Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1939 — Page 18

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Give Light nnd the People Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1939

"MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER

QEVERAL months ago Dr. Gallup asked members of the = American-Bar Association whom they would pick for the Supreime Court. Frof. Felix Frankfurter’s name led all the others. “9

In our opinion, President Roosevelt has never made a better appointment to any position. And he couldn’t have made a better appointment to this position. For the seat which Prof. Frankfurter will take is the one occupied for 30 years by his friend Oliver Wendell Holmes, and another six years by another friend, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo— jurists possessed of the same broad humanitarianism and mellow scholarship which distinguish Prof. Frankfurter.

He is their logical successor. : |

OUR SILENT GOVERNOR

CAREFUL razding of Governor Townsend's 6,000-word |

‘message to : the 1939-40 Legislature discloses one sig-

nificant fact:

It contains specific recommendations to the Legislature on a number of noncontroversial matters but carefully refrains from specific suggestions on such highly controversial subjects as liquor law revision, election law reform, and primary election changes. As a review of the State of Indiana’s health, a summing

Business Manager price in Marion Coun-|

in Indiana, $3 a year;

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler phi

Conside ring Hats Our Women Wear ‘Now, Apology Is Due Queen Mary For Things Said About Her Millinery.

sights of the season is that preserited by those poor, docile females who have permitted the miiliners and the fashion magazines to crown them witha type

| of hat which not only makes them look absurd but 5

makes huskands, suitors and other males ashamed to be seen with them in public places. a :

or that. freak of fashion with no other motive than

telligence. This year, however, there can be no-doubt of . their ‘purpose, for they have issued monstrosities {oo hideous for any artistic excuse. Moreover, they

bearing the stamp of style, for, notwithstanding the general feminine verdict that: the season’s hats are

to $50 each. : S® eo.

HESE objects appear to have been designed in

heads of unhappy girls exaggerated caricatures of unlovely things and to compel them, by force of fashion,

seen which plainly were copied from the old-fashioned China barber shop gobboon, the shapeless fuhgus

hamburger roll, the pork chop and the fried . egg. They come in surly purples with curtains hanging down the back, in colicky combinations of bright rag, lint and engine waste and dreadful jumbles of feathers, glass bulbs and brass. :

| Now, it is one thing to place a wadded washrag over the eyebrow of some cute, skinny little trick of -18; stick a sprig of parsley on it and strap it beneath her pert little chin with a couple of lengths of

dyed bandage. She could look cute beneath a tomato, surprise or wita nq hat at all. But those who un-|

happily have had a little more aging are, with rare exceptions, cute. no longer, and not only require a little co-operatior. from their hats but deserve it at the price. ” 8 # , ADIES who a‘e currently suffering from this em«

4 parrassment irisist that they are not actually try-

N=" YORK, Jan. 6.—One of the more pathetic

Often has 1 been suspected that those who create | and dictate the styles of women’s hats have hit on this | an impish intent ‘io test their independence and in- | their bet thet women will stand for anything} awful, millions of them' have been sold at from $3 | -| the meanest malice so as to place upon the |

to sacrifice their human dignity. Hats have been TT {

which grows on 3a rotten stump in the forest, the |

| before the world—any Billingsgak , { nations with’ which we’ are, at least :technically, at

| ple .(such as the Pres: | sudden or immediate attack,

Gen. Johnson Says— © F. D. R's Speech Called Unworthy; Calls it Attempt to Unite Nation _ By Overemphasis on War Perils

(CIcAGO; I, Jan, 6.-With the best will, the utmost sympathy for ‘some’ of its sentiments and extreme regret for having to say so, I think the Presi dent's address tothe opening of Congress was un= worthy, = « + SELLE hd | It boiled down to this; We are in danger of war, We should thetefore be united. We should unite on the domestic program of the Third New Deal. The effort by a political Teader to frighten his rupport into cohesfon hy threatening war is as old as his tory. Sometimes it is necessary. - But to conjure up the threat in order fo take politic 1 advantage of the noblest and most unselfish emotions of humanity is not creditable. - Eine? : Surely this country must strengthen its defenses.

