Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1938 — Page 12

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MONDAY, NOVEMEER 21, 1938

DEVASTATION N this torn and tense world of ours where man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward let’s not fail to appreciate the problem and the plight of the sports editor. For not the least of the burdens is carried by him. j His is the job to say the same thing in at least 40 different ways. He is the one who, if he is to function properly, ust master the synonym and juggle the etymon. It is bad

journalistic technique to repeat. So: Harvard beats Yale, but Army halts Princeton. Then

Syracuse tops Columbia. And Notre Dame triumphs. Purdue prevails over Indiana, Fordham subdues South Carolina, Minnesota downs Wisconsin, Villanova routs Boston, Bucknell topples its adversary, Temple bows to Michjgan State, Tulane wallops Sewanee and Southern Methodist ~ conquers Baylor. ; Not to mention the victory of Oklahotha over Iowa State, or the fact that other football teams were slain, foiled, nipped, buried, swamped, crushed, halted, sunk, blistered, nosed out or mowed down. : All on a Saturday afternoon.

THE WORLD'S A JUNGLE OY Oct. 6, the United States complained to Tokyo that the Open Door in China was being systematically closed %o its Nationals and protested against “unwarranted interference” with American rights in that area. Japan's reply, now at hand, is as thoroughly Japanese as a dish of suki

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“In the face of the new situation (in China), the note concludes, “any attempt to apply to the conditions of today and tomorrow the inapplicable ideas and principles of the past, neither would contribute to the peace of East Asia nor solve the immediate issues.” ! Thus officially Japan propounds the breath-taking doctrine that treaties are worthless insofar as they bind the * interested parties to.a future course of action. In other words, the nine-power treaty, signed at Washington in 1922 has now lost its validity because of what has happened since—mostly, of course, at the hands of Nippon. ; Nor is this merely our interpretation. “International treaties with declarations,” elucidated the influential Tokyo daily, Asahi, “are nothing more than legalization of the international situation that prevailed at the time of their ~. conclusion. The status quo is never permanent but must "be changed according to the lapse of time and prevailing i circumstances.” : . . = © Regardless, therefore, of what Japan solemly promised * China and the other powers in the past, she apparently % has no intention of living up to those promises now. In © 1922 she signed an agreement to respect China’s territorial ; i and administrative integrity and not to interfere with the "© Open Door and equality of opportunity for others. Nine 1 years later, in 1931, she changed her mind and invaded

s. { Manchuria. . Since that time she steadily has pressed the

invasion. Coveting Chinese territory, trade and raw ma- : terials, she is simply taking them in utter disregard of * treaties and signatures! : 2 The idea itself is not exactly new in international rela1 tions. What is dazzlingly new, however, is that any civil%.jzed nation would have the gall officially to espouse‘it as a ‘policy. Seldom has the doctrine that might makes right been more openly embraced. Like it or not, over large ‘sections of the globe international morality seems to be © steadily sinking to new lows, until today the only law cer- { tain of the great powers recognize is the law of the jungle.

THE REAL REMEDY THE National Labor Relations Board is said to be giving “serious consideration” to a change in its rules which % would permit employers to ask for collective-bargaining elections when “caught in the middle” by jurisdictional % strikes or disputes between unions. Certainly this change should be made. The existing rule is grossly unfair. Under it, an employer can not go * to the Labor Board and ask for a plant election. Two rival . labor organizations may be using his business as a battle- - ground. He may be perfectly willing to bargain collectively - with either organization. But he has to stand helpless ‘while his business suffers, having no means by which he can : i act to stop the fight. The board will not order an election, * to determine which union the employees want as their rep- - resentative, unless one of the unions asks for it. That demand, in our opinion, should not be sidetracked, and will not. The fundamental defect in the Wagner Act, which has permitted the Labor Board to maintain an unfair rule for three years, calls for a fundamental remedy. The right of employers to appeal to the board should be written into the Wagner Act by Congress, not left for the board . members to recognize or deny at their whim.

