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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938

YOU CAN HELP! NDIANAPOLIS should be justly proud that it has come through the past 12 months with fewer economic scars

than most large cities have suffered. But, while there is a real basis for satisfaction in the city’s general stability and in improved business conditions, this feeling of well-being may carry some danger to the Community Fund campaign, which opens today. The danger lies in the feeling that with better business the community can relax gradually on this business of relief. It cannot, of course. The old and the homeless, the sick and the handicapped, the dependent and neglected young need the same humane attention the Community Fund has provided so ably in the past. No: governmental agency can perform the work the Community Fund does for these people. The fact that some of us have more dollars to spend should make it all the more certain that the Community Fund's full goal of $711,633 is realized.

MILLIONS UP CHIMNEYS

RISP fall days are not far distant. And inevitably, as they arrive, the air will be befouled with a vastly increased amount of smoke, fumes and soot as the furnacefiring season begins. And doctor’s bills, cleaner’s bills and

the like will take a jump simultaneously. Although it is one of the most difficult of all municipal problems to treat effectively, we are glad that Indianapolis is not letting down on the fight. The Indianapolis Smoke Control Board is busy with plans for its winter smoke abatement campaign and will meet with City officials today. We don’t know what its plans are for the months ahead. It is obvious, however, that this is not the kind of a fight City officials can handle alone. City-wide co-operation is required from home owners, apartment owners and industrial concerns alike if millions of dollars are not to go up chimneys. An increasing number of people have come to realize that a cleaner city is a more economical city in which to live. The important thing is to extend that realization in the months ahead.

ERETZ ISRAEL

THE blood that is being shed in the land where Christ was born is tragedy grim and stark. But the story behind the Palestine war is more tragic still, because it is the tale of the wandering Jew who for 2000 years has sought a permanent place to lay his head. At the time of the exodus from Egypt there were only about 100,000 Jews in the world. Today there are approximately 16 million—about four and one-half million in the United States, three million in Poland, three million in Soviet Russia, one million in Rumania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the rest scattered throughout the globe.

Yet nowhere can Jewry be absolutely certain of a per-|

manent home. Today it seems perfectly safe in this or that particular country—as it doubtless did in Germany, Austria and Italy. Then quite suddenly its situation becomes precarious. Anything from exile to death may be its lot. To all this, many believed the Zionist movement would be the answer. And Palestine, traditional land of Israel, would be the place. So when, in 1917, the British Government issued the Balfour declaration viewing with favor a national home for the Jewish people in the Holy Land, the heart of world Jewry beat high with hope. It seemed as if its wanderings might be nearing an end. But unfortunately the British (for war purposes) were guilty of trying to curry favor with two peoples at the same time—the.Arabs as well as the Jews. At the time of the Balfour pledge, only about 80,000 of Palestine’s 800,000 population were Jews, while there were approximately 600,000 Moslems. Thus, as soon as the British tried to carry out their plan, there was trouble and bloodshed. The Jews wanted and needed more land and the Arabs resented their being given any land at all. Between the two, the British have muddled and blundered. They have moved from one untenable stand to another. The latest shift, announced last year, was to partition Palestine into three parts. About one quarter—the richest coastal region—would go to the Jews. The Arabs would get the rest save for Jerusalem, Nazareth and certain other localities, along with a corridor to the sea, which would be under British mandate. 2 s #2 2 ”

BVT Palestine has less than 10,000 square miles, all told.

And. if the Jewish state is to have only a fourth of this |

territory, it becomes obvious that there won't be room for 16,000,000 Jews, or even for the 6,000,000 who, right now, are desperately anxious to emigrate to somewhere. If the Jews are ever to have an independent state of their own where all can go with a certain assurance of economic survival, it is estimated that they must have something like 50,000 square miles of fertile country—a far cry from the 2500 allotted to them in Palestine. : Some leaders, like the late Israel Zangwill, have urged a Jewish state in Africa; others at one time or another have suggested Australia, New Zealand or Canada. But while Britain at one time suggested East Africa as a site, it is very doubtful if today a sufficiently large area is available. Possessors of surplus territory are less and less disposed to sell. The immediate outlook, as Dr. Weizmann, head of the Zionist movement, indicates, is far from bright. “God,” he told the British Palestine Commission, “has promised Eretz Israel to the Jews. That is our charter.” But, he suggested, the old ones and many of the young may not live to see the day. As for the rest, “If they feel and suffer as we do, they will find the way, ‘beacharith hajamin’—in the fullness of time.” : But the fullness of time can be full long,

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Many Naturalized Americans Use The United States, He .Contends, For an Attorney and a Bodyguard.

