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‘WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ‘24, 1938

BLYTHE Q. HENDRICKS - NDIANAPOLIS has lost a loyal citizen in the Jeatiy of Blythe Q. Hendricks. As a newspaperman, as a radio -announcer and executive, as a lawyer, and later as secretary ‘of the Safety Board, Mr. Hendricks was deeply and sincerely interested in all things Hoosier. His was a pioneering spirit and to his credit stand several of radio and press firsts. Yet Mr. Hendricks never

took that credit. He would say that Indiana did it first. But finest of all perhaps was the fact that people were

‘not simply his acquaintances. * the full sense of that word.

They* were his friends in That Blythe Hendricks has

:-gone is a sad blow to a great many persons. -

‘BICYCLE COURTS A PORTE'S novel “bicycle court” is a fine example of long-range traffic safety planning. ; The court was established by Mayor Alban Smith as ‘a possible solution to the ‘bicycle traffic problem of that city,

where it is estimated one out of every three persons is a _ cyclist. With a 17-year-old judge and a 14-year-old prosecutor, the court held its first session yesterday. Youthful

_-offenders received fines ranging from 15 cents to 50 cents ]

“or were sentenced to stop riding for periods up ‘to a week “or to see a safety movie. With each sentence went a brief lecture from the judge. Here, apparently, is a method for showing youngsters the seriousness of the bicycle traffic problem—700 were _ killed and 35,000 injured in collisions between bicycles and

+ automobiles last year.

At the same time it will serve to

‘ acquaint La Porte children with the various traffic regulations. The experiment should save lives. Besides that La Porte can look forward to results five * or 10 years hence when these “big? riders have become

motorists.

“THEN, WHO DID SIGN IT? ENATORIAL courtesy may be a fine thing, but it. seems a little out of bounds to stretch it all the way from Har- _ risburg, Pa’, to Vichy, France, and from midsummer to

3 * midautumn.

i Several days ago the Sheppard Campaign Expenditures “Committee received evidence of a campaign solicitation letter circularized among Pennsylvania Democrats and “signed with the name of Senator Joseph F. Guffey, as cam- * paign manager for the Democratic ticket. Many of those solicitation circulars, it was reported, : were received by Federal jobholders. And since the Federal “feriminal code specifically forbids any Federal official or ~ employee to solicit political contributions from another Federal jobholder, the charge was made that Senator Guffey

“had violated the law.

But the Senator, by trans-Atlantic

“telephone, said he did not write the letter, did not sign it and did not authorize the use of his signature. Right there, “* the Senatorially courteous committee let the matter drop, with a dull thud, Chairman Sheppard remarking that the . committee would further consider the question after Senator ~ Guffey returns from his vacation—which will be about the A middle of September, when, presumably, the issue will have

“grown cold.

The Sheppard Committee was set up to function stead- : ily through the primary campaigns and the fall election. - It was given money to hire investigators and power to . subpena witnesses and evidence. We wouldn’t, for anything in the world, suggest that Senator Guffey be summoned

home prematurely, before he had completed his enjoyment of Vichy waters.

But we think the least the committee

could do—presuming it wants to enforce the election laws —would be to send an investigator to Harrisburg and find out, if Senator Guffey didn’t write and sign that letter, who did. The Committee alsc could get its hands on the GuffeyDemocratic headquarters mailing list, and then it might well use its influence to compel the return of all campaign funds unlawfully solicited. ;

UNHAPPY LANDING " T'RANK HAWKS is dead. The gallant, grinning airman who used to knock off transcontinental speed records as casually as most of us would sprint a block to catch a streetcar, was fatally injured when Something went wrong in a routine demonstration flight.

Capt. Hawks was a trail-blazer, and one of the ablest.

In the records of the first three decades of American avia- " tion his name is among a handful that stand out. Today commercial planes, in which passengers may sleep and eat and smoke in comfort, are flying from coast to coast on daily schedules as fast as he flew back ‘in 29. And that is probably as much of an epitaph as he would

want,

~ MERCURIAL MATHEMATICS ; A 12,000,000-BALE cotton crop is a-growing in Southern

fields.