MUSEUM PIECE THE Government is thinking of selling the old U. S. Mint * at Carson City. One proposal is that the State of Nevada buy it and turn it into a museum. Good idea. The central exhibit should be a history of

America’s silver policy as it has been shaped by politics

to meet the demands of Senators from Nevada and other

.. gilver-producing states. The Carson City Mint, itself, was : established as an early fruit of that policy. In recent years that policy has required the Government to buy enormous quantities of silver in a patently futile attempt to raise the market price of the metal to $1.29 an ounce. ; : The Government is now hiding away in vaults at West Point, N. Y., some two billion ounces of silver. No possible use for this silver is in sight. It is not needed for coinage, or as a reserve to support the paper currency. Most of it was bought from other countries, which certainly will never buy it back again at anything like. the price they received. And the market price of silver, now less than 43 cents an ounce, would collapse if the Government: should try to sell its useless hoard. : ~The State of Nevada could find nothing more fantastic

story of this s to display in its mint-

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Fair Enough |

" Officer Defends Navy's Record on ! Aviation, Pointing. Out Benefits |

Gained by Its Years of Research.

EW YORK, Nov. 21.—When worse pieces are - written than mine regarding the flying services

and the exclusiveness of the officers’ corps of the |. Navy they probably will be written by the same

hand. Impatient of compromise and" half-measures,

when I'm bad I am lousy, and I didn't need telling |. thet I had fallen on my face, although several naval

officers have been good enough to say so, and I take | J

my wigging without smirk. a : i «Take a look some time at the history of aviation and. see what kept the interest and research alive from the end of the war to the Lindbergh flight,”

one officer wrote. “See who put up the cash for the | §

development of the radial engines, who ‘experimented with wing designs, who owned and operated the wind tunnels in which the designs were tested. Find out for yourself what strategic conditions Germany has to face and how they differ from ours and compare the two programs. Maybe Al Williams is right and maybe he is wrong, but he’s not as right as you seem to imply nor is aviation in the government services the stepchild you infer if is. 8 8 = 1.°= into the records of the transport fliers. See L4 where they got their first training. See what percentage of them are in the reserve forces of aviation. Look at the list of flying cadets in training today and see how many of them get jobs with the transport companies after their tour of active duty is over. And tell me something—why a flier shouldn't know something about the service he will revert to when his- reaction time and his astigmatism get to be a menace not only to himself, but to his fellows.” And so forth, without drawing a breath or repeating himself. : Well, all right, and this is the point at which I am going to let Mr. Williams hold the baby, because he is the one who calls the radial engine a built-in headwind and whoops it up for a streamline engine, who insists that the Army and Navy both regard the airplane as a weapon or an auxiliary, when, in his mind, it should be a service by itself co-operating with the two others, and who holds that the military air service should retain and not farm out to the passenger companies pilots developed at public expense by the Army and Navy. - : o 2 8 HIS is no retort of mine, for I just don’t know, but merely got hopped up on some contentions which Maj. Williams not only is willing to debate but cannot be restrained from promoting. we I did call the Naval Academy a glorified high school in view of the fact that it admits boys, but, by the age limit and the promotion system, excludes from naval careers many young men who have acquired in other schools technical skill and learning which the Navy should invite and somehow {it into suitable rank. ; ; I didn’t then but I do now propose that the Navy, considering the nonstrenuous.nature of many important positions, could waive some of its highly fastidious requirements of teeth, toes and weight to admit as officers men of skill and brains who are not physically perfect. There once was a very good naval officer named Lord Nelson, who lost first an eye and then an arm but fought right smart when he was reduced to a mere remainder.

Business By John T. Flynn Fascism, as Used to Define Actions Of Dictators, Not Quite Accurate.