EW YORK, Oct. 13—The State Department’s solicitude for the status of Americans in Italy under the recent Italian decrees restricting the rights of Jews prompts a question ‘whether this Government should assume the same responsibility for naturalized Americans residing in foreign lands as for natives of this country. : - The British Government is cordial to political refugees and citizenship may be acquired under liberal conditions, but a British consul once explained to me that he was spared many of the problems confronting his American colleague in the same troubled foreign city because naturalized British subjects are generally required to find suitable places of abode and business somewhere within the wide range of the empire. ; Great Britain, he said, was not providing credentials and the protection of the British fleet for nominal British subjects who would use the little blue passport merely to obtain special advantages in their native lands. : ® 2 8 : HE American Consul, on the other hand, said it was the naturalized American, returned to the old country, who caused most of his troubles with the local authorities. At the moment he was engaged in protecting the interests of a naturalized American who had sojourned in the United States long enough to qualify for citizenship and then had returned to his home country to go into business. The man had interfered in the politics of a country under a dic-

tatorship and then had dumped his woes in the lap:

of the American Consul. The American passport is a powerful and valuable document for a foreigner, and it need not be doubted that some foreigners do acquire American citizenship with no intention to make this country their home or anything else but the goat for their troubles should they run foul of the political or police authorities in less liberal lands. Naturalized Germans who had returned to Germany with no thought of participating in the life of their adopted country caused much trouble for U. S. consuls in the early days of the Hitler regime.

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THE World Almanac says there were 374,503 Amer-

icans living abroad on Jan. 1, 1937, and makes no distinction between natives and naturalized citizens. However, it will be remembered that in the early days of the Spanish civil war many queer fish swam into the American consulates to claim the protection to which Americans are entitled. There was a case in Munich of a German who in the course of his travels had acquired American citizenship but in 15 years of residence in Germany had not even recorded his name at the consulate. Falling into trouble with the Nazis, however, he wrapped himself in the stars and stripes and got

.away before the Germans thought of asking whether

his American citizenship was still valid. It wasn't, for nowadays naturalized Americans living abroad are expected to visit the nearest consul at two-year intervals and convince them that they are not merely foreigners claiming the rights of technical American-

ism. It would be unfair to forbid naturalized Americans to leave the United States at all, but it is equally foolish that aliens be allowed to glance off this country and forever after use the United States as their attorney and bodyguard. There are many naturalized Americans in foreign lands whose citizenship means just that to them and nothing more.

Business

By John T. Flynn "" Hay's Policy of 40 Years Ago Yet May Have Unimaginable Results.

EW YORK, Oct. 13.—This week newspapers and news commentators are being asked to notice the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Hay. This is. a very solemnly opportune moment to notice that event. It is a hundred years ago since Hay was born in Indiana. It is forty years ago this year since Hay, as Secretary of State, took the leading role in what may yet be ranked as the most momentous events in our history. John Hay was a clerk in Abe Lincoln's law office in Springfield. He was one of Lincoln’s secretaries during the four eventful war years. But most important he was Secretary of State in McKinley's Cabinet when the peace with Spain was negotiated in 1898. Hay was, as Secretary of State, responsible for two epochal policies of this Government—policies from which it may yet reap a harvest which the imagination can hardly envisage. One was the Open Door policy in China. The other was the incorporation of the Philippines into a newly formed American empire. The victories of the Spanish war and the conquest of Puerto Rico and the Philippines had filled Americans with a new and amazing spiritual inflation about being a “great world power” and having a “great American empire.” This swollen national egoism was a fertile field for the imperialists, of whom Hay was a leader, to work on. ;

The Legislators’ Warning

The pressure for the “open door” in China was clothed in a rich garment of words about the rights of the Chinese and the obligations of civilization. In effect it was prosecuted in obedience to the interests of powerful American industrialists. The Philippines fortuitously offered these imperial promoters what seemed like a powerful base from which to enforce our claims to a slice of the Chinese trade. I heard Senators and Congressmen—not merely Democratic disciples of Mr. Bryan—but men like the venerable Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, Senator Teller of Colorado (Republicans) and House members like McCall of Massachusetts and Littlefield of Maine warn the nation of the fatal course it was entering upon. _ Today, in the 40th anniversary year of that decision, the Orient is in flames. Instead of a source of strength to us, the Philippines is a source of weakness. We must now build ships, not to protect our shores, but these alien islands six thousand miles away. If it were not for the American stake in the Philippines this country would not have a war worry anywhere in this world. The man who, perhaps, did more than any other statesman to lead us into this troubled land was John Hay.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