We've got a carry-over, a sirius, of about 13, 000, 000

bales.

The Government holds about 7,000, 000 bales on which

" {it has made loans. ‘Now the Government is getting realy ts make some more cotton loans and acquire some more cotton collateral. The AAA has announced its new 1939 cotton program

which provides for planting about the same acreage to {

cotton next year as was planted this. © That will mean maybe another 10,000, 000 0 or 12,000,000 bales next year. We don’t know the answer to the problem these figures

. pose.

And nobody lie does—

5 Unless you do.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

We Are a Land of Gangsters, an Mussolini's Official Organ Says, Despite His Missionaries’ Work.

EW YORK, ai. 24.—The President is the |.

warden of his own tongue, but a’ reckless speech of the kind he delivered last week at Kingston, Ontario, may bring down dreadful consequences. In this case, it has happened, suddenly and terribly Mr. Roosevelt's intemperate remarks about the brutality,

as he perceives it, of the nondemocratic countries,"

have offended the Bologna newspaper, II Resta Del

Carlino, an official Fascist Party organ and thus |

a mouthpiece of Mussolini himself, and we are de-

- nounced as a nation of gangsters.

Well, truth to tell, we had it coming. ‘We are land of gangsters, and that in spite of the missionary work of the Unione Siciliana and of Al, Frank and

Ralph Capone, Albert Anselmi and John Scalesi, and

of Big Jim Colosimo, who introduced efficiency into the previously haphazard business of brothel-keeping. : ie oe : TE Bologna newspaper points out that Italy already had 20 centuries of civilization when an Italian discovered America, and has the benefit of

25 centuries now. A Colosimo, a Capone and their culture and: methods would be commonplace in a

.land of such ancient civilization, but “they are a

little advanced for us cultural parvenues. We somehow remain a shade ungrateful to the roll of martyr missionaries who brought us’ such cultural refinements as back-stabbing, the one-way ride, the sack-trick, the concrete-block trick, the sawed-off shotgun, counterfeiting, extortion and the pineapple. The roll of martyr missionaries is long and sad. Of

: the illustrious brothers Genna of Chicago, three are

dead. Diamond Joe Esposito is dead. Gone are Frank Capone, Frankie Uale, Antonio Torchio, Sam Valente, Tony Russo, Tony Curringioni, Vincent Specussa, Joe Guinta, Joe Farraro, Johnny Gaudino, Tony Lombardo and the brothers D'Andrea.

2 = 8 ABRIOLA, Casanelli, Raimondi, Oliveri, Tropea,

Baldelli, Salmone, Nerone, Lolordo, Scalesi, Anselmi, Cavaretti, Alliotti, Laspisa—musical names,

all—bespeaking the poetry of a beautiful civilization

whose seeds they sowed on barbarian Chicago. All dead in the service of civilization but Scalesi and Anselmi, happily, could pay, posthumously, to be

returned to their dear Sicilian hills. There Mussolini on his pastoral rounds, may salute them with up- |

raised hand, and, perhaps, one day, adorn their

graves with the insignia of the order of the crown,

the same that he bestowed on Commendatore Tomaso Pendergast, of Kansas City, where Jim Colosimo’s

system of brothel-keeping is nurtured for a more

cultural day in America. . \ Let no: the Swedes, Irish, Germans or Jews of our community lay claim to works of the missionaries: who came from that civilization which flowers now in the Duce’s son who bombed the unarmed Ethiopians. No Swede, Irishman, German or Jew ever bore the name of Tucillo, De Laurento, Tough Tony Califiori, Lucky Luciano, Pepe or Johnny Genaro, James Belcastro, Rocco Fanelli, Danny Vallo, Pisano, Gambina or Vicenzo Demora. It is a noble roster, and the local names of Little Hell and Death Corner in Chicago perhaps will be marked with monuments, as mile stones on the rough road to the civilization of which the Duce makes not immodest boast at our expense,

Business By John T. Flynn

Lag of Construction Industries Still Blocks the Way to Recovery.

