Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1938 — Page 10

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HOW TO SAVE THE WAGNER ACT

ONALD R. RICHBERG speaks with authority when he points out why the Wagner Labor Act is working badly in some respects and when he recommends changes to make it work properly. i Four. years.ago Mr. Richberg, consulting with officials ‘and labor leaders during the drafting of the bill that became the Wagner act, warned against some of the very "provisions now being attacked both by industry and by labor groups. And years earlier he wrote another labor law—the Rail Labor Act—which has been outstandingly successful in preserving peace between employers and employees on ‘American railroads. That law is now facing its most crucial test. A remarkable tribute to it is the general "confidence that its procedure, today reaching the stage of a report by a Presidential board of fact-finders, will settle the current railroad wage dispute without a strike. We agree completely with Mr. Richberg that much of the trouble under the Wagner act has been due to its stress ‘on compulsion, and partisan compulsion at that, in con‘trast to the Rail Labor Act’s wise emphasis on conciliation. © We. agree, also, with the specific improvements he suggests. As he says, the National Labor Relations Board should not function both as prosecutor and as judge. And ‘the refusal of the board to let employers as well as workers ‘initiate proceedings before it is not only “absurd.” It is grossly unfair.

2 2 ® » ® 2 HE flaws that have been revealed in the Wagner act .™ are not beyond remedy. The Indianapolis Times, ‘which ‘helped in the fight to pass the Wagner act in 1935, does not believe that the effort to promote collective bargaining should turn now to any new and basically different law, The Wagner act has been under the test of experience for three years. Where it has failed to meet that test it should be improved and strengthened. Where it has proved self-defeating, it should be remedied by amendment. © It is not enough for Senator Wagner of New York to say, of the unfair bar against exercise of the right of initial appeal by employers, that this bar is no part of the law; that it is set up in a ruling of the Labor Board. Of course it is. That is precisely why the Wagner act should be amended specifically to provide employers with the right of initial appeal. The Board should be left no opportunity to juggle rules for the purpose of denying one side in collective bargaining a right essential to any true “bargain.” We had hoped Senator Wagner would take the lead in proposing amendments to correct and save the law which bears his name. But with Senator Wagner's leadership or without it, we hope to see the Wagner act saved. And we believe that the defects so clearly pointed out by Mr. Richberg can all ’ corrected by the amendment process.

GOOD, BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH

ON F. STIVER, state director of public safety, properly takes pride in the fact that 243 fewer Indiana people were killed during the first nine months of this year than in the same period of 1937. That is a reduction of approximately 25 per cent, and the sharpest decline since safety agencies began to attack the problem scientifically. : It is nevertheless shocking and sobering to reflect that in spite of this great reduction, 750 have already been killed this year on Indiana streets and highways, with the two most dangerous traffic months of the year still ahead.

Indiana’s record is evidence of what can be: accom-

plished in reducing highway fatalities, just as the 39 per cent reduction in Pennsylvania and the 38 per cent drop in Michigan is evidence that these states have developed an even more effective attack on te problem than our own. While we are congratulating ourselves on having done a good job in‘ Indiana, it should be worth while taking a look at Pennsylvania and Michigan to find out how our own program can be improved.

- GOOD UTILITY NEWS ; HE Government announces that the country’s leading ~~ utility companies have promised to place immediate orders for enough power-generating equipment to increase their capacity by a million kilowatts. This, made public as a first step in the National Defense Power Committee’s program, may easily prove one of the most encouraging developments in many months. Carrying out of the program would mean that: Vast sums of money—one estimate is a billion dollars a year for the next two years—would be spent for turbines, boilers; generators, building materials and wages. Many men would find jobs in private industry. The utility companies would start to catch up with their depression lag of expansion. The country would be better prepared for the quick speed-up of industry that will be necessary if we ever have to fight another war. Beyond that, and perhaps even more important, we _ believe the announcement shows that the Government is changing its attitude toward the utility business. In the past the New Deal has battled with the utilities on many fronts. Much of this fighting was necessary, in the public interest. But it went on so long and created such bitter-

ness that some people began to believe the New Deal was ;

trying to ruin the £ privale utilities, not merely to reform them. The utilities have been falling into line with ‘Government policy. And we think the Government, recognizing that the country needs the utilities and needs them to be efficient and successful, is now disposed to be more friendly and more helpful.

ADD DISTINCTIONS : may not be the biggest in the United States, but we'll — wager the new $500,000 naval reserve armory on the White River is the finest inland armory, in the, country.

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Asking the Shriek-Easies to Get >

More Facts Before Censuring the Six Physicians of Philadelphia.

