Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1938 — Page 10

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1038 — IN SHANGHAI— 7

\UT of the grist of troubled news of the world comes

a story of new threats by the Japanese to take over the International Sett]ément of Shanghai. The Japanese military forces already are in control of the Chinese section of Shanghai, but they complain they are harassed by Chinese terrorists who flee back into the International Settlement and there are protected from

Japanese pursuit. | It has been apparent from the day the Japanese moved on Shanghai that they intended eventually to take over the whole of that comfnunity of 4,060,000 inhabitants. It is a rich prize, this city at the mouth of the Yangtze River — the Mississippi of China—through which flow the exports and imports of nearly 200,000,000 people. Thus far the Japanese have been so busy subjugating the Chinese that they haven't got around to the point of undertaking a military occupation of the International Settlement, wherein are situated the U. S., British and other foreign trade interests. The settlement has 1,160,000 residents, of whom more than one million are Chinese, but it is governed independently by a municipal council, on which sit five British members, five Chinese, two Japanese and two Americans. “ The ground on which the International Settlement is situated was but a reedy mudflat a century ago. After the “Opium War” of 1843 the British gained a concession there for trade purposes, to which later was added an adjoining site leased by American interests. On 99-odd years of treaty rights, capital investments and enterprise of other peoples has been built a going concern. Quite naturally, the covetous Japanese would like to take full possession. But it is not likely that Americans and Europeans will relinquish what is theirs until forced to, and it is not likely that the Japanese will press their claims too far until they think they can carry out their designs. Meanwhile it is part of Japanese strategy to make life miserable for all foreigners in China. Hence the frequency of “incidents” in the rich port of Shanghai.

ONE DAY IN EUROPE— WO members of the French Cabinet resign after Premier Daladier declares France must abandon the 40hour week, to increase production and national income in order to avert another financial and economic crisis and build up the efficiency of her defense industries. “Let us put France back to work and save the peace,” says the Premier. And France waits, fearful that the answer of labor unions may be a retaliatory and paralyzing general strike. :

Generalissimo Franco turns thumbs down “on the British plan to withdraw foreign “volunteers” from Spain,

upsetting the only program that had been devised to quar- :

antine and prevent the spread of Spain’s “little world war,” thereby postponing indefinitely the effective date of the British-Italian Mediterranean appeasement pact, and in turn weakening Prime Minister Chamberlain's diplomacy in the German-Czechoslovak crisis. Amid pomp and ceremony, Admiral Horthy, regent of Hungary, visits Germany and talks with Der Fuehrer reportedly of plans to bring Hungary into the Nazi sphere. Can this mean that the peoples who once comprised the Central Powers are step by step moving into another alliance and down another road to war? We have troubles over here—hot weather, pogr prices for our crops, unemployment, unbalanced budgets, New Deal party purges, and Mexico to the south making hash of our cherished good neighbor policy. But the fact that we don’t live in day-by-day terror that tomorrow may bring bombs from overhead—that fact alone, by comparison, makes this hemisphere a pretty good place to live.

HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

UOTED from the platform of the Hon. Galen L. Tait, . Republican ‘candidate for United States Senator in Maryland— ’ “I have a belief in: : i “Lincoln’s declaration of Government by and for the people.

“Theodore Roosevelt's dislike for the misuse of wealth and his aversion for unclean politics and desire to’ advance social welfare. : “McKinley’s general policy made modern of American markets for American labor and his fear of currency inflaon.

come true, of peace and a world made safe for democracy. “Samuel Gompers’ judicious principles of labor's advancement and of fair reciprocal collective bargaining. “Chief Justice Hughes’ austere defense of the sanctity of the high courts. = “Calvin Coolidge’s passion for economy and a balanced national budget. : “Franklin D. Roosevelt’s expression of our nation’s humanitarian purpose that the hungry should not go unfed. “The opinions of Hoover and Landon, Al Smith and John W. Davis, Borah and Wheeler, Vandenberg and Glass » + « that Government should take the proffered hand of business... exchange steady jobs with real money for relief doles, and pull us from the yawning pit of national bankruptcy and the threatened downfall of the American institutions of Government we have known and cherished.” This has been an election season of magnificent claiming and gargantuan promises. But no other candidate we have heard of has equalled the performance of the Hon. Mr. Tait in establishing kinship with so many and so diversified. - Nor has any other—not even the Texan who . combined the Ten Commandments with hillbilly rhythm— surpassed the Hon. Mr. Tait in setting forth a political phil.