EW YORK, Aug. 24.—A month or two should tel’

the story of what is going to happen to business. The tendency of the market is up and it is up without much help from the professionals. The public has been sold the idea that recovery is at hand. However, since July 2 the market has moved up

and down within a narrow range. The optimists are basing their hopes upon the belief that with the coming of September business will improve. A few months ago this optimism was founded upon the belief that the construction industry would pick up under the influence of Government spending. This has not happened. Now hope turns to the stimulation of the consumer goods industries under the spur of increased Government spending. A calm, dispassionate survey of the situation reveals that business activity declined in July and will probably show a further decline in August. Some of this; of course, is due to seasonal shutdowns and must therefore be discounted. But when all is said and done the pickup in business has not yet materialized. . But with the coming of fall the consumers goods industries should get back into action. Also by that time perhaps the Government's spending program may get under way. It certainly has not done so thus far. If these two forces conjoin after Labor Day we may see an improvement in Wusiness.

A More Realistic Attitude

It is certain now that the attitude with reference to the future is. somewhat more realistic. Three months ago there was a large section which supposed —indeed believed profoundly—that we were on the edge of boom. That optimism has given way to another and more intelligent form of optimism, namely that business is going to improve slowly, but continuously, for some time. One thing must be guarded against. As October gets under way and the election nears it is certain that the ¥ederal Government is going io make a desperate effort to increase its spendings and this will have the effect of creating a temporary stimulus. There is plenty of money, plenty of confidence. The main trouble is that the construction industries refuse to be rushed. The other trouble is that too much reliance is placed on the power of the consumers goods industries to create a revival. A few months ago everyone seemed to believe that retail -buyers would rush into the market to stock up. Now disappointment is expressed that they have not done so. Both positions are wrong. Retail buyers do not stock up any more. They buy from hand to mouth.

A Women's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE columnist and the rhinocerous have one thing in common—a tough hide. :

The sensitive soul wouldn’t last three minutes at this: job, but after you've been at it a long time you.

learn to relish:the letters signed “A Subscriber,” or “A Mere Man,” or “None of Your Business.” They bristle with cactus adjectives, which prick the ego and are probably good medicine for the person on the receiving end. .

A missive which came this morning brings up a

subject that has interested me for a long while. “You sound rude, crude, uncouth, tactless and vicious,” the gentleman begins. “In my. opinion men have all the humor and intelligence, and you can’t get away from it. The cat part of a woman always comes out sooner or later. As a rule no matter how

Pardon me, but I don’t believe a word pf it. So far as I've been able to discover, men don’t give each other any more help or affection than we do, and that famous sex solidarity we have heard so much about—where is it? Hiding in the gutter, where it was booted by a fellow male, no doubt.

- sweet they. act women hate each other.”

I daresay there's a bit of the cat in every. one - of us, only in men it grows to tiger proportions.

The idea that women are catty is merely another of those silly left-handed compliments men are for‘ever paying themselves. For what, in the traditional

opinion, prompts women to snarl at each other? The

struggle for men’s favor, to be sure.

This is just about the most fatuous notion that

was ever itched in the h - br this umor-loving masculine

The Hoosier Forum

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

DECLARES COMMUNISM IS THREAT TO U. S. By Phin American

May I answer E. J. Stolz’s letter in the Forum of Aug. 18? Too many of us true Americans resent this “red” propaganda to accept it amiably. Indeed it is not bugaboo whén communism threatens our nation. Every true American has every reason ‘to feel it is terrifying. Also, it is high time he awakes to the fact that he needs to act against it, rather than be soothed to sleep by hushers who call it bugaboo while it grows. to sufficient strength to overthrow our Constitutional Government. Our Constitution does not state

there can be only Republican and Democratic Parties: But its logic

| excludes every principle of -the tyranny of communism. How can it

embrace a doctrine the exact opposite of itself? Our Government and its Constitution stand for government by and for the people—all the people; not domination by persons with full authority to purge unjustly any groups or individuals by slaughtering all who do not accept domination—who by unjust trials behind closed doors annihilate free-