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| There will be no public sentiment against that. Bub

that doesn’t need any swaggering and sword-ratiling r te speeches against

ade. It doesn’t Jequire any threat to our own peoident more than hinted) of any : ¥ oe Foe Ay ; TO ROM my observation of Mr. Roosevelt, T believe

' that he regards himself potentially as a great war leader. | There is much ‘to suggest, and especially in

‘| his Wednesday's message. to Congress, that he would

not be averse to going down in history as a war ‘President. I am not at all sure that he would not , ‘he a good, if amateur, military commander. Hut I would hate to go into a war with ‘him as President—

| not because of him, but because of the misfits with

whom he insists on surrounding himself. That may

be excused in peace—though its results have beer; dire ‘enough—but in war it would be utterly fatal.

Foreign war and the threat of it are one thing.

‘| The cockeyed revolutionary domestic policies of the

Third New Deal are quite another. On the threat of war and on honest policies of defense for war, this ‘nation will unite as it always has united. - But it is a very different matter for a man to use the threat of war to force people into silent compliance with purely domestic policies. ® 8 8

R. ROOSEVELT first waved the bloody shirt and then marshalled in more or less definite form

every item of his discredited and defeated 1937 pro gram. Prominent in this was the Eccles theory that ‘the colossal debt of the United States is not dengerous and that the unbearable spending and tax bur-. dens are a blessing rathen than 8 curse. If that is true, every lesson of ps ‘and plivate housekeeping ; : since the beginning of ory is false. I woul rather in giving the news impartially and! pejieve the record of the suns than the preaching of determining the policy of the paper,| either Mr. Eccles or Mr. Roosevelt—and especially the his job is not just to criticize. His latter. I know of nothing inthis personal record since tes | his birth that indicates any experience -or accomSeta ot puncgen Bo gvaluaste. plishment whatever which qualifies him to suggest ‘Events of the day, conduct of| the management of financial affairs. public officials, acts and all the There is.not enough space here to discuss the whatnot affecting our lives are put whole message. Weakness peers through every sen=

i tence. Hitherto the personal prestige and popularity in a balance, so to speak, and meas- of the President were sufficient to give weight to his

up of administrative achievements and an account of two ing to look eightecnish, but that, after all, a girl must

years’ stewardship, it “points with pride” rather effectively, | Pave & hat to wear and that the more they look and shop and suffer at the mirrors in the stores the worse

But the finger begins wavering when it moves in the direc-| or the nats which -are trotted out to them. She ~- tion of administrative errors and oversights. To find these, | starts off with something that looks not unlike. a. 2

one is compelled to turn to Exhibits A, B, C, D and so on— fresh-pulled tootn, surrenders at last to a mess of | L the reports of the various special commissions. debris with gaudy streamers and hurries home to hide IEVES POLICY OF

| : > it from sight before the old man arrives. ISOLATION UNWISE Among subjects on which the Governor speaks plainly | | At this time :t seems in order to issue a general (By W. F. Weiland

and urges specific action are re eal of the Truck Weight | apology to Dowager Queen Mary of England, whose T d urg DS oe P : e w igh hats for many years were the subject of coarse humor |; Sensi VvanNuys says he is a naax Law, recodification of the State's safety laws, revision | in the United States. Astonishing jumbles of cheese- Yona ~ Sn eclg Honig, T6 does Sot ot food and drug laws, some changes in the marriage laws, | S0i, SeREEre THE URC, apples they were, {0 be sure. |is; EE Ee i ootots : extension of the auto tag deadline, enactment of a State | cities of the U. 3. A. today, any fair om are co-operating with each other| have a chance. Letters must for their own purposes. be signed, but names will be

wage collection law, and adjustments in the State conserva- | acknowledge them as majestic, lovely adornments | A nation which is unwillin 5 ; : ¢ g to co- . : : : j tion law. Good enough. which most’ American victims of the present style operate with other nations for the withheld on request.) ured against very definite standards| words. Now it takes an appeal to patriotism based on -

