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{ : “industry admit our share. All have learned that there is a | true harmony of interest between them, and there is a

{| the Manufacturers Association, the old rough-tough spokesman for Big Business, seems finally to have recognized that

work togéther for future progress more jobs and better

~~ families.” ~:~ No wholesale damning of the New Deal and organized

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| Diprisals, employers trying to destroy the rights of workers,

yl “all groups have to live together, and that the only way to

hE i Which recalls the one-time Governor of Oklahoma, "Jack Walton, who, incensed because a newspaper editorial

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1938

HAPPY NOTE : X7HAT a contrast to the old fire and brimstone resolutions ‘that used to come rolling out of the National Association of Manufacturers’ Congress of Industry! And how welcome the contrast! “America’s progress depends upon a united effort of industry, commerce, agriculture and labor in co-operation

“All of these groups have made mistakes, and we in

‘growing demand for intelligent teamwork. If these groups

. living can be provided for the 30,000,000 American

Ee Instead, a rather general acceptance of the fact * that the New Deal's reforms are here to stay, and so, too, =: collective bargaining with labor unions. To state it briefly,

“the law of evolution is “adapt or die”—and has chosen to adapt. And never has our country more sorely needed such a % gesture of good will. We have had so much of bitterness

% ment punitive actions against business and business re2.and vice versa. And as a result, nine years after the first ‘’big depression began we still have 10 million unemployed Smen, multi-billion unemployed dollars, a Government still running in the red and an economic machine stalled in the Spit. a

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The manufacturers’ new platform is a welcome sign of :what we believe is a growing inclination to recognize that

BUY HIM A BOOK CoN GRESSMAN JOE STARNES of Alabama (a member = of the Dies Committee) : “Christopher Marlowe? Isn’t

- Christopher Marlowe a Communist ?”’ Mrs. Hallie Flanagan (director of WPA Federal Theater ¢ projects) : “I want it put into the record that Christopher Marlowe was a noted playwright of the day of Shakespeare.”

* "get going is to get going together.

about him had quoted Robert Browning’s poem, “The Lost

- “Arrest this guy Browning and bring him in! I'll teach é=him to write poetry about me.” =r And the lady of literary pretensions, who said she ‘considered Scott’s Emulsion the best thing he ever wrote. s Rep. Starnes unwittingly has revealed one of the ~_reasons why the Dies committee has fumbled so many of its opportunities. ‘The WPA theater projects were started on the theory

have a chance to keep on with the kind of work for which they are best fitted. We think it’s unquestionably true that

: did and never can earn their livings as professional actors. | The Dies investigation might have shed light on the extent to which real Communists have used the Federal “theater. But Rep. Starnes, evidently determined to see red whether it’s there or not, has turned that phase of the

Es _inquiry into a farce by asking one question.

A THE average Indianapolis telephone user will pay about x; . Bb per cent less for telephone service in 1939 than he paid this year. © The new rates ordered into effect by the State Public Service Commission, and accepted by the company, also ~ “will bring savings to business users up to 11 per cent. = Whether this reduction is less than it should have been, or greater, we have no means of knowing. Rate“making is a complicated business and full of pitfalls for

any except the experts.

. But the willingness of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. |

to accept the new schedule without a prolonged battle in the courts indicates that the rate reductions at least are not too much.

ORTH CELEBRATING

N a world of spreading censorship, government control of ~ information and distorted news, the United States stands almost alone in its freedom from these influences. Of the ‘peoples of the world ours is one of the few that may learn ore about what is happening within the borders of a given nation than its own nationals. The reason we are reminded of these facts is that the :Foreign Policy Association today is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its founding. And to this organization, dedicated to research and educational activities in American foreign policy, is due no small share of credit for spreading light in these matters. Today, therefore, it is a pleasure to salute an organization of such high purpose and to wish for it many more years of fine service to the intelligent audience it reaches. WILLIAM W. SPENCER T is true that William W. Spencer bore the reputation of being the oldest practicing attorney in Indianapolis. t there was more to his reputation than that—a great more. : In the nearly 50 years he was in public life, as te Election Commissioner, County Attorney and State presentative, he was known as a man who took his obligations seriously. No greater personal tribute

Fair

Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Mr. Ickes’ Honesty and Frugality Cited as Serious Handicaps to His Hopes of Being Chicago's Mayor.

