Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1938 — Page 12

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1938

THERE'S A BRIGHTER SIDE N the news columns we read many items telling of plants "closing down because the employers can’t afford to pay ."the new Federal minimum of $11 for 44 ‘hours, work. But we can’t believe many of these closings will prove permanent. Several thousand pecan shellers in Texas are reported to have lost their jobs because of the new standards. Yet t some of the employers in that industry are paying the 25-cents-an-hour, still doing business apparently on the sound “theory that the American people are not going to stop eating pecans. Indeed, with thousands of workers over the . country getting their pay raised from $6 or $3 a week to © $11, it seems not illogical to assume that pecan-eating may become an indulgence of more instead of fewer Americans. As was to be expected, one of the first outcries against the new law came from that rugged individualist of NRA fame, Fred C. Perkins, storage battery manufacturer of York, Pa. Mr. Perkins, you may remember, was saved by the gong before, when the Supreme Court declared the NRA unconstitutional. But he’s on his feet again under the Kleig lights, sparring away: “I cannot afford to be governed by the ruling and will defy the Government to enforce it. If they attempt to crush me, I will do my level best to put their impractical “notions to a test of public opinion in every hamlet in America.” i ah : Quite an ambitious undertaking, to say the least. There are a lot of ‘hamlets in our land. Can’t you visualize Batteryman Perkins going from hamlet to hamlet, summoning the population to mass meetings to shed tears at his doleful story? : A committee representing the storage battery industry recently called on Wage-Hour Administrator Andrews in Washington and suggested that steps be taken to fix a minimum not of 25 cents but of 40 cents an hour for workers in battery plants. We know practically nothing about the battery business, so we can’t understand why it is that Mr. Perkins ‘can’t pay his men as much as his competitors are willing to pay. But the thought occurs that perhaps, if he spent less time being a martyr to progressive reforms and more time peddling his batteries, he might make the grade. It is a matter of regret when any plant producing goods which the people need closes, or when any worker, even one drawing a pitifully low wage, loses his job. But a business which can’t pay $11 for a week’s work can hardly claim to be a boon to interstate commerce. And we'll wager the other side of the picture is seen by the people who live in Lowell, Mass., and ‘Manchester, N. H., and who know what it-means to a community when looms are silenced and mills closed by employers moving their plants into the South to get the advantage of lower wage scales. The new law will not bring Utopia overnight. But it is directed toward halting industrial carpetbagging. It is one step toward the day when fugitive industries will not find refuge from decent pay standards, one step toward the day when the nation’s markets will be won by efficient management and not by undercutting wages.

SIR HARRY SNEERS HARRY HOPKINS, who used to be very active in dispensing relief but who lately has devoted more and more time to politics, told the newspaper reporters at Hyde Park how the New York State election is going to turn out. The Democratic ticket, he prophesied, will win by 500,000 majority. And, said Mr. Hopkins, “that means that Sir Galahad will stay at home.” (He was referring to Tom Dewey, Republican nominee for Governor.) So saying, according to one news account, Mr. Hopkins caught the train for Chicago “to confer with Governor Horner of Illinois on relief and state politics.” In view of the number of WPA directors and supervisors over the country who are being indicted on various criminal charges in cognection with their handling of WPA funds, it might not be a bad idea for Sir Harry to take time Nf and do a little home work of his own. rT

SECRETARY OF PEACE HIS country has a Secretary of War. Why shouldn’t it have a Secretary of Peace? Pupils of the sixth grade at Elm Road School, in Warren, O., have written to President Roosevelt asking his opinion on that question. Mr. Roosevelt, it seems to us, might. well reply to the "Elm Road sixth-graders that this country does have a Secretary of Peace, although that isn’t his official. title. He is the Cabinet member who works to maintain friendly . ‘relations with other countries and who has made great progress, especially, in promoting peace through two-way trading agreements. His name is Cordell Hull. .