EW YORK, Oct. 20.—Every shriek-easy who has |

not a previous engagement to take on about something else at the moment will now make a noisy case for Governmental medical care out of the report from Philadelphia that a destitute woman had her baby unattended, and lost the baby, after six physicians refused to respond to an emergency call. This report ignored, however, the well-known fact that such cries do not come without warning like traffic injuries, and avoids consideration of the possibility of contributory negligence by the woman and her husband. The account is incomplete as to why a woman sO long forewarned had failed to arrange to receive the benefit of free services which undoubtedly exist not only in Philadelphia but almost everywhere in this country. ? tf J = J 1 incompleteness is no ground for an assumption that the woman and the husband did neglect their responsibilities, but neither is it just to suggest, as the account and some comment have suggested, that the six physicians were simply heartless. It might not be difficult to find one doctor who would simply refuse to trouble himself, but six would have a variety of reasons, some legitimate.

Moreover, if the hospital services of Philadelphia !

are anything like those of New York a woman need not have a baby to bring the ambulance and an interne. In New York, at least, the royal indigents have been known to call an ambulance to fetch a doctor to treat a cold, and there is a verifiable case of a conscientious and miserably overworked young doctor who was turned out of his bed in the middle of the night to do for a lady whose only trouble was that she could not get to sleep. The same doctor recently had been yanked out of

bed—they were short-handed in the hospital, as usual,

and he was sleeping fast in sprints—to attend a woman who was drunk and had cut her foot on a broken glass—nothing serious. But as she sat in the chair and he cleaned and bound her wound the patient maintained a flow of robust:comment, the gist of which was that he must be a rotten doctor or he would see that she was. in desperate need of rest and recuperation in a good: hospital.

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UT, while there are those so alert to the prerogatives and rights of indigence that they hesitate not to call an ambulance doctor to treat them for hangover, baldness or chronic fatigue, there are many others so shiftless, ignorant and lazy that they neglect quite respectable ills, such as childbearing, until they are suddenly thrown on the doctors’ hands as emergencies. Not_to find fault too readily with the press work on the story of the destitute Philadelphia woman,

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I suggest, nevertheless, that the account left untold |

facts which were no.less important than those it did tell. How came the patient not to have made arrangements for attendance in an expected emergency? Was it any fault of hers or the husband's, or can it be that Philadelphia simply does not give such assistance? If free care is available is it, then, the duty of the doctors and social service workers to go about scouting for patients? - ‘And, finally, what about the six doctors? What were their reasons, and did anyone even trouble to ascertain whether they were already occupied with more forehanded patients or, perhaps, thought it was a case which the ambulance service should take in its stride?

Business

By John T. Flynn

Discouragement for Those Who Say Foreign Trade Is Key to Recovery.

NEV YORK, Oct. 29.—War scares are an expensive luxury. Nothing gets so much in the way of the ordinary trader as the battleship, once it clears for action. A look at what happened to the trader while Europe has been making ready for war this last year is seen in the figures about foreign trade.

On the bare reports of our Commerce Department foreign trade fell off so far this year. But on close inspection we see what fell -off was not so much our sales abroad but our purchases abroad. There was not a great difference between the amount we sold the world this year and last. For instance, we sold abroad $2,295,000,000 this year so far and last year we sold $2,378,000,000. Not a great change. But how did the world pay for her purchases this year and last year? Last year she paid for them with her own products. Last year she bought from us $2,378,000,000 of goods and sold us $2,427,000,000. That more than balanced her purchases. She paid for them with the products of her mines, fields, mills and the labor of her workers. But this year she could sell us only $1, 434 000,000 of goods or $800,000,000 less than she bought. = And to pay this she had to dip into her already sadly depleted .gold reserves. The time will come before long when she will feel the weight of that price.

Producing Goods U. S. Didn't Want

She sold us less because she has been slowly shifting the activities of her mills to the production of wartime goods which we do not want to buy instead of peace-time goods, which we would be willing to buy. She sold us less for another reason. She had to ‘manage her trade in order to use it to buy those things she needed for her war preparations and from those countries who had those materials to sell. This explains, of course, the slow drift of gold to this country—gold to pay for goods which might well have been paid for with goods. But also other gold flowed to us—frightened gold which came here to escape the dangers of war. " Thus while the fairly good figwe for exports by this country seems hopeful, the very low import figure is very bad. It must be very discouraging to those who put so much faith in the revival of foreign trade to start real recovery. Of course foreign trade would be a good thing. But it would be a very foolish thing for this country to permit itself to be drawn away from any other means of recovery for a plan which promises so little.