Harold Ickes, the Sudeten Chicagoan from the

anschluss with his old home. town in the role of Mayor and political redeemer. There are several difficulties,

however. : For one, Winnetka, although a province of that

Chicagoland, is not legally a part of Chicago. The Tribune's drang nach everywhere would enfold Winnetka and bless it with the peculiar form and type of government for which Chicago has been noted. This drang would anschluss also the rich beer and pumper-

wells of Peoria, the famous though now inactive literary light of Indianapolis and the rich Ukraine of Iowa. But up to now the empire is only a dream- of Col. Robert R. McCormick,, who believes that the inhabitants of the area are, with few exceptions, Chi-

his radio station and his editorials as Hitler bombarded the Austrians and the Sudetens.

1 2 =» 0, as a resident of Winnetka, Mr. Ickes plainly is ineligible for office in Chicago, although racially he is almost a thoroughbred Chicagoan. It has been

suggested that a court decision might be obtained to

make him eligible, or it could be decided simply to overlook this little detail and run him for Mayor, anyway. In some communities such a suspension of the law might be viewed with alarm, but Chicago rarely pays any attention to laws. . The campaign probably would be highly acrimonious, for the Tribune long has referred the house dick of the New Deal as “honest Harold”—a foul aspersion in Chicago politics and a serious handicap no. doubt. True, there have been “Honest Johns” in Chicago politics, but the word “honest” was pronounced with a smile even in print. But the Tribune has been calling Mr. Ickes “Honest Harold” in the most vindictive way, and his friends regard this as dirty pool and a mere intimation of the mudslinging that might develop. - 8 wn. ’ AD he known, 20 or 30 years ago, that he might one day run for Mayor, Mr. Ickes might have had the political foresight to get himself indicted for stealing public funds or for evasion of his income tax. Mr. Ickes himself has not yet made up his mind. He has a large job here as Secretary of the Interior and access to the Naval Hospital, in which to take a rest cure when he needs one at $3.75 a day. Yet the job of Mayor of Chicago is reckoned to be second only to the Presidency, and friends of Mr. Ickes believe they could fix up a bunk and a gas jet in the Mayor's office so that he could save room rent and whip up scrambled eggs for himself, perhaps for even less than $3.75 a day. This may prove ta be the final enticement, for Mr. Ickes is a man of frugal nature—another fault which might be held against him. The taint of honesty dinned into the ears of the people will be a powerful argument, but the added and easily provable accusation of thrift seems almost too much.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Perpetual Debt and Perpetual Expansion Is Alluring but Futile.

EW YORK, Dec. 10.—Some time ago I reported here .a plan for an economic program for

democracy proposed by a group of Harvard and Tufts professors. Readers have written to ask if I approved the proposal for a continuing policy of government borrowing. For some reason they had the impression that I did. The answer, of course, is that I do not. ‘But the subject is one of growing importance as are the facts out of which that importance grows. Our present capitalist system must have investment functioning actively in order to keep alive. And, for a variety of reasons, active investment has been growing steadily less. Certain economists who recognize this say the only way out is for the Government to take over the function of investment. They therefore insist that the Government must do the borrowing. They defend it on the ground that it is not as important or serious as it seems, if the Government will see that the bonds are distributed among the people. Then the Government will tax the people to pay the interest but it will pay the interest to them, one operation canceling the other. With this theory I am in complete disagreement. . There is another theory that the Government ought not to hesitate to borrow since that is the only way to keep the system afloat. And while after awhile the debt will become oppressive, the Government will shake it off by devaluation. This seems cruel, but the defense is that it is essential.

