Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1939 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their own Way

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1939 :

ALL INTERESTED PARTIES”

WE think two proposals, just published; for amendment of the Wagner Labor Act are loaded with horse sense. "They are to be offered by the American Federation of Labor. They deal with the very essence of the trouble. “They are so important that they call for separate consid“eration—apart from other recommendations which, too, are “pertinent. They would require that: 1. Every interested party (in a labor act issue) should

be served with due process and permitted to appear, and no | contract rights should be considered by the Board unless:

~ all the parties shall have been afforded the right to be present. = 32 Interested parties should be permitted to intervene 3 in cases as a matter of right and not of Board discretion. . If passed, those amendments would stop the “put-and-take” procedure which has characterized some trial exam_iner and Labor Board operations to date, and help to arrive “at the true and excellent and necessary objective of the hg act—collective bargaining in the full sense of the

«Bargaining” by Sictionary definition means “to sieges - tiate over the terms of an agreement.” Naturally everyone

~ © with an authentic stake in the bargaining should be heard.

It should have been obvious that in bargaining ‘“‘over the terms of an agreement” all interested parties should be present. But, not so. Hence there has been more bickering | . than bargaining; bickering, not only as between employers and employees, but as between groups within labor itself. . Result, a vast number of jurisdictional battles, “burdening | commerce” at a time when the nation can least afford such ‘9 burden. We aren’t going to grow from a 60-billion to an “80 billion country—as the President desires—as long as such warfare continues. an Under Labor Board procedure, who shall have a right “to be heard has been a matter of discretion with the Board i itself. The employer, for example, quite obviously an inter-

ol © ested party, could come in only as he was called in, and cer-

©: tain groups with labor, though contending that they should “have a say, were on an only-by-invitation basis. ~ of a clause in the law giving the Board arbitrary authority to define interested parties as employer units, craft units, plant units, any subdivisions of those units or what have “you, “all parties” have not been afforded the right to be “present. We submit, that is not bargaining. Out of that has grown much of the prosecutor-jury-judge conception i which has characterized the functioning of the NLRB and its trial examiners since the act went into effect.

The amendmerits proposed would clear that up. The a

sooner the

LET'S FIND OUT

Br June Congress passed, and the President approved, a ‘law requiring ‘the registration of all persons, partner- ‘ ships, corporations or associations serving as agents for foreign principals. : The primary purpose of the law was to flush into the * open persons who had been working under cover for foreign * governments and political parties disseminating propa- : ganda in the United States. But thus far about the only : names. registered at the State Department are those of law - firms, sales representatives and advertising, shipping and * tourist agencies that always have conducted their perfectly ! legitimate business affairs above board. : Chairman Dies, of the House Committee on Un-Ameri- © can Activities, asks why the leaders of the German-Ameri- ¢ can bunds and of the Communist Party of America haven't _ registered their names. Evidence before his committee, says “Rep. Dies, shows clearly that the Communist Party in this : country serves under orders of the Communist Third In- * ternational, with headquarters in Moscow, and that the : bunds are agencies of the Nazi party of Germany. Thus prodded, the State Department and the Depart- : ment of Justice are investigating. It will be interesting to see what this investigation produces. The maximum pehalty for nonregistration is $1000 fine and two years in jail.

Better. :

their activities to parades, picnics and beer busts—and how : much they act under orders of Herr Hitler and Dr. Goeb- ‘ bels. And let's find out to what extent the Communist Party 7s a legitimate political party, and into what strange paths i the “party line” leads because of the stigencles of the Soviet % foreign policy. % ~ REMINDER TO SENATOR V WHITE ET AL. T is not often that a gesponsible party leader will admit publicly that his sole interest in holding public office is partisan spoils rather than better government. Yet we have virtually such an admission from Rep. H. H. Evans, Republican Majority Floor Leader, through his statement that he is opposed to the Jenner City Manager Bill because it would. “put the Democrats in power and leave them there.” Aside from its falsity, we 2 do not think opposition to the city manager plan on that ground will be beneficial to a party that is energetically trying to demonstrate it is worthy of going back into power in 1940. © ~. It is even more difficult to account for the publicly ex- : ressed indifference of Senator E. Curtis White, a Demo_crat and President Pro Tem of the upper house. Senator White was elected by Indianapolis votes. He 8 supposed to represent Indianapolis and Marion County. dit should not be necessary to remind him that sentiment ere is for the manager plan, so overwhelmingly that both e Democratic and Republican candidates for Mayor inprseq it in the recent campaign. Remember, Senator?