EUREKA! A MONG the wonders at the New York World’s Fair are to be a number of sobering-up stations, equipped with newly developed machines which are said to restore a drunken person—even one who has passed out—to complete sobriety in two hours. . : These machines dose the suffering patient with carbon dioxide gas, which burns up the alcohel in his system and leaves him with no jitters, no headache, no nausea, no illusion that he’s being chased by little green men with ' snickersnees and plug hats. : We've heard it said that the sure cure for the depres‘sion would be some new invention, like the automobile, for ‘which there would be so wide a demand that quantity pro-

duction would make jobs for millions of men. Advancg ‘notices of the sobering-up! machine’s remarkable merits

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

~ Our Mr. Pegler Proposes That the Word ‘Gentleman’ Be Eliminated

EW YORK, Oct. 25—The simplest cure for the

armament for this country would develop an aristocratic and warlike officer caste® is to eliminate the word “gentleman” from the 95th Article of War. There are no more democratic institutions in this country than the military and naval institutions within themselves. But, despite their internal democracy, under which the son of a four-star general enjoys no advantages over the son of a man with lime in his hod carrier's boots, the course does contrive to instill in the young gentlemen, as they are called, a strong sense of the social untouchability of the man in the ranks. ; : The theory holds that an officer is a gentleman and that an enlisted man is of a lower social order. They may not often examine the effect of all this, but it is apparent throughout the life of the services. In service emergencies the lawful authority of the officer commands-obedience not because he wears finer feathers but because he is authofized to command.

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pubs, and the enlisted men are excluded from the officers’ set and from places which they frequent. Civilian snobs cultivate the society of the commissioned personnel®o the exclusion of the enlisted men and their wives, if any, and jokes which cropped up in England and here in the great war about the problem of reconciling contrasts illustrate the artificiality of this segregation. The comic idea of millionaire having to salute a: man who recently had been his own valet and of their mutual embarrassment was comic only because the tradition behind it was silly.

able social superiority which he and the public knew ‘he did not necessarily possess or feel. The public, however, instinctively, felt that somehow an officer ought to be superior. To 2 s r MERICAN and British officers—in the higher ranks at least—feel that they lose something of dignity and authority (perhaps that it is ungentlemanly) to frequent the haunts of enlisted men. It might be so in the event that the false distinction

‘emanating from the word “gentleman” has driven the

enlisted men—or “the people,” as they used to be called in the Navy—to questionable places. But worse than the preservation of the word “gentleman” in the 95th article would be the institution of social or political commissars to supervise the political regularity of the commissioned and enlisted soldiers. It is obvious that it must create a corps of snitchers who undermine the legal authority of the men with responsibility and appeal to the whining shyster nature of every guardhouse lawyer in the command. Authority would be destroyed and discipline with it. In an army of intelligent men social distinctions are vicious and detrimental to the service, From custom they persist in degrading the enlisted man to a low position and exalting officers to a status which to them is false, uncomfortable and often ludicrous to the very men whom it is intended to give an impression of dignity. .

Business By John T. Flynn

Kansas Townsendite Employs Drama To Enliven His Campaign Speeches.

Dee CITY, Kas. Oct. 25.—What might be called the medicine show technique in political campaigning has taken hold of American politics in a big way. It is not wholly new, of eourse. Living men can remember the Taylor brothers in Tennesee who campaigned against each other for Governor, one playing the fiddle and the -other singing. Further back were such campaigns as the famous “Tippecanoe and Tyler-too” battle. : But now in an age when a man must have his radio swing band playing when he takes his bath or rides in his automobile, he cannot, apparently, be

Out here in this Congressional district the Democrats have named as their candidate against Clifford Hope, the Republican incumbent, a former actor. And he has introduced the full-length play as a feature of his nightly campaign talks Clauge E. Main, a Townsendite, announced himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination here and wrote a play called “Even As You and 1.” The drama pictures the plight of a distressed family whose young men folks are finally driven to bank robbery to pay the grocery bill, ending by shooting their poor old father who has just gotten a job as watchman at the bank. Somehow the tragic tangle is worked out but not until the father has told the boys to go out and work for the Townsend plan which would keep old men out of banks as watchmen and young ones out of them as burglars. That was too much for the desperate Democratic hosts and they nominated Brother Main, who played the leading role in the drama.

His Plan Has a Weakness : .

Now he has another play. He has signed up th Wallace Dodge players, a professional outfit, which puts on the play, a combination farce and tear-jerker. Then Mr. Main appears before the softened-up audience and sings out the glories of the Townsend plan for the aged. Nightly Producer-Candidate Main moves from county seat to county seat with his strolling players. Needless to say Brother Main is for everybody—for labor, the farmer, the aged and the young. There is just one vital weakness in his plan. He proposes to carry it through with taxes. The plans that are most popular are those which can be carried on without too much taxes, like those of Mr. Roosevelt, who does his tricks with money which he borrows from the banks. That, seemingly, is still better than a hillbilly band or a tear-jerking melodrama.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

MONG the major plagues with which the male has always been afflicted, is the nagging woman.