EW YORK, Nov. 21.—This is a good time to ask ourselves what the word fascism means. The word is associated with the well-known behavior of two dictators and with the dramatic performances of their followers. And so the word has come to be used by the average American to describe these performances. But this is not an accurate use

of the word. :

Fascism is a form of social and economic organization of society. It would be as unjust to say that the word monarchy means the kind of thing that existed in Russia before the revolution. Fascism is a form of capitalist society in which the free play of economic forces is abandoned and in which an effort is made to regulate the economic life of the people. In effecting this regulation the nation is divided into its political and its economic functions. The political functions involve questions of social administration, welfare, police, foreign relations, taxes, ete. The economic functions include chiefly the government and control of the economic activities of the people. These activities are usually included under the heading of business. : The politica. administration is entrusted to. the public officials—legislators, administrators, inspectors, police, mayors, governors, ministers, etc. The economic administration, however, is entrusted to employers organized in trade associations. These trade associations name representatives who are charged with making rules and enforcing compliance with those rules governing production, prices, competition, employment, wages, etc.

Labor Unions Outlawed

- Theoretically labor is supposed to take a part in this process. But labor unions are not permitted and labor itself is organized in associations under Government control and direction. At the top of all this—both political and economic governments—is the dictator. There may be a legislative body. But if there is it is a mere rubber stamp. Whether that dictator and his cohorts are violent, brutal, sadistic, malignant will depend on the character of the dictator and the character ot the people and the general condition of the country. The behavior of the dictator is not of the essence of fascism. Therefore to judge whether any official or agitator is a Fascist or Fascist-inclined, all one need to do is to apply this test to him. : In the light of this test it might be interesting for the reader to look this country over and decide for himselt whether we have been drifting toward fascism. =

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |

WwW? * ' signifies, I can’t say, but it is interesting to L.c .nat Jesse James and his kind are getting public attention. However, so long as we persist in making heroes out of gunmen, the Jameses are preferable to the Al Capones, I think, because they are a native brand. i Jesse himself is as American as the Missquri which gave him birth. If he does nothing more than make the U. S. A. conscious of that grand old state, his resurrection will have been a little beneficial. . This autumn saw a stage play, “Missouri Legend,” open in New York and we are soon to have released a ‘super-colossal technicolor movie using a similar plot motif—the exciting adventures of the famous bandit, filmed in his native woodlands. It’s stupid to glorify villainy, of course, although I refuse to trail with those who believe we should never esteem villains. As a matter of truth, villains have made most of our history. What was the illustrious “Little Corporal” himself but a hefty chunk of egocentricity—a colossal showoff, who, throughout his entire life, promoted: little save greed and murder. Yet men have done reverence to him for a good many years. ; In every age, the hero and the rascal are brothers under the skin. The Old West, especially, where emotions went unchecked and culture was scarce, fostered a breed of men whose major qualities made both its good and bad men famous. The fascinating part of all to find | e villains got

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Business Still Apprehensive Over’ Government's Plans, Attendance at Various Trade Parleys . Reveals.”

HICAGO, Ill, Nov. 21.—Annual conventions of the big trade associations are peculiarly an American institution, at least in the way we run them. They are prehistoric here. The Indians called them powwows. Before Columbus, the tribes came

| thousands of miles to the big ones. They smoked and

ate and danced a lot but not nearly so much as they. talked, Talk was what they wefe there for. Tie Just the same, they learned much. They knew: what other tribes were planning, which way the: buffalo were drifting, and other dope on -how to. keep fat and happy—which is the principal human’

accupation anywhere and at any time. % I attend these big annual sun dances whenever:

\ 11 can. This is my fourth this year—four cross sec-

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

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FAVORS SAFETY OVER POLITICS

It seems to me that things are very rotten when the taxpayers have to pay, and a life has to be taken, in order to supply police protection for such a small thing a paying a political bet. . : I asked for protection for Keystone Ave. to cut down speeding but I was told there were not. enough men to do what I asked. Still, officers could be sent to lead this sort of parade. .

