Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1939 — Page 14

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; ay: ou whieh J uvenile Court Judge Bradshaw 3 about ‘the business of improving procedure

] polation Depurtmett, Judge Bradshaw is seeking advice om 2a specialist in such problems. He has called on Miss Alice Scott Nutt, assistant director of the Children’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, for the niscessary BHicism and suggestions. i That is a very happy selection. Miss Nutt. made an extensive: ‘survey of Juvenile Court operations here a year ago and is thoroughly familiar with the problem. Her advice, erefore, ought ‘to be ‘especially helpful. Marion County is fortunate in having her services

: for a week and even nore fortunate i in having a judge eager

tain such help. vid

| op ONE COUNTRY TO DEFEND ~ HE ‘best way to obtain widest publicity is to create an »atmospheze: of mystery. That was done when House and’ the, Senate Committees on Military Affairs met jointly in‘a’ “secret executive session” to hear the testimony of

~ Ambgssadprs Bullitt and ‘Kennedy. Of course:some of’ the Senators and Congressmen who

listened to the confidential ambassadorial reports on Europe

| promiptly- told: reporters all about it after the closed doors had opened. ‘Because of the air of mystery that had been _ eréated, ‘éven more was published than would have been “had - the ‘testimony been in an open hearing. And that contributed to the buildup for the President’s defense message; ‘due today.

““Thére was one good thing abort the session. It was

\ a tioint”” meeting. Two instead of just one of the many

Congressional committees which have to do with national defense met in the same:room. But other important committees were excluded—those having to do with foreign affairs, with naval affairs, and. those which draft approi for all arms of our military establishment. We hope this precedent will break the ice for the formation -of“one Joint Congressional committee to survey the whole: subject of national defense—the Army’ Ss needs,

It is: ny Commo sense to consider all preparations as a n' Ee hr

: kk is city for its enti new Add to 0 thats the new Standard Cereals, Inc., branch, ow: U fi : #national Harvester Co., the expansion : 1s : lectrical appliance thanufacturing ‘announced an recent weeks—and this area has moxs’ han the usual: “reasons for satisfaction over its asi ial growth. Few cities can boast of a ‘better record. i .Gliamber ‘of. Commerce: officials apparently - knew ré * they were speaking when, at the close of the year,

BER, of ‘people receiving money directly from the 9 3 Tegasury, and who therefore have an active and

'597 939 ; 315,131

DR iii hl evenness 865.058 , Na Y; Marine payrolls. bervecidaiiai 837,408 Age ‘assistance (half from U. S. Yoieass 1, 780,700 rage. CCC enrollment ,. , '300, 000

National Youth: Administration vesavssstaee +600, ,000

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Total ...i a vnsenasirniresvesrons ane, 11, 617,236 Number of peoplé paying money directly and visibly into the U, S. Treasury, and who therefore have an active and personal interest. in reducing the level of Government spending: 2,861,108 income tax payers.

THE HINDSIGHT OF HOPKINS

“If. I hdd: the whole road to go over again I ouldn’t. make political speeches while I was Ad--inistrator of relief. ”—Harry L. Hopkins, before. the: Senate committee considering his nomination 1s Secretary of Commerce.

Ee, S.8 a : 0, as the. poet wrote, “cool repentance came.” If it

as time Hn ‘he fought determinedly, and effecto ‘prevent political abuses. . But then he, hirnself; plunged into politics. He adopted philosophy stated by Aubrey Williams—*“We must keep riends in power.” He became a partisan, a manipulaa maker of political speeches. He didn’t do well in the “80. foreign to the principles he had once professed and ced.” t is important: that he now looks back and sees where t wrong. Iti is vastly more, important that. those who

“air Enougr By Westbrook Pegler

Average Miah Freed Tom Mooney

Because They Felt: ‘Imprisonment Violated Their Beliefs, ‘Not His.

EW YORK, Jan. 12—The Communists will take the bows for Tom Mooney'’s liberation, but the real hero and winner is George Spelvin, the average American. Mr. Spelvin released a prisoner who frankly admires a rule which, in similar circumstances,

would have shot Tom Mooney for the expression of | Cs

his political beliefs. Mr. Spelvin thereby vindicated

not only Mooney but himself and American: beliefs |

rather than the beliefs of Mooney’s comrades. The long crusade: to turn Mooney: out ‘of San

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Quentin and heal a sore on the American system was |} won by Americans who hate communism’ and whom |§

Mooney’s political comrades ‘hate and revile. Indeed, to the Communists, Mooney in prison, even in the. privileged status which he enjoyed for years, was more

valuable than Mooney himself. At the same time he | was a reproach to all believers in the: American. Sys= |. tem and an implied threat:-to their liberties. If the |

Communists alone had made the fight he would still be in San Quentin, if not long dead by hanging.