A Woman's Viewpoint |

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson . =

HOPE my gentle readers will not expect much of me for the next few weeks for it’s Trousseau Time in Tulsa and our household is in the throes of prenuptial excitement. Having but one daughter, I never before guessed what fun it is for grownups when a romance blossoms in the family and there’s a wedding in the wind. The youngsters walk with their heads in a cloud, blithely dumping most of the details of the event into our laps and, being incurable romantics at heart, we take on about twice as much as we can do, hoping to muddle through until the. cake is cut. What difference does it make about Hitler bestrid-

ing Europe, or whether the Communists gain a foothold in Washington? Don’t ask the Fergusons to. be

bothered with such matters. We are intent upon more momentous events—for example, finding an apartment to suit the taste and pocketbook of the happy couple

and trying to get them properly hitched without one

of us busting ‘a sacred rule of wedding etiquette. It's these rules that will eventually get me if I don’t survive. I can’t imagine who ever thought all of them up in'the first place. It must have been a woman, because men would never deliberately let themselves in for such drastic regulations. Well, whatever, their origin, I can assert with authority that a church wedding—even a litile one— omnes under the head of a major feminine achigyas ment. If I get through this without insulting the feelings of several friends, of shocking the local elite, or tak-

ing out a petition in bankruptcy, I shall think myself |

a fortunate woman. At the moment, I feel like a disheveled Hobo,

squirming. under the microscope of a bevy of disap-

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LIKES BACKGROUND OF CANDIDATE WOLFF By Florence MacFall Indianapolis is a city of homes, inspiring churches and excellent schools. It is the city where we wish our children to settle down. But toa often our children are compelled to leave Indianapolis because business opportunities are better elsewhere. We could improve business and make Indianapolis a more desirable city for our children by| electing businessmen to office instead of politicians. On Nov. 8 we have the privilege of going to the polls and voting for Herman C. Wolff for Mayor. Mr. Wolff, the Republican candidate, has been successful in his business life, is trained in public affairs and is a civic leader. Both in character and inclination, Mr. Wolff is the type of man who can and will give Indianapolis a progressive and busi-ness-like administration. His opponent is Reginald H. Sullivan, whose ties are with the past rather than with the future of tlie city. Mr. Sullivan’s claims to office are based almost entirely on his political experience and following. Indianapolis has had enough political grandstanding. What our city needs is a businessman in the Mayor’s chair, whose future is the city’s future. We have the privilige of electing such a man in Mr. WolfL. ® 2 8

DEMOCRATIC COALITION FOR PEACE URGED ' By Edward F. Maddox Since A. D:; has challenged my statement that “the coalition of Germany, Italy, Japan, Austria and Franco’s- Fascists is a force so formidable that - England and Prance will not risk their national existence to save smaller nations,” I want to remind him that that statement was written last March and printed before the Munich con-

ference, which proved it to be a true prophecy.

the fact that the war fever in Europe is generated by a feud between communism and fascism. We also should be able to recognize that the principal nations involved are Germany, Italy and Japan, with their anti-Communist pact on one side, and Russia on the other. There is, of course, a tremendous effort to draw other nations into the conflict, but the truth is that war is a

lieve that when war comes, Japan and Germany will fight Russia,

We should be willing to accept fr

Communist-Fascist struggle. I be-.

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while Italy acts as a sort of rearguard. : England and France are pretty effectively blocked from aiding Russia, aside from the fact that they may not have any desire to preserve communism. And as far as the United States is concerned, the Gallup Poll shows that 90 per cent, or more, of the people are opposed to meddling in foreign wars. So we must admit that no country which calls itself a democracy any business interfering in the’ Communist-Fascist struggle. The wise course for democracies is to conserve their resources, strengthen their defense machinery, stabilize their political and economic systems and thus be in a position to isolate the war. The democracies should form a coalition for peace. ® = = SOLUTION SEEN IN TOWNSEND PLAN By J. C. N. Ernie Pyle stated in a recent column that of the 21,000,000 persons in the United States between

THE SPELL OF OCTOBER

By VIRGINIA V. KIDWELL October’s influence on me Is magic and emphatic; All routine ceases instantly, My moods become erratic,

Neglecting duties, I am prone To rambling far and planning A future when I live alone, All poresome details banning.

And when the magic month goes by —Subdued, resigned and sober, draw back-in my shell and try To live for next October.

DAILY THOUGHT

¥ Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And He comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.— Genesis 50:21.