; : could copy with tu gain of beauty, dignity and comfort. | agvancement of its ideals is not : - |—the ideals of truth, honesty, jus-| a threat of war. But on matters where the firing will be heavy—the much above the days of cavemen. |trial nation in which the producers tice and freedom—those ideals on : beer import system, the direct primary, central counting |

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

(Times readess are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can

. : We did get a dirty deal in our last|are also the consumers. Every time which our democracy was founded 3 EE : ih attempt to bring world p : y 0 : <i boards in primary elections, clarification of the recount Business : through world Bg Dtion De A he nk 12 the at's are found Waniitlg, he i eel } 1S fo S i laws—the Governor was silent except to urge legislators B J h T Fl there has been little effort made to|to the industrial market. It is points out their weaknesses With : : to study carefully the reports made by his special com- fy John [. Hymn od ye . ~ . Perhaps personal ambition inter-|lated out of jobs or encouraged to|mends and praises : “AL Sisto Case Again Shows Exchange |fered with the best of intentions in\quit Work, less wages Are earned,| Ideas, ideals, and a keen sense of Ancient Hokum About Reporters | u the effort to form a world organi-|less good are produced and sold;|values are prerequisites of the call- Still Survives on the Air Waves : system. a « ; : . Ifthe lzst election, and subsequent events, has taught been so. hasty in ; i Po. : 3 168 ( : ; granting a mora- of the barest of necessities to divide | political aper. : “any lesson, it is that the people want some action by this overtaken J. A. Sisto and his expulsion from the | torjum the debt payments would not their wages with the idle. ~~ fheory that EE ion De ‘reporter lolls into the city room with a bottle : A EL Stock Exchange brings up the question—what was he {have been so readily diverted to The high pension’ advocates would nunciation is the essence of itor- of whisky and a copy of the American Mercury in There is, in addition, overwhelming sentiment in this handled business for no clients. His firm handled | - ; i : Fa Ana ! E ) i . co-operation but in _|sions of their elders. Plenty of |ignored an A some tale of tough babies in which the big scene ios city for the city manager plan. This Legislature will fail uy. ys own operations and those of its corporate a wi bring it sigan Whe oppos- young folks would never work if a palis on even the mos permits the hero to tell the city editor precisely where | in its>duty if it does not pass legislation permitting | yo; . handled. their old had an income. of any coninunily ean] DE SES OL BUG oven fn the most fantastic Hollywood . Indianapolis, and other cities that so desire, to adopt the | thing unusual about such firms or indi who suffers I poin fr : is 0 | i viduals being |and Pacific Oceans were considered o suffers I point out the oldest of the influence he can command if , E -..'manager pier, embers, of the Exlignge, “There are hundreds of |sufficient protective barriers to make ee Mwy the Swhal or he has the proper mental equipment the scengrlo im aust vases as writen BY some author BE, : re em. , despi . ; earn bread.” In 2 . : ‘There is almost the same degree of interest in the | downed that Se am Sennoy be (er on DR Eo and aftitude. In pointing out the| "ang so I want to know just where the fects , ta 3 : ID ut A : see the highest stahdards and cana step forward in improving the judiciary if it made this | place where invsstors and speculators may meet and traffic through the Panama Canal EDITOR'S Coin DUTY |not lead in thought, he is apt to be on Bn Ee a possible. exchange securities and cash. However one looks would be real causes for worry. ’ ; disregarded by enough people to] y4aky } ; : upon this businsss—whether as a game or an impor- ‘However world -co-operation|TO: EVALUATE, IS CLAIM i of others, he ought to be able to ar : i Aor This is not to give any pointers|hatc A speaker, Here is an army which can be frishtened he Le ot VE ‘ : tops =* | it must come upon equal terms. the ; atch one himself occasionally. : to strengthening an d improving ce rtain existing laws, the Ts, oo ss nh a ps BS ought toleve ts advancement of sale to the editor or tell him how to run| . Nor does a good editor ever give 1Y Msrians and moved to fever pitch by Coughlins Legislature will close its sessions with a respected record. | same chance, stbject, of course to the differences in | CODDLING OF AGED