2 2 UT Mooney, free, is still a radical in deep sympathy with Moscow -and an admirer ‘of Josef Stalin. Fortunately for him, most Americans resented

his imprisonment on the ground that it violated their | J

beliefs, not his. They may resist any attempt on his part to assume that his pardon was an -indorsement of his career before he went to prison or:his political:

| activities since.

Even while he was still in prison—with a. Koy in his pocket, so to speak, out on parole at any time— Mooney expressed admiration for Stalin and, while demanding vindication and release with honor, defended the slaughter of the political opposition in Moscow. They were enemies of the State, said he, and so deserved any punishment the State chose to inflict for its protection. Trotsky, he said, had betrayed the revolution. Mooney had had the benefit of a form of trial, at least, farcical though it may have been, but the same idealist who condemned that farce adjudged Trotsky guilty without any trial and, consistently, would have sent hfm to the firing squad, the approximate fate of enemies of the State.

: ” ” ® OW Mooney, at liberty, will turn altruist and busy himself to obtain a pardon for his partner in martyrdom, Warren Billings, who suffered as much or more during the long struggle but was seldom mentioned in the propaganda which made Mooney the star of the piece. He had little to say of Billings all this time, but came to regard himseif as a world

symbol. He spoke of himself in the third person, and his vanity enjoyed the fame which spread wherever Communists made propaganda against the American system of government and the peace of the people. But Billings will not be freed by Tom Mooney, although Mooney will accept more applause for his release. Billings will be freed by the same force that finally repudiated the very method that would have killed them both within a few hours in Russia. Whether Mooney accepts the exhortations of California’s Governor Olson to counsel the people against the “futile and. inhuman chaos of bloodshed and revolution,” his remarks soon will tell.

Business By John T. Flynn _ Figures for Last Six Years Don't Show Any 'Skimping' on National Defense.

EW YORK, Jan. 12—If any American thinks that this Government has been skimping on the:

matter of national defense, let him look at the fol- |

lowing figures. They represent the total expenditures for national defense—Army and Navy—for the years 1933-34 to the budget just disclosed by the President. Here they are:

1933-34 tVeessssiosevrasssedosenssd 540,356,000 1934-35 .. 709 931,000 1935-36 .. 92%,684,000 1936-37 0000000000008 RCV e000 0 935,114,000 1937-38 ...ccevcevissasncsnccees.. 1,027,841,000 1938-39 "vee 00000000000 se0G0c0000 1,119,810,000 1939-40 1,668,283,000

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cess... $6,933,019,000 The last figure for 1939-40 is, of course, the President’s estimate and includes $500,000,000 which he proposes to outline and ask next week. In arriving at these figures, which are taken from the Treasury reports, I have included the sums which have been spent from the recovery and relief funds. Each year the President has spent not merely the sums- appropriated by Congress for national defense, but also many millions which he has allocated from recovery and relief funds. The amounts are large. Here they are by years:

1933-34 ....0.cveees csesses.$ 60,663,000 1934-35 0800200009000 0000000000880 176,335,000 1935-36 esse ecs0s0s0Pe0RRse0erree 147,246,000 1936-37 0000000000000 0000000000000 79,004,000 1937-38 ©00000000000000000000000000 53,735,000 1938-30... i inessivinsvenensarsss 77,604,000 1939-40 ama eee ess siusssr Sessa megs 50,726,000 $645,313,000