HE kindness of some is too much like the echo, returning the counterpart of what it receives, not more, and sometimes less.—Bowers.

the ages of 16 and 24, about 9,000,000 seek jobs. The Government is spending a quarter of a million a year at Quoddy Village, Me., to give 800 boys a chance to prepare themselves for jobs that don’t exist. Other millions are spent on projects just as useless.

Approximately 8,000,000 persons in this country wha have helped make it one of the greatest in the world

‘do not have a decent living.

It seems to me, as it does to thousands of other voters, that if the Townsend plan had been put in operation when it was presented to Congress, the depression would have ended before now. The aged would be living comfortably, and those under 60 desiring work would have it. . : 8 8 8 SHE LIKED THE EDITORIAL ON SENATOR WHEELER By Anna A. Pich May I take this opportunity to congratulate you for the recent editorial entitled “Burt Wheeler, a Free Man.” The editorial emphasized some important characteristics of Senator Wheeler that distinguish him as a statesman. Incidentally the article also reviewed for your readers the crying need for real States: manship. Those © who follow closely the teachings of the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin appreciate this tribute to the Senator because the Rev. Father Coughlin, too, recognizes in the Senator “the kind of man of whom America needs millions.” I hope you will give us more such articles as quickly as the need for them arises. 2 8» TWO-PRICE SYSTEM IS NOT FUNNY TO THIS READER By Times Reader Secretary Wallace's proposal for a two-price system—one for normal

income groups and another for subnormal income groups—may sound funny. But it is not nearly so funny as piling up 24 million bales of cotton with no outlet under the one-price system. It won’t be funny, either, when those cotton, corn and wheat farmers go broke on low-priced farm products. Or when people no longer will look on wistfully in poverty while goods are available to clothe and feed all in abundance. Our system either will find a way to get these products to those who need them, or it will be eliminated as unfit. To save this system, we must make it work.

NUMEROUS. * saersuroments of girls in various parts of the

United States show they are nearly

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

THE BEST WAY To ke MAKE SURE PEOPLE

shorter waist line and are generally more shapely than were the girls of

2 generation ago; In fact, they are

mothers of the Mauve Eighties and Gay Nineties. 8 ® ® NO. People must not only be told but drilled. Having children go through frequent fire drills is worth a thousand mottos and lectures. This sets up a “condition reflex”—a ready made habit that will respond automatically in the right

way when the alarm comes. Signs reading “In case of fire select your exit; walk, don’t run” are worth while, but give little assurance what peope will do when excited.

NO. The general browser never learns much or knows much for certain, The only way you can remember any large number of facts is to organize them together along one main line so that one will tend to call up others. Most people have read thousands of facts about the Spanish and Jap-China Wars, but we all know. so little about ios countries that we can hardly t

three minutes connectedly al %

them. But a student of German or ' | English history or world econom-|

ics has thousands of items already in his head that would hook up with

a great many of these new items— fields of knowledge.

Gen. Johnson Says—

This Country's Sincere 3:Point

~ Wins His Wholehearted Support.

YORK, Oct. 29.—After criticizing so many things about, the recent policies of this Admine istration, it is a pleasure to crash through with come plete support of one—its foreign policy. -

I think when the scrambled history of these cocke

eyed times is written at a distance of enough years to make it valuable, the simple, steady attitude-of the United States, as expressed by utterances of the President and of Secretary Hull, will go down as the one true light. In spite of what may be surmised from randoms and sometimes hasty utterances by Ambassadors and: others, as the President and the Secretary of State. have so frequently insisted, the real foreign policy of the United States is clearly stated in their official papers. To my mind, at least, it is so simple and direct and is so well supported by all our actions that its sincerity is beyond question. eit Tay

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IE .is based on a recognition that a sound trade: structure must be restored to the world to appease’ the handicaps imposed upon less favored nations. by, the vicious instruments of economic war. This iy’ fundamental. There are few military wars in hise, tory that cannot be traced to some economic cause,’ The World War did not cease at the Armistice. It merely changed its form from military war, to. economic war—through the imposition. of impossible reparations and the scramble toward economic selfs. sufficiency by tariffs, quotas, subsidies, currency: manipulation and dumping. Mr. Hull's patient effort’ : to restore economic peace is a necessary prelude topolitical peace in the world. That is point No. 1 in, the foreign policy of the United States, its very,

‘| foundation.

Point No. 2 is absolute nonaggression, willingness to be helpful to the peaceful plans of any nation, opposition to the just aspirations or interference. im. the internal affairs of none, the good neighbor prine: ciple in obvious sincerity. If war comes to the world; it will come through ne initial act of ours. « Point No. 3 reluctantly recognizes that force rather, than justice rules the world just now and that no, country operating under the principle just stated ‘is: safe if it is not at all times prepared to Sppete 1 force:

‘with force in its own defense.

