Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1939 — Page 12

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1939

‘MR. HULL COMES HOME : E HE biggest thing the United States and the o.her na"tions of this hemisphere can do for peace and democracy at home an¢ abroad is to achieve solidarity among ourselves.

“With the rest of the earth gone berserk and split into warring factiors, this country and its sister states must unite,

from Hudson Bay to the Straits of Magellan, in a program |

of sanity ahd co-operation. That is what: the eighth Pan-American Conference at Lima was 211 about. That is what Secretary Hull went to South America to help achieve. And that, to a degree that was remarkable, is exactly what he did. Fundarientally the 21 American republics represented in the Peruvian capital were, from the start, pretty much in accord. They were as one against the persecution of minorities; against the danger of attack from without; against stifing trade barriers. They were for a world of law and order as opposed to rule by sheer brute force. Quite naturally, tiey differed as to the form their expression of these principles should take, but not on the principles themselves. sad ' The debate at Lima, therefore, revolved chiefly around that matter of expression, and some there were who lost poise. Some wanted Mr. Hull to draft a strong PanAmerican Pact and go ahead with if, leaving out any country tha: did mot want to go along. : g 8 8 8 2 = O Mr. Hull's credit, let it be said he refused to turn his back on the real aims of the conference. He calmly forged ahead towards the conference’s main objective— hemisphere solidarity. That is what he finally got. Any other outcome would have been tragic. The eighth =Pan-American parley would have been the last. The continents of America, like the continents of Europe and Asia, would have split into hostile camps. Better never to have gone to Lima at all than to have permitted so stupid an end. There are those who believe that the United States lost prestige at Lima because Secretary Hull refused to pound the table an¢ remind others present of Uncle Sam’s superior might. : : : Nothing could have been more foolish or mor: futile. There are times and places where the display of + mailed fist is in order. Lima was not one of them. I was a harmony meeting of sovereign states to find a foriiula for co-operation'—not a Berchtesgader or a Munich t: which weak and lLclpless nations had been summoned tc receive an ultimatum. That, at any rate, is the way Mr. Hull saw it. And we, in the United States, are thankful he did. In a orld of ruthless staies, no nation, however strong, can lave too many friends. And as Emerson said, the only way to have a friend is to be one.

135,500,000 REPORTS

HE Government at Washington required its cif zens to fill out and send in 135,500,000 questionnaires nd statistical reports in 1937. : ; Many businessmen will find it hard to believe {hat the number was so small—only a little more than one cestionnaire or report for each man, woman and child in t'.e country. For, of course, the vast majority of all this pa} er work had to be dotie by a comparatively small number of k sinessmen. : Last My, President Roosevelt asked a ‘special committee to fintl out whether business and industry wee being unnecessaril” burdened by the task of compiling statistics for the Government. The committee now repo:ts that

business and industry are, indeed, being unnecessarily and

heavily burtiened, and that in many cases two : r more Federal agencies demand the same information on :eparate reports. Many concerns, for instance, must repc:t their total payroll: on as many as 12 different Federal forms. In addition, state governments call for the same info mation on still different forms. : The corimittee recommends changes to lighten this load on business—to simplify the forms, cut out duplicate demands for information, curtail collection of useless sta- _ tistics and itisure better use of useful statistics. : - We hope someone in the Government will follow through on this report and see that these changes are made.

- THE CURRENT DEMENTIA

ENNY GOODMAN and his swing band at the Paramount Theater in New York City this week are reported to have brought out such a stampede of jitterbugs that the real . show takes place in the audience instead of on the stage. The jitterbugs are the Holy Rollers of Broadway. They yell their refrain, “We want Benny!” with all the fervor of a convert at a Southern camp meeting. They go at their swing with titter youthful abandon. Primitive religionists would explain them as possessed by Satan, and perhaps Dr. Freud could do no better. They outwhirl the dervishes, and when there’s the unoccupied space of a razor blade they leap out into the aisle to shag. Otherwise they rise in their seats and virtually burst into flame; They moan and convulse as the band puts in its hot licks. After hours of it they still retain breath to shriek, *We want Eenny!” Le ; : Quite a problem on any theater's hands! The victims have found that by coming early for the first progam and staying all afternoon they can hear Benny Goodrian’s orchestra three times while having to look at the picture only twice. And even then they relax and shout down thie actors by calling for “Flat Foot Floogie” and “Begin the Beguine.” Meanwhile ai the door other cases of perambulating demenfia stand waiting five hours for space inside. Turnover is practically nil, and the wear and tear is terrific, i} We mention these phenomena not because we have any remedy but as a faithful report of the times. Sometimes “you can calm a swarm of angry bees by beating on tin ans, but even Benny Goodman doesn’t have a settling efeet on these youngsters. While waiting for enlargements ‘the padde cell block

Aviation By Mai. Al Williams

"Airliner From Which Passengers

May - View the Scenery Latest Improvement for Plane Travel.