repay the billions lent during and|only from wages that goods are reason and logic—not sentiment By Heywood Broun missions. It was significant that he avoided all reference 5 Shoulc Excl i ; ; : c ude Private Traders. | sation of co-operating nations and |less jobs exist, and those who do ing, not just the ‘ability to pick 3 Legislature on the very questions avoided by the Governor. | doing in the Ezchange? He was not a broker, He armaments. reverse the old family order so that|ship. The notion is false. his back pocket has practically disappeared Now, I do no mean to intimate that there is any- [ Until quite recently the Atlantic| In full sympathy with everyone |be a very important person because interpretations of life along the news fron: Sows No form of society can exist for|way toward the good and better, he ‘radi i nonpartisan election of judges. This Legislature would take | Like the Whitney affair, the Sisto affair carries a |ic8 possessed by an opponent With command. are found to write the radio sketches ener £15 OF J Ee : 5 - : keep things at a standstill. And be- oO . ; v : ; : f blics there is non 11] \ If it concerns itself with a few of these forward-looking tant financial fiinction—there must be agreement on should not be considered so much as By a Reader st prilics : 3 50 gullitle a fhe grea) ‘| nis job; he already seems to know it/much advice or try to persuade) At the moment I am slowly recovering from: the TT : ] the bankroll and the brains of the players. Now the “ tpecause I shouldn’t like Hiramih F : : : e still leaves a reader free to come| cerning 8 : ir : g an ace reporter and a multimillion-dol ar doll. | THE BUDGET—AND THE PUMP

after the so-called World War. bought and when people are legis- alone. If they measure up, he comto the Two Per Cent Club and extension of the merit EW YORK, Jan. 6.—The disaster ‘which has if former President Hoover had not labor are reduced to the purchases |flaws. Too many editors of: artisan N= YORK, Jan. 6.—The play in which the star “The fault does not lie in world|the young could loaf on the pen-|diet of editorials comes to be The films still take a flier from time to time with vestigial elements of veracity sneak in. After all, long without compliance: to thatjcan make for progress. If he can’t i profound lesson. The Stock Exchange is a market sufficient air power and stoppage of a gb hd he Ae, A sides evaluating the acts and ideas j . 5 Sa : ! unseen audience which sits in front of the loud proposals; shunts aside partisan politics and devotes itself | one thing—that it must be fair and all who come into |a means for self-preservation as for |quite thoroughly. I'm sounding off directly. While he shows the Way| effects of a little radio romance (once a film) con= impression of the public is that the Exchange floor PERSONS OPPOSED Lackey’ i ’ : | ; is the haunt of brokers—men who. act as the agent of | By Voice in the Crowd \ job 4 iris nr . i ivy joni - a: By preiending id pe sn av ation piicial he tricks her JOR nine years now our Government has been pouring atlirs in buying and slg seen Bn RR reading public © think 1 may say imho Kacws ht he can stimulate Bo re : : : Tn : : of Gera. andis, as it : ’ can s a : : "borrowed money down the barrel of our nation’s economic | anY membens not on the floor are not brokers at all | for political effect on Segms io be being presumptuous. "|thought. His success in molding| Oh, It’s a Great Life Aside from the duties of an editor public opinion depends on how fair-|. - The young lady then tricks Bim by giving out &

ly he has presented ‘the news and| _ how much of : b! story in which she tells his confreres that she is THE WIND ow much of the public confidence engaged to none other than the scoop and beat man, By ROBERT O. LEVELL

in his ju has . oi udement Je he Salned. ail Steve Leighton himself. And she ‘adds to the little When I begin to hear the wind I rather feel depressed

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pon : ahi : but gct only for themselves—they’ i pump. The President’s new budget calls for $3,326,000,000 | operators or gamblers. es-itey 453 Big, Later {crunate -

more borrowed money, making a total of about $28,000,000,- | Enjoy Unfair Advantages to rir nd