munists suppress freedom of the press and of speech by murdering those who use it. They -die as traitors to their country if they use the freedom we enjoy. We have seen this happening in Russia since the beginning of communism there. If dnyone in America wishes this of government, let him: go to Russia and live under it. We Americans want our own form government and have a right under the Constitution to treat as imposters all those who try to annex it to another nation, T, munism’s true aim, although. the Communists are hiding in sheeps’ clothing. This U. S. A. was built on honesty and freedom, and I dare say there are still enough redblooded survivors of the people who ‘built it to take things in hand to protect it. They have the backing of nine-tenths of the nation, so your lullaby “red” song is wasted— we're not asleep.

oo” o 2 STAR INSIDE MOON'S | CIRCLE TERMED IMPOSSIBILITY By .Sky Watcher “Daily Reader” is all wrong in thinking he saw a star inside the korns of the moon. Since the moon is the nearest planet of any impor-| tance to us, it would be impossible for a star to be inside its complete circle. All other stars and planets are farther away, therefore they

not be seen in the center of the

object: that came between. It would

dom of the individual's rights. Com- |

This is com--

must be on the other side and could.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con--troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can ° have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be “withheld on request.)

moon. There may be some very small planetoids this side of the moon, but. they are too small to be seen with the naked eye, and would be of no importance as a brilliant ornament. , The three that saw it are simply mistaken, or must have curved eyesight. Besides, the brilliance of the moon would blot out any small

be possible for a meteorite to make a fleeting streak through this space, but it would pass in a fraction of a second. The Times was right. 2a 8 un = BELIEVES HAMILTON TRYING OLD-TIME POKER TRICK By William Lemon Republican Chairman Hamilton says their only hope is for Roosevelt to run for a third term. Does Mr. Hamilton know that we old-time draw poker players pulled that stunt years ago? They hope the most popular man of the day, F. D. R, does hot choose to ru Why knock political B polntments

- LITTLE MAN

By DOROTHY BUERGER

A storm’s a-brewing at our house. Laments can be heard a-rump-

ling! All because a Mother forgot and called a lad, “Apple-dump-. ng!”

Dear 13-year-old, please torgive; I know that you've. camped out * all night. You swim—you shoot a. B.B. gun! And can take your part in a fight.

I promised, Son, when I'm inclined To tamper with Sowery speech, Never to go sissy again . Now, Scran to the store for Some “ea ”

: DAILY THOUGHTS

And -he that overcometh, and . keepeth My works unto the end, ‘to him will I give power over the nations.—Revelations 2:26. 5

HE only failure man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the. purpose he sees to be best.— George Eliot.

and the spoils system; the Republicans were at the feed trough a decade ago. Their next campaign song should be “Hand Me Down ‘My Walking Stick Again.” } 8 » 8 OPPOSED TO TAXATION FOR REFUNDING BONDS By A. J. M. In regard to"your editorial, which refers to Senator Harrison's introduction in the next session of a tax bill providing income tax exemptions be cut down and rates increased, I may say that the Senator is not guessing this time. It means more Fedefal revenue to be paid to the bankers for Federal. relief bonds.

Recent press reports’ quote the |

President as saying that the Government technicians are studying a method of paying off 10 billion dollars of relief bonds. The President is reported leaning toward a policy ‘proposed by Marriner Eccles, Federal Reserve Board chairman, to broaden the income tax base to reduce the national debt. The Federal bonds ‘must not be paid by taxes collected from the people, because that would take 10 billion dollars out of circulation, and would cause a greater panic than that of 1932. There is only one way to pay the bond issue, and that is to pay it in lawful money, legal tender currency, or crédit to be issued by the U. S. Treasury.

