Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1938 — Page 9

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i Eden Dash Planned

Conference Board Head ~ Compares America to

- NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (U. P)— Colby M. Chester, chairman of the

tional Association of Manufacturers today that the nation once again is ' merging “into a community of sympathetic understanding.” “The businessman’s philosophy of teamwork and common sense has taken root,” he said. “As the tension eases a courageous mood develops in industry.” : Mr, Chester declared the people of the country want “a day when youth will have more opportunity, when middle age will have greater “security and old age peace and relaxation, a day when there will be a resurgence of teamwork and good will, of toleration and forgiveness.”

New Leadership Praised

A new type of industrial leadership has supplanted that of 20 or 30 years ago, he said. . “Now,” he said, “the businessma must be an economist, an accountant, a lawyer, a moral leader, a social worker. My experience makes ~ me blieve that there are many more pwctical humanitarians in business than some people think.” He spoke after Dr. George Gallup had expressed doubt that President Roosevelt could be elected for a third term. Dr. Gallup at the same time gave the manufacturers a warning. ~ “When the public decrees fundamental social change, there is no choice for the businessman, labor leader, politician or anyone else in the social community but to reconcile himself, to it,” the director of the American Institute of Public Opinion said at the American Association of Manufacturers’ convention here yesterday.

“More Abundant Strife”

Virgil Jordan, National Industrial Conference Board president, compared the United States to Nazi Germany and asserted that the New Deal is preparing “a final desperate bid in the name of patriotism for absolute political power over enterprise, property and personal liberty.” As in all drives toward “state dictatorship,” Mr. Jordan said, “this domestic economic emergency has now been replaced by an international political emergency.” : “As a slogan,” he continued, “we are now substituting ‘the more abundant strife’ for the ‘more abundant life’ Military preparedness has now succeeded economic depression as a basis both for further

GLAMOUR MAN TO ARRIVE LATE

Eden, Who Tried to Reverse Nazi Trend, Now Seeks To Cultivate U. S.

By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—“. .. And so I present to you the Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden.” 2 In some such phrase an American manufacturer will introduce to a wide-eyed assemblage in New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel tomorrow night a man in whom blue blood, scholarship, good looks, youth, courage and experience at large affairs combine to create one of the 20th Century’s more notable cases of male glamour. ' Just a few minutes before the introduction, Capt. Eden will be rushed to a dock near the WaldorfAstoria by a Coast Guard cutter. The Aquitania, on which he came from Great Britain, has been delayed by storms and will arrive only a few minutes before Capt. Eden is

inflationary stimulation of business and for its further absorption into the state.”

Gallup Cites Trends

Dr. Gallup presented five observations made “on the basis of what the voters are now telling us.” They were: 1. “In respect of many predepression views, the ‘good old days’ are literally gone forever. The public, even the conservative members of it, have accepted such New Deal reforms as social security, legal recognition of the right of collective bargaining, and Government regulation of the stock exchanges. The center of gravity of conserva- ~ tive opposition, so far as the rank and file are concerned, has moved several degrees left of where it was 10 years ago, and many leaders of the conservative side are gradually eoming to recognize this. : 2. “, .. The public appears to be tiring” of the New Deal's “rapid tempo and to be seeking a period of stabilization: . Rank and file Democrats are voting for a more conservative course for their party. Republican voters . .. want the G. O. P. to be more liberal.

Budget Sentiment Revealed

3. “Much. sentiment exists for amendment of the Wagner Act. The voters approve overwhelmingly of the right to bargain collectively, but the majority believe the Wagner Act needs overhauling. Attempts in this diretcion in the next Congress, therefore, are likely to find widespread public support. 4. “Voters in the upper and middle income groups are becoming alarmed” about taxes and so Congress is likely to scrutinize the budget closely. But the country sgverwhelmingly favors spending for national defense. : 5. “The tradition that a President should not serve a third term is still very strong. While the people have differed with President Roosevelt on some of his policies, his leadership with its broad humanitarian objectives has commanded throughout his Administration the confidence of a majority of the voters. Many Democrats, however, who have stood loyally by him during the last six years, feel that they cannot break the tradition against a third term. There is real doubt, therefore, that President Roosevelt

- could be elected should he ask to be}

returned to the White House for an additional four years.”