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1 'ALTER MADISON BURNS, for two years a tuba playerina WPA project band at Atlantic City, has filed etition in bankruptcy, listing his liabilities at $113, 532 in

s and Iorigages.

Because |

‘operates it for revenue, that is an investment.

Yes, let’s find out to what extent the bunds confine |

’s Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Roosevelt's Attack on Dictators

Mild Compared With the Abusive Tactics of These Fascist Leaders.

EW YORK, Jan. 10.—President Roosevelt's dis-

. cussion of our relations with the hoodlum na- | IB}

tions and the necessity to arm against them reminded me of the effort of a tired man on an off-day. Mr.

Roosevelt had a good piece in mind, but when he sat |

down to his typewriter it flopped away from him. His presentation was untidy, but it should be remembered that an American President in repartee with the bloody-handed rulers of the dictator countries

“accepts the same handicap that would hamper a boxer

in a battle royal against a gang of adversaries armed

with cleavers, chair-legs, sawed-off pool-cues and |

jagged high-ball glasses. They fight to kill. He must spar for points. When an American President speaks to Congress, he must stay within the somewhat stretchable limits of public opinion in his own country and defer to the social, temperamental and political prejudices of his fellow citizens. He must conform to rules which are not binding on his foes and permit the American public to assume, if it will, that his opponents are acquainted with and fight according to the restrictions of diplomatic decency. | #8 ® ” ROM abroad and from his own people, President Roosevelt has heard himself accused of rattling the sword. It makes little difference what the dictators say but it should. be cited for Amer= icans that his remarks were mild by comparison with the. savage orations which have been heard from Germany and Italy, The American objection to President Roosevelt's warning asserts that the brawls of European nations are no affair of ours and that this country has been happily exempted from ‘the dictators’ malevolent plans. But those who believe that Herr Hitler and Sig. Mussolini have let us alone don’t know or forget that German and Italian conspiracies are maintained in American communities to incite contempt for the American nation and its form of government; that Germany and Italy have attempted to interfere in American elections through blood-tie conspiracies and that no nation may ever know whether it is at war or on terms of peace with Germany or Italy. Italy has not yet declared war against Abyssinia but the propaganda against Abyssinia’s independence was no more vicious than Sig. Mussolini’s continued campaign againg the United States. But Abyssinia has vanished. 8 8 ” N42 Germany has not yet declared war against either Austria or Czechoslovakia but the German propagahda which cestroyed those countries was directed from the same source and followed the same treacherous method as that which is now employed to crack the United States. Under Herr Hitler's laws, true Nazis are encouraged to invade the trusting midst of the American people as honest immigrants and naturalized citizens for the purpose of serving as spies in the American Army, Navy, Air Force and Government. Two years ago & German ship jwas invaded by Communists in New York and there was furious indignation about that but little was said about the testimony of a naturalized German-American, an executive of the German steamship company with children in American public schools, who said he was an American citizen but loyal to Adolf Hitler. The President knows more than any commentator and although he spoke in lumpy phrases, he didn’t half state the case against those who constantly scowl, pout and roar about their inflexible will and the inevitable vanquishment of this country’s form of government.

Business By John T..Flynn

Cutting Deficit by Calling Londios ‘Investment’ Is Poor - Bookkeeping.