. 2 8 WANTS GAMBLING LEGALIZED; DEFENDS BINGO Ed By H. R. Hendricks

In protest to Mr. Taxpayer, in

Saturday’s issue of The Times: What’s the matter, Mr. Taxpayer, with your taking care of the money in your home, if your wife loses it playing bingo? = You are like the people who were: responsible for the country g dry, back in 1919. You conde everyone for the sins of a few. You should be old. enough to realize you can’t stop gambling any more than you can drinking. You should wake up and visit around if you -think bingo and the slot machines are the only popular games going. What about bridge, euchre, poker, pitch, pinochle and many others. More money is lost from these games, with little to gain, than there is at bingo. I say legalize gambling and tax it. Bingo, as I see it, is the cheapest and best game going today. What is life but a game of chance? Long live bingo.

over the notion that this is going to become a woman’s world. Even if he custom does develop” of

1 Lr it hard to get het’ up help many a bashful man over the

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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LEEVES' ME D FATHERS FINANCIAL GENS A 15 NOT INHERITED ?* 1'YES, DICK ip LIVING CAUSED oLD OLD MAN'S SRAING 10 PETER OUT IS DAD RIGHT? |

z YOUR OPINION

proposal hurdle. When half the human race—women—are held in

a sort of social slavery and not al=

of view to our problems, I think nothing could bode worse for the world’s future. : ) ® nn 8

NO. HIGH living and dissipation do not cause brains to peter out; they only .prove that brains and character have already

petered out by unwise marriages. -

Whetham, sociologist, has shown that many of the old English fami-

‘| lies have retained brains, dignity,

charm and unimpaired character along with rank and wealth for 15 generations. Huntington, Yale. savant, shows that several of the

families of the Mayflower Pilgrims

have retained wealth, character and intelligence on a high Lie for 300 years. Wealth can be dissipated

by economic ‘disaster, ward, social

and. political changes, but nothing

|| but unwise marriages can dissipate | ged, family. bloc.

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‘THEIR motives are mixed. Oust

writer maintains ‘they work

| ae Farman’ cmon F. W.

Taussig, Harvard economist, maintains that they work quite largely from the inner drive or “instinct” for “contrivance.” No doubt most of them hope to ké money but the inner psy¢

nything’

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Gon. Johnson

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Military Shalesy Does t+ Change; St. Lawrence Still Is Considered Good Entrance to This Continent.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 24.—1 got a moderate

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kick-back in my mail for approving the Presi

dent’s statement that, if Canada were attacked we would have to defend her. It is a professional question in military art. In a column this size it is impossible to cover all aspects. I was speaking of the subject the President covered— by implication at least—an attack on the natural route from the East—the St. Lawrence watershed.

Through that route came all the French advance guards with an uncanny eye for military advantage— Joliet, Marquette, La Salle and, after them, hairy ' traders, adventurers and woodrunners. They blazed the trail and the French Government followed it with a chain of fortifications from Quebec to New Orleans.

» » » : FIRST the English, and later our own rude stratee gists, pierced that arch at its hauriches. I have just come back from a trip to the country around Sandusky Bay. I have never seen an ,area so well sprinkled with Federal metallic monuments—Pontiac’s conspiracy, Perry’s victory on Lake Erie—George Rogers Clark’s triumph—and all the milestones of the vital conquest of the Northwest Territory,

One stands in amazed awe at the foresightedness of our fathérs who appreciated these strategical geographical points to the extent of a willingness to die for them. We seem to have lost that way of thinking in terms of empire. I still maintain that the President was perfectly right in saying that if anybody should attack Canada we would fight by her side—even if I did concentrate the idea on the St. Lawrence defile. Though I disagree with him on many other points, we couldn’t have a better President on foreign relations—and today they are vital. In that elder era of which I spoke, it was a question of the ease of moving troops and by easy gradients. But military strategy doesn’t change. All planned European theoretical air attacks on us are based on exactly that same geography.