“Woodrow Wilson's noble dream, which God grant shall

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Our Columnist Won't Take Chances :

With Piane Players Who Go in for

Cross-Handed Stuff. Here's Why. : 3 EW YORK, Aug. 23—A man called up and said | 5

he had some tickets for Jose Iturbi, piano player, and I asked, “Does he do it cross-handed?” “Does he do, it cross-handed?” he said. “Brother, he does it cross-handed, back-handed, blind-folded, anything you wish. Why?” : So I said I would pass it up because— ; Well, one time they were having a terrible winter in Florida. No chumps, no fix, plenty of prohibition trouble and the boats were sailing right on past Miami for Cuba. 2 : Wi

That winter my friend, Mr. Cutey Pearce, had a nice little plant where he was prepared to deal a high-class line of wines, liquors and , rare viands and exotic delicacies, and he would sit there night after lonely night, snarling at those boats going by. i ® 8 a

HIS terrible winter Mr. Pearce had in his plant one of those personal service pianists with a

| little portable, horse-face piano about the size of a

laundry hamper. The gag was to measure the house and pick a table where some fellow was tearing up money for fun, then roll the little box over in the lee of that table and start singing request numbers for the members of the fair sex. This would flatter the chump who was lifting the weight for the party and he would order more wine if he was any gentleman in appreciation of this compliment to his pick.. The pianist, if he was any way bright, would soon sense the theme song of the party and give i plenty. . © : Well, things were just awful, but one night, what do you know, in pops a live one, a little bald guy, with a great big blue-eyed baby. There were about eight in the party, but.the iittle bald guy was the papa. You could see that.

» » » HE gentleman ordered wine, which wasn’t free but $25 a crock at that time, and Mr. Pearce cracked his hands for that piano mug, but that one

had already thrown down his racing form and was bearing down on the table like a taxicab, clouting those keys on the wing. He pulled up alongside with the fancy flourish of a U. S. destroyer and began to bear down on the love angle and the big blond began to roll her eyes and squeeze the little bald guy's hand. It looked like the rent, all right. But pretty soon the piano guy began to play cross-handed. He would sing about love and lean toward the big blond, and then cross his hands on that keyboard. And pretty soon the big blond let

“loose of the little bald guy’s hand and put her elbows

on the table and her chin on her hands and started giving that great big blue-eyed business to the piano mug, who didn’t have a dime. -This lasted abeut 10 minutes until suddenly the little bald guy jumped up, measured the big blond and busted her a beauty, right on one of her pretty blue eyes. There was a terrible scuffle at that, and after Mr. Pearce had regretfully given the whole party a heave into the evening he came back and fired the pianist. ; “Never,” Mr. Pearce said to me, “never trust a cross-handed piano player. Make them play it spraight, because the minute they begin that crosshanded business they are up to something.” So you can have Jose Iturbi. .

Business By John T. Flynn

Italy Substituted Water for Oil and Coal, But Now Water Is Scarce.

EW YORK, Aug. 23.—So much has appeared in the public news of the. adverse market and business factors in Germany that Italy has been overlooked. Besides, Italian cénsorship of the export of news may be more perfect. : But Italy has been suffering from a severe drought which has done some serious things to her. A bulletin of the U. 8S. Bureau of Mines points out that this drought has worked a peculiar hardship on Italy. Mussolini has developed the water powsr resources of Italy to a high point.: This is his substitute fo coal and oil of which Italy has a very meager are. : But the drought has dried up her Brooks andcreeks and shut off her vast water supplies which keep her hydroelectric plants rmning. One result is that ih larger cities electric plants have had to: shift over to coal and oil, which Italy must import. But she can import only limited quantities because her resources will not permit more. Therefore consumers have been notified that they must curtail their use of electric power 25 per cent. " For a while the Government relied on the hope that the heavy summer heat would melt the snow in the mountains and start the supplies of water. But the snowfall was so meager that this hope proved illusory. i" All this has imposed a serious and unlooked-for load upon Mussolini's import resources, since he has no surplus of ‘exports with which to buy imports of coal and oil. >