£000 for 10 ears of pump priming. Those pump valves must The advantiges to them are obvious. First of ple SO I comieres Sat

a3 9 2 9 ie” \ : = * « i be drenched by now. Why Jon t the pump raising water | all, as members, they can handle their own trades |be the duty of their own young to town Eons Dager Ho ans = EoD of Ae Ne a 2 Intend Yo settle gna from the bottom of the well? and clear them without commissions. Or they can |P8%% for them, 85 i always, has|The way the noise comes howling in say, than. the editors of the Chi-| Naturally the reporter is very indignant, and so Ee tls cxghanation lity In too 1itile activity | nentle them Sous twodéliar Licks of the |soild be poe “wicks, tiie help} ifas 'iouh af much ovest, |" (oan Tole: he Me Greate ho tricks her a second tine bY Bree Red “iow 1 on the pump handle. Indeed there have been times when | °° handle ‘hem themselves and clear them | By no means, however, should the Then, though, again I feel so free —_— = Won the Heirs. | Py

. : through other brokers for a dollar a share. In old people be coddled or kidded into} T. : : = ed ; str : i A 0 know : In the meantime Steve has endear himself to the Administration has seemed to be using both hands pour- | other words, they play the game with a commission | believing in political miracles. The He has oN a Ba es. REGISTERS COMPLAINT the uncle of the heroine by telling him to nis face ON IRKSOME MATTER

ing money down the barrel and both feet kicking the shins | advantage in their favor against the public speculator politicians cannot ‘perform them.| To keep me waria today! {hat he has the material to prove that the old gentle= of anyone who tried to reach for the pump handle Fh —which is recognized nowhere else in.no other What does he mean, “remember the | = By Daniel Francis Clancy Logansport man stole We N.S Ra Slroad, th ed relati : . R : ov, : ccordingly, the heroine induces the aged relative DAILY THOUGHT They. say that writers of letters to| to purchase the paper On which Steve works and

gambling casino in the world. Next they enjoy the old, they blazed the trail?” Have Then saith Jesus unto him, Get |editors are fanatics, agitators, rad-| make her the publisher. - As her final quip she ap-

: The most encouraging thing in the President’s latest Bdvgntage of inside information in trading which i golien to Whese we are going? : 5 . : either never open to the public or open too late. | Z0¢ We continuous. People to- ; ; budget message is the stress he placed on the necessity of | put an end to this rio that ene ol | day are blazing the trail, but it is thee hence, Satan: for it is writ- [icals and eccentrics—that they have points him managing editor. This breaks down his. ten, thou shalt. worship the Lord |one-track minds and campaign for | bravado. To escape a fate worse than death he puts

' building up national income to increase Federal revenues, | broers on the floor of 1d a trail continuing on from, the old : venues. of the Exchange, exclude all but ; ~ thy God, and Him only shalt thou [obscure reforms and petty pet- his pride and the million dollars in his pocket and

"It dovetailed wi ress brokers from making rules and naming offici t | one. \ : of e i with what he told Congress on the day before, | the Exchange, prohibit brokers from pi SR = sor | Ways must be found not to retire serve.—Matthew 4:10. peeves, So, having nothing to lose, marries the girl. : (a A x = of the need of bringing capital and manpower together to | their own acccunt, directly or indirectly and make |the old, but to provide. easy tasks I'm entering a complaint against I suppose they lived happlly ever after, but Tm ; : » at which they can: support them- | is for the sake of man, not of | something I find irking—I wish. to not quite certain, because at this -point an arnouncer to speak well of a beautifier.. It 1nust be