Relief Funds Borrowed

About these allocations two very significant features appear. First of all these are sums ‘not allocated by Congress, but by the President himself. Second, the money appropriated by Congress in each year was spent out of tax money. But the money appropriated by the President was spent out of borrowed funds. The practice of using ‘horrowed funds from the relief appropriations for Army and Navy purposes ought to be stopped. Whatever we spent on national defense ought to be paid for in cash on the line as we go.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TT time for mothers of every nation to rise up and’ rebel against men’s injustice toward humanity;: against their deceit and lies; against their intrigues:

and wars; against all their schemes made’ behind locked doors in their own aver, in order to promote |

greed for power and weal I have quoted you one paragraph of a letter ‘from

a reader who seems to be tired of the messy ‘world | 1 we live in. And aren’t we all? I daresay most moth-

ers are ready to shout bravo to her words—yet the thought brings us squarely up against a very unpleasant question. What, exactly, can we do about it? If we discard rhetoric, the answer is nothing. Is there an active mood to stop war open to the mothers of the world? No. For wars, we hear, are practical

policies of government, dictated and waged by prac-.

tical men; and when have practical men ever heeded the words or been moved by the tears of mothers? To come closer home, how many husbands .pay Jnuch attention to what their wives have to say on

‘the subject of war or respect their judgment on po-

litical affairs? Not that oratory is lacking. We are treated to a lot of platitudes about the sweet refining influence of women, but history proves—and history is the only yardstick by which we can measure influence—that sad middle-aged mothers get slight consideration from the hands of men. The list of able influencers who wore petticoats will disclose the names of many mistresses, but few mothers. Women with sons of conscription age have no sex appeal. are without real political or financial power. In short, mothers are the weakest of all classes ; their sweet lective ¢

As a group, they lack money and, therefore,

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. 5

CLAIMS CHAMBERLAIN ONLY HELPED FASCISM By R. Sprunger Mr. Maddox, in the Forum column, forgets that the Allies guaranteed the former borders of Czechoslovakia and to save the last desperate stand of Capitalism, Mr. Chamberlain threw honor and justice overboard and “appeased” Herr Hitler by giving him Sudetenland, which never did belong to Germany. Fascism was strengthened for the time being by Mr. Chamberlain’s policy. Mr. Chamberlain knows another war probably will break up the British Empire and then what would become of the English bankers’ “divine right” to mulct the “slaves”? As to the Panama Canal, did you ever delve into the background. of some of Uncle Sam’s dealings ‘with

made in favor of capitalists of the U. S. smell to high heaven. Hence the suspicion by Latin Americans of the U. S. in a sudden desire to be! a good ngighbor at Lima. When he speaks of the Socialist Fatherland, I don’t understand Mr. Maddox. Socialism has been taught

. land studied for ages all over the

world. It is the only true democratic justice known to man and has nothing in common with any dictatorship. ‘Of course many false prophets use its name to mislead for their own gain but thinkers are not fooled by this trickery. : It is folly to shout “communism” at progressive thought. It indicates either a nonreceptive mind with a desire to cling to the past and fear of the future, or a secret desire to retain selfish power. 2 ” »

PENSION FAVORED FOR HOUSEWIVES By P. W. E. The way I interpret the Old Age

.| Pension Plan is that if a man’s wife

works any time at all during their married life, she is entitled to a certain amount, depending upon how long she has worked, which will be

age of 65. This means that both she and her husband will receive a pension when they are old, but what about the family man who supports his wife and family? Is he left holding the bag? It looks as if the American ‘Government is doing all it can to encourage married womén to work in industry. Are our great leaders so

that by offering pensions to working wives and not to housewives, whose job of making a home and rearing children is of far greater im-

paid in the form of a pension at the| :

blind that they overlook the fact|

(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.)

portance, they are breaking up the Great American Family which our political leaders in glowing terms so often refer to?

We all realize that married women in employment are 90 per cent of the cause of unemployment today.

| Here's for a better pension plan for

housewives. 2 * INDIANA POLITICS

the Latin-American nations? Deals} DRAWS READER'S IRE

By T. E. M. I don’t know why you should. get worked into such a lather over the {Liquor Commission “leak” to the Democratic caucus. Surely, you're

not naive enough to still believe that anything connected with Indiana government should be free of politics! Republicans may point accusing fingers and Democrats may prate and roar about the terrors of fascism. But nothing is leading America toward fascism more quickly than our rotten system of politics— especially as it’s played in Indiana. A commission is appointed to investigate for the people. But in

{reality it investigates (if that word

can be used at all) for the politicians. The odor is pretty bad. ‘But youll get used to it. You've got almost 60 days more to go yet.

SIGHT By RUBY STAINBROOK BUTLER

We know no man But just pretend To call him foe Or call him friend;

"Til stripped of all Our stubborn guise: We see him, through - God’s clement eyes.