In the first place there was no reason to travel 40 miles an hour, or to be sounding a siren as they admit they were doing, in order to lead a wheelbarrow parade. Why can’t something be done to get away from this grandstand play for a favored few? Do we get politics or safety? ” »

RAPS PROPOSAL TO PROBE MEXICO

By R. Sprunger : : I was amused at a writer in the Forum who “warned” of alien “encroachment” and: then advocated snooping in Mexico to find out why “communism” is “coddled” in Mexico. : No doubt Mexicans would consider that alien encroachment. In confiscating a factory whose owners had violated Mexican laws and whose hired thugs had killed 14 strikers, the Mexican Government said it was not going to tolerate “American style” massacres. No doubt this is a slam at American hypoc< risy and no doubt it is justified. Yes, I ‘am in favor of cleaning house. j Let’s begin by dethroning the 1 per cent group who rule our economic lives from Wall Street. Let’s replace them with pure social and industrial democracy by the people, for the people and of the people; and clean out unemployment, crime and want amidst plenty. #8 nn BELIEVES PEGLER FLATTERS FAIR SEX By: Kitchen Cynic

A note to Mr. Pegler: (We mean to be friendly so we'll call you what your friends call you —“Peg.”) Aw g’wan, Peg. You flatter us too much in your latest diatribe on the strange sex. We're not strange at all. - Anyone who runs may read— and does. Your experiences are wider and you consider us dumb because ours are narrow. Our experiences run deeper, however, and it’s in the depths that you Sounder SO badly. | : You must admit that we’re polite enough not to brag or laugh out

loud about it as your sex does, if you

insist our knowledge only comes out when we're angry. In that perhaps we are more—shall we say diplomatic? If we know the stronger sex inside out and upside down, it’s natural. ‘Being in the wife business

By J. E. Entwistle = Soar

(Times readers are invited to express their ~ 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.)

requires us to know our subject— husbands—as thoroughly as you know, your business. And if we're any good at our business we know what makes a husband tick, especially by the time he is fat, 40 and fussy, and keens on a misspent youth. - Secrets, are they? Call ‘em trade secrets, then. © But.I want to know what brought on these philippics. Did you perhaps ask Mrs. Pegler to account for that dollar you gave her in 1935? Let her take over the column for a day and explain, You can go duck hunting. : wer If you have been a fool about the gals, comfort yourself with - the thought that most of us at some time or other also make nunmitigated fools of oursclves over some man, So we're even, ; : » 8 8 CLAIMS TRADE PACTS DON'T GO FAR ENOUGH By L. S. | The British American trade pact is laudable as far as it goes. The world’s political turmoil is due to the stupid effort of a few nations to curtail and restrict the flow of goods and services across national boundaries. Our own restrictive tariff policy gave us the feeling of prosperity during a period of 25 yeais, while we gave our products away to nations which could buy only on the cuff. Restoration of world trade across all national boundaries is tlie only security for world peace. Before the World War England and France sought desperately to keep Germany out of world trade as a competitor, - Failing in competition they resorted to war to de-

NOVEMBER SHINES By MARY P. DENNY November shines in golden rod Looking upward from the sod. Shining sheaf of yellow corn Glowing in November morn. Frosty tree tops shining clear In the autumn of the year. Maple leaves of red and gold Shining in the light of old. Beauty gleaming everywhere Through the bright November air.

DAILY THOUGHT

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.—Amos 5:14.