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T= country is willing and anxious to see general

disarmament and will match concession with,

concession on any plan for military equilibrium on: a scale down. But if the desperado nations will.nob: disarm—neither will we. Furthermore, if they cone: tinue to pile armament upon armament, so will. we, We can afford it better than any. We purpose not only to defend our own shores from invasion but also to protect the western heme. isphere from any parallel with the Czechoslovakian gobble by any gangster nation of either Europe of Asia. That is our defensive policy and we intend’ to say it not only With words but also with ships: and airplanes and men and guns in foeh strength. that nobody in the world can doubt i That is about all there is to it _ T can’t see, anything the matter with it. It is just, manly, peacee ful, responsible, realistic and brave. I think it: has. almost universal support among our people. We. couldn't be forced into a war on any more selfish. program; but we could on this. In foreign relations we never had any better President and Secretary. oS State than Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull.

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Literature for the Navy Meats’ Officers Who Can Answer "Why?"

EW YORK, Oct. 29.—It is interesting to learn~ that Secretary Swanson has introduced required” reading into the U. S. Navy. To be accurate, the See«: retary’s endeavor to bring education to the bridge inet

cludes only the ensigns of our fleet. order was promulgated that each young officer must: read six books in 18 months after his graduation from Annapolis. > A high degree of catholicity must be admitted in that case of Mr. Swanson’s. little list. No fair charge’ can be made that he seeks to inculcate solely NewDeal philosophy among the future sea dogs. ‘It iss true that Tugwell and Thurman Arnold. are listed. among the hundred authors suggested, but so 5 Wal»: ‘| ter Lippmann. As in the case of gunnery, the scheme SeemE” be that the young observer should mark a hit bo left and right and then endeavor to split the bracket, Even the finer arts are not excluded, for each young. man who aspires to be an admiral may take as one :

Recently the: :

Foreigh Policy Is Something That .

sixth of his postcurricular requirement Stokowski’s,

“The Layman’s Music Book” or Van Loon’s ‘Rems ‘i Such a course may hasten the day when.

brandt.” men’ in epaulets can carry other tunes save that of “Sail, Navy, Down the Field.” Other authors listed

are Darwin, Ludwig, Paul De Kruiff, James Harvey: a Robinson, Abbe Dimnet and Lawrence of Arabia. ‘7

This is all to the good. Indeed, I think that “The §

Mind in the Making” ought to be made obligatory

for all who take training to lead others in a time of #

crisis. Few, I imagine, even among the martinets of & @

any fighting force, will seek to uphold the bisa of the old Tennysonian tradition.

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It would be well, of course, if all university men, in addition to the graduates of West Point and Anenapolis, were bound to keep in touch with books and’

thought after graduation, and refrain from burying: Th 1

their brains beneath a single sheepskin. The Swanson formula is sound. I suspect thas the professional soldier or sailor in America, or else where, tends to become too tight-minded. Like the lawyer, and more particularly the physician, there are

so many new developments in his own field that he 3

may lose sight of vital related subjects. If democracy in the next few years is called upon: to defend itself (and that seems probable to me) it will not be all-sufficient to have an effective force’ of leaders who can answer the question. It is important that they should be clear-headed it fronted with the query “Why?” :

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein 18

VERY time your teeth come together in chewing * they exert about 150 pounds of pressure on the material in between. For that reason, nature has: ‘ ot vided shock absorbers between the teeth and the jaws bone. a This layer of tissue between the roots of the teeth * and the jawbone is an elastic tissue called the dental membrane. Even a child will use as much as 40 pounds of ‘p sure in chewing. If, for any reason, the tissues aro: the roots of the teeth become infected or inflamed pressure can produce a good deal of pain. The: of the teeth are covered with a thin layer of bone-. material called cementum. At the end of each is a small opening for the blood vessels and the : that enter each tooth. . When inflammation occurs and there is pt on the nerve, the brain gets a message from the | of the tooth that says “Pain.” Pain is a w signal. Something should be done immediately. The teeth begin to form before a child is born: that reason the prospective mother must guard teeth of her approaching child. The care which gives to her own diet will concern the quality of teeth . of that child. Foods that are necessary for the growth of teeth at the right time are calcium, phosphorus vitamins. Since milk and milk products are the » important sources of calcium, milk must aly the fundamental substance in the diet of the ¢c Every child should be examined regularly 1 first signs of tooth decay. Soa The teeth of children decay because they have | been properly nourished, because proper cleanliness the teeth has not been observed and because

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