Oppressive Debt Service Piled Up

I am also in disagreement with this school, though I believe it to be more logical than the first, _ The fact is that it is impossible to pile up public debts without also piling up an immense debt service load which is oppressive. And it is impossible to distribute the debt among the masses of the people without destroying the very effect sought by creating the debt. : In the last six years we have added billions to the national debt. But most of this is in the possession of the banks. The banks belong to a very limited number of stockholders. The taxes to pay the interest come out of the masses of the people but the in-. terest is paid to this limited number of stockholders. It is only a matter of time when we will have to fund this depression debt. Because we will have too heavy an interest charge we shall hear that we cannot do this and cannot do that. The activities of the Government will be circumscribed. The theory of the perpetual debt and its perpetual expansion is an alluring one. But it won't work. .

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson.

EFORE we had finished the Thanksgiving turkey hash, I was startled to see the city decked out in its holiday togs. Very festive it looks, too, with its festoons of evergreens jeweled with millions of electric lights. : in : , Santa Claus in his gilded sleigh rides the roof tops; the store windows glitter and gleam in new splendor. . How glorious it is to be a part of what a good many people call “Our Commercial Christmas”! When I recall the simpler holidays of my own childhood, I am moved to agreed that the adjective is apt, although I never cease to take pleasure in the gorgeousness of the modern Yuletide spectacle.

of Christmas, I think it burns in our hearts today just as it always has. ' Like everything else, it has become all tangled up with the making of money, but its significance has not been lost because of that. Big business has glorified Christmas; it can. never tarnish the gold of its worth with any commercial gilding. Perhaps the very length and ardor of our preparations makes us more than ever aware of its true meaning. oo And I'm tired of hearing that our forefathers. gave more of their hearts to its celebration than we mod-

ment. Parents never - toiled harder than those of this generation to make Christmas glamorous and happy for their children and loved ones, . =~ = The Christ Child will find a sad world when he

be poi fin Shep So fey tha he commanded seypect

ASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—There is no doubt that |

estranged province of Winnetka, has been yearning for |

projected racial empire of the Chicago Tribune called |

nickel deposits of Milwaukee, the prosperous whisky |

cagoans in the racial sense and bombards them with.

1benefits from the regions in which

I feel sorry for. the children, many of whom see |. so much and can have so little; but as for the spirit |

erns do. So far, no one has, ever proved the state- |

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| Damsel in Distress !—By Talburt

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: : : — The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

HOLDS UNDERSTANDING OF FINANCE BIGGEST NEED By Voice in the Crowd Let it be hoped that Leon Henderson’s statement that “we should approach the economic problem as medical science approaches the human body,” does not mean that it should be approached as a medical

it apart. When will the public mind see that the science of Business and Industry has three bodies: Production, Distribution and Finance? . Two of these elements are most natural in their operation. . There is always a need for goods and services, and always the desire to produce and serve. Production has progressed with better goods at lower prices. Distribution has been ever faster. and at a closer margin or profit. . Yet people lack the fruits of production and service, and higher wages buy less of the comforts and requirements of life. Our ailment is not too much production or inability to distribute, but our entire minunderstanding of finance. Our economic breakdown of 1929 was not because people had all the goods they could use, nor that .there were no more services to perform. Our breakdown was a financial one. Let the wise men solve the problem of finance that it may lubricate the operation of production and distribution and we again will be on our way. : LS ” 2 2 THINKS OUTSIDE HOSPITAL AID BENEFITS CITY By Hiram Lackey Of all people Republicans are most miserable. Their latest pain arises from out-city emergency charity cases that have been cared for by City Hospital. With their characteristic hypocrisy, Indianapolis Republicans prate that they would not wish to see anyone suffer for lack of medical aid. Waiting

lists at our hospitals are so long that it often requires months or even years to gain admittance. An emergency case would die or become incurable if thus forced to wait. Because of reactionary influence milig cannot pay for medical attention. Would it broaden the mind of an Indianapolis Republican to consider what Indianapolis would become if a huge wall and wide, deep trench were constructed around Indianapolis so that we could receive no

these patients have worked and broken their bodies? When reactionaries are not griping, they usually are busy creating

student approaches a corpse, to take |:

situations that certainly will cause them to suffer future pains.