BROKE out ail over in an angry rash when I read certain masculine comments on the recent crisis. Gen. Hugh Johnson especially made me sputter with rage when he talked about Hitler thumbing his nose at ‘Chamberlain, or discussed “Old Poker Face Mus-

solini with an ace up his sleeve.” To be sure, this is picturesque language—too picturesque when the subject is war. The scene evoked is that of several individual contestants intent upon some vast game, each trying to outwit the other. Seldom in this kind of writing do we get the feel of what is behind four such men as Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler—of the heart-beat of millions of ordinary mortals whose future, yes, whose very lives depend upon the sanity of their leaders. Gen. Johnson has a military background and a military mind. To him, as to a great many men, war is a stupendous, exhilarating contest, and no matter how often they reiterate their love for peace, their very words are drums beating a war tattoo. “Under their spell, we visualize Italy as Mussolini, Germany as Hitler and England as Chamberlain. And how happy we would be if such word pictures could materialize and these few men could play and settle the game of war by themselves. g How great would be our delight if we could act upon the idea of Donald Moffat, who in his last book, “The Prejudices of Mr. Pennyfeather,” suggests that war be replaced by football and may the best team win. A sensible notion if every I heard one, for it gives the belligerents the chance to do

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Okay, Boys—We’re Waitin’! By Talburt

C-1.0. JOHN LEWIS PRES.

~The Hoosier Forum

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

FEARS RETURN OF G. 0. P. TO POWER By J.-P. I have been connected with WPA projects in Marion County since its inception and when I read the assertion of the Republican candidate for U. S. Senator as to how many cents out of each dollar we poor

lieve that he is about as nearly accurate on this subject as he will be effective on getting us off relief if he is elected to the Senate, which of course he never will be, I am giving you here the particulars on one construction project on which I worked. I defy Willis or any other man to deny or attempt to question the correctness of my statement. .. The Federal Government allotted ‘on this project $61,917. Spent for nonrelief supervision was $3000. Spent for Federal purchase material $4,437.48. Total spent for other than WPA labor $743748, leaving a balance of $54,479.48 which was spent for skilled and unskilled labor, The scale per hour for such labor was from 50 cents for unskilled or common labor, graduated up to $1.33 per hour for skilled. Mark you that no man on this project with few exceptions could have gone into any factory or on a similar construction job in the city, had there been plenty such jobs, and have received the scale per hour he did on this work because of being past the age of 45. I can certify that during my connection, I have never been approached or even talked to on the subject of politics. But I will say that we are afraid that we will be left in the same starving condition that we were in under Hoover if we are subject to Republican rule again. Rather a Hitler, rather a Mussolini, rather a Stalin, but no more Hoover. No more 83 cents to $1.25 a day for 10 hours hard work. Sure, relief costs, but what about the morale of our people? If there were politics in WPA I maintain it would be just as permissible as it was for the G. O. P. factory owners to put a slip in the pay envelopes just before the election in years gone by, stating that if the opposition party was successful the factory would close down. I still have some of these slips for keepsakes.

® = = SEES SOME GOOD IN CALIFORNIA PLAN By M. T. \ Everyone seems to be ridiculing the California pension plan. Economically considered, it costs no more to maintain an individual under 50 years of age in -idleness

than one over 50 years of age. California has unemployed to equal

WPA workers get, I am led to be-|.

(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.)

the number of individuals past 50 who would come under the pension plan. Simply shifting the unemployed under 50 to the jobs now held by those over 50, should not affect business or industry. Seventy per cent of the employables in California are now employed. They are now spending on an average of 30 dollars a week and yet’ the annual sales were only $11,791,000,000. If 70 per cent are only spending this amount and the 30 per cent of unemployed are only existing they are spending at least $10 a week, as many have dependents. The shifting to the pension plan would only increase present living costs to $30 a week and this on a percentage basis could not increase the present business over $4,500,000,000, which would only make a total of a little over 16 billions instead of the 66 billions

NEWS FROM THE FRONT

By RUTH SHELTON Behind the wheelbarrow hides a hat... A bullet of mud sings from pigpen . .. spat!

A cautious eye peeps from fodder shock . .. the

An egg-bomb spesds from haymow . . . sock!

Tomatoes and buckeyes from barn door shoot . . . Corncobs answer, boot!

and cast-off

Chaotic disorderliness prevails... Advances ., . . retreats ...commands . .. and wails!