EW YORK, Jan. 10.—In President Roosevelt's ad- ; dress to Congress he made frequent use of a word the full significance of which seems to have escaped most of the commentators. That word was “investment.” One can do wonders with a word. You can kill a politician by fixirg on him the word “Fascist” or “Communist.” In Russia they ruin a man by calling him a Trotskyite. And now the President plans not to ruin, but to bless what most people call government spending, by calling it “government investment.” If you will go back and look over that address you will be struck by the manner in which he continually Speaks of government investment, rather than spend-

g. The idea behind this is to kill off the deficit. Conservatives clamor for the President to balance the budget. Apparently he cannot balance the budget by spending less or taxing more. So he plans to balance it by ‘calling spending by another name. He proposes to wipe out the deficit or at least much of it by a word. - He followed this idea up in his budget address by urging a new method of keeping the nation’s books— by segregating expenditures for current purposes from

- capital outlay, referred to as investments.

Reform Would Be in Order

Now, as a matter of fact, it is possible for a government to make an investment as well as a private individual. And when it does there is no reason why such an investment should not appear on the government’s books just as it would on a private concern’s books. If the government builds a utility and It is not in the same class with expenditures where there is no prospect of return. The trouble comes when we get around to putting this investment labzl on various expenditures. And what the President is getting around to is the much advertised plan to lump together expenditures designed to improve the condition of the country, such as roads, soil conservation, defense, as investments when they are not. The chief task of Congress now must be to see that the nation’s books are not tampered with to abolish a deficit by giving it a nice name. Our method of keeping the books of the National Government is pretty bad as it is. ‘ It ought to be reformed. But it most certainly ought not to be changed for the worse.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

RANDMOTHEE, and I had a perfectly swell New Year; proving again that for real fun it’s the

unexpected we have to thank. Prudence, usually a stranger to the Ferzuson household, warned that a sore throat had no business sallying into the eggnogging set. Movies, too, were out. of the question and, as the highways were reported dangerous, it looked as if Jan. 1, 1939, might

be a wearisome day. It wasn’t! An after-breakfast hunt for a lost book started the orgy in which we indulged ourselves with passionate zeal for nearly 12 hours. Nosing ahout the shelves, it was soon evident that scarcely a volume occupied its proper place. (Do the books walk per= versely about during the night, I wonder?) Anyway, the first move to set them straight awake ened the ancient lust within us. You know how it is, girls. One thing led to another and by noon we were

‘waist deep in piles of papers, old letters, discarded

costume jewelry, artificial flowers, ancient belts from

dresses which had Jong since gone to the ragman, and

mountains of unmetched stockings. We ran onto long forgotten snapshots, Christrias ‘cards of yesteryear and books we used to read when we were young and addicted to dime novels—“Her Sister’s Sweetheart,” “In the Golden Days,” “Dora

Thorne,” “Thelma” —those lush romances which make

our modern oufpu; seem so pallid. Could we pass them up without a glance, after they had given us so many thrilling hours? : Sunset found us grimy, tired and virtuously sort ing the Sull Wearshle ha wi

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

WANTS ESSENTIALS OF WAGNER ACT RETAINED By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville With all this agitation going on for outright repeal or drastic change in the Wagner Labor Act, it seems to me it's time for everyone interested in the welfare of labor to see that all the essential features of the act are left intact. I think the real reason some employers are hting some of its provisions is not ecause they are unfair to employers but because they have proved effective cures for abuses against workers—abuses that sholild have been outlawed years ago.