(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.)

BLAMES SPECULATORS

FOR BUSINESS SLUMP By W. Hume Logan, Louisville Speaking of speculation and depressions, psychology teaches us that speculation is a malady that] attacks the financial cells of the human brain. It is dangerous because it is highly contagious. Like any other disease it is sometimes confined to a single city or to one state, like the Florida epidemic in real estate speculation in 1926, or, the epidemic may extend all over the U. S. just as the real estate speculation spread in 1893. This was so severe that we called it a panic. The industrial stock epidemic in 1929 we called a depression. We did not blame the original owners of real estate for the 1893 panic. We placed the blame where it belonged, on the speculators, but, when it came to the 1929 depression the politicians passed by the speculators and laid the blame on the owners and managers of industries. Industry could not prevent the skyrocketing of its stocks. If one speculator wanted to sell and another wanted to buy at a certain price they did so without consulting the industry’s manager. The only

MY PRAYER By VELMA M. FRAME

Lift the hands that dare suppress The right to seek one’s happiness, The right to worship Thee above— The right to hope, the right to love.

Still the hands that dare to smother Or twist the soul of an innocent brother ; We're human all in Thine own dear

face— In spite of religion, creed or race.

Oh, set their hearts adrift from hate, - In hating fate; : Let each man remember Thy words at the cross— Without them today lost.

DAILY THOUGHT But God said unto me, Thou

‘they mold their own dire

the, world is

thing the industry could do was to transfer the stock on its books. No one can deny that American industry made this country the greatest on earth; our standard of living way above that of any other. Notwithstanding this, the politician in his eagerness for votes, began to berate industry because the speculators had lost in gambling with industrial stocks. They began to hamper ‘industry with so-called New Deal reforms, undertaking to plan and regiment at Washington industries that had been well and successfully managed. Notwithstanding this, industry accepted the President’s agreement and undertook to carry out what they understood to be emergency measures for recovery, but, when it was announced that these proposed recovery measures would be made permanent and call it a New Deal, industry rebelled. Because of his desire for power, our Chief Executive has professed a great love for the laboring man in industry and the farmer, while exhibiting his animosity toward industry and its management. I had been in business nine years before the panic of 1893. Each community took care of its own unemployed. There is not a community today that would let any of its people go naked or die of starvation. We were practically over the 1893 panic in four and a half years; both men and machines coming again into demand. Prosperity was gradually and surely spreading over the whole country, and our Federal Government had not added 20 billions to the national debt to be paid by us, our children and our grandchildren by heavy taxes, not alone on industry but on évery consumer in our once free and glorious land. ” 2 2

DEPLORES WPA RULE ON PAYING DEBTS

By Small Businessman As to profits, every business man must make them to stay in business. There has been much said lately about the little businessman and the many who have lost their all. I am one of them and am just keeping my head above water—but from experience I can tell you how so many failed. We had many men who got out of work and as they were good paying customers we gave them credit Most of these men went on the WPA and at once all the chain stores and big stores sold them all they could on time. Then all at once it. came out from WPA headquarters that WPA workers did not have to pay their bills. The big stores had lawyers who forced payment—but we

shalt not build a house for my Mittle businessmen could not afford

name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood. —I Chronicles 28:3.