IN nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.—Cicero.

stroy Germany as a competitor in world trade... —— i

1 The Versailles Treaty most surely

told what the war was fought for, and it carried on the war for 20 years later to crush Germany as a world factor in world trade. : ‘ Czechoslovakia and Austria were set up as political boundary barriers to keep Germany from trading with its nearest neighbors. The condition created the Nazi Party and Hitler. England’s policy produced intolerable trade and economic conditions. Hitler smashed these. The shoe is on the other foot now. \ How can we: have world trade without all nations free to all markets? Guns only shoot customers. Let's use our brains instead of guns. > ”

THINKS DEMOCRATS WILL NAME M'NUTT By Bull-Mooser, Crawfordsville After the Indiana Democrats have dried their tears over the Democratic losses of 1938, they may well smilé a little at the prospect for 1940. : If the Democratic losses of 1938 are to be regarded as New Deal

losses, then it must be admitted that those losses were not decisive. New Deal is still powerful enough to exert a mighty voice at the 1940 convention, but most likely not

| powerful enough to exert a dicta-

torial voice. Hence, a weakened New Deal can mean only one thing—a compromise Presidential candidate in 1940. If the Democratic candidate in 1940 is to be a compromise candidate, it is almost certain he will be Paul V. McNutt. At the present time no other ranking compromise candidate appears. : ss 8's SPEAKS WITH FINALITY ON PIG TAIL QUESTION By W. W. Friedrich : Having observed an article in the Forum recently, I wish to put some to right concerning pigs’ tails. All pigs’ tails do not turn or curl to the left. Possibly some pigs do not face the right direction enough and thereby create a scientific error by letting their tails curl to the right. If the rotation of the earth upon its axis could have anything to do with it. . .. If anyone is skeptical about this fact, come out to my pig lot and we will discuss it at length with the hogs in pig latin. Nearly as Ineny curl to the right as to the eft. i

2 2 o OFFERS SUGGESTION TO SENATOR VANNUYS By Midwestern Mencken

If Senator VanNuys is recounted out of the Senate seat he’ll prohably sit down and write a book on political corruption in Indiana—

titled, “Now It Can Be Told.”

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"LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM ik

ARE SOME WOMEN ESPECIAL LY LIKELY To FALLIN LOVE

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in this blessed state very long until some man leads her first to the marriage altar, and thence to his kitchen. 8 8 = TRUE in some situations and false in others. Social intelli-

gence tests show that women are better diplomats when the guest upsets his soup on the new table cloth. But in the larger affairs of business and political world I think it extremely doubtful that women are as good diplomats as men. Nevertheless, we are glad to recognize that a few 'have done pretty well at it, both when they were the actual officials and when they were the “woman behind the throne,” as Chiang Kai-shek’s wife seems to be in China today. » 8 2

~ CERTAINLY. The self-suffi-J c.ent, dominating type of woman

‘| very often finds in a weak man just

the bird she is looking for. Also the woman who is reasonably self-suf-ficient, not dominating, but of the motherly type, finds a joy in sort of mothering a man who is weaker than she is. Now and then these combinations seem to work out very well in marriage. Five minutes s given here f hus-

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tions of four of the biggest industries. They are all” colored with exactly the same thought which was: the principal subject of discussion at each. Is the” policy of this Administration going to be to continue to berate, bulldoze and break up American: business? : ;

: # 8 = YF any such destructive and paralyzing political: policy is to continue to prolong depression and crease unemployment, these industries want to know hat the excuse is. They are told it is monopoly oppressing the public. Then ‘they ask: “What is monopoly and how is the public oppressed?” 2 These questions were the foremost ones at the: petroleum convention—asked in real bewilderment’ and I think perfect sincerity. : If it means that monopoly is where any company controls any considerable percentage of the whole oil business, the plain figures make that absurd on its face. None does. If it means that there is restricted: competition among companies, every driver of an automobile knows that all the roads are simply ine. fested with too many filling stations of a dizzy die, versity of ownership. If it means that high, inflexible gasoline prices have been maintained, the facts are that the “all-commodity” price index in June stoodat 783. The gasoline index was at 56.3—the lowest, principal price in the lot. : : 3 2 8 = z {Eos price for gasoline has also shown the greatest shrinkage. - In 1920 it was about 29.7, in 1926, the so-called “normal” yeat, it was 2097. In 1938 it was 13.7—and the quality of the product at the lowered price was much improved as. everybody knows. LE ede =i Science, invention and competition have ‘constantly lowered gas prices. It is increasing sales taxes—Federal, State and local—that have recently. kept them from 6 to 9 cents higher than the figures just quoted. : If monopoly means too much profit, the highest. average yearly return on capital in 12 years was 5 per cent and the average 1.4 per cent. If it means oppressing labor, the manufacturing end of this industry shows the best labor conditions in wages, hours, and turnover and the greatest improvement of any major industry. % That is the oil companies’ case. There may be: holes in it but if so they: are insignificant in comparison with the general result. I should think the industry would welcome Senator O'’Mahoney’s investigation. I should think, if the Senator simply wants to make a business-baiting case, he wouldn’t select this one as a horrible example. It might prove a fatal boomerang.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Dorothy Thompson Right in Seeking Public Trial for Boy Slayer of Nazi.