A white flag flies from the heollow tree! From haystack, too, eously!

Both armies hobble out into sight, And a grinning armistice ends the fight!

DAILY THOUGHT

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.— Proverbs 6:12.

MAN has no more right to say A an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.—Johnson.

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used by those ridiculing the plan. Those individuals now making more than $30 a week would be slow in giving up their positions or business, when the acceptance of the pension forces them to idleness and the ending of their ambitions in life. If California can enact their plan without violating national rights in regard to money or individual rights, in forcing everyone in California to accept these certificates as legal tender, there is no economical reason why the plan would not prove beneficial.—Morell Tomlin.

t 4 » ® A BOUQUET FOR MR. PEGLER By Observer Some of your correspondents dislike the candor and sarcasm of Westbrook Pegler. Perhaps he is a little too rough sometimes, but we need men of that kind. Pegler interviews the political bosses of the big cities, permits them to show him around, and then has the courage to describe their administrations as he sees them. I have not noticed that any of them have prosecuted him: for libel. No doubt the sarcasm which he applies to the inconsistencies and errors of our idols is hard for us to endure. However, he attacks in the open, instead of by whispering

personal charm to protect himself from counter-attack. More power to him! 2 8 = HOLDS THAT DEMOCRACY PAYS DIVIDENDS By American Born It is a sorry state of affairs to see laboring classes of men, as in Germany and some in this country, working so fervently for the Nazi cause, which in reality is against men of this class. Fascism sponsored by the wealthy class of people to keep the poor masses under their thumb. If this is not true, then why are they against labor unions? (To say nothing about being against personal freedom.) Wake up, bundsters, and put your energy into democracy. The dividends are much greater.

2 2 » IMPROVEMENT SEEN IN ITALIAN POSITION By IL A. . Much is being said and written about Italy playing second fiddle to Germany. Such may or may not

be true, but even if true it is much better than the insignificant position she used to play with her former allies who ignored her rights

and practically dominated her.

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

‘WHICH INFLUENCES PEOPLE MORE FOR GOOD-GIVING THEM GOOD MORAL PRECEPTS OR SHAMING THEM WITH EPITHETS JLUCH AS "COWARDS KER? BUM SPORT"EC?

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thousand and one knick-knacks that make the living standard of the home. But for women's demand for these refinements of life, we would probably still be living in caves. 8 8 8

IN THEIR famous study of the moral habits of over 10,000 children from age 9 to 14, Hartshorne and May, Yale psychologists, found moral precepts did little good. Most

| everybody knows all the moral pre-

cepts by heart, but keeping them is the thing that makes character. On the other hand, millions of men go to death on the battlefield for fear of being called a “slacker” and they walk into danger to keep from being called “coward” and even steal to pay gambling “debts” for fear of being called a “bum sport.” 8 =

THE one thing we can change about ourselves more than anything else is our attitudes toward people and things. If you hate your job and can’t get another—as you

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THURSDAY, OCT. 13, 1088 Gen. Johnson Says—

The WPA Has Done Everything From ° Killing Insects to Writing Books; Why Can't It Aid the Dies Probe?

LEVELAND, O,, Oct. 13—Paul Mallon published the text of Harry Hopkins’ letter to the Presie dent declining to grant a request of Congress to let WPA workers help the Dies Committee's investiga= tion of subterranean Communist, Fascist and Nazi activities. The Dies Committee was not given the full appropriation for expenses then believed and now proved to be necessary. It was cut down on the theory that WPA and other Government departments

could be used to do the leg work. Mr. Hopkins is quoted as saying: “I would not be justified legally or otherwise should I do this.”

That’s a hot one. One of WPA'’s principal activi ties is finding public work on which it can spend Federal money to employ people. In this it has helped in an almost infinite variety of departments of Federal, state, city, county, town and village governments. The spending runs into billions. It has catalogued libraries, conducted investigations of all sorts—some for other Federal committees. It has financed projects for adagio dancers, puppeteers and piccolo players, chased butterflies, untented the gypsy moth and killed mosquitoes. ss = = T has painted pictures, written books and produced plays, some of which are little short of outright Communist propaganda. If there is any department of Government or any form of activity to which it has denied its aid, I do not know what it is—except the Federal Dies Committee and the ‘specific request of - Congress. When the Dies Committee is hounding the Fascists or the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee is needling business, Mr. Hopkins and his inner circle of White House chore boys chortle, But they have no sympathy with any probing into Come munist cells—of which there are plenty in WPA itself,