HE way to preserve the peace

lawyers and the WPA men just gave us the laugh. ; I have been told by men who owe me, “Go ahead, let's. see you make us pay.” All these men were good

1 of the church is to preserve its purity.—~M. Henry.

pay before they went on the WPA and I hold the bag for about $300.

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the—uh—symbols of authority. The average wife is more or less

influenced by her husband and

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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ON RNa. opinions may run contrary to his, she must side with him or she may injure his standing with his em-

ployers or customers. The average ; [ ‘ha ually bee; | kb

opinions because this is ly a man’s world. '

"0". PROBABLY NOT. You can ap-

parently only increase your habit of observing particular things.

still large-

When traveling you can develop the | .

habit of observing—and then reviewing—the important things along the journey, instead of spending your time chatting or reading, etc. etc. The doctor builds up the habit of observing symptoms of disease in every one he meets, but this seems not to improve his observation of financial or legal or political facts or objects in nature. It appears that you merely build up a train of habits in one or more special fields, but not that your powers of observation in general have been improved. ; ; 2 8 = - NO. If he does he will never become a good specialist. All great things are done by spectators, but they are men and women who have first gained a broad view of human knowledge and. then ‘an all-round knowledge of their own field before selecting their particular line of work. Even a barber who knows nothing but cutting hair and shaving will always be a poor barber. doctor who ‘had studied only:

J The new testament is no less so.

of this drug in cases of

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|Gen. Johnson Says—

Name - Calling Has Distinguished Precedents and It's Only Right That Epithet Tossing Ban Has Been Lifted.

TJASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10.—Perhaps it little “V befits me to: include a piece here on namecalling or substituting epithet for argument in political discussion. I have called a few on my own hook. : a But there is distinguished precedent both for ‘calling names and excusing the practice. The President once frowned publicly on name-calling. He

said that when people began to strike blows it meant ‘that they were all out of arguments. He intimated

that calling names was striking blows and ought to ‘be stopped. Coming from that distinguished author of “economic royalist,” “money-changers,” “Southern feudalist,” “tories,” “modern Lord Macaulays” and “copperheads”—to name only a few—this justifies a lot in a common columnist. = About the worst I ever pipers,” “social neanderthaler,” “chiseling fringe,” “corporals of disaster” and “janissaries.” “Dead cats,” meaning epithets from the other side, was impersonal and so outside this discussion. “Ants in pants” wasn’t an epithet. : »

had to offer was “pied

: 8» ; HE other day the President returned to the sube ‘ject and justified name-calling by citing the pare lor billingsgate of great predecessors. He is right, Epithet in argument and exhortation is hoary in hise tory and tradition—both sacred and profane. The

Old Testament is full of the most scathing examples. “Scribes, pharisees, hypocrites”—“whited sepulchre,” “whited wall,” “score pions” and “vipers,” are a few mild examples. - . Socrates, as reported by Plato, usually referred to his opponents in argument as “fools.” Early British’ and continental royalty seemed to revel, even as does the White House and modern gangdom in such names as Henry the Morgue and Tommy the Cork—Henry the Fowler, Robert the Devil, Landless John, Louis the Fat, the Black Dog and William Longshanks. As the President suggests, Roosevelt the first was even more clever at these quaint conceits than his reigning successor. “Malefactors -of great wealth,” “muck raker” and “ananias” are measures of his milder moments. Sh : Woodrow Wilson did not withhold his tongue or pen from his “little group.of wilful men” and “Senators whose brains were no more than knots tied in the ends of their spinal cords to keep them from un=raveling.” A S 8 28 Bo. FTER all, most of these examples are names. calling only in a general way. No matter how: much they may shock. the senses of the writers who worship dignity and the measured phrase, they tickle

more readers even if they do not make more converts, There is another approach to this art which was suggested to me by a piece in a Charleston paper about a billingsgate fish-wife who fainted from anger and envy when somebody called her a paralelle= pipedon. It suggested as soul-searers of this variety,. “asymptote” and “parasang.” Asymptote is a daisy of a word. Besides sounding insulting, it means some=thing like, “always approaching and never arriving.” It would do nicely for Third New Deal recovery. But I recommend some names of beautiful Amere ican birds which I found in a book on ornithology— “yellow-bellied sap-sucker,” “boat bottomed Grackle” and “bottle-nosed puffin.” Boy, those ought to settle any argument. :

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Dies, Going Back to 1593 in Red Hunt, Needs Funds to Carry On.