Tourist Trade Off

Whether this is the cause of the downward movement of business in Italy in the last few months cannot be determined here. But business has slowed down seriously. For some reason the tourist business, even from friendly Germany, has declined. This is the worst kind of trade loss to Italy since tourists bring in fresh supplies of money which is what Mussolini needs most. . The silk crop has fallen off ahout 40 per cent from the level of last year. Imports .and exports were lower in the summer than last year. And wholesale prices have been rising. y One‘of the prices that the populations of the dictator countries pay is sacrifice. And while all those industries which supply war materials operate at boom levels, those who get employment there can buy but little with their wages, since prices rise and taxes are high, and the Government bond issues are frequent and the things they would like to buy are not even manufactured. . . The business situation in Germany and Italy may

be the key to what will happen in the immediate future. |

A Women's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson el

«“,gNHEY want to start in where their parents left off.” How often we hear the remark applied to young married couples. It is exactly as pertinent, 1 think, to the problem of the college graduate looking for a job. Many times the son hopes to begin in the position from which his father retires. Marriages fail by the thousands these days, partly because the boys and girls can’t take hardship the way their parents did. Being used to more creature comforts, they find it harder to stick together when poverty overtakes them. Yet it should be.remembered thdt many pioneer women left homes that were. hot oBly comfortable but elegant, for those

education can get it. ; HATE In a sense, we are right back where we The boy with the intelligence to master his stick-to-it-iveness to hang on through disco

LL GET IT ON ONE OF THESE TWISTS!

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~The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, duit will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

MERRILL JACKSON REPLIES TO CHARGES BY FREY By Merrill Jackson In your Aug. 16 issue you carried the charge, made by John Frey before the Dies Committee, in Washington, that I am a Communist, and was one of “27 Communist delegates to the last national convention of the Workers Alliance.” In fairness

to the Workers Alliance and myself, I request that you print. the following reply to these ridiculous statements: : : (1) Having withdrawn from .the Alliance long before its last convention was held, I did not attend the convention in any capacity. (2) As Indiana state secretary of the Workers Alliance during 1935 and 1936, I have had much experience with this type of “red-baiting.” Back of these underhanded attacks are usually found reactionary big business interests who believe that WPA workers should give up their democratic rights because they are receiving meager benefits from the Government. These very iftterests are not adverse to accepting RFC handouts, or tariff benefits. (3) Mr, Frey is a very common type of A. F. of L. official. It has long been the custom of the ruling clique of the A. F. of L. to refuse to organize large sections of the working population because these workers could not afford the high dues demanded. When, as in the case of the WPA and .unemployed workers, they are organized despite Mr. Frey and his ilk, they are branded “Communist” as if this should ostracize them. (It is interesting to note Mr. Frey's own union, the molders, has suffered a more than 60 per cent decrease in membership since 1920.) : : (4) It would be interesting to know why the Dies Committee sud-, denly shifted its attention from the wide-spread Nazi activity in the U. S. A, after testimony had shown a nation-wide network of Nazi and

-| Fascist spies and agents bent on de-

stroying American institutions. Most Americans would like to see the Dies Committee quit playing politics aimed at embarrassing the C. IL O. and other progressive forces, and confine its activities to the ur-

gent task of exposing Hitler's horde .

of stool-pigeons in this country. 8 = 8 STRIKE WITHOUT SIDES DRAWS COMMENT By B. C. 3