WETEDTE il Boke THANG oRROW 2 : YOUR OPINION ===

build a business turnover that would make ours an 80 the costs and terms of trading the same.to all per- : Lge um ? = | sons x ; 2 selves. Anything else is wrong. God, that worship and prayers] cry out against people who say “all began : * pillion-doller country. And with his declaration that “the sons 5d You Wil put on sud 19 80 por eent of ie |W, are predominantly an ius Are TOTS BSS OE wonton be ~ period of internal conflict in . . . social reform” is at an end - — J — mins ' os : coer —— ——e _ ___a pledge that there shall be no more shin-kicking. And WwW r . . i dL fp : a hand a re Ry HY RL vi i scommentation ha. Congress heer deo A Woman's Viewpoint i LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND = Watching Your Health its legislative efforts to making existing reforms more . od Jil. > rd dh Eo : FT - : (es ey hae workable, and other remarks inviting private enterprise-to By Mrs. Walter Ferguson postpimutmterr BY DE: ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM- a By Dr. Morris Fishbein ree start working the pump handle, and promising that the Oye and zirls “interested in studying medicine : (Sein lotions cannot ‘overcome these A SECOND type of mental disease which is now "Government will help. ese days meet discouraging rebuffs, pd : ; recognized is the condition known as LC : Ta éhi ; nein : “There's no future in the profession,” th told : ind etimes called dementia paralytica. In this af : We think he would have been wiser had he undertaken | while the bugaboo of socialized Bt ein NO, it proves just the opposite.| } usually on of th at the same time to reduce spending, and had he been more | when talk veers around to the topic. The doctors are | aM | | 4 Everybody would like to swear! © po gamage done. to the brain : forthright in recommending new taxation to move income | 8bout as encouraging to youth as a rainstorm to a | § < | : . operty and ever considerably less than is apparent in the and outgo more rapidly toward the same level. - Plenle: eerily munibe i Nl |slonally ans or down of the physicial activities of the bod cn Le hg : «in number of a oe ; mental Ti Aaa J But the President has chosen his course. ‘We can only | Interested, preise be, the FE rma: Go murder of | Ble. Ms, Woulan 3 be "Another common form of mental ¢ : “hope that he keeps his attention centered on stimulating money duestien Flush sivays stick up its ugly head [IF mere 16 STRONG PUBLIC € SAPPROVAL | — SES go re vhody would lie insanity of 38 in i i the activity at the pimp handle, encouraging capital and | We vie tector az) Tee | ge FAMIOR OR GF BOR Ocks | lke to drink end smeke snd Thc) is begin ing to, be amenable to treatment labor to push and pull together. There is plenty of water ST ew and ihe comity ii be sale A AA [5 DioLINE TODO? YOUR OPINION — | dulge In hs ag passions But ver x ; ba z - Tens i : i . § e Oo y ¢ 2 : ob ] al 1 8 Fo S68. : : at the bottom of the well—idle billions of capital which could | too, that we couldn't py ons withodt the Sod pi long ago foe ey y provide real jobs at living wages for the millions of idle men and that we respect and love them, although we n sc the "I am convinced through friendship with a few that: oe = the good ones are successful men, whether they ak PUSH AND PULL | money or not. Their lives ste enriched with grati- | LA .8 rnp. thik tes _. "| the true happiness that abides with people A SAD story comes from Victoria, British Columbia— | their work beiter than the cash it brings iy love the story of the two-tailed goldfish which was found There will always be a need for excellent surgeons splashing aimlessly in a park pool, never getting anywhere | brilliant. men who, besides healing the sick bodies of because one tail tried to propel him forward and the other Shel? Pationis, give their hearts and souls ease and tried to drive him backward. 0 J The ; | ‘We have a fellow-feeling for that goldfish i are too pessiristic. They are justified in such a beit seems to us, is full of people wh oo This world, | jiet because gur croakings are continuous. - ~ Lae f ’ people who, etween the pull of | . . “You can't make a living at this; you'll go bank- | s as deep as human rule is the other and the push of longing to retreat to what seem ed rupt at that; the other Heid is oererowted = ; 1 human psy-|one can be

fio IT TRUE nu gEAUTY is omy kiN DEEP? ony aren’t alw, t wit, re YES ORNO——e | | he ple : : rig ays prom : n : and wonen, and provide revenues to balance the budget. yD rn om tude; Mercy is their Guardian Angel and they know and diagnosticians and even for the plain, kindly, less | - The young people must often believe that adults | wailing its implications bein

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