In every age an outcropping of the loose-tongued sisterhood shows up and husbands suffer correspond-

ingly. Correspondingly, also, the writing folks have something to write about. In that respect, at least, the pestiferous ladies have come in very handy.

In our zeal to curb these feminine tongues we often fail to give them credit for the great good they do. The nagger is a real help to her society—possessing a kind of toxic value, like the serums we inject to ward off more dreadful diseases. : You won'’t find men agreeing, but it is nevertheless true that many of them would neglect their grooming, their social obligations and their health, without wives willing and anxious to speak on the subjects as much as ten thousand times a week.

What force moves & man to have his blood pressure taken, his teeth X-rayed, or his bad appendix out? A wife who keeps these ailments perpetually in his mind, of course. Children are Syveq from injury and death daily because their mothers nag at them about traffic dangers. Nagging can hardly be classified as a domestic blessing, but it is a tremendous social force—for we must remember that every reformer, male or female, is always a nagger %t heart. And, although we poke fun at the female uplifters, -the fact remains that many of the blessings we now enjoy they obtained for us because they couldn't be “shushed.” To move men, to change ‘customs, to establish cultures, you have got to

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BLAME PLACED ON CHAMBERLAIN By Arthur Scott Tory treachery distorts current events by crediting betrayer Cham-

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The traitorous Tory clique ruling England obviously has provided additional weapons of violence to the maniac of Europe, clearing the ‘vay for new threats, aggressions. and fresh victims. . .By the very deeds of the Fascist aggressor natioris the whole world has come to know that such a course will only be taken complete advantage of by the Fascist-military dictatorships: Germany, Italy and Japan. To preserve Czechoslovakia’s- independence is to preserve world peace by maintaining that obstruction to Hitler's war-making. He who aids Hitler to destroy Czechoslovakia, as: Chamberlain is doing, is an accomplice of Hitler and helps in bringing on a new world war. ,/The people of England and France will —if they do not now—see who are the war-makers. They will have their say and will halt the betrayers of their own countries—those enemies of democracy, agents of the high finance capitalists. ; J ® x = QUIT TALKING WAR, READER PLEADS By C. V. I have little patience with those who criticize Prime Minister Chamberlain for his “surrender to Hitler,” i.-e., his peaceful settlement of the Czechoslovak problem. Thanks be to Chamberlain, and give President Roosevelt a bouquet, too, for what he did! : Not only the English people but the American people, too, are “bitterly opposed to any more sacrifices of life and limb for the doubtful causes of conflict in Central Europe.” We had one lesson, and paid for it with a quarter of a million men and a hundred billion dollars, when we engaged in “A War to End War.” Le’ that suffice!

«Blessed are the peacemakers!” Let us quit talking war and work for peace. : ;

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(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.)

AGAINST HEALTH PROVISION IN BYRNES BILL By A. J. McKinnon The recent outburst of Raymond Clapper against Senator Tydings and the “Koosevelt-haters” has caused me to wonder just what brought about this recent trend of Mr. Clapper. He cannot be wellposted whem he refers to efforts to develop group hospital funds “so that less fortunate persons could be assured of decent medical care.”

When I heard Senator VanNuys at the Democratic convention state he would sign the Byrnes Reorganization Bill to come up next session, I sent to Washington for a copy and in that Reorganization Bill (which places the President at the

head of every governmental agency)’

I found this health and welfare proposition to which Mr. Clapper refers. It would regiment more than 10 million voters into .a one-party system at a cost (according to Miss Josephine Roche) of 850 millions a year. I believe in health and welfare programs by the states but not as provided by this Byrnes bill.

BECAUSE SOMEBODY SMILED

By DOROTHY JEFFERS COYLE

A friend is blue, a heart is sad— Do not withhold your smile; Perhaps that’s all that is needed To make a life worth while.

Gray skies grow blue, storm clouds brighten And the sun glows undefiled, And broken hearts are new again Because somebody. smiled.

DAILY THOUGHT For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.—I Samuel 15:23.

EBELLION against tyrants is obedience to God.—Franklin.