This is pretty high handed. Mr. Hopkins started out to do his WPA job, and that alone. By that

“concentration on his own business, he turned in one -

of the greatest administrative accomplishments in history—no matter what you think of its policy and even discounting the fact that it is easy to be a good Santa Claus if you have more than all the money there is to spend. But since the 1936 elections, Mr. Hopkins stuck his fingers into more and more political pies. He is credited with having devised the late and unlamented purge and with being the guiding spirit in the Corcoran-Cohen coterie. He is impatient with ~ Congressmen—except the ditto boys. » ” 8 S this action shows, Congress hasn't much influe ence with him. He has become chief splitterupper of the Democratic Party. He leans to a new farmer-labor gathering of the grime groups to be constructed on its ruins and held together with Federal handouts. His slogan is: “Spend and spend . and spend and tax and tax and tax.” Of course, this isn’t Mr. Hopkins’ money. He was appointed to carry out the will of Congress. It is no part of his job to discriminate against a Congressional “work-project” because he doesn’t like a Congressional policy. Congress is coming back, its tummy sore from the Hopkins’ purge. There are signs of revolt in the purely party organization against having Jim Farley and itself shoved aside by the Hopkins-Cohen-Corcoran Crew.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

The Pessimism in the Ivy League May Be Due to Football Results.

EW YORK, Oct. 13.—It is a little startling to read that the freshman class at Princeton voted for Neville. Chamberlain as “the greatest living person.” And, to make it worse, the news report adds that Hitler lost by a nose, trailing the statesman with the ume brella by but a single vote. It is possible, of course, that no accolade of admiration went with the laurels. And, even so, one cannot escape the impression that the sad young

‘men of New Jersey are deeply mired in defeatism at

the moment. : According to scouts who have visited other mem bers of the Ivy League, despair is also prevalent in. Cambridge and New Haven. The frosty fingers of fascism have touched the scions of the ruling classes along the Atlantic seaboard. Perhaps the whole thing is a symptom of nothing more than the waning year and the color of the foot--

‘ball season along the yards and campuses of the uni-

versities which once composed what were known as “The Big Three.” It might be pertinent to point out that a composite score drawn from the games of last Saturday would read: Yale, Harvard and Princeton, 0; opponents, 63. : I doubt that any single afternoon on the gridiron within the memory of living man has been so poisonous to the Ivy Trio. Later on these teams will meet each other, and on those occasions it will bs impossible for each to lose simultaneously. The stimulus of a few touchdowns, even if scored merely against the Elis, may bring the roses back to the cheeks of the Princeton graduates.

Apologists for the Nazi Creed

Life must be better than a succession of mournful . Munichs, and the sad .young men will not forever bow down in the House of Hitler. Yet there is no getting away from the fact that democracy stands in need of a new dedication. I doubt that it will come from any of ‘the spokesmen on the extreme right. The very men who have been most passionate in announcing their devotion to “free institutions” have in many cases become apologists for the Nazi creed.q Some who have asserted that their opposition to Roosevelt was engendered by their fear that he was dictatorially minded openly express admiration for both Mussolini and the Fuehrer. Surely our institutions of higher learning should educate their students in pregise and accurate definition of “great” and “greatness.” Obviously historians of a future day will give full space to the phenomenon which is symbolized by the name of Hitler. But when the accounts are checked up he will not be numbered among those whose memory is revered by mankind. It will go ill with us if our young men cease to see visions and dream dreams.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

N addition to drink as one of the chief causes of highway carnage, exhaustion and drowsiness at

the wheel are exceedingly important. It is hard to find out after an accident whether

or not either of the drivers was asleep at the time, but it is safe to say that at least one accident in every hundred is due to the fact that the er was asleep. People who fall asleep while driving try to conceal the fact. If a record is kept of the amount of sleep a driver has had previous to the time of the accident, one is able to get a fairly good indication as to need for sleep at the time of the accident, It is not always an unintelligent man who falls asleep at the wheel. It is, however, always & careless’ one. et» As far as pedestrians are concerned, certain rules have been developed for the safe walker which every one of us ought to obey: 1, The safe walker does not step out carelessly from behind parked cars or obstructions. 2. He does not try te weave his way through trafic. 3. He crosses streets at right angles. 4. He uses care in getting on and off vehicles. 5. He looks left and then right when crossing a street. 6. He obeys traffic signals. 7. He holds his conferences on sidewalks, and not in the middle of the streets. = a 8 Ln PY |