEsTicaTions made among students coming into one of the larger universities in the United States indicated that only about one-fourth had had a fairly recent vaccination against smallpox. Among physicians generally the impression. is prevalent that people are not availing themselves of this protective device of modern medicine as they should avail themselves, if smallpox is to be kept in the realm of controllable diseases. . Since men have lost their fear of smallpox they have become inclined to neglect protective measures, with the likelihood that smallpox may yet reappear as a virulent disease. : The history of smallpox goes back deeply into antiquify. There seems to be evidence that it oce curred as far back as the 12th Century B. C. The available records indicate that smallpox reached America in 1520, when a Negro slave with the disease came into Mexico with the troops of Cortez.’ The epidemic thus created destroyed the lives: of more than three and a half million people. Now today, as the result of the widespread use of vaccination against smallpox, few people ever see a case. - Bg as Every child should be vaccinated as a baby, and again when it enters school in the sixth year. Whenever the disease appears as an outbreak in any community, everyone should be vaccinated at ones if he has not had a successful vaccination with.
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