A TEW YORK, Dec. 10.—According to the New York

times, Mrs. Hallie Flanagan was asked by Joe Starnes of the Dies Committee to describe “This Communist Christopher Marlowe. The name of Mare lowe came into the hearing because the Federal Theter Project put on a condensed version of “Dr. Faustus.” The gentleman from Alabama was looking for lurking Reds in WPA. © Marlowe is cold in his tomb, and still Rep. Starnes was at least warm in his question. Joe can be wrong in his dates, but, though years lie between him and his quarry, he can detect a radical at a distance of: more than three centuries. : ? Moreover, history says that when Kit was stabbed in a tavern brawl in| 1593 he was about to be questioned as to his opinions. The reference hook describes Marlowe as “a bold character, an iconoclast with a leaning toward atheism which he unwisely voiced.” And it is further set down that Thomas Kyd was the" one who called the attention of the investigators to Marlowe. ro. : History does not state it was a fact, but it seems

1 at least possible that Kyd further suggested that

Elizabeth and the British Empire might be undermined because of things which Marlowe had said . across a table. At any rate, he was subpenaed, and on his way to the hearing Marlowe stopped at a tavern for one sustaining drink against the cross= examination. Here he was stabbed by Ingram Frizer, and the:'coroner’s jury decided that Frizer had struek in self-defense, although many modern scholars bee lieve Marlowe was murdered. At any rate, he neither - uttered nor wrote radical opinions after that, and the British Empire continued to grow and prosper. :

Let There Be No Criticism 2

Joe Starnes certainly should not be criticized by the press or by his colleagues on the Dies Committee, for it seems to me that he has shown in a striking way the need for a further appropriation. His chance shot question as to|the heresy of “this Communist Marlowe” has brought the searchers for subversive activity all the way down to the year 1593, There can be no doubt or denial that Kit did not conform, which leaves the committee one up and only 345 years to go. It seems to bridge the gap. And yet the gulf, for all the intervening time, may not be quite as great as one would imagine. T Ee ? Great is Dies and powerful his committee, for they have set back the clock almost three and a half centuries, and if Christopher Marlowe walked the earth again he would look about and say, “The old place hasn't changed a bit since I've been gone.” y

Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein RL

HE science of medicine proceeds in epochs. When Pasteur established the germ causation of disease, bacteriology became the center of medical attention, and great numbers of investigators began the study of bacterial causation of disease. i rl Then came antitoxin and vaccines, and much ofmedical attention was turned to the development of - such products as diphtheria antitoxin, vaccination against typhoid, and the development of specific vace cines and serums against other diseases, like tetanus and cholera. Ey RE When Paul Ehrlich discovered 606 or arsphenae mine, medicine developed a new trend and began to°

study particularly the use of drugs which would have . definite effects on certain types of germs. This trend has produced remarkable advances against many - diseases. The most recent is, of course, the discovery

of the drug called-sulfanilamide. This drug has been -

found to be specific against certain forms of streptococci, against some forms of pneumonia germs, and it . may have uses in many different diseases, eon When sulfanilamide is taken into the body, it is absorbed from the stomach and is soon found in the. blood and in the spinal flulll, penetrating as well into all of the organs, secretions and the tissues df the human body. S Ee oe Already many reports have appeared on the use septicemia, erysipelas and in: the infection which women sometimes sustain in : childbirth. In many instances of meningitis, the in- . en followed by favorable