‘This Is No Joke’

_ Mr. Jordan declared that, as in Germany, “our own oppressed minority, the employers, professional and salaried middle classes, the small property owners, will be exted to foot the bill to defend our own brand of authoritarian exploitation against danger from others. *" The speaker found what he considered to be numerous parallels between naziism and the New Deal. ' “We have no storm troopers, secret police or concentration camps,” he said, “but we have our Congressional ‘committeees, our economic experts and our labor union flying squads. .- “We don’t smash and loot Jewish shop windows and assess our Semitic ‘minority billion mark fines; we only sit down in employers’ plants, sabotage production and levy billions of dollars of taxes on the productive capital of the country every year. . . + “The names, manners and customs are different but the nature of the racket is the same everywhere.”

ATLAS AGREES ON ISSUES

. CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—A Federal Court hearing on claims of ‘Atlas Corp. officials that the Utilies Power & Light Corp. owes them foursmillion dollars proceeded today after amicable settlement of issues which had promised to make the

scheduled to speak. The dash will add to the glamour. The name Eden has come to

stand, in America, for a sort of combination Ronald Colman; d’Artagnan, Sir Galahad and St. George —with a touch of Woodrow Wilson.

Symbol of Idealism In more practical terms, the -hand-

some British statesman has become, deservedly or not, a symbol of idealism in international idealism; to be sure, that is well laced with British self-interest.

relations—

Capt. Eden could not swallow the

“realistic” policy of Prime Minister Chamberlain. He resigned last winter as Mr. Chamberlain’s Foreign Secretary because the believed the Chamberlain formula for achieving peace in Europe would in the end produce “exactly the opposite.”

To date Mr. Chamberlain has

kept the peace, although at .unmeasured cost to British prestige. But Capt. Eden has said:

“There must always be a point at which we as a nation must make a stand, and we must clearly make a stand when not to do so would forfeit our self-respect and the respect of others.”

Dictatorship Triumphs Mr. Chamberlain did not “make a

stand.” Fuehrer Hitler had his will of Czechoslovakia, as Premier Mussolini had of Ethiopia, and Japan of Manchuria.

Indeed, to that day in 1933 when Great Britain welshed on the

League covenant, by in effect con-

doning the Japanese grab of Man-

chukuo, can be tracsd the sequence of events which closed the era of collective security and ushered in the new pistol-at-your-head etiquette in the family of nations.

Capt. Eden fought to reverse that trend. He tried to humbie Mussolini,

during the Ethiopian episode, by sending the British fleet to the Mediterraneon, and found himself and the British Empire humbled in-

stead by the threat of Italian air

power. Britain at Crisis

: Capt. Eden fought to keep Germany within the orbit of interna-

Treaty, but Herr Hitler made his own law and reoccuvied the Rhineland while England, abandoning her pledge to France, kept her hands folded. Capt. Eden resisted a “deal” with Sig. Mussolini over Spain last winter, and when Mr. Chamberlain rejected his counsel he resigned. Thereafter came the seizure of Austria and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, with England still declining to “make a stand.” Today Britain is far from sure whether she could make a stand and survive it with her Empire and her

is scrambling to put her armaments house in order. And she is seeking to preserve and improve America's friendship, as a potential asset of incalculable value in case of war, That may explain Capt. Eden’s consent to visit these shores. Piqued though he may be at the ascendancy of policies which he deplores, he is not tent<sulker.

STATE RECEIVES 200 ORDERS FOR TREES

More than 200 ordeérs for hardwood trees already are on file with the State Department of Conservation from people who intend to reforest this spring, Virgil M. Simmons, head of the department announced today. Mr. Simmons said that four and one-half million trees will be used by private landowners in addition to the one-half million the Conservation Department will use in

a bitter court battle.

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LECION BACKING

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; {not only commended the “splendid

‘Iduction of present immigration

tional law by revising the Versailles

Impeachment of Miss Perkins Is Threatened by Committee Member.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P.).— The House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, its work: indorsed by the American Legion commander, heard testimony today by Eugene I. Van Antwerp, Veterans of Foreign Wars commander. ' Stephen FPF. Chadwick, national commander of the American Legion,

and courageous manner” in which the committee was doing its “serious and important work,” but supported its demand for immediate feportation action against Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast C. I. O. leader. Mr. Van Antwerp advocated enforced state and Federal registra tion of all organizations which disseminate propaganda in the United States. 2 Calling for stringent action to check spread of “alien ‘isms” into this country, he also proposed re-

quotas by 90 per cent and elimination from relief rolls of aliens who have not declared their intention of becoming citizens.