ITTSBURGH, Nov. 21.—I'm here on business, and, [whether it is parochial or not, a New York newspaperman always feels forlorn at such times as he is off base when things are happening. The newspapers of America’s biggest city seem to be in quicker touch with the affairs of the world. Pittsburgh, for instance, has the same access to cables, telegraph lines and other avenues of communication which New York possesses. But the metropolis is beyond question the journalistic capital of the nation. Much of the most important news of our country may stem from Washington, but appraisal and digestion wait for the New York newspaper verdict. Even in very small cities one may learn fast enough what has happened but the vital problem of “What does it mean?” is not so promptly answered. Here, for instance, President Roosevelt's statement about Germany barely edged out headlines concerning the capture of somebody known locally as “the leader of the Blue Bandana Gang.” © At an unseeming hour the telephone rang and 8 New York operator said, “Miss Dorothy Thompson is trying to get in touch with you.” :

An Old American Tradition ; :

When I finally got the message I found that this certainly was a time in which I thoroughly agreed with Miss Thompson and respected her capacity for leadership. : As you undoubtedly know, Dorothy Thompson spoke over the air and urged that Herschel Grynszpan, assassin of a German Embassy official, should have a public trial in France and that he should be represented by competent counsel. To that end she is asking the support of fellow newspaper writers in Americaq It is her feeling that the case presents a challenge to the institution of the free press all over the world. ; 1 agree entirely.” There will be criticism that the effort to bring the case into the open and to protect the legal rights of the defendant constitutes condoning a crime. Nohing could be more unfair or silly. It is an old American tradition that every man has -a right to his day in courte It is an old democratic tradition. } The case of Herschel Grynszpan unmistakably is one in which the background must be studied. Let it not be said that this incident is no concern of ours because it occurred in a foreign land. Most certainly it is the right and business of newspapers and newspaperwomen and newspapermen to say, “We demand access to the facts. We want to know why.”

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

JNURING the first week of August, 1938, an oute break of encephalitis or inflammation of the brain occurred in southeastern Massachusetts and in Rhode Island and caused the death of more ‘than 200 horses. In the second week of August a young girl, 12 years old, came to a hospital in Brockton, Mass., with an attack of inflammation of the brain, and 17 days later a boy, 13 year old, from the same city developed a similar condition. Eventually more than 30 cases of inflammation of the brain occurred among human beings in this territory. All of these patients had lived in the area in the horses ° -were stricken. : : : In this same period of time a number of such cases were seen in North Dakota and in Minnesota also associated with an epidemic of inflammation of the brain among horses, 2 : Eo It will be remembered that there was a great epidemic of this condition in the region of St. Louis, Mo., in 1934. Now comes evidence that this particular form of inflammation of the brain is a condition which oceurs in the horse and which can be transferred to the human being either by direct contact with the horse or perhaps by an intermediary of the - type of the mosquito. In the outbreak which occurred in Massachusetts the virus which can cause this form of inflammation of the brain in horses was isolated from'the brains of the children who died. This virus was then injected by way of the nose into mice and its definite infectious character established. :

Studies are also now being made to determine whether or not it is possible to prepare a vaccin