I take it to be true that the great

{majority of employers are comply-

ing both in spirit and letter with the law and in most cases with good results. But we still have a few fighting the law. They seem to cling to the idea that because they have invested their money and employed men they should be allowed to set up any standard of wages and hours that their own selfish interests dictate. They bitterly resent any regulation by law as unconstitutional and unfair that attempts to regulate or abolish unfair, offensive, reprehensible methods which have been used against labor for the last 60 years. They say the Wagner act is unfair because it is one-sided. Of course it is one-sided—how could it accomplish its aims and be two-sided? If an employer refuses to recognize a legally constituted union or any of the other provisions contained in the act he is guilty and subject to the prescribed - penalties. When a drunken driver has his license revoked he thinks the law one-sided and unfair and that he has been grossly mistreated. It is one-sided. How could it be otherwise and be effective? So is every law against crime and misdemeanor. The Wagner act wasn’t passed to

promote a debating society—it was passed to put an end to certain

Jabuses and practices that had exist-

ed between employer and employee and to grant certain rights to legitimate union labor. Union labor promoted or organized by employing companies was outlawed. The act provides that the representatives of organized labor shall be recognized and given collective bargaining power and make contracts that should be binding on both parties. What is wrong with the Wagner

main, essential features. Why all this criticism by William Green backed by some, of the big employers, standpat press, Republican and Democratic standpat elements? I think the answer is John L. Lewis. His success in promoting industrial organization over the opposition of all these elements has aroused their ire. Having failed in their opposition to him so far, now

act? Certainly nothing with its|

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they propose to clip his wings by changing the Wagner act so it will work as great a handicap on him and his organization as possible. But what about labor as a whole? Would it be to its interest to have the plain provisions of the Wagner act garbled and messed up with amendments so questionable : in their meaning that every decision of the Labor Board could be appealed to the courts and kicked around from one court to another using every device known by high powered attorneys to delay and defeat the interest of labor? I think it’s up to William Green and John L. Lewis to come to their senses, quit their quarreling, work together to keep the Wagner act intact. It is the only law that ever gave labor unions legal rights and protection. If it is allowed to be amended to death, what chance would union labor have to hold the high standard of wages and shorter hours that they enjoy today against an army of. surplus labor seeking work? The answer I think is obvious. x

” ” 2 SHIFTING OF POLICE AT SCHOOL GRITICIZED By W. L. Burkdall

Much has been printed in recent weeks in regard to an efficient Police Department and much has been said about making streets safer for pedestrians. A large grade school with more than 800 pupils is located at the intersection of English Ave. Southeastern Ave. and. Rural St. The

OUT OF THE FOG

By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL The groping tones : Of strained foghorns: Like lost spiriis, echo the moans Of danger’s chords— Across a strange And gray-veiled space.

DAILY THOUGHT

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,. and the truth is not in us.—I John 1:8.

ECEIT is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish When - we touch them.—A. Hill,

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nature of this intersection is such that it takes a police officer. of average intelligence at least a week to accustom himself to this corner and really work out a safe plan of getting the children across the street. Yet, what has happened? Since school started in September no less than eight different policemen have been assigned to this corner a few days at a time and the children and school patrol are in such confusion that the children are not safe ‘erossing the street. Why cannot a good officer be stationed at this intersection long enough to make it safe for the kiddies? If the method of the past few months is left in effect then Chief Morrissey’s talk about efficiency is just so much politics. 2 ” EJ 3 WORKERS SHOULD STAND ON OWN FEET, IS VIEW By G. M. I read in Wednesday night’s paper that the C. I. O. was handed one more defeat. And it happened right here in Indianapolis. I honestly believe that the working people who are gifted with peace-loving natures and a quantity of good common sense are coming into their own. I think I share the same view as a great number of working people. That is, if we do our job right, give our employer an honest day's work, in return we will receive a fair wage and consideration whenever it is needed, and therefore do not need the support of an organization like

the C. I. O. to cover up our in-

efficiency.