(Batting for Westbrook Pegler)

'M always complaining that I can’t see thé ground

from airliners unless I'm in the very first or the very last seat. : : I've ridden the operators pretty hard about the view they offer the public—a wide expanse of duraluminum and a million rivets. Now they tell me everything is going to be all right because Donald Douglas is bringing out a high wing monoplane which will enable all passengers to see the scenery. This new ship bears the designation DC-5, and from the specifications which I have before me it makes a lot of sense. ‘ The first good thing about it, in addition to the high wing for passenger visibility, is that it has two engines. Second, it carries only 16 passengers. I emphasize “only” because for many airlines in this country that is an ideal capacity. 8 = 2 HE third outstanding feature is the tricycle landing gear—a wheel in the nose and two directly beneath the wing. While none of us has any extensive

experience with tricycle landing gear on big ships in commercial operation, the idea sounds fine to me because it is the original invention of the master airmen of all time—the Wright Brothers. We have good reports on the fricycle gear on smaller ships—the Waterman, Stearman-Hammond, Gwinn Aircar (which the late Frank Hawks sponsored) and the Waco three-wheeler, ~The Army has a good record built up on a twinengined Douglas amphibian, a ship not as large as the DC-5, but large enough to give us something to work on. Of course, the giant four-engined DC-4 has a three-wheel gear, and preliminary reports from airmen like Dick Merrill and Benny Howard. indicate that it will work even on that monster. But back to the DC-5. In it I see the embodiment of the best features of two of the grandest airliners we have ever produced—the tri-motored high-wing Ford menoplane, and the twin-engined low-wing Boeing 247-D. The addition of the tricycle gear goes a step farther, but I have confidence it will work out all right. : # » ” N studying the specifications and promised performance figures, I was not very much interested in the calculated speeds. Various ones were given depending upon the horsepower of the power plants— top speed, cruising speed at 75 per cent of available power, and again at 65 per cent. There's plenty of money to be made in this

country in airliners that need travel no faster, and.

if that power output could be cut to 60 or even 50 per cent for cruising, the airline operator and his passengers would be better off in economy of operation and safety through longer-life engines. There are a lot of us who have sat by and listened to the cry for bigger ships and more and bigger engines, and wondered when these dreamers would get enough. The scheduled early appearance of the DC-5 seems to me to be a turning point in the science and economics of air transportation, and don’t lef fhem tell you that this was designed “just for feeder ines.” : You'll find the DC-5, if it measures up fo all manufacturer’s claims, on the trunk lines of the nation too, I'll bet. .

Business

By John T.

F. D. R's Speech Interpreted as Move to Hide Domestic Failures.

EW YORK, Jan. 11.—The President’s address to the Congress calls for more minute examination than could be given to it hastily from hearing it or

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‘merely reading it once. I have preferred to read and

reread it carefully, before offering any analysis of it. The President put the question of international turmoil, war threats, dictatorships, national defense first. At the end of six years we have 10 million people still idle, farm prices at record lows, our wheat and cotton markets abroad almost wiped out, private investment at a complete standstill, rising revolt among the farmers, nearly 20 billions in deficits and the prospect of perhaps the greatest annual deficit of all next year. With all these grave problems here in our own yard, the President invites us to turn our eyes toward Europe. i : Whatever the President was talking about, he cannot complain if his critics say that he is trying to create a diversion to distract attention from the collapse of his domestic program. Reading closely the paragraphs dealing with the world situation and national defense one comes upon a strange contradiction, To defend our homes, our democracy, our country and our interests from foreign enemies he calls upon us to arm. But having driven home this more or less vague cry for “national defense,” the President turns into another channel. Let us follow him and see where we come out.

Not National Defense

We cannot continue “to let pass without effective protest acts of aggression upon sister nations.” Whether right or wrong, this, it must be admitted, is not a problem of national defense, This means we must not merely defend ourselves, but we must go to the aid of sister nations who are attacked. But what sort of aid? Arms? No, since “there are many methods short of war, but stronger and more effective than mere words, of bringing home to aggressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our own eople.” ? Hence we must come to the aid of sister nations, we must protost against the aggressors, but we must make that protest effective and to do that we must use not “mere words,” but methods “short of war.” But how far short? Is the President talking about economic sanctions! How far short of war will that turn out to be? Of course if we do that we certainly .will need plenty of navy, plenty of army, plenty of powder and plenty of allies. But that is not national defense. So the question arises—why the call to arms? For our national defense, or to provide the second line of offense behind an economic offensive?