It's a rare thing when a strike bobs up that has the blessings of all parties concerned, aggravates no one, and raises cheers besides from all the unconcerned parties on the sidelines. Such a strike was called in New York City the other day. It was a sitdown strike, and what a sitdown! The strikers—more than half a hundred of them—installed them-

false to God can never be true

selves in the middle of a street on

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the East Side, and let the automobiles shift for themselves. g The autoists werent mad, the merchants weren't mad, and the police weren't mad. And neither was anybody else. The strikers were persuaded by the law to move to the sidewalk after a while, but the persuasion was good-natured, and the motive was consideration for the strikers’ safety. The strikers’ average age was about 10. The strike was for a street sprinkler such as the city had provided for the heatweary kids on other streets. The boys and girls on East 21st Street felt they'd had a bum deal. “At latest. reports a conference with the mayor was being arranged. Let the poor kids on the nation’s East Sides, caught in squalor, trapped by stone and steel and beaten by the sun, strike seven days a week and twice on Saturdays. Society needs strikes like that.

: 2 ” ® WPA HELD STEP IN SOLVING DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM By Hiram Lackey . Mr. R. W. P., writing in the -Hoosier Forum of Aug. 17, contends that a ‘man receiving $65 monthly from private industry should not engage in union activities designed to raise

.wages, buf: . “keep his mouth shut

and be thankful” If it were not for union men who do open their mouths and protest, Mr. R. W. P. would never have had his $65 job to be thankful for. The fact that we are working for American wages instead of Congo Valley wages represents a long hard fight of men cf such quality as Debs, Lewis and

TORTURE

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL Must I endure this every day? O habit, take yourself away So I will not await In sick suspense to hear the call That will not come again at all. But habits dominate. i

DAILY THOUGHT

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him=-John 3:36.

EVER trust anybody not of Sound: Teligion, Jor he fhat 13

man.—Lord Burleigh.

{ Roosevelt, for whom we should be deeply grateful. | Mr. R. W. P. writes as if he were

paying all the expenses of WPA out of his own pocket, and as if the wealth involved were as complete a loss as a building destroyed by fire. The truth is that the WPA worker himself is a taxpayer. As'a rule, the smaller a man’s income, the greater is the portion of it that goes for taxes. -. a : As to the debt that those on WPA owe to society, let me remind Mr. R.W. P. that they have no monopoly on that. Let Mr. R. W. P. consider what he enjoys for one day and let him ask himself how he could obtain all these blessings by his own individual efforts. WPA is not a method of redistribution of wealth. Bimonthly the money returns tothe taxpayers. By putting money into circulation men are enabled to serve each other. It is one of Roosevelt's first steps toward solving the problem of distribution, in the technical sense. Since gratitude is Mr. R. W. P.’s plea, let us remind him that he owes his heavy debt of gratitude to those fighters who supply our society with enough common: sense to save us from the horror and destruction that has ruined our neighbor Spain. WPA, with all its imperfections, is such common sense. And WPA will be perfected as rapidly as this Administration can overcome the fallacies, deceptions and general ignorance of the opposition party. As an example of what we mean by ignorance, let us mention the argument that the head of an American family should be. satisfied with $65 per month.

: ® 8 =» DIFFERS WITH FLYNN ON HOUSING By A. B. C.

Mr. John T: Fiynn’s article Aug. 19, dealing with the housing problem, gave the Farm Security housing program at La Forge, Mo. as a sample of good low-cost housing. The 100 houses there are on éoncrete stilts, io basement, no central heating, no plumbing, and cost about $2000. If any builder in this neck of the woods tries to produce that kipd of housing, he had better get enough money down to save his

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shirt. _ The kind of housing John J. Public wants is $5000 houses at $2000 ‘prices. They must be up to the minute in design and detail. With all the reconditioned houses offered by HOLC at ridiculously low prices, and rents far below a fair return on the investment, the buyer will not gain much from new standard housing on his owh account, Builders are not Santa Claus. Low grade housing is not necessary. It is the most expensive in the

LET'S

EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM.

| married their

sons I know and where they are ‘seem about

[Gon Johnson.