HIS SUGGESTION ON DISFRANCHISEMENT By R. Sprunger In reply to W. J. Rs remarks about WPA workers, if it were not for the money these workers spend and loans received by business from the RFC, many of our “best people” would have to go out of business and on direct relief.

If persons are among those who do not wish to give up the sacred profit system which is the cause of present conditions, they will have tc put up with its evils. Since W. J. R. suggested that “shovel leaners” be disfranchised, it would also be logical to disfranchise the capitalistic parasites and “golf stick leanérs” until they learn bow to live by their own labgr instead of the labor of others, a. 2 # DISABLED SOLDIERS NEED JOBS, HE SAYS By O, S. : . . I have been listening to the speeches of the Democratic Party and the! New Deal. They tell the people on the air how much they have done for the people. Now what I would like to know is what they have done for the disabled soldiers? : President Raosevelt said he was going to take care of the disabled soldiers. Has he done it? I think everyone should rise up and demand a job for the disabled soldier who can work at something. We don’t want charity, we want work but because we get a measley little pension we can’t get relief and without relief we can’t have a job or get as much as the relief allows one person.

\ ® 8 = SEEKS TO OUTLAW BOTH, COMMUNISM AND FASCISM By Edward F. Maddox

Fascism is with us. So is communism: We need a law to put both out of business. America must not coddle treason! Communists and their “fellow travelers” see a Fascist behind every desk, or is it bush? Secretaries Wallace and Ickes are trying to scare voters into supporting the New Deal with the cry: “Fascism! Fascism!” The Dies Committee has plenty of evidence that both fascism and communism are running riot in our fair republic. We must outlaw both or take the consequences of civil strife, unrest, strikes, riots and, eventually, revolution.

SCHOOL AND PERM ED Bcioo-E TESTIS THEN LIKE BEST? L ve&5 OR NO —o

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and broader as the student advances. ‘Then each student should be ‘carefully counseled when he enters—indeed all along—with a view f x into course he

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around on what he thinks he likes cannot do so. »

” 2 # ey ; A STUDY of the psychology of failure has been made by an English student, Dorothy GandineStanton, and she concludes that no one has a sense of failure until he has enough intelligence to compete for some goal or reward. Children fail over and over again until they

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aware of their failures. Both apes and feeble-minded children fail at a task over and over again without seeming to feel any sense of failure. The higher the goal the more keenly does one feel failure in not achieving it and since brilliant people strive for greater goals

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It DOES unless you are im5 mensely in love with your job and are doing just what you wish most to do when you are at your regular work. Tony Sarg, maker of grotesques, says he has never done a day’s work in his life because this is what he has always wanted to do. But probably the great majority of people are not doing ‘precisely what they would chi when on their jobs and, therefore, or

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“For . Agreements With Dictators; “U. S. Must Be Strong to Be Safe.

ASHINGTON, Oct. - 25.—Ambassador Kennedy's Trafalgar Day speech advising the democracies to get in bed with the dictatorships, at least to the extent of making agreements on peace and disarmae ment, has received fairly general editorial approval. I wish I could agree. I can’t. <5 - What agreements? Mr. Hitler's real aims are all charted. He has only just begun to grab. His is a have-not nation, He intends to put it in the column

of the haves in a big way. i His methods are well known. He doesn’t invade at first by force of arms. He invades hy economic

"| penetration and political infiltration and termite

boring tactics until he has so softened up his victims that they are pushovers for a military threat. ? ” ® 8

HAT has been attempted in this country withe out very much success. It has, been tried in his push through middle Europe with great success, It is being attempted in, South America. Brazil is a dictatorship. While she is not at present playing with Hitler, she is antidemocratic. Mexico is also a dictatorship and while she is of the Communist rather than the Fascist variety, she is also antidemoe cratic and is now actually buying goods from Gere many with oil stolen from Americans. - Here is both political and economic invasion right in our own backyard. The economic penetration by dictatorships in other South American countries and their political infiltration is proceeding rapidly. All is hostile to us and Mr. Hitler has warned us that he “deeply despises” democracies. Would -any agreement stop that? Nonsense. Anyway, what agreements with Hitler would be worth the ink and paper-to express them? He bee lieves in promises only to the extent that they are in his own interest. He believes in force alone.