A Woman's Viewpoint

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By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

\Y you have health, wealth, love and plenty of time to enjoy them,” is a favorite toast in Mexico, a friend now living there tells me, We Americans are strong for the first three items. If we were writing the sentiment, wealth probably would head the list, health would be second and love, glorified by Hollywood and introduced by swing bands, would strut importantly in the rear. But time to enjoy these blessihgs—who has that? Often I wake up in the middle of the night thinking of all the kind deeds I would so like to do. There are so many old friends I could see again, if I only took the trouble to look them up, and so many people I know only casually but in whom I have glimpsed possible new friends, had we but the time to become

acquainted. In my mind, all the generous gestures are made,

all the notes and letters I am moved to write are |

posted. I remember those whom I have neglected— until, with daylight’s coming, Time sounds the gong again. The hours race by; quickly the night falls once more with all the loving tasks undone. : : There are no minutes to enjoy wealth, or to feel appreciation for health, or to savor love, for it is the tragedy of man that he must become the slave of that which he invents; and so, with the ticking of the first clock, he set over himself a new taskmaster. In my house are shelves of old books; some day I hope to re-read them, as well as rows of friendly poets with whom I could spend hours of happy musing for the benefit of my soul.” Se And when I think of all the love we miss because to invite it in hearts

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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.

ACTION ON HOME RULE

By W. H. Insley, Chairman Executive Committee, Indianapolis City Manager League.

dianapolis City Manager League would seem to be in order at this time. It is most gratifying to note the growing interest among various groups throughout the state in nonpartisan local government, the League of Women Voters and the Junior Chamber of Commerce, to mention but these two state-wide organizations, which have taken up this cause in a militant way. It is encouraging also to have Senator William E. Jenner again ready to battle with the State Legislature on behalf of a City Manager Law. The experience of the Indianapolis City Manager League, however, has led to the settled conviction that the prerequisite to a stable City Manager government is a Home Rule Amendment to the State Constitution. No government can make and execute long-time plans if every two years it must go to the Legislature for leave to live, nor could an able City Manager be induced to undertake employment under such circumstances. But with Constitutional authority to organize our own government, we here in Indianapolis can take on all opposition and carry the cause of nonpartisan government, 6 to 1, as we did 10 years ago. A Home Rule Amendment should not be limited to Municipal Home Rule but should authorize the voters of any local unit in the state, counties and townships as well as cities, to determine for themselves the type of local government under which they choose to live. Concurrently with a Home Rule Amendment to the State Constitution should go an amendment authorizing voting by the system of proportional representation. : The Indianapolis City Manager League stands ready to throw its support behind the very encouraging

‘movement which is now developing

to co-ordinate and make effective the strong sentiment throughout the state in favor of such a Home Rule Amendment and, as soon as this permissive step is completed, to undertake again the installation of a City Manager for Indianapolis. ° : ® 2 8 HE FINDS POLITICS IN AN OLD JAIL By Chester Clauson, Lebanon © The County Jail in Lebanon is being torn down fo be replaced by a new one, ‘The material tells an interesting political story, no doubt, of more than 70 years- ago when this jail was built. At that time this territory boasted of its fine

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forests, including walnut, cedar, poplar and other native woods. Prices were very low, so much up to the first limb; the rest of the tree free. Looking over the material that was used in this old jail shows it was not native lumber, but pine of poor grade full of knots. It would be interesting to see what was paid more than 70 years ago for knotty pine that came from some other territory and used where good material was abundant.

How long politicians can get away

them to think about, not considering the taxpayer's angle. ® 8 8 FAVORS AIR FORCE GREATER THAN HITLER'S By W. Scott Taylor “The democracies are stiffening,” say the headlines. Soon they will unstiffen again. Hitler will say “Boo!” and they will start scurrying to underground shelters. The only difference between a nation of weaklings and a nation of men seems to be the difference between airpower in blueprints and airpower in being. The conquest by the nations in control of the air of 637 million people in a very few years, points to the future ahead for the nations that relinquish the power to attack. Confined to their prisons that have no roofs, defended by navies that have no wings, they trust their future to blueprints, certificates of deposit, war referendums, gold hoards

ANOTHER CHANCE

By DOROTHY BUERGER The New Year brings another chance To make this life worth while. Another chance to right a wrong To play .. to dream . , to smile,

DAILY THOUGHT Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. —Hebrews 13:3.