. 2 HOLDS BIGGEST NEED IS MORAL REARMAMENT By L. S. :

History has blotted out the nations which ruled by force, Moral rearmament is immensely more important than war rearmament, The world’s greatest crimes have been committed in the name of religion and patriotism. World peace can only be an interlude between wars, if nations depend on armament to enforce the economic enslavement of peoples living in the less favored territories. where natural resources are deficient to meet their needs. The “have” nations will be attacked by the “have not” nations if | world trade does not bring free access to natural resources. Good will’ is a more powerful weapon than battleships to insure world peace. Good will will break down economic barriers, establish a free flow of world commerce, abolish the need for dictatorships, establish justice among nations, and make the “good neighbor” declarations more than mere empty phrases. Let’s look at ourselves as others see us., Are we partly, responsible for the economic collapse of Italy and Germany? And dictators?

10 WE ENJOY READING BIOGRAPHIES OF Movs PERSONS

- NO. I is because we like gossip. Gossip! is not ball bad. When the

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

Has THE STRUGELE OF WOMEN J aro BEEN CHIEFLY TO SECURE ITION OF THEIR SEX S OR NO.

> a : & EVERY ONE TEND To ; THOUGHT AND Beare THAT CONES INTO Rie READ?

YOUR OPINION ame Boa

and’ defeat, or how Lawretice per-

like to possess—just because we are human beings. 8 5 8 NO, just the opposite. Women ¢ have always had their sex recognized to the exclusion of everything else. What women are struggling for is recognition not because of their sex but because they are human beings. They want recognition with rights, privileges and social and economic positions on the merit of their abilities as persons who can contribute their share to the world’s spiritual and material

|achievements and - not merely be-

cause they are feusles,

YES. This is one of the besh es tablished principles in psychol-

ogy. You cannot think of moving

your hand but that your hand either moves slightly or else its muscles tighten or your circulation increases. You can test this for yourself. Tie

1a little weight to a piece of string

about 18 inches long and hold it like

a pendulum at arm's length. Try to| gi

hold it perfectly still while you think of its swinging first right then left—and pretty soon it will swing in spite of all you

formed his amazing feats of endurnce in .Aral it i

do. Or think of it making a Sele

Gen. Johnson:

Says— Frankfurter, Hopkins and Murphy

Merit Approval Without Criticism _ ‘Which Is Overdone in This Country.

EW YORK CITY, Jan. 10 .—Three highly impor. - ‘tant appointments are coming up for confirmation in the Senate—Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court, Harry L. Hopkins to be Secretary of Commerce, Frank Murphy to be Attorney General. They all will be confirmed, All should be confirmed without any political “investigations” ‘designed to weaken their public standing. =k In general, one reason why we do not get, better

-men in Government is because either appointment or

election to a highly responsible position surely makes a target for dead cats out of the man selected. No official justly can kick at having his actions and utterances in office criticized. That is necessary to democracy. It is not that I mean. 'I mean personal

| assaults and attempts to smear all that he has done or

said in life—not under the responsibility of his new office. Many self-respecting men who can succeed elsewhere simply will not submit to it and that is one reason why we get so many officials who either could not succeed elsewhere or Just don’t. ® » #

HIS is less marked in England where official ace complishment is better rewarded. That is one reason why the British have so much better: civil

.1 | servants than ours. In France also, with little bits of

colored ribbon and bigger sashes and various civig honors, they manage to maintain more respect for even minor official positions. In Germany they do it through semimilitary discipline and respect for office, We do it with dead cats. More particularly, the two Cabinet positions stand on special grounds. A Cabinet is an official family, The President is responsible for the work of every member. There is as myich necessity for absolute personal loyalty, confidence and devotion as there is in the immediate staff of a military commander, With this in mind, I can’t see anything to cavil about on the appointments of either Mr. Murphy or Mr. Hopkins. Some time before the selection of Mr, Hopkins was more than a conjecture, but after the tom-toms opposition had begun to beat, I said in this place, before any other commentator did, that the chances were that Mr. Hopkins would prove arn exceptionally good choice and tried to say why I thought so. It is some comfort to observe, after s couple of days in Chicago and New York, that busi: ness and industry are already saying the same thing—and so are most commentators. Maybe that is a little