#2 8% T is a fine thing to maintain our traditional friende ship with England, to rejoice, as Mr. Kennedy does, in our combined naval strength and hope to rejoice in a greater combined merchant marine, But it is also a good thing to be prepared to paddle our own canoe, not to allow ourselves to be inveigled into any agree= ment nade by England with the dictatorships, made because she thinks she has to make them or perish. We don’t have to make them or perish. If we prepare to defend ourselves, we never shall. . China is apparently gone to Japan just as Czecho= slovakia certainly‘is to Hitler. Mussolini has not yet digested Ethiopia. These wolves are so busy devouring their kill that just now they have had no occasion to turn on each other, But eventually they must face each other. When they do there will be no more to keep them from flying at each other’s throats than there was to keep them at peace with other victims.

We should maintain our defensive strength against them and stay out of their company, not because they are dictatorships, but because they are hostile. Time changes everything. Even if peace through good will is gone from the world, peace through balance of power will return. If we stay strong we shall be safe, :

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Harry Hopkins Likes the Horses, But Likes Roosevelt Even More.

EW YORK, Oct. 25.—While the purge was on it was considered good strategy by Roosevelt ade versaries, particularly in the South, to stress the names of Tommy Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen. Some commentators in Washington, who really knew better, suggested that the “purge” itself was sold to the President by these two young men.

Both are able lawyers, and without doubt they have done valuable work in suggesting the correct legal form for various measures in the President's program. But the notion that Corcoran wrote Mr. Roosevelt’s important speeches is just about as silly as the notion that Tommy has been running . the President. : : Of course, the solid truth is. that Franklin Roosevelt has listened to many and taken advice from few. But in any case the final decision has always been his own. At the moment there is little doubt that Harry Hopkins is closer to the President than anybody else in the official family. And yet, strangely enough, I have yet to hear the old familar rumor that he is directing the show. Quite possibly Harry has been smart enough to step on the rumor himself whenever he saw it so much as rustle the long grass. Benjamin Cohen was an easy target for a whisper ing campaign, because he is a recluse, and even among the Washington correspondents there were few who knew him at all well. Still getting around didn’t help him much to avoid: the jibes of being not only teache er’'s pet but also teacher's preceptor.

Suspected of a Sneak-Up

But gregariousness helps Harry to avoid the rap of being ever mistaken for nothing more than a shadow of his chief. In a reverse way it may hurt him. Of late I have encountered the extraordinary theory that Harry Hopkins has been definitely ase signed to act as a sort of missionary to the Philistines. If he shows up in Palm Beach or Miami or on Long Island, he is suspected of trying to do a sneak-up on the economic royalists. But that is stuff and nonsense, too. He isn’t really chasing after the economic royalists. He is only following the horses. : Of his devotion to Mr. Roosevelt there can be no question. Once at Hialeah a newspaperman said, “Harry, don’t you think it may be bad politics for you to be seen buying tickets at the mutuel windows, even if you very seldom cash them?” Mr. Hopkins answered, “It may be, but I like to bet on horse races. I'll stop on only one condition, That would be if the President asked me.” “Greater love hath no man.” Harry stands ready, for Roosevelt's sake, to make the supreme sacrifice within the power of any horse player.

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morri€ Fishbein ~~

HE prevention of cancer involves particular ate tention to all the factors of chronic irritation that can be controlled. . : wet Careful dentistry ‘will diminish cancer of the tongue and mouth by preventing irritation from rouigh teeth. Every mole and wart must be watched, and if any mole is in a place where it is repeatedly irritated, scraped, or rubbed, it should be surgically removed, Ulcers which develop in ahy part of the body should have prompt atterition and should be healed as soon as possible, because repeated irritation of an ulcer may produce cancer, People who have a record in their family of deaths from cancer of the stomach and intestines must be particularly careful about their diets. They should

avoid the eating of irritating substances and the take ing of drinks that are too hot. oe

After the age of 40, anyone who is a member of a family in which several ancestors have died of cancer should have a regular examination once. each. year, ine cluding study with the X-ray, to determine whether or not any changes are taking place in the tissues. When it comes to treatment, the decision must be made by the doctor as to whether or not he will use surgery, the electric cautery knife, radium, the X-ray,’ or a combination of all these methods of treatment. Investigations which are now being made all over the world show that many a patient with cancer is given a practically normal life expectancy by the proper use of these methods. Yio ed . Remember, however, that diet, drugs, sefims, extracts, colored lights, and ultraviolet lights

and