If Dies Committee Is Yo Do Some [Effective Witch-Finding, Let It . Question a Few New Deal Officials. ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 23.—Monday’s press carried a story that I am to be called before the Dies committee investigating “un-American” activities to tell what evidences of communism developed while I was organizing WPA in New York City. I hope they don’t, because I couldn't tell them anything of value, 2... . vo ‘Of course, there were Communists on WPA relief, But what is the matter with that? There is a Com=

munist Party in this country. It is no crime to belong to it. Many sincere people believe in the principles of communism. If the time ever comes in this country - when & man can be persecuted or even discriminated

the program of any group is to to the. laws or the Constitution of the tntteq

-opinion, that is the essence of our institutions.

is to combine with -swift,

by violence—to install governors, not by majority vote, but by superior force in minority hands. There is a right of revolution but it is like the right of self-defense. He who asserts it must justify it. There is no doubt that the Communist strategy is to “bore from within.” It is to ally itself with every liberal movement, not assérting its real aims, but using the sincere purposes of reformers to stir up continuing discontent and class warfare in the hope of creating a chaos in which some Communist ‘man-on-horseback can become head of the state and from that vantage point get by violence what

2 solle not be had by democratic process of majority

I started an “intelligence” section in New York

{ WPA—not to discover Communists, which was easy

—but to warn me of any graft, sabotage, or incitations to violence. It was: plain, but not provable, that there were: so-called Communist “cells” in many projects and constant attempts to keep relief workers discontented and hostile. But there were no overt acts against Federal authority that came to my attention. : . 8 ® =» YT TALKED to some of these so-called Communists by the hour. Generally, they were people who had received a sour deal from life. Generally, also, they were highly ‘intelligent. I saw none whom I could regard with anything but sympathy and regret. It is not these futile professional Communists that should concern us. They believe in “production for use and not for profit.” They plump for “dictator ship of the proletariat.” But the difference between

in Washington, and who would indignantly deny any accusation of kinship with Communists, is only one of degree. They believe in essentially the same ends, but

If the Dies Commiteee really wants to do some effective witch-finding, I would suggest that it ask a few guys like Aubrey Williams for a true confession of their economic and political beliefs

as

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun A Man's Own House Is Just About

The Last Place to Break Training.

EW YORK, Aug. 23.—Once a year the New York. furf Writers hold 8 banquet in Saratoga, and 1 get a chance to pay my annual tribute to racing. Naturally I mean a verbal tribute, because in a more or less steady way throughout the summer, early

spring and winter I make more practical and concrete contributions.

cheer up my newspaper conferees or the cash custo‘mers. “What are you to talk about?” asked Henry King, the president of the writers. “I thought Td just use the first hour or so of my lecture on righteousness,” I replied. The air was so still and hear King’s jaw drop. “I'm afraid, Heywood,” he said, “that isn’t a very happy subject for Saratoga.” “So youre the Hitler of the horse reporters,” I snarled savagely. “What has become of free speech, free press and the right of assembly? ‘' Besides I come from Connecticut, and righteousness is my only concern. I carry it with. me wherever I go.” President King courteously scratched his objection. = It is quite true that I am a Puritan and opposed to liquor and ‘to gambling. And yet we Puritans are ‘nbt so blue as we have been painted. Indeed, it was the Pilgrim Fathers who first introduced to America

| the happy idea of a day devoted to breaking training. Like all pioneers the Puritans did not make the

most of their excellent idea. In two respects the Puri.

ing successfully. The Penalties of Gambling

If you gamble and lose then you lose. But if win the little woman gets it. At least that has my own experience, for the lady who is to act as my bridge partner always carries with a black purse which constitutes the most extensive

gressor rededicate himselt to righteousness with renewed enthusiasm. But that step should be taken a ‘long way from home.

whereby I would go to Saratoga for a spree, and leave behind the keys of the city so that Frank Sullivan might journey to Connecticut and take a whirl at the mad life of New Canaan. :

| Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ates by argument and the creation of a majority

se, there is a field beyond that—a field

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them and many who now sit in the seats of the mighty

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But last week-end I was unable to do much to

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moth ranch this side of Aberdeen. ¢ One alse step can often serve to make the trans -*

Thus once a month an exchange should be effected

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