| premature but he boy has certainly started off with

a bang. 8 =

HE particular kicks against Mr. Murphy are thas he has not shown sufficient skill as an attorney to be an Attorney General and that as Governor, ho didn’t shoot the sit-down strikers out of the Michi» gan plants. I saw Mr. Murphy’s sit-down Gethsemane from thy . inside. If I had been he, I wouldn’t have shot tha strikers out either. They're out now. The sit-down strike is in the dog-house and the Governor has no blood on his hands. I think he was put on tha spot and handled himself well. E As for Felix Frankfurter, I would have chosen otherwise—for many reasons. But among them is not lack of legal learning, patriotism or ability—only too much ability as an administrator, partisan and political adviser, which isn’t exactly the specification for a judge. But that raises only a question of executive selection. It doesn’t disqualify Mr. Frankfurter,

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Frankfurter Appointment Ought to Stiffen Fight Against Prejudice.

EW YORK, Jan. 10.—In appointing Felix Frankfurter, President Roosevelt has .given which fz

a shot in the arm against a dread disease ich for a time threatened to become epidemic. I refer thet grave and painful ailment known as the bends. In the past its chief vidtims were sandhogs who worked in caissons underneath the water. But of late politicians, publishers and publicists of one sort or another have manifested very similar symptoms when compelled to work under very heavy pressure from without. The name of Felix Frankfurter. in particular, was one which caused a number of good men and true fo show preliminary symptoms of the bends. These men agreed that the distinguished jurist from Hayvard was the logical choice as the successor of Mr, Cardozo. And yet among the many who found Mr. Franke furter fit for the high bench under every rational ard logical test there were those who privately advised the President to pass by the name. Their whispered counsel was. “The appointment might stir up prejudice.” According to this curious theory, the manner (n which rabid intolerance must be met consists in giying way to it.

Appeasement Leads to Abasement

But it isn’t quite true that a sharp line can he drawn between mood and manner. The policy of ap= peasenient is something more than a technique. It comes to be a system of surrender in which one seei:s to tame tigers by a judicious ration of raw meat. I suppose that is done in the vain hope that eventually the carnivora can be kidded into becoming vegetarians. No such philosophy has ever worked in a

‘menagerie or in the cage of aggressor nations.

There should be general agreement, to be sure, that any campaign of educatitn against the forces of ignorance and evil should take account of such factors as tact and timing. But appeasement, if long cone tinued, becomes straightout abasement. Any fire chief in New York can tell you that & sub-cellar blaze is far more difficult to handle than a conflagration where the flames dance around in full view. In order to fight a fire you must bring it out into the open, where it can be located and the streams of clear water brought into action. WMNir.Roosevelt appointed Mr. Frankfurter because he is among the ablest of American lawyers. He paid no heed to the whispering campaign. Now the fight is in the open. Let the whisperers stand up. We want to see them.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

SUALLY in middle age, but sometimes in childe "hood, there appears on the skin (chiefly of the face) an inflammatory condition of which the chief manifestations are redness and scaling.’ Women sre affected more often than men. It has been repeatedly suggested that this conills tion is due to tuberculosis and also that it. might be caused by a streptococcus. The condition frequently occurs in people who have poor circulation of blood in the skin. Apparently exposure to cold makes the

condition worse:

Many different claisifications have been suggested for this disease—most of them referring to its distri-

bution on the skin. In some instances the condition affects chiefly the nose, cheeks, ears and scalp. In other cases it spreads to the upper part of the chest and the hands. There are still other types which seem to affect the entire body. In those cases in which the disease spreads all over the body, the results are serious and the likelihood of cure slight. However, in the types in which the cone dition is somewhat limited modern methods of treate ment seem to be able to produce excellent: results. While the description of thecondition that has been ven does not seem to differentiate it very much from conditions like ordinary eczema or from certain forms of acne, the specialist in diseases of the skin is usually able to make the diagnosis promptly because of defi-

can/| nite characteristics.

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