DAILY THOUGHT For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. —Hebrews 3:14.

AITH is a certain image of eternity. All things are present to it—things past, and things to come.—Jeremy Taylor.

FEARS PASSAGE OF WAR PROFITS BILL By Mary Doran Is it surprising that we find ourselves in the midst of the present purposeful war scare? A certain amount of international

| tension is absolutely necessary if the

fake war profits reform bill is to be high pressured through Congress as part of the newly launched national defense prograr. Of course, it’s no such thing. : It’s a blueprint of indefinitely prolonged absolute dictatorship drafted for Franklin Roosevelt’s especial benefit long before Austria, Czechoslovakia or Munich, even before the Panay bombing. It was drafted despite the presence on the books of a National Defense Act which would automatically confer almost plenary power on any wartime Chief Executive. - On the day that Senator Robinson’s death upset the pseudo-reform program for executive usurpation that forehanded chart of “emergency” dictatorship was already drafted. It afforded an alternative route to ‘executive . control over courts, Congress, States and people. If it can be passed now as a national defense measure our days of freedom are numbered. A staged internatidnal crisis (just sufficient to make war appear “imminent”) should bring its provisions into effect and force us under absolute dictatorship. An expedition into Mexico in defense of threatened and expropriated United States interests could turss the same trick. Do you know if that bill contains one word or line to insure our suffrage: during the indefinitely prolonged self-determined span of an emergency dictator? My question might hold more {than academic interest by 1940. It might be the key to the 1940 riddle. I am not opposed to completely adequate rearmament. I know that | war is sometimes unavoidable. But I am deeply afraid that we might be stampeded into the Fascist trap so long baited and set in our own national capital. I am afraid we might be caught flat-footed in what might be theinext and most desperate drive for xecutive usurpation. ‘Already there is a strong tendency to back administration mouthpieces to the hilt under the eyes of foreign “enemies.” ‘Will that time soon come when it will be unpatriotic to hint that the emergency power bill offers the instrument whereby any power lusting Chief Executive can promote himself absolute dictator overnight on

any trumped-up scare of “national emergency.”

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I THINK so, although could not prove it. More men than| women are absorbed in business and in their jobs and women are concerned more with . success than business success. More wom~

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

| “DO MEN AND ANIMALS Rk iio YOUR OPINION mee :

and women have a keener sensitive-.

ness than men in difficult social sit-

I HAVE known a great many geniuses quite intimately—especially scientific and literary, geniuses—and they behave at: ios Ti per cent like ordinary people. Thi is no reason why they should ere

| However, unless they violate the

accepted moral codes—in which

‘| they are not justified—there is no |

reason why they should not behave do unusual

cause they are unusual

persons B {anything that is unusually intelli- | by aver-| al and | is judged the same as the unintelli- th

gent is often looked u age people as being a

gent doings of abnormal eovls, 2 2 2

same way. It desires success,

either in men or

uations and know better than men [Vii how to solve social problems. All havior

| By Raymond Clapper

‘and effectively.

usually intelligent a = bel

YES. * Intelligence 1s the’ sate! all through nature and acts the |

for its desires, fears jts onset Jos p operates with its friends and strug- | Sure 10 gles for existence. The late Dr.| Dave | Frederick Tilney showed that the 18: degree or amount of intelligence |"velopment

animals—d upon the number and shape of the |.

In VVashington,

Harry Hopkins’ Ordeal Before Senate Committee Should Serve As Lesson to Other New Dealers.

VV AsHm GTON, Jan. 12.—Le: New Dealers profit 4 : by the example of Harry Hopkins, their hero and the ablest of them all. Considering the difficult position in which he was placed. appearing before the largely hostile Senate Commerce Committée which was inquiring into his qualifications to be Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Hopkins handled himself skillfully - Especially considering the embarrassing position he was in with regard, to politics and WPA. On that, Mr. Hopkins executed a strategic retreat to much stronger ground. He said—and he has good reason to mean it—that if he had it to do over again, he would not have made political speeches while head of WPA. He also said he probably should have fired WPA people caught mixing into politics in Kentucky and other states. That statement may have been a disappointment to some of his critics on tHe committee who were prepared fo hang Mr, Hopkins over a hickory limb at that point. When they made a grab for him, he wasn’t there. Although it was a neat escape, Mr. Hopkins thereby 3 acknowledged the serious mistake which’ has marred ° an otherwise notable record of handling some $9,000,000,000 and distrjbuting it’ among some 3,000,000 persons through an administrative organization num= bering 35,000 and covering every County in the U. 8,