Seeks Curb on Revolutionaries

Registration of propaganda disseminating organiaztions, Mr. Van Antwerp said, would serve to make public the sponsors, sources of income and ostensible objectives. He also proposed: =r Dissolution of secret organizations which advocate or use force to advance their purposes. Legislation to make it a crime to. advocate the overthrow of Government by force. : Withholding of public appropriations from educational institutions advocating any foreign “ism.” Mandatory oath of allegiance by all Federal, state and local employees. Restriction of Goverment employment to citizens or aliens becoming citizens. Fingerprinting of all aliens entering this country. : Mr. Chadwick refused to go as far in condemning Labor Secretary Perkins as did Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.), a committee member, who said he intended to introduce a resolution of impeachment at the next session of Congress. Rep. Thomas said he considered

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alien deportation cases, to amount to a violation of her oath of office. Mr. Chadwick, however, said that the differences between the Legion and Miss Perkins over Mr. Bridges’ case were differences of = judgment. He referred to her attitude as constitutional “dereliction” of duty rather than violation of her oath of office. The official explanation for the postponement of Mr. Bridges’ trial is the pendency in the Supreme Court of a Strecker case, which involves the deportability of an alien solely on grounds of Communist Party membership and which the Labor Department contends will control disposition of the Bridges case.

Bridges Again Accused

The House Committee and the Legion, however, contend that the Strecker case is a weak one and not necessarily a parrallel. Rep. Thomas said he had investigated Mr. Bridges’ record carefully. “Im convinced,” he said, “that Harry Bridges is the blond-haired

boy of the Labor Department and I'm sick of it.” Mr. Bridges was accused by fwo witnesses yesterday of being a Com-

land, Ore., and John E. Perguson, a

member of the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Water Tenders and Wipers’ Union. Mr. Perguson, who said he formerly belonged to the Communist Party, claimed to have attended “top fraction” party meetings in San PFrgncisco attended also by Harry Bridges. Rep. Dies said the City of Portland “sent” the two witnesses to testify before the Committee after learning that the Committee’s funds. were running low.

Bridges Slaps Back At Keegan Charges

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.8 (U.P) — Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast C. 1 O. leader, said today that if there was any evidence he was a Communist or was attempting to overthrow the Government, “they wouldn't waste five minutes arresting me.” Ca

The charge was repeated yester-.

day before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities in Washington by Capt. James Keegan, Portland, Ore., police officer.

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WASHINGTON, Dec.

it was learned here today. The New York representaive of the FSCC, L. L. Horsch, has been contacting importers within the last few weeks to persuade them to put pressure on the firms with which they deal to accept payment, in effect, in American wheat instead of American dollars. The plan has not yet been applied and will be resorted to only if this year’s sales of domestic wheat outside the United States fall below 100 million bushels. In that event, the foreign exporter who sells to an American importer is to be asked by the American firm either to take the wheat himself for resale to a mill in his country or to arrange for the purchase of that wheat through the regular trade chanels.

By LEONARD H. ENGEL Times Special Writer : 8.—In a last-ditch effort to expand foreign sales of American wheat should the present export subsidy program fail short, the Federal Surplus Commodities Cerp. is now laying the groundwork for a wheat sales program closely approaching the barter system,

(which is below the American price) from the FSCC or arrange for the purchase from the FSCC by a regular wheat exporter for shipments to his creditor abroad. In this way it is hoped that, all else failing, the United States will be able to regain the one-fifth of the world wheat sales to which the United States, on the basis of past performance, is entitled. \ Wheat is at present exported under a subsidy arrangement to enable American producers to meet the world price. Corresponding subsidies are provided by every major wheat producer in the world. The plan, which has been considered, according to one FSCC economist, by the economic advisers to

The American importer will eithar buy the wheat at the world price

Agriculture Secretary Wallace, and,

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ESTATE IS ORDERED

VIENNA, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—The Gutenstein Court ruled today that the entire property held by Fritz Mandl, munitions magnate, prior to the Nazi annexation of Austria, should be confiscated and turned over to the state. ; Herr Mandl, who is abroad at present, came into the news some time ago when he attempted to prevent showing of the motion picture “ecstasy” in which his wife, Hedy Lamarr, starred. He spent thousands of dollars buying up copies of

the film in a vain effort to prevent °

its display. and she went to Hollywood.

CHAMPION POTATO FAMILY

DIGBY, N. S, Dec. 8 (U. P).—A family here claims a record for yearly consumption of potatoes. The family, which is composed of the father, mother, 14 children and 21 grandchildren, consume 10 bush els of potatoes a month. A special pot Is used to boil them for each meal.

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