ITY is the virtue of the law,

and none but tyrants use it cruelly. —Shakespeare.

with such things is something for|

and the petty quarrelings that result from the already: grave shortage of foreign. consumers. : “The President is pessimistic over ‘the fate of Democracy” says an italian newspaper. Who wouldn't be, who has to deal with the philosophy ‘of Louis (Referendum) Ludlow and Frederick (Blueprint) VanNuys? : 2 » o OBJECTS TO PAYING. NOTARY FEES ON TAXES By E. Z. M. ;

Now that the Legislature is in session, why not try to have something done to remove the notary fees from taxes on wages and automobiles? We do not have a notary fee on our property taxes, or on our grocery bills, etc. Then why should we have to pay for paying our other bills? . 8 8 0 .. URGES REGULATION OF GAMING DEVICES By a Reader Mr. Barnhart, the Commissioner of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, recently announced that in ‘every instance where he found a

tavern owner (now licensed to ‘sell beverages) using or keeping a dice box, slot machine, or punchboard, he or his Commission would revoke the liquor beer license. : Why wouldn’t it be smarter to license the use of these devices? Besides furnishing the State with a tremendous revenue, it would serve to reduce taxation which is now so burdensome to the average citizen. Every intelligent citizen knows, or can soon find out, that regardless of Mr. Barnhart’s edict, there will be punchhoards, dice boxes and slot machines, and that people will continue to play them whether legal or not. We tried to legislate drinking out of the people’s minds, but we incurred a worse evil with bootleggers and racketeers. I'd like to have an expression of some of the readers of this column on this question. # # » SEEKS ENLIGHTENMENT ON COURTHOUSE STATUE By G. J. A statue, apparently of a woman, on the west wall of the Courthouse aroused my interest and curiosity. Viewing it from the west side of Delagyare St. the right arm hangs at its side, while the left, bent akimbo, seems to be holding some object. The right foot crosses the left. .I have never seen the figure of a woman sculptured in this pose. In what year was the building erected—and what does this figure signify? : Will you kindly enlighten my ig-

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NO, no more than the average, and probably not as much. This is because geniuses, as a rule, are more stable, less nervous, irritable,

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM “THE WIVES OF GENIUSES UH ARE THE NES OF GENIUSES USUALLY UNHAPPY?

IT NARROW-MINDEDNESS THAT: Be Ta US TO BE MORE AFFECTED BY OUR NEIGHBORS AUTO ACCIDENT THAN BY A BIG BATTLE IN 6PAIN OR CHINA? YOUR OPINION em

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are temperamentally unhappy, I feel sure investigation would reveal their wives were, if. anything, a little happier than average. nN NO, it is lack of imagination. You may have a general sentiment of human brotherhood and love for all mankind but, strictly speaking, you are not deeply affected by either the joys or sufferings of distant people — more especially if they be people of a different race or history or social customs and the like.» The main reason is that you cannot, identify yourself with people so distant, but in the sufferings of your neighbor you identify their sufferings with your own. - You can love your country because you identify your life with it—you are part of its life — but you cannot love other countries in the same way. 30

” » # 3 NO. They would be if both children always lived, married, and in turn produced two children, But many of them die, many grow up and do not marry, many who do marry have no children, The net result is that under present conditions, since many couples are child-

three and three-fourths

Gen. ohnson Says—

Democrats Never Took Much Stock

New Appeal Won't Mean Much.

W YORK CITY, Jan. 11—~To the gentle art of political name-calling the President’s Jackson Day speech: added two new records. A Republican who does not agree with him is a tweedledum. A disagreeing Democrat is a tweedledee ahd he is invited to get out of the Democratic Party and join the Republican or Tweedledum-Tweedledee Party. The whole speech was much milder than usual and surely a Democrat who disagrees, if he has to be called anything, would rather be called a tweedledee than Southern feudalist. It was milder but the theme is the same, If a Democrat doesn’t agree with the boss on everything from “making America over” to horning into the world's war madness, he is no lib-

-| eral, no Democrat, and his place is in the doghouse

in the outer dark. In the Jackson Day speech we were told to agree if we expect to save America from the Liberty League.

In the state-of-the-nation speech, we were told to

agree if we want to save America from - Hitler and Mussolini, EY : : "2 = HERE are lots of people who would prefer to agree when they think the boss is right ‘and disagree in the contrary sense. There are many who think they were Democrats long before the strange and distinctly non-Democratic theories of extravagance, centralization of Federal power, unbalanced budgets and class-struggle were heard of as Democratic doctrine and certainly long before such Republicans or Socialists or neutrals as Mr. Ickes, Mr, Wallace, Mr. Hopkins, Mrs. Perkins, Mr. Corcoran, Mr. Cohen and Mr. Eccles were known as Democratic leaders. : These bewildered veterans could not understand “Mr. Hopkins, who used to be a Socialist, when he said something to the effect that they had stolen the livery of Democracy to act as traitors from within. They didn’t in the least understand the President when he suggested that they had eased themselves into Democratic Party councils to frustrate Democratic aims. The truth, fortunately or unfortunately, is that while the.G. O. P. always used to have a pretty fair party discipline and regularity, the Democrats never have had either for very long. As one loyal lifelong but realistic Democrat many years ago put it, “the Democrats have always been a disorganized mob an the Republicans an organized appetite.” :

er : Pouce and danger whipped the Democrats pretty well into line in the perilous days of the depres-

rebelled at being whipped into line on policies which were the very negation of Democracy. Some are still in rebellion. For part of the disunion of which the President complains, he has his own policies to blame —exclusively. we Against reactionary predepression conservatism these discordant political groups may vote on election day if that is their only choice, but you can't expect tranquility in the off seasons. Neither in the Democratic Party nor in the nation can political ‘unity be obtained by threats, whether of an unlikely military assault or that the Liberty League will get you if you dare to think. The leader of that party and of the nation would get more unity if he would let more policies develop within the party or the people instead of handing them down ready-made from the top. v :

lt Seems to Me | By Heywood Broun a

Freeing of | Tom Mooney Is Proof

EW YORK, Jan. 11.—Tom Mooney is free, and the most heartening thing about this happy event is the eloquent proof it offers that no good cause is

the 22-year fight for liberation when success seemed hopeless. Particularly in the last four or five years there were those who felt that resolutions and mass meetings and parades and editorials were as futile as blowing soap bubbles. - | , : However trifling and even absurd some of the moves for Mooney may have seemed, they all added up inte a cumulative protest which finally opened the prison doors; And today anybody who wrote so much as a paragraph or spoke. a word in favor of the prisoner has a right to say, “I helped to free Tom Mooney.” if

forces, but many were called or volunteered from highly divergent groups. Radicals and liberals and conservatives of good intent gave help from time to time. But the chief inspiration from beginning to end came from a single individual who is himself a labor leader. Mooney made the Mooney fight. Even though behind bars he became one of the most effective champions for justice the country has ever known.

His Capacity Underestimated

It was said by one or two that he became wholly self-centered and that his interest lay solely in his own fate and fortunes. more charitably, a misconception of the man. Mooney was quick to sense the fact that through circum stances he himself had become the symbol of a cause which transcended and magnified the importance of his own case. { ; He said. as much on many occasions. He announced before his: release that his primary and immediate concern would be to work for the release of Billings. Those who think Tom. Mooney’s occupation is gone, now that he is free, underestimate the capacity of the man. There is every indication that he is more than a martyr. He can give as well as take. Although he was twice seriously ill in prison. he seems to be physically vigorous at 56 and to have kept pace with the developments of the world in which he used to live. re TEE ee So In San Francisco he announced that he wished to dedicate his days to an endeavor to bring about labor unity. That is a purpose worthy of any man’s best effort, and Mooney is strategically fortunate in that he has won the {friendship and support of all organized labor groups in every camp. He moves into the picture as a figure safe from any charge of factionalism. ai =

Watching Your Health.

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

TAR back in the life of man it soon bécame appar ent, even to savage tribes, that massage of the tissues of the body. is associated with physical re actions which are important as well as pleasurable. Psychologists have recognized as well the great powers of suggestion that may be associated with the laying on of hands. Out of these fundamental observations have come not only several systems of treate ment of disease, but also a scientific profession closely associated with the practice of medicine—namely, the work of the masseur. Fe It is interesting to realize that quite often prepa= rations suggested for the treatment of disease by rubbing on the surface of the body get their effects more by the rubbing than by the preparation used. There seems to be no doubt that certain medie preparations can be bed through the skin but lubricants of various and certain skin irritants

are less significant than the kind of rubbing used in

connection with them. StI pra ngal Scientific masseurs r three main types of and percussion movements. The stroking movements are divided into two varieties—those which are superficial and those which are deep. a The purpose of the superficial ence whether the rubbing is away from or toward center of the'body, = = Sa Incidentally, the restful effect of such strokir immediately ‘apparent so ‘that sometimes one of chief values is in overcoming resistance to sleep.

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massage—stroking movements, squeezing movements,

is usually sedative, Therefore, it makes little differ-