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R. HOPKINS has nothing to fear from those critics who object to his sympathy with the unemployed and his aggressive efforts to give them - work and food, any more than Attorney Geéneral - Frank Murphy has from the people who denounce

- him because he wouldn’t shoot the sit-down strikers

out of the Detroit automobile plants. - . When industry cannot employ people the Gov-. ernment must take care of them, balanced budget or no balanced budget. ; ‘Where Mr. Hopkins was vulnerable was in not being tougher on politicians who wanted to use . him and WPA and in permitting his enthusiasm - for the New Deal to sweep him into political speech making. Relief is by its very nature easily prostituted to political use. Nearly every politician wants to use relief on his side, as the Senate showed last summer when at the urgent request of Senator Barkley, then a candidate for re-election, the Hatch amende ment to prohibit politics in relief was voted gown, 8 =» tJ EAL concern exists over this danger of political misuse of relief. Mr. Hopkins was so aggressive in his desire to” help the Administration that he could not see the mistrust with which the country viewed his gwn political utterances. He could not see that it was the worst thing he could do for relief it~ self. And when Thomas L. Stokes exposed abuses of relief in the Kentucky primary, disclosures which the ‘Sheppard committee have verified, Mr. Hopkins made an attempt to deny them. Facing the Senate committee, Mr. Hopkins saw that he was on untenable ground and he got off as fast as he Sowa. e other stuff played a: Mr. Hopkins d the Senate hearing was chicken-feed, such as ry Hh of something he was alleged to have said in a mo~ °° meént of relaxation at the race track—which led Mr, Hopkins to speculate as to how the Senators! would look if everything they said in moments of relaxation at parties were printed as their considered utterances, The Senators got the point.

It Seems to Me |

By Heywood Broun a ~~ Gallup Poll Held New and Higher Branch of National Legislature.

EW YORK, Jan. 12.—Several readers seem to be worried about the state of the nation and in particular by the fact that, without the formality of a constitutional amendment, a new and superior branch has been added to our national legislature. In their judgment the creation of this small but august body reduces 1939 Congressmen to the estate of rubber stamps. And these readers contend that a bloodless revolution has occurred through the new practice ‘of conducting government, not on the basis’ of popular elections, but on the polling of cross sec= tions by Dr. Gallup and his little band of trained experts. I fear that there is merit in this contention. Many Washington correspondents report that the Dies Committee will be continued with practically no debate. They quote members of the House as saying, “We don’t like a lot of things-about the Dies Committee, but what can we do? Seventy-four per cent of Americans are for it, according to the Gallup tally, and that’s too big a crowd to buck.” - Now the trouble with government by cross-section surveys is that it imposes a cloture on debate and exchange of opinion. The citizen is put in somewhat the. same spot as the witness in the hands of a severe lawyer who fthrusts out a challenging forefinger and shouts, “Answer ‘yes’ or ‘no.’” There are many public problems which cannot be simplie fied to such an extent.

No Chance for ‘Yes’ and ‘No’

When two men are running for President a poll may be extremely accurate because it merely under: takes to ascertain just what percentage of people will vote for Mr. Roosevelt and what proportion for Mr, Landon. But the query in regard to the Diés Committee gave no opportunity for the frank and definite reply of “yes and no.” i I am not the most passionate partisan. for the labors of the gentleman from Orange, Tex. and yet I would have hesitated, had I been reached in a cross section, to express thé opinion that it was a bad thing to examine the work of foreign propagandists and“ secret agents in America. I'm for it, The Dies Come mittee might have done that. : It so happens that it whitewashed all the- Fascist agents and earned an expression “of commendation rom Fritz Kuhn, the head of the German-American und. Indeed, at the moment Martin Dies is one of the few men in American public life who has had a highly favorable reception in Herr Hitler's kept press.

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| Mr. Dies might do better the next time. But on the.

whole it would seem ‘to be wiser to pass Jum by.

Watching Your |

By Dr. Morris Fishbein * | of 1852 an Brglish doctor named.

lymph glands of the throat, the spleen became swollen, and remain 50. 3

as they please. Of sourse they efien } =,