DID not write about the West Coast but the same considerations obtain.’ We could no more permit a Japanese lodgment at Vancouver, B. C., than we could allow an allied Fascist or Communist base in the St, Lawrence—and for the same reason. But ‘what I neglected to say, and however discord ant, it is none the less true, as our history has repeatedly proved, that if the British empire ever got tough with us—and it has done that frequently— exactly the same considerations would prevail. We never had a war, or threat of war, with England, that the prime point in our strategy didn’t include taking Quebec—and we never will. Canada is protected, by our necessities, from an attack on her by anybody but England. In that event, she is a hostage to fortune. War with our British cousins would be “unthinkable” if it had not happened twice and been on the verge two other times. If you want to be truly realistic, you've got to admit as an old sergeant of mine used to say that‘we “might have to take our Canadian boundary and coil it around the North Pole and wrap our southern one around the Isthmus of Panama.” It could be “mani~ fest destiny.” As for me, I believe it is.

lt Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Dies Committee Ought to Be Told Just How Revolutions ‘Are Made.

EW YORK, Aug. 24.—“And I would like to add,” said the witness, “that your committee is wasting time”——. But at that point, Martin‘ Dies of Orange, Tex, banged the gavel. “subversive activities” seems to be addicted only to “yes men.” After a long powwow of the members the little

group of investigators did agree to let me testify under °

oath that J. B. Matthews reported falsely in testifying that I told him in a “private conversation” that I was working for the Communist Party. ' But that was

+ purely. a matter of personal privilege and not of epoch-

making importance. However, after listening to the rest of the testimony through five hot hours in Wash-

ington I did not feel remorseful at the thought that

I was wasting the taxpayers’ money. - For instance, I listened to a witness who testified that the Federal Government almost put on Mare Blitzstein’s “The Cradle Will Rock,” but thought better of it at the last minute. He then added, without interruption that it had been taken over by the Mersury Theater, which he described as wholly devoted to “The Party Line.” I wanted to have a chance to tell the fact-finders that the greatest success of the Orson Welles group was “Julius Caesar,” for which William Shakespeare undoubtedly received Moscow gold. But even more I wanted to point out, which is hardly my own discovery, that revolts and even revolutions are not made by individuals or, by well-organe<

ized majorities. Political systems fall when .deep-.

seated economic currents are against them. d the borders of Germany or Italy few regard pither Mussolini or Hitler as men of genigs, but they happen to be swept into power when the rip tide began to roar along its course.

Tsar Played a Part

Lenin, in the judgment of most observers, was a man of far more intellectual brilliance with a sharply divergent philosophy, but he had less to do with bringing about the Soviet -revolution than did the Tsar of all the Russians. And I imagine that in trace ing the source of the French Revolution, Marie Ane toinette should split the blame or credit with Rousseau or Voltaire. I do not myself credit the theory, but I have heard it ventured that possibly the Dies committee itself is secretly “communistic,” and that it is trying to bring Red baiting into disrepute by making it ridiculous. And I feel sure that the eager witness who had a hammer crash down upon his comma might have said, “Your committee is wasting its time if it fails to go into the problems of social and economic injustice, Here are the roots of revolution.’

| Watching Your Health

‘By Dr. Morris Fishbein

JALETTER just received from a ‘reader of this column remarks: { ; “You wrote a very interesting article against laye men doctoring themselves for sleeplessness. Will you please write an article on the opposite practice of lay men doectoring themselves to keep awake? Is. this equally harmful?” 3 Fatigue is one of ‘the most serious menaces to health and life, yet the development of fatigue is a protection to the human being. It means that the body is tired, and that the cells must have time free from work in which to recuperate. The human body is built with factors of safety,

and ‘the tissue cells have a remarkable power to

recover from ordinary fatigue. Scientific experiments have established the fact, however, that SEceasive:

prolonged and cumulative Tatigue is dangerous to

health.

*. It is well known that Sxcussive fatigue results in

the collection within the tissues of waste products af tissue activity which are toxic, and which may dan:

‘age the cells permanently.

" There are, of course, all sorts of stages of being ired. Most serious is ch ~nic fatigue, which is the

result of & constant draught on vitality without ade~ |

quate time for rest.’ ‘The person have a flabby skin, the eyes will be dull, and sleep, when it comes, is disturbed and restless. There is a loss’ of appetite, loss of weight, and irritability, When a worker reaches such a stage of fatigue it

is definitely not advisable for him to attempt to

stimulate himself to further efforts by taking EE ium»

The House Committee on

